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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		Looking to the microbes to understand asthma risk
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:01:01
	Publish Date:		2016-11-06 18:00:00
	Description:		Studies show that about 10 percent of Americans are diagnosed with asthma each year. Susan Lynch, a gastroenterologist at the University of California, San Francisco studied the microbiome to hone in on why asthma and allergies are so widespread in Western nations. "Some of the risk factors for allergic asthma include very early life exposure such as a lack of the mother's exposure to livestock or furred pets while she is pregnant, formula feeding, Cesarean section delivery and antibiotic use during pregnancy or very early life of post natal period. And so those risk factors suggest that these factors may influence the microbes in the community of microbes that exist in humans and particularly in very early life." Knowing this, Lynch says to prevent these immune diseases, scientists and parents should focus on changing children's microbiological development very early in life.
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