Why Dirt and Microbes Could Be Good for Us - with B Brett Finlay
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2017
- B Brett Finlay discusses whether we have taken our war on germs a step too far.
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Although hygiene and antibiotics have overall improved our health, we might have taken our war against germs too far. B Brett Finlay talks about why a little dirt and our microbes might be good for all of us, as he discusses his new book, Let Them Eat Dirt, co-authored with Marie-Claire Arrieta.
B Brett Finlay is co-director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research’s Humans & the Microbiome program, and a microbiologist at the University of British Columbia.
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This talk was filmed in the Royal Institution on 30 May 2017.
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Studies have shown that smell plays an important role in choosing a partner. This video makes me wonder if we form relationships because our microbes "like" each other.
One of *the most interesting lectures* I've ever seen! Thank you very very much!
thank you so much, this was really interesting!
Brilliant talk...should be required viewing in schools.
Fascinating! Now I understand why galactic civilizations, despite all their advanced technology, attach so much importance to a simple towel.
" He sat on a step, took from his satchel a bottle of that Ol’ Janx Spirit and a towel. He opened the bottle and wiped the top of it with the towel, which had the opposite effect to the one intended, in that the Ol’ Janx Spirit instantly killed off millions of the germs which had been slowly building up quite a complex and enlightened civilization on the smellier patches of the towel."
(May 25th - bring a towel)
I've been a virtual carnivore for nearly 25 years and I haven't even had a cold in more than forty so I'll stay happily the way I am now I'm seventy.
When I was maybe eight years old (1953) the doctor told my mother that eating about a teaspoon of dirt every day would keep me healthy. I grew up in the country and every year we planted a garden. One year the left half of the garden was fertilized with commercial fertilizer and the right half was fertilized with semi composted poop from the out house. Root crops went into the side with commercial fertilizer and the rest went into the poop side. The next year we switched sides, poop on the left an commercial on the right and crops switched also. Maybe that's why my siblings and I have always been very healthy.
I retired from the Marines, 25 years ago, with m.s., otherwise great health, moved from "rural suburban to rural farm" two decades ago, as a mechanic and metal worker. I've not had much problem with infections all my life, having been rather "dirty" as a child, but just in two decades, I simply don't get infections, even with deep gouges, common with metal work, and mechanic, and my healing rate has increased dramatically, at 63. I've pursued the microbe aspect since about 12, as it was being formulated, at least in my area. Thanks for a brilliant and deep lecture, I've studied my m.s. for thirty years, and been led many directions, and kind of stand out, among my m.s. peers, health-wise.
Appreciated the lecture immensely interesting! Thank you for a very nice presentation.
A brilliant and entertaining talk - thank you!
Heh I remember something I saw some time ago that puts this excessive hygiene mentality into perspective. There is a video from Gordon Ramsey were he makes some Mexican food and flips the tortillas with tongs while heating them, so in the comments many people presumably from Mexico said that is usually done by hand because its easier and the tortilla is less likely to break but then you had lots and lots of comments saying how that is anti hygienic and that in developed countries that's how tortillas are flip. But If you think about it, the fact the tortillas are hot and that you should wash your hands before making food and then having in mind this video it shows how people are frantic with fear to microorganisms.
damn. I only brush once a day. I just feel like I'm brushing away all my enamel...
Very interesting lecture!
Excellent and exciting lecture from Brett Finlay
I wonder what impact would prolonged life in space station do to our symbiotes. Especially since you mentioned that they have way more genetic info than our cells.
Amazing insights. My question is, why did the public perception has changed so dramatically over the years about microbes and sanitary, where people have access to so much scientifically verified information (also in lay man friendly format)? And also given the shift of diseases ( to Diabetes etc.) but the absence of medical success in dealing with it effectively.
What gets me is this seemingly constant preoccupation with keeping your home 100% germ free. That to me is counterproductive. If you don't get a few germs and viruses every day you don't build up an immunity. Then when you do get sick it affects you to a higher degree.
Scintillating wisdom 🤓😀👍
Good
hmm. I wonder why the microbiome changes so drastically when we get old.
ericsbuds retirement? change of environment?
could be! I was thinking something genetic at first.
Nobody knows yet! Be the first to find out! :)
I was just saying. Almost everyone I know who lived past 90 years old had a garden and grew flowers and vegetables. Might be a link there.
How about Paleolithic poop? Could samples be used to cultivate an agar for a fecal transplant? Would there be any advantage to being exposed to the microbiome of a someone eating a true paleolithic diet? Could Paleolithic fecal matter be screened for unknown and now extinct bacterium that could cause diseases?
does anyone know the date and time this lecture was given? I'm using this for an assignment
Hi Lala Hood, apologies for missing that out on the description. The talk was filmed in the Royal Institution on 30 May 2017.
Hi, thank you so much! is it possible to know the time too?
Sure thing, it was 19:00-20:30 BST, for more info, you can check the event page - www.rigb.org/whats-on/events-2017/may/public-let-them-eat-dirt
What effect does your microbiome have on your response to vaccines. There is little research, but what there is suggests that having a stool analysis prior to having a vaccine, would provide a great baseline and underline the relationship it has on adverse events and common reactions. If this was then followed up with long term monitoring you could resolve the uncertainty that feeds the antivax movement. You could even look at resolving any imbalances identified in your gut biome before having the vaccine.
