Is MILK BAD For You? (Real Doctor Reviews The TRUTH)

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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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