About 30 to 40 percent of food produced in the US gets thrown away, rather than eaten. Listen in for the story behind the news: the tale of our first and most essential food.įood takes up more space in American landfills than anything else. We've also got the story of when formula was first invented, the dirty tricks used to market it, and the competing pressures and changing advice that have swung the pendulum from "breast is best" to formula and back again. Along the way, we find out what makes human milk-or "white blood," as it perhaps should be known-so unique, as well as why Parisian attitudes to feeding infants in the 1800s made it known as a city with no children. This episode, we tell the story of how we got here, and we explore what we should we do to make feeding babies easier in the future.
Breastfeeding can be difficult or impossible for some parents, and formula milk isn’t always safe, affordable, or even available - as we’re seeing in the US, where formula milk is currently 70 percent out-of-stock. But both of these products aren’t always easy to come by.
No matter what your diet’s like today, we all likely started life eating the same thing: breast milk, formula milk, or a bit of both. (But, for your own health, please don’t drink every time we mention our favorite topic during this episode!) Listen in for the scoop on how tweaking your gut microbes can change your mind. military, Gastropod is here to investigate! The answer involves prescription kefir, a trip to an Army base to play video games, and the trials and tribulations of some very melancholy mice-not to mention lots and LOTS of microbes. But how much of this is science, and how much is modern-day snake oil? With the help of gastroenterologists, psychologists, and yes, the U.S. And, if you’ve been on wellness social media over the last few years, you’ve probably heard that you can hijack this connection to help heal a whole host of mental illnesses, from taking probiotics for PTSD to treating depression with diet. Do you get butterflies in your stomach when you’re excited? Feel nauseated when you’re nervous? Get a knot in your gut when you're worried something bad is going to happen? Then you’ve experienced what’s called the gut-brain axis: a powerful connection between your brain and your stomach.
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