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"Kate Cropp WHNP, IBCLC, MSN" <[log in to unmask]>
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Hello!

Recently, I had the pleasure to attend a seminar in Atlanta for LLL healthcare providers. Dr.Peter 
Hatman and Dr. Leon Mitoulas both spoke at the conference. It was fabulous!

Dr.Mitoulas spoke, at one point, about fatty acids in breast milk; how they are formed or dervied 
from the diet and secreted into the breast milk. A question was asked of him, specifically about 
fatty-acid supplementation of the pregnant and breastfeeding mother. This is what I have in my 
notes (there were no powerpoint slides of this information- just my notes of his comments):

1. Medium chain fatty acids are made by the breast.
2. Long chain fatty acids are dervied from the diet.
3. There are many (>40) fatty acids. They produce aid in the deveopment and maintenance of 
many different processes in the  body- not only in breain and eye development.
4. When supplements are taken (usually containing very large concentrations of long chain fatty 
acids), it offsets the production of the naturally-produced medium chain fatty acids, thus 
disrupting the natural concentration of all fatty acids in the breast milk.
5. Therefore, there might be unaturally high levels of long chain fatty acids, and unaturally low 
levels of medium chain fatty acids in the breast milk. 
6. Also, supplementation of fatty acids during pregnancy has a long-term effect due to fatty acids 
being stored in maternal fat and released later (postpartum) into the beast milk.
7. The recommendation he gave: eat a well-rounded diet; forget the fatty-acid supplements.

I hope this is able to help you in understanding the bare basics of fatty acids in breastmilk. 
Dr.Mitoulas' lecture was awesome and I'd like to know more about his research findings. When I 
have my copy of his references I will post them for all to see.

Kate Cropp WHNP, IBCLC, MSN
Mama to nursling,Henry, 22 months!
Nashville, Tennessee, USA

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