13/10/2025
Did you know that your GUT is known as your SECOND BRAIN?! 🤯 🧠
That’s because the good bacteria in your gut (known as your gut flora/ microbiome) affects so many things like your body’s ability to fight dis-ease, your serotonin levels, your literal mood, your memory, anxiety and depression, your ability to learn, your vitamin K levels and your overall health!
When a baby is in the womb they don’t have much bacteria in their gut (some scientists hypothesize that their gut it totally sterile). Baby’s who are born via va**nal delivery get their first seeding (dose) of good bacteria from their Mother’s va**na as they pass through the birth canal. They get their second seeding as their face touches the Mamas perineum (and an extra good dose if the Mama poops during labour 💩😉 — I’m not kidding). Breastfed babies also are exposed to bacteria from their Mama’s ni**le every time they feed.
If you think your baby may have had more of a sterile start to life then you want to make sure that you are supplementing with good quality probiotics. (C-section babies for sure as they would have missed out on the first 2 seedings).
We live in a world that thinks sterile means healthy. It doesn’t. 🤦🏻♀️
“In fact, single-celled organisms—mostly bacteria—outnumber our own cells 10 to one, and most of them make their home in the gut. The gut, in turn, has evolved a stunningly complex neural network capable of leveraging this bacterial ecosystem for the sake of both physical and psychological well-being.” - The American Psychological Association
Evolved? Hmm I’d say it’s more of an intelligent design by our Creator but we get what they are saying 😉
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