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Welcome to the very first episode of the Supper Heroes podcast.
In this episode, I chatted to Prof. Patrick Bouic about Immunology and COVID-19.
Patrick is a co-founder of Synexa Life Sciences and Extraordinary Professor of Immunology at Stellenbosch University in Cape Town.
Here is what came up:
- What is immunology?
- Is there a short way to explain how the immune system works?
- How does herd immunity work?
- Does Prof Bouic think COVID-19 a man-made virus?
- Why is COVID taking out those with heart disease, diabetes and obesity?
- Why aren’t ventilators helping?
- What was Hippocrates trying to say when he said ‘All disease begins in the gut’
- What can we do to boost immunity?
- What tweaks would you make to the lockdown rules, if any?
- He also unpacks what Hippocrates meant with another famous quote: It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.
- Then we take a deeper look at macroeconomics and how food policy-makers and health policymakers should be talking to each other.
Sit back, relax and get ready to have your mind blown
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