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Welcome everyone. It's Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today

we are joined by Professor Rodney Dietert who is a professor emeritus of immunotoxicology at Cornell University, and he's going to have a discussion with us today about the interrelationship between the immune system and they've got microbiome.

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 and 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 a life filled with health or a life filled with disease. And I thought that was a really intriguing question to develop a paper around. And I was pretty sure decades of work on the immune system that in the young prenatal and neonatal that I probably had an

probably had an answer and I became very frustrated

because I wrote a couple paragraphs

and it was unpersuasive and went to bed extremely frustrated.

Woke up in the middle of the night from a dream with what to me was an answer.

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