Shelley McGuire's guest appearances

Shelley McGuire

Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta

The Vandal Theory

Connect FCS ED

Brian Johnson

Jason Barnes

Houston Kraft

Monica Burns

Rob Phelan

Tisha Richmond

Josh Bailey

Dawn Harrison

Michelle Brown

Abigail Lee

Ellen Swallow Richards

Rebecca Scofield

Jeff Utecht

Randy Russell

Jan Bowers

OwlTail

This week's podcast has two parts. In the first section University of Idaho lactation specialist Dr. Shelley McGuire discusses the recent paper that claims to have found the herbicide glyphosate in breast milk. In the second half Gabe Ignetti from the Ecomodernist Society of North America discusses an environmental movement that embraces science, including biotechnology and nuclear power. 

This week's podcast has two parts. In the first section University of Idaho lactation specialist Dr. Shelley McGuire discusses the recent paper that claims to have found the herbicide glyphosate in breast milk. In the second half Gabe Ignetti from the Ecomodernist Society of North America discusses an environmental movement that embraces science, including biotechnology and nuclear power.

Dr. Shelley McGuire and Gabe Ignetti: Glyphosate in Breast Milk? /  Eco-Modernism

• At the University of Idaho, were the oldest department at the university, and we were the first Home Program in the West, and we're still going strong. Almost 125 years later, and we're a one-stop shop for Family and Consumer Sciences, we have degrees in apparel, textile and design, we have a couple degrees in nutrition, one leads to dietetics career, the other one leads to medical school or the likes. We have a human development, family studies program, and we have a child development program and another program, early childhood education, so you're certified to teach through third grade. (1:50)• They have, I think, very minimal teacher preparation programs when it comes to Family Consumer Sciences educators or education programs, there's a huge push in Illinois, Texas, South Dakota, Nebraska, and here in Washington and Idaho. We have these hot spots for Family Consumer Sciences education and the teacher preparation program in what you're talking about, but we need more of these programs because it's the vitality and the longevity for our legacy. (4:49)• This has probably been the most difficult and important study that we've ever done, and I think like everybody else, when the pandemic hit, we all wanted to do something. It's like, Well, what can we do to help? And everybody wanted to help and people who knew how to sew made masks, you did what you knew how to do to help your fellow human being, right? Well, I studied breastfeeding and I study breastfeeding with my husband, actually, he's my partner in crime, Mark McGuire at the University of Idaho. In our research group, and this is what we study, so I think it wasn't a big surprise that we had this immediate idea when this pandemic started, we wondered if the virus could be transmitted from the mother to the baby via breastfeeding. (7:52)• COVID-infected moms from across the country who were so passionate about helping us get the information that they were willing to be in a study for us. And we shipped them milk collection supplies and to even take blood samples from their babies. They do heel prick from their babies and themselves to help us get the answers. And they worked with us over the phone, and we ended up recruiting 60-some moms who were just amazing, and we ship them all the supplies to their homes, they collected the samples, did the surveys on the phone with our research support people here in Moscow, Idaho and Pullman, Washington. (11:43)• Women make up about half of the world, and a lot of them are in their child-bearing years. So this is what I'm talking about. Let's have a plan in place, because this took individual researchers trying to find the money, trying to find everything, trying to put everything together, trying to reinvent the wheel, rather than having a government agency like the CDC take it on from the start to answer the question to start a better way to do this. There is a better way, but it's putting the right people in those certain places, has everything to do with the right place at the right time, and of course, money talks. But I tell you what, when you got a lot of passionate people that want to answer a question to get it done, so regardless, will get it done is in the definition, the very definition of perseverance. (20:30)CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedCONNECT WITH DR. SHELLEY:Website: https://www.uidaho.edu/cals/family-and-consumer-sciences/our-people/shelley-mcguire#UIdaho #uicals #fcsWHEN DOES IT AIR…JUNE 16, 2021

