Mare’s milk: Nutritional properties, biochemical composition, and practical applications in dietetics and complementary medicine
Tomasz Jankowski
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Diets Premium Expert • 24.09.2026
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A distinctive natural product with reduced lipid content, potentially lowering allergenic risk, and featuring an exceptionally high concentration of lysozyme—an enzyme with well-documented antimicrobial properties. Explore the compelling attributes of this underutilized dairy source, whose therapeutic and nutritional potential is increasingly recognized by contemporary dietetics and immunology research.
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Breast milk
Although in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the idea of obtaining cow's milk came from Asia and eastern Europe and was already associated with the medicinal properties of the milk of the fermented drink kumis, among its users there are many celebrities, most notably writers such as Maria Konopnicka, Bolesław Prus, Henryk Sienkiewicz.
It's the luck of the draw
It is not easy to obtain milk from cattle. The limiting factor is the small quantity of milk that can be exchanged, which makes it necessary to chew it several times a day (5 7 times) at intervals of 2 3 hours. In addition, unlike calves, the breeding of cattle is carried out with the permission of the mother, which effectively limits the amount of milk a person can use for his own purposes, including consumption.
Milk lowers its nutritional value
In assessing the nutritional value of cow's milk, it is not uncommon to find that milk is 3 times less fat than human milk and the most commonly consumed casein in our diet. However, it turns out that the chemical composition of cow milk is much more similar to that of cows' milk, so it can potentially be considered a more suitable substitute in the infant diet. Milk milk is also 3 times smaller than the fat content of human milk, but it also produces a significantly lower biological value than cow milk (230 g) in comparison to cow milk. In addition, it has a higher biological activity than the active ingredients in the milk of the remaining cows. It is also more effective in the production of milk than its active constituents, which is less toxic to the claustrinated claustrins, and less than 1% of the fat used in the preparation of dairy products such as milk and milk products.
The milk is microbiologically pure
Hemp milk is characterized by high microbiological quality, which is manifested by low levels of somatic cells and bacteria. The total number of bacterial cells in the fresh product is close to the average number of bacteria detected in pasteurized cow's milk. This is likely due to the small size of the hemp and the small number of breasts (only 2), which reduces the level of exposure and the risk of inflammation.
Milk powder properties and uses
Breast milk may have a beneficial effect on the course of many diseases such as: cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, respiratory disease: bronchitis, lung disease e.g. asthma, digestive disease: stomach ulcers, gallbladder/ gastrointestinal inflammation, Crohn' s disease and inflammatory bowel disease (reducing the frequency of abdominal pain, less blood in the stool, reducing the dose of medicines used) skin disease protection from microbes, facilitating healing; use in atopic skin inflammation (reduction of the intensity and thickness of the discharge of new blood cells) helps to reduce the risk of infection and therefore, if the use of anti-oxidant chemotherapy is not continuous, it may be worthwhile to try to use an anti-inflammatory and anti-migraine product (e.g., if it is not used in the treatment of anemia, and if it does not work well, it will be useful to use it in an attempt to stop or stop treatment of the disease.
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