Dangerous chemicals in human breastmilk?

On May 16 of 2012, NPR did an author interview with Florence Williams on "Fresh Air." She told them that she had two children. She was nursing with her second child when she read a research study about the toxins human breast milk. She became curious and decided to send a sample of her own to a lab in Germany. The results of her test surprised her. Pesticides. Dioxin. An ingredient of jet fuel. All found in the sample. How, though? How would the chemicals get in there, anyway? "It turns out that our breasts are almost like sponges, the way they can soak up some of these chemicals, especially the ones that are fat-loving — the ones [that] tend to accumulate in fat tissue," Williams tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "Unfortunately, the breast is also masterful at converting these molecules into food in the way of breast milk."

-http://www.npr.org/2012/05/16/152818798/breasts-bigger-and-more-vulnerable-to-toxins

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Direct link between brain and immune system?

Apparently, the researchers at the University of Virginia found a direct link from the brain and the immune system in June of 2015. Thousands of medical students had been taught otherwise. It's said that many brain diseases, such as autism and Alzheimer's, will be looked at with a significant difference. The treatment and study of such diseases will be more advanced. It just goes to show that in the world of technology and understanding, including health science, the world is always changing. It never slows down. "The discovery was made possible by the work of Antoine Louveau, a postdoctoral fellow in Kipnis’ lab. The vessels were detected after Louveau developed a method to mount a mouse’s meninges – the membranes covering the brain – on a single slide so that they could be examined as a whole."  

-https://news.virginia.edu/content/researchers-find-textbook-altering-link-between-brain-immune-system

for more, go to the site above, which tells about the study and how it was done in more detail, and from a firsthand account.