How Your Immune System Works & How to Improve It | Dr. Max Krummel

My guest is Dr. Matthew (Max) Krummel, PhD, professor at UCSF and one of the world’s leading immunologists. We discuss how your immune system works and how sleep, emotions, and even memories shape immune function. We also explore thymus function, its role in autoimmunity, and its potential role in combating cancer. And we discuss how the type and timing of immunization can impact health. This episode provides an actionable framework for understanding how your immune system works, which ought to benefit people of all ages and health statuses.

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Timestamps

(00:00:00) Max Krummel

(00:02:18) Immune System, Immunotherapy

(00:08:36) Illness, Childhood & Immune System

(00:13:02) Aging & Immunity, DNA Mutations

(00:18:36) Sponsors: Joovv & Eight Sleep

(00:21:14) Self vs Non-Self Recognition, Aging, Cancer; Immune Surveillance

(00:30:11) Cancer, Immune System, Age & Measuring Change

(00:35:57) Thymus, T Cells; Aging & Cancer

(00:42:13) Reproduction, Aging & Immune System; Basic Research

(00:47:28) Sleep & Illness Susceptibility

(00:52:55) Sponsor: AG1

(00:54:08) Umbilical Cord Banking; Organoids, CAR T Cells, Thymus

(01:02:57) Scientific Curiosity, Failures, & Discovery

(01:13:14) Spatial Biology & Immune Cells; Memory & Immune State; Stress, Meditation

(01:25:00) Sponsor: Function

(01:26:37) Mindset; Tissue Engineering, Peptides, Systems Biology

(01:34:25) Immunizations in Childhood and Beyond

(01:39:37) Pharmaceutical Companies, Public Distrust

(01:49:22) Disease Risk, Immunity; Autism, Flu,

(01:58:56) Biological Resilience, Cancer; Computational Research

(02:08:02) Autoimmune Conditions, Asthma, IBD

(02:13:34) Autoimmunity & Genetic Diversity Benefits

(02:17:11) Science Communication, Max's Substack

(02:24:07) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube, Spotify & Apple Follow, Reviews & Feedback, Sponsors, Protocols Book, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter

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