Courtney Swan
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Because of this regulation and because they have to have a certain percentage of polyunsaturated fatty acids.
I believe it was 84.
I need to look it up, but I think that was when the last iteration happened.
It was somewhere in the early 80s.
I wish I should have brushed up on that before.
It hasn't been reevaluated since then.
Yes, because so many people are concerned because even if you go and you buy the healthier formula, the baby formulas, and let me actually just say this really fast.
I'm a huge proponent for breastfeeding.
I will be fighting like hell to make sure that I can breastfeed.
But I understand that there are certain situations.
Maybe you've had a mastectomy.
I get it.
There are certain situations.
They're getting loaded with polyunsaturated fatty acids, too, that are mostly rancid.
And when moms are trying to find โ because now, I mean, if you look at just the conventional ones โ so I was in Costco recently, and I was looking at all the conventional ones, and I mean, I was horrified.
Corn syrup solids, soybean oil.
Interesting fact about soybean oil, there was a study that came out a couple years ago where they found soybean oil actually reduces oxytocin in the brain.
Oxytocin is your love bonding hormone with your baby.
You don't want to be reducing oxytocin in their brain.
And we're putting this in baby formula, the first thing that they're eating, right when they land on earth.