What the F*** People?!

 There is little debate that breastmilk is the best nutrition for infants.  However, it's also important to note that not every parent can breastfeed for a variety of reasons, including but not limited to, inability to produce, health issues that prevent breastfeeding, and adoption. What do you do if you want to feed your baby breastmilk, but you can't breastfeed? Well, there's always formula, if you don't want to go any other route, like buying milk off the internet or accessing a breastmilk bank.  

But past infanthood, is breastmilk still good for people?

I watched an episode of the Netflix show "[un]Well" (okay I watched the whole series. And it just gets more and more disturbing). Season 1, Episode 3 "Bulking up with Breast Milk". 

All I can say (though I will say more) is What the F***!?

The premise of the episode is that consuming breastmilk can help treat cancer, can help bodybuilders bulk up, and that it's just simply good to consume as milk for cereal and to put in your scrambled eggs. Yes. In eggs...

So, there are a variety of ways to get breast milk. Some are a bit dodgier. 

Milk banks are not a bad way to go if you really want to consume human milk.  But remember a milk bank's first priority is for pre-term babies in NICU.  But then they'll sell the milk to just about anyone willing to buy it, it seems. 

Sure, donors are screened, and the milk is pasteurized, but they'll still sell it to people, say, bodybuilders or men who claim breastmilk cures their prostate cancer. 

I suppose, if that's your thing, getting it through a milk bank is probably the best thing at least it's been pasteurized. 

But how good is breast milk for adults? Does it have the same benefits as it does for children? If you're a bodybuilder, is using it in protein shakes - with protein powder - doing you any good?

Some doctors and nutritionists think there's no problem with adults drinking breast milk.  Actor Amber Tamblyn's husband, David Cross, has had her breast milk - milk she pumped to dump after her first post-baby alcoholic drink.  One of the Kardashians believes drinking and rubbing it into her skin helps with her psoriasis, though there are no studies or evidence to prove that it has any benefits. 

Tamera Mowry drinks her sister Tia's breast milk. She says it boosts her immune system. 

But honestly? What the F***? It's a bodily fluid. If you're not getting it from a milk bank, which at least will pasteurize the milk, how do you know that the person you've met on Facebook doesn't have a communicable disease?

Honestly people.  What the F***?!