Food is not the same as a predictable supply of nutrients. One is a novelty, the other is a survival resource that can keep us out of corrections.

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References and Suggested reading/listening:

Peer Reviewed Scholarly Publications

Bygren, L. O., Tinghög, P., Carstensen, J., Edvinsson, S., Kaati, G., Pembrey, M. E., & Sjöström, M. (2014). Change in paternal grandmothers early food supply influenced cardiovascular mortality of the female grandchildren. BMC Genetics, 15, 2–7. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-15-12

Coplan, J. D., Gupta, N. K., Karim, A., Rozenboym, A., Smith, E. L. P., Kral, J., & Rosenblum, L. A. (2017). Maternal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis response to foraging uncertainty: A model of individual vs. social allostasis and the “superorganism hypothesis.” PLoS ONE, 12(9), 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184340

Coplan, J. D., Rozenboym, A. V., Fulton, S. L., Panthangi, V., Tang, J., Thiramangalakdi, L., Perera, T. D., Liu, Y., Kamran, H., Owens, M. J., Nemeroff, C. B., Rosenblum, L. A., Kral, J. G., Salciccioli, L., & Lazar, J. (2018). Reduced left ventricular dimension and function following early life stress: A thrifty phenotype hypothesis engendering risk for mood and anxiety disorders. Neurobiology of Stress, 8, 202–210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynstr.2017.01.001

Jackowski, A., Perera, T. D., Abdallah, C. G., Garrido, G., Tang, C. Y., Martinez, J., Mathewe, S. J., Gorman, J. M., Rosenblum, L. A., Smith, E. L. P., Dwork, A. J., Shungu, D. C., Kaffman, A., Gelernter, J., Coplan, J. D., & Kaufman, J. (2011). Early-life stress, corpus callosum development, hippocampal volumetrics, and anxious behavior in male nonhuman primates. Psychiatry Research, 192(1), 37–44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.11.006

King, S. E., Nilsson, E., Beck, D., & Skinner, M. K. (2019). Adipocyte epigenetic alterations and potential therapeutic targets in transgenerationally inherited lean and obese phenotypes following ancestral exposures. https://doi.org/10.1080/21623945.2019.1693747

Minster, R. L., Hawley, N. L., Su, C. T., Sun, G., Kershaw, E. E., Cheng, H., Buhule, O. D., Lin, J., Reupena, M. S., Viali, S., Tuitele, J., Naseri, T., Urban, Z., Deka, R., Weeks, D. E., & McGarvey, S. T. (2016). A thrifty variant in CREBRF strongly influences body mass index in Samoans. Nature Genetics, 48(9), 1049–1054. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3620

Rosenblum, L. A., Coplan, J. D., Friedman, S., Bassoff, T., Gorman, J. M., & Andrews, M. W. (1994). Adverse early experiences affect noradrenergic and serotonergic functioning in adult primates. Biological Psychiatry, 35(4), 221–227. https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-3223(94)91252-1

Rushmore, R. J., McGaughy, J. A., Mokler, D. J., & Rosene, D. L. (2022). The enduring effect of prenatal protein malnutrition on brain anatomy, physiology and behavior. Nutritional Neuroscience, 25(7), 1392–1399. https://doi.org/10.1080/1028415X.2020.1859730

Seiden, A., Hawley, N. L., Schulz, D., Raifman, S., & Mcgarvey, S. T. (2012). Long-term trends in food availability, food prices, and obesity in samoa. American Journal of Human Biology, 24(3), 286–295. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.22237

Syed, S. A., Smith, E. L. P., Batuman, O., Rosenblum, L. A., Owens, M. J., Nemeroff, C. B., & Coplan, J. D. (2017). Adult glucocorticoid receptor mRNA expression volatility in response to an acute stressor and juvenile CSF corticotropin-releasing factor: A pilot neurodevelopmental study. Neuroscience Letters, 647(March), 20–25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2017.03.017

Podcasts and Interviews

The Lasting Effects of Food Insecurity in Early Childhood a conversation with Dr. Jeremy Coplan

All Together Now: How stress is shared through our communities and what we can do to ease it with Dr Jeremy Coplan

Media credit (photo/video/audio/animation) Sincere thanks to the following artists

Thumbnail - Fruits and Vegetables - Nathan Dumlao, Unsplash

Friends eating – Syda Productions, Storyblocks

Person eating burger – Mstoylik, Storyblocks

Tastebuds on tongue – istock.com/FuzzMartin

Man eating salad – kamila_p, Storyblocks

Organs and systems – istock.com/peterhowell

Person Texting – Angelo Moleele, Unsplash

Driving a car – HD_premium_shots, Storyblocks

Friends Hugging – Cinemarketing, Storyblocks

Person walking – VadosLoginov, Storyblocks

Growing Hair – KONSTANTIN SHISHKIN, Storyblocks

Wound Healing – istock.com/tbradford

Speaking on train platform – polly_belyaeva, Storyblocks

Woman Breathing – mcsingleton, Storyblocks

Heart beating – M.G.F.Studio, Storyblocks

Lungs breathing – istock.com/ALIOUI Mohammed Elamine

Empty kitchen cupboard - Paul Volkmer, Unsplash

Chicken soup can - Ben Lolli, Unsplash

Oxygen mask – istock.com/ivan-balvan

Little boy standing in kitchen - Kevin Gent, Unsplash

Family harvesting vegetables in garden – istock.com/ RyanJLane

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