Visit netsuite.com/tai to download your FREE guide, “Seven Key Strategies to Grow your Profits”Go to stamps.com, and click on the microphone at the top of the homepage and type in TAI—to get a 4-week trial plus free postage and a digital scale without any long-term commitment.“We’ve grown up in under an antibiotic umbrella where we think antibiotics are going to cover and cure everything.” - Dr. Martin Blaser(click to tweet) Health is more than a diet and exercise regimen. When we take a minute to examine our health from a more global perspective, the other factors of well-being surface. Our lifestyle, our habits, our mindset—these are the things that shape a person’s vitality. And on today’s episode of The Tai Lopez Show, we are joined by Dr. Martin Blaser, the Director of The Human Microbiome Project at NYU’s School of Medicine, to discuss the dangers of antibiotic use. Dr. Blaser has 28 patents, and is the author of Missing Microbes, a book that examines how our species is devolving with the declining supply of microbes in our system.Tune in to this conversation to capture an educated perspective of the whole health ecosystem!Don’t forget! You can also listen to The Tai Lopez Show on Spotify! Click “Follow” and let me know what you think!“Our system is completely backwards. It’s a false economy. People are making a lot of money out of germaphobia.” - Dr. Martin Blaser(click to tweet)Points to Keep In MindHumans are actually a partnership between microbes and us (equal numbers of cells)Without microbes we would not be aliveThere is evidence that our supply of microbes is disappearingEvidence that this is at the root of the rising rates of autism, celiac disease, Alzheimer’s, etc. Most probiotics have not been tested in scientific studies over the long termKids who take on average more antibiotics than others turn out fatterWe only look at the benefits of antibiotics because doctors are too concerned about liabilityBabies pick up their mother’s microbes in the birth canalRising rates of cesarean sections are preventing this from happening70 years ago, agriculture experts figured out that if you feed antibiotics to animals, they gain weight fasterSome cities have an antibiotics in their drinking waterSweden uses 40% of the antibiotics we useEpidemics come from the lack of diversity in our current living situationsKids born by C-section are more prone to disease (celiac disease, juvenile diabetes, etc.)The rate of juvenile diabetes is doubling every 25 yearsA Denmark study showed that antibiotics increase risk of inflammatory bowel disease by 14% in kidsWe’ve engineered a system where the doctor-patient relationship is sterile Antibiotics change the metabolism in adults We need better diagnostics to determine viral vs. bacterial infectionsFood preservatives are antibacterials destroying our microbiomeOur good bacteria fights the bad bacteria; this is the problem with anti-bacterial productsHospitals and doctors like C-sections because they’re scheduledSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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