Insulin impacts each stage of Milk Production – Implications for Insulin Resistance
Insulin plays a crucial, yet often overlooked, role in milk production. When a mother is insulin resistant, her milk production may be affected.
Insulin Resistance: When the Body’s Energy Management Falters
My mother had a great idea. She gave me a quarter each day to buy snacks for the walk home from school. I was ten years old. Back then, a quarter bought four candy bars and five lollipops! The calories added up and my body changed. But like all children who find...
A Lactogenic Lifestyle: What it is, how to begin –
A Lactogenic Lifestyle holds the potential to change lives. This series will explore the relationship between our daily habits, food choices, and health, and provide concrete steps that can improve not only milk supply but also overall wellness for ourselves and our families
Low Milk Supply and a Breastfeeding Diet
Relics of postpartum practices might yet be gifted across generations. They are kept safely in the old wives’ tales that are shared between mothers. They are sometimes found written on a crinkled, yellow page, stashed away between the forgotten pages of vintage health books.
Green Superfoods for Milk Supply: Amaranth and Sweet Potato Leaves
we will explore two incredible plants that have been cherished for centuries by breastfeeding mothers across Asia, Africa, and South America. Amaranth and sweet potato leaves are packed with essential nutrients and renowned for their ability to support lactation and enhance milk supply.
Anti-Lactogenics – Herbs, Meds, Vitamins, and Foods that can undermine milk production
You may find that your supply is better protected if you avoid the following as herbs, spices, in food or beverages, and as extracts or flavorings in candy, breath mints, toothpaste, medicine, foods and beverages.
The Postpartum Dance of Estrogen, Insulin, and Cortisol, for Milk Production
“The dance” between hormones in the postpartum is key to understand common lactation difficulties. In this article, we’ll look at how humans and primates “function” as far as choreographing this dance.
Table of Contents, Blog Posts, HilaryJacobson.com
An overview of blog posts according to its topic, for your convenience. Breastfeeding and Lactation Postshttps://hilaryjacobson.com/lactogenic-diet/insulin-beta-glucans-lactation/ Some Causes of Low Milk Supply that Respond to Foods and Herbs...
Some Causes of Low Milk Supply that Respond to Foods and Herbs
Lactogenic foods and herbs are commonly “insulin sensitizing,” “blood-sugar balancing,” or have an “anti-diabetic” effect.
The Use of Beer as a Galactagogue, historically and today
Beer is made from barley, malt, hops and water. Its use as a galactagogue is disputed. I clear up the confusion in this article on its historic use and the how it can be used today.
Sow Thistle – a forgotten galactagogue and anti-anxiety “weed”
Several common weeds are used around the world as medicinal herbs, including as galactagogues! Your help may not be at the store but in your yard or garden.
Starting Sweet Potato Slips for your Galactagogue Garden
When growing a galactagogue garden, certain greens can be started indoors, or even become an indoors staple. This is true for sweet potato leaves, a lactogenic green.
A Video Tour of my weedy Galactagogue Garden
Early to mid-spring, galactagogue weeds and perennials are already showing up, reminding us of their beauty and value.
ESL Posts: English as Second Language
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BLOGS – en espaniol
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Writing: Poems, Lyrics, Books
Writing the book “Healing Breastfeeding Grief”
For ten years, I listened each day to mothers as they vented their profound feelings of loss, grief and failure--feelings I also had with my first baby when I could not build a milk supply. I wished with all my heart that I could do more than just commiserate. I...
Writing the book “Mother Food”
A Slow Gestation The idea for this book was conceived and then took hold of me, a little more each time, with the births of my four children. With each child, I learned a little more about overcoming my low milk supply issues by using traditional herbs and foods — an...
Complimentary Meds for Seasonal, Respiratory Viral Diseases that are compatible with nursing
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