Your baby's bacteria at birth impacts their brain development
Using fecal samples taken from dozens of one-year-olds and cognitive assessments of the same children a year later, researchers found an association between certain kinds of microbial communities and higher levels of cognitive development later on.
“The big story here is that we’ve got one group of kids with a particular community of bacteria that’s performing better on these cognitive tests,” said Rebecca Knickmeyer, PhD “This is the first time an association between microbial communities and cognitive development has been demonstrated in humans.”
The researchers found that babies with increased Bacteroides and a lower diversity performed better in tests at age 2, both of which have been shown in previous studies to to be increased by vaginal birth and breastfeeding
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