booby juice, the wonder drink

9th August 2010

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booby juice, the wonder drink

okay, i promise this will be my last breastfeeding advocation post. for now.

leave it to science to give us all just one more reason to feed our babies booby juice: aside from obviously providing nutrients, mommy’s milk also aides in influencing the composition of the bacteria in junior’s tummy.

if you’re scratching your head, don’t worry. i shall explain. apparently 21% of breast milk ISN’T digestible by infants, but that does not mean it has no purpose. on the contrary, it lines baby’s stomach to protect him or her from any harmful bacteria that could make it’s way into their systems. a subspecies of bacteria, bifidobacterium longum, acts like a shield to help boost the immune system of your babe. see, any toxic bacteria and viruses bind to human cells by docking with the surface sugars, but because mom’s milk coats/lines her baby’s tummy, these noxious nuisances will bind to the complex sugars in milk instead, getting completely flushed out of baby’s system when junior makes a no.1 or no. 2.

“we were astonished that milk had so much material that the infant couldn’t digest,” says dr. bruce german, one of the lead scientists in the study conducted at the university of california, davis. “finding that it selectively stimulates the growth of specific bacteria, which are in turn protective of the infant, let us see the genius of the strategy—mothers are recruiting another life-form to baby-sit their baby.”

obviously, breast milk has the power to do a whole lot more than anyone ever thought it could, so studies/research will continue to find out exactly what this wonder juice can do. and dr. david mills, another researcher in the study, concurs. “it’s all there for a purpose, though we’re still figuring out what that purpose is,” he says. “so for god’s sake, please breast-feed.”

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