In this episode, Greg Dickens and I discuss recent news on how the artificial sweetener sorbitol affects liver health, and how gut microbes influence this. We discuss how early-life adversity affects cardiovascular health, and why it’s so challenging to really understand this. We then talk about salt - why it’s important, why it can be harmful, and how we should limit salt consumption in babies. Finally, we talk about motor milestones in different cultures.

For more information on salt consumption in babies, see this article:

https://guenbradbury.substack.com/p/how-bad-is-salt-for-babies

Topics covered

* How does eating sorbitol affect the liver, and how do your microbes help?

* Does early-life adversity affect later-life health, and how does this differ in different cultures?

* What does salt do in the body?

* Why is too much salt bad for babies?

* What foods do we need to limit for babies?

* Do babies still roll in cultures in which they are never put down on the floor?

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Notes

Intestine-derived sorbitol drives steatotic liver disease in the absence of gut bacteria https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scisignal.adt3549

Early life adversity and physical health implications in adulthood: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030645302500397X

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