Breast Milk Contains Stem Cells

A team of scientists from the University of Western Australia introduced a new source of stem cells. In 2011, the researchers found that breast milk contains stem cells, apart from protein, carbohydrates and vitamins.

When those cells developed, they could be differentiated into the three main groups of cells that make up the entire human body.

Since the time the lead author of the study, Dr. Foteini Hassiotou, conducted her first experiment on human milk, she has worked with many samples of breast milk. More than 70 healthy lactating mothers, whom the scientists worked with, had breast milk with stem cells. The grown samples were transformed not only in the cells of the heart, brain and pancreas, but in the bone cells as well.

It was found that all the samples of breast milk of healthy women contained approximately 30% of the total amount of stem cells.