✔️I’m pro living your best life, which means doing whatever you feel is best for you and your health on your wellness journey ... I’m pro health freedom and pro let’s have all the options and open conversations; wellness is a group effort! #teamworkmakesthedreamwork Health non-negotiables : Food, Stress, Play/Movement, Sleep and Germs! Yes I said it and I’ve been saying it for years.... lets make germs cool again! Play outside, practice grounding/earthing or just stop putting hand sanitizer on literally everything “the microbiota promote and calibrate all aspects of the immune system” The hygiene hypothesis suggest that when a child's environment is "too clean," the lack of exposure to germs does not give the immune system a chance to develop resistance to diseases aka you develop a soft immune response Researchers studied the immune system of mice who were lacking bacteria and other microbes (referred to as the germ-free mice) and compared them to mice living in an environment with microbes. What they found was that germ-free mice had exaggerated inflammation of the lungs and colon, which was caused by the hyperactivity (aka the over reaction) of T cells (immune cells) What is more impressive is that these researchers discovered that exposing the germ-free mice to microbes during their first weeks of life, led to a normalized immune system and prevention of diseases (as well as reduced sensitivity to allergic and autoimmune diseases later in life) I get it we aren’t mice, however human studies also found that “early life exposure to microbes (i.e., germs) is an important determinant of adulthood sensitivity to allergic and autoimmune diseases such as hay fever, asthma and inflammatory bowel disease” Micro-biome diversity and germ exposure is crucial for long term immunity… aka not living in a bubble of fear avoiding people, places and all things life! #briannaapproved #germtheory #makegermscoolagain #earthing #grounding #gutgeek #germs #immunehealth #holistichealth #sleep #stress #anxiety #recoveringsuperspaz #hygienehypothesis (at Ocean Grove, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CK9B_fZjOGM/?igshid=4whh5bxt4t9a