Asthma Rate At Highest Rate Ever Reports CDC: Why?

[Music] okay I'm gonna sneak in one more just because we just to sneak one more and so maybe you guys could give slightly briefer answers just so you could each answer and say tell us what the research says but I'd like to ask this one more mother nature network asthma rates at highest level ever says CDC twenty five point seven million people had asthma in 2010 including seven million who were younger than 18 asthma rates in the United States increased over the best pest esky decade.

To their highest level ever according to a new government report the portion of people in the US with asthma rose from 7.3 percent in 2001 to 8.4 percent in 2010 according to the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this means twenty five point seven million people had asthma in 2010 including seven million who were younger than 18 if you guys would each give you a thoughts on what the research shows start I'm not gonna start I'd like you to start again [Laughter] I.

Eat a lot of meta studies because I spend a lot of time outside of the United States so we seem to be very Americana in our research and statistics and data here I want the listeners worldwide now today and in the future to realize that it's reflective of what you see in all of the developed world so the same statistics you'd see in Germany or in France or in Italy or Spain it's very similar so don't think oh this is an American conference and they have.

The problem unfortunately we share that problem with you you all learned English we're great at exporting our our culture and our diseases asthma and allergy and eczema something that we see a lot in children part of this is being now traced back to the bacterial flora that the immune system sees in the first hours and days and weeks and months of life and children are not born sterile like we thought they were there's actually bacteria that live in the umbilical cord and there there's bacteria everywhere.

That are actually good bacteria belong there and are helpful and are actually using some of their DNA as being used by the body to run certain body functions so what a woman eats has to do with what the genetic settings are in the chromosomes of the child we'll talk about that tomorrow afternoon whether or not the child is a cesarean section or a natural birth sets different bacterial settings in in the infant's body whether or not that child is breastfed versus bottle-fed completely changes the predominant.

Bacteria that's in the GI tract and by the way a c-section child that's bottle-fed does not have the dominant lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium to beauty rate to get a gut to to be a semipermeable membrane and recycled water and that wastes and the immune system gets intolerant and ovary active rather than tolerant and under reactive when the child starts out with a set of bacteria that are not natural and so they they enter life then with the immune system being a hyper and so whether the skin.

Is overactive or whether the Airways are over reactive as an asthma or whether the GI tract is over reactive to certain foods there have become sort of allergic to them that's turning out to be highly related to the good bacteria that are present or not present in the in the child's GI tract so that's something that we'll all be watching closely this is a lecture that we won't want to miss it sounds fascinating it's amazing how much we're learning about healthy microbiome and even affecting brain.

Function who would have known but very very important subject I won't say much about this topic except that I've recently seen some reasonable research on the connection between dairy intake and asthma and also I think we really need to think about all of these pollutants these chemical contaminants that move up the food chain that are poisoning us and I think those are two things that we also need to consider where asthma is concerned let me just say a couple of things and especially that you know.

I've been in the trenches treating people with these conditions for many many years and it's and it's very important and exciting to watch people get well and recover from asthma and I've had you know lots of patients make complete recoveries especially people who are had awake in the middle of the night to use inhalers and who have no life who couldn't exercise so really it's very troubling disease for a lot of people so that they had two things one is we know that asthma is reduced.

In populations that have that live on dirt floors for example and expose more and more dirt even even having dogs to bring dirt into the house three lowers the risk of asthma in children and in fact and analogies because you've exposed to more bacterial challenges and also the the use of that doctors treat young children with antibiotics young and life when they're young usually it's for an ear infection that's predominantly viral the first ear infection is usually viral and the doctor then gives them an antibiotic.

For a viral infection the child could have recovered without of antibiotic but the use of the antibiotic when they're young predispose them to more frequent and more serious bacterial ear infections which they wouldn't have had had they not been treating the first one with an antibiotic which then kills out a lot of the good bacteria and predisposes you to more serious organisms that are more pathogenic but there's a link between those antibiotics used early in the middle over the first year of life or used early.

In life and a higher risk of asthma because it changes the gut floor I had other problems like that and as a link between the overuse of antibiotics and the continual use of antibiotics and breast cancer for example you know women who use breasts you use antibiotics frequently or have a higher rate of breast cancer so we're talking about the medical profession does contribute to asthma – it's agree by the overuse of drugs which is another way we get more toxins and petrochemicals into our body.

