Info

RadioScience

Podcast om forskning och vetenskap
RSS Feed
RadioScience
2022
October


2020
October
September
May
March
January


2019
November
October


2018
September
August
April
February


2017
December
October
September
August
July
June
April
February
January


2016
December
November
October
September
August
July
June
May
April
March
February
January


2015
December
November
September
August
July
June
May
April


All Episodes
Archives
Now displaying: Page 1
Apr 20, 2017

Martin Blaser, professor of medicine and microbiology at New York University, has a theory about why humanity is getting fatter. He believes that some of our modern medical practices are to blame. The main culprit? Antibiotics – or rather, the way we have abused these antibacterial drugs over the last 70 years. Each one of us hosts a collection of good bacteria, known as the microbiome, that keep us healthy by training our immune system, helping us digest food and making essential vitamins for us. In this episode, Martin Blaser explains how this useful alliance is perturbed when we take antibiotics. Who would have guessed that the same ‘miracle drugs’ that cure us from horrible, deadly infections would – in some ways – make us sicker?

0 Comments
Adding comments is not available at this time.