Heal Your Lungs Post COVID Fix Your Microbiome NOW!

You know, as somebody who focuses on helping people breathe better and knowing that we consume about 30 pounds of air and we take 23,000 breaths a day, there's a lot of exchange between the outside world and the inside world that happens in our lungs. Of course, coming out, you know, a few years out of this whole respiratory virus thing that went around with COVID I'm curious as to what are some of the common imbalances that you see in the lung microbiome and what can people do to, you know, immediately, and then of course long-term we'll talk about, but what are some things people can do immediately to improve their lung microbiome health?

Yeah, and I think even before getting into that, like most people, like we talked about earlier on, thought the lungs were sterile. And so our founder at ResBiotic, Dr. Vivek Lao, I mean, fascinating neonatologist physician, really found himself in early research and he and his group were digging into, he worked in the NICU and really trying to figure out, and among other groups, why within the NICU are certain babies getting what you know, called secondary hits or secondary respiratory infections versus others not? And it led them to the lung microbiome and him and a couple other groups were sort of the main groups to really discover that the lungs even had a unique microbiome 'cause it wasn't included in the Human Microbiome Project. We didn't know, we thought it was sterile. And so it's really opened up a lot of opportunity that's really advanced, you know, over the last 20 years of understanding this gut-x communication and the lungs being actually a major pathway that the gut communicates to. And we don't think, I always like to say, we don't think about the gut and lungs in the same breath.