Sept. 9, 2025

Ep. 132: What Does Gut Health Have to Do with Eczema, and Allergies? Missing Microbes and Baby Immunity – with Persephone Biosciences

Show Notes

Is it the C-section? The formula? The antibiotics? Parents often wonder if they’ve messed up their baby’s gut health. In this episode, Dr. Wendy talks with Stephanie Culler PhD, co-founder of Persephone Biosciences, about groundbreaking research on the infant microbiome. You’ll learn why most American babies are missing Bifidobacterium infantis—the bacteria that digest special sugars in breast milk and help build the immune system—and how new science is bringing those microbes back through a product called a “synbiotic.”

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