In the latest episode of Chip Talks, we embark on an enlightening journey into the intricacies of the immune system. Understanding how our body defends itself is crucial, especially in a world where pathogens are constantly lurking. The episode opens with a discussion on the primary functions of the immune system, emphasizing that energy production is a vital task our bodies undertake daily.

One of the key takeaways is the role of dietary fats, particularly omega-3 and omega-6. These essential fats are not just dietary components; they play a significant role in how our immune system functions. Chip explains that our bodies are designed to run on these fats, which are crucial for maintaining a balanced immune response. However, many of us are consuming these fats in the wrong ratios, leading to an overgrowth of harmful bacteria in our gut biome.

The gut biome is another focal point of this episode. Chip highlights the importance of understanding how our gut bacteria influence our immune system. With two major types of bacteria, bacterioids and firmicutes, the balance between them can significantly impact our health. An imbalance can lead to various health issues, including obesity and inflammatory responses.

Throughout the episode, Chip discusses common pathogens, such as H. Pylori, and the importance of recognizing these invaders. He also delves into autoimmune diseases, explaining how the immune system can mistakenly attack our own tissues. This segment is particularly enlightening, as it sheds light on the underlying causes of these conditions and how they can often be traced back to infections that the body struggles to combat.

As the episode wraps up, listeners are encouraged to take control of their health by understanding their immune system better and making informed dietary choices. Chip offers valuable insights into how natural products can help enhance immune function and combat infections effectively.

If you're looking to boost your immune health and gain a deeper understanding of your body's defenses, this episode is a must-listen. Don't forget to download the free operations manual for humans from True Medics for more in-depth information on maintaining your health!

We're going to talk about the immune system.

This will be a little technical and scientific, but I think it's something you guys can handle. We need to do this really to underpin some things and to lay some basis for further discussion because if you don't understand how your immune system works, it doesn't matter how much I talk to you about pathogens and ways that you can enhance your immune system. The most important thing this physical form does daily is produce energy.

We have to produce energy to be alive. I have enough energy to open my mouth, think about what I'm trying to say, and present things to you guys. We need energy.

Energy is the number one thing that our body tries to produce, and it produces energy from dietary fats and glucose. You're designed to run on dietary fats; omega-3 and 6 fats are the most important because they're essential. Our bodies don't make them, you have to take supplements. Those are things we must put in our mouths daily in balance. We'll talk a lot more about Omega 3, Omega 6s, in almost every podcast because they are important to how we work.

We'll talk a little bit more about them today as we get into the gut biome. How that works with your immune system and how you can configure things. We're all configuring ourselves right now by our diet, and we're all doing it completely wrong in literally the worst possible way.

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Part of our body's energy goes to defending itself.

The number one function of your body is to produce energy. The number two is to defend your body. A big part of the energy that we produce goes toward defending ourselves. It's arguably in the top three things our body does. This goes all the way down to the cellular level. Every cell has a strategy and a way to defend itself. Organs and systems have to have ways to defend themselves. We'll logically break this down. Hopefully, this won't be too scientific, and a little entertaining.

Your body must understand three different cell types. This all goes to the cellular level. If I can understand three different types of cells, then I can have an immune system. But it all goes back really to understanding these three things. In my immune system, I have to figure out if it is me or something I'm considering or maybe concerned with. Are they things that I made?

Are they cells with a little Chip name tag? It turns out that for every cell you or I make, you put a little name tag on a surface protein called CD55. Does it have a name tag? And if it has a name tag, that's me. I will leave that guy alone unless there are other extenuating circumstances. The second thing is, is it a nutrient? We'll discuss that here in a second. But we have to identify things that are nutrients. They're not us, but they might be safe for us to shuttle around the cells and to feed cells with.

The last thing we identify are pathogens or things that aren’t us. Things that aren't us might be bacteria, they might be fungi, they might be viruses, or they might be parasites. Those guys are classified as pathogens.

When I say pathogens, I mean something alive that isn't you, that is invading you. Our immune system is designed to identify and attack those things that aren’t us.