I am hoping someone sees this Brett!!?!? With COVID19 there is a huge stress to constantly sanitize and wash hands..... Should we??????
No you should not
So by correcting a microbiome, you essentially start addressing and altering the main assembly line of the host organism.
Now I´m gonna drink five guinness a day for two days.
I'm 68 yo & never had a flu shot.
Interesting. I watched this 9 months ago...
That sh't cures everything
spent over a year on antibiotics and near the end I was starting to get such bad anxiety I could not get out of bed . funny thing is I was on the antibiotics because of a bad blood infection that left me unable to walk or talk and in the end I was almost in the same state even tho one was physical and the other mental
How are you doing nowdays
Measles, mumps, we don't get those anymore.
Anti-vaxxers: Hold my kombucha
You must have thought this would get a bunch of likes 😂
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Suppose this story has another angle. Is it possible that the large-scale migration of the female of the species from the home and community oriented activities to human 'enterprise' activities - away from their offspring - may also be having a effect on our ability to maintain necessary microbe populations?
Does the population increase from 1970 to 2000+ affect the charts?
I'm sure they're normalized (eg cases per 100,000 people) otherwise they'd be completely useless.
World's getting older, people live longer, their microbiota get better, that all means - should! - world's getting smarter, too. But world vote Trump, vote Brexit, vote war, vote close not enter, vote wall after all... Paradox.
Dr. Finlay now is my spot in microbiology. Thanks Ri !
Btw, Ri, invite Phil Plait, an astronomer, very very Bad one ))) sometime.
YT algorithm, work on your social skills mate.
and you work on your anger skills mate. lol
Wow does he hate kids . Cause he doesn’t sound very respectful .
Makes sense. Almost everyone I know that lived past 90 had a garden they actively were involved in. Think about it.
I remember my grandma, I was in the garden with her helping her dig weeds and I found a caterpillar on the rhubarb. I showed it to my grandma and she took the caterpillar in her fingers an crushed it and I just remember seeing its yellow guts all over her fingers and she said caterpillars are bad news for a garden. I remember taking a good look at Grandma and I saw how she didnt mind touching dirt, bug guts and rotten fruits with her bare hands. Might be linked to why she was so healthy and lived so long. Just an observation.
Looks like I was living a healthier life than I thought, at least in some respects.
This guy is a Good sh&%,,,, but a bit specialized. lol
i like turtles
xApemanx don't we all?
He likes to push veganism, but thinks COFFEE is good for your microbiome hahahahaha, what a joke.
Thats all you got out of this lecture?
I liked and agreed with just about everything except flu shots every year. Really? Get vaccinated this year for last years flu. And the amount of different types of flus out there too. If you want to be up to date with the latest flu get out there and socialse. Youll get it way before any lab does, and no doubt therell be multiple strands out there to catch too
they are not as naive as you think they are - everything you claimed is a misunderstanding. the vaccination is for several of the most likely strains that are emerging each year predicted by studying infection trends all over the world, they usually get it right. socializing gets you the flu - the vaccine prevents you from getting the flu: that's the whole point. If you get the flu you will pass it on, get vaccinated not just for your own comfort, but also to make it less likely that you expose immune-compromised people to infection (they can often can not get vaccinations).
+NicosMind what you suggest is exactly what he warned against. He said don't get infected.
Plus, flu shots are meant for the vulnerable and the exposed, not everyone (except if there's a spanish flu candidate out there).
...except maybe if you live in the US. The CDC there seems to recommend the shots for everyone, not just at-risk groups... who knows why.
And as vincent pointed out, you're not getting a shot for "last years flu" (sic). If you're hell-bent on proving the CDC wrong, they release their data... go ahead and figure out how accurate they are or not.
I agree that getting a little dose of germ and viruses every day helps to build up an immunity. Plus this year's flu is most likely a mutated version of last years flu. So you are constantly building an immunity to what ever comes along.
Well.. Those diseases on the rise are mostly caused by diet. Even Asthma can be improved by diet. You're just pulling that example out of nothing, that's not exactly science, more like trying to fit a random graph to fit your argument. Not trying to discount your point, I just don't like these fairy tail one trick pony examples, that are nowhere that simple in real life.
qgmlwy I disagree. I believe that the diet affects the microbes to a degree which can in turn affect the aforementioned by this gentleman. So to say there is no science behind this is ridiculousness. There may not be a 20 year study done and the connections may not be Rock solid but there's definitely connections and there's definitely some science behind his words.
His point is that we took control over some diseases, like tuberculose. Some have declined dramatically because of how we cook our meals and how we clean our environment. That it well founded in science. He mentioned the rise of other diseases like obesity. The causes of these diseases are incomparable.
And you probably didn't watch the whole video. Because he links experiments of microbes and diet later in the video.
Diet and environment. The amount of crap in the air, water and the food we eat and the psychological pressures put on us by society. Stress can seriously affect all aspects of your general health. Yes, everyone is looking for that one magic pill that cures everything, therefore the huge rise in the number of snake oil salesmen cluttering up your TV at 2AM.
It's also been said that not enough omega 3's causes asthma 🤷🏻♂️