Here's a question for you.

What's the best way to live a longer, healthier life?

Diet, exercise, both eating healthy while doing jumping jacks?

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

And I'm here to help you answer that question.

We have tremendous power over our health destiny and longevity.

The vast majority of premature death and disability is preventable with a healthy,

enough diet and lifestyle.

And I'm here to bring you the latest peer-reviewed research to give you the tools to put it into practice.

On today's show, we look at some of the ways to potentially boost our immune function

starting with probiotics.

Babies delivered the esoteric section appear to be an increased risk for various allergic

diseases.

The thought is that vaginal delivery leads to the first colonization of the gut with maternal

vaginal bacteria while C-section babies are deprived of this natural exposure and exhibit

a different gut flora.

This is supported by research noting that disturbance in maternal vaginal flora during pregnancy

may be associated with early asthma in their children.

This also suggests our natural gut flora can affect the development of our immune system

for better or for worse.

In adulthood, two studies published back in 2001 suggested that probiotics could have systemic

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