Dr. Sanda Moldovan explains that microorganisms outnumber your human cells roughly 10 to 1, living on your skin, in your mouth, intestines, and brain. She advises cutting back on antibacterials and feeding your microbiome instead.
Approximately 10:1 (microorganisms to human cells).
On the skin, in the mouth, inside the intestines, and in the brain.
Twitter: @Dr. Sanda (spoken as 'tweet me at Dr. Sanda').
Hi everyone, I'm Dr. Sandha. I wanted to talk to you about what is a microbiome? Micro means very little and biome means world. The microbiome. When we talk about this, we really refer to everything that covers us other microorganisms. This could be bacteria, fungus, parasite, viruses. That microbiome world is a ten to one microbiome and then the one is the human cells. So we're really outnumbered. We have a lot more microorganisms on our bodies, in our mouth, inside our intestines, actually even in the brain than we do human cells. So what does that mean? Respect your microbiome. Try to keep a healthy microbiome healthy. How do we do that? Stop using antibacterials like crazy because it's really going to promote the growth of bad bacteria. We really have to learn to nourish the microbiome inside and out. On our skin we have tons, trillions of little, little bacteria. That's actually offering a protection against infections. So think less antibacterials and more pro life or keeping your microbiome healthy. If you have any questions, you can tweet me at Dr. Sanda until next time.
