Can changing the diet of a breastfeeding mother impact the infant gut microbiome?

Toni Harman
3 min readMar 18, 2022

Quick Summary: A recent review suggests that yes, potentially, you might be able to change the infant gut microbiome through changing the mother’s diet whilst she is breastfeeding.

If you change the diet of a breastfeeding mother, can this change the infant gut microbiome?

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Toni Harman

I help parents and health professionals better understand the science of pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and the microbiome. https://linktr.ee/toniharman