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Healthy Bacteria
Where to Find it and Why Babies Need It
By Felicia Hodges
Because of our obsession with sterilization and cleanliness, the hospital environment -- almost always the first one a newborn experiences -- can often make the situation worse. A study done in the Scandinavian countries of Sweden and Astonia by Agnes Wold found that babies raised in sterile hospital environments experienced a six-fold increase in allergies. Trenev attributes the findings to the inability of the body's healthy bacteria to survive and grow in such an artificial setting.
Trenev says the complexities of the body's bacteria are often misunderstood by the medical community. Some physicians and clinicians have even bucked tradition, blaming modern medicine for some of its more harmful tendencies.
"... modern medicine has done some wonderful things -- acute emergencies and trauma management are unparalleled, but that is where its usefulness ends," says Dr. Peter Bartosy in the forward of his book "Vaccination: A Medical Assault on the Immune System," in which he says modern medicine is aimed at controlling nature. "This is totally wrong," he writes. "We should be working with nature."
The boom in vitamin sales and the trend toward healthier eating and new food manufacturing processes (such as organic and free-range farming) shows that more and more people are aware that the external has a great influence over the internal. But Trenev warns that even too much of a non-regulated good thing can be potentially harmful.
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