Dr. M’s Women and Children First Podcast #11 – Dr. EA Quinn, Breastfeeding Through History –

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Dr. EA Quinn and I had a large ranging dialogue on breastmilk from an evolutionary perspective for podcast episode #11.

Dr. Quinn is a organic anthropologist with a specialty in human biology. Her analysis is broadly targeted on understanding the methods wherein human milk is an important a part of human organic variation and the way such variation has been chosen for by completely different ecological pressures.

Her major analysis mission at current is Infancy @Altitude, a longitudinal start cohort research of ethnic Tibetan moms and infants dwelling within the Nubri Valley, Nepal. She is investigating the methods wherein ecological pressures – on this case the ecological pressures of hypoxia, power chilly stress, shorter rising seasons, UV radiation, and infectious illnesses – create selective pressures on human milk and the way this interprets into adaptive patterns of kid development.

One of many main findings of this analysis was elevated milk fats within the excessive altitude pattern in comparison with different beforehand studied human populations and decrease ranges of metabolic hormones than predicted primarily based on maternal physique composition.

Breastmilk is a magical human derived meals and medication all wrapped up into one. The magnificence of human milk is on full show throughout this hour lengthy podcast.

I hope that you just take pleasure in my dialog with Dr. EA Quinn,

Dr. M

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