We’re assaulted by viruses, bacteria, and fungi every day; cancer cells arise within our bodies; and other dangers loom. Yet, for the most part, we remain fairly healthy, turning aside most potential illnesses, or weathering the storms when they arise. Our hardiness is due to the tremendous department of defense we all have within our bodies: our immune systems.

T-cells that grapple with invaders in fatal one-on-one combat, giant macrophages that engulf and destroy disease-causing entities, neutrophils that rush lightly armed into battle, B-cells that manufacture antibodies designed to search and destroy specific targets—these are just some of the parts of the mighty immune system.

Like all armies, our immune systems are prepared to operate in many different kinds of terrain. But when the body and blood are filled with fat, the immune system is hampered. Imagine that you’re a foot soldier or tank driver having to slog through sticky, knee-deep mud, or the captain of a boat crashing its way through an ice field. That’s something like the difficulties our immune system soldiers face when our bodies are filled with fat. Excessive amounts of fats, especially polyunsaturated fatty acids and cholesterol, have been linked to a weakening of the immune system.⁸ Excess blood fats directly interfere with immune system cells,⁹ the lymphocytes, T4 and T8 cells, B-cells, natural killer cells, monocytes, and giant macrophages. Fat also impairs the ability of the red blood cells to deliver oxygen to immune
system tissues that depend on a good supply of oxygen and nutrients in order to keep us healthy. Meanwhile, studies have shown that cutting your fat intake to lower levels may make your natural killer cells more effective, ¹⁰ all the more reason to keep our fat intake low.

Excess fat may be more dangerous to us than many of the viruses and bacteria that we come in contact with. In over 40 years of treating patients, I have observed that people eating very high fat diets tend to get more infections, and have a more difficult time healing, than those who do not. That’s why I say that cutting our fat intakes down to safe levels can be powerful medicine.

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