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Laura Modi

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The Dr. Hyman Show
How Laura Modi Is Rewriting Baby Formula

And like, literally nobody will raise their hand or occasionally like one person will raise their hand.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Laura Modi Is Rewriting Baby Formula

And so everybody's taking an antibiotic, which will kill one of the most, including women or babies, one of the most important species.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Laura Modi Is Rewriting Baby Formula

In your microbiome.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Laura Modi Is Rewriting Baby Formula

In your microbiome called Bifidobacterium infantis, after the infant.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Laura Modi Is Rewriting Baby Formula

And this is something that colonizes the baby's gut and prevents leaky gut, regulates immune system, prevents autoimmunity, allergies.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Laura Modi Is Rewriting Baby Formula

And this is something that is fed by

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Laura Modi Is Rewriting Baby Formula

Prebiotics.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Laura Modi Is Rewriting Baby Formula

The prebiotic sugars.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Laura Modi Is Rewriting Baby Formula

Correct.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Laura Modi Is Rewriting Baby Formula

In breast milk.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Laura Modi Is Rewriting Baby Formula

Correct.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Laura Modi Is Rewriting Baby Formula

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?

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Laura Modi Is Rewriting Baby Formula

There is a company called Avivo.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Laura Modi Is Rewriting Baby Formula

Yeah.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Laura Modi Is Rewriting Baby Formula

And it's something I recommend all pregnant women to take and for their babies to take.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Laura Modi Is Rewriting Baby Formula

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.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Laura Modi Is Rewriting Baby Formula

And then, you know, what's really interesting about this is that 15% of the carbohydrates are these sort of prebiotic fibers, sugars.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Laura Modi Is Rewriting Baby Formula

HMOs.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Laura Modi Is Rewriting Baby Formula

Yeah, they call it human milk oligosaccharides.

The Dr. Hyman Show
How Laura Modi Is Rewriting Baby Formula

And I think 50% of the carbohydrates, calories, are from this completely unusable food for babies.