🤓 Well, have you heard about a “Poo Milkshake” fed to c-section babies? It all started with an investigation into Trauma and Antifragiliy:

Case in Point #1. When you are born, your body is crushed with over 150PSI as you pass through your mother’s hips. The pressure is so great that it literally deforms your head and can cause bruising and other damage to muscles. You are also smeared through an incredible microbiome of yeasts and bacteria in the birth canal which impregnate your eyes, nose, and mouth with your mother’s biome. Lastly, the first nursing isn’t milk, its a substance called colostrum which is loaded with antibodies and immune systems helpers.

So what did all that trauma do? It crushed your body to trigger an immune reaction, it ingested a biome to jump start a symbiotic bacterial ‘infection’ in your gut, and with that hyper immune response, takes those antibodies and creates a healthy immune system.

What about C-Section babies? They are finding that the lack of this stress is actually not a good thing and are now culturing the mothers biome (called vaginal seeding) and increasing the compression on the baby either during delivery or in hyperbaric chambers to boost the immune response.1 Because the consequences are a marked increase in respiratory tract infections, obesity and the manifestations of asthma than children delivered vaginally with the risk of developing diabetes mellitus type 1 or neurological disorders that still under discussion.

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I also found this facinating article about a “Poo Milkshake“ where milk is fed to the baby containing a small amount of their mothers poo to help kickstart their gut biome. nature.com/articles/d41…