Beth Lambert

It's the longest environmental health survey that parents fill out to assess what is in and around their child's environment. What was their family health history? What is their birth history like? It's basically an inventory of how... any particular child is living in the modern world. So we've been running that study since 2018 and collecting data.

It's the longest environmental health survey that parents fill out to assess what is in and around their child's environment. What was their family health history? What is their birth history like? It's basically an inventory of how... any particular child is living in the modern world. So we've been running that study since 2018 and collecting data.

It's the longest environmental health survey that parents fill out to assess what is in and around their child's environment. What was their family health history? What is their birth history like? It's basically an inventory of how... any particular child is living in the modern world. So we've been running that study since 2018 and collecting data.

And so you asked, what are the things, what's different? And some of the things that come up in that data, you see signal and noise, right? Because this is a massive survey. So we want to know everything. And what comes up with the most signal, the single biggest impactor is antibiotics and the cumulative exposure to antibiotics. So again, going back to multi-generational, think about your...

And so you asked, what are the things, what's different? And some of the things that come up in that data, you see signal and noise, right? Because this is a massive survey. So we want to know everything. And what comes up with the most signal, the single biggest impactor is antibiotics and the cumulative exposure to antibiotics. So again, going back to multi-generational, think about your...

And so you asked, what are the things, what's different? And some of the things that come up in that data, you see signal and noise, right? Because this is a massive survey. So we want to know everything. And what comes up with the most signal, the single biggest impactor is antibiotics and the cumulative exposure to antibiotics. So again, going back to multi-generational, think about your...

great grandmother or grandmother who might have been the first generation of humans on the planet to have antibiotics, the sulfa drugs that came out in the 1930s. And those were miracle drugs. People were like, you had tuberculosis and you were going to die. You had this magic pill. And all of a sudden you are restored to health and you get to go on and live your life.

great grandmother or grandmother who might have been the first generation of humans on the planet to have antibiotics, the sulfa drugs that came out in the 1930s. And those were miracle drugs. People were like, you had tuberculosis and you were going to die. You had this magic pill. And all of a sudden you are restored to health and you get to go on and live your life.

great grandmother or grandmother who might have been the first generation of humans on the planet to have antibiotics, the sulfa drugs that came out in the 1930s. And those were miracle drugs. People were like, you had tuberculosis and you were going to die. You had this magic pill. And all of a sudden you are restored to health and you get to go on and live your life.

So that's actually a foundation, I think, of why we have such capture with our mindset about pharmaceuticals, because we've had that experience deep in our culture. That first generation of humans in the Western industrial world started taking antibiotics for everything. Shortly following that, you start seeing the rise of food allergies. Food allergies didn't exist before the 19th century.

So that's actually a foundation, I think, of why we have such capture with our mindset about pharmaceuticals, because we've had that experience deep in our culture. That first generation of humans in the Western industrial world started taking antibiotics for everything. Shortly following that, you start seeing the rise of food allergies. Food allergies didn't exist before the 19th century.

So that's actually a foundation, I think, of why we have such capture with our mindset about pharmaceuticals, because we've had that experience deep in our culture. That first generation of humans in the Western industrial world started taking antibiotics for everything. Shortly following that, you start seeing the rise of food allergies. Food allergies didn't exist before the 19th century.

It didn't exist in the 19th century. It was the 20th century when you first started seeing food allergies, life-threatening food allergies. And then if you think about your grandmother, great grandmother who had her antibiotics, then she passed her disrupted microflora from her microbiome was all messed up by those antibiotics that got passed on to your mother and your mother who might have had

It didn't exist in the 19th century. It was the 20th century when you first started seeing food allergies, life-threatening food allergies. And then if you think about your grandmother, great grandmother who had her antibiotics, then she passed her disrupted microflora from her microbiome was all messed up by those antibiotics that got passed on to your mother and your mother who might have had

It didn't exist in the 19th century. It was the 20th century when you first started seeing food allergies, life-threatening food allergies. And then if you think about your grandmother, great grandmother who had her antibiotics, then she passed her disrupted microflora from her microbiome was all messed up by those antibiotics that got passed on to your mother and your mother who might have had

one, two, three, four, five rounds of antibiotics, then passes that on to me. And then that passes on from me to my child. So you have multiple generations of humans who are transferring a microbiome that has been irrevocably damaged by antibiotics. So lots of us have that in our experience.

one, two, three, four, five rounds of antibiotics, then passes that on to me. And then that passes on from me to my child. So you have multiple generations of humans who are transferring a microbiome that has been irrevocably damaged by antibiotics. So lots of us have that in our experience.

one, two, three, four, five rounds of antibiotics, then passes that on to me. And then that passes on from me to my child. So you have multiple generations of humans who are transferring a microbiome that has been irrevocably damaged by antibiotics. So lots of us have that in our experience.

I've done talks in a large room and asked everybody in the room who's had an antibiotic to raise their hand. There's nobody in the room that hasn't raised their antibiotic. I mean, raised their antibiotic, raised their hand. There is nobody who doesn't raise their hand. Everybody has had an antibiotic. But it's not just antibiotics that disrupt the microbiome.

I've done talks in a large room and asked everybody in the room who's had an antibiotic to raise their hand. There's nobody in the room that hasn't raised their antibiotic. I mean, raised their antibiotic, raised their hand. There is nobody who doesn't raise their hand. Everybody has had an antibiotic. But it's not just antibiotics that disrupt the microbiome.