Dear all:

I have been meaning to post about Jennifer Tow's interesting theory about how damage to the 
mother's own gut may very well play a role in what is transmitted through the breast milk.  I think 
this is the first time I have had an explanation that makes sense to me for a finding in some of the 
studies that Lisa Marasco sent me long ago on cow's milk allergies in breastfed infants.  I could never 
figure out why some of these studies showed only about a 50% transmission rate of cow's milk 
proteins into mothers milk.  Why did some women transmit these proteins and not others?  Perhaps 
this is merely those mothers with a leaky gut.

By a process of self selection, I think Jennifer and I see subsections of the population that rarely 
overlap.  I wish she worked in Manhattan so I could come watch her in action and learn.  I think I am 
philosophically more aligned with her clientele, but perhaps if we were working in the same city, I 
could incorporate some of her interventions and try to figure out ways to entice the overscheduled, 
overacheiving, hyperactive Manhattan moms to adopt some of her techniques.  

Susan Burger

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