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Breastfeeding is crucial to shaping infant’s microbes and promoting lung health

Breastfeeding is crucial to shaping infant’s microbes and promoting lung health

"Just as a pacemaker regulates the rhythm of the heart, breastfeeding and human milk set the pace and sequence for microbial colonization in the infant's gut and nasal cavity, ensuring that this process occurs in an orderly and timely manner," said study co-senior investigator and computational biologist Liat Shenhav, PhD.