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Missing microbes
How the overuse of antibiotics, Caesarian sections and other well-intentioned health practices are contributing to our modern plagues
Martin J. Blaser is the director of the Human Microbiome Program at New York University and author of the 2014 book "Missing Microbes," in which he argues that the overuse of antibiotics, Caesarian sections and antiseptics has permanently changed our microbiome and is contributing to the rise of what he calls our modern plagues: obesity, asthma, allergies, diabetes and certain forms of cancer.
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