EPISODE #20 - It is Dangerous for Women to Avoid Fish During Pregnancy
Recording date: October 21, 2022
Broadcast date: November 17, 2022
Hosts: Drs. Bill Harris & Kristina Harris Jackson
Guest: Dr. Tom Brenna
Background and key takeaways:
In this episode, Drs. Harris and Jackson speak with Dr. Tom Brenna about seafood and pregnancy. Dr. Brenna is a professor of pediatrics at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his PhD from Cornell University in Analytical Chemistry and spent 28 years as a professor of human nutrition at Cornell in Ithaca, New York. He's received several awards from the American Society for Nutrition and served on a number of advisory panels on human nutrition, including being a member of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, which is the group that is tasked with updating the US Dietary Guidelines. His work has been in the area of requirements for polyunsaturated fatty acids in the perinatal period and the development of advanced analytical chemical instrumentation and high precision isotope ratio mass spectrometry for anti-doping applications.
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