Allie Ward

I mean, when you're pregnant with up to 18 babies, are you eating for 18?

How are you making this incredibly nutritionally dense substance for 18?

Like, what do you have to eat in order to make that?

What is the milk composition like, you know, if analyzed kind of from a molecular standpoint or how would you describe it?

I've heard it described as more nutritious than buffalo milk, but what exactly is in it?

So lipocalins are just a type of protein.

You will not be tested on this at all.

And in this week's Blattodiology episode with Dr. Dominic Evangelista, remember we talked about how one thing that makes a cockroach a cockroach is its wealth of endosymbionts, these little critters that live inside their guts and their butts.

And they have this blattobacteria that live inside of their fat cells, kind of like a mitochondria.

And this 2024 study titled Frequent and Asymmetric Cell Division in Endosymbiotic Bacteria of Cockroaches mentioned that these intracellular buddies can help digest their waste,

To be reusable, which I hate to break it to you, but we cannot do that with RP, so special are these endosymbionts and bladder bacteria that some medical researchers think that they might be the key to a cockroach's hardiness and possibly, I don't know, maybe ours in the future.

There's money in that cockroach.

So in a moment, we will reveal what plans are in store for cockroach milk to reach your mouth.

But first, let's donate to a worthy cause.

And this week, it went to supporting some grad students working on this important research.

And thank you to sponsors of the show for making that donation possible.

Okay, will 2035 you be tipping a bottle of this into your cereal bowl?

And what's been the interest in making this a commercial product?

Because if something can be synthesized from cockroaches or collected from cockroaches and then made in bigger batches, has the food industry sort of knocked on the door to say like, let's make a pretty good latte?

Yeah.