Originally published in Man's World Edition 6 and reprinted with kind permission from Raw Egg Nationalist. You can read it on page 275 here, along with fantastic pieces from many other great authors.
“Milk is for babies. When you grow up, you have to drink beer!”
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1975
It may seem strange to argue with bodybuilding legend Arnold Schwarzenegger, but rejecting mother’s milk in 1975 was the beginning of the end for him. He would win Mr Olympia one more time, in 1980, before later becoming Governor of California and falling victim to veganism. In fact, Arnold was a producer for “plant-based” agitprop “The Game Changers”. How the mighty have fallen.
Almond “milk” was not responsible for Arnold being the youngest Mr Olympia ever, at age 20. Soylent did not give Arnold the most impressive physique of the 1970s – quite the opposite. The truth is simple: the source of Arnold’s power was a diet of the finest organic Czechoslovakian mother’s milk.
You will never grow and develop more rapidly than your first 6 months of life, when feeding solely on breast milk. The logic is simple: if babies fed solely breast milk grow at staggering rates – more than doubling their total body weight in 6 months – then adults consuming breast milk will achieve similarly impressive gains.
You would not get this impression from a simple viewing of breast milk macronutrient compositions. While there is small variation with maternal diet, breast milk is mostly water, carbohydrate concentration is high, and protein concentration is low. However, focussing purely on macronutrients at the expense of real nutrition would be a catastrophic mistake.
The secret to breast milk’s efficacy are the micronutrients, which are found in highest concentration in colostrum, the first milk from a mother, but strong levels persist throughout lactation. Vitamins, minerals, immunoglobulins and other immune boosters, growth promoters, anti-inflammatory agents, and probiotics all contribute to creating the most complete food known to man. Expensive organ supplements cost a fortune and achieve only a fraction of breast milk’s micro-nutritional potency.
A mother’s diet is crucial in this process. While concentrations of macronutrients remain stable with variation in maternal diet, the micronutrient concentrations vary wildly. You could be paying $2/ounce for something scarcely better than low-fat supermarket milk.
As such, I have the women supplying me with breast milk on an elite diet. I know the quality is head and shoulders above other human milk suppliers. As a reader of Man’s World, these dietary principles will be nothing new to you: a foundation of healthy fats, dense with vitamins and minerals is perfect for nursing mothers and breastfeeding babies and bodybuilders alike.
A word of warning with breastmilk preparations: it’s common for milk to be frozen and heated prior to consumption. Do not use a microwave to do this – or for any other reason! Microwaves work by superheating water to hundreds of degrees, with the heat distributing to the remainder of the food.
The fragile fats and micronutrients in breastmilk (and in any other food you put in a microwave) will be damaged - heat your milk slowly on a stovetop if you wish to enjoy it warm.
Quality is everything. Don’t waste your time and money on dubious Craigslist breast milk. You need to be working hard to bring home various organic greens and fruit and such; fish egg and mollusc; lactating harems fed on these and providing milk year-round. You could have an entire bodybuilding economy based on this.
Breast milk is the first food that will ever touch your lips, if you were lucky. If you were unlucky, you were formula-cucked as a baby, as I was.
After being weaned off breast milk, usually from about 6 months, the average person’s dietary journey approximates Satan’s Fall from Heaven. An approximately 80-year-long car crash, beginning with crippled childhood development, degeneration into a skinnyfat blob in adulthood, before graceless expiration from chronic disease.
It doesn’t have to be this way. You don’t need to spend countless hours researching exotic untested grey market Chinese supplements. Breast milk was the most natural food for you in the carefree innocence of childhood, and it is the most natural food for you as a man today. It’s past time we returned to tradition.
If you truly value nutrition, health and a return to nature, as I do, you will embrace breast milk. The drive towards physical and aesthetic excellence is fuelled by mother’s milk – and I hope you will join me in raising a warm, creamy glass to our success.
Pumping Milk
I would love to experience the task and love it just the same . But by whom really?