Re: human milk vs cow milk biochemical structure

[Guest guest]

LeAnne,

Thank you so much for this info. Things make more

sense now. I know who I'm taking my breastfeeding

questions to!

, a LLLI member

--- LeAnne Deardeuff wrote:

> Before I began I want to say that this will be long

> so

> if there are any replies please delete it so we

> don't

> have to read it in the digest everytime it comes up!

>

> Second, I am pro- breastfeeding having successfully

> breast fed twelve children and have been a speaker

> at

> several La Leche groups around the world.

>

> I did a research paper about 9 years ago while in

> chiropractic college. I wanted to show how the

> standard use of egg for the perfect protein was

> wrong

> and that we should be using breast milk as the

> perfect

> protein model. To make a long paper short, I will

> tell

> you about the biochemical structures of milk.

> There are two main proteins in milk. Lactoalbumim

> and

> casein. In cow's milk, it is 80% Casien and 20%

> lactoalbumin. In human milk it is the exact opposite

> plus the lactoalbumin is l-lacto albumin instead of

> D-lactoalbumin which simply means that there is a

> molecule on the end of the chain turned left instead

> of right.iIt makes a difference to the type of

> enzyme

> that needs to digest that protein whether it is left

> or right. In " CLinical Nutrition " the author( I

> can't

> find the author's name sorry) states the all csein

> proteins are similiar in all mamalllian milk. I look

> up the biochemical structure of casein and found out

> that they are not similiar. Casein is a protein and

> all proteins are made up of amino acids. THe amino

> acids are put in different orders byu the DNA in

> order

> to make different protein structures. THe following

> is

> a list of the different proteins by weight in mg. in

> human milk and cow's milk. I will leave out egg here

> but it is interesting to see how different egg is

> from

> milk.

> Whole cow's milk.

> Try thr iso leu lys met cys phe try val arg his wt

> 14 45 61 98 80 25 9 48 48 67 36 27 31g

> Human milk

> 5 14 17 29 21 6 6 14 16 19 13 7

> 31g.

>

> So if the weight of the amino acids are different

> then

> there is no way the configuration of the protein can

> be the same.What this means is that it takes a

> different enyzme to digest the two different milks.

> The assay of amino acids in mother's milk is meant

> to

> help a child develop at a much slower rate that a

> cow.

> Every animal has it's won blueprint of amino acid

> assays just right for that animal.

> One of the reason' why a achild with autism cannot

> digest cow's milk is the immune response happening

> in

> the gut. IT destroys the villa of the small

> intestine.

> THis does not happen with mother's milk because it

> has

> live bacteria and enzymes that protect the gut and

> digest milk.Human bodies also have enzymes meant to

> digest human milk. Cow's milk has a different

> configuration and requires a different enzyme to

> chop

> the amino acid chains at the right place.

> Pasteurization heats milk to 118 deg. That is the

> heat

> needed to reconfigure the enzyme needed to digest

> milk. The test to see if the milk is pasteurized is

> to

> see if that enzyme is gone. Yes. It also kills the

> pacteria. However, that doesn't necessarily mean

> that

> a chld with true milk allergies can digest raw cow's

> milk. THe reason for that is the lack in the child

> of

> the proper enzyme to help digest milk and also the

> immune response to a foreign protein. I do not know

> if

> Cow'w milk has the same antibodies as human milk to

> help decrease the immune response.

> If a child is reacting to mother's milk then should

> find out the offending foods in her diet that the

> child is reacting to and remove them. Then she

> should

> clean her colon and liver and use digestive enzymes

> to

> help digest her own food. THen she should put back

> in

> slowly the offending foods to see if the child still

> react. Hope this helps with your decision on whether

> to breast feed or not.

>

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