Did you ever wonder if certain foods have a direct effect on your health?

Well, I'm here to solve that mystery since you are the foods you eat.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast. I'm your host Dr Michael Greger.

Today we look at the effect of maternal diets on infant health.

Did you know that you can treat the cause of infant reflux with maternal cow's milk elimination?

Here's our first story.

There's been a long standing problem among zookeepers of the Gorilla, a light name

Gorilla Gorilla. The problem is that they were throwing up all the time.

We've never seen wild grillas barfing, but it had unfortunately been accepted as routine

by many zoos.

What were they feeding them? Well, you know, they're big strong animals so they made sure to

feed them lots of protein, you know, cottage cheese, meat, eggs, milk, until a zoo in Germany got this

radical idea to try giving them their natural diet, and the change

following the alterations to the diet was astonishing.

I mean, before, the poor silverback was regurgitating and vomiting during most of the day

but by the third day eating what they were supposed to eat he and the rest were all

Miraculously cured even just removing milk from captive gorilla diets led to significant

improvement. Cow's milk was historically considered an essential item in the captive gorilla diet.

But they showed that removal of milk from the captive gorilla diet may reduce such undesirable behaviors

and may be a step towards better approximating their natural diet.

I mean giving an animal milk after weaning, giving an adult animal milk is for babies and then giving milk from a bovine to a primate?

What were these crazy zookeepers thinking doesn't make any sense.

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