What are the Benefits of Lactoferrin?
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Lactoferrin is found across the animal kingdom and has existed on earth for a long time, but what exactly does it do? Find out more.
Lactoferrin exists in most other mammalian milk too: from sheep to camel and even goat milk.
If you’re wondering how it’s possible that lactoferrin is seemingly everywhere, a recent paper found that the gene duplication that resulted in the precursor to lactoferrin occurred more than 580 million years ago.
Given that lactoferrin is found across the animal kingdom and has existed on earth for far longer than the earliest known humans, it must play an important biological role, but what exactly does it do?