Phena Dee

Star wars mad Super-Mom, who enjoys crafting and now running too would you believe!! loves a nice glass of fizz or mothers ruin, and of course, jelly beans! ;-)

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@clara_2210_ White

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@SqSehrish 8

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@seyirnotlari 3

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@DWPgovuk I have an email stating if no one makes contact you will close the case, the phone number 0800 121 7479 doesnt work, cuts off when selecting option 4 so what do you suggest I/ my employer do to get in touch with you to sort for a WA before you close the case!

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@Cheb_Bowen Like little works of art for the soul! Beautiful 😍

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🍫✨ #competition TIME! ✨🍫
Fancy winning a box of my handmade chocolate bonbons? I'm giving one lucky chocolate lover a 12 piece box of pure bliss! 😋
How to enter: UK
1️⃣ FOLLOW Bon Bon Boutique
2️⃣ LIKE this post
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🎁 Winner chosen 30th May 2026.
GOOD LUCK!!

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@secyorkshire Beautiful York - would love to go back!!

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Win 2 Nights in York
To enter simply like, RT, drop York in the comments. Finally give us a follow on instagram for when we announce the winner ❤️

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@Airaasayss White

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@davelackie #win for the happiness!

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Happy International Day of Happiness, a United Nations-designated day recognizing happiness & well-being. I'm celebrating by giving away this Clinique Happy set. To enter, follow @davelackie & RT #win (ends 03/27) What makes you happy?

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@TalkTalk Hi, as per my original post I have already sent a DM, please check your inbox, waiting for a reply, many thanks

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@TalkTalk I have just sent a DM, first my partners elderly parents with no phone line, now its my Mother who lives on her own, middle of no where and poor if any mobile signal, please get onto this quickly, I am concerned about her safety! Many thanks

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@Kwik_Fit @ContiUK Toasted Hot Cross Buns with lashings of Butter 😋

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@HarpurCentre GREGGS50

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@TalkTalk I have DM'd and received an automated response, please confirm someone is looking at this as a P1!

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@TalkTalk how long must it be before you help an elderly infirm couple to resolve the problem with no phone and no Internet! We have tried to resolve it from afar but told we cant as we arent the account holder, they have no Internet and your resolution is all via the Internet!

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#Competition time ❤️​

3 lucky individuals could win 3 pieces from the Morris & Co. Blackthorn collection: a 24-piece cutlery set, a 6-piece pastry fork set and a cake server! To win, follow us and RT this post.​
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Entries close 23 Feb.​
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Breastmilk is awesome stuff!!

[GP Q @argosaki]

BREASTMILK
She thought she was studying milk.
What she uncovered was a conversation.

In 2008, evolutionary anthropologist Katie Hinde was working in a primate research lab in California, analyzing breast milk from rhesus macaque mothers. She had hundreds of samples and thousands of data points. Everything looked ordinary—until one pattern refused to go away.

Mothers raising sons produced milk richer in fat and protein.
Mothers raising daughters produced a larger volume with different nutrient balances.

It was consistent. Repeatable. And deeply uncomfortable for the scientific consensus.

Colleagues suggested error. Noise. Statistical coincidence.
But Katie trusted the data.

And the data pointed to a radical idea.

Milk is not just nutrition.
It is information.

For decades, biology treated breast milk as simple fuel. Calories in. Growth out. But if milk were only calories, why would it change depending on the sex of the baby?

Katie kept digging.

Across more than 250 mothers and over 700 sampling events, the story grew more complex. Younger, first-time mothers produced milk with fewer calories but significantly higher levels of cortisol—the stress hormone.

The babies who drank it grew faster.
They were also more alert, more cautious, more anxious.

Milk wasn’t just building bodies.
It was shaping behavior.

Then came the discovery that changed everything.

When a baby nurses, microscopic amounts of saliva flow back into the breast. That saliva carries biological signals about the infant’s immune system. If the baby is getting sick, the mother’s body detects it.

Within hours, the milk changes.

White blood cells surge.
Macrophages multiply.
Targeted antibodies appear.

When the baby recovers, the milk returns to baseline.

This was not coincidence.
It was call and response.

A biological dialogue refined over millions of years. Invisible—until someone thought to listen.

As Katie reviewed existing research, she noticed something unsettling. There were twice as many scientific studies on erectile dysfunction as on breast milk composition.

The first food every human consumes.
The substance that shaped our species.
Largely ignored.

So she did something bold.

She launched a blog with a deliberately provocative name: Mammals Suck Milk.
It exploded. Over a million readers in its first year. Parents. Doctors. Scientists. People asking questions research had skipped.

The discoveries kept coming.

Milk changes by time of day.
Foremilk differs from hindmilk.
Human milk contains over 200 oligosaccharides babies can’t digest—because they exist to feed beneficial gut bacteria.
Every mother’s milk is biologically unique.

In 2017, Katie brought this work to a TED stage. In 2020, it reached a global audience through Netflix’s Babies. Today, at Arizona State University’s Comparative Lactation Lab, she continues reshaping how medicine understands infant development, neonatal care, formula design, and public health.

The implications are staggering.

Milk has been evolving for more than 200 million years—longer than dinosaurs walked the Earth. What we once dismissed as simple nourishment is one of the most sophisticated communication systems biology has ever produced.

Katie Hinde didn’t just study milk.
She revealed that nourishment is intelligence.
A living, responsive system shaping who we become before we ever speak.

All because one scientist refused to accept that half the story was “measurement error.”

Sometimes the biggest revolutions begin by listening to what everyone else ignores.