Breast milk is a complex, perfectly structured food designed to feed babies exactly what nutrients they need at the right time. Modern science is only just beginning to understand its complexity. Even premature babies who are breastfed from their mothers receive a completely different type of formulation that full term infants.

Babies who breastfeed are not only healthier as babies during the time that they are nursing and receiving vital immunity information from the mother’s body, but research has shown time and again that people who benefited from breastfeeding as babies were much less likely to be sick throughout their lives. They report fewer incidences of colds and cases of influenza. They also did not get nearly the same number of ear infections as a child, thus avoiding the complications that can persist throughout life. People who were breastfed are also less likely to experience cancers.

In fact, new studies on methods of cancer treatment are looking into using breast milk as a treatment itself. As a living tissue much like blood (and being packed full of healing white blood cells itself), scientists are hypothesizing that many healing properties are waiting to be discovered in breast milk. They have already discovered that breast milk contains vitalizing stem cells, the cells from which all physical bodily components are derived. All body parts begin in utero as stem cells and a stem cell can become an eardrum, a fingernail, an eye, or a liver. With the new understanding that stem cells are available in breast milk, they may be able to be harvested and used to grow or regenerate bodily functions that are not working properly. In the near future, we may be able to grow a new heart for someone needing a transplant or a pancreas for diabetics. Even things like baldness could potentially be treated (and imagine the market for cosmetic procedures alone when you can grow new tissue from your own stem cells). The scientific and medical possibilities are endless and breast milk has the potential of playing a dramatic role in the amazing unfolding that could take place.