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So milk has long been regarded as some sort of basic food group and we should
all have it and so forth so let's just look at some of the arguments for and
against and then I'll kind of wrap it up with my opinion and experience milk is
produced by mammals and humans are mammals so from that point of view it's
a very very natural very innate food for us so then again that would make human
milk very innate for us and cow's milk and other species milk may or may not be
that suitable just because it's from another species doesn't necessarily make
it bad then we have the issue of weaning that humans are the only animals who
have attempted to go into adulthood and still drink milk mammals make milk for
their young so during a growth period it's the most convenient food so from
that perspective it's a little bit unnatural for us to continue to drink
milk but again it's not necessarily an argument for why it should be bad or
good. Calcium has long been the number-one argument
oh you're gonna get osteoporosis oh you can't get enough calcium if you don't
drink milk and that argument is actually completely invalid calcium is it is
present in milk it is very very poorly absorbable from milk and if you think
about it if milk has all that calcium and cows don't drink milk then where do
they get it exactly so green stuff vegetables leafy
greens have tons and tons of calcium and that calcium is actually much
more bioavailable than it is in milk what it really comes down to regarding
milk is how natural is the milk because if it comes straight from nature than in
my experience it's a pretty good food but if we change it then it's a terrible
it has bacteria in it the lactobacillus the beneficial bacteria that help
repopulate our gut that help defend against the pathogenic bacteria it helps
maintain the balance it has enzymes that help us break down the food the the
proteins in the milk because milk is a relatively hard food to digest if it
doesn't have the bacteria and the enzymes in it if it's alive and still
has those then it's reasonably easy to digest and process but if they're
missing it makes it very very difficult to break down in process so pasteurized
milk is sterile they have killed off all the bacteria so we don't have any of the
supposedly bad but we also don't have any good bacteria to help us process it
it has no enzymes in it to help us break it down and it's also homogenized
meaning in normal natural milk the way nature made it the fat is sort of in
globules it's like it's floating around and it separates if you leave it sitting
for a little bit so that was Nature's Way of organizing that particular food
for us and when we homogenized it so the fat doesn't separate then we change it
and in my experience with muscle testing and clinical results that is a problem
that the body does much better with the fat when it's floating around the way it
does in raw milk the way that we normally get it from our mothers and
from other animals there are lots and lots of
things in the pasteurized milk that can change when we heat it so proteins for
example are very heat sensitive proteins get denatured if you think about an egg
white it's liquid at room temperature and then when we hit about 70 degrees
Celsius long before boiling then that protein
turns solid it has denatured and a lot of the proteins even though milk doesn't
turn solid the proteins denature they change so now they're not the same for
our bodies to process they're much more difficult to break down the reason
people have some issues with milk is lactose intolerant and not all people
lose their ability to break down lactose a lot of people especially Scandinavians
tend to retain their lactase production so they can break down lactose whereas
Asians for example pretty much across the board they lose that ability so
maybe some maybe some cultures are better at processing the milk than
others so these are factors you have to weigh in as well the people who really
really need to avoid milk is if they have an allergy and that is to one of
the two proteins there are two proteins called whey and casein and casein is the
protein that makes cheese that produces that texture of cheese so when you make
cheese they remove the way and the casein remains so some people are
allergic to one some are allergic to the other and some are allergic to both so
if you're allergic to weight you may still tolerate cheese but if you're
allergic to both then you definitely need to avoid all dairy definitely and
then there can also be sensitivities that we find out with clinical findings
and with muscle testing and with trial and error and that's in my opinion
because the milk is pasteurized that we have changed
the availability to the body so it becomes a burden and the body develops a
sensitivity and the reason I believe that is that most people the majority of
people do well on draw dairy products and the majority of people do very
poorly on pasteurized milk products so what I do is I use raw milk and I use
raw cheese so if that's legal in the area you live then you could make those
part of your food consumption then I would suggest fermented dairy so those
are things like yogurt and kefir and sour cream etc once you ferment it you
reintroduce a bacterial culture so they re-establish that normal culture that
liveness of the dairy and you build up the enzymes and they start helping you
to break down the food again so is milk good for you I think in my opinion and
experience if you use natural dairy products the way that nature produced
them without pasteurization then I think most people can benefit from having some
amount of dairy I don't think it's a superfood I don't think you should base
your diet on it but I think most people do well from some amount of natural
dairy I think pasteurized dairy is one of the
biggest problems that we have because there's so many allergies there's so
many problems there's rashes and eczema and headaches
and so forth and not to mention in kids all of those infections and the runny
nose and their immune system challenges I think again in my experience are
primarily caused by pasteurized dairy so use some natural dairy in moderation if
you can find it stay away from pasteurized dairy as much as you can
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