Although I don’t know what it’s like to be a doctor, I imagine that if I was one, I’d often find myself saying, “I can see why you think that, but that’s not how it works.”
The body can be a confusing beast, so it’s definitely possible for seemingly logical conclusions about it to be flat-out wrong. For instance, although our veins appear blue, that doesn’t mean the blood moving through them is.
A similar “close, but no cigar” trend has existed in the bodybuilding community for years and there just happens to be an entire market that can fulfill its demands.
Although the breast pumping experience varies by the mom, some women might find themselves with a breast milk surplus.
As The Daily Mail reported , women with more breast milk than they can use and women with drained supplies sometimes solve each other’s problems with certain Facebook groups.
However, they can also sell it on websites like Only The Breast for between one to three dollars per ounce.
And although many of them are interested only in helping babies grow, at least 1,200 are listed as “willing to sell to men.”
As Broadly reported , their clients can include single dads and gay couples, but they’re more likely to attract bodybuilders.
As far as some of them are concerned, breast milk has given them the greatest gains of their life.
Although there’s a kind of logic to this thinking, it’s not as ironclad as they may think.
As dietitian Brian St. Pierre told Men’s Health , “I think the idea behind drinking breast milk for muscle growth is that it’s incredibly calorie and nutrient dense, and it has some additional healthy substances.”
However, he also said that’s it’s unlikely that breast milk will work the same way towards adults as it does for babies and pointed out that there’s no hard evidence to suggest that it does.
Many health professionals also expressed concern over the risks of buying breast milk online.
According to Broadly , there are no laws against selling it this way, but that also means it’s not a regulated market.
Debbie Barnett from the NHS told The Daily Mail that there’s no guarantees that the milk sold won’t turn out to be “white water.”
Moreover, dietitian Marc Halpern told Men’s Health that diet can affect the milk’s quality, the conditions of pumping may not be sanitary, and also that HIV can transfer through breast milk.
For this reason, legitimate sellers on sites like Only The Breast tend to get specific about their health and diet information.
As one seller told Broadly, one client requested drug and HIV test documentation before buying from her.
This ended up working well for her because those documents made her milk easier to market to future clients.
However, it isn’t just the buyers who face the risks of scams in this business.
Various sellers have told Broadly that scammers will often message them with fake stories about dead wives and suspiciously insist on only paying by certified check.
Oddly enough, when they’re refused, they’ll often return with a different name, but an identical sob story.
Another problem client that sellers often run into are breast milk fetishists.
Although what someone does with the breast milk they buy is their business, the problem is that many of these people ask to wet nurse from sellers.
One seller, for instance, showed Broadly a message saying , “200.00 for one session if I can 🙂 suck the milk straight from your breasts.”
As you might imagine, they don’t get very far.
Although there is certainly money to be made from selling breast milk online, these challenges ensure that sales are hardly a guarantee.
One seller told Broadly she’s made about $4,000 after six months on Only The Breast, while others can count the sales they’ve made on one hand, if they’ve made any at all.
For them, the only messages they receive are from scammers and people asking to wet nurse.
