Hunter-gatherer breast milk contains significantly lower amounts of linoleic acid (2-3% of calories) compared to westernized women's breast milk (10-15% of calories).

“mothers can also transfer linoleic acid to their infants and they will transfer linoleic acid this 18 carbon polyunsaturated fatty acid ... when they're breastfeeding when they're postpartum you will find levels of linoleic acid that are much higher than the breast milk of hunter-gatherers”

“if mothers eat more than oleic acid more linoleic acid goes into the breast milk i'm not sure that's what we should be mirroring i believe we should be marrying levels of linoleic acid found in other hunter-gatherer breast milk which are considerably lower than linoleic acid in human breast milk in the west because of what we've been eating”

“many pregnant and nursing mothers are eating much more linoleic acid than they used to and we know that linoleic acid will be increased in the breast milk of these nursing mothers”

“if you look at the breast milk of hunter-gatherers yeah it has much lower amounts of linoleic acid than the breast milk of westernized women who are who are breastfeed right and that's because 100 gatherers don't get any any significant amount of linoleic acid in their diet probably less than two percent of their calories are linoleic acid whereas maybe 15 20 of our calories as westernized humans come from linoleic acid”

“the breast milk of American Mothers is very different in linoleic acid content than that of indigenous pregnant nursing mothers isn't that correct”

“the breast milk of American Mothers is very different in linoleic acid content than that of indigenous pregnant nursing mothers isn't that correct”