Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If there was money in the human breast milk industry, and you could convince people to drink that, can you imagine all the incredible, yet true, claims that would be made about human breast milk? That is the milk human beings are supposed to drink. Let's face it: Human babies don't have the urge to crawl towards a cow and start suckling. Their connection is with their human mothers who supply them with real nutrition. It only makes sense that human breast milk would be better for you than cow's milk, so why don't we have studies on human breast milk? It's because they can't sell it to you. |
David Wolfe
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 Imagine a newborn human baby doubling its body weight in several months on a diet of breast milk. Most breast milk is less than 2% protein and even the heavier "hind-milk" is only about 10% protein. breast milk itself, is a fat-dominant food.
The construction of proteins actually occurs from the free amino acids available to the body. The body has to break down all protein (if it can) into its constituent parts, the amino acids, before the material can be utilized. Protein is a collection of amino acids. The protein structure consists of amino acids strung together like grapes on a vine. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Normal doses of supplementary vitamin K given to the nursing mother do not seem to elevate breast milk levels of vitamin K. The second reason is that the newborn's intestines may not contain the bacteria that synthesize menaquinone (vitamin K2). Finally, infants may not have fully developed their vitamin K conservation cycle.
Why Newborn Infants May be Deficient in Vitamin K
Vitamin K levels in breast milk are low. Bacteria to make vitamin K in the large intestine may not yet be ready.
The vitamin K conservation cycle may not be developed. |
David Wolfe
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| Imagine a newborn human baby doubling its body weight in several months on a diet of breast milk. Most breast milk is less than 2% protein and even the heavier "hind-milk" is only about 10% protein. breast milk itself, is a fat-dominant food.
The construction of proteins actually occurs from the free amino acids available to the body. The body has to break down all protein (if it can) into its constituent parts, the amino acids, before the material can be utilized. Protein is a collection of amino acids. The protein structure consists of amino acids strung together like grapes on a vine. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 What is special about lauric acid is that you find it in mother's breast milk. The mother's body makes lauric acid for the breast milk to build immunity in the baby. If lauric acid wasn't so important, why would the mother's body make it for the milk for the baby? The point is that coconut is the richest source of lauric acid, and the only other place you find it is in mother's breast milk. There's some kind of correlation we can make there and assume lauric acid must be good for your body.
Lauric acid is a raw material your body uses to make monolaurin. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 This also underscores one risk of breast-feeding. breast milk has little or no vitamin D unless the mother's vitamin D level is 50 to 70. This is why all women who breast-feed should supplement their breast-fed infant, or take enough vitamin D to normalize their own vitamin D level. Dr. Bruce Hollis of the Medical University of South Carolina found that the average nursing mother required 4,000 IU or more of vitamin D a day to optimize vitamin D concentrations in breast milk and normalize blood levels in the infants. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 BREAST MILK ENHANCEMENT OF OMEGA-3 FATS: Results of a study of thirty-one nursing mothers found that those who consumed 100 grams of sardines two or three times a week had a significant increase in the omega-3 fat content of breast milk.
Tips on Using Sardines
SELECTION AND STORAGE:
• Buy fresh sardines from a fish market when available—they're delicious!
• Look for firm flesh and clear bright eyes.
• Rinse fresh sardines and place in a sealed container in a single layer and covered with damp paper towels. Store the container in the refrigerator. |
Mike Adams
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 Human beings should drink human breast milk not bovine breast milk.
It is the allergic reaction to many of the elements in bovine milk that causes these inflammatory responses in human beings. Some of those can be expressed as joint pain. This is frequently diagnosed as arthritis. Remember that healthy joints don't hurt. Unhealthy joints suffering from inflammation, lack of movement or lack of lubrication hurt. |
David Wolfe
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| Most breast milk is less than 2% protein and even the heavier "hind-milk" is only about 10% protein. breast milk itself, is a fat-dominant food.
