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[Logic]

"..."Sure enough, when the offspring reached adulthood, [Stem cells from their mother's' milk] were found in their blood and many of their tissues, including the brain, thymus, pancreas, liver, spleen and kidneys. Using other techniques, Hassiotou’s team also found that the stem cells had developed into mature cells. The ones in the brain, for instance, had the characteristic shape of neurons; the ones in the liver were making the liver protein albumin, and the ones in the pancreas were making insulin. “They seem to integrate and become functional cells,” she says"..."

https://www.newscien...ated-into-baby/

 

Now this study shows that stem cells from mother's milk are incorporated into the bodies of their offspring.
What I wonder is:  Would the stem cells from raw, unpasteurised cows milk do the same thing in us adults..?

 

[corb]

 

Would the stem cells from raw, unpasteurised cows milk do the same thing in us adults..?

Fat chance (ba dum tiss). Conventional medical knowledge says no.

 

Cell transfer between mothers and their children has been noted in research before as well. Even more interestingly there were cases of cells from the baby integrated in the mothers in some previous research. It's really not surprising, we already know the immune system has some leeway otherwise  bone marrow donation for instance would be impossible. Still it needs to be closely matched for engraftment, and animals have completely different antigens so there should be no danger of anyone becoming a human-bovine chimera, without the help of genetic modification anyway.

 

There could be some far future therapeutic value in this though, drinking your daily dose of rejuvenative stem cells sounds quite utopian.

 

 

[Turnbuckle]

This work could certainly explain why cannibalism was once practiced as medicine--

 

“The question was not, ‘Should you eat human flesh?’ but, ‘What sort of flesh should you eat?’... Blood was procured as fresh as possible, while it was still thought to contain the vitality of the body. This requirement made it challenging to acquire. The 16th century German-Swiss physician Paracelsus believed blood was good for drinking, and one of his followers even suggested taking blood from a living body.

 

http://www.smithsoni...icine-82360284/

 

 

Edited by Turnbuckle, 03 January 2016 - 04:07 PM.