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In light of a new variant and possible new waves of pandemic illness, we always want to be proactive and do what we can to provide information to help people combat illness naturally. We’re thrilled to have Dr. Robert Rountree back on the show to walk us through his favorite supplements, backed by science of course, to help keep illness at bay. This episode is quite literally an A-Z look at what you need to give your body the best shot at staying well naturally.

Meet Dr. Robert Rountree:

On this week’s episode we welcome back Dr. Robert Rountree to talk about his favorite supplements that EVERYONE should be taking to help combat illness. Dr. Rountree is a practicing physician out of Boulder, CO  and is Chief Medical Officer for THORNE® and he breaks down the essential vitamins and nutrients he takes on a daily basis, gives suggestions for dosing, and even throws in a couple extra products that might not be on your radar.

Some Points We Discuss:

• What nutrients should someone consider as they want to build their immune system? (5:53 )

• What are some of the most important things to know about vitamin D supplementation? (21:03 )

• What makes quercetin so unique for immune health? (40:24 )

Some Key Takeaways From This Episode:

• The alphabet list is not necessarily particular to any virus or illness. This is great for the immune system in general. (10:37 )

• Always choose methylated B vitamins over folic acid. (16:59 )

• There’s a delayed effect with Vitamin D. You don’t see the impact immediately. (26:44 )

• Quercetin can stabilize immune cells and prevent the production of histamine. (41:25 )

Products + Resources:

• Vitamin A

• Vitamin B

• Vitamin C

• Vitamin D

• Vitamin E

• Melatonin

• Curcumin

• NAC

• Quercetin 

• Nattokinase

• Zinc

Get Social with Dr. Rountree:

• LinkedIn

• Website: thorne.com 

CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL SHOW TRANSCRIPT

Brian Strickland 00:18
Hey everyone welcome back to the holistic navigator podcast where we believe in the body's capacity for self healing, if it's given the proper nutrients and care deserves my name is Brian Strickland. I'm the producer of the show, and I'm joined in the studio today, as always by Ed Jones. And on this week's episode, we welcome back Dr. Robert Rountree to talk about his favorite supplements that everyone should be taking to help combat illness. Dr. Rountree is a practicing physician out of Boulder, Colorado, and he is the Chief Medical Officer for Thorne. And we wanted to take a look at some of his favorite supplements plus one in particular, and that is quercetin. Quercetin is a powerful nutrients that really everyone can benefit from. So we wanted to take an in depth look at that today. We've got a ton to cover today. This is a great episode. And if you're curious about where to start, or how to combat illness than this really is the show for you. So with that being said, let's go ahead and get this episode started. Here's your host, Mr. Ed Jones.

Ed Jones 01:33
Thank you, Brian, very much for that. And, and again, we are here. This is Ed Jones with the holistic navigator. And you know, we're up to past 100 podcasts now. And it's something I truly, truly wake up in the morning and look forward so much to do these expecially when I'm talking to someone who is a storehouse of not only knowledge, but experience. And you know, I've learned through all my years, I'm 64. Now, there is a difference between knowledge and wisdom. And I am very much invested in wise people. That doesn't mean they always have to have degrees on the wall. But I really like people who have both a lot of school study and practice and also wisdom. And today, we're going to go back into a kind of a review of a podcast we had last year on the immune system and how to empower it in a quick mode and fashion if we needed. And the gentlemen I've known him for many many years, spoke to him on several occasions met him a couple times, Dr. Robert Rountree. Welcome to the holistic navigator.

Dr. Rountree 02:45
Hey, great to be back on again.

Ed Jones 02:48
You did such a phenomenal job last and I don't know for sure the date. But last year, probably in about May. We went through a list of what does a person need to basically have as their toolkit ready to roll if they get what I call under the weather. And we're not going to use any specific names of any conditions. But if someone wants to very quickly empower their immune system, that's what we're going to talk about today, because that was the focus last year, I had you and only one other physician during that craziness of last year. And both of you were lifesavers. I know for a fact because we share this throughout our city throughout our state throughout the United States. And because we were in the top 1% of health podcast globally, I know it was shared outside of our borders, and knowledge is power. And there's so much fake news out there regarding everything, including nutrition, and I am a person who won't put up with that I want the nitty gritty, I want the absolute truth. Some things we won't know. Absolutely. But I'm always going to find the clearest source of truth or is and with you, Dr. Roundtree, I trust you completely if if I had a health issue, and I don't trust most people in the medical field, but I would certainly bow down to whatever good advice you would give me. So today was very fun to use. And well, you know, the system that the traditional medical system is wonderful for acute care emergencies. You know, I'm in a car wreck, Hey, I just bought me a electric bike like two weeks ago, if I fall on that thing, hey, I'm not going to my nutrition store or some herbalist. I'm going to someone in the traditional medical facilities to patch me up their miraculous heart attacks and urgent cares. But when it comes to things like immune system and chronic diseases and an aging they don't have a toolbox it contains hardly anything you have filled your toolbox. In fact, you know You graduated in 1980, from the North Carolina School of Medicine, and Lille Chapel Hill and you have pursued, you're on board writing on the holistic medicine, extensive postgraduate studies in nutrition, herbal pharmacology, author of several books, I love the title of one of those revolutionary way to fight infection, beat chronic illness and stay well. So you are a an encyclopedia, there's no doubt. Well, I know last year, again, we're talking about an immune system that if someone's listening, hey, I need to activate it. Not next week. I'm trying to activate it today. And we know that that there's a lot of drugs are prescribed in traditional medicine, none of these stimulate immune systems, they may actually weaken it because they're wanting to not have a response we're talking about. We're wanting to make this as robust, resilient military within us we have a natural pharmacy within us. I want to know from you as as you told last year, but maybe with some tweaking, what nutrients should someone consider if they are ready for battle?

Dr. Rountree 06:09
Okay. Sure enough, that's a that's really one of my favorite topics. I have to say that many years ago, I was involved in some lobbying organizations for the for herbal medicine. And I got interviewed by some national media, asking me well, did I think this is the future of medicine? And I said, Well, absolutely. You know, the, the, the evidence is there, it's herbal medicine to say nutritional medicine is safe. I think this is going to take over me