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Curious about what your thoughts are about if I was a C-section baby, but then my children were not. Will my lack of bacteria mean they would be set up for a disrupted gut even though they were not C-section?

Dr. Amy Nett:  Just because someone was a C-section baby that doesn’t necessarily mean long term that you’re always going to have low levels of beneficial bacteria. These are the sort of correlation that often with C-sections we may see lower diversity or lower levels of beneficial bacteria, but it’s not always the long term case rate. So, no, I wouldn’t say that just because you were born via C-section that if your kids are born vaginally, I don’t know they’re any worse off. I don’t think so. We don’t have all of the data but I really think that—again, we look at predispositions and where people are coming from, then what may or may not set them up for something. But I have patients who have had really heavy use of antibiotics, which we say that sets you up for a gut dysbiosis and that sort of thing, but people recover. Our bodies are very dynamic and changing, and there’s always that nurture aspect that if you’re really feeding your gut with probiotics and probiotics, it doesn’t mean that you can’t bounce back to the best gut health that you can get. So, no, I don’t think that that would necessarily affect your kids.

 

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