“Smell is important and it is mostly microbial in origin.” (Blaser 2015)
“The average American child received nearly three courses of antibiotics in his or her
first two years of life.” (Blaser 2015)
“All mixed populations of bacteria include both susceptible and resistant bacteria.”
(Blaser 2015)
“When susceptible species are diminished or killed, populations of resistant bacteria
expand. With fewer competitors around, resistant bacteria flourish.” (Blaser 2015)
“About 40% of women in the United States today get antibiotics during delivery, which
means some 40% of newborn infants are exposed to drugs just as they are acquiring
their microbes.” (Blaser 2015)
“New diseases related to the loss of H. pylori are rising.” (Blaser 2015)
“Esophageal adenocarcinoma now has the fastest rising incidence of all major cancers,
a six-fold increase in the last three decades.” (Blaser 2015)
“Each of us has an army of memory cells, most of which remember some chemical
aspect of a particular event, such as a component of a bacterial wall from a prior
infection.” (Blaser 2015)
“In 2011 a group of Dutch investigators reported on their examination of pharmacy
records for all 577,627 children born in Denmark as singletons (not twins) between
1995 and 2003. Those who developed early IBD were 84% more likely to have
received antibiotics. Furthermore, children who had taken antibiotics had more than
triple the risk of developing Crohn’s disease than those who were antibiotic-free. The
more often they took antibiotics, the higher the risk.” (Blaser 2015)
“A Canadian study...showed double the risk of asthma in children who received
antibiotics in the first year of life. The prevalence of both hay fever and eczema has
been rising dramatically in recent years paralleling the increase in asthma.” (Blaser
2015)
“Virtually all antibacterial agents exert similar effects promoting growth on farm
animals; the animals get bigger whether they receive penicillins, tetracyclines, or
macrolides...all antibiotics produce more or less equivalent harmful collateral effects
on our human resident bacteria.” (Blaser 2015)
“The fate...of that estrogen molecule in the intestine depends on whether it meets a
microbe that uses it as a meal or not.” (Blaser 2015)