Mocktail Minutes

Your Immunity Stack

• Mocktail Minutes • Episode 140

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We are in the excess sugar, excess alcohol, and decreased sleep time of year which means.....sickness ramps up! This week we are talking about antioxidants and the role they have in the body, and more specifically the role they play in immunity. 

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Featured Mocktails: 

Pesche

Spindrift 


**The information provided in this podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered medical advice. Always consult with a qualified healthcare professional or your physician before starting any new supplement. Individual needs and circumstances vary, and only a healthcare provider can determine what is appropriate for your specific situation.**

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Baylee:

Hello everyone. Welcome back to this week's episode of Mocktail Minutes. This is Bailey

Brianna:

This is Brianna.

Baylee:

this week. I have a new drink. It's the pesky, have you seen them?

Brianna:

No.

Baylee:

So there's a dietician, Taylor, is that who it is? Who heard her husband created this company? Let me look her up real quick to make sure that's who it is before I give credit. But they created this brand. Pesky. I'm pretty sure that's how you say it. Taylor Grasso. Yes. Taylor Grasso, that's who it is. Found her on TikTok a long time ago. They created this brand. They're mocktails because she stopped drinking completely and then like he occasionally does, but the idea is to get more mocktails, just easy to access. They're functional ones, so of course it has the ashwagandha, but it doesn't taste like dirt. This one is the strawberry mint mojito.

Brianna:

Hmm.

Baylee:

ingredients, first ingredient is water, then strawberry juice, cane sugar. There's seven grams of outta sugar lime juice, natural flavors, natural lime, ashwagandha, mushroom extract, and RO rose root extract. So

Brianna:

Yeah, on their website, they have like kickback, lift, unwind, like different ones.

Baylee:

This one's a kickback one, so decompress, chill, and rejuvenate.

Brianna:

Ooh. I like it.

Baylee:

Yeah.

Brianna:

you buy it? Online.

Baylee:

Online. I got off TikTok shop.

Brianna:

Perfect. I'm gonna do it.

Baylee:

Yeah. But it's really good.

Brianna:

Oh yeah. And like the Lyft one has like Lion's, Maine green tea extracts. So like gentle

Baylee:

Yeah.

Brianna:

Perfect.

Baylee:

this one's supposed to help with GABA and social anxiety.

Brianna:

Hmm.

Baylee:

How convenient for a mocktail.

Brianna:

How, how convenient actually that

Baylee:

Mm-hmm.

Brianna:

I'm doing spend drift. These are kind of like my go-to sparkling waters. I like that they don't have natural flavors or coloring because I drink a lot of carbonated water and maybe I'm in my head, but I feel like when I'm having multiple of like the natural flavorings or colorings ones, I don't feel great.

Baylee:

Okay.

Brianna:

So they're expensive though. But Costco is running a sale on them right now,

Baylee:

Okay. I do like the grapefruit one usually. I don't like grapefruit things, but I do like that flavor in those.

Brianna:

that's what I have today. And it's like a laid back grapefruit one. It's not super tart. I think that's what it is.

Baylee:

Yeah, they have like an iced tea, lemon one gross. Don't get that one.

Brianna:

Gross stuff with that. I just have like the,

Baylee:

Yeah.

Brianna:

I think it's like lemonade, grapefruit, whatever. The three,

Baylee:

Well, today we are talking about antioxidants. We've, I think we have done an episode similar to this, but we're gonna take a little bit of a different approach. We're gonna go over antioxidants for you, but I'm also gonna kinda give you my immunity stack that I like to do because the time of this recording, it's January and we just got out of Christmas and everything. My house was sick. Gannon was sick the weekend before Christmas, and then he was sick the weekend after Christmas, and then Josh is sick. We had lots of family members with the flu. Literally everyone's just sick.

Brianna:

just everyone's sick and Yeah, and like kids are going back to school now and daycare and

Baylee:

Here we go.