Let's talk more about how this works. In the blood system, we shouldn't have things that aren't nutrients or us.

We got a lot of blood molecules pumping around red blood cells, white blood cells, all kinds of leukocytes, and things that come from our lymphatic system and things that come from our blood system are all traveling around in our blood all the time. And we have to understand those are me. I don't need to attack those. We'll briefly discuss extreme circumstances, but you must understand that those are me. I need to leave those alone. As long as those guys have a little CD55 or there are a few other ways to identify but little CD55 name tags, those guys are you. Those cells are you in your blood. But what else can get in the blood? We need to move nutrients around in the blood, we have to nutrient cells.

We have to move around things that aren't us in our blood system. Especially in our gut system, not so much in our blood system. We have to understand in our gut, hey, this stuff is nutrients, and we need to be able to break it down. We need not to have an inflammatory reaction against it. We need not to get bloated. We need not to have gas. We need not to have all those things happen so we can begin to digest the food. We need to identify that this stuff is okay, that we just put inside of ourselves this stuff is okay.

And you do that, believe it or not, through bacteria in our gut biome. You have two major types of bacteria in the gut biome. One is called bacterioids, and the other is called firmicutis. Most of us seem to be overgrowing firms. This is what leads to an obesity profile. This is what leads to bloating, gas, IBS, Crohn's, intestinal permeability, inflammation, etc. The other side of this is called bacterioids. We don't want those to overgrow, either. However, because of our diet and the overconsumption of omega 6s, we are promoting firmicutis over bacterioids. If we had an equal amount of omega 3 and 6 in our diet, we would promote both equally. And if we had too much Omega 3, we would promote bacterioids more. But bacteroids release certain chemicals in our stomach that help tamp down our immune reaction to food.

Without bacteroids, we would eat something, and your body would assume, that's not me, I'm gonna attack it, and you'd have this huge inflammatory response. You will have the same thing if you're overgrown in firmicutis bacteria in your gut biome. And you're going to be more reactive and more inflammatory. And it has to do more with omega six consumption over omega three than with the firmicutis. However, firmicutis overgrowth is a direct result of omega-six overconsumption.

As we talk about all this stuff, you'll see the magnificent power you have over yourself and your diet over how we configure this vehicle. Omega 3 and omega six fats are the main precursors for the endocannabinoid system, which is what every spine has. I'm not trying to talk to you about marijuana, just pointing out your master regulatory system. Omega three and omega six fats drive the master regulatory system for everything with a spine. In addition to that, they will also influence the ratio of firmicutis and bacterioids in our gut. Biomes and bacterioids are what keep us and allow us to be able to eat food. Without bacteroids, you're putting something in your body that your body doesn't understand. It's just gonna have a huge inflammatory reaction toward it.

Your innate immune system fights pathogens with something called the complement immune system.

Where do we go next in our discussion of the immune system? When your immune system sees that it doesn't understand. If it doesn't have a Chip name tag on it, and I don't think it's a nutrient, your immune system will attack it. You're going to attack it with the innate immune system. If it's in the blood, it will be more the complement immune system.

They're built to look for things that don't have that CD55 or other name tags on them or things that aren't nutrients, and they'll attack them. The first line of defense is these things called neutrophils. They'll attack, but they'll also try to engulf things. They will, they're called phagocytes. They will like Pac-Man's bad things, Pac-Man bacteria. They'll just gobble those guys up and pull them into themselves and then destroy them once they're inside the cell, which is pretty cool. When you have a bacterial infection, a first-line infection, or you're invaded by a pathogen that you've never seen before, you'll activate the innate immune system. The innate immune system is composed of let's. I won't go into the different kinds of cells. It will; it glazes my eyes even now.

I won't bore you with all that. There are certain types of immune cells are associated with an innate immune response. If you're looking at a blood test, neutrophils are associated with an innate immune response. If your neutrophils are high, you're infected with something your body's actively trying to eliminate.

