Paul Saladino· MD
we all get it from our mothers as we go through the birth canal or you know I mean this is the whole argument around c-section babies too we need to inoculate them with like vaginal fluid to give them the microbiome of the mother's vagina and you know probably there's some communication between the rectum and the vagina of the mother as baby's being born but you know it's that's probably where we should be getting the first part of our microbiome from and then it's gonna it's going to evolve over the course of our lives and there's even evidence that in utero the mother is there are bacteria that are being passed to the baby people say oh no that's sterile like I don't think that's totally true I think we're finding that now and then there are bacteria that actually transit from the mother to the baby in the breast milk now which is pretty wild