Andrew Huberman· PhD
yes so they're very famous experiments where they separated uh baby monkeys from their moms and then had either a wire sort of thing holding a bottle so okay what what do you miss most about the mom is it the wire is it the food or is it the the comfort and then they had so they had a wire thing with with a milk bottle versus you know blankets and cuddly soft things and and the the baby monkeys would go to the cuddly soft thing but you know a blanket is not a replacement for a mother nobody's saying that it is and and through these experiments there's extended maternal separation and it's it it was deemed cruel — there was permanent irreparable damage when you when you rehouse these monkeys they never resocialized normally they had lots of different mental and physical health problems