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Let Them Eat Dirt: How Microbes Can Make Your Child Healthier by [Dr. B. Brett Finlay, Dr. Marie-Claire Arrieta]

Let Them Eat Dirt: How Microbes Can Make Your Child Healthier Kindle Edition

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“A must-read for parents, teachers and any healthcare provider for children, Let Them Eat Dirt takes you inside the inside tract of a child’s gut, and shows you how to give kids the best immune start early in life.”—William Sears, M.D, co-author, The Baby Book

“I loved this book.”
—Dr. Richard Besser, Chief Health and Medical Editor at ABC News

“With the quiet weight of their authority, pioneer researchers Brett Finlay and Claire Arrieta help parents to understand the real nature of microbes, and then to act to improve their children's health.”
—Martin Blaser, author of Missing Microbes (and Director of the NYU Human Microbiome Program)

“This book might change your perspective on real cleanliness... and along the way help you to raise healthier kids.”
—Giulia Enders, author of international bestseller Gut

“As a parent and a microbiologist, I appreciated the up-to-date and actionable science that
Let Them Eat Dirt highlights, including the groundbreaking work conducted in the authors’ own lab. As a Professor of Pediatrics, I appreciated the accessible format and writing style that makes this wealth of information and its limitations easy to understand for the increasing crowd parents who are concerned about their children and their growing microbiomes. Let Them Eat Dirt gives an entertaining, engaging and accurate view of what we're discovering about the microbiome and why it matters for you and your children." —Rob Knight, Professor of Pediatrics and Computer Science & Engineering, and Director, Center for Microbiome Innovation, UC San Diego, and author of Follow Your Gut: The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes

“What a triumph. This book should be read by every pregnant woman, every parent, every pediatrician. It's not just a great read but terribly important.”
—Professor Margaret McFall-Ngai, Member of the National Academy of Sciences and Director of Pacific Biosciences Research Center, University of Hawaii.

“Great book! Very clear, down to earth, and interesting; it reads like a story! 
Let Them Eat Dirt takes an important and complex subject and makes it less scary.” —Eran Elinav, M.D., Ph.D., Principal Investigator,  Host-microbiome Interaction Research Group at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Senior Fellow, Canadian Institute For Advanced Research

 “Solid, easily assimilated evidence showing how microbes are an integral part of a child's healthy life.”
Kirkus Reviews

“Finlay and Arrieta explain, in illuminating detail, the importance of the gut microbiome…They hope to restore the powerful benefits of microbe transfer from the environment to the young child, benefits lost as a side effect of efforts to reduce infectious disease risk and of cultural attitudes that conflate dirt with disease….The focus on practical choices before and during birth makes this book a good resource for expectant parents.”
Publishers Weekly
 

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 A new way of thinking about the health of your children.
 
“This book might change your perspective on real cleanliness . . . and along the way help you to raise healthier kids.”
—Giulia Enders, author of the international bestseller Gut
 
“Pioneer researchers Brett Finlay and Claire Arrieta help parents to understand the real nature of microbes and then to act to improve their children’s health.”
—Martin Blaser, author of Missing Microbes and director 
of the NYU Human Microbiome Program
 
“Solid, easily assimilated evidence showing how microbes are an integral part of a child’s healthy life.”
—Kirkus Reviews
 

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01BL0YHCE
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Algonquin Books (September 20, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 20, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1256 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 322 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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This book is a must read for anybody who is thinking about starting a family or has children. It provides amazing insight into how to create a healthy environment from gestation thereafter for your children and it may not be in the conventional way we have been taught over the last several years. It also helps significantly to dispel lots of myths and miconceptions about things like vaccines which is very reassuring as a new parent. The book is for sure to shock the vast majority of people. It is a fast and easy read backed by real science and microbiology. It is time we made sense out of why our population is being plagued by diseases which never used to affect us so severely or in such high quantities.
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