Brianna:

the clear,

Baylee:

No.

Brianna:

we are not in the clear, yeah.

Baylee:

So with the antioxidants, they are used to reduce oxidative stress. They protect your immune cells and they support balanced immune response. So they don't like boost your immunity. They just kind of like help take care of your immune system.

Brianna:

Mm-hmm.

Baylee:

But there are some that you don't want to overdo. So we're gonna go over like daily things you can do, but then also here's some things that you can add in.

Brianna:

Yeah, and I think it is important to to point out that it doesn't just directly like boost your immune system because I think people think that it just helps to decrease oxidative stress, which. Basically what's damaging ourselves and like free radicals, like damaging the DNA. So if you don't have healthy immune cells or healthy cells, you're not gonna function very well. So antioxidants help to kind of neutralize those free radicals. Makes everything work better.

Baylee:

Yes, and maybe like you could still maybe get sick, but you don't get as sick. It's not gonna be like this magical armor. And you also can't just start pumping yourself with vitamin C when you're having a crappy diet every other day.

Brianna:

Yeah.

Baylee:

There's things you need to do on a daily basis.

Brianna:

Yeah. And also taking them through a foods first approach, I would say regularly is gonna help rather than, oh my gosh, I'm getting sick. Let me just have like five packets of emergency. Not that that's not gonna maybe help, but it would work better if you were consistent with your intake.

Baylee:

And like vitamin C, so we don't do the emergency. I get the Garden of Life brand of the Vitamin C supplement. It's more of like a whole food supplement emergency is gonna be ascorbic acid, which is more of a synthetic. Vitamin C. So if you're looking for a go down, I like the Garden of Life brand.

Brianna:

yeah. I do too. I used Airborne a couple, like weeks back, and they have a new, like, it's just a packet you put in your mouth. It's like Pul

Baylee:

Uhhuh,

Brianna:

I felt like it worked, but also I felt like I got a little like weird with it. So Garden of Life I do like the most because your body uses the whole food source of vitamin CA

Baylee:

we absorb it better.

Brianna:

Yeah, so we'll start with vitamin C. So vitamin C, it's roll to support white blood cell function, so those immune cells and regenerates other antioxidants. So upper limit would be like 2000 milligrams a day. 200 to 500 milligrams is for like daily support. Too high of doses will give you a stomach ache. So you don't just wanna take a ton of it. And sometimes people do have that, like when they take the emergency, they feel like, oh, I feel like I'm having a lot of diarrhea. It's probably because you're just taking massive amount of vitamin C all at once.

Baylee:

And daily intake is gonna matter more than just, like I said, loading up when you're already sick or if you're starting to get sick. So including your like citrus, fruits bell peppers. Bell peppers actually have more vitamin C than oranges. Kiwis are great strawberries, broccoli, those are all good.

Brianna:

Yeah. A lot of your like red and orange,

Baylee:

Yeah.

Brianna:

like bell peppers and you know, stuff like that. Yeah.

Baylee:

The next one would be vitamin E. So AC and E are good ones to remember. Vitamin E is also gonna protect your immune cell membranes and it's going to support T cell function. And so T cell function refers to that like specific white blood cell, it's your T lymphocytes. And so these, they're gonna recognize threats, they're going to coordinate the immune response, and they're actually gonna remember past infections. So they are actually made in the bone marrow and they are matured in the sinus. That's where like the T comes from. So. You have like helper T cells. You have cytotoxic T cells, which are like the killers. I feel like they sound more like killer. Like

Brianna:

Yeah. Yeah.

Baylee:

you have regulatory T cells, you have memory T cells. So good. T cell function means faster response to infection, better vaccine response lower risk of chronic inflammation, more balanced immunity with age. We like poor T-cell. Function is gonna be associated with more frequent infection, slow recovery, increased inflammation, and age-related immune decla decline as well. So vitamin E is gonna help support those T cells. Upper limit's gonna be about a thousand milligrams per day. Thinking more like supplementing so, so a lot of these upper lemon has more to do with supplementation rather than we're just like eating a crazy amount of. Vitamin E. So high dose supplements may affect blood clotting. Food sources are gonna be like nuts, seeds, olive oil. Those could all be good ones.

