Researchers from the universities of Bristol and Reading make the assumption that the immune system develops only in puberty when boys and girls are different. You have found in animal experiments that piglets depending on gender, different level of immune cells, antibodies and messengers.

The researchers observed that Pro – and prebiotics act in the case of 28-day-old male piglets differently than in female piglets. For example, increased prebiotic Inulin in the intestine of male piglets, the number of cells for the control of the immune response, but not in the female.

Dr. Marie Lewis, a microbiologist at the University of Reading, concluded from the results: "Currently, studies on the effectiveness of nutritional supplements on the immune system, that in the case of boys and girls, the same thing happens. We do not show, however, that this may be the case, and that the gender may influence the data on the efficacy of probiotics and prebiotics in infant age."

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This may mean that treatments need to be designed for immune diseases for girls and boys in different ways: Certain probiotics or prebiotics could be for girls is more advantageous, while others achieve in young better health outcomes. "The use of sex could be a simple means to improve the effectiveness of medicines and other therapies, the wirken&quot on the immune system;, Lewis said.

Around 70 percent of the immune system is in the gut, and its development is driven after the birth of much of the intestinal bacteria progress. Previously, Lewis had found that the development of the immune system is programmed in the intestine of pigs, very early on, your Team had observed that piglets spent their first day of life on a large country farm, even after 28 days "Stadtleben" a well-functioning immune system in the gut had. It is assumed that this is also Operated, the reason for the lower incidence of allergies in children in agricultural.

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