Baby’s Gut Instinct: Why Having A Healthy Gut Is Critical To Infant Health with Dr. Tracy Shafizadeh

Baby’s Gut Instinct: Why Having A Healthy Gut Is Critical To Infant
Health | This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers, Primal
Kitchen, and Beekeeper’s Naturals Today we’re talking about one of
my favorite topics: poop. And we’re finding out that the most
important time to pay attention to our poop and what it can tell us
about the microbiome is in the earliest months of life. I recently
did a really interesting webinar on this topic. It's such a
critical aspect of creating lifelong health that I wanted to share
it on the podcast, to make sure anyone who missed it had a chance
to listen. With the huge rise in inflammatory diseases from obesity
and diabetes to autoimmunity and so many more, it’s imperative we
look at the gut to optimize whole body health—this is a fundamental
piece of Functional Medicine that I’ve been using with my patients
for decades.  To dig into the specifics of how we can start
kids off with the best health possible, I sat down with Dr. Tracy
Shafizadeh. She is leading the work in understanding the infant
microbiome, as a nutritional scientist who helps new and expectant
moms learn about creating healthy gut bugs in their babies. Dr.
Tracy translates her extensive scientific knowledge of breastmilk
and the gut microbiome into practical terms to help parents
understand how a balanced gut from infancy leads to a healthy
immune system and metabolism for life. Dr. Shafizadeh received her
PhD in nutritional biology from the University of California,
Davis, and spends her free time "loving the guts" out of her two
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from our interview:  Our epidemic of chronic inflammatory
diseases (4:32) The vital importance of having a balanced
microbiome (8:17) How a baby receives gut microbes from its mother
and how this process regularly gets disrupted (11:23) Why 15% of
human breast milk is indigestible by the baby (18:11) Differences
between human breast milk and baby formula (23:50) What is Newborn
Gut Deficiency and does it affect your baby? (30:23) The long term
consequences of having lack of B. infantis and how it can be
restored (38:15) How does Evivo work? (45:40) Are probiotics good
for you? (53:44) Vaginal seeding and the gut microbiome (1:03:30)
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