whygetfat on Nostr: Dr. Ted Achacoso: "Then we have the microbiota or what I call the gut immune system. ...

Dr. Ted Achacoso: "Then we have the microbiota or what I call the gut immune system. The biggest change from my time in medical school to now, Ben, is we were taught before it's the bone marrow. Now we know it's the gut that's the largest immune system in the body, and it's the microbiota. 78% of your bacteria are actually in your gut, and they teach your immune system what's foreign, not foreign, and so on. That's why you see in patients who are born by cesarean section, because they didn't have the proper inoculation with the vaginal organisms by spontaneous vaginal delivery, they are prone more to allergies and other immune diseases, because of this improper activation of the immune system. Now this information was not available to us before. It's only available to us now.

"What the more enlightened OB-GYNs are doing now is that if they're doing a cesarean section, they put in a gauze in the vagina, and then they deliver the baby by cesarean. Then as the head is coming out they rub the gauze in the face, hopefully to do the proper inoculation."

Dr. Ted Achacoso with Ben Greenfield @ 46:03–47:29 https://youtu.be/cZz0pUPTJBA&t=2768