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Boosting Your Immune System

Dr Ronx Ikharia presents the definitive guide, not only to defending yourself against Covid-19, but also boosting your strength for when the cold and flu season is upon us.

You can't feel it or see it. You can't take its pulse or its temperature. But out of sight and out of mind, your immune system is working to protect you from infectious bacteria, viruses, injuries and a host of other nasties.

Due to the coronavirus, the health market has exploded with products promising to boost, support or supercharge our flagging natural defences. But which of these so-called miracle products, superfoods and supplements should we be spending our cash on, and which really have the science to back up their claims?

Now, as Dr Ronx Ikharia finds out, new science is revealing that the human body’s most extraordinary structure – a complex fighting system powered by five litres of blood and lymph – has the capacity to be supercharged and improved if we have the science know-how to do it.

This is the definitive guide, not only to defending yourself against Covid-19, but also boosting your strength for when the cold and flu season is upon us.

59 minutes

Last on

Thu 26 Aug 2021 23:40
BBC One

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Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:01

    Goldfrapp

    Ooh La La

  • 00:05

    Baxter Dury

    The Sun

  • 00:07

    Goldfrapp

    You Never Know

  • 00:13

    The Grates

    Science Is Golden

  • 00:15

    The Ting Tings

    Soul Killing

  • 00:16

    Baxter Dury

    Leak At The Disco

  • 00:24

    Boards of Canada

    An Eagle In Your Mind

  • 00:25

    Wild Beasts

    Reach a Bit Further

  • 00:28

    Mount Kimbie

    You Took Your Time

  • 00:32

    Goldfrapp

    Voicething

  • 00:43

    Ghostpoet

    Nothing In The Way

Credits

Presenter Ronx Ikharia
Director Tom Hewitson
Executive Producer Paul Overton
Executive Producer Jacqueline Smith

Broadcasts

  • Wed 6 Jan 2021 21:00
    BBC One
  • Mon 11 Jan 2021 23:30
    BBC One except Northern Ireland & Northern Ireland HD
  • Tue 12 Jan 2021 00:00
    BBC One Northern Ireland & Northern Ireland HD only
  • Sat 16 Jan 2021 02:35
    BBC Two
  • Thu 26 Aug 2021 23:40
    BBC One

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