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. *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html