Russian Café Breaks the Internet with Breast Milk Lattes
A cafe in the Russian city of Perm has been getting a lot of attention after announcing plans to introduce a controversial breast milk-infused latte on its menu. Perm-based cafe chain Coffee Smile has been the talk of the Russian internet over the past week after announcing intentions to use real human breast milk as […]
BIOMILQ Becomes First Company to Create Human Breast Milk Without the Breast
North Carolina-based start-up BIOMILQ recently announced that it has successfully created cell-cultured human milk from mammary cells, in a laboratory. In the age of Impossible Burgers and 3D-printed meatless steaks, human breast milk made in the lab instead of inside a woman’s breast really doesn’t seem that strange, honestly. The breakthrough announced by BIOMILK earlier […]
Oregon Mother Donates 2.5 Tonnes of Breast Milk to Families Who Need It
Elisabeth Anderson-Sierra, a 29-year-old mother-of-two from Beaverton, Oregon, suffers from a rare condition known as Hyperlactation Syndrome. She produces about 1.7 gallons of breast milk per day, almost 10 times as much as most lactating women, and spends around 10 hours every day nursing and pumping her milk. She has so far donated 600 gallons (2.5 […]
Mother Still Breastfeeds Six-Year-Old Daughter, Plans to Do So Until She Is Ten
Six-year-old Amina Al Musa is a seemingly normal child: She goes to school and loves playing hide-and-seek. But her after-school snack is so unconventional that it has attracted media attention across the world. Amina happens to be breastfed by her mother every single day, and the little girl seems to love it! Extended breastfeeding is highly […]
Chicago Spa Uses Breast Milk for Nutritious Facials
Not long ago, we wrote about how consuming breast milk is the latest fad among bodybuilders to gain muscle faster. And now, a spa in Chicago has found another interesting (albeit weird) use for mothers’ milk – nutritious facials! The brand new River North spa, called ‘Mud Facial Bar’, features several $40 facials on its […]
Drinking Breast Milk – The Latest Craze among Bodybuilders Looking to Bulk Up
Most of us find it normal to consume cow, goat and even donkey milk, but there’s something undeniably creepy about adults drinking human breast milk. Yet, it’s the latest fad among bodybuilders convinced it will help them gain muscle faster. It’s unbelievable how many fitness fanatics out there believe that drinking human milk is the ultimate […]
London Restaurant Sells Breast Milk Ice-Cream Called Baby Gaga
Icecreamists, a London restaurant based in Covent Garden is offering clients the chance to try ice-cream made with real breast milk. “No-one’s done anything interesting with ice cream in the last hundred years, wanted to completely reinvent it.” says Icecreamists founder, Matt O’Connor. The restaurant specializes in quirky ice-cream flavors, but using breast milk is […]
Mother Sells Breast Milk to Beat Credit Crunch
A young mother, from Exeter, Great Britain, is selling her breast milk online, to earn extra cash, while on maternity leave. 26-year-old Toni Ebdon gave birth to a boy, earlier this year, and was beginning to feel uncomfortable with the amount of breast milk she was producing. One of her friends even joked that she […]
New York Chef Makes Cheese from Human Breast Milk
Daniel Angerer, a young chef from New York, gave in to his curiosity and made some Mommy’s Milk Cheese, out of his wife’s breast milk. Angerer says that, as a chef, he’s always curious about what different things taste like. The idea of making cheese out of human breast milk came to him while his […]