Learning about
Microbiome’s in class this week really interested me. I have never learned much
about them and I thought that it was interesting that they are helpful bacteria
to us, yet many people still try to kill them off. This week I found an article
about antibiotics and their effect on Mircobiomes. Reading “Good for the Gut”
at the end I looked at the comments and someone commented about the affect of
antibiotics so I looked more into it.
This article
stated that not only the use of antibodies, but also operations such as
C-sections have put us in what they referred to as “The Danger Zone”. This
relates back to the movie we watched about the low amount of home births in the
U.S. The main point of this article was the theory of the head of NYUs Human Microbiome
Program. He states “the one reason is
the changing microbiome; that we evolved a certain stable situation with our
microbiome and with the modern advances of modern life, including modern
medical practices, we have been disrupting the microbiome.” This relates back
to the mismatch theory.
This article also discussed what we discussed in class about
how babies who are birthed a C-section miss out on the bacteria they would have
gotten if they had been born vaginally. There was a study done that compared
babies born vaginally and by C-section and they found that babies born my
C-section often times did not even have microbiome from their mom on them, it
was mostly from other people in the room. This showed how different microbiome
is for babies right when they are born. This article was very interesting and
discussed a lot of what we have been discussing in class.
Rachel
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