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Vaccines are one of the great successes of the 20th century's public health.
All health staff were dressed in NASA-like bio-safety suits.
We all know how to maintain our physical health and how to practice dental hygiene, right?
But what do we know about maintaining our psychological health?
Why is it that our physical health is so much more important to us than our psychological health?
Can you imagine saying that to somebody with a broken leg: "Oh, just walk it off; it's all in your leg." (Laughter) It is time we closed the gap between our physical and our psychological health.
In fact, scientists have concluded that taken together, chronic loneliness poses as significant a risk for your long-term health and longevity as cigarette smoking.
And that's why it's so important that we prioritize our psychological health, that we practice emotional hygiene.
Because we don't prioritize our psychological health.
His psychological health was amazing.
We targeted the typical health disparities: access to care, immunization rates, asthma hospitalization rates, and we hit all of our numbers.
Now, before I did my residency, I did a master's degree in public health, and one of the things that they teach you in public health school is that if you're a doctor and you see 100 kids that all drink from the same well, and 98 of them develop diarrhea, you can go ahead and write that prescription for dose after dose after dose of antibiotics, or you can walk over and say, "What the hell is in this well?"
And then what they did was they correlated these ACE scores against health outcomes.
The second thing that they found was that there was a dose-response relationship between ACEs and health outcomes: the higher your ACE score, the worse your health outcomes.
You have a rough childhood, you're more likely to drink and smoke and do all these things that are going to ruin your health.
For our patients who do screen positive, we have a multidisciplinary treatment team that works to reduce the dose of adversity and treat symptoms using best practices, including home visits, care coordination, mental health care, nutrition, holistic interventions, and yes, medication when necessary.
In the words of Dr. Robert Block, the former President of the American Academy of Pediatrics, "Adverse childhood experiences are the single greatest unaddressed public health threat facing our nation today."
But for me, that's actually where the hopes lies, because when we have the right framework, when we recognize this to be a public health crisis, then we can begin to use the right tool kit to come up with solutions.
From tobacco to lead poisoning to HIV/AIDS, the United States actually has quite a strong track record with addressing public health problems, but replicating those successes with ACEs and toxic stress is going to take determination and commitment, and when I look at what our nation's response has been so far, I wonder, why haven't we taken this more seriously?
The science is clear: Early adversity dramatically affects health across a lifetime.
Every time you go to an area where for 43 years of independence, we still don't have basic health facilities.
We humans have always been very concerned about the health of our bodies, but we haven't always been that good at figuring out what's important.
And this might be associated with some of the differences in health associated with Cesarean birth, such as more asthma, more allergies, even more obesity, all of which have been linked to microbes now, and when you think about it, until recently, every surviving mammal had been delivered by the birth canal, and so the lack of those protective microbes that we've co-evolved with might be really important for a lot of these different conditions that we now know involve the microbiome.
Now, it's really difficult to tell whether this has had an effect on her health specifically, right?
Well, fascinatingly, it turns out that if you give children antibiotics in the first six months of life, they're more likely to become obese later on than if they don't get antibiotics then or only get them later, and so what we do early on may have profound impacts on the gut microbial community and on later health that we're only beginning to understand.
What it means that the three pounds of microbes that you carry around with you may be more important for some health conditions than every single gene in your genome.
So in a project funded by the Gates Foundation, what we're looking at is children in Malawi who have kwashiorkor, a profound form of malnutrition, and mice that get the kwashiorkor community transplanted into them lose 30 percent of their body mass in just three weeks, but we can restore their health by using the same peanut butter-based supplement that is used for the children in the clinic, and the mice that receive the community from the healthy identical twins of the kwashiorkor children do fine.
Well, it turns out that microbes are not just important for finding out where we are in terms of our health, but they can actually cure disease.
Would the good microbes do battle with the bad microbes and help to restore their health?
In the world of wearables and smartphones and apps, there's a big movement to track people's personal health with applications that track the number of calories that you burn or whether you're sitting too much or walking enough.
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