Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
The more abnormal the microbiome in NICU infants, the more likely they are to experience stunted growth even at 4 years of age. While the growth stunting of premature infants has been well known, the role of the microbiome has not been investigated. The effects of the gut microbiome on this growth faltering were just revealed at the World of Microbiome Conference in Milan, Italy, culminating a five-year, $2.7 million study funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research.
The team of researchers led by the University of South Florida (USF) studied 78 infants born weighing less than three pounds. Lead author Maureen Groer, PhD, RN, professor of nursing and internal medicine at USF, tested their stool samples weekly for their first six weeks in the NICU. She found they all developed an extremely abnormal microbiome, known as dysbiosis, which could affect early and later health as the microbiome controls digestion, the immune system and plays a significant role in faltering length. Dysbiosis was associated with the growth faltering that many of these infants experience.
Most premature babies stay in the NICU for several months and are born with associated illnesses and conditions. While in the hospital, they undergo stressful invasive procedures, receive multiple antibiotics and interact less with their mothers. Their feeding is highly regulated but often consume more formula than breast milk, which transfers beneficial gut bacteria from mother to infant.
"These infants have come into this world having already experienced major stress in the womb," said Groer. "While they may have survived a difficult pregnancy, they are threatened by what the degree of immaturity and many necessary interventions that are done in the NICU, which play roles in the observed dysbiosis."
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Tuesday November 12 2019, @12:48PM
A lot of bright people have been looking for a pill to cure diseases and bring immortality, some are i think even still looking for a fountain(consider epstein).
But it seems to me the answer is in understanding not what we eat, but how each person individually is processing food.
Consider until now we have been literally going on our gut instinct, feeling, using the force, something nearly unscientific. If it doesn't make us break out or get the shits we have to assume can't be that bad, but all of this stuff is totally counterintuitive.
My gluten allergy was 'excema' until a doctor gave me the right blood test and I thought gluten allergies was a superstition, *itself* a superstition. This stuff is not easy for humans to think about and for good reason, there are a lot of factors and a lot of misleading first hand anecdotal evidence.
But now we know the truth. Every food you eat affects your gut bacteria and your gut bacteria is like a factory you are trying to make as efficient as possible, and everybody is unique, and has unique reactions to different foods. (there may be certain 'types' in the hundreds but we aren't there yet)
If you could have any test you wanted multiple times a day, or something that you could monitor, it would be the percentages of molecules in various parts of your digestive tract. That red spot you keep getting on your ankle could be traced to a very obscure allergy you had to an ingredient in generic spices you eat regularly.
The idea that you check someone's mouth and look at their poop and then the million factors in between is treated with a shrug, or something that you look at, at best, every few months under test conditions, is primitive.
So how do you monitor 5 points in your gut tract like it is a webserver or firewall, totally abstracting your own body into a piece of technology like it is separate from your brain?` Which OS do you choose for your nanobots and which wifi technology?
Guess what, trend micro's jr. admin just sold your nanobot's windows mobile OS pre-shared key to the local wireless encryption and now your own data from your own colon is being maliciously modified from a 5g transciever 100 feet from your bedroom window and changed by an algorithm designed to kill you within 5 years by turning off all alarm conditions and making you think you should eat a lot of donuts, at the store run by someone in the same ad network as trend micro and microsoft.
And this because someone is engineering a vote 100 years from now. If you don't believe this could happen, I am sure your oligarchs will want you around as a voting resource but they won't want any unnecessary thinking out of you, so your nanobots will be cracked to give you near eternal life while decreasing your iq 30 points and increasing the chances you will have physically attractive, unintelligent children.
I am still available to be one of France's 4 government sci fi writers, but if I haven't heard they made the selection, I challenge them to come here and write a more unsettling comment.
If you made it this far, you might like some memes I have been working on:
https://jmichaelhudson.net/my-memes/ [jmichaelhudson.net]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 12 2019, @01:05PM
I drank formula as a baby and so did all my children.
We all grew normally. I just wanted to provide a counter to all the "breastmilk or death" hysteria.