Milk’s Bioactive Ingredients Help Wounds Heal Faster

Milk’s Bioactive Ingredients Help Wounds Heal Faster  Milk contains biologically active ingredients, including white blood cells, antimicrobial proteins, and cell-signaling molecules, that influence immune function.  Milk from various mammals, including humans, has demonstrated positive effects in animal models on healing lesions of skin and eyes by stimulating and enhancing the body’s immune response.  Topical application or oral ingestion of immunologically active cow’s milk components, such as whey protein, may be particularly important for diabetics that have slow wound repair.  Bioactive components from human and cow’s milk offer promise as nutritional adjuvants for wound healing.