{"id":22610,"date":"2019-04-12T08:48:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T22:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=22610"},"modified":"2019-04-12T08:48:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T22:48:11","slug":"study-new-immune-cells-found-in-breast-milk-make-it-irreplaceable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=22610","title":{"rendered":"Study: New Immune Cells Found in Breast Milk Make It Irreplaceable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mother_Breast_Feeding_Baby.jpg\" alt=\"Study: New Immune Cells Found in Breast Milk Make It Irreplaceable\" class=\"wp-image-22611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mother_Breast_Feeding_Baby.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mother_Breast_Feeding_Baby-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As if we didn\u2019t already know how valuable breast milk is, researchers have discovered a team of immune cells in breast milk that are ready to conquer potential pathogens.<br>\nThere is a plethora of research on the benefits of breast milk, including its ability to boost an infant\u2019s immune system. Mother\u2019s milk has been found to contain millions of cells, many of which aid immunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To add to the evidence, researchers from Augusta University have detected the presence of immune cells called innate lymphoid cells, or ILCs, in human breast milk. Their findings, which were based on extensive cell analysis of milk from four lactating women, were published last month in JAMA Pediatrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-mothering\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttp:\/\/www.mothering.com\/articles\/study-new-immune-cells-found-in-breast-milk-make-it-irreplaceable\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if we didn\u2019t already know how valuable breast milk is, researchers have discovered a team of immune cells in breast milk that are ready to conquer potential pathogens. There is a plethora of research on the benefits of breast milk, including its ability to boost an infant\u2019s immune system. Mother\u2019s milk has been found &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=22610\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Study: New Immune Cells Found in Breast Milk Make It Irreplaceable&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22612,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22610\/revisions\/22612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}