Brianna:

Yeah, and I guess disclaimer, this is just for educational purposes only,

Baylee:

Yes.

Brianna:

but yeah, so we're giving you amount. Obviously everyone is very different, but this is one that's important, especially for like the older community. I feel like a lot of older people take vitamin E. It's like a, I don't know if it was like a thing marketed to them. And they were younger, but it definitely can impact blood clotting. So if you're going to have like a surgery or something coming up, I would probably fix a, definitely the supplementation of this, because you wanna be able to clot if you get cut. Open.

Baylee:

Yes, that would be a good, good thing.

Brianna:

Yeah. The next one are polyphenols. And these, the rule that they have are, they're anti-inflammatory and they help the gut immune axis. They support the gut immune access. So these are like a chemical found. I think we have an episode on polyphenols. But anyways, there are a chemical found in like fruits and vegetables, mostly like fruits and some other things. But there's no upper, like there's no RDA, there's no like upper limit to them. So berries, green tea, dark chocolate, even things like. Other colorful berries, raspberries, blueberries, that sort of thing. These are gonna really help inflammation in your body. And so these are especially important for like, like your cognitive health, decreasing the risk of cancer. If you're somebody who smokes, you should probably be I increasing these. You should. You should stop smoking. But these are ones you wanna like. Bump up on. But for supplements, the high dose extracts can cause stress on the liver and really any supplement can cause stress on the liver.'cause everything has to go through the liver. But variety is better than single compounds. And so for these increasing color at every meal, or getting a good quality supplement that has a variety of polyphenols,

Baylee:

Yeah. Really with these polyphenols, you're just kind of thinking about. I would say fun fact, plants actually make them for protection from like UV light or pest or stress. When we eat them, they're protecting ourselves and that's what helps kind of like regulate the they also tend to support your gut health. They act like prebiotics. They feed that beneficial gut bacteria, so. They'll be helpful there, but there are different types. So we have flavonoids. Those are your largest group. That's gonna be like berries, apples, citrus, onions, tea. You have some flavonoids in it. You have lignins, that's another big one. Flax seeds are great for lignins.

Brianna:

Mm-hmm.

Baylee:

Yeah, you're just aiming for color variety here. Berries, green tea, black tea, dark chocolate, coffee. Like 70% dark chocolate, not.

Brianna:

Like the real dark

Baylee:

Yes. Real dark chocolate extra virgin olive oil, turmeric, oregano, rosemary, your red and purple fruits and vegetables especially.

Brianna:

Herbs, spices. I actually, I went to like a today's dietician symposium. In May in San Antonio. And there they had like a lot of functional speakers that came, which I was actually kind of surprised about.'cause sometimes traditional dietetics and functional dietetics don't get along. But they did well. And they were talking about this like study that they were doing on like polyphenols and like your brain health.'cause obviously Alzheimer's. There's a lot of in inflammation in the brain and that makes everything like worse. And they were talking about like a certain amount of daily polyphenol intake from like strawberries was like showing on scans to like decrease inflammation in these people that had it. So it's like, eat your berries, eat your chocolate black pepper. We

Baylee:

this one's an easy one.

Brianna:

yeah, which I'm like, okay, this is good because berries, most people like berries. But yeah, we like our brains.

Baylee:

Yes. Polyphenols are great and you don't really need like this, like you don't really need a supplement for them. Either like I think there's different high dose extracts, not necessarily better. So yeah, just go for the berries. This is, I think where the conversation of like wine being good for you comes up

Brianna:

Yes, because they're like, there's polyphenols,

Baylee:

and it, but I'm like, you're also getting alcohol and depending on what

Brianna:

is a free radical, so I'm like, they kind of just cancel each other out.

