these book friends and patients I wanted
to take a few minutes out of my lunch
break today to talk to you about
something that's very important I
counsel patients about it all the time
it's dairy milk dairy products the ones
you should you should not ingest drink
and eat and why and so I hope that
there's not too much ambient noise we're
having a lot of construction in Camden
on the court square right now so if you
hear something that sounds suspiciously
like a jackhammer
it probably is so just ignore that and
I'm gonna try to teach you just a thing
or two on my lunch break today
so dairy we're talking about milk we're
talking about cheese's we're talking
about cream and everything in between
I want to go through why I believe
things certain dairy products are bad
why I think that certain dairy products
are medium or less bad and then why I
think some are pretty good so let's
start out with what is in milk and why
is it bad so the number one constituent
in milk that I really want you to avoid
is sugar milk has a lactose which is a
milk sugar it when you drink milk of any
kind if it's a liquid form of milk then
it has milk sugar in it this is going to
raise your blood sugar which is in turn
going to raise your insulin level which
will ultimately cause you to gain weight
so when you're a young infant a young
mammal a cow or a pig or a cute little
puppy or a cute little baby you want to
gain weight as quickly as you possibly
can and that's why mammals like your mom
gave you milk was so that you would gain
weight and grow and develop as quickly
as possible so if you want to gain
weight as quickly as possible then you
should drink more milk and I tell
patients that all the time and they're
looking at me like I don't I don't want
to gain weight well then stop drinking
milk because that's what it's made for
and so that's the first concept I want
you to get the second concept is that
drinking the milk from another mammal
it's never really been studied
scientifically to see if it causes any
long-term problems or not that's an
issue with me I worry about that I mean
I know we've drank milk for hundreds and
of years from cows and goats and other
mammals but it's never been really
rigorously scientifically studied to see
if it causes long-term harm now
obviously we know it's not a an acute
poison you don't die immediately from
drinking milk but there are many things
in our environment that turn out to be a
long-term slow poison and I believe that
some versions of dairy are just that so
let's talk about the spectrum of dairy I
talked to patients about this all the
time if you can imagine a spectrum with
this being the absolute worst and this
being pretty good maybe even good so the
worst possible dairy that you could
consume is skim milk all the fats been
removed and always left is the milk
sugar and the milk protein for most
people the protein in milk is very
inflammatory and causes problems either
short term or long term if you look at
the world as a whole of over half of the
population of the entire earth can't
drink milk or they have immediate
stomach upset and distress so that
should tell you something that over half
of the human beings on the planet can't
drink cow's milk without having
gastrointestinal problems what does that
say to you so even the people who can
who don't have the enzyme to break down
that protein then that's not okay that's
still a problem because we've developed
a little bit but we haven't developed
all the way so skim milk being the
absolute worst half percent a little
less bad 1% a little less bad 2% a
little less bad whole milk is actually
four percent milk fat that's even a
little less bad then you have
half-and-half right which is much more
milk fat left in there and then you have
heavy cream or whipping cream which is
just about my favorite dairy in the
world which is almost all the sugar and
protein have been removed not all but
almost all and so even people who are
lactose intolerant can enjoy a heavy
cream and whipping cream without many
side effects and that tells me that
that's probably safer for all humans not
just the ones who can digest lactose
then then we have the hard cheeses in
here somewhere we have yogurts we have
Key fairs we
other semi-solid dairy products then we
have the the very hard cheeses Parmesan
we have Swiss we have cheddar and so I
think those are over on the end of being
probably not very bad for you at all or
maybe even really good for you okay but
skim milk is the absolute worst never
drink that unless you're trying to gain
weight as quickly as you possibly can or
have gastrointestinal problems and then
we move it along the spectrum to the
very very fatty dairy products which I
don't have a problem with I eat heavy
real cheese all the time and if it says
American cheese food product on the
package that ain't cheese honey okay
that's not cheese that's that's a
factory product that came and they're
trying to make money off that that's not
an actual food so if it says food
product I would recommend you avoid that
now let's break down milk into its three
categories and let's talk about why it's
good and why it's bad and how come the
heavy stuff the the heavy cream and the
hard cheeses why are they suddenly okay
they're still dairy right right okay but
we'll get there so first of all let's
talk about the sugar in dairy the sugar
in dairy is there's nothing magical
about lactose it is sugar your body
immediately recognizes it as sugar it
absorbs it as sugar and it does with it
what it does with sugar so if you're
drinking a lot of skim milk every day
thinking you're doing yourself a health
favor you're not because you're raising
your your blood sugar levels your liver
is trying to store that as fat within
the liver which is a very very bad thing
we'll probably talk about that on
another go live the anytime you eat
sugar of any kind you are going to make
yourself gain either a little or a lot
of weight and I don't think that's the
goal for most of us back in the 40s I
found an old old medical journal article
years ago that actually counseled skinny
athletes who could not gain weight to
drink copious amounts of skim milk to
gain weight
that's anecdotal proof number one and
