Can't believe it took them this long to figure this out

Seriously..this is new news? I have heard this forever. No wonder why there is no cure yet.

I was breast fed too and still got it. People have a tendency to make Mother's who don't breastfed feel bad (not ya'll just in general) about it. I couldn't because of a medicine I was on. And I had a lot of people say things to me like, Oh it's not good for a baby to have formula, and I don't know why anyone wouldn't breastfeed, and even show me articles and send me links!
Anyway I think studies like this are kind of silly, it's like when they do a study to find out people who eat at McDonalds twice are week are more likely to have heart disease.

Katmom that would me Ole' Mikeeeeee....

Post Edited (twiggs) : 8/22/2013 6:29:26 AM (GMT-6)

Breast fed is good for populating gut bacteria. I doubt it has connection to UC. Who knows what and how we come across something that triggers UC or Crohns.

No word on genetic susceptibility.
My 23andMe says that I have more chance of getting Crohn's and less chance of getting UC and here I am, with UC...

The breastfeeding thing is interesting, but I agree with the others that there is so much more going on with gut bacteria. Look, a C-section reduces a newborn's exposure to mom's gut bacteria, too. I think we can all agree that the best plan for a newborn is a vaginal birth and breastfeeding past the age of 2. For those who cannot achieve the gold standard, though, the additional risk to gut bacteria seems not so large from the birth and infant feeding part than it is from say, overuse of antibiotics, or sterile industrialized food practices, etc.

I've recently read Michael Pollan's book Cooked, and he makes the excellent point that in the manufacturing of bread we no longer use natural cultures. For millenia people lived on bread that rose due to local bacteria and yeasts. No longer (maybe 100 years or less). In addition, the processing of fermented foods has eliminated local cultures. Our exposure to the gigantic amount of bacteria and fungi in our environment is so limited now in western cultures it is not surprising at all to see increases in diseases that are linked to gut bacteria (and the list of those diseases keeps growing).