Why The Way We Care For Babies Is MESSED UP, They LIED About Eggs, When Medicine Gets It Wrong, How We Can Fix It & More With Dr. Marty Makary

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Ben Greenfield

Education, Fitness, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 2 November 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

In this fascinating episode with Dr. Marty Makary, the author of the jaw-dropping book, Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health, you'll get to explore how outdated medical advice contributed to the rise of peanut allergies, and how rushed decisions by medical committees have shaped harmful medical guidelines in America. Dr. Makary reveals the overuse of antibiotics and its disruption of the microbiome, contributing to chronic conditions like obesity, asthma, and learning disabilities. You'll also discover the impact of C-section births on microbiome health, the controversy surrounding breast implant illness, and how modern newborn care practices like delayed cord clamping can promote long-term health. Additionally, we'll dive into the overmedicalization of routine procedures like tongue-tie surgeries, the need for NIH reforms to address neglected areas of health research, and much more!

Dr. Marty Makary is the recipient of the 2020 Business Book of the Year Award for his most recent book, The Price We Pay, which has been described by Steve Forbes as “a must-read for every American.” His latest book, "Blind Spots," which we discuss on today's show, is an eye-opening look at scientific research on health topics that have been overlooked or dismissed because of medical groupthink.

When modern medicine issues recommendations based on good scientific studies, it shines. Conversely, when modern medicine is interpreted through the harsh lens of opinion and edict, it can mold beliefs that harm patients and stunt research for decades.

So, tune in as Dr. Makary explores the latest research on critical topics ranging from the microbiome to childbirth to nutrition and longevity and more, revealing the biggest blind spots of modern medicine and tackling the most urgent yet unsung issues in the U.S.'s $4.5 trillion health care ecosystem.

Full show notes: https://bengreenfieldlife.com/blindspots

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0:00.0	My name is Ben Greenfield, and on this episode of the Ben Greenfield Life podcast, the gut of a baby in utero is sterile.
0:07.7	There's no bacteria in there.
0:09.8	The microbiome, that is the garden of these millions of different bacteria, is seeded from the bacteria that the baby acquires from passing through the birth canal and augmented by breast milk bacteria and skin and kisses
0:22.6	from grandparents. But when a baby is born by C-section, a sterile baby is extracted from a sterile
0:29.0	operative field and what may seed their microbiome and gut are bacteria that normally live in the
0:34.1	hospital. At Mount Sinai, they have a protocol now where if you're born by
0:38.3	C-section, they take some vaginal fluid and swab it on the baby's skin with the idea that they're
0:44.6	going to promote healthy seeding in the microbiome. If we stop and look around, there's some pretty
0:50.3	compelling data that's giving us some hints. Fitness, nutrition, biohacking, longevity, life optimization, spirituality, and a whole lot more.
1:01.9	Welcome to the Ben Greenfield Life Show.
1:04.5	Are you ready to hack your life?
1:06.4	Let's do this.
1:19.1	You ever heard of Shila jila jilajit?
1:27.7	It's a ancient Himalayan adaptogenic black tarry stuff that doesn't usually taste very good.
1:32.1	But the folks that Organify have cracked the coat on making this stuff taste amazing.
1:37.3	Has anti-inflammatory properties, improves your vitality, supports detoxification,
1:41.5	improves the permeability of cell membranes, helping you to better absorb and enhance nutrient absorption, supports gut health. It's rich in
1:44.4	antioxidants. I believe in Russia, they call it something like the Strel of weaknesses,
1:51.0	conqueror mountains, something like that. Sorry if that was offensive, but I'm just saying,
1:56.3	that's what I've seen said about Shilagit. they harvest this stuff directly from the Himalayas,
2:02.3	heavily tested for heavy metals, which is a problem in a lot of Shilajid.
2:05.9	And then they turn it into this amazing vanilla cinnamon flavored gummy.
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