Dr. Froylan Sosa: Amino Acid Strategies - Part 2 | Ep. 66

In the second part of this conversation on The Dairy Health Blackbelt Podcast, Dr. Froylan Sosa, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discusses nutritional strategies that can help mitigate heat stress effects on dairy reproduction. He explains how essential amino acids interact with embryonic development, oxidative stress, blastocyst formation, trophoblast growth, and placental development. Listen now on all major platforms!

"Lower amino acid concentration protected embryos from elevated temperature in vitro."

Meet the guest: Dr. Froylan Sosa is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned his Ph.D. in Animal Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Florida, and his research focuses on how nutrition, essential amino acids, and heat stress affect oocyte quality, embryo development, and placental function in dairy cattle. Learn more from Dr. Froylan Sosa on The Dairy Health Blackbelt Podcast, available on all major platforms.

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What you will learn:

(00:00) Highlight

(00:52) Introduction

(01:52) Nutritional strategies

(02:44) Heat stress model

(03:07) Embryo protection

(04:32) Placental formation