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Cockroach Milk: The Next Superfood?

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Could cockroach milk be our next superfood? More specifically, milk from Diplotera punctata or the Pacific Beetle Cockroach. Now, cockroaches do not have udders or nipples to milk each morning, so the study behind all the attention is referring to the milky substance that comes out of mother’s brood sac to feed her babies. In the egg, the babies get this nourishing milk that is rich in proteins called lipocalin-like milk proteins or Lili-Mip, which turn...
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Post-Exercise Milk Intake and Testosterone

Post-Exercise Milk Intake and Testosterone

With chocolate milk suggested as a possible post-workout drink, with both protein and carbohydrate, researchers set out to determine the acute changes in testosterone and isometric strength with some post-exercise chocolate cow’s and goat’s milk. 1 Twelve, healthy college-aged men performed a back squat consisting of 5 sets of 8 reps over three separate exercise trials. After each trial, they drank either 1 cup of cow’s milk, 1.5 cups of goat’s milk, or 1.5 cups of...
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