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