May 10
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Cancer Killing Breast Milk?
It is widely known now that the benefits of breast feeding an infant far outweigh the benefits of breast feeding your baby with formula. Babies get all kinds of nutrition through breast milk. Not only that, they get to build up their immune system more effectively and quickly because breast milk provides them with the antibodies that their adult mother has already had a lifetime of opportunity to build up by getting sick and making them with her own body.
Well, breast milk, the wondrous gift that mother nature endowed us with to feed our babies and nourish their growing bodies, apparently also has the effect of killing many different types of cancer cells according to a new study. The natural compound that the breasts make in milk has been dubbed HAMLET (I’ll spare you the long explanation for this acronym).
The compound has been shown to be lethal to cancer cells, up to about 40 types thus far, flushing them out of the body through natural excretory processes., And the really cool thing is that unlike toxic cancer treatments out there currently, which kill both health and cancer cells, this natural compound kills cancer cells while leaving healthy cells intact.
The first human studies for this are under way, and the only results available show that it seems to be somewhat effective against bladder cancer cells. Hopefully this will prove effective against several other types of cancer cells, and we can actually start using something that is A.) naturally derived and B.) not toxic to normal, healthy cells like chemotherapy is. ‘
How ironic would it be if these HAMLET compounds were actually effective at killing breast cancer cells? Now that would be poetic justice. Here’s to crossing our fingers that this potentially nontoxic treatment becomes something that is viable for cancer patients as therapy.
