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i want to increase your awareness on antibiotics  

given to children early in life and the effects  that that can create later in life there’s a  

very important link between what goes on  in your digestive system and what happens  

in your brain you have close to 100 trillion  microbes both inside and outside your body most  

of them living in your gut and if those microbes  are altered in a certain way it can create huge  

effects on both your cognitive state as well as  your emotional state now if we talk about children  

penicillin is the most commonly prescribed  antibiotic and penicillin’s derivative type  

antibiotics in the u.s an average child receives  three courses of antibiotics before the age of two  

and these antibiotics change both the type  of microbes living in your gut as well as  

the number of microbes and the ratios  of microbes to fungus living in your gut  

that can then create all sorts of effects down  the road one big effect of this altered microbiome  

is an alteration in the gene expression  of both the frontal cortex of your brain  

as well as the amygdala in your brain which has a  lot to do with fear responses and stress responses  

and so if you have an altered gene expression  of both the frontal lobe and your amygdala  

this can affect your memory this can put  you more in a fear state which is anxiety  

as well as a stress state of having higher levels  of cortisol and so antibiotics early in life can  

affect the child’s cognitive and emotional state  later in life increasing the risk of depression  

autism anxiety and adhd not to mention in other  videos i talk about it affecting the immune system  

increasing risk of getting allergies and  asthma as well as slowing down your metabolism  

and so the question is what can you do about  it well the first thing is make sure these  

antibiotics are really necessary far too  often the doctor prescribes antibiotics for  

viral infections when they don’t  do anything for viral infections  

antibiotics only work on bacterial infections  and so the great majority of antibiotics  

are completely unnecessary now the other  point i want to bring up about antibiotics  

is to make sure the child is consuming uh  food that is without antibiotics okay so  

i would highly encourage you to buy foods that  are organic grass-fed antibiotic free if the  

child has to take an antibiotic make sure that  they start taking probiotics at the same time  

as when they’re taking the antibiotics and after  you stop taking the antibiotics because you want  

to start building up the beneficial microbes that  have been killed by the antibiotic now the other  

point i want to bring up is that when a child  gets sick i think it’s really important to let  

the child’s immune system learn from being in your  environment there’s two types of immunity you have  

what you’re born with that’s called your innate  immune system that your mother has given you then  

you have another part called the acquired immune  system so every time the child gets sick if you  

give them a medication or something to suppress  the fever or get rid of the infection too fast i  

think you’re going to inhibit the acquired immune  system in its ability to learn from this infection  

and develop its antibodies and become stronger  and it’s also very important to allow the child to  

live in the environment get into the soil get into  nature and not live in a sterile environment where  

there’s no germs at all because it’s the exposure  to germs that our immune system has to then  

adapt to and respond and then develop its  immunity over time and lastly the immune  

system is dependent on really key nutrients like  zinc like vitamin d like calcium especially for a  

child all right thanks for watching and  stay tuned for more videos on children  

and what you can do to raise a very healthy child  hey before you go if you’re benefiting from any of  

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