Parents: You Don’t Need Infant Formula. EVER.
Robyn Openshaw
(robynopenshaw.substack.com)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (22)
sorted by:
Calcium may actually inhibit the body’s ability to transport iron into cells, but this only occurs under specific conditions and to a pretty minimal extent. A sizable portion of studies focusing on the calcium-iron conundrum don’t dive into the specific mechanisms involved.
I am not surprised by "so called scientist do not do their homework". It is what happens when you go to prove a theory and stop when you get the answer you were looking for.
So we learned in studies that looked at specific mechanisms and found calcium didn’t affect the amount of iron that entered the cells, but it did temporarily affect the cells’ ability to export the iron into (what would be) human circulation. Instead of looking at just a 1.5 window we find at the four-hour mark, however, FPN levels had recovered. So the calcium conundrum comes down to time. Considering most other studies using larger windows of time found that there is no effect of calcium on iron absorption
Specially goat milk has a better parathyroid balance that regulates calcium balance. The reason is goats milk has a higher bioavailability iron, calcium, magnesium and phosphorus. Regular diet of goats milk aides mineral metabolism and shortens the window for FPN levels to recover . The iron and calcium components of goat’s milk have been found to be easier to absorb than those of cow’s milk.
SO?
That doesn't mean its a good source of iron. How hard is this?
Okay so you've got a child drinking milk every few hours.
HMMMM HOW LONG OF A WINDOW DOES THE BABY HAVE TO ABSORB IRON, OF WHICH THE REST OF THEIR DIET CONTAINS ZERO AND MILK CONTAINS NEAR ZERO?
How are you this dense?
Drinking what milk? You have cow milk on your mind so you can't be objective. I know you ignorant to the difference
There have been numerous studies comparing cow milk with goat milk in the last few years. Nearly all researchers have concluded that goat milk has properties that can help in prevention of diseases like anemia and bone demineralization. Goat milk has been found to have far more health benefits than cow milk.
Goat milk is much readily digestible than cow milk because size of fat molecules is one fifth compared to cow milk. The fat content is higher in goat milk. Smaller size of fat molecules produces a more homogeneous mixture of fat in the milk. Glycerol ethers are found in higher amount in goat milk, which is important for the nutrition of a new born baby. Goat milk has more protein per serving and also has higher levels of essential amino acids.
Goat milk also has lower levels of orotic acid that helps in prevention of fatty liver syndrome in infants. There is no need for separation of cream in goat milk because of smaller fat molecules. Scientists believe that goat milk is closer to human milk than cow milk, which is why it is easily absorbed into human bodies.
Because of the presence of more chlorine and fluorine in goat milk, it has germicidal properties. Fluorine also helps in prevention of diabetes. Somehow, goats are immune to tuberculosis and this is why their milk is used for the treatment of this disease in many countries.
Goat milk has the ability to soften the intestinal tract and has been found to be helpful in curing constipation. Some scientists believe that goat milk has anti carcinogenic properties because of the presence of higher carotene (vitamin A).
Goat milk has more vitamin A, B3, and B6, though it has lower amounts of B9, B12 and B2 vitamins than cow milk. Goat milk has higher amounts of calcium, phosphorus, potassium, iron, copper, manganese. Scientists believe goat milk to be closer in structure to human milk than cow milk.
The digestive utilization of iron, however, is similar for the goat-milk diet and a standard diet, and in both cases superior to that based on cow milk.
No animal milk has sufficient iron for an infant. Wow.
1865 Justus Von Liebig’s Soup for Infants was introduced to market. Liebig’s formula was made of cow’s milk, wheat, malt flour and potassium bicarbonate. Trust was in short supply for quite a while so it did not take off quickly. However it did take off.
The first commercial brands found their way to market in the 1970's. The prior 25 years before that places like in the UK used dried, powdered skimmed cow's milk.
Without wet nurses when the mother milk dried up the baby died without goat or cows milk. Weaning protocols were much different as well. Introduction of eggs in 6 weeks was not uncommon in the 40's and 50's. In the 40s and 50s, babies would be given small amounts of solids early on.
Even babies that are exclusively breastfeed, need vitamin supplementation.