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Breast milk contains more than 700 species of bacteria, Spanish researchers find

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Spanish researchers have traced the bacterial microbiota map in breast milk, which is often the main source of nourishment for newborns. The study has revealed a larger microbial diversity than originally thought: more than 700 species.

The breast milk received from the mother is one of the factors determining how the bacterial flora will develop in the newborn baby. However, the composition and the biological role of these bacteria in infants remain unknown.

A group of Spanish scientists have now used a technique based on massive DNA sequencing to identify the set of bacteria contained within breast milk called microbiome. Thanks to their study, pre- and postnatal variables influencing the micriobial richness of milk can now be determined.

Colostrum is the first secretion of the mammary glands after giving birth. In some of the samples taken of this liquid, more than 700 species of these microorganisms were found, which is more than originally expected by experts. The results have been published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

“This is one of the first studies to document such diversity using the pyrosequencing technique (a large scale DNA sequencing determination technique) on colostrum samples on the one hand, and breast milk on the other, the latter being collected after one and six months of breastfeeding,” explain the coauthors, María Carmen Collado, researcher at the Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA-CSIC) and Alex Mira, researcher at the Higher Public Health Research Centre (CSISP-GVA).

The most common bacterial genera in the colostrum samples were Weissella, Leuconostoc, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus and Lactococcus. In the fluid developed between the first and sixth month of breastfeeding, bacteria typical of the oral cavity were observed, such as Veillonella, Leptotrichia and Prevotella.

“We are not yet able to determine if these bacteria colonise the mouth of the baby or whether oral bacteria of the breast-fed baby enter the breast milk and thus change its composition,” outline the authors.

The heavier the mother, the fewer the bacteria

The study also reveals that the milk of overweight mothers or those who put on more weight than recommended during pregnancy contains a lesser diversity of species.

The type of labour also affects the microbiome within the breast milk: that of mothers who underwent a planned caesarean is different and not as rich in microorganisms as that of mothers who had a vaginal birth. However, when the caesarean is unplanned (intrapartum), milk composition is very similar to that of mothers who have a vaginal birth.

These results suggest that the hormonal state of the mother at the time of labour also plays a role: “The lack of signals of physiological stress, as well as hormonal signals specific to labour, could influence the microbial composition and diversity of breast milk,” state the authors.

Help for the food industry

Given that the bacteria present in breast milk constitute one of initial instances of contact with microorganisms that colonise the infant’s digestive system, the researchers are now working to determine if their role is metabolic (it helps the breast-fed baby to digest the milk) or immune (it helps to distinguish beneficial or foreign organisms).

For the authors, the results have opened up new doors for the design of child nutrition strategies that improve health. “If the breast milk bacteria discovered in this study were important for the development of the immune system, its addition to infant formula could decrease the risk of allergies, asthma and autoimmune diseases,” conclude the authors.

Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130104083103.htm

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Journal Reference:

  1. R. Cabrera-Rubio, M. C. Collado, K. Laitinen, S. Salminen, E. Isolauri, A. Mira. The human milk microbiome changes over lactation and is shaped by maternal weight and mode of deliveryAmerican Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2012; 96 (3): 544 DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.112.037382

6 thoughts on “Breast milk contains more than 700 species of bacteria, Spanish researchers find

  1. Well Done !!!

    We fail to realise that all the medical research that today’s Western medical practice was done a century or 2 ago –
    Yes, that’s right.
    !00 to 200 years ago –
    The research of just a few people only –
    From a massive population of scholars & academics –
    Was embraced as acceptable medical knowledge.

    Look at Charles Darwin as an example –
    Charles Darwin is famous for his Theory of Evolution –
    He went to Madagascar & was gobsmacked by the vast diversity of plant & animal life & proceeded to write up his BIBLE of how it all came about.

    What Charles Darwin did not wonder is – how – in such a hostile environment as Madagascar anything was alive in the first place.
    He never wondered if there weren’t supernatural forces in play that caused the abundance of life & diversity represented within that life.
    By supernatural forces I mean – not fairies at the bottom of the garden with a paint pot & brush –
    But electromagnetic – atomic & the like energies & the conscious will of the universe to survive & flourish –
    Is it possible that in the most unlikely places – life is cast to be the saving grace after the 11th hour has passed ???

    Our whole understanding & practice of medicine is based on a very little portion of knowledge that was realised & even made up – so long ago.
    Today we can allow ourselves to imagine that we know nothing much that is real & true about ourselves & the universe we live in.
    It is all yesterdays obsolete imaginings.
    No new work has been done since square one.
    It is still all out there waiting to be discovered.

  2. Madagascar & The Galapagos Islands are place where we can believe – that God does exist & can make Miracles.

  3. Interesting video article:
    The Electronic Intifada – “Killing Gaza” captured culture of resistance by Max Blumenthal.

  4. It is the Salivating Bastard that Worship’s The Sacred Almighty Buck that has held us in suspended animation –
    The Self Ordained Gods of the Mortal World …
    Who know how long ago we could have known who & what we really are ???
    But for their intervention.

  5. Physics holds that the universe never forgets
    Therefore everything has memory
    Therefore everything has conscious intelligence
    Therefore nothing can be forgotten
    Therefore nothing can become extince
    Code of all matter is held in suspended animation till such time as it is required to fill a gap to maintain the mathematical equation of existence of all things

    Physics holds the energy cannot be created or destroyed.

    The Lord works in mysterious ways.
    Blessed be the name of the Lord.

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