Asthma: How to Fix It | Ep 425

Asthma. What if the wheezing, the tight chest, the inhaler you reach for every spring isn’t really a lung problem at all? In this episode, I’ll explain why asthma has skyrocketed since the 1960s and what you can do to fix it.

Questions I’ll answer:

• Is asthma really a lung disease… or an overreactive immune system firing from somewhere else entirely?
• Could our obsession with “clean”, like sterile homes, sterile hands, sterile food, be the culprit?
• Why did almost no one have these problems a few generations ago?
• What do antibiotics in pregnancy and early childhood have to do with a wheeze that shows up years later?
• Why might a muddy dog be one of the best things for your lungs?
• And the big one: if asthma starts in the gut, what does it actually take to calm the whole system down?

Topics covered: asthma and the immune system, leaky gut and inflammation, the hygiene hypothesis, endotoxins as “nature’s allergy shots,” antibiotics in early life, the microbiome and immune “education,” gut buddies, Akkermansia and the mucus layer, lectins and the gut wall, molecular mimicry, dogs, dirt, and microbial diversity, and restoring your inner terrain.

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