• At the University of Idaho, were the oldest department at the university, and we were the first Home Program in the West, and we're still going strong. Almost 125 years later, and we're a one-stop shop for Family and Consumer Sciences, we have degrees in apparel, textile and design, we have a couple degrees in nutrition, one leads to dietetics career, the other one leads to medical school or the likes. We have a human development, family studies program, and we have a child development program and another program, early childhood education, so you're certified to teach through third grade. (1:50)• They have, I think, very minimal teacher preparation programs when it comes to Family Consumer Sciences educators or education programs, there's a huge push in Illinois, Texas, South Dakota, Nebraska, and here in Washington and Idaho. We have these hot spots for Family Consumer Sciences education and the teacher preparation program in what you're talking about, but we need more of these programs because it's the vitality and the longevity for our legacy. (4:49)• This has probably been the most difficult and important study that we've ever done, and I think like everybody else, when the pandemic hit, we all wanted to do something. It's like, Well, what can we do to help? And everybody wanted to help and people who knew how to sew made masks, you did what you knew how to do to help your fellow human being, right? Well, I studied breastfeeding and I study breastfeeding with my husband, actually, he's my partner in crime, Mark McGuire at the University of Idaho. In our research group, and this is what we study, so I think it wasn't a big surprise that we had this immediate idea when this pandemic started, we wondered if the virus could be transmitted from the mother to the baby via breastfeeding. (7:52)• COVID-infected moms from across the country who were so passionate about helping us get the information that they were willing to be in a study for us. And we shipped them milk collection supplies and to even take blood samples from their babies. They do heel prick from their babies and themselves to help us get the answers. And they worked with us over the phone, and we ended up recruiting 60-some moms who were just amazing, and we ship them all the supplies to their homes, they collected the samples, did the surveys on the phone with our research support people here in Moscow, Idaho and Pullman, Washington. (11:43)• Women make up about half of the world, and a lot of them are in their child-bearing years. So this is what I'm talking about. Let's have a plan in place, because this took individual researchers trying to find the money, trying to find everything, trying to put everything together, trying to reinvent the wheel, rather than having a government agency like the CDC take it on from the start to answer the question to start a better way to do this. There is a better way, but it's putting the right people in those certain places, has everything to do with the right place at the right time, and of course, money talks. But I tell you what, when you got a lot of passionate people that want to answer a question to get it done, so regardless, will get it done is in the definition, the very definition of perseverance. (20:30)CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: <a href="https://fcspodcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://fcspodcast.com</a> • FCS Tips: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/311573416478241" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.fcstips.com</a> • Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed</a> • Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/Scully6Files" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/Scully6Files</a> • Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed</a> • Pinterest: <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed</a>CONNECT WITH DR. SHELLEY:Website: <a href="https://www.uidaho.edu/cals/family-and-consumer-sciences/our-people/shelley-mcguire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.uidaho.edu/cals/family-and-consumer-sciences/our-people/shelley-mcguire</a>#UIdaho #uicals #fcsWHEN DOES IT AIR… JUNE 16, 2021

