Magic Boobies

Goodness I learned so much I don't even know where to start! I am not sure anyone would want to hear everything I learned but I am so full of amazing information I need to put it somewhere! Poor Tim knows more about boobies than I think any man in the world. Ha.

Did you know breastmilk actually fights cancer??
Breastmilk contains a substance called a-lactalbumin which ingested to the stomach of an infant/toddler binds to oleic acid and becomes "HAMLET" Human a lactalbumin made LETHAL to tumor cells. "HAMLET" induces cell in vitro death in tumor cells, but normal cells survive.

Here is a link to pub med that talks about it some more http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7644538

The human body is simply AMAZING!

Not breastfeeding increases the risk of high cholesterol later in life. Cholesterol is in human milk but is not present in formula. One would think this is a bad thing but in fact its not! The baby's body will compensate for the lack of cholesterol in the formula and will start to make its own. This turns the system on overdrive because this is not they way they were designed to be fed. Because of the formula, later in life the body is already set up to make extra cholesterol which we all know is a very bad thing when it comes to heart disease!

We learned about how milk actually protects against the specific germs and bacteria that the mom and baby come into contact with on a day to day basis! It actually goes through the babies body and binds to specific germs and flushes them out in the GI tract about every two hours! The science behind all of this is so cool.

If breastfeeding rates just jumped 7% in the hospital we would save 3.8 BILLION dollars on treating only 3 illnesses. Ear infections, respiratory infections and diarrhea. That is simply amazing. That is not even counting everything else out there that breastfeeding protects against like obesity, leukemia, diabetes, high cholesterol etc.

We are just now beginning to find out everything there is to know about breastmilk but it is already being used in chemo patients around the world so clearly there are healing properties we have only begun to find.

I am trying to space out everything so I don't overwhelm anyone so I will continue to post on the matter for a while!


Use those boobies God gave you!