Show 1157: Why Are You Never Home Alone?

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

You may think your home is sparkling clean. But even a clean house harbors a host of small creatures that have a fascinating web of interactions with each other and with the humans who live there. What do you know about the ecology of your home? How does the dust that accumulates in the corners […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at people's pharmacy.com.
0:14.0	Scientists have found that we host a diverse
0:18.0	microbiota in our bodies.
0:20.0	What about our homes?
0:22.0	What's in your basement? This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grayden. Every surface in our houses is covered with microbes. You can't see them, but they're there.
0:40.0	On the counters, the floors, the walls, and in the water.
0:44.0	How do your activities affect the ecology of your living space?
0:48.0	How have homes changed over the last century?
0:52.0	How has that changed their microbial... homes changed over the last century.
0:53.0	How has that changed their microbial ecology?
0:56.6	What could be growing in your shower head
0:59.3	or your hot water heater?
1:01.6	Coming up on the people's pharmacy, call us with your questions about the wilderness thriving in your living space.
1:10.0	First, this news.
1:18.0	In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, flu season should be winding down,
1:20.0	but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are warning about a second wave of
1:25.3	influenza peeking in the southeastern U.S.
1:28.9	Earlier this year, tests showed that the most common strain of flu virus was H1N1. Now, however, the H3N2 strain is becoming
1:40.0	more common. That's the strain that caused such a terrible flu season last year.
1:45.0	Both strains are covered in this year's flu vaccine and experts report that the flu shot
1:51.0	reduced the number of cases that needed medical attention by 47%.
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