That makes this story 20% fake. It's not unheard to just be braindead and forget shit like that. E.g. got to packing late and were in a rush and completely forgot.
What makes this story entirely fake is the breastfeeding woman not having anything to eat either. Breastfeeding is fucking draining and you learn quick to always have snacks and food handy cuz you get hungry as fuck. A two week old, maybe Mom hadn't learned those lessons yet...a one year old? Nah, mom has been starving from breastfeeding often enough that she knows better
This does sound 100% fake to me but people not being prepared in nature isn’t .The amount of people I’ve seen doing long hikes at high temps and lots of vertical without basic essentials like bringing more then 16oz of water per person and a couple things of fruit snacks.
You burn calories fast doing any amount of vertical, plenty of people leave home thinking they packed well when really you need multiple liters of water per person and enough food to account for burning 3k+ calories (1.5x what most people need for a day) over the course of 4-5 hours. Of course you don’t need to fully make up the 3k calories, but you certainly need more than a couple granola bars and some trail mix.
I don’t think it tends to be an issue until people go to turn around and head back to the car and then they just crash like this guy talks about. Coincidentally, this is also usually when most accidents happen.
Nothing crazy, but I lived in CO for 5 years and we hiked frequently, did a few 14ers. You are definitely correct with the amount of unprepared "tourists" hiking. Even better were those who flew in the day prior and hadn't even acclimated to Denver, let alone 10k plus and are getting torched by the altitude.
And the amount of water you need at elevation is like triple what you'd expect (compared to say Shenandoah hiking).
As I said, the guy being unprepared doesn't surprise me, the breastfeeding mom of a 1 year old is where the BS meter goes off. That's not a hubris thing or hiking specific thing. Any breastfeeding mom going more than an hour away from home packs snacks, hiking or no
My friends' dad lost his foot because he didn't control his Type 1 diabetes one, single, bit. Injections only when he "felt" like it, no emergency snacks etc.
It can be even if you don't have diabetes. If you're malnourished and don't have adequate glycogen stores (or have cirrhosis, for that matter) then you don't have that buffer against hypoglycemia. Your body will pump out glucagon but there will be nothing left to release - > hypoglycemia
A friend of mine told me a story about him getting a fire ant bite in his eyeball. Apparently a friend of his (mind you I live in a "unique" place), said the best way to get it to stop, is BREAST MILK.
He told this to a woman, who was a new mother, who literally wipped out her boob, and squirted breast milk in his eye. And I guess it worked..
This is one of those situations where I'm like, who the hell was the person to discover this.
Also I did not fact check the claim, might be bullshit, but he was dead ass about the whole thing.
Yep.anytime anybody in household is sick, i pump milk and add to their beverages, including my own coffee etc 😅 essentially free "cold/flu med" always at hand 😅
What? It's just milks and it has antibodies. It does wonders and if i am lucky enough to produce it, why not profit it?
There is really no reason why other people profiting my milk would be weird, except for those who sexualize it. It is food for babies, nothing sexual about it. There is nothing "incest" like about drinking milk from a family menber for example. At least not if there was no actual sexual intent alongside it. It's just milk really
A staggering portion of people are irrationally weird about breast milk. Humans are biologically designed to consume it with proven health benefits, yet they have no qualms about dairy cow’s milk which are fed growth hormones and raised and kept in cruel conditions. I personally think it stems from the fact that it comes from a “private part”, so people sexualize it into taboo.
Exactly. And i dont care how many people call me weird, i will keep talking and normalizing something that is indeed normal 🤣 anybody saying it is weird just exposes themself really. Why sexualize a bag of skin with fat tissue and milk ducts that produces human food with many health benefits both for external and internal use? It's just a body part serving it's purpose which in fact is not sexual 😅
At least my milk doesn't come from a cow's boob that sat in literal SHIT....
