How Cellular Health Can Support Autoimmune Disease with Jess Berman

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What if supporting autoimmune health needs to start even deeper than the gut, hormones or immune system — at the level of the cell itself?

In this episode of The Autoimmune RESET, I’m joined by Jess Berman, co-owner of BodyBio, to explore the role cellular health plays in inflammation, immune function, energy and our overall resilience.

Jess shares her own health journey, including her experience with PCOS and Hashimoto’s, and how it shaped the way she thinks about nutrition and health today. We discuss why the integrity of our cell membranes matters, how modern diets and environmental exposures can affect cellular function, and why some of the nutrients we’ve been taught to fear — including omega-6 fatty acids — may deserve a more nuanced conversation.

We also get practical, talking about phospholipids, essential fatty acids, butyrate, minerals and hydration, alongside the foundational dietary and lifestyle changes that can make a meaningful difference before reaching for increasingly complex protocols.

In this episode, we cover:

• Jess’s personal experience with PCOS, Hashimoto’s and autoimmune health
• Why cellular health is an important piece of the autoimmune puzzle
• What cell membranes actually do and why their integrity matters
• Phospholipids and their role in cellular function
• Why omega-6 isn’t necessarily the inflammatory villain it has been made out to be
• The importance of balancing essential omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids
• Butyrate, the gut barrier and the connection between gut and immune health
• Minerals, electrolytes and why hydration is about more than simply drinking water
• Environmental exposures, oxidative stress and detoxification
• Why Jess believes in getting the foundations right before moving into more intensive protocols
• Practical places to start if you’re living with an autoimmune condition

If you’d like to explore some of the BodyBio products Jess and I discuss in this episode, including BodyBio PC, Balance Oil, Butyrate and e-Lyte, you can find them here:

UK: BodyBio UK
US: BodyBio

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