A man by the name of Curtis is about to give a whole new meaning to the terms “liquid diet.” After her third premature baby, wife Katie filled their 22-cubic-foot upright deep freezer with her excess breast milk. Now, her husband Curtis plans on feeding only on it for as long as his body can take it.

The mother of three – who also happens to be a doula and childbirth educator – has hundreds of bottles of frozen breast milk in the freezer. And there’s no way their nine-month-old baby will have a chance to drink them all before they go bad. So Curtis, who has digestive problems, figured why not drink it all himself?

Their objective is to discover how much breast milk will it take to nourish a 6’4″, 185-pound grown man and how many days can a grown man live off breast milk comfortably.

Curtis is writing about his experiment on his blog, Don’t Have a Cow, Man. He outlines the rules, which are as follow:
Nothing to eat or drink except breast milk.

Blog daily about how I am feeling and how it is going.
See how many days I can make it without other food.
Anything else people might want to know?

Katie, who is a lactation expert, says that Curtis needs 2,000 calories a day. After testing it, her breast milk contains approximately 27 to 32 calories per ounce, so that means Curtis needs to drink 66 ounces of breast milk daily. The experience is now on its third day, and it seems Curtis is getting too hungry already:

Much more hungry yesterday, 104 ounces consumed, roughly 3120 calories. Near the end of the day I started craving solid foods, so I drank more milk and it satisfied my hunger. I am really enjoying the milk now and am always surprised how each glass tastes different.

Not surprisingly, people are totally grossed out by this experiment, as evidenced in the comment section of Curtis’ blog. But there are just as many supporters out there, many of whom question why we even drink cow’s milk, for example, instead of our own.

[Cheers gothamist.com]