Overcoming weaning stress in pigs

The ability of a healthy microbiome to overcome stress consequences is an exciting concept. Establishing and maintaining a healthy microbiome during weaning is therefore vitally important in reducing neonatal morbidity and mortality. Given the link between early life stress and gastrointestinal diseases, it has been shown that early weaning stress can profoundly alter physiology responses by disrupting the homeostasis in the composition of the gut microbiome. The disruption of this symbiotic re