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Importance of Gut Health Research is showing more and more that “gut health” impacts overall physical and mental health. An imbalance of bacteria in the digestive tract appears to be a cause of depression and other psychiatric disorders, as well as physical ailments such as colic, obesity, allergies, diabetes and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Baby’s first introduction to the
Beneficial Bacteria
Newborn Exposure to Good Bacteria, Probiotics Can Protect Against Health Issues Later in Life
by Dr. Lawrence Hoberman N
ewborns and gut bacteria are rarely part of the same conversa- tion. In my decades of medical experience and research focused on beneficial gut bacteria, I’ve learned how important newborn exposure to bacteria can be to health issues and conditions later in life.
Whether a baby’s delivery is natural or by Caesarian section, both mother and baby benefit from maintaining a healthy balance of beneficial gut bacteria. However, for C-section deliveries that can be a big problem as key bacteria may be missing.
environment is through the vaginal canal, and the mother’s intestinal bacteria are very important for a newborn baby. It’s a different situation with a C-section. There, the bacteria in the environment can be strep, staph and some of the other bugs in the delivery room. This gut health challenge puts those babies at a higher risk for many health problems due to a lack of diversity in their gut microbiomes. A recent Swiss two-year study
compared the health of 24 babies delivered vaginally and by C-section. Babies birthed by C-section had less gut diversity—a lower range of good gut bacteria—during the first two years of their lives compared to babies born vaginally. Also, C-section babies had a chemical imbalance in their blood that made them more vulnerable to developing allergies. A 2010 study published in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found infants who
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