Welcome to the birthful podcast. I'm Adriana Lozada, and today's show is about the microbiome.

New research tells us that the microbes that are present during pregnancy,

birth, and postpartum can have an effect on the development of diseases such as asthma, diabetes,

lupus, colitis, and celiac disease. Dr. Rodney Dietert is here to tell us how you can encourage

a proper seating of your baby's body to help fend off these maladies. Stay tuned.

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to help you understand how to do it. So thank you. So today I will be talking to Dr. Rodney

Dieter about the newborns microbe, and Dr. Rodney is

professor of immunotoxicology at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and has been on the

Cornell faculty for 38 years. He has written extensively on early life environmental risk

factors and programming of later life, non-communicable diseases,

which are also known as chronic diseases. He's also the co-author of the book, Strategies for

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