Top 10 Most Dangerous Foods You Can Eat For Your Immune System

Hello Health Champions. You probably know that immunity has never been more important than it is right now but I

want you to understand how much power you have over the strength of your immune system

When a wave of infectious disease sweeps around the world your diet and lifestyle could make

all the difference between falling prey to it or thriving and it all starts with knowing

what not to eat. Coming right up. Hey I'm Dr. Ekberg. I'm a holistic doctor and a former

Olympic Decathlete and if you want to truly master help by understanding how the body really

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miss any life-saving information everyone has an immune system but for different people

it works to different degrees but we have to understand about it is that it overall

capacity the overall ability to defend yourself against foreign Invaders so it's not like

one single system it every part of your body. The strength and energy and capacity of your whole body

working together and we want to understand that all the pathogens are opportunistic a pathogen

is something that can cause disease and opportunistic means that they take advantage of any kind

of weakness if your armor isn't up to speed then they're going to break through and they

going to take advantage of that and this is yeast, fungus, bacteria, parasites any sort

of foreign Invader but also of course viruses such as Corona or flu etc it doesn't matter

what any of these pathogens are they're all trying to find a weakness and take advantage

of it so our job is to take care of the body and strengthen it and give it all the resources

so first of all we want to give it support and that's things like food the nutrients

building blocks essential nutrients we want to give it proper rest and recovery we want

to put it in a state of peace because that's the only time that your immune system will

work properly write and then we want to cut back on interference we want to reduce the

things that make it harder for the body to put its energy at defending itself and here

were talking primarily about stress which is emotional stress physical stress anything

in life that you have to expend energy to deal with and of course toxins so food falls

into two categories it could either be something to support you or something that interferes

to illustrate this point I want to show you some recent fatality statistics and I just picked Spain one out

of many countries they're all pretty similar but if we look at people over 80 they had

a fatality rate of 15% but if we go down to the people who are 10 years younger the rate

dropped to under 5% if we cut back 10 more years it's down under 2% and for people under 60

the rate is close to zero so what we're seeing here is that people under 60 has a survival

rate of 39 to 111 times better and just to put that in perspective. A lot of times they

talk about oh, do this do this thing and increase or reduce your chances by 10 or 20% expressed

in percent we're talkin 3900 to 11100 % and that is your immune system the difference

is your immune system right it's the same pathogen but it's a different level of Defense

in xb1 I understand the difference between statistic and you that when they express things

as percentages they're always looking at a statistical population but when it comes to

you when it comes to the individual you decide where you fit because there are lots of 80

year old people, 90, 100 year old people who survived and their survival rate was 100% so never

look at statistics and let it scare you but understand what you can do about it anytime

we're dealing with something unknown and people are dying there's a lot of fear and one thing

we certainly don't want to trivialize this but we want to get over irrational fear we

want to understand what the real risks are what you can do to protect yourself because

it's not about age and I come back to that in a second lots of people over a hundred

years old as old as 113 years old have been infected and survive the coronavirus so we

want to respect others and how you choose and how they choose to conduct their life

but most of all you want to understand and start influencing the power that you have

over your immune system. Age is often cited as the number one risk factor in disease whether

it's Corona or flu the elderly die the most but what is it about age that makes you susceptible

Well aging people are more prone to degeneration they have lived longer than I'm more time

to degenerate but some old people are not very degenerated they have brain shrinkage

they have nutritional deficiencies because with age with degeneration they reduce the

production of hydrochloric acid and digestive enzymes so now the food they eat they're absorbing

fewer less percentage of the nutrients from the food so they get nutritional deficiencies

their metabolism slows down their ability to repair and recover and make immune cells

go down but most of all the older people get the more drugs they put them on. So the average

65 year old in the u.s. is on over half a dozen drugs and drugs interfere they suppress

function in the body so even though they treat symptom they make you less healthy they allow

for less homeostasis in the body. The second risk factor that's talked about the most is Syndrome X or metabolic

syndrome that's insulin resistance diabetes high blood pressure or obesity and so on and

what these have in common is that they are insulin resistance and what high chronic levels

of insulin do is they cause a certain congestion there's an imbalance between what you put

in your body and what you burn and get rid of that with insulin it is there's too much

storage and you don't keep up with the elimination phase and now you get congestion and toxicity

