Glycan decoys are my favourite, "the secret service" of breastmilk- they
have a similar external structure to the cells that line the intestine
(enterocytes) and bacteria who might otherwise infect the baby grab onto
them instead are a led harmlessly out of the baby via the stools.
Karleen Gribble
Australia
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Subject: [LACTNET] cool ingredients

>and then I can explain how "normal" breast milk has a lot more ingredients
- LIVE ones - than the artificial milk...

(or artificial milk has only a fraction of the ingredients - and none of the
live ones - it would need to have in order to be a complete food)

My two favorite ingredients:

A Cornell researcher once told me there were about 50 unnamed cell membrane
fragment proteins in human milk.  He was researching a couple of them to see
if they were where some of the cancer protection comes from.  (I've always
assumed he means that when the alveolar wall ruptures to release milk
droplets, bits of that wall end up in the milk, where they're still
functional, but I don't know for sure.  It could even have been cell
membrane protein fragments, which could be a whole different thing.)

According to an ILCA speaker years ago, milk contains 6 different
interleukins.  They were thought to be functionless because they're very
fragile and are destroyed immediately by a baby's stomach.  But then someone
thought to look at the baby's pharynx, where milk sprays with every suck.
It turns out those interleukins are especially effective against upper
respiratory tract bugs like RSV, and do their job protecting the baby before
they ever get to the stomach.

Anyone else have favorite ingredients?

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL  Ithaca, NY  USA

 

 

 

 

 


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