The construction of proteins actually occurs from the free amino acids available to the body. The body has to break down all protein (if it can) into its constituent parts, the amino acids, before the material can be utilized. Protein is a collection of amino acids. The protein structure consists of amino acids strung together like grapes on a vine. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Kids who were exposed to four or more different types of solid foods before the age of four months had almost three times the risk of recurrent or chronic eczema than those who weren't exposed to solid feeding (one more strong argument for breast milk, but that's another story). |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Becky would no doubt be surprised, then, to learn how many noxious, invisible chemicals are quietly entering her family's bloodstreams every day, silently lodging in their cells, fat tissue, and, in Becky's case, her breast milk. Many of these contaminants—the by-products of our modern manufacturing chemical age—are familiar to immunotoxicologists, who study the effects of chemicals on the immune system, and are known to interfere with the intricately calibrated workings of our immune cells. |
| As Becky heated up Zachary's baby bottle, and as she warmed up her soup in the microwave, she increased the likelihood that phthalates would leach from the plastic bottle and prepackaged plastic soup container into her lunch and Zachary's twice over: once from the bottle, and again through the trace phthalates mainlined to Zachary through her breast milk.
Whenever we heat plastics, we increase the likelihood of leaching out chemicals. |
| These industrial compounds—both of which are known endocrine disruptors— magnify in intensity as they are passed up the food chain from host to host, reaching their second to highest concentration in us—and their highest of all in human breast milk. And because babies eat far more for their size than do grown-ups, their dose of contaminants per meal is much greater than our own. Pound for pound, breast-feeding babies get more contaminants per meal, at more concentrated levels, from the healthiest known food source on the planet. |
| One caveat here for nursing moms: no matter how contaminated breast milk may be, it is still the best food for babies. Not only does bottle feeding pose its own problems because of possible contaminants in the water used to make it, but for reasons we do not fully understand, breast-feeding provides protective measures against diarrhea and ear infections and even some childhood cancers.)
As if all that weren't enough for Zachary and his family to swallow, there is growing evidence that the sum of chemicals accumulating within us may be more toxic in combination than each chemical is alone. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Would we consider feeding our babies with, for example, dog's milk instead of human breast milk? The ratio of nutrients contained in dog's milk does not suit human requirements. Yet the same applies to cow's milk. Cow's milk contains three times as much protein, and almost four times as much calcium, as human mother's milk. These amounts are unsuitable for the human physiology at any age.
Cow's milk is designed to contain the exact amount of calcium and protein necessary to feed a calf that will end up being at least 3-4 times larger than the human body is. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| Given that current rates of autoimmune diseases have tripled in the last thirty to forty years and that levels of dozens of known autoimmune-stimulating chemicals and heavy metals have been rising in human breast milk, blood, and urine every few years, the idea that 75 million Americans might be suffering with lupus or multiple sclerosis or some other autoimmune disease by 2050 is not far-fetched. |
Andreas Moritz
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| If we gave human breast milk to a calf, it would not grow strong enough even to survive. By contrast, human babies require more carbohydrates in the beginning stages of their lives than calves do. For this reason, in comparison to human mother's milk, cow's milk contains only half the amount of carbohydrates. Calves on the other hand require much more salt than human babies do; naturally, salt content in cow's milk is three times higher than in human milk. |
Mike Adams
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| Human beings should drink human breast milk not bovine breast milk.
It is the allergic reaction to many of the elements in bovine milk that causes these inflammatory responses in human beings. Some of those can be expressed as joint pain. This is frequently diagnosed as arthritis. Remember that healthy joints don't hurt. Unhealthy joints suffering from inflammation, lack of movement or lack of lubrication hurt. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Porch MC, Shahane AD, Leiva LE, et al: Influence of breast milk, Soy or two hydrolyzed formulas on the development of allergic manifestations in infants at risk. Nutr Res 18(8): 1413-1424. 1998.
Potter SM, Baum JA, Teng H, et al: Soy protein and isoflavones: their effects on blood lipids and bone density in postmenopausal women. Am J Clin Nutr 68(6 suppl):1375S-1379S. 1998.
