Rhonda Patrick· PhD
a recent clinical trial found that bovine form of mfgm exerts similar beneficial effects on human infants when included in infant formula the double-blind randomized controlled trial involved 451 healthy full-term infants who received either regular formula or formula containing mfgm and lactoferrin an iron binding protein found in human and cow's milk at the end of the 18-month long study the infants who received formula with the mfgm and lactoferrin scored higher on cognitive language and motor skills than infants who received ordinary formula in fact their scores were similar to those observed in children who were breastfed suggesting that the addition of mfgm and lactoferrin could know the gap in cognitive development commonly observed between formula-fed infants and breast-fed infants