Kathryn interviews scientist Marie-Claire Arrieta PhD, author of “Let Them Eat Dirt: Saving Your Child from an Oversanitized World”. It turns out that our current emphasis on hyper-cleanliness and poor diets are taking a toll on our children’s lifelong health. Dr. Arrieta explains how the microbes that live in our bodies impact childhood development and why an imbalance in those microbes can lead to obesity, diabetes, and asthma, among other chronic conditions. Arrieta is published in the leading scientific journals Gastroenterology, PNAS, and Science Translational Medicine.
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