Extensive antibiotic treatment in early childhood can be detrimental to establishing a healthy gut microbiome, but re-establishing it can help mitigate deficits.

“There are some decent studies showing that if children are exposed to a lot of antibiotic treatment early in life, that can be very detrimental to establishment of a healthy gut microbiome. And fortunately that reestablishing a healthy gut microbiome can help rescue some of those deficits.”