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Given 7 billion people on the planet and 134 million births/year, the recommendation that all babies should be breastfed constitutes a colossal public health intervention. All public health interventions should be rooted in sound scientific evidence and I shall consider some modern advances in the science and understanding of this important field.

I shall focus on 3 important pillars in breastfeeding medicine: (1) that human milk (HM) is the product of 200 million years of mammalian evolution; (2) that HM composition is the gold standard for infant nutritional requirements; and (3) that HM has numerous clinical benefits for the infant.

Finally, I shall emphasize the great importance of breastfeeding as an evidence-based clinical and public health intervention.