Because some adults take breast milk

Experts warn that the origin of breast milk acquired on the internet involves health risks and is also morally questionable.

It is often called “liquid gold” colored.

Some experts even say that it is a source of “magical powers”.

Scientists agree that breast milk provides nutrients and antibodies for children and is essential for the growth of children.

But some adults bet on their alleged excess of ownership.

Jameson Riteurn, 39 years old, father of three children, took his first sip of breast milk in adulthood when his partner Melissa was breastfeeding – and producing extra milk he didn’t need.

“I put it on my smoothies, even if it finds it a little strange,” he says to the BBC.

Jameson was curious about the benefits of breast milk after seeing a video on YouTube in which a bodybuilder spoke of the effects of the child.

“It was enormous,” says Jameson.

Drinking the breast milk of his partner became part of Jameson’s routine: he took two sachets a day, each with about 236 ml.

“I was probably in the best form of my life,” he says.

“I was definitely helping myself to earn muscles. I was losing weight and also earning about 5% of muscle mass in about 8 weeks.”

Jameson says he doesn’t remember being sick or cold while human milk was part of his diet.

“I wanted to grow like a child and sleep like a child, so I decided that I would also eat as a child,” he said. “I felt well and I have a nice appearance.”

The online purchase is risky

Scientists say that there is no evidence that suggest that drinking breast milk has some benefits for the adult body.

But the main experts say that it can still be useful, underlining anecdotal tests.

“He has many proteins: the muscles of the child grow very quickly, and obviously this is what the bodybuilders want,” says Dr. Lars Bode, founding director of the University of California Human Milk Institute of San Diego (USA).

“Bodybuilders are very in tune with their bodies, so there may be some advantage. We simply don’t know the science behind it.”

But Goat recommends for now, since human milk is often purchased through questionable sources on social networks such as Facebook, Craigslist and Reddit.

“This milk has not been tested and there are significant health risks,” Bode warns. “It can be a vector of diseases such as HIV or hepatitis.”

Breast milk is also as good as the diet and general health of the person who produces it and can be a carrier for various infections.

Women usually extract milk in an uncontested or sterile environment, so milk can be easily contaminated.

A 2015 study conducted by the National Pediatric Hospital in the United States revealed that from 101 breast milk samples purchased online, 75% contained harmful pathogens and 10% of the samples were mixed with cow’s milk or children’s formula.

After Jameson separated from his partner Melissa and no longer had access to breasts stored in the freezer, he decided to start buying him online.

He says he does not know the risks of milk contamination.

“I bought a random person on the internet, but I investigated on Facebook and seemed normal,” said Jameson. “So I decided to risk.”

The lack of scientific data does not worry him, because he says that his experience has been extremely positive.

What is less positive, he said, is the stigma he has to face.

“People certainly look at me from singing, because milk mentally is a child as a child. But it is not as strange as people think.”

Vulnerable children

“I would never say for adults drinking breast milk,” says Meghan Azad, who seek as breast milk contributes to the health of children.

“I don’t think this would damage them, but there is the potential for damage to children who really need breast milk, as premature and who could have difficulty obtaining it.”

Bode states that excess human milk should be donated to children in need, instead of being sold for profit.

We don’t have enough milk to feed the most vulnerable children. Breast milk has properties that can treat diseases in premature children. You can save human lives.

Azad underlines the fact that if the difficulties in trouble think they can make money by offering milk to online culturalists, this can further intensify the growing and risky trend of breast milk for the consumption of adults.

But Jameson says he doesn’t feel guilty.

“People accuse me of leaving hungry children. But it’s not as if I were out of hospitals, asking the mothers to give me all the milk!”

In fact, he says that more than 100 women contacted him, trying to sell his breast milk surplus.

Potential health benefits

Human milk is a widely unexplored research area.

“For a long time, people who finance research have not worried about breast milk, because they saw him as an unimportant female problem,” says Azad. “It’s a patriarchal vision.”

But this is changing.

Contrary to the risk of adults who drink breast milk, some components are now designed as possible treatments for a series of conditions in adults, including arthritis, heart disease, cancer and irritable intestine syndrome.

Azad is particularly enthusiastic about the potential benefits for the health of the oligosaccarids of human milk (HMO), which are prebiotic fibers found in breast milk.

These fibers are not digested by man, but are used by charitable intestinal bacteria to promote a healthy microbioma in children.

“The researchers are analyzing if the HMO can be used in adults to help conditions such as inflammatory intestinal disease,” says Azad.

We know that the microbioma is important for many aspects of our health. Therefore, if we discover new ways to manipulate and improve the intestinal microbioma, this can bring different benefits. And the breasts of breast milk are showing themselves very promising.

In a studio of mice published in 2021, Bode discovered that an HMO has reduced the development of atherosclerosis, the blockade of the arteries that leads to a heart attack and stroke.

“The components of human milk are considerably unique,” says Bode. “It is the only thing developed by humans for humans.”

Unlike most pharmaceutical products, which are developed through artificial compounds that people therefore put in their bodies, states that human milk compounds are potentially safer and more effective.

But although they are promising, clinical data are still scarce.

If the ongoing clinical studies are successful, as a goat is confident, these compounds can play an important role in the prevention of heart attacks and blows that cause millions of deaths every year.

“Imagine that he is able to reduce one million of the number of people who die of heart attack and stroke,” says Bode. “It would be a drastic progress.”

This report was written and revised by our journalists using Help in translation, such as Part of a pilot project.

Source: Terra

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