Baylee:

Yeah, if that, like you're probably getting more issues from the alcohol and then the polyphenols are just lessening.

Brianna:

yeah. They're just like out there fighting for their life. Yeah, but it's, yeah. And side note,'cause this also came up there, people were like, well, what do you do if you don't have access to like, like berries or, it's not in season, right?'cause like strawberries more like a summer. This is where frozen berries or

Baylee:

Do frozen.

Brianna:

because they freeze them right after picking them.

Baylee:

Mm-hmm.

Brianna:

So frozen.

Baylee:

Which strawberries are actually really good right now. I they, we've gotten two good batches from two separate stores.

Brianna:

I, I mean, I've got some good ones from Costco, but I feel like Costco's always really

Baylee:

it.

Brianna:

with their strawberries, but yeah.

Baylee:

One thing I've noticed, because we've been doing more Sam's Club shopping. Their produce is ready to go. Like there's no setting it out on the counter

Brianna:

Like you're using it today?

Baylee:

Yeah. Which I like it, but I have to remember, like, don't just let it hang out.

Brianna:

Like, oh yeah, I was doing something with that

Baylee:

Mm-hmm. Yeah. The next one, OIDs. Is that how you say it? Keratinoid. I say OIDs. I mean, some people might say different. It doesn't really matter. OIDs OIDs, but it kind of stems into like betacarotene, lycopene and luten. So again, their role is with antioxidant productive protection and it's gonna support your immune signaling. This one, think like red and orange. That's good colors to think about here. So carrots, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, but then also leafy greens. There's not really an upper limit here from food, but you don't wanna do like high dose beta, beta-carotene supplements. That's where you can kind of get too much of it, especially for smokers. So foods, no worries. And that's with most things, like it's hard to overdo it on foods.

Brianna:

Yeah, it is really hard. Worst case scenario, like if you have a baby and you feed them too many orange vegetables, their skin can turn a little orange.

Baylee:

I had a patient when I was interning, they were on like two feeds and their formula, they got a lot of ones with like carrots and beads in

Brianna:

Oh, like one of like whole food ones.

Baylee:

Yeah, and they were turning orange and of course like the parents were concerned and it was because they were literally just doing too

Brianna:

eating a lot of,

Baylee:

carrots,

Brianna:

It's just so funny. But yeah.

Baylee:

it takes a lot. But I mean, if that's what you're eating for breakfast, lunch, dinner,

Brianna:

And it doesn't hurt you. Like, I mean, it's just gonna, you're gonna look a little bit like an so, but it takes a lot. And this person was probably getting it. I mean, that's all they were getting, so,

Baylee:

Like that's all they were doing. But yeah, you wanna avoid it, especially as a smoker, because in high supplemental doses, betacarotene can switch from being an antioxidant to being a pro. Oxidant. So normally betacarotene is like a precursor for vitamin A. It's an antioxidant that's gonna neutralize those free radicals. And then I said, support your immune signaling. So from Whole Foods, it's self-regulated by the body. It's converted to vitamin A as needed, and it's kind of packaged with other plant compounds. Those high dose, it's gonna create that prooxidant effect. Smoking already creates a high oxidative stress environment. So in this setting, it's breaking down into oxidative metabolites. And these compounds can damage DNA in your cell membranes. So instead of protecting your cells, it's just increasing cellular stress.

Brianna:

Yeah. Yeah. And this is the fact that it turns into, like Betacarotene can be used to make vitamin A, this is extremely important, like for when you're pregnant, because vitamin A is so important when you're pregnant. But vitamin A in two high amounts is like. Bad for your fetus, like neural tube defects, all kinds of different things. But if you take betacarotene, your body can turn it into vitamin A as needed. That's why there's not a lot of vitamin A in prenatals betacarotene in case anyone ever noticed you probably didn't, but yeah, if you're worried about taking in vitamin A, you can just do betacarotene.

