Gut Reaction: How Human Milk and Breast/Chestfeeding Transforms the Newborn Gut and Long-Term Health

Laurel Wilson, BS, IBCLC, RLC, CLE, CLD, CCCE Who hasn’t heard of the microbiome lately? New research suggests that the microbiome plays an important role in our gut health, communication between the gut-brain axis, mood stability, even cardiac health. This session focuses on how humans seed the gut microbiome during the critical thousand days of a baby’s life and why human milk plays such a vital role in creating a healthy gut and ultimately positive long-term health outcomes.