A new article published in Nature reveals new information about the link between gut microbiota and infant development, evolution and the transition from infancy to childhood.
During TEDxHa’pennyBridge in Dublin, Principal Investigator at the APC Microbiome Institute in Cork, John Cryan, gave a talk about the connection between the gut, brain and microbiome, and its impact on psychiatric and immune disorders.
A recent study, which was the largest in the field and published in JAMA Pediatrics, reveals that breastfeeding favors the implantation of a healthy gut microbiota in babies.
Prepare yourself: You are going to take an exciting and rare tour few humans have ever taken before. In fact, it is a grand tour you cannot access through any travel agency—it’s a journey into the human body.
Maternal HIV infection can disrupt the gut microbiota development of infants
5 Oct 2016by Cristina Sáez
Worldwide each year more than a million infants are born to women infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus causing AIDS.
“Breast milk's first impact is to favour the colonisation of the gut by specific bacterial groups that can digest these sugar molecules,” said Thierry Hennet, a researcher at the Institute of Physiology at the University of Zurich, in a telephone interview with Gut Microbiota for Health.
Breast milk sugars stimulate the activity of gut bacteria, promoting healthy infant growth
30 Mar 2016by Cristina Sáez
According to a new study recently published in Cell, gut microbiota could also play a key role in children's growth.
Breast milk ingredient “trains” gut to provide lifelong improved health
19 May 2014by GMFH Editing Team
In the latest study, scientists have focused their attention on a specific ingredient of maternal milk, which is an antibody called SIgA.
The type of birth (vaginal delivery or C-section) affects the development of gut microbiota in newborns and may affect their health later in life, according to a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Canadian researchers studied the development
As already mentioned on this blog, we are born sterile and our gut microbiota begins to develop at birth. We know that breast milk plays an essential role in the composition of gut microbiota in newborns. Spanish scientists from the
