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From two of the world's top scientists and one of the world's top science writers (all parents), Dirt Is Good is a Q&A-based guide to everything you need to know about kids and germs. "Is it OK for my child to eat dirt?" Jack Gilbert and Rob Knight are bombarded with questions like this every week from parents all over the world. Google a question like this, and you'll be overwhelmed with answers. The Internet is rife with speculation and misinformation about the risks and benefits of what most parents think of as simply germs, but which scientists now call the microbiome.

Ally was at a breaking point when she woke up in a psych ward at the age of eighteen. She couldn't put a sentence together, let alone take a shower, eat a meal, or pick up a phone. What had gone wrong? In recent years, she had produced a feature film, a popular reality show for a major network...

Sumergidos en la abundancia de alimentos y fármacos, nuestros niños son cada vez más asmáticos, más alérgicos, más "atópicos", más obesos... Hemos pasado de enfermar por infecciones a enfermar por el exceso de higiene y la falta de microbios. Hemos dejado de comer comida para comer productos comestibles. Hemos pasado de huir de los leones a vivir con una manada de ellos; el estrés puntual se ha convertido en estrés crónico.