Online human breast milk craze has serious health risks: experts


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 18 Jun 2015

NO SCIENTIFIC BASIS: Specialists said there was little evidence to support claims that the milk is some kind of super food that can boost health and fitness and ward off disease in adults.

LONDON: A growing online craze among some fitness communities, fetishists and chronic disease sufferers for buying and drinking human breast milk poses serious health risks, British experts said. 

Writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, specialists said there was little evidence to support claims that the milk – traded via websites in a lucrative market for adult buyers – is some kind of super food that can boost health and fitness and ward off disease. 

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