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Importance of Microbes in Educating our Immune System
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Exposure to microbes from the environment plays an important role in educating our immune system, and the sanitization of our environment has gone overboard with the use of antibiotics. The fermented food result may provide a safe way of tapping into these same pathways.
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The excessive use of antibiotics in products like toothbrushes, shopping carts, and food has led to a lack of microbial exposure in our surroundings, which negatively impacts our immune system.
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The excessive use of antibiotics in products like toothbrushes, shopping carts, and food has led to a lack of microbial exposure in our surroundings, which negatively impacts our immune system. Lack of certain gut microbiomes can cause trouble degrading fiber even with a high fiber diet, calling for more safe microbial exposure.
ChapterImportance of Microbes in Educating our Immune System
EpisodeDr. Justin Sonnenburg: How to Build, Maintain & Repair Gut Health
PodcastHuberman Lab
The majority of immune cells in the body are located in the gut, where they interact with beneficial microbes to keep them in the right place.
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The majority of immune cells in the body are located in the gut, where they interact with beneficial microbes to keep them in the right place. Dendritic cells also play a role in educating the immune system about what microbes exist on the other side of the gut barrier.