# Katie Hinde: What we don't know about mother's milk

Breast milk grows babies' bodies, fuels neurodevelopment, provides essential immunofactors and safeguards against famine and disease — why, then, does science know more about tomatoes than mother's milk? Katie Hinde shares insights into this complex, life-giving substance and discusses the major gaps scientific research still needs to fill so we can better understand it.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2017
- Runtime: 9 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Science, Nature, Children's
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/KatieHinde_2016W)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/KatieHinde_2016W?play=1)