MicroBirth Global Launch Screening

MicroBirth Global Launch Screening

EdinBirth
Sat 20 Sep 2014
19:30-21:30 (2 hours )

"Over the past 20-30 years, we've seen dramatic increases in childhood asthma, type 1 diabetes, celiac disease, childhood obesity - alongside increases in Caesarean delivery. While Caesarean is not the cause, it does not allow the baby to be seeded with the microbes. The immune system doesn't mature, the metabolism changes. This immune dysfunction and the changes in metabolism, we now know contribute to those diseases and conditions."
Dr Rodney R Dietert, Professor of Immunotoxicology, Cornell University
"We are increasingly seeing a world out there with what is really a public health time-bomb waiting to go off. The research we are doing suggests it is only going to get worse, generation on generation. So tomorrow's generation really is on the edge of the precipice unless we can begin to do something about it."
Dr Matthew Hyde, Research Associate of Neonatal Medicine, Imperial College London
Warning: Documentary about birth
_ Price: £6.00 / £5.00
_ Age Group: PG
_ Venue: Red Lecture Theatre
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“Microbirth” is a new feature-length documentary looking at birth in a whole new way; through the lens of a microscope. Investigating the latest scientific research, the film reveals how we give birth could impact the lifelong health of our children.

Featuring prominent scientists from the UK and North America, “Microbirth” examines how modern birth practices could be interfering with critical biological processes potentially making our children more susceptible to disease later in life.

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