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Welcome everyone is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today we

are joined by Professor Rodney Dietert who is a professor emeritus of immunotoxic

College at Cornell University and he's going to have a discussion with us today about

the interrelationship between the immune system and they got microbiomes so welcome and thank

you for joining us today.

Oh thank you it's a pleasure.

So what started your fascinating journey on this topic?

Well I worked for several decades in protecting the developing immune system that was my main

focus in research and teaching in immunology and toxicology at Cornell and then really

through serendipity I became involved with the microbiome and the microbiome aspect which

we now know is so critically important to not just the immune system in its status but

all of our physiological systems and that happened when I was given an opportunity to write

a paper that I couldn't resist and that was what would be the best biomarker or sign

that you could measure in the newborn baby that would best predict whether that baby had

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