Laura Modi

And in some ways, like look at what Europe's doing and kind of come up with a hybrid that creates a better formula.

And it's something for me as a physician, when I was trying to find formulas to

to support the breastfeeding mothers that I was taking care of.

It was a struggle, because I was like, this is crap, and this is crap, and this is crap.

And, you know, what we have now in America is a crisis of obesity.

You know, 20% of kids are obese, 40% are overweight.

Infants, one in 10 or even more,

of infants are overweight or obese.

And this is not because they're eating too much and exercising less, right?

It's not their fault.

And they're not because they're eating Twinkies.

Something's going on.

And we talked about it earlier before the podcast, but there was a study that came out recently that

identified just how much sugar an average baby was getting in their infant formula, and it's about a can of Coke a day.

Yes.

So can you talk about the implications of this for our infant population and then the downstream long-term consequences for children and then adults who are programmed at very young ages to be overweight or obese?

Yeah, carbs on a carbs on a carb.

sort of having a thought about the other end of the age spectrum, which is the elderly, and what often they get is like Ensure and Boost, and these things are just filled with corn sugar and corn syrup solids and refined oils and all kinds of horrible ingredients.

Here, here.

And it's like we're kind of poisoning both ends of the spectrum.