Can You Catch Chronic Disease? The Truth About Contagious Microbiomes | Quick + Dirty
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Can microbiomes be contagious?
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What drives chronic disease risk?
And if you want to deep dive into the science and hear more about this formulation, check out episode 200 of the Dr. Tina show, where I was honored to interview the founder and formulator of Level Up Health, Kyle Vanderfleet. On this week's episode of the Dr. Tina Show, it's a quick and dirty and it's a very controversial topic. So let's jump in without any hesitation whatsoever because I actually believe this and I'm going to share with you something that stirred quite a controversy the past few weeks. I was on the awesome Cody Sanchez's podcast. I flew to Austin. I got to be on her show. She's such a rad chick, you guys. You got to check out her pod. I hope to get her on mine.
How does proximity impact your health?
But she asked me a question based on something that I had said in the past, which was that our disease processes beyond the ones that are known to be contagious are actually contagious. Things like high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, what are considered non-communicable diseases are potentially indeed communicable, meaning contagious, meaning you can catch them from proximity to somebody else who has them. And She made a reel about it, she shared it, she's got millions of followers and boy, oh boy, was there some heat back on me.
What are the root causes of chronic illness?
And I wanna say this first, correlation is not causation, meaning just because two things are correlated does not necessarily mean one caused the other, right? But that said, I'm going to share with you some data. And I think that what's been emerging is more recent. I really started hearing about this in 2020. I had heard about it in the past.
Why does this matter for public policy?
You know, there was some data that I saw back in 2017 actually surrounding the topic of obesity and how even if you have a friend who becomes obese on the Internet and you have an increased risk of becoming obese yourself just by interacting with them even on the internet. And I was like, that's crazy. So I don't know how true that is. And I don't know if that's been disproven. But in 2020, there was an article that came out. And at the same time, I was talking to some microbiome expert friends at a conference. And they shared with me a study where one person in a family took an antibiotic and everybody else's microbiome, gut microbiome in the family shifted, even though they didn't take the antibiotic, just the one person did. And I was like, whoa, that's crazy.
Our microbiomes are contagious. It's not just fungal infections and skin things that we can share, but truly our microbiomes are contagious to the point of our metabolic health being contagious. And I know that is tough for some people to hear and they want to get really angry about it, but we have mice studies to show this.
What is the hygiene hypothesis?
They took mice and they put an obese mouse in with lean mice and the lean mice became obese. And conversely, there's some data points to support that when an obese person, and I think even in the mice, are surrounded by or sort of more than not of their friend's cohort or their surroundings are lean, they may tend towards more becoming lean. So this is not made up, this is happening.
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Chapters
8 chapters
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Can microbiomes be contagious?
1:01–1:18
2
What drives chronic disease risk?
1:18–1:57
3
How does proximity impact your health?
1:57–2:32
4
What are the root causes of chronic illness?
2:32–2:52
5
Why does this matter for public policy?
2:52–4:01
6
What is the hygiene hypothesis?
4:01–5:11
7
What are the dangers of microbiome loss?
5:11–5:35
8
How does your inner circle affect your health?
5:35–20:48
Speakers
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