Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:22
Microbiomes and Your Body: Yeast is a Beast! Let’s get a better understanding.
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Three out of four women in the world suffer from yeast infections. That's billions of women. And there are first of all, stages to understand this. First, to know when you have it. Second of all, to know why it happened. Third of all, how do you treat it? And fourth of all, how do you keep it from coming back systemically? So these are all questions we're going to answer with Lizbeth today and over the next couple of weeks
Liesbeth D.
@LiesbethDem · 4:24
And I started to inform people, more and more people in my environment, but also I tried to expand my audience a bit. And at that point, I also started teaching at school, at University College. I teach a lot of basic science and a bit more advanced science courses. And I'm always very happy to implement my knowledge on vaginal infections, mycology in my courses
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:17
I have a question about the gap between I'm going to call it Western medicine and some of the more nuanced treatments that are more focused on probiotic work, because I think that an average doctor prescribes medicine for vaginal yeast infections if it's chronic. And I want to know your perspective on the medicine world versus treating things with probiotic products like biokay and things like that that are things you can get in the health food store that have thousands of probiotics. Billions
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Liesbeth D.
@LiesbethDem · 3:47
And when we perform this research, I do believe that indeed we can communicate this, or we need to communicate this to physicians to gynecologists and encourage them to start replacing maybe the regular medicine or the Western medicine, as you call it, by these new probiotics. But I'm convinced that we need more research first, because as we see in the lab, very small genetic differences between bacteria or between yeasts probiotics can have a lot of can have a huge effect on the infection
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:17
Maybe you can answer that or what you think about that, but I wanted to switch switch gears for a little bit and ask you something I've been dying to know and I think you might have the answer to this. I've been told that women who have c sections their baby does not go through the vaginal canal and therefore does not pick up some very important microbiomes that would help their immune system in later days, even in later months
Liesbeth D.
@LiesbethDem · 4:25
And I think there is definitely evidence that vaginal delivery is beneficial compared to C sections. But to start interfering in the process and to start really seeding this vaginal fluid onto the newborn is maybe a bit too early and we need a bit more research and a more strict regulation to do so
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