Breast milk if full of many things that provide more than just nutrition. The research on all the different components of breastmilk and how they can be used to help so many people in a huge variety of way, shows just how amazing breastmilk really is.
“The greatest beneficiaries currently are breastfed infants, ingesting thousands to millions of these cells every day from mother’s milk, even late in lactation. As we learn more about their multipotent nature, origin, and regulation, we will be able to use them to answer questions that have long preoccupied lactation biologists and health professionals, such as why some women do not produce sufficient volumes of milk, whereas others have an oversupply. Importantly, their discovery now reveals a component of breast milk that will never exist in artificial formulas, generating numerous implications for public policy on early infant nutrition.” (“Dawn of a New Discovery”) Breastmilk isn’t just for babies anymore. While that is, and always will be, the main purpose and priority even, of breastmilk, the doors are wide open for continued research into the many things that the components of breastmilk could