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The Baby and the Biome: How the Tiny World Inside Your Child Holds the Secret to Their Health
A revolutionary parenting book that draws on cutting-edge research to reveal that the key to raising happy and healthy babies lies in carefully protecting and caring for their microbiomes.
A baby’s immune system develops rapidly in the first 1,000 days of life, with the first six months and year being most important. In The Baby and the Biome , Meenal Lele, medical researcher and founder of Lil Mixins, the #1 pediatrician-recommended allergy-prevention product , explains how diet, environmental toxins, antibiotics, and even common parenting practices can damage the delicate balance of our children’s microbiomes, thereby increasing the risk for a host of immune diseases, including eczema, asthma, food allergies, IBS, and more.
Lele discovered firsthand how critical our microbiomes are to our overall health when she sought to understand the root causes for her son’s food allergies. Drawing on her medical background and through extensive research and interviews with scientists and doctors, Lele discovered the simple, practical steps that all parents and pregnant moms can take to help foster a healthy and protective microbiome in their baby. The Baby and the Biome will empower parents to protect and safeguard their children’s health for years to come.
A baby’s immune system develops rapidly in the first 1,000 days of life, with the first six months and year being most important. In The Baby and the Biome , Meenal Lele, medical researcher and founder of Lil Mixins, the #1 pediatrician-recommended allergy-prevention product , explains how diet, environmental toxins, antibiotics, and even common parenting practices can damage the delicate balance of our children’s microbiomes, thereby increasing the risk for a host of immune diseases, including eczema, asthma, food allergies, IBS, and more.
Lele discovered firsthand how critical our microbiomes are to our overall health when she sought to understand the root causes for her son’s food allergies. Drawing on her medical background and through extensive research and interviews with scientists and doctors, Lele discovered the simple, practical steps that all parents and pregnant moms can take to help foster a healthy and protective microbiome in their baby. The Baby and the Biome will empower parents to protect and safeguard their children’s health for years to come.
272 pages, Hardcover
Published September 6, 2022
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February 14, 2025
lots of good info, felt a little alarmist, certainly impractical for most people
December 5, 2023
A fascinating read. Lots of new fodder to ponder on, especially with kids who have mild eczema.
May 5, 2025
If you only read one book about parenting or babies, make this the one.
February 3, 2023
This book was written by a medical researcher and founder of Lil Mixins, the #1 pediatrician-recommended allergy-prevention product. It goes into how diet, environmental toxins, antibiotics, and parenting practices can damage the balance of a child's microbiome. The risk for many diseases, like asthma, food allergies, and stomach problems. It talks about the choices we as parents can make to reduce a child's risk of autoimmune diseases. The author gives us simple and practical steps to protect a baby's immune system. Now we can show how processed foods and high-sugar foods can disturb our gut during pregnancy and as a parent.
I wished I had this book before my kids were born because I would have known better and done better. The key is that our genetics does not modulate food allergies. The adaptive part of our immune system modulates it. There is a lot we can do to improve childhood nutrition early on.
To listen to my interview with the author, go to my podcast at:
https://www.momsdonthavetimetoreadboo...
I wished I had this book before my kids were born because I would have known better and done better. The key is that our genetics does not modulate food allergies. The adaptive part of our immune system modulates it. There is a lot we can do to improve childhood nutrition early on.
To listen to my interview with the author, go to my podcast at:
https://www.momsdonthavetimetoreadboo...
May 10, 2024
some good tips but lots of unproven science too
Some of her tips are grounded in science but there’s a lot in here that she speaks with authority on that I believe could guide parents in dangerous directions. Hopefully readers take it with a grain of salt and run any recommendations by their doctors and don’t take her word as an expert when she is just a parent who has done a lot of research
Some of her tips are grounded in science but there’s a lot in here that she speaks with authority on that I believe could guide parents in dangerous directions. Hopefully readers take it with a grain of salt and run any recommendations by their doctors and don’t take her word as an expert when she is just a parent who has done a lot of research
January 6, 2024
Parts of this book I loved and agreed with, parts gave me new things to consider and parts I strongly disagreed with.
November 25, 2022
As a father of 3, and a generally curious person, I found this book to be a great read! The author took a lot of journal base research and dialed it down to applicable concepts for anyone to think about. This book may be geared toward child development, but I think it applies to anyone with an immune system.
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