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Any growth hormone making it to the milk is likely to get denatured by pasteurization and further digested in the stomach.

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Interesting. I've never heard of this fragility of hormones, could you expand a bit?

Growth hormone is a peptide. Heat denatures peptides, and our digestive tract is specifically designed to break them down into their constituent amino acids.

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