Courtesy of a link provided by DiveMedic, we learn that human breast milk is one of the most complex systems nature has ever devised.
Milk is not just nutrition.
It is information.. . .
When a baby nurses, microscopic amounts of saliva flow back into the breast. That saliva carries biological signals about the infant’s immune system. If the baby is getting sick, the mother’s body detects it.
Within hours, the milk changes.
White blood cells surge.
Macrophages multiply.
Targeted antibodies appear.When the baby recovers, the milk returns to baseline.
This was not coincidence.
It was call and response.A biological dialogue refined over millions of years. Invisible—until someone thought to listen.
. . .
Milk changes by time of day.
Foremilk differs from hindmilk.
Human milk contains over 200 oligosaccharides babies can’t digest—because they exist to feed beneficial gut bacteria.
Every mother’s milk is biologically unique.. . .
Milk has been evolving for more than 200 million years—longer than dinosaurs walked the Earth. What we once dismissed as simple nourishment is one of the most sophisticated communication systems biology has ever produced.
Katie Hinde didn’t just study milk.
She revealed that nourishment is intelligence.
A living, responsive system shaping who we become before we ever speak.
There's more at the link.
That may be one of the most mind-blowing scientific analyses I've ever read. I had no idea . . . and I guess most of the scientific and health community didn't, either. It took one researcher who caught a glimpse of something tantalizing, enough to make her look further and go deeper - and she revealed a whole new wonder of nature. Here's a TED talk she gave in 2018, before much of the most recent research was revealed.
The more I learn of this sort of complexity in nature, the more I shake my head at those who claim that evolution is responsible for everything, that we're merely cosmic "accidents", that there's no such thing as "intelligent design". If there isn't, how does one account for the immense intelligence revealed just in the biological system of human milk - never mind everything else about us, and about life?
I know we'll never agree on that, but that's OK. I'm just going to say, "Thank you, Lord", and leave it at that.
Peter
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God's masterworks revealed again.
Maybe evolution is God's way of getting things done.
Amen!
Amazing. This reminds me- health update? Hopefully you are recovering....
Intelligent design (ID) posits that certain features of the universe and living organisms are best explained by an intelligent cause, contrasting with the theory of evolution, which explains biological diversity through natural selection and random mutation.
God isn't random.
Human's have fore and hind teats? News to a lot of us I'm sure.
Are you a man or a mouse?
Maybe the process of evolution is God's way of getting things done.
I'm not arguing with you, I'm agreeing with you.
Me too Peter, me too. Life is far too complex to be happenstance.
Of course, I am currently wondering why God did not design all mammals to be marsupials ? Sure would be a lot easier on human females to give birth.
Maybe google hindmilk. Hint: It has absolutely nothing to do with the location of the breasts.
We just happened or we were created. We sure don't seem to be evolved to live in a "natural" state. I'm not so sure "God" isn't a scientist running a lab experiment but I'm pretty sure we didn't "just happen". Life after death? Perhaps, perhaps not. Not overly anxious to find out anytime soon though. (wouldn't eternal life be eternally boring though?)
In a fear inspiring way we are wonderfully made.
A different sort of a "boggle"
FWIW
“A BRILLIANT take on cows, methane, and climate”
“Every once in awhile, the climate chaos noise gets condensed into something simple. Reduced to fact in the crucible of truth. This post on X was one of those moments:”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/05/a-brilliant-take-on-cows-methane-and-climate/
Bodies are like mayflies but the lineage either lasts one way or the other as uncountable multiple pathways natural selection grinds exceedingly fine over the millennia. DNA is a wondrous complex machine and what details we know has always dwarfed by that which we have no clue about.
We focus on the mayfly aspect and ignore the lineage since it is impossible to comprehend.
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