Laura Modi
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And like, literally nobody will raise their hand or occasionally like one person will raise their hand.
And so everybody's taking an antibiotic, which will kill one of the most, including women or babies, one of the most important species.
In your microbiome.
In your microbiome called Bifidobacterium infantis, after the infant.
And this is something that colonizes the baby's gut and prevents leaky gut, regulates immune system, prevents autoimmunity, allergies.
And this is something that is fed by
Prebiotics.
The prebiotic sugars.
In breast milk.
Can you talk about the importance of that and how you're working to kind of address this in some way, or you can not talk about it?
There is a company called Avivo.
And it's something I recommend all pregnant women to take and for their babies to take.
And then when you give a baby a probiotic, unlike adults, they'll colonize the gut and it'll stay there as opposed to, as an adult, if you take a probiotic, you have to keep taking it in order for it to work.
And then, you know, what's really interesting about this is that 15% of the carbohydrates are these sort of prebiotic fibers, sugars.
Yeah, they call it human milk oligosaccharides.
And I think 50% of the carbohydrates, calories, are from this completely unusable food for babies.