{"id":171729,"date":"2023-09-10T11:23:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T16:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scientists-link-babys-brain-development-to-their-gut-bacteria"},"modified":"2023-09-10T11:23:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T16:23:09","slug":"scientists-link-babys-brain-development-to-their-gut-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scientists-link-babys-brain-development-to-their-gut-bacteria","title":{"rendered":"Scientists link baby\u2019s brain development to their gut bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-link-babys-brain-development-to-their-gut-bacteria2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The development of your baby\u2019s brain could be influenced by the microbes in their belly, scientists have found.<\/p>\n<p>The trillions of microbes that live inside our guts play essential roles in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/want-get-healthier-this-year-go-your-gut-opinion-1560161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">range of bodily processes<\/a>, from digestion to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/probiotics-may-ease-depression-symptoms-according-study-1515833\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">mental health<\/a>. The gut contains more than 100 million nerve cells\u2014the highest concentration in any part of the body other than the brain. Now, we are also beginning to learn about the roles of these microbes in the earliest stages of our lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe microbiome plays an important role in the early development of several systems, such as the nervous and immune system, as well as providing another layer of protection against pathogens [disease],\u201d Sebastian Hunter, a researcher from the University of British Columbia who led a study on the subject published Wednesday in the scientific journal <em><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0288689\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"\">PLOS One<\/a><\/em>, told <em>Newsweek<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The development of your baby\u2019s brain could be influenced by the microbes in their belly, scientists have found. The trillions of microbes that live inside our guts play essential roles in a range of bodily processes, from digestion to mental health. The gut contains more than 100 million nerve cells\u2014the highest concentration in any part [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}