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Heidelberg - The approximately 3,000 employees at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg conduct research in over 90 departments on how cancer develops, how to treat the disease and whether it can be prevented. In a publication, the institute is now warning of a cancer-causing agent in food: the BMMF germ .
BMMF pathogen: Never feed infants with cow's milk
The BMMF pathogens (BMMF stands for "Bovine Milk and Meat Factors") can be found in cow's milk and beef and are especially dangerous in infancy: Infection with the pathogens in baby age increases the risk of colon cancer and other diseases such as the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) reports. For this reason, the cancer experts strongly advise against feeding cow's milk products to infants before the first year of life :
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Her immune system is too weak to ward off the BMMF pathogens. As a result, they would develop an immune tolerance to the BMMF, which could favor later cancers. Defense against an adult is usually so good that the pathogens are killed by the immune system.
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BMMF as a cause of colon cancer?
Researchers at the DKFZ had detected the previously unknown BMMF infectious agent in the blood serum and milk of Eurasian cattle. The special thing: The BMMF pathogen has similarities to bacteria as well as viruses, the medical newspaper reported. This makes him a new type of pathogen . "We therefore assume that BMMF triggers DNA mutations in the intestinal epithelial cells via an ongoing inflammatory reaction, which can then trigger colon cancer (note from editor: colon cancer)," said Dr. Timo Bund from the DKFZ. The scientist Prof. Dr. Bodo Melnik, lecturer at the University of Osnabrück, has been warning about the risks from milk for years.
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