255: Homemade baby formula
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Breastmilk from a well-nourished mother is the best option for early nourishment. But when this isn't possible, a homemade baby formula is the next best alternative. On this podcast, Sally Fallon Morell, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, explains in detail how and why she and her colleague, Dr.Mary Enig, developed an alternative to commercial formula. She discusses its composition, its success rate with babies, why it is preferable to commercial formulas (with their rancid oils and denatured ingredients) and alternative recipes for those babies that show signs of allergies or sensitivities.
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| 0:00.0 | When I was writing Nourishing Traditions, I asked Mary, my co-author, I said, how would you feel? |
| 0:07.0 | How would you feel by having a recipe for formula in here? |
| 0:11.0 | And I was surprised that she was all for it. She said, we really need this. She said, |
| 0:16.4 | commercial formula is absolute junk. It gets the baby off on the wrong foot. And she was not against raw milk either so the recipe is |
| 0:25.6 | hers we you know compared cows milk and human milk she said we need more |
| 0:31.6 | weigh in here we need more weigh in here. We need lactose. We need more |
| 0:35.6 | vitamin C. There's more vitamin C in human milk. And there's more omega-6 fatty |
| 0:39.8 | acid, so that's why we added the oils. And we had read that the gelatin would make it more |
| 0:44.9 | digestible and we added the yeast for B vitamins and people started doing this formula and |
| 0:50.9 | we got these wonderful testimonials about how well the children did on the formula. |
| 0:56.4 | From the Weston A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast for |
| 1:06.8 | wise traditions in food, farming, and the healing arts. We are your source for |
| 1:11.4 | scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health. |
| 1:16.0 | Hey, Hilda here. |
| 1:25.0 | Feeding our baby is one of the most important tasks for parents. |
| 1:29.0 | Breast milk from a well-nourished mother is the best option really for early nourishment. |
| 1:34.8 | But when this isn't possible, a homemade baby formula is the next best alternative. |
| 1:40.0 | This is episode 255 and our guest today is Sally Fallon Morel, president of the Westinay |
| 1:44.9 | Price Foundation. |
| 1:46.1 | You know Sally, she's a prolific author, an advocate for real food, and she's actually |
| 1:52.0 | responsible for coming up with this homemade baby formula that is a viable alternative for moms looking for how to best nourish their babies when breast milk isn't available. |
| 2:02.1 | Honestly, innumerable babies have benefited from their babies |
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