The second line of defense is more of an antibody defense. If your body, a type 2 or adaptive immune response. The first thing that we try to do is kill it. We remember if we can't kill it and if it persists. We have cells that will remember that thing and what it is. We've got ways to identify the patterns associated with these molecules. You'll remember the pattern associated with that molecule. Tthe next time you see it, you will build antibodies that help defend you against it. It's cool. Antibodies work.

Antibodies will build on immune cells. They build antennas and houses, and all these structures on top of immune cells that help immune cells fight specific pathogens. You have a very basic infantry, your innate immune system. They can shoot many guns and fire many bullets, but they don't remember stuff and are not very advanced in their warfare techniques. It's all about shooting and killing with innate and adaptive immunity. It's more about understanding that thing. Have I seen it before? Let's build the right antibodies that I need to kill it. An adaptive immune response is way, way, way more sophisticated.

It matters because of how you differentiate all these stem cells in your immune system. It matters how you're trying to attack and defend your body. Let's say you suffer from hook round and pinworm infections. What do these guys look like? Well, it's the same thing our dogs, cats, pigs, cows, and sheep get. And we deworm our pigs, cows, sheep, dogs, and cats every six months. Why? Because they all get these worms. These worms can cause tremendous damage to those mammals and drag down their function.

Well, guess what? We get them, too. In the medical sciences, these aren't even really tested for. You might get tested for them if you say you've been to a third-world country. But generally, they're not tested for our normal supply chain and medical flow. Most of us have them.

If you have a hook round and pinworm infection, the first thing that your body's going to do is try to marshal up the infantry and kill that thing. When you can't kill it, then you're going to build antibodies against it, and you're going to start trying to kill it with more of an adaptive immune response. These guys beat us; they win. All you're doing is shooting bullets at something that you can't kill in that instance. You're wasting resources. You're sticking your body in a certain situation and wasting resources you would need. Let's say you got a COVID infection, or you just got influenza, or you got, H. Pylori infection or something like that.

If our immune system is concerned with a big bad infection, that leaves us weak and wide open for other infections. It's very important to identify the source of an infection and then attack it. Why is this important? Let's say, H. Pylori, a bacteria that likes to live in the gut, pancreas, and esophagus. If you are burning when you eat and have burning, gastritis, and other ulcer-like symptoms, you likely have H. pylori. We have a product in TrueMedx called Gut Restore that will wipe out or is reported to wipe out H. Pylori. It's working extremely well. You do find that if you've got that burning and gastric upset, H. Pylori can be very bad. It's a cancer causer. It's comorbid with pancreatic cancer, colon cancer, and breast cancer.

It's not something that you want to run around with. The other thing is, these guys have beat our immune system. It could be something like a hook round and a pinworm or H. Pylori beats our immune system. At that point, you're done. You're just food for that thing unless you intervene in some other way. We've got ways to intervene in TrueMedx. We've got a deworming product for hooking around on pinworm, and then we've got a gut restore product targeted toward H. Pylori.

We understand these guys well, and we're building products to help you overcome them. If you've got one of these things, a lot of resources from your immune system will be tied up dealing with this, trying to fight it, trying to kill it. You're not going to be successful, which is sad. You're wasting a lot of bullets on something you can't kill. What do we need to do in those instances? Well, we need to understand what's going on with us, and then we need to attack and kill the main infectors.

An autoimmune disease is where your immune system attacks your tissue.

Let's talk a little about autoimmune diseases. This will be important to you if you have an autoimmune disease. An autoimmune disease is when your immune system attacks your tissue. In what world would that ever happen? Well, let me give you a scenario.

There are certain viruses like staph and strep, but strep in particular. Strep will remove the Chip name tag from cells. It's part of its strategy of staying alive: I'm just going to confuse the immune system and my little microenvironment, and I'm going to rip off all Chips, name tags on all of his B cells in his pancreas. What's that going to do? Well, I'm going to invade those B cells then, and as soon as I invade them, they won't be able to make insulin. Now you have type 1 diabetes. I'm gonna look at the thyroid, and I'm gonna strip all the Chip name tags off of the thyroid, and I'm going to invade the thyroid and. Chip has Hashimoto's disease. These autoimmune work in this way. Strep is the one that does this the most; that's the easiest to identify.

