• k0e3@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Why are babies born without enough vitamin K? Is it something to do with the modern diet or it’s just a “defect” humans have had for millions of years that we just happened to overcome in 1943?

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      4 months ago

      The base rate of infant mortality used to be significantly higher than it is now. It’s possible it was always there and we didn’t evolve it away for some reason