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Maternal Exercise Improves Health Breastmilk

Kristin Stanford, PhD, could see through other research that maternal exercise benefited the health of offspring, but she and her team have now studied why those benefits exist. The Ohio State team discovered through animal study that even offspring born to sedentary mothers had lower body weight, reduced adiposity, improved metabolism, improved cardiovascular function and other benefits when the breast milk they consumed came from mothers who got regular exercise. The results persisted for more than a year past birth.

“Exercise before and during pregnancy can have several beneficial effects,” Stanford says.

“Something we’d like to continue to look at is how this works. We’re looking to isolate all the benefits of maternal exercise that can be conferred to offspring.”

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Kristin Stanford, PhD.

Kristin Stanford, PhD

Associate Professor of Physiology and Cell Biology

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