Click my link ➡️ https://bit.ly/atilalaminodec to download the Babbel app and receive exclusive discounts on your subscription!???? Is milk bad for you? Is it good for you? Does it prevent osteoporosis? Does it cause anemia? Inflammation? Did we evolve to drink milk? How important is it nowadays? All this and a little more about the history and evolution of our relationship with milk in this video. Script and presentation: Atila Iamarino - Twitter @oatila Instagram @oatila Direction and Production: Paloma Sato Image Composition, Editing, Animation and Thumb: Giulia Donadio: Instagram: @giulia_donadio Sources: Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live, by Marlene Zuk Pellegrino, R., Kavakli, IH, Goel, N., Cardinale, CJ, Dinges, DF, Kuna, ST, ... & Pack, AI (2014). A novel BHLHE41 variant is associated with short sleep and resistance to sleep deprivation in humans. Sleep, 37(8), 1327-1336. Belluz, J. 2015. How we got duped into believing milk is necessary for healthy bones. Vox April 19, 2015. https://www.vox.com/2015/4/19/8447883... Bian et al. 2018. Dairy product consumption and risk of hip fracture: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Public Health (2018) 18: 165. https://link.springer.com/article/10.... Campbell et al. 2005. The Molecular basis of Lactose Intolerance. Science Progress. 88(3): 157-202. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/... Currier, RW & Widness, JA. A Brief History of Milk Hygiene and Its Impact on Infant Mortality from 1875 to 1925 and Implications for Today: A Review. Journal of Food Protection 81(10): 1713–22. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... Curry, A. 2018. How can you eat dairy if you lack the gene for digesting it? Fermented milk may be key, ancient Mongolian study suggests. Science 05.nov.2018. https://www.science.org/content/artic... Enattah et al. 2007. Evidence of Still-Ongoing Convergence Evolution of the Lactase Persistence T-13910 Alleles in Humans. AJHG 81(3):615-25. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... Helmer et al. 2007. The development of the exploitation of products from Capra and Ovis (meat, milk and fleece) from the PPNB to the Early Bronze in the northern Near East (8700 to 2000 BC cal.) Anthropozoologica 42(2): 41-70. Hidayat et al.2020. Systematic review and meta-analysis of the association between dairy consumption and the risk of hip fracture: critical interpretation of the currently available evidence. Osteoporos Int 31:1411–25. https://link.springer.com/article/10.... López-Plaza et al. 2018. Milk and Dairy Product Consumption and Prostate Cancer Risk and Mortality: An Overview of Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses. Advances in Nutrition 10(suppl2): 212-23. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... Malmir et al. 2019. Consumption of milk and dairy products and risk of osteoporosis and hip fracture: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition 60(10): 1.722-37.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1... Mathieson et al. 2015. Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians. Nature 528:499–503. https://www.nature.com/articles/natur... Oliveira, MAA & Osório, MM. 2005. Cow's milk consumption and iron deficiency anemia in children. Jornal de Pediatria 81(5): 361-7. https://www.scielo.br/j/jped/a/9BhbY9... Singh et al. 2015. Global, Regional, and National Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages, Fruit Juices, and Milk: A Systematic Assessment of Beverage Intake in 187 Countries. PLoS ONE 10(8): e0124845. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art... Tishkoff et al. 2007. Convergent adaptation of human lactase persistence in Africa and Europe. Nat Genet 39:31–40. https://www.nature.com/articles/ng1946 Warinner et al. 2014. Direct evidence of milk consumption from ancient human dental calculus. Sci Rep 4: 7104. https://www.nature.com/articles/srep0... Wiley, AS. 2014. “Drink Milk for Fitness”: The Cultural Politics of Human Biological Variation and Milk Consumption in the United States. American Anthropologist 106(3): 506-17. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wi... Zhao et al. 2023. The association between dairy products consumption and prostate cancer risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis. British Journal of Nutrition 129(10):1714-31 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa...