Fewer Sick Days This Cold & Flu Season? – Free Immunity Boosting Class with Dr. Jocelyn Strand
Cold and flu season can disrupt an entire household, even when you are already paying attention to sleep, handwashing, nutrition, and other familiar habits. It can leave you wondering whether there is more to immune readiness than simply reacting after symptoms appear.
This free online conversation takes a closer look at trained immunity, an evolving area of research examining how the innate immune system can change its state of readiness after certain exposures. Rather than treating “more immune activity” as automatically better, the discussion focuses on what researchers are learning about a more nuanced response.
Dr. Jocelyn Strand, ND, will explain how beta-1,3/1,6-glucan fits into this research and what human studies have observed in areas such as cold symptoms, sick days, and missed days of work or school. She will also distinguish laboratory mechanisms from human outcomes and discuss where questions remain.
The goal is a clearer understanding of the science so you can think more carefully about immune-health information and the choices you discuss with your own healthcare professional.
Why Attend “Fewer Sick Days This Cold & Flu Season? The Science of Training Your Immunity”
Cold and flu season raises a practical question for many households: what does it actually mean for the immune system to be ready? Familiar advice still has its place, but this session looks more closely at an area of immunology that has changed how researchers think about innate immune cells.
Trained immunity describes research into persistent functional changes in the innate immune system following certain exposures. Dr. Strand will explain that concept in plain language and examine why researchers distinguish this idea of readiness from simply trying to stimulate more immune activity.
The conversation also connects laboratory mechanisms with human research involving beta-1,3/1,6-glucan. You will hear what studies have observed about symptoms and missed days, while keeping individual outcomes separate from research findings and acknowledging where the science is still developing.
What You’ll Learn
Let’s begin with the idea of trained immunity, so you can understand why scientists have reconsidered the older view that innate immune cells simply respond the same way every time. Dr. Strand will translate the underlying concepts into language that does not require an immunology background.
You’ll then look at beta-1,3/1,6-glucan and its relationship to innate immune signaling, which means separating detailed laboratory mechanisms from the outcomes that have actually been studied in people. Along the way, the session will address why the language of “readiness” can be more useful than assuming that greater immune activity is always desirable.
From there, Dr. Strand will examine human research involving cold symptoms, sick days, and missed days of work, school, or activity, so that you can see both what individual studies observed and what remains unsettled. The discussion also places BWH-85® Beta Glucan within this broader educational context rather than treating research findings as a promise of personal results.
Here’s just a little bit of what you’ll learn:
- What researchers mean by trained immunity
- How innate immunity differs from adaptive immune memory
- Why immune readiness is not the same as simply increasing immune activity
- How beta-1,3/1,6-glucan is studied in trained-immunity research
- What pattern-recognition receptors have to do with laboratory mechanisms
- What human studies have observed about cold and upper-respiratory symptoms
- What research has reported about sick days and missed work or activity
- How laboratory findings and human outcome studies answer different questions
- Where evidence is developing and important questions remain
- How BWH-85® Beta Glucan fits into the discussion of everyday immune-health routines
Who This Is For
This conversation is suited to curious adults who want a clearer explanation of immune readiness before cold and flu season. You do not need a technical background to follow the discussion, because Dr. Strand will translate the science into plain language while still addressing the distinction between laboratory research and human outcomes.
It may also be useful if you are already familiar with common immune-health habits but want to understand the emerging science around trained immunity and beta-1,3/1,6-glucan. Health-conscious viewers and professionals interested in educational context may appreciate the focus on what research has observed, what it has not established, and why those distinctions matter.
- Adults interested in preparing thoughtfully for cold and flu season
- Parents and caregivers curious about immune-health research
- People who want a plain-language introduction to trained immunity
- Anyone curious about innate versus adaptive immune responses
- People interested in the research on beta-1,3/1,6-glucan
- Health-conscious viewers who want research discussed without exaggerated promises
- Professionals seeking general educational context on trained-immunity research
About Dr. Jocelyn Strand
Dr. Jocelyn Strand, ND, is Vice President of Clinical Education & Research at Better Way Health. Her background includes more than 11 years of private clinical practice involving gastrointestinal, Lyme, and autoimmune conditions.
Her professional work includes publication in Integrative Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal and co-authorship of biofilm research published in Frontiers in Antibiotics.
Dr. Strand has also been involved in research collaboration with Johns Hopkins University. Her role in this event is to translate the developing science of trained immunity, innate immune function, and beta-1,3/1,6-glucan into language a general audience can follow.
During the session, she will distinguish between mechanisms studied in laboratory settings and outcomes observed in human research, while also identifying areas where the evidence continues to develop.
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- Oct 01 2026
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- 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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- Date: Oct 01 2026
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