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Chemicals In Breastmilk: A Primer

Posted on July 24, 2008

Lactoferrin. Lysozyme. Endocannabinoids. The next time you read a scare article about the chemicals we're putting into our babies, think of this: somebody near where you live, probably right down your street, is pouring these particular chemicals into the bodies of the most vulnerable humans. Infants. Newborn babies. Who's doing this horrible thing?Nursing mothers. All those chemicals are important components of human breastmilk. (Lactoferrin binds to iron, boosting iron uptake and taking it away from invading bacteria and fungi who require it. Lysosyme works with lactoferrin to attack the c...

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