Eating his wife's placenta and drinking her breast milk: the weird world of Nikita Tszyu
Washing it down with her breast milk is an optional extra.
Tszyu's bizarre dietary habits have provided plenty of food for thought as the unbeaten 27-year-old prepares to take on German-based Macedonian Lulzim Ismaili at the ICC Sydney Theatre in their WBO intercontinental super-welterweight title fight.
Since his daughter Curiosity was born two months ago, Tszyu has joined his wife – also named Nikita – in consuming her placenta.
'My wife found out about it,' he explained. 'She found out that there's a lot of ancient cultures that harvest the placenta, and it was packed with all these vitamins. And she asked me and I was like, 'Hell yeah.'
'We just got it freeze-dried by some hippie lady, and she gave us a bunch of capsules of it.'
Tszyu said he takes two pills at a time but has to 'ration' them, because of the limited supply.
'I've got to wait until the next baby so I can get some more,' he said. 'I can't just smash through them.'
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