Preface
Introduction
Part I. The Birth of Milk
Chapter 1. Feeding Off spring
Chapter 2. Origins
Chapter 3. The Molecules of Milk
Chapter 4. Prolactin and Oxytocin
Part II. Milk as a Food
Chapter 5. Not Quite Perfection
Chapter 6. The Milk Spectrum
Chapter 7. Lactation Strategies
Part III. More Than Food
8. Milk Protects
Chapter 9. Milk Guides
Chapter 10. Milk Regulates
Chapter 11. Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
Part IV. Our Mother's Milk
Chapter 12. Milk and Human Evolution
Chapter 13. Breastfeeding, History, and Health
References
Index
Everything you ever wanted to know about the substance that binds all mammals together.
Michael L. Power is a senior research associate at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and an animal scientist at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park. Jay Schulkin is the senior director of the research department at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and a faculty member at Georgetown University's Department of Neuroscience and the University of Washington's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Power and Schulkin are the coauthors of The Evolution of Obesity and The Evolution of the Human Placenta.
The book provides a unique lens for understanding milk and the
processes involved in producing milk. It is well written and highly
readable. It will be of value both to experts in the field as well
as to novices looking for an encompassing overview.
—The Quarterly Review of Biology
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