These days, it's fashionable to pop antibiotics like Tic Tacs, and it's almost impossible not to feel pressured into pumping sanitizer onto our hands when we enter or leave any store.

But did you know that even occasional use of antibiotics, hand sanitizers, and other germ-killers can wreak havoc on your long-term health?

Evidence is mounting that this germophobic clean craze - our obsession with antibiotics, hand sanitizer and sterile environments - is actually making us sicker.

Why? Because our bodies were perfectly designed to have a symbiotic relationship with bacteria, protozoa, fungi, and even viruses. When you wipe all of those “bugs” away, your immune system can turn on itself.

Hence the current epidemic of auto-immunity.

And if we stop to take a quick look at the chemical ingredients in some of these hand-sanitizer, you may notice things like Triclosan, which is an endocrine disruptor and toxic to microbes and can actually cause thyroid issues and a lot of other problems.

So in this special throwback episode that seems more timely than ever, we're here with Dr. Robynne Chutkan, a leading expert in the world of gut health and one of the most recognizable gastroenterologists working in America.

Dr. Chutkan has a B.S. from Yale and an M.D. from Columbia, and is the best-selling author of multiple books, including 'Gutbliss','The Microbiome Solution' and 'The Bloat Cure'.

On today's throwback with Dr. Chutkan you're going to learn:

The value of getting dirty
Why you should reconsider using hand sanitizer
How to rewild your microbiome
And much more…

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