Guts and brains: How microbes in a mother’s intestines affect fetal neurodevelopment. – Brinkwire

During pregnancy in mice, the billions of bacteria and other microbes that live in a mother’s intestines regulate key metabolites, small molecules that are important for healthy fetal brain development, UCLA biologists report Sept. 23 in the journal Nature.
While the maternal gut microbiota has been associated with abnormalities in the brain function and behavior of offspringoften in response to factors like infection, a high-fat diet or stress during pregnancyscientists had not known until now…

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