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Dr. Lars Bode with UCSD is also the Director and Chair of Collaborative Human Milk Research.  “Having to choose between a vaccine and continue to breastfeed could be a life or death decision in some of those countries. I think this is a very unique situation we have here in San Diego. We have a biorepository and a research center to be able to answer those questions," he said. The study just received funding and is in the initial stages. So far, more than 2,000 women have volunteered. Re...

 E-Mail Research has shown that human milk is the optimal nutrition source for neonates and infants. It confers protection against both immediately life-threatening infant diseases such as necrotizing enterocolitis, as well as later onset diseases in adults, like obesity, diabetes and inflammatory bowel disease. Scientific evidence suggests that what a mother eats while she is breastfeeding can modulate the beneficial composition of the mothers milk, but the underlying mechanisms involved have...