63-Dr. Shelley McGuire: FCS and COVID Research on Breastfeeding Babies

“Each milk sample that we looked at was full of a rich and diverse bacteri[um] And we now really believe that that milk — what we call microbiome or the microbes in milk, the bacteria in milk — are really setting up the baby’s intestinal track to have a healthy microbiome, which we now think is incredibly important for health. For long-term health and short-term health.”Meet Shelley McGuire (bit.ly/3dm8Aod), a professor in the Margaret Ritchie School of Family and Consumer Sciences (bit.ly/3dncAER) at the University of Idaho. Breast milk contains all the nutrients, fats, proteins and other components a baby needs to grow. But it turns out we know very little about breast milk. Shelley has been studying human — and even cow — breast milk her entire career and has studied everything from the microbes living in milk to whether the virus that causes COVID-19 can be transferred from mother to child.Visit our website uidaho.edu/vandaltheory. Email us at ucm-itunes@uidaho.edu. Learn about Idaho’s premier research university, University of Idaho, at uidaho.edu.More U of I Research:University of Idaho researchers are leading a nearly $6 million National Science Foundation cooperative agreement to use large and complex data sets to improve prediction and response measures for tick-borne diseases. Read more (bit.ly/3duPoob). U of I virologist Paul Rowley is using mammalian cell cultures and a viral agent similar to the virus that causes COVID-19 to test whether the virus can use farm animals or North American bats as intermediate hosts to spread. Read more (bit.ly/3iUDuVP).Professor Lisette Waits and former doctoral student Robert Lonsinger found that an increase in exotic and intrusive plants across the high desert region of the Great Basin increased coyote populations and decreased rabbit populations. Over several decades, this population shift led to a tenfold decline of kit foxes, which is a species of concern. Read more (bit.ly/311sRud).Music: “Young Republicans” by Steve Combs (bit.ly/2PsMCpw) via freemusicarchive.org, not modified (bit.ly/2Ju7MQb).“Centaurus Waltz” by Florian Decros (bit.ly/2FqoCkl) via freemusicarchive.org, not modified (bit.ly/2SRwWNe).

“Each milk sample that we looked at was full of a rich and diverse bacteri[um] And we now really believe that that milk — what we call microbiome or the microbes in milk, the bacteria in milk — are really setting up the baby’s intestinal track to have a healthy microbiome, which we now think is incredibly important for health. For long-term health and short-term health.” Meet Shelley McGuire (<a href="http://bit.ly/3dm8Aod" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bit.ly/3dm8Aod</a>), a professor in the Margaret Ritchie School of Family and Consumer Sciences (<a href="http://bit.ly/3dncAER" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bit.ly/3dncAER</a>) at the University of Idaho. Breast milk contains all the nutrients, fats, proteins and other components a baby needs to grow. But it turns out we know very little about breast milk. Shelley has been studying human — and even cow — breast milk her entire career and has studied everything from the microbes living in milk to whether the virus that causes COVID-19 can be transferred from mother to child. Visit our website <a href="http://uidaho.edu/vandaltheory" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">uidaho.edu/vandaltheory</a>. Email us at ucm-itunes@uidaho.edu. Learn about Idaho’s premier research university, University of Idaho, at <a href="http://uidaho.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">uidaho.edu</a>. More U of I Research: University of Idaho researchers are leading a nearly $6 million National Science Foundation cooperative agreement to use large and complex data sets to improve prediction and response measures for tick-borne diseases. Read more (<a href="http://bit.ly/3duPoob" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bit.ly/3duPoob</a>). U of I virologist Paul Rowley is using mammalian cell cultures and a viral agent similar to the virus that causes COVID-19 to test whether the virus can use farm animals or North American bats as intermediate hosts to spread. Read more (<a href="http://bit.ly/3iUDuVP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bit.ly/3iUDuVP</a>). Professor Lisette Waits and former doctoral student Robert Lonsinger found that an increase in exotic and intrusive plants across the high desert region of the Great Basin increased coyote populations and decreased rabbit populations. Over several decades, this population shift led to a tenfold decline of kit foxes, which is a species of concern. Read more (<a href="http://bit.ly/311sRud" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bit.ly/311sRud</a>). Music: “Young Republicans” by Steve Combs (<a href="http://bit.ly/2PsMCpw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bit.ly/2PsMCpw</a>) via <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">freemusicarchive.org</a>, not modified (<a href="http://bit.ly/2Ju7MQb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bit.ly/2Ju7MQb</a>). “Centaurus Waltz” by Florian Decros (<a href="http://bit.ly/2FqoCkl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bit.ly/2FqoCkl</a>) via <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">freemusicarchive.org</a>, not modified (<a href="http://bit.ly/2SRwWNe" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bit.ly/2SRwWNe</a>).

Episode 3.1: Shelley McGuire — Human Breast Milk