Syndrome X insulin resistance is also associated with inflammation and it is associated with

oxidative stress so here are the risk factors the real ones are not age and metabolic syndrome

it is degeneration brain shrinkage and all these different items that make them up and

all of these are things that you can influence now the topic for this video is food what

are the worst foods that you can eat for your immune system so we want to ask two questions

about the food first question is what does it provide cuz we want to support the body

would want to give it essential nutrients essential amino acids fatty acid vitamins and minerals

etc. Does the food provide any of that when we eat something the purpose is

to give us that but what is in the food does it actually have anything the body needs and

second we want to ask this food does it have anything that interferes does it have anything

that makes it harder that creates inflammation or insulin resistance or any of those things

so here are the 10 foods in the 10 categories of foods or principles in reverse order number

ten anything in excess is a burden so this could be alcohol a teaspoon of alcohol is

not a toxin a cup of alcohol is a toxin it's more than your liver can process in a day

it depletes you of nutrients it puts an enormous stress on the liver meat nothing wrong with

me per se but if you have trouble digesting it if your digestive tract can only process

so much at any given time then more than that amount is a burden but it doesn't matter what

you eat they couldn't meet it could be vegetables if you have a hard time tolerating raw vegetables

then that's a burden it unbalances something in you if you don't tolerate it well and so

if you have trouble with raw vegetables cook them there's some people that do great on

all raw vegetables that some people I can't handle them also huge meals if your digestive

tract has a limited capacity to processed food at any given time then a huge meal could be

a big burden this is a limitation for a lot of people trying to do one meal a day they

like the principal they feel good but their digestive tract of can't handle that much

so I understand that it's not about any of these things in particular but any excess

is a burden so pay attention to what your body is telling you number 9 anything that

you're sensitive to is a problem there's a saying that one man's food is another man's

poison even if you can eat something it doesn't mean that it's good for me and also get over

the notion that it's supposed to be good for you we hear this so often it but it's supposed

to be good for you well if it's reacting with your body if your body has a sensitivity that

causes inflammation then it's poison to you it's one of the worst things you can eat even if it's

super healthy to someone else and some of the most common ones would be shrimp Dairy

peanut soy and corn and of course we modern wheat especially number eight Dairy and I'm

bringing this up as a separate item because it is so, there's very very few people that

can tolerated well in my office it is along with wheat it's the most common sensitivity

I see but it makes a difference what type it is and the reason people don't tolerate

it is that it's pasteurized and homogenized that is harshly processed they changed it

from the original food but if you're ferment it now you're bringing back some of those

enzymes and some of those bacteria that help you digest it that actually contribute to

your digestive tract and also high-fat is better so if you eat something like butter

it has lot of good fats and the proteins which are the problem are only a fraction of that

and you can go one step further if you're still sensitive and you can have clarified butter

or ghee people usually do really well on yogurt a good quality not too sugary flavored kind

and also on sour cream but try to avoid regular milk and skim milk they cause a whole lot

more problems than people realize food number 7 to avoid for your immune system is plant

oils these are the ones that have been called vegetable oils and we've been sold these for

the last 50 years as healthy but they are the opposite they're made from seed grain

and beans legumes and they're very inflammatory because they're high in omega-6's which

again it's not a bad thing in itself but when we're supposed to get a one-to-one ratio and

we get a 20 to 1 ratio then it's pro-inflammatory because of how they're processed they become toxic

a lot of these beans and seeds and grains don't have a lot of fat in them like corn

is not a very fatty food so you have to apply lots of pressure lots of heat and strong chemicals

like solvents to extract the oil from the food as a result they become very toxic and

also because of the processing they're empty calories there's nothing left in the

food that your body needs there's no essential nutrients there's no vitamin or mineral nothing