Baylee:

Those are your main ones. Other things I wanted to bring up is, I think a big one is zinc. So this is one people really started supplementing with this, I think around COVID time,

Brianna:

Yeah.

Baylee:

and I supplemented it with two, but it's not a daily supplement for me. So again, this is required for antioxidant enzymes and it's gonna be critical for immune cell development. Daily support we need, women need about eight milligrams, men need about 11 short term use. You need 15 to 30 milligrams per day, and that's for like one to two weeks. Your upper limit's gonna be 40 milligrams. So this is where I take zinc if I'm feeling sick or someone in my family, like in my household is sick.

Brianna:

Yeah.

Baylee:

We don't wanna take daily high doses because it suppresses your copper absorption and then it can actually impair your immunity long term and it can actually give you some nausea too.

Brianna:

Yeah, and that's because copper, zinc, and there's one other one, they share common binding sites. And so if you have a ton of zinc there, zinc is gonna bind copper and other things can't. And then you're not gonna be able to absorb what you need. So like I know people who are like, I tin zinc every day. I'm like, don't do that.

Baylee:

Yeah. Can mess up with your copper.

Brianna:

Yeah. And it can help, like you said, like short term if they're sick, it could help reduce like the intensity of viruses or like the duration of viruses. But you're also gonna be opening up yourself to having a worse viral infection if you take zinc all the time because you don't have a proper working immune system. So again, with a lot of supplements, it's like pulse it as needed. Be strategic.

Baylee:

Yes.

Brianna:

The next one is Selenium. And so this, I think this is getting really popular too, but it's required for glutathione enzymes. It supports antibody production, so we need it daily support is like 55 micrograms, which is not a lot. An upper limit is 400 micrograms, so it's easy to overdo, but you need it for like thyroid support, like Brazil nuts are a very good source of them. I definitely, with this one I recommend. Like food just because you can control it a little bit more. Like Bri, Brazil nuts are great. I'm gonna How much, how much Selenium is in a Brazil nut because I think it's like you should only eat like one or two.

Baylee:

You can get enough selenium from two Brazil nuts a day. So I always do kind. And I especially implement this with HTMA testing if they really need more selenium support, I see too.

Brianna:

And I, I don't love the taste of Brazil nuts. Also. They're expensive, but I do it because I need it. But like, I had one person, she was like, oh, I was just eating it. Like I love the taste of'em. I would like get a bag every, like couple days from the store and I'm just eating it. I'm like I don't do that. But

Baylee:

Yeah, I think there's, I just Google it. There's like 70 to 90 micrograms of selenium per one. Brazil. No. So you can meet your needs at one.

Brianna:

Oh yeah, so like two is like good. Yeah, because excess is gonna cause like hair loss, brittle nails, and then GI symptoms, which I feel like a lot of these have GI symptoms, so, yeah. Mm-hmm.

Baylee:

The other things we wanted to mention so two that I also, my immune stack when I'm sick are people around me is oil or oregano, whole food, vitamin C supplementation and the zinc. Now another one I've added, I really hate being sick. Is the beekeeper's Naturals. They have like a, it's almost not, it's kind of like a really runny honey is kind of the consistency of it, but it's like, like a little packet and has the prop propolis, is that how you say it? Propolis in

Brianna:

Mm-hmm. Yes. I think I know what you're talking about.

Baylee:

So they have it in some of their products. But it's. Made from bees. It's from like tree sap. That's what it is. So it's made by bees from the tree sap, the plant resin and the bees wax bees use it as like a protective S seal in the hive to block bacteria viruses, fungus. But we can use it as antioxidant and antimicrobial and just like for its immune modulating properties.

Brianna:

Mm-hmm.

