An Astounding Discovery: 
Gut Flora Influences Brain Development

The new science suggests that how your digestive tract evolves in the first few years of life can influence the health of your brain and your behavior for an entire lifetime.

Packed into the 3 – 5 pounds of contents within your digestive tract are ten times the number of foreign cells than comprise your entire body. This diverse population of foreign inhabitants possesses one hundred times the genomic signaling activity of your entire human genome.  Human genome relies on the gut genome to produce a variety of signals that sustain human health.  In essence, the human genome uses the gut genomic activity to sustain the your body. If your human genome had to do all the work itself it would require too much energy.

We have known for many years that disturbances within the digestive balance of power influences or causes almost every disease.
It is clear that the gut genomic signaling was influencing brain development.
“The data suggests that there is a critical period early in life when gut microorganisms affect the brain and change the behavior in later life,” says Dr. Rochellys Diaz Heijtz.  In other words, the proper formation of brain structure and the healthy plasticity of nerve networks are influenced by gut bacteria. While this is an animal study there is no data to indicate that this is also not the case for humans – to the contrary, this goes a long way towards helping to explain a great deal of human mental health issues and may shed a new understanding on how such problems get started. Extrapolating on the meaning of the data would certainly suggest that antibiotics, which disrupt normal bacterial evolution in the digestive tract, could be a significant cause or contributor to autism, ADHD, mood disorders, and generally lessened cognitive ability.

The proper development of the digestive tract is vital to immunity, digestive health, and likely brain health. Poor quality diets that depress immunity and lead to antibiotic use can send a person into a lifetime path of poor digestive function, poor immune function, and poor brain function. 
If you’ve had to use antibiotics with a child then ensure you do everything to get their digestive tract back in better health.  Minimally, this is using friendly flora and may require additional steps with safe and health-promoting natural remedies to both bolster digestive function and immunity.

 This is only a summary of a article from Byron Richards, CCN