Breastmilk FOR adults?

[Anastasia]

This is something I've wanted to open upto discussion with intelligent open minded people for a long time and what better place than here?


http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/473223/can_adults_benefit_from_drinking_breast.html



Possible Benefits

While there is no documented evidence specifically on using breast milk in adults, there is however, a real possibility that breast milk compounds could cure cancer.......I for one think this is fantastic, there needs to be more research done on the benefits of BM given to adults and I don't know why nobody has funded it.

What do you think??

[Spy]

Nobody has funded it because it is not a commercial pharmaceutical product. And I am sorry to say, even though it may well be helpful with cancer, modern cancer research doesn't seem to be interested in neither the causality nor good treatment options... :bangshead:

The possibility of benefit to adults (who happen to be human beings as well) seems to me pretty obvious (I know, I know, obvious needs to be researched and proven before us mere humans get the high permission to use what we make :eyeroll: ) but with so many babies deprived of it the thought of adult use will be exotic for a long while.

I did see on the market a pharmaceutical product (tablets I think) made from dairy (cow that is) colostrum and I heard of a teenage girl (she could be in her twenties now) who lived on breastmilk only due to severe allergies preventing her from anything else.

[Janet]

There are a number of products from bovine sources, such as probiotics. Of course these can't then make the leap to colonising in the human body in the way that probiotics grown from human gut bacteria can but some people find them useful.

Breastmilk is just another of those ordinary miracles of the human body. :) Given how little we can measure about it's constitution and capabilities it's tragic that so few of us provide it for our babies, let alone adults who could use it.

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

There is a lot of work being done on this at the moment. the person you need to google is the lade in the attached pdf.

[Anastasia]

I think this is amazing, it's made me want to at the very least keep pumping milk FOREVER to feed to my children, I already give milk to my older 2 as well as BF my baby.

Grrr I wish people weren't so narrow minded!

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

Here is another article about the same doctor.

[Mommy0406]

I gave dd ebm the first winter ds was born. I can't imagine pumping for years though. Wow on the mom who was providing that much bm to her teen daughter, that lady must've been a saint to keep up milk production for that many years.

There's a company in Europe that is making ice cream using breastmilk. There was quite an interesting discussion on it on my local moms group back when it was in the news that of course spun off into nursing toddlers and what age kids should be done. :eyeroll:

If it was a miracle cancer cure perhaps everyone weirded out would change their minds. :cool:

[dressagemom]

I don't think being a miracle cure would change people being weirded out by BM. People think it's wrong, inappropriate, sexual, etc. for my not quite 2 yr. old to still be nursing. I was already getting comments about him being such a big boy to still being doing "THAT" when he was just shy of 12 months. He is a big fellow, but that doesn't mean he should be forced to wean prematurely. BM is so important for developing immune systems, even well past the obligatory year (or six months, depending on to whom you talk).

I thought I had read somewhere about some cancer patients using BM as a treatment. Can't think where I read that though, it was a long time ago, and I've had another baby in the meantime.

[Lexie]

I had read about the study that confirmed breast milk cures cancer, and they were trying to isolate the 'active compound' so they could put a patent on it--they already knew what it was, apparently. I'll try to find the link tomorrow if I can. It's been a while.