Researchers have found more promising ways the infant food can benefit health – aside from being a nutritional supplement and supposed hangover cure

People have used breast milk for reasons other than feeding babies for a very long time. In the first century, Pliny the Elder recommended it for fever, gout and healing from poisonous beetles. In 17th- and 18th-century England and America, breast milk was prescribed for ailments ranging from consumption to blindness.

Today, it is still more than just infant food – though some of its uses are more evidence-based than others.