{"id":7956,"date":"2017-12-05T06:12:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T13:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=7956"},"modified":"2017-12-05T06:12:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T13:12:01","slug":"more-dirt-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/uctv\/more-dirt-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"More Dirt for Kids!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/library-channel\/search-details.aspx?showID=32845\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/images\/\/thumbnails\/32845.jpg\" alt=\"32822\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>Rob Knight, the academic superstar who is leading the <a href=\"http:\/\/jacobsschool.ucsd.edu\/microbiome\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Microbiome Innovation at UC San Diego<\/a>, says it\u2019s important for kids to get dirty! He explains that exposing children to natural bacteria in the environment trains their immune systems how to respond to foreign threats. So, resist that urge to sterilize everything kids touch because you\u2019re not helping. Instead, let them roll around in the grass, swim in rivers and the ocean, and cuddle with dogs. You might wince at the contact, but the germs they meet will make them stronger in the long run.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, check out Rob\u2019s book, \u201cDirt is Good,\u201d or watch him here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/library-channel\/search-details.aspx?showID=32845\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dirt is Good: The Advantage of Germs For Your Child&#8217;s Developing Immune System with Rob Knight <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Knight, the academic superstar who is leading the Center for Microbiome Innovation at UC San Diego, says it\u2019s important for kids to get dirty! He explains that exposing children to natural bacteria in the environment trains their immune systems how to respond to foreign threats. So, resist that urge to sterilize everything kids touch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,98,28,31,88,2],"tags":[431,432,400,97,433,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}