How to Build a Healthy Microbiome, Before, During, and After Birth Kelly Brogan, MD, Mercola
With 3 minute video
- Adding to a long list of “oops!” in the history of medicine, it was long-held that the womb was a sterile environment.
- Home birthing 99 % in 1920 ==> 99% in hospital by 1950
- Breast milk contains immune factors, bacteria, and over 200 unique oligosaccharides, designed to nourish gut bacteria (not in formula)
- (Note: early breast milk (colostrum) contains 3X as much vitamin D as true breast milk)
Her webpage Kellybroganmd.com
Includes Speculation of association between autism and use of birth control pill
See also VitaminDWiki
Studies in both categories of Antibiotics and Pregnancy are listed here:
- Gestational Diabetes best fought by Vitamin D plus probiotics – RCT review Dec 2023
- 10 percent of all women had after-birth infections – majority had low vitamin D (PhD) – 2019
- Antibiotics during pregnancy may cause childhood health problems – Feb 2019
- Gut Microbiome is important during pregnancy – Dec 2014
- 1.8X increased risk of Obesity if antibiotics were used during pregnancy – Nov 2014
- 2000 IU vitamin D during pregnancy and 800 IU to infant resulted in less use of antibiotics – RCT April 2014