Is the cure for cancer inside milk?

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>> Bruce German: I'm Bruce German, Professor at the University of California at Davis, and we take milk from mothers around the world on different diets in different parts of the world to understand exactly how milk works.

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>> Bruce German: What is it that came out of 200 million years of evolution to nourish growing infants? We're confident that it will teach us how to prevent diseases like diabetes and heart disease and ultimately even cure diseases like cancer. We'll take little tiny droplets of milk and disassemble them completely, understand every single molecule in it. There are thousands of molecules in milk. Then the goal is to understand what are the exact structures of those molecules and how do they function when they're ingested by infants? When we can understand the molecules and the mechanisms by which they work, we can take that information and translate to improving the health of everyone. For example, there are proteins in milk that bind to the essential nutrients, vitamins and minerals, and make them highly absorbable. So we can make sure that the absorption of nutrients is very efficient, and understand how that works. There are lipids in milk that complex to pathogenic bacteria and prevent them from binding to our intestines and creating disease. There are complex lipids in milk that bind the toxins and prevent them being toxic in our intestines. There are a wide range of different molecules in milk, and the ingenious strategy of milk is to combine these into an ensemble of a complete diet, and we're learning just how to do that.

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