JANUARY 14, 2016

Modes of Feeding and Delivery Correlated with Microbial Signatures...but So What?

Here's another microbiome study that, like many published studies, lacks an immediate and obvious answer to the definitive question all journalists ask: so what?

The study examined the stool microbiome composition of 102 infants who were delivered either vaginally or via cesarean birth, and were breast-fed, formula-fed or fed a combination of both. 

The investigators found that, at six weeks of life, both delivery mode and feeding method were significantly and independently associated