Baylee:

And so it's actually rich in those polyphenols, oleic acids, and trace vitamins and minerals. So I recently got some of these and I actually stay pretty healthy with all the sickness going around. And it can also be really beneficial for like more of those respiratory or like sinus issues. So daily support, you could do like four to 500 milligrams, but like short term, a thousand milligrams per day. Obviously if you have any like pollen allergies, you don't wanna do it. And there could be some irritation with like mouth or throat, but I found it to be very helpful. It doesn't taste like bad, but it's also not amazing.

Brianna:

enjoyable.

Baylee:

But I dunno, I think it was helpful. It's pretty well studied antioxidant rich.

Brianna:

I like all things that come from bees. I don't know,

Baylee:

I love the Beekeepers Naturals brand. I buy a lot of their stuff.

Brianna:

underrated, you know?

Baylee:

Yeah, these are great.

Brianna:

And because you brought up oil of Oregano, we'll kind of talk about that one. So this one is also becoming popular, I feel like, but it's antimicrobial first and then antioxidants second. So it's more of like a natural antibiotic, if you will. Which we know with typical antibiotics, you don't wanna be on'em all the time because. They don't do a great job at targeting what bacteria they're gonna kill, and you don't wanna kill your good ones. But I would say five to 14 days max, a hundred to 200 milligrams per day because it can disrupt the gut microbiome. Again, bacteria avoid during pregnancy and then not for daily immune maintenance. So it's more of like a fire extinguisher, not a daily vitamin. So you know, you're getting sick, you know something's coming on, maybe you have a bacterial infection. Especially like, I feel like this might be good for like stomach bugs

Baylee:

Oh, yeah, I, I love oil burrito. I'd say I, that makes I think the biggest difference. There was actually a study, I think it was done by Georgetown University that tested oregano oil against staphylococcus bacteria.

Brianna:

Mm-hmm.

Baylee:

So in the test tube, the oregano oil inhibited bacterial bacterial growth as effectively as like standard antibiotics like penicillin or vancomycin at certain doses. And so kind of showed that. This or oil can directly reduce bacterial proliferation at levels similar to antibiotics.

Brianna:

Mm-hmm. And those two antibiotics are really strong.

Baylee:

yes.

Brianna:

Those are, so if it's doing as well as a job. Yeah,

Baylee:

Yeah.

Brianna:

perfect.

Baylee:

yeah, that is definitely one that I would keep in a medicine cabinet. I mean, it's, again, I don't think it's horrible tasting. Like I'm not gonna vomit.

Brianna:

I don't love it, but I, it's also like I'll do it. I've tasted

Baylee:

yeah, like I just put it in a shot with water. It's like drinking a shot of pizza seasoning. I think of it. That's what it reminds me of.

Brianna:

Yeah, I can do that.

Baylee:

and so it's a good thing to use, something to think about. So oil of oregano versus oregano seasoning, I, oil of oregano is gonna be highly concentrated, so. They come from the same plant, they just differ based on their concentration on potency. So you could still use both. You're just getting more potency with the oil of oregano. So using oregano seasoning is also helpful. Their active oil, oregano seasoning has a lower amount of active compounds, but it's safe to eat daily. It's not gonna be like your supplement, I would say, or like oil oregano. You don't wanna necessarily do that every single day. It's extremely potent.

Brianna:

Yeah. But that would be a good one, that zinc. Yeah, your stack actually sounds really good. I should try it.

Baylee:

It's worked really well for years.

Brianna:

you're like, I'm sticking with it. What's the next one? I feel like we have like two more. Right.

Baylee:

ones, turmeric. That's a pretty popular one. So the active part in the is the curcumin. So if you're gonna do turmeric, like if you're adding it to your foods or whatever, or like turmeric tea, add black pepper to it. That's what helps you get like the curcumin, the active. Part of it. But it's anti-inflammatory antioxidant daily, you could do like 500 to thousand milligrams

Brianna:

Yeah.

Baylee:

with like, it can have some blood thinning effects, so you kind wanna avoid it if you're, again, big surgery or some people with gallbladder issues have trouble with turmeric.

