Research: Human milk provides critical immune protection to breastfed infants

Toni Harman
4 min readJan 13, 2022

Quick Summary: A recent review paper gives an insight into how human milk shapes the innate and adaptive infant immune systems.

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The story of the connection between breast milk and the infant immune system is absolutely fascinating.

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Toni Harman

I help parents and health professionals better understand the science of pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and the microbiome. https://linktr.ee/toniharman