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Podcast: Eat Move Think
Episode: Are We Too Clean? with Professor Brett Finlay
Description: Here's a little known secret: germs are good for you. Every single one of us has a complex and unique microbiome that lives on us and in us. It's made up of microbes—things like bacteria and protozoa. Our microbiome plays a huge role in our health and, as microbiologist and University of British Columbia professor Brett Finlay has discovered, it is even connected to non-communicable illnesses like asthma or cardiovascular disease. That's why pandemic-bred habits like cleaning surfaces with antibacterial wipes, or chronic use of hand sanitizer, can be so problematic: they kill bad germs, and good ones, to...