Brianna:

Yeah, and I actually looked that one up because I had someone who was taking a bunch of this and like was having horrible GI effects and it's because it can stimulate bile flow. So if you are someone who has like a ton of gallstones and just that increase in bile can like. Make it worse. Or if you don't have a gallbladder, it's gonna stimulate bile flow directly into your GI tract and that could just be a little too much. So side note, because a lot of

Baylee:

So usually okay, but

Brianna:

I'm like, I'm by the way guys, try to keep your gallbladder. You know what I mean?

Baylee:

I still have mine.

Brianna:

You need it. You really need it. We're so quick to like pull it out. And I've heard. From GI doctor's mouth. I was like, it's fine. You don't really need it. I'm like you do. And a lot of your digestion problems you're having are gonna get worse if you don't have it. So try to save it.

Baylee:

We just have extra parts. We just don't need'em.

Brianna:

just don't need it. Take it

Baylee:

you're at it. You don't need 10.

Brianna:

Yeah, you don't need that. What else is, what else do they do that with? What else do they remove? I feel so, so it's the one, why am I drawing a blank? But it stores a lot of your bacteria. It's also in your GI tract appendix.

Baylee:

Oh yeah.

Brianna:

Is that what it is?

Baylee:

Yes. I feel like more

Brianna:

the accessories, accessory organs of the GI tract.

Baylee:

Yes.

Brianna:

Anyways, that gives you problem too. But anyways, try to keep your parts. We like'em.

Baylee:

Yes.

Brianna:

And then I

Baylee:

Not that we're doctors like slow your

Brianna:

Right. We're not doctors, but we are dieticians. And so I know from a digestive standpoint you need,

Baylee:

Yeah. Your appendix is, yeah. I didn't even think about that, but it's definitely one that. Some use to say is useless, but we're kind of seeing, oh, it's actually important, especially for

Brianna:

It stores a lot of your like bacteria, like your healthy gut bacteria. It's like a little storage place for it, which.

Baylee:

Mm-hmm. So after you have like an infection, the appendix can help regulate a healthy gut bacteria,

Brianna:

Yeah. So if you don't have it,

Baylee:

backup storage for your microbiome.

Brianna:

like we, we like it. But the next one is garlic extract or like age extract. So this is an antioxidant and immune supportive sulfur compound. So 600 to 1200 milligrams per day. It can cause GI irritation mostly'cause. A sulfur compound. And then it can be blood thinning in higher doses. So be careful with your garlic extract.

Baylee:

Yes. The other one, I would say glutathione. So I occasionally will also do IV therapy, and the glutathione is one that I will get sometimes it's a great anti antioxidant. This is not one I'm like, I go and buy a supple. It's literally the only time I get it is if I do IV therapy. So maybe a couple times a year. But you can also support it with getting enough protein. Vitamin C, sulfur rich foods like the garlic, the onions, crucifers vegetables, sleep is also gonna support your glutathione.

Brianna:

all the things that we preach. But it's like a master antioxidant, so it really does help protect your cells from damage, keeping everything healthy, working optimally, mitochondrial health, all the things.

Baylee:

Yes. That's a good one. Yeah. Plays auto rules. But yeah, that was kind of, we try to make it a quick and dirty of like, here's how to help your immune system while everyone is down and out.

Brianna:

Yeah.

Baylee:

Use my little immune stack. Like I said, it's worked pretty well the past few years. But I think those ones are great.

Brianna:

I'm gonna try that. Phyliss propolis.

Baylee:

Yeah. Mm-hmm. I also get their, the beekeepers their bee pollen.

Brianna:

Mm, mm-hmm. Honestly, I've been having like really bad allergies'cause it's like cedar season here and I got some really good Manuka honey. First of

Baylee:

oh yeah.

Brianna:

It, it was so expensive. But I'm telling you, it made like a world of difference, just like a spoonful of it.

Baylee:

Okay.

