Hormone Supplement for Formula & Babyfood Suggested
April 23, 2007 by kate baggott
Filed under Baby Care, Breastfeeding, Mental Health
Just when you thought it might be safe to wean your baby, there is new reason to fear Frankenformula.
The latest idea for supplementing formula is a hormone called Leptin.
Leptin is a hormone all of us produce to tell our appetites that we are satisfied after a meal. Like all hormones, Leptin and Leptin receptors can get thrown out of whack. People who suffer from morbidly obesity, for example, are thought to produce less Leptin (or to produce it more slowly) than others.
What isn’t clear, though, is whether Leptin production is just lower as a cause of morbid obesity or if …read more
