After having been breast-fed for 17 months (as if my mother knew that I was deficient in IgA), I have kept in close contact with maternal milk up into my present advanced age.
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Hanson, L.Å. (2009). Macy-György Prize Lecture: My Milky Way. In: Goldberg, G., Prentice, A., Prentice, A., Filteau, S., Simondon, K. (eds) Breast-Feeding: Early Influences on Later Health. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 639. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8749-3_19
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