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I want to increase your awareness on antibiotics given to children early in life and the effects

that that can create later in life. There's a very important link between what goes on in your

digestive system and what happens in your brain. You have close to 100 trillion microbes, both inside

and outside your body. Most of them living in your gut and if those microbes are altered in a

certain way, it can create huge effects on both your cognitive state as well as your emotional state.

Now, if we talk about children, penicillin is the most commonly prescribed antibiotic and penicillin's

derivative type antibiotics. In the US, an average child receives three courses of antibiotics before

the age of two and these antibiotics change both the type of microbes living in your gut as well

as the number of microbes and the ratios of microbes to fungus living in your gut that can then create

all sorts of effects down the road. One big effect of this altered microbiome is an alteration

in the gene expression of both the frontal cortex of your brain as well as the amygdala in your

brain which has a lot to do with fear responses and stress responses and so if you have an altered

gene expression of both the frontal lobe and your amygdala, this can affect your memory. This can

put you more in a a fear state which is anxiety as well as a stress state of having higher levels of

cortisol and so antibiotics early in life can affect the child's cognitive and emotional state

later in life. Increasing the risk of depression, autism, anxiety, and ADHD. It's not to mention in

other videos I talk about it affecting the immune system, increasing risk of immune allergies and

asthma as well as slowing down your metabolism and so the question is what can you do about it? Well

the first thing is make sure these antibiotics are really necessary far too often the doctor

prescribes antibiotics for viral infections when they don't do anything for viral infections.

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