Let's talk about what happens to your immune system when you age.

As you age, your risk factor goes up dramatically for viral and bacterial infections.

And the reason why is that the microbiome changes.

That is a term to describe collectively all the microbes living in your body.

They're there to make up a great majority of your immune system, and they do a lot of

other things too, like make vitamins, but I want to focus on the immune factor.

As you age, the microbes age as well.

You get less diversity.

You have more pathogenic bacteria, so we get this ratio of more pathogens and less

friendly bacteria, and that makes you more susceptible to getting infections.

Also, if you don't have the diversity of microbes, you're not going to make the quantity

of buterate.

Buterate is involved in helping someone with insulin resistance and their blood sugars.

Also it has a connection into supporting a healthy immune system.

On the flip side, a baby who's getting breast milk is getting a tremendous amount of good

bacteria in that breast milk.

Not to mention immune factors, antimicrobials, colostrum, which is building his or her immune

system.

It's very, very important as you age to maintain your gut flora and even take a very high-quality

probiotic.

The second thing to know is that babies and children have a huge thymus gland.

The thymus gland is not the thyroid.

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