Breast milk is known to be vital to a baby’s health. In his book, “The Prevention and Therapy of Crohn’s Disease”, Dr. Gilles R. G. Monif reaffirms the fact that that breastfeeding protects the newborn from the future development of Crohn’s disease and explains Why.
The Hruska Postulate states that the persistence of the dysfunctional pro-inflammatory immune response directed against Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) that characterizes Crohn’s disease is the consequence of, in the absence of acquired immunity, a newborn’s inherent immunity becoming over-stressed in its containment of MAP replication. Once in place, disease induction is the consequence of antigen/antibody interactions over time.
At birth, a newborn baby lacks its acquired immunity which is gradually built up in the first weeks of life. Breastfeeding prevents MAP infection from having meaningful future consequences by preventing newborns from becoming infected within their period of immunological vulnerability.