Let Them Eat Dirt: How Microbes Can Make Your Child Healthier
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (774 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1616207388 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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but we love our probiotics and it's fun to learn why they I found this book to be so insightful and interesting on many levels. I couldn't put it down and read it in one day! The author successfully breaks down very scientific concepts to lamen terms so anyone can understand them.I think every expectant mother should read this book! I wasn't expecting it to be so focused on pregnancy, breast feeding and birth. I'm far past that stuff with my kids, but I still found it fascinating. One of my kids has a plethora of allergies and the book really helped me understand why and what we can do about them. I think I still yearn for more info on what. Carlos Castro said Must read!! Incredible knowledge and scientific revelation. This book is a must read for anybody who is thinking about starting a family or has children. It provides amazing insight into how to create a healthy environment from gestation thereafter for your children and it may not be in the conventional way we have been taught over the last several years. It also helps significantly to dispel lots of myths and miconceptions about things like vaccines which is very reassuring as a new parent. The book is for sure to shock the vast majority of people. It is a fast and easy read backed by real science and microbiology. It is time we made sense o. Fantastic and fascinating Eric Leberg I heard this man interviewed on NPR, and was so intrigued I bought the book even though I don't have children. If you have children and are wondering about how the environment affects their long term health, and are worried about dirty germs, this is a must read. It's fascinating and it is evidence. based.
But a recent explosion of scientific knowledge has led to undeniable evidence that early exposure to these organisms is beneficial to a child’s well-being. In this engaging and important book, microbiologists Brett Finlay and Marie-Claire Arrieta explain how the trillions of microbes that live in and on our bodies influence childhood development; why an imbalance of those microbes can lead to obesity, diabetes, and asthma, among other chronic conditions; and what parents can do--from conception on--to positively affect their own behaviors and those of their children. They describe how natural childbirth, breastfeeding, and solid foods influence children’s microbiota. “A must-read Takes you inside a child’s gut and shows you how to give kids the best immune start early in life.” —William Sears, MD, coauthor of The Baby BookLike the culture-changing Last Child in the Woods, here is the first parenting book to apply the latest cutting-edge scientific research about the human microbiome to the way we raise our children. In the two hundred years since we discovered that microbes cause infe
Let Them Eat Dirt gives an entertaining, engaging and accurate view of what we're discovering about the microbiome and why it matters for you and your children." —Rob Knight, Professor of Pediatrics and Computer Science & Engineering, and Director, Center for Microbiome Innovation, UC San Diego, and author of Follow Your Gut: The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes “What a triumph. As a Professor of Pediatrics, I appreciated the accessible format and writing style that makes this wealth of information and its limitations easy to understand for the increasing crowd parents who are concerned about their children and