(CNN) — Colostrum, thec first milk produced by humans and other mammals in the earliest days after giving birth , is “liquid gold,” said Dr. Jennifer Smilowitz. “It is packed full of nutrients , but also molecules that aren’t necessarily nutrients — they’re like these biologically active compounds that are actually protective,” said Smilowitz, an assistant professor in the department of nutrition at the University of California, Davis, whose research background is in breastfeeding, nutrition, lactation and the microbiome.
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