{"id":167326,"date":"2023-07-11T14:24:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T19:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/study-finds-greedy-genes-from-father-encourage-unborn-babies-to-steal-their-mothers-food"},"modified":"2023-07-11T14:24:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T19:24:37","slug":"study-finds-greedy-genes-from-father-encourage-unborn-babies-to-steal-their-mothers-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/study-finds-greedy-genes-from-father-encourage-unborn-babies-to-steal-their-mothers-food","title":{"rendered":"Study finds, \u2018greedy\u2019 genes from father encourage unborn babies to steal their mother\u2019s food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7GbvUy8MsWI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A mice experiment shows that genes from the father make an unborn child manipulate their mother\u2019s metabolism so that the fetus could have more and more nutrition.<\/p>\n<p>A new mice study from the University of Cambridge (UC) reveals that during pregnancy, a fetus tries to suck in as many nutrients as possible from its mother, and unique \u201cgreedy genes\u201d from the father helps the fetus do so.<\/p>\n<p>A pregnant woman\u2019s body has to feed the unborn baby, but at the same time, it also needs to ensure her well-being. Plus, a baby which becomes over-healthy is also challenging to give birth to, and therefore, genes from the mother tend to limit fetal growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mice experiment shows that genes from the father make an unborn child manipulate their mother\u2019s metabolism so that the fetus could have more and more nutrition. A new mice study from the University of Cambridge (UC) reveals that during pregnancy, a fetus tries to suck in as many nutrients as possible from its mother, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}