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04 of 63 - The Microbiota - Health Challenges Autistic Children Experience (see description for video presentation link and full lecture series) image

04 of 63 - The Microbiota - Health Challenges Autistic Children Experience (see description for video presentation link and full lecture series)

Children's Health Podcast (formerly Autism & Children's Health)
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  • Health Challenges Autistic Children Experience

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Transcript

Introduction to the Gut Microbiota

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Now the microbiota also sometimes called the microbiome. Those are basically the bacteria, the little microorganisms in our gut. We can call them the gut bugs, you know, just for a simple little term to use. And there's up to a hundred trillion of them of some 500 to a thousand species. Every human's microbiota is quite unique to them. It will have a different composition of
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mostly bacteria, but some archaea, protozoa, quite a lot of fungi, yeasts, things like candida, and some viruses. And it's a very individual microbiota that each one of us has.

Factors Influencing Early Microbiota Development

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So various things will influence the composition of a child's microbiota. The mother's own microbiota is, to a large extent, a big factor. The mode of the delivery, so if it's a vaginal or a C-section delivery, will greatly affect what microbes colonized child's got early in life. Of course, the hospital environment, each hospital or each part of the world will have different bacteria.
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And again, this will play a role in what microbes will colonize the baby. Now, the reason this is important is because this early colonization of bacteria, they play a fundamental role in brain development early in life.
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It's important to understand that the microbiota of a child is quite dynamic early in their life and many factors can influence and alter its composition. So the diet, sleep, stressors, medications, toxins in the environment, all of these things will alter and shape the microbiota of the child.

Challenges and Stabilization of Microbiota by Age Three

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It's also important to understand that the microbiota is quite vulnerable to external insults, such as antibiotics or toxic substances, so chemicals in our environment, heavy metals and pathogenic bacteria. These are kind of the most common external insults that we can think of.
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After about three years, the child's microbiota begins to stabilize and becomes much more resilient to change. The reason this is important is because when the microbiota stabilizes, if it was unbalanced due to antibiotics or other toxin exposure earlier in life, before two and a half, three years of age, this now stabilized microbiota will become much more difficult to alter
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and nudge. So if it was unbalanced, it may become a little bit more difficult to balance it or keep it balanced because there's a certain, you can think of these bacteria in the gut as a community. So once they find their own balance, they want to keep it that way. Those populations of bacteria have a tendency to remain that way.