Pregnancy Changes Gut Bacteria
Gut microbiota is "profoundly altered" by pregnancy and marked by changes that would normally be associated with metabolic syndrome, researchers found, but these changes could be beneficial in expectant women, they suggested.
Indeed, when gut bacteria from women in their third trimester were transferred to germ-free mice, the animals developed signs of metabolic syndrome, including weight gain, abnormal glucose metabolism, and inflammation, according to Ruth Ley, PhD, of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, and colleagues./.../
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