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Episode 9 – Saving Your Child From An Oversanitized World with Marie-Claire Arrieta

Last updated on January 30, 2020

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Today’s episode will tell you exactly what you need to know about germs, bacteria the good, the bad, and why we have been seeing an alarming rise of diseases and illnesses in young kids and children and how research are linking it to the amount of microbes kids have early on in life.

The type of microbiome that we end up with during our lifetime, really gets set up in infancy. Marie-Claire Arrieta

Marie-Claire Arrieta is the co-author of the bestselling book ‘Let Them Eat Dirt: Saving Your Child From An Oversanitized World’, is a microbiologist, has a PhD in medecine, works at the Arrieta Lab in Calgary, Alberta, is an assistant professor at the University of Calgary, has over 15 years of experience working in intestinal microbiology & immunology and among other numerous things is a mother of 2 children.

So many parents fear germs, sickness and get nervous exposing their newborn to other people or public places. Well this episode is just for you. Marie-Claire answers parent’s most common concerns regarding this topic.

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What you’ll learn in this episode:

 0 – 4:45  Intro & Guest Bio

5:45 The difference between microbes & bacteria

8:00 Children’s immune systems

9:15 Some drastic changes in the first years of a child’s microbiota.

10:30 Antibiotics & Kids, When should they take them?

15:30 Feeding your microbes.  The one thing to eat for healthy gut microbes. 

20:00 How long it takes to change our gut microbes?

23:15 Probiotics, who should be taking them?

27:00 How clean should our kids be to prevent sickness?

34:00 The only times we should wash our hands.

35:00 Farm Living VS City Living

37:20 Why the epidemic diseases in children?

39:00 Things to know for your next pregnancy

40:25 The microbes that get transferred to a newborn

42:00 Ceasarean and C-Section Births

44:00 Breast Milk and Formula

48:15 Marie Claire Arrieta cleaned her kids differently, she explains what changed.

50:00 The truth about sterilizing baby bottles

52:00 Being around kids that aren’t vaccinated

56:00 Should people wash their hands before holding a newborn?

57:00 Cleaning a soother in your mouth Good or Bad?

58:30 If you have pets at home…

59:30 Should you have a hand sanitizer in your bag?

1:00:00 Marie Claire’s research

1:01:30 Where to find Marie Claire

1:03:00 Ottawa followers, visit the Microbes Exhibit at the Canadian Museum of Nature in 2020

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Christiane xxx


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