Are You Turning into a Germophobe? | DrEricBergDC

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so I had a question are you becoming a germaphobe now listen I am NOT against

protecting yourself against the coronavirus or any virus at all with a mask or

washing your hand and you need to do that the point I want to make is this

not all germs are harmful or dangerous and I want to make a distinction

friendly microbes are not pathogenic okay so pathogens are those microbes

that cause disease that includes a virus bacteria fungus candida etc you have as

a huge part of your immune system trillions and trillions of friendly

microbes around the surface of your body inside your body in your colon and when

you over sterilize your body it can lower your immune system and make you

more susceptible to having infections these microbes do so much good there’s

certain microbes that make acid that makes a pathogen not want to live in

that environment your microbes make vitamins to support your immune system

they also have anti-tumor properties and a lot of people get grossed out when

they realize that they have an entire universe of microbes living through the

body and your environment everywhere you touch there’s microbes there’s germs all

over the place but what they have to realize is when they start to overly

destroy the microbes on our body as well as the microbes in our food our

resistance to infection goes down because these microbes are symbiotic

they actually help form a barrier to protect us and some interesting studies

where they have germ-free mice they basically have no microbial life living

inside or outside that Mouse they end up with autoimmune diseases allergies

asthma and all sorts of other health problems if you look on the surface of

your skin it’s not just a layer of dead cells there are billions of things

living on your skin and I know it’s kind of creepy but that’s called skin flora

and this flora is very very necessary to protecting you it’s a

immune defense when you alter this it’s called microbiome you basically throw

the body out of balance and you start getting inflammatory conditions even on

the surface of your skin you can have psoriasis you can have a rosacea you can

even get acne over sterilization of your body leads to a decrease in T cells and

these T cells are formed the adaptive immunity which is really really

important in preventing inflammatory reactions throughout the body

unfortunately the viewpoint that most people have about germs is very very

negative they’re not very aware of the benefits of these microbes even with

your food if you consume too much sterilized food and I’m talking about

food that is pasteurized whether it’s canned or in a bottle it’s heated with

high temperatures or killing off everything including enzymes or even

radiated they actually use radiation on our food nowadays and when you eat these

foods that are so-called sterilized it actually creates an immune reaction and

it can actually weaken our immune system in summary the point about this video is

that you have to realize that you are born with an incredibly complex

sophisticated immune system way more powerful as compared to any type of

military that ever was on this planet your immune system if you maintain it

and you keep it healthy can defend you against just about any attack from any

virus or bacteria on this planet and this is why the strategic advantage of

the virus is that it can invade someone with a compromised immune system but it

can have an extreme disadvantage and a very hard time infecting someone with a

strong immune system so if you want more information about how to boost your

immune system I put it right here