Dirt is Good Quotes

“let your kids experience as much microbial diversity as you can find. Get them outside, let them interact with animals, allow them to play in the dirt, rivers, streams, ocean. Don’t sterilize everything they are going to touch or put into their mouth. A great example of this is the pacifier that falls on the ground. Parents who sterilize the binky run the risk of increasing the likelihood that their child will develop food sensitivities later in life.”
― Jack Gilbert, Dirt Is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Your Child's Developing Immune System

“So yes, this means dirt is good. Mud pies rule.”
― Jack Gilbert, Dirt Is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Your Child's Developing Immune System

“Anxiety and depression are both caused by an imbalance in chemicals in our nervous system that stimulate and inhibit how frequently nerves communicate with each other. Too much stimulation or too much inhibition breaks the delicate balance in our nervous system and leads to aberrant behavior.”
― Jack Gilbert, Dirt Is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Your Child's Developing Immune System

“This research raises the possibility that regular consumption of artificial sweeteners may induce a shift in levels of the hormones that control insulin production”
― Jack Gilbert, Dirt Is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Your Child's Developing Immune System

“Roundup, has been correlated with changes in the animal microbiome.”
― Jack Gilbert, Dirt Is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Your Child's Developing Immune System

“To the best of our knowledge, there’s no evidence that GMOs (genetically modified organisms that have been designed or manipulated to produce certain characteristics) can affect your child’s microbiome in any way.”
― Jack Gilbert, Dirt Is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Your Child's Developing Immune System

“When you take an antibiotic, you tend to wipe out a lot of good bacteria while trying to get at the bad ones. It’s like weeding with a bulldozer instead of a trowel.”
― Jack Gilbert, Dirt Is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Your Child's Developing Immune System

“silver nitrate eyedrops. This almost completely eradicated the disease. But it turns out that silver nitrate is nasty. It can cause chemical burns and temporary blindness itself.”
― Jack Gilbert, Dirt Is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Your Child's Developing Immune System

“many patients demand antibiotics even for ailments that won’t benefit from them, such as viral infections, some doctors are likely to give you a prescription because they’re worried that you won’t leave happy without one.”
― Jack Gilbert, Dirt Is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Your Child's Developing Immune System

“Male and female infants begin life mostly microbe-free but rapidly acquire bacteria from the world around them.”
― Jack Gilbert, Dirt Is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Your Child's Developing Immune System

“The jury may be out over the long-term consequences, but it seems prudent to us to avoid C-sections if you have a choice.”
― Jack Gilbert, Dirt Is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Your Child's Developing Immune System

“Nearly a third of babies born in hospitals in the United States are delivered via cesarean section, often due to the cautionary nature of modern obstetrical practice.2 Among seventeen thousand home births in a recent study conducted by the Midwives Alliance of North America, only 5.2 percent needed to go the hospital for a C-section.”
― Jack Gilbert, Dirt Is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Your Child's Developing Immune System

“When pregnant women scoop up cat litter and accidentally breathe in the particles, the parasite can find its way to their placentas. Like viruses, it can damage placental cells and cause them to commit suicide. The resulting condition, called toxoplasmosis, can lead to fetal infection, miscarriage, congenital disease, or disability later in life. This is why many pregnant women get their partners to empty the cat box for nine months.”
― Jack Gilbert, Dirt Is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Your Child's Developing Immune System

“Thus the fetus remains vulnerable to the virus. This scenario has been linked to the development of autism-like symptoms in mice”
― Jack Gilbert, Dirt Is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Your Child's Developing Immune System

“The placenta is thought to be an impervious barrier, at least to most bacteria”
― Jack Gilbert, Dirt Is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Your Child's Developing Immune System

“we certainly don’t recommend applying yogurt to the vagina or the penis during sex,”
― Jack Gilbert, Dirt Is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Your Child's Developing Immune System

“Your baby comes into the world with a biological program expecting to see conditions similar to that past.”
― Jack Gilbert, Dirt Is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Your Child's Developing Immune System

“The Russians exposed microbes to space for a year, outside of the Mir space station, and some survived.”
― Jack Gilbert, Dirt Is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Your Child's Developing Immune System

“As sworn enemies, bacteria and viruses have been duking it out for billions of years”
― Jack Gilbert, Dirt Is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Your Child's Developing Immune System