Welcome to Natural MD Radio, your place to hear the whole truth on health and

medicine for women and children and get the tools you need

to take back your health naturally starting now. This is Dr. Aviva Ram and it's a

pleasure as always to have you here with me. Today we're going to talk about a

topic that is so front and center in the media that if you haven't heard about the

microbiome I think you might be residing on another planet

temporarily because you pretty much can't open up any newspaper,

any magazine, or go on any website, and not see about it.

There's an old Indian text, a Vedic text, that says,

a person whose basic emotional and physical tendencies are imbalance

whose digestive power is balanced whose bodily tissues

elimination functions and activities are imbalance that person is said to be healthy. The idea that gut is

central to our health goes back thousands of years, but it's been largely absent

from modern medicine and modern science until very recently.

In my own medical practice and my practice as an herbalist, I see the gut as the epicenter of health.

And in my approach, it's often one of the first areas

of the body that I work on for helping my patients

with many, many different types of conditions.

And as a midwife, certainly what we know about the health of the newborn

and the newborn's microbiome and how that might be altered, example by Cessarian section or

introduction of antibiotics to the mom in labor or at the time of the C

section can have an impact on childhood health and lifelong health.

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