Scivillage.com Casual Discussion Science Forum

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...075033.htm

EXCERPT: The recent craze for human breast milk amongst certain fitness communities, fetishists and chronic disease sufferers is ill advised say the authors of an editorial published by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. There is a lucrative online market for adult buyers of human breast milk, with websites and forums describing it as a 'clean' super food that can lead to gains in the gym, and even help with erectile dysfunction and cancer. There are claims that it is more digestible and contains positive immune building properties. The authors, led by Dr Sarah Steele, of the Global Health and Policy Unit, Queen Mary University of London, write that these purported benefits do not stand up clinically and raw human milk purchased online or in an unpasteurised state poses many risks. [...] Failure of women to sanitize properly when expressing milk, the failure to sterilize equipment properly, and the improper or prolonged storage and transportation of milk can expose consumers to bacterial food-borne illnesses like any other raw milk. The lack of pasteurisation and testing not only indicates a bacterial risk but also exposes consumers to a host of infectious diseases, including hepatitis, HIV and syphilis....

I'll stick to that pasteurized juice of large bovine udders thank you very much! Isn't it weird how we see drinking animal milk as normal?

I'd pose the only people that benefit from Human breast milk is the children born from those particular mothers that are producing milk.  I'd suggest it's down to the genetic traits that are shared between parent and offspring and why it aids in a child development from a young age.

Bovine milk in a sense doesn't have that connection with us considering it's a different species (although it is suggested that we share common DNA with cows thanks to centuries of ingestion of their milk produce and meats).  In fact some people will find they produce an intolerable level of mucus while ingesting it or suffer from lactose intolerances due to it's fat structure.

I doubt it will be long before they start producing a GM version of milk in a lab that is tailored to the DNA of the person that wants to buy it.