You can go to ChatGPT and ask about strep and its ability to rip off the CD55 name tag, which is exactly what it does. What that does ts anywhere that you don't have a CD55 name tag. Now your immune system thinks, oh, that's a pathogen. I'm going to attack that thing. That is exactly what happens in autoimmune diseases. Can that be fixed? Yeah, you take care of the strep infection. How do you take care of a strep infection? CBG will kill strep quite nicely, and other things will. That's what we do in TrueMedx. We try to specialize in helping your body be optimal. One of the ways to do that is to get rid of some of our critters.

All of your immune mediators come from the bone.

What else about the immune system? Here's some other information about the immune system, which is resource-limited. All of the immune mediators you need to fight any disease come from the bone. Let me walk you through this scenario. This is what happens when we get infected, and it happens when our immune system is rocking and rolling.

Let's just take a hook, round, and pinworm. Hook, round, and pinworm infect us. It enters our gut system, attaches to tissue, and forms a little home. To do that, it has to be so sophisticated in how it beats your immune system. They do all sorts of things, depending on the bug, they'll use estrogen and testosterone. They'll use the endocannabinoid system. They'll use dietary fats. They'll use different strategies to beat our immune system. The nice thing about that is if you know the bug and the strategy, you can get in the middle of that strategy and disrupt it. The cool thing about God and nature is that God has built us. There isn't a bug that you can't kill with nature. I'll just put it that way.

We now have enough information. We now have enough information about natural products and what's in nature. We have enough information about these pathogens and how they work that we can combine them and help your body beat a pathogenic infection. Right now, we're not doing that.

These pathogenic infections happen. They beat us. As they beat us, they want to do exactly what we want. They want to proliferate. They want to expand their territory and start trying to do that. With something like H. Pylori, he can only go to the stomach, the pancreas, and the esophagus. But, boy, can he do much damage in those things? But that's. That's as far as he'll want to metastasize. He's not a cancer. He can cause cancer, but he moves around to different organs in a similar way that cancer would metastasize. H. Pylori can infect us. When it does something like H. Pylori will hook around a pinworm, but when it does, the immune mediators that we initially need to fight that thing all come from the bone.

All of your blood cells, white blood cells, red blood cells, lymphatic cells, T cells, B cells, and all those things come from the same stem cell group in bone. You've got a rate of recovery, in that bone system where you're constantly making stem cells. The recovering stem cells you're using. But once you get chronically infected, that balance goes way out of whack. Now you're pulling more stem cells than you can make. What does that do? That creates osteoporosis.

If you have or have been told that you have osteoporosis, there are other reasons why you could have osteoporosis. The majority of reasons point to a whopping infection.

You have something that's got you hooked, and your immune system is super concerned about it, and you can't make enough stem cells to keep up with that event. That's the first thing that happens. The second thing that happens is it's a battlefield. You have immune mediators wherever this thing has infected you, and it's doing its damage, eating you and eating your nutrients. It's like a war zone.

You've got the infantry there. You've got tanks, airplanes, and all kinds of stuff you're trying to bring to the battlefield. And there's a lot of dead soldiers on the battlefield that you got to clean up—all that happens in blood and lymph, but mainly in blood. The blood begins to thicken in an infection.

What does that do? Thick blood creates what? Higher blood pressure. The second consequence of a rocking and rolling infection is high blood pressure. God just doesn't decide one day, hey, I think I'm gonna make your blood pressure higher. It doesn't work that way. It takes a reason.

I'm telling you that infection is the reason for the highest blood pressure. Now, all of that blood has to be filtered somewhere. The kidneys are the guys that, I have to do it, I have to filter the blood. It's gooey, with dead soldiers, battlefield, and other stuff. I've got to do it. The kidneys get tired. When the kidneys start getting tired, now you've got type 2 diabetes markers, you've got kidney infections, You've got kidney stones, and things like that begin to happen. It's easy to pump water through a tube. It's a lot harder to pump syrup through a tube. That's exactly what begins to happen to your blood. Blood pressure goes up and your heart gets tired. Now he's having to do a lot more work than he had to do when you were not infected.

