After reading what Leslie Ayre-Jaschke reported was seen in Runner's World,
here is what I sent to them.

Suggesting that a mother pump and discard post-exercise milk is unnecessary
and denies the baby the immunities he or she would otherwise obtain.
Non-human milk has NO SUCH immunities. Even fewer of them is better than
none of them.  Where is your documentation that immune properties are
lesser as a result of maternal exercise?

The article suggesting that postexercise breastmilk is inappropriate for
human infants has not been supported by other studies--even when limiting
the samples to the few women who exercise to exhaustion, as was the case
with the original study that unwisely offered this recommendation.
By the way, lactic acid is found in ALL mammal milks.  The slight rise that
occurs with exercising to exhaustion probably is far less noticeable to the
observant baby than the taste of her sweaty skin, neither of which has been
proven to cause harm.

Women who exercise have been shown to make more milk and to be able to eat
more (take in more calories) with more weight loss than non-exercising
women.  There is no need to limit or restructure the frequency/timing of
breastfeeding because of a regular exercise regimen.

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