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now i want to talk about why your kids need to  be playing in the dirt more often but not really  

the dirt the actual soil let’s talk about the  difference between dirt and soil dirt basically is  

dead you have sand rocks and clay soil is actually  alive because it has microbial life it has  

bacteria fungus and the bacteria in the fungus  make the nutrients available so i probably should  

have named it why your kids should be playing in  the soil all right so here’s the reason you have  

two parts of your immune system you have the  innate part which you’re born with your mother  

has given you this immunity from her being  exposed to microbes and all those antibodies  

but then you have this other part of  your immune system called the acquired  

and this is the part of your immune system that  it learns from being in your environment and so  

if your child gets sick the best thing to do is to  let them get sick and go through the infection and  

make sure they have all the key nutrients allow  the fever to be there to kill off the pathogen  

and allow them to build up their antibodies  that’s the best thing you can do as compared to  

shut off the immune system right away suppress  the fever because what you’re going to find out  

is they’re not going to develop your immune system  as well and they probably are going to get sick  

more often and when they’re sick the duration  of infection is going to be longer now there’s  

a huge connection between your brain and your gut  and in your gut you have all these microbes which  

play a very important part in your immune system  it’s the different microbes working together  

synergistically to help pathogens from invading  into the body and so i want to emphasize the  

importance of your child being outside than being  inside unfortunately recently many children are  

spending way too much time inside they don’t get  that exposure to the germs in the soil that can  

actually help greatly improve the immune system  later in life there are some interesting studies  

i’m going to put them down below that demonstrates  that if a child is outside more than inside they  

have a decreased risk in asthma allergies and even  autoimmune diseases which is quite fascinating  

children that are outside more in nature have much  less inflammation and respiratory illnesses have a  

much improved mental health status too both in  cognitive function as well as mood and so it’s  

not just about having your children play in  the dirt or the soil it’s about having them  

outdoors in the woods in nature on a farm in  one study it was interesting it showed that  

children that are raised in a farm are actually  much healthier than their city counterparts and  

there’s an additional study which i’ll put down  below that shows there’s much less depression  

in children that are exposed more to nature being  exposed to environments that uh involve trees  

uh grass parks rivers lakes and even the ocean  and then you have the topic of forest bathing  

which i’ve done other videos on that supports the  immune system apparently there’s a certain phyto  

chemical that is released from a pine tree that  can greatly support your immune system and there’s  

a link between an improved immune system as well  as improve cognitive and mood function as well and  

one last study i want to mention that was quite  interesting there was even an improvement in iq  

with children that spent more time outside in the  environment with more space more parks more trees  

more grass versus children that were living in the  cities where they didn’t have that much exposure  

to nature so anyway i wanted to create this video  on the importance of getting your children outside  

the house having them play in nature also  please comment down below on how much time  

did you spend outside when you were a child hey  before you go if you’re benefiting from any of my  

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