Breast milk contains stem cells

Monday, February 11. 2008

Breast milk contains stem cells

Now ladies, we all know we are super moms, but this just proves it. According to an Australian scientist, our breast milk may contain the key to treatments for all kinds of ill health. From ScienceAlert.com:

The Perth scientist who made the world-first discovery that human
breast milk contains stem cells is confident that within five years
scientists will be harvesting them to research treatment for conditions
as far-reaching as spinal injuries, diabetes and Parkinson’s disease.

But what Dr Mark Cregan is excited about right now is the promise that
his discovery could be the start of many more exciting revelations
about the potency of breast milk.

He believes that it not only meets all the nutritional needs of a
growing infant but contains key markers that guide his or her
development into adulthood.

“We already know how breast milk provides for the baby’s nutritional
needs, but we are only just beginning to understand that it probably
performs many other functions,” says Dr Cregan, a molecular biologist
at The University of Western Australia.

Posted by Rebecca Taylor in Stem cells, Adult at 08:19 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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This is not a world first discovery. It has been known for years that breast milk contains totipotent stem cells. I wrote about it and spoke about it in 2001. There are Mammary Gland Stem Cell Conferences. There are some 2000 human milk component patents at the US Patent Office. The properties of human milk are amazing and are being monopolized by the infant formula and pharmaceutical, food, and supplement industries. Dr. Mark Cregan has gotten the publicity but he is not the first researcher to understand the significance of human milk as stem cell tissue. Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC

#1 Valerie W. McClain on 2008-04-19 04:58 (Reply)

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