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This health video shows you what is good to eat and what is not, with some surprising results.

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Tom Audette: An interesting thing we've been talking about certain strange of bacteria, probiotics. There are others that and partly as you mentioned earlier in our desire to remove all bacteria from our lives and live in a kind of sterile environment, we've kind of gotten away from the live, our ancestors used to live in. I recall when I was a young child, when you come in the house sometimes and maybe you'd fallen in the dirt, you had some dirt in your mouth and you are splitting it out, my grandmother would say, "You have to eat upon a dirt in your life." In the process doing that, obviously there are organisms. Michael Shahani: Oh, that's right! There are what we'd call soil based organisms. Now you are seeing probiotic supplements are soil-based organisms. These are organisms that are found literally as you say in the dirt, they stay alive for years or dormant I should say for years, without any kind of refrigeration or anything like that. They are very, very hardy organisms and they probably contribute to our good health as well. You are absolutely right, you know the fact that we've been led to stay away from dirts, led to stay away from bacteria has probably been a detriment to us, but getting those things in our food, in our environment, in our play, probably have always helped us. Tom Audette: These are as our vegetables and so on are grown and the animals that we eat are raised in pastures and so on. These organisms are out there, I'd again can think back to childhood when you would pull a fresh carrot out of the ground and wipe it on your pants and eat it. Michael Shahani: That's right. Probably nothing wrong with doing that. Exactly, exactly. Exactly. Tom Audette: But, we've kind of gotten away from that. Michael Shahani: We've pasteurized milk for good reasons but still by pasteurizing milk now we've killed off any good bacteria that might be in that milk too. Tom Audette: Thank you Michael. It's interesting!