0:00:01i'm still as a result from the university of north carolina chapel hill
0:00:05and the last few years there's been accumulating evidence that colin is really important for
0:00:11female development
0:00:13and that pregnant women may not be getting enough colleen and die
0:00:18calling this a new tree that is only recently recognised as being required by humans
0:00:25and
0:00:26you people are not pregnant develop fatty liver labour damage muscle damage when the pride
0:00:31that
0:00:33but there are many things that ali us to believe that colin is really important
0:00:38during pregnancy for example
0:00:41pregnant women transport coupling to the baby against a concentration gradient across the placenta and
0:00:48they can accumulate fifteen times more correlated to the baby then that's present in their
0:00:53blood
0:00:54pregnant women secrete colleen in their milk and milk you milk is one of the
0:00:59richest sources of cali available
0:01:04in addition
0:01:06the reason that we didn't know that colin was required for you images is that
0:01:10we thought that labour
0:01:13possesses a pathway enzyme that can make only from scratch
0:01:18it turns out that this enzyme is turned on by oestrogen and then men and
0:01:22post menopausal women is not very
0:01:25but in women especially at the oestrogen concentrations they reach during pregnancy
0:01:31make skulking to help supplement the dietary intake make it less likely that they will
0:01:37become to finish
0:01:38so why worry the women might be equally well we found that about forty four
0:01:44percent of women in the us have a genetic
0:01:49polymorphism a misspelling of the genetic that results in the inability to turn on the
0:01:55street or that's trick and those women have a special requirement for calling increase dietary
0:02:02requirements colin probably during pregnancy run into trouble if we take animal models wraps
0:02:08and mice and feed them locally during pregnancy their babies are born
0:02:15decreased a capital function decrease neural genesis and okay this and we give them extra
0:02:20cuddly they have increase your a genesis and happy campers increased memory function for the
0:02:25rest of their lives and that affect seems to be mediated by a genetic mac