About a question sent me on my statements about prolonged breastmilk usage
in an adult being possibly cancer-encouraging due to the growth hormones,
reproductive hormones, and the anti-inflammatory cytokine state, I do hate
to sound sacrilegious about bm, but I don'think it really is. Remember that
mammal milks are specifically designed to make an older child or adult very
ill when drinken -- nature usually has a reason for things. While those
humans of Northern-European descent developed a peculiar persistence of
lactase enzyme out of cow dependence when migrating north, milk naturally
makes adult animals and humans ill (gas, pain, foul stools)(lactose-
digested yogurt & cheese etc. don't but are not natural foods). Adult milk
consumption is never seen in animals.

The topic has not been studied at all, and would be very interesting, but
drawing parallels to cow's milk (35 times the prostate cancer for heavy
milk drinkers versus non, for example), and considering the known profiles
and behaviors of cytokines (and much more complicated in humans than cows),
the possibility seems apparent.

The usage of certain powerful anti-cancer components of breastmilk (as
the "evil" patents being developed) seems surely valuable, dealing with
carefully calculated cytokine reactions and such, but the effects of whole
breastmilk should be studied.

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