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Microbirth
“Microbirth” is a 60 minute documentary looking at the latest scientific research about the microscopic events happening during childbirth.
“Microbirth” reveals the latest scientific thinking on how best to “seed” a baby’s microbiome in order to build the strongest possible immune system. This cutting-edge science has the potential to not only improve the health of our children across a lifetime, but also across generations still to come.

Feed your microbes-Nurture your mind
TEDTalk by John Cryan

The Human microbiome in jeopardy.

Our microbes are vital to our lives, but they are in jeopardy due to various modern day factors including overuse and misuse of antibiotics and Caesarean sections.
You are what you eat

When we go to the grocery store, we go with a mission to pick up food for ourselves and our families, but too often we buy food that is tainted with antibiotics, anti-enzymatics, herbicides, pesticides and other chemicals.
How to resist antibiotic resistance

Alexander Fleming, a Scottish microbiologist focused his research on killing bacteria, thus making a discovery in 1928 that changed the world and saved lives: penicillin, the first modern day antibiotic.

More than 70% of all antibiotics used in the U.S. are administered to livestock, which contributes to an epidemic of antibiotic-resistance infection in humans.

Mellon, Benbrook, and Benbrook, 2001

By the time a child can crawl, he has been blanketed by an enormous, unseen cloud of microorganisms--a hundred trillion or more.

Michael Specter.