at all it's as bland as sugar exceptions to the rule of plant oils are coconut oil and

extra virgin olive oil why because these foods are very high in fat to start with so it doesn't

take much heat or pressure and it takes no chemicals or solvent you just squeeze them a little bit and

out comes the oil furthermore the coconut oil saturated which is very stable and extra

virgin olive oil is monounsaturated also very stable so these things will stay safe they'll

stay stable and fresh for weeks and months even without refrigeration so that's

why these are excellent alternatives and they actually have some good nutrients as well

number six is margarine so now we get all of the bad stuff from plant oils plus these

margarines are also partially hydrogenated and that means that they've taken this plant

oil that's harshly processed that's devoid of any nutrients and the nuke it with hydrogens

and now they change the chemical composition they turn it from a liquid to a solid but

in the process they create a molecule that has never ever been created in nature before it is completely

foreign and we don't have the enzymes we don't have the machinery to deal with this so

it's a poison it's a toxin it's a terrible terrible thing and even the mainstream has

realized this because physical trans fats and now they have to label for that so what is

it good for it's still being sold so if you have some then get it out and build yourself

a little castle or something be a little creative with it but be sure you don't lick your fingers

afterwards not that you'd want to cuz it tastes terrible number five avoid chemical additives

also known as poison. These are even added to food to make it so unattractive to living things that

not even mold wants it not even bacteria not even fungus wants this thing and these poisons

are usually classified under GRAS that means generally regarded as safe they have been

approved by experts and I don't know maybe these are the same experts that told us that

cigarettes and margarine was a good thing and what they do is they take these toxins

one at a time and they run them through a process and they test them on rats or some

other unsuspecting animal and they check how much will kill them and then they back off

until they find this much won't kill you but here's my concern that they test them one

at a time and what if you get a little bit in a thousand different ways we have to realize

these are designed to be poison and there is no amount that is natural in the human

body number four thing to avoid is sweetness you have the blue the pink in the yellow aspartame

the sacrament of the sucralose and if you check the fine print you also want to avoid

Acesulfame potassium or Acesulfame K all of these are pesticides they were in the process of

developing neurotoxins to kill little bugs when they found out that these could taste

sweet and then they modified them a little bit and turned them into artificial sweeteners and

especially the aspartame breaks down into formaldehyde also known as embalming fluid

and methanol which is wood alcohol the stuff that makes you blind so even if you don't

die from it right away do you think your immune system likes it I would suggest you avoid

it so what is it good for well I have heard that the aspartame is pretty good as an ant

killer so if you put it in the corners or outside in the yard then you can get rid of

it that way. Third thing to avoid is grain and why is that well several reasons first because

it's a starch about 80% by weight of most grains is starch which is another form of glucose

within minute it starts breaking down to glucose being absorbed in your bloodstream and raising

blood glucose and insulin and driving metabolic syndrome but also grain is a very common allergen

and the one in particular is modern wheat the ancient weeds and the rye or not so bad

but modern wheat is the number one sensitivity that I find in my office and some of the additional

reasons is that they raise it they grow it with glyphosate which is the pesticide and it

is not specifically technically a GMO but it's hybridized GMO means that they changed

the genetic code and back when they hybridized this they didn't have the sophistication to

splice the genes but they did other things to it they irradiated it and nuked it and

just kind of waited to see where the pieces fell so they've done things to the wheat that's

even worse than than GMO actually. Number two thing that will wreck your immune system is

processed food and why is this because it has preservatives also known as poison it

has flavorings which are chemicals that stimulate your taste buds right when they process it

they remove all of the actual flavor from the food and then they have to trick you into

eating it by putting back addictive chemicals that trick your brain into making you think that there's

actually some flavor here and they're pretty addictive this is a whole industry in itself

it contains sugar very frequently which is a drug that gives you a buzz basically very

addictive and they're depleted there is nothing left in these processed foods that your body

needs essential amino acids essential fatty acids vitamins and minerals there's basically

nothing there and then they add in some synthetic vitamins to make it look like they have nutrients

