Do infants need probiotics? 🦠 Here is what we know… • Our gut microbiota (the colony of bugs) is most malleable in the first two ✌🏼years of life, allowing probiotics to make their mark.¹ • The types of bacteria living in our infants 👶🏼 gut are initially dependent on what the baby was exposed to during birth 🤰 – aka born vaginally or via C-section. Then it’s determined by what baby eats (breastmilk, formula, solids). 🍼 Over time, the introduction of solid foods & environmental factors lead to the maturation & diversification of the microbes like what we have as adults. • In adults, having a lot of different types of bacteria in our gut is thought to be associated with overall health. BUT the opposite seems to be true in infants. 🤯 100yrs ago babies who were only given breastmilk had basically only one ☝🏻 type of bacteria in their gut -- the Bifidobacterium type. 🦠 The main thing that this bacteria eats is a type of carb found in breastmilk, called Human Milk Oligosaccharides (aka HMO’s). Babies 👶🏼 cannot use this carbohydrate but these beneficial bacteria can! Because of modern lifestyles, medical practices, etc., most babies today have much less of this important bacteria in their bellies. • Scientists 👨🏾🔬 at the University of California Davis (my alma matter, Go Aggies) discovered that Bifidobacterium infantis is an important probiotic that can help build a strong immune system by crowding out the bad bacteria linked to eczema, colic, allergies, diabetes and obesity.² • How can we help our little ones 👶🏼 get more of these beneficial bacteria? We can give it to them as a supplement. 🧑🏻🔬 Research has shown that infants who were supplemented with the probiotic B. infantis EVC001 had mostly Bifidobacterium living in their gut with only 10% potentially bad bacteria. Infants who were not supplemented with this probiotic had up to 40% potentially harmful bacteria living in their guts. • We love the Evivo Health probiotic supplement because it offers the right amount of the right type of probiotic to help promote the growth of the Bifidobacterium in baby’s gut. __ ¹ bit.ly/3b03rS3 ² DOI: 10.1038/s41390-019-0533-2 © Elieke Kearns, PhD, RD and Nosh.it Food Facts, 2021. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this content and/or photos without express and written permission from this site’s author is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Elieke Kearns, PhD, RD and Nosh.it Food Facts with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.
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