You begin to see how the liver gets involved, and the cholesterol system, get involved. If you're infected with something, your LDL cholesterol is, just by definition, going to be higher than it normally is. Why? Because you're using cholesterol to repair the damage from the infection. If you're infected, you've got damage, and you'll be whistling for a lot of cholesterol. You'll be calling up for a lot of cholesterol all the time.

Your LDL cholesterol will be higher than it normally is. Not because God gave you a cholesterol problem and not because you're somehow failing. It's just because you're infected. Guess what happens when you get rid of the infection? All of these things return to normal. You get rid of the infection. Well, now you don't have the stress on the stem cell system that begins to ride itself. You don't have so much junk in your blood. Your blood begins to thin, your kidneys become less stressed, and your heart becomes less stressed.

That's what happens with infection, and that's why it's so important to understand these pathogens, how they are infecting us? what they do to our immune system? the resource strain they put on our immune system, and how that affects other things.

We all must understand our immune system at almost a master's level.

In my world, you might die because your heart stopped. That isn't what caused the overall situation. God just didn't say one day, Chip, your heart will stop now. Bye. It takes something for that to happen. It usually takes a very long time to create an infection. The heart gets tired of having to pump all this thick blood, and it finally gives up. It gets scarred, it gets inflamed, it gets tired.

You just don't one day die of a heart attack. A whole series of consequences leads up to that heart failure. Same with kidney failure. You just don't die. If God just doesn't say, one day, Chip, I think we'll shut down your kidneys. It doesn't work that way. It takes a whole series of actions and consequences for that organ to fail. These are measurable things; we're measuring them. In medical science, we will do a lot more. We will be a lot more.

This information needs to be. No doctor gets taught this information. They would have to take immunology 101. They are going to cram all of this very complicated information into a three-hour course.

Many end up just memorizing things that they forget later. Important concepts, though, that we all need to understand our immune system at almost a master's or PhD level because we're naked and afraid. There's no one helping you defend yourself. People like me are. A lot of natural products, providers. Many people outside the mainstream of the medical and pharmaceutical system are the people who are trying to help you and hopefully teach you about these principles. Why is that? This isn't a knock against Doctors, PhDs, and researchers. They just never were taught this. They were taught a different system. They were taught a little bitty box. The box that we're talking about now is way bigger.

We just need to educate those doctors, smart guys, researchers, and PhDs in the bigger box. Once we do. Oh my gosh. Well, med beds, to me, are right around the corner. Why? Because all this information is available to build a med bed, certainly to build the evaluation side. Maybe the treatment side still needs some work. The scientific work has been done to do all that. Now, somebody just needs to start the effort, do the research, and learn the nuances.

That'll start pretty soon. There are probably people working on that. I'd love to be working on that if anybody wants to start a little project. That would be fun, and I know where to go. Anyway, that's really all for the immune system. I wanted to lay the groundwork for an innate immune response, which is the infantry, versus an adaptive immune response, which is more of a sophisticated response. I've seen this thing before; I know how to kill it.

I will build all these stuff on immune cells and sit about it. Those are the most important concepts. Then, I'll back up into the gut biome and how the gut biome influences our immunity and how our diet influences immunity.

We'll always drill this back to the diet gut biome, the endocannabinoid system. Why? Because you can control those things. Those are within your control. You have stuff within a mile radius of you that can favorably impact all of those systems. We just have to be re-educated about them. That's what we'll continue to do. Download the free operations manual for humans at www.truemedx.com .

If you're burning and that stuff when you eat, that's likely H. Pylori. Get tested. Start asking ChatGPT about H. Pylori, and you'll quickly understand that that is very severe. We have a product called Gut Restore and www.truemedx.com , which will help you. If you think you might have a hook round a pinworm infection like we've talked about today. What would evidence that? Not necessarily the burning when you eat, but bloating, gas, and constipation.

Our deworm products work. We'll see you guys back next week for another exciting version of Chip Talks Health. Bye.