That could cause more excitatory and low in fat pro-inflammatory and irritability of tissues and you know what let me just say that the inflammatory response is closely intertwined with the process of repair in other words in the book Robinson Cohen that all medical students who learn in the area used to at least in the first year of medical school the pathology book we learned and write in that book it said the inflammatory response is closely intertwined with the process of repair and information serves to wall.

Off and remove and sure an attempt to reconstitute the damaged tissue and as much as possible restore the tissue to its pristine state in other words the inflammatory response has a right direction to it inflammations and necessity to heal to heal right so sometimes when you have an asthmatic who you're using beta-agonist which could be life savings allow the person to breathe but it also couldn't cause more chronic irritation and make the process person more predisposed to asthma and when you use oral steroids in they.

Use inhaled steroids they could be making a person feel better but you're essentially preventing the inflammatory some of the inflammatory substances being removed from the body because the attack itself or the information itself that is something that could be dangerous but it's still the body trying to remove toxins and move waste products from its tissue so what I'm saying is right with good nutrition with allowing other channels of elimination and detoxification to be mobilized with weaning off the oral medication and getting on to a low.

You know getting off the beta agonists I find with time that the person get by with just an inhaled steroid used with a spacer and then they can reduce the dose gradually and we're able to gradually taper this person down to much less use of medication and then sometimes on occasion I've used therapeutic fasting where I have the person because the person really still needs some medication and to take it away may exacerbate an attack so I take it away under the auspice earring a time.

When they're not eating food because it's a very powerful anti-inflammatory anti-inflammatory effects of fasting and that can enable them to stay off the inhalers for a period of time to allow the detox to to result to resolve without creating a problem where they need to take medications for it it can have you know so they can their breathing better and then weak that can help them get to a point where they can get free of their asthma totally so I've taken care of hundreds of cases.

With asthma with excellent success sometimes necessitating to use fasting but most the time just slowly over the to over the years has seen asthma analogies get better and slowly weaning off medications and sometimes it takes six months 12 months or 24 months to see these improve themselves sufficiently and you've probably seen a similar I'll try to be concise and consent pollutants are the number one causes to skyrocket and let's name a few because it's not just the air pollution the water pollution the pollutants on your.

Food but your clothing it out gasses 24 hours a day seven days a week your bedding I was just told three days ago now five years ago they've demanded you put two and a half times more fire retardants on it well infant clothing eight out of ten infant products highchairs car seats all have fire retardants on them if you look at inner cities here in the United States there's 100% of the children in these inner city schools that have asthma mold yeast fungus bacteria and certainly.

On a horribly bad diet these are deserts for food these people eat nothing but junk food they can't even buy anything but junk food and many of these people don't have an income to even get in the car and go somewhere else and buy the food there's as you saw the other day in Nelson Campbell's a wonderful documentary they're going into a lot of these underprivileged areas here in this country and bringing in fresh fruits and vegetables and relations that okay so this is a plague.

There's so many plagues I mean as I said to the other day if you're depressed or neurotic you shouldn't be listening because we have resolution for all of this by the way you know a matter of fact next year's conference will be 35 days on resolutions right so yeah let's talk about the remarkable thing that you discussed if a mother is breastfeeding now we used to take that for granted but it doesn't happen in the majority of cases within a matter of minutes after the baby.

Comes out of her womb and they suckle on her breast lactobacillus waifuus comes out do you realize if you live 200 years that's enough bacteria to have your immune system function at a hundred percent level and MIT did a study on that back in the late 60s where they showed one soda throw that into an imbalance several obviously I used to drink five or six a day probably wiped it out 70 percent of your immune system comes from the bacteria in your intestinal tract this is.

Not a small thing it's a very big thing and now today in psychiatric medicine as you heard over the last few days we recognize that the gut factor is probably the most important factor serotonin is produced in that area not in the brain as they're teaching in neuron science at universities today but almost overwhelmingly inside the intestinal tract the stomach etc so if you don't have that going on and you don't have good chemistry and good hormonal balance hormones are the messengers in the body they're.

The language of the body and the lungs actually stop learning how to work especially if they have pollutants going into them 24 hours a day seven days a week I want to thank the four of you very much for taking your time to come here and share with us and [Applause] [Music].