Brianna:

it. Yeah. So,

Baylee:

Yeah, I haven't done that. But yeah, I've done it has, the liposomal delivery system to it with the propolis. It has vitamin C in it too.

Brianna:

Perfect. Oh yeah, there it is. Oh, we didn't realize you could get this at CV. S. And target? Well, actually I think it did see at

Baylee:

Yeah, I have seen it at Car Target. I ordered mine, I think from Thrive Market, but they also have a kids' version that I do. They have like kids what are not popsicles.

Brianna:

mm. Like the little suckers. Mm-hmm.

Baylee:

Yeah, like a lollipop. They have those that I do sometimes for Gannon, I use their cough syrup up for Gannon. They have like their own little super food honey. They have a lot of things for your immune system. But yeah, I also get their bee pollen.

Brianna:

Hmm.

Baylee:

It's interesting'cause. I don't know. I feel like bee poll just has a weird flavor. I always think of like anything should taste like honey if it's coming from bees, it

Brianna:

Yeah, I know what

Baylee:

honey,

Brianna:

I mean like it does not taste like honey.

Baylee:

but it's good for, like the bee poll is good for iron and bee vitamins and copper. So I do a little bit in that and like my yogurts occasionally.

Brianna:

Oh yeah. Little throat soothing pops.

Baylee:

Yeah, I've seen those at Sam's actually.

Brianna:

Yeah, pro ProPlus. Propolis, I wanna say propofol. Propolis honey. Vitamin D, zinc. Oh yeah. That's perfect.

Baylee:

Yeah. And then, so I mentioned like the liposomal delivery. Basically it's a way of putting nutrients in tiny fat bubbles, liposomes, and that's supposed to help with their absorption and effectiveness, so. That's why it can be helpful because many nutrients like glutathione and vitamin C or curcumin are just poorly absorbed orally. So regular glutathione is mostly broken down by the gut before it even reaches cells. Liposomal like glutathione can bypass some of this breakdown.

Brianna:

and kind of like keeps it safe as it like is going through

Baylee:

yeah, so it's gonna protect that a little bit better,

Brianna:

Yeah. So it gets delivered to where it needs better,

Baylee:

Yep.

Brianna:

which is probably why the IV therapy does good.

Baylee:

Yeah, I love it. Anytime, like, so usually more recently I do IV therapy, like if I know we're gonna have lots of travel coming up or like, I think the last night I did it was before our wedding. But that's mainly when I did it. The other time I did, it was last year I got really sick and then we had extra, a wedding to go to. So I did an iv, but I felt better the next day. So, I mean, yeah. IV three therapy. It's literally going straight in you. I love it.

Brianna:

Yeah, I love it here. I'm like on the beekeeper site thinking like, I need their

Baylee:

I need to order it

Brianna:

dye, toddler T-shirt. I don't even have a toddler. I'm like, that's so cute.

Baylee:

That's so cute. You can send

Brianna:

I want it. No, I'm gonna get some stuff today just to like be proactive

Baylee:

Yeah. They have a, they have so much you can build a bundle.

Brianna:

Mm-hmm. I saw

Baylee:

And somehow we just became an ad for Beekeepers Natural,

Brianna:

I'm gonna build a bundle.

Baylee:

but they do have a lot on Thrive Market. And then I have seen some other stuff at Sam's for sure.

Brianna:

yeah. And then like at Target too, I don't know how much of it, but they have some of it at Target. So yeah. Hopefully that kind of helps you this flu cold.

Baylee:

six Sugar season.

Brianna:

Yeah, sugar season, going back to school season. So yeah, hopefully you found it helpful. Again, remember, we're not doctors. We're not your dietician. We don't know your individual health history.

Baylee:

general advice.

Brianna:

Be smart with the things that you take from podcasts.

Baylee:

Yes. All right everyone, we'll be back next week with a brand new episode and we'll talk to you soon. Bye.

Brianna:

bye.

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