Quak SH, Low PS, Quah TC, et al: Oral refeeding following acute gastro-enteritis: a clinical trial using four refeeding regimes. Ann Trop Paediatr 9(3): 152-155. 1989. |
| It seems that there is a greater proportion of linoleic acid and a smaller proportion of dihomo-GLA in total breast milk lipid content of these mothers compared to healthy controls (Melnik & Plewig, 1989; Wright, 1982). drug interactions
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Anticoagulants, Antiplatelet Agents, Low Molecular Weight Heparins, and Thrombolytic Agents: Concomitant use of Evening Primrose oil and these medications may increase the risk of bleeding. |
| GLA is also a component in breast milk, but is not added to infant formulas. It has been postulated that GLA may be beneficial to neural development in breast-fed infants (Newall, 1996; Makrides et al, 1995). Evening Primrose oil extracts exhibited antioxidant activity in a laboratory analysis (Birch et al, 2001). The oil has also shown positive action against diabetic neuropathy, hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, and irritable bowel syndrome (Keen et al, 1993; Guivernau et al, 1994; Viikari & Lehtonen, 1986; Leeds et al, 1990; Cotterell et al, 1990). |
| Lactation: The active chemicals in bitter melon can be transferred through breast milk; therefore, it is contraindicated in women who are breast feeding. precautions and adverse reactions
Diabetics should check with their physicians before using this plant and use with caution while monitoring their blood sugar levels regularly as the dosage of insulin medications may need adjusting.
Many in vivo clinical studies have demonstrated the relatively low toxicity of all parts of the bitter melon plant when ingested orally. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Other research has shown that supplementation with fish oils is a good means of improving omega-3s in pregnant women95 and of improving the DHA status in breast milk.96
Trials on omega-3 fatty acids conducted in pregnant women have shown a significant reduction in the incidence of premature delivery.97 In one such study, fish oil was investigated for its effects on pregnancy duration, birth weight, intrauterine growth restriction, and pregnancy-induced hypertension.98 Omega-3 fatty acid supplementation of 2.7 grams per day was compared to olive oil and/or no supplement. |
| Estrogen and progesterone levels are about 100 times higher than usual during pregnancy, dropping immediately after birth to prepregnancy levels as prolactin (the pituitary hormone) is produced to stimulate the production of breast milk. Throughout pregnancy, the placenta produces a hormone called relaxin, which softens the connective tissues and ligaments that support the uterus, allowing it to expand. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| TCE is regularly detected in breast milk, and 10 percent of Americans now have detectable levels of TCE in their blood, from exposure through drinking water as well as breathing it in from the air around us. One of our most significant contacts, however, comes from taking showers. Exposure from breathing TCE released when shower water converts into shower steam is even higher, say experts, than what we get through drinking tap water or breathing TCE. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| Why Newborn Infants May be Deficient in Vitamin K
Vitamin K levels in breast milk are low. Bacteria to make vitamin K in the large intestine may not yet be ready.
The vitamin K conservation cycle may not be developed.
Because of these reasons, newborn infants are routinely given an injection of 1000 meg of vitamin K( (phylloquinone). Some infants receive one to three oral doses of vitamin K instead, which is almost as effective as the single injection. A single injection results in extremely high levels of vitamin K in the blood. |
Mark Bricklin
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 Since breast milk and cow's milk both contain adequate amounts of zinc, the presence of zinc is not the problem. The bioavailability of zinc in breast milk is, however, much higher than cow's milk.
Two biochemists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture—Gary Evans, Ph.D., and Phyllis Johnson, Ph.D.—think they've found what it is that makes breast milk so special. First, they discovered that breast milk contains a component called picolinic acid, which acts as a zinc binder and transporter to make that nutrient readily available for use. |
| The other treatment is an exclusive diet of breast milk.
The disease never appears in babies who are being breastfed but strikes only after the baby is weaned to cow's milk or formula. Restoration of breast milk immediately abolishes all symptoms. Since breast milk and cow's milk both contain adequate amounts of zinc, the presence of zinc is not the problem. The bioavailability of zinc in breast milk is, however, much higher than cow's milk.
Two biochemists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture—Gary Evans, Ph.D., and Phyllis Johnson, Ph.D. |
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