Writing Exercise #15:

If I were the head of an institution and had the option to fund a research project, I would want to fund a project that dealt with pregnant mothers and how their diets may have affected the contents of their breast milk. We learned this term that a breastmilk vs formula diet does have an affect on the infant’s gut microbiota. However, I was surprised to see in many papers how it was reported that infants on a formula based diet had more of a diverse microbiota than infants who were primarily breastfed. I would be curious to see if by altering a mothers diet it would change the contents of her breast milk and in change increase the microbial gut community of their infant. I would hope to learn more about how to increase the nutrient concentration for mothers that breastfeed so that healthcare workers could provide expecting mothers with betterĀ  nutritional information so that their infants gain a more diverse microbiota through proper and safe exposure.

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