What are your favorite ways people have invented idyllic pasts in order to pretend that the present is exceptionally bad?
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Those are also likely implicated- my main source for this is “An Epidemic of Absence” by Moises Velasquez-Manioff
Can I register some arms-length skepticism of the C-section hypothesis? I’d love to hear “actually the evidence is pretty good” from the two of you, but it strikes me as prima facie implausible.
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I mean, basically all of the research about neonatal gut flora influencing basically anything is like two years old, so there’s a lot of ‘uh, maybe this is a factor, but more research is required’. I could dig out a meta review maybe.
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Really that invokes the microbiome should be taken with a huge grain of salt
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So I just skimmed this article, but it seems pretty interesting: 'We suggest that, while Cesarean delivery is certainly associated with alterations in the infant microbiome, the lack of exposure to vaginal microbiota is unlikely to be a major contributing factor."
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"Instead, it is likely that indication for Cesarean delivery, intrapartum antibiotic administration, absence of labor, differences in breastfeeding behaviors, maternal obesity, and gestational age are major drivers of the Cesarean delivery microbial phenotype."
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