Articles on Church St Pediatrician from the blog of GetzWell Pediatrics, a pediatrician group in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Church St Pediatrician

Articles on Church St Pediatrician from the blog of GetzWell Pediatrics, a pediatrician group in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Creating A Better World Through Emotional Intelligence

It’s January 2020, and there are a lot of heavy things happening in the world. Meanwhile, at home, the transition back to “regular life” after the holidays may be proving to be messy. You might be at the point of telling yourself or your partner to “push through!” while telling your kids to stop arguing and put their socks on already. Why would anyone choose this month to focus on emotional intelligence while so many issues—global crises, daily demands, and the challenge of establishing new habits—are smacking us in the face?

We’re Only as Healthy as the Bacteria in Us and on Us.

Our bodies are teeming with microbes ­– inside and out. In fact, we walk around with 100 trillion single celled organisms (4 pounds of bacteria!) that we rely on to keep us healthy. The number of bacteria that live in and on us is so vast that they (those not originated in the body) outnumber our own body cells 10 to 1!