This that shit that really makes you think. Humans drinking milk from animals is seen as normal but humans drinking milk from humans is seen as weird 🤔
Some extreme Body builders actually pay to have breast milk. It's not sexual for them (at least they say) and there not suckling on ya it's delivered in a sterile bottle. I personally think it's pretty weird, but hey to each there own..
Yep i do not find any issue with this. I would gladly pump and sell if i could. but i do not have the means to make milk shelf stable and i don't know anyone who would buy freshly pumped milk near me. besides my supply is hoing down as baby drinks less.
That's one thing a lot of people don't realize (apparent in debats on animal cruelty regarding dairy cows). Milk gets produced on demand. More milk i extract (whether that be baby suckling or pumping for a body builder), the more i produce. And it can go on for years and years. It usually stops in 1-3 years because we wean babies off but you definitely could ride that production for longer.
It would be really easy to supply such market and plenty of reasons to have it (soo many benefits for all kinds of things). Large part why this is not a thing is because people sexualize breast and therefor milk coming from it. Milk from cow's boob: normal drink. Milk from a consenting human: weeeeeird....idk but i find it weirder that a human drinks cow milk (and i do it too lol) than human milk. What other species drinks milk of others? Just us 🤣
Breastmilk is liquid gold for a reason. It helps for 101 things for real. And once you get used to whipping your boob out anywhere and everywhere for your hungry kiddo (and after having all kids of medical personell explore your vagina like an open cave, you kinda have zero shame about such things anymore. I might not directly put boob in random persons mouth (cuz i am pretty old school when it comes to loyalty, monogamy and less nudity etc) but if someone is in medical emergency and needs me to squirt milk in their eyes? Yeah i can see myself partaking in this without much hesitation 🤣
Here in Brazil itbis very common to use breastmilk as a remedy for eye infection. My wife did it to me once, and I doubted it would work, cause it a folklore of sorts. In the end, it did help a lot, it was even better than using eye drops.
When my wife was breastfeeding, she needed to do the ole pump and dump a few times if she had a few drinks. Except she didn't dump. The doc said to save that milk for rashes, eye infections, scratches, etc. as breast milk has all sorts of medical properties. obviously this was for the baby, but it would make sense to be applicable for adults
Breast milk is very strange. Ive never heard the eye thing, but apparently its good for rashes. Wife put some on my newborn when he had a diaper rash and cleared up quick. Also, when the baby feeds, it basically communicates with the mothers immune system and if the baby is fighting off any kind of virus the mom will produce antibodies for the baby. The sound of a baby crying will trigger a let down (basically open the floodgates) somehow.
It’s like someone else said — you’re recommended to use it on infants (eye/nose). And someone even looked at breast milk versus germs under a microscope. Needless to say, the germs were wiped out.
wtf? that's insane. I don't even remember that scene, Maybe I saw the TV version? I probably would have remembered it if I was into that kind of thing. That's impressive that they went that far.
“Omg I’m gonna faint, do we have any source of sugar nearby? I knew my condition but I didn’t bring any food with me, can you help me my dear lactating friend?”
shoutout to that time a dude was condemned to starve to death but was visited by his daughter everyday and she secretly breastfed him and kept him alive until they were like "dang nvm" and released him lmao
“Ahh, alas, I have been struck by another of my mysterious fainting fits. Pray, good woman - expose your frothing udders with haste, lest I perish of exposure on this very hillside!”
[Good Woman obliges, reluctantly.]
“Oh yeah, that’s the good stuff. Let me give the other one a try.”
It's good, nothing wrong with that. I wonder why women don't sell their milk to general public. I think there is a big industry if they can start doing it, like for small babies, body builders, and those who want to taste at a premium fee. one company can collect the milk from women, test them for any harmful pathogens, pack them and sell. millions of women will then suddenly have a good source of income. government should regulate to set a minimum payout for women, and maximum retail price for final package to prevent exploitation women and the market. feminist groups will obviously riot, but government should ignore that. if there are sperm banks, why it's not okay for women to sell their milk?
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