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devaki berkson
Oct 08, 2024
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From zero to 2 years old, our body is trained by the environment.

We need to be in the dirt.

Avoid excessive exposure to constant sanitizers and cleaner use.

Did all the sanitizer use during Covid actually cause more allergies? Possibly.

More allergies in kids today overlaps with our obsessive use of cleanliness chemicals.

A diverse diet helps create a diverse biome that fights allergies.

But doctors are taught in medical schools that diet does nothing (taught Dr. Jill Carnahan, one of my sisters-of-my-heart!)

In 2021 a study came out suggesting a role of diet in colorectal cancer, but the authors said: Don’t tell patients about this yet as we need more randomized trials. Ugh ugh ugh.

There is a true loss of common sense, agile thinking, in medicine.

We now have an explosion of use and promotion of the weight loss GLP-1 medications.

GLP-1 medications, also known as GLP-1 receptor agonists, are a class of drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity. And a growing list of many more conditions, like renal and cardiac patients.

But a healthy gut makes our own GLP-1.

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