Rhonda Patrick· PhD
Breast milk stem cells & multi-organ microchimerism
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Breast milk stem cells & multi-organ microchimerism
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Stem cells and huge immune effects
Breast milk has stems cells that get into infant circulation to form brain, liver, & kidney cells.
human breast milk contains stem cells from the mother called mammary stem cells that pre-clinical research indicates may help establish organs like the liver kidneys pancreas and brain in a really cool study in mice in which mammary stem cells were followed it was found that in the liver they form cells that make albumin in the pancreas they form insulin producing cells and in the brain they formed neurons and glial cells
what this data suggests is that breast milk transmits stem cells from the mother to the infant where these cells may potentially function to boost an infant's development early in life