that's that's no medical or scientific
proof but it does tend to give you an
idea the other any total story a half of
you is when I was a teenage boy I really
wanted to be
a tight end and a defensive end playing
football and for those of you don't
follow football you have to be really
thick and heavy and big to be defensive
and or to be linebacker or to be tight
in and so I would I
I wouldn't got heavy cream whipping
cream from the store I'd have my
grandmother buy me some and I would
drink like a pint or a quart every day
and I did that for months on end just
knowing that all the fat in there would
make me gain weight guess what after
about a year of that I had gained
exactly zero pounds now if I'd had a
smart old doctor who said you know you
should get some skim milk and start
drinking it
I may have had a different outcome I
don't know but that's why the first
constituent of milk which is lactose
which is a sugar there's no way around
that there's nothing magical about milk
sugar it is sugar
okay the next constituent is protein now
the reason that many people have
terrible trouble when they drink any
kind of dairy is because they're
allergic to the milk protein or they
have an inflammatory response in their
gut to the milk protein and trust me
that's not good you don't want that you
can have gas bloating constipation
diarrhea all these different problems
and then many many people are now
starting to think that perhaps long-term
inflammatory and even autoimmune
conditions are coming from these
proteins that our body really wasn't
made to break down in large quantities
so the the the proteins in liquid milk
are designed especially for baby cows
that's what it's for and their body
knows exactly what to do with the
proteins in milk in cow milk and they it
does that just fine they have no problem
and you've probably seen a baby calf and
then seen that calf
two months later how much bigger it had
become and that's because it was
drinking milk as much as it could get on
a daily basis the last constituent of
milk is fat right and this is the the
constituent of milk that's been
demonized for about the last 50 or 60
years that's why we want skim milk and
we want low fat this that or the other
because we think the fats bad because
that's what we've been taught by the
federal
and perhaps by our doctor and by a
nutritionist and by a nurse is that the
fat is the bad part and you want to get
that out and so you never see a cheese
or a dairy product in the store that
says protein free you never see that
because we're not really afraid of that
because we haven't been trained to be
the fat in milk is not the bad part okay
that's why I love the fat in heavy cream
and in cheese's is because that's not
bad for me we were taught for years that
it was but even the federal government
has come out and said that fat is not a
macromolecule of concern there's no
maximum amount you should eat or drink
every day of fat they're not worried
about fats and you watch over the next
five years that's going to trickle down
to the to the doctors and to the
hospitals and all of a sudden we'll all
just magically know that that's no big
deal and we shouldn't even worry about
that I'm a little ahead of the curve
there but I promise you if you do your
googling and you research this like a
good patients and a good person should
you're going to find out that what I'm
saying is correct so the fat in dairy is
not the problem that's the least bad of
all three so if you if you want to put
heavy cream in your coffee I do that
every morning okay and my cholesterol is
145 I've been steadily losing weight
while I've been doing that some of my
patients may have noticed yeah I think
he is slimming up a little bit that's
because I've been eating and drinking
way more fat in my diet lately so don't
be afraid of the fat so let's talk about
cheese because that's kind of confusing
to some people cheese is dairy so then
how come cheese is not bad
so let's talk about what happens when
you make cheese or when you make yogurt
or when you make any semi solid or solid
dairy products you expose the milk the
liquid milk to a microbe of some sort
okay it's either a fungus or a bacteria
or some combination of the two and they
eat up almost all the sugar
so there's your sugar gone that's good
that's problem number one solved but
then they actually act on the protein in
the dairy in
bend it and contort it and they changed
the molecular shape of the protein
that's what makes cheese a solid instead
of a liquid that's what the microbe does
to it the microbes don't eat the fat
because that's not what bacteria and
stuff like that like they like the sugar
and so they leave all the fat and they
leave the bent and contorted protein
molecule that's what cheese is now some
companies will try to take the fat out
of the cheese leaving just the protein
and but they usually have to add
chemicals which I'm not so happy about
back into the cheese to make it a viable
tasty cheese food products but what you
want to get is real cheese it's real
dairy that's been acted on by a microbe
the the sugar is virtually gone the
protein has been messed with by the
molecule that to make it way less
inflammatory for your body and then all
the fat is left which is the good part
that's not going to hurt you at all
so that's why I recommend to my patients
you can eat real cheddar you can eat
real swiss real parmesan there's no
problem with any of these cheese's what
you want to avoid is the black vita that
you know sort of pseudo cheese don't eat
that that's probably not good for you
and then anything that says cheese food
product mmm no that's probably from the
factory that's probably a product not a
real food so I would highly recommend
that you do not eat that so again the
spectrum skim milk is the absolutely
worst heavy cream and the real cheese's
are either the least bad or good for you
and the spectrum is anywhere in between
so if you change your diet and get rid
of the skim milk and get 2% instead
that's all the less bad okay I recommend
most adults don't drink any liquid milk
at all because we're grown we don't need
to gain weight as quickly as possible so
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