but it's pretty much all garbage the biggest problem with food if we don't understand what

food is anymore so let me give you a little illustration right every other species on

the planet they either eat something directly from the planet something that grew on the

planet or they eat something that ate something that grew on the planet this is the circle

of life and this is how every species have been eating they've been eating from the earth

and then in the last 50 years humans have changed into eating this stuff okay are you

kidding me this is not food there's not a single item of food there's nothing here that

provides anything that you need sure you can survive on it for months or years or decades

but you cannot thrive and you cannot strengthen your body on that so just kind of look at

how does this make you feel take a deep breath and just sort of sense what this is compared

to that and I think you'll start to get the picture and the number one thing to avoid

if you want a healthy immune system is sugar so what's the worst thing about sugar well

it contains fructose and fructose directly interferes with your immune system interferes

with virtually every metabolic reaction in the body but especially it clogs up the liver

It's a liver poison it is almost as potent as alcohol but it is disguised because everyone

knows to avoid alcohol we don't give alcohol or vodka to kids but we feed them all these

processed foods and these sugar and these drinks so fructose will kill the liver and one of

the worst things often talked about is high fructose corn syrup and why is that spoken

of why is that argued that it's so much worse than sugar because it's 55% fructose vs. 50% fructose

So they're really close yeah high fructose corn syrup it's a little more chemically processed

and it's a little higher but they're both really bad and then we get to the sacred cow fruit

so dried fruit has about 15 to 35% fructose which means twice as much sugar Fresh Fruit

has about 3 to 8% fructose and a lot of people will argue that will this is a natural sugar

it's different than packaged by nature it has fiber and water it's absorbed much slower

and all of that is true but it doesn't matter if it's absorbed slower because it's still

going to go through the liver at some point now if you're healthy if you have a super

clean liver which is rare and you don't have insulin resistance then you could probably

eat a fruit or two maybe not every day but several times a week and you would still be

fine but if you have insulin resistance if you are obese if you have a fatty liver then you

have most likely ruined your carbohydrate tolerance you can't deal with these things anymore and

if you're trying to move away from a fatty liver to a clean liver if you're trying to

reverse the process then you can't put in any amount of the stuff that caused it you

have to be much more strict than someone who never had the problem right so if you have

some dried fruits into by an 8 oz bag and you eat half of it now you just got the same

fructose as drinking three or four sodas right that's not going to be very helpful so maybe

have a few berries here and there but if you are trying to reverse it you have been very

strict about this so you have all seen these campaigns these information campaigns on how

to protect yourself when there's a pandemic weather is Corona or the flu and I'm not going

to even get into that but there's so much talk about that part and there is never any

talk I haven't heard anything from official public sources about how to change your immune

system and here is where you can actually change your risk a hundred times you can reduce

your risk of 100 times I believe so let's talk about that let's pay that some attention

and make get serious about that aspect and like we talked about the way you do that is

to cut sugar and you cut all of the foods that we talked about in this video but then

eats real food and I've done lots of videos on this so check them out and learn what real

food is how to not get insulin resistant then you want to exercise done lots of videos on

that because exercise activates the body improves circulation stimulates the brain it's an excellent

way to strengthen your immune system get enough sleep because while you're sleeping you're

allowing your body to reset your allowing your nervous system to calm down you're putting

your body into a healing state and without adequate sleep and recovery if you live in

constant stress then you will not allow your immune system to do what it does and then

let me mention meditation this is something that a lot of people know that it would be

a good idea that maybe I should give it a try Oh but it's so hard to do it it's so

hard to find the time well I urge you to take it seriously and learn how to meditate

because I don't believe that there's anything that you can do that would have a greater

impact on your quality of life on your immune system on your health on Your vitality on

your joy this is meditation is more than just relaxing it is about rewriting your whole

genetic expression it's about rewiring your nervous system to where it functions better

on automatic so give it a try you will love it if you enjoy this video and you'd like

to learn more about how to get healthy then I think you should check out that one next

thank you so much for watching I'll see you next time