Writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, specialists said there was little evidence to support claims that the milk, traded via websites in a lucrative market for adult buyers, is some kind of super food that can boost health and fitness and ward off disease.
Claims that it even helps with erectile dysfunction and cancer have no clinical basis, they said.
On the contrary, the experts warned, raw and unpasteurised human breast milk bought online can expose consumers to many serious infectious diseases, including hepatitis, HIV and syphilis.
