Is Raw Milk Right For You?

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Sameer — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:17:56 GMT

Hi,

I'm from Pune - India, In india we can get row milk quiet easily as there are many small "gothas" as they call small farms (not actually farms but places where thery keep some cows / bufallows & mikl them).

What worries me is that they do not actually have farms with good quality grass to feed the cattl. The cattle either feed on what ever is available in and arround the city or if they are luckay the owners will get them sugar cane remains from rear by villages.

I've been adviced not to have milk products except curds & butter milk as I "may" be having intollerance to lactose (reason my gastroantrologist gave for the IBS i'm sufering from).

I'm going to try using raw milk any way.

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Horse_Fly — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:35:00 GMT

I am confused by this website. I read the article "Don't Get Milk" and was without a doubt convinced that cows milk is not really intended for humans. But now you're advocating raw milk. In "Don't Get Milk" there was a long bit on Bovine Leukemia and how it was killed by pasteurization. How can you then turn around and advocate raw milk when there is some evidence that bovine leukemia can cause human leukemia? Same with the white blood cells. Wouldn't those still pass into raw milk?

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lalena123 — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:53:03 GMT

Hello everybody, I'm new to this forum but I've been following the raw milk debate for a long time.
In my country it's very easy to buy raw milk from grass-fed cows. But raw milk comes from small local farms with very bad hygienic conditions and without any kind of control from the government. The milk is normally sold in bottles previously used for water and washed by the farmers themselves.
Since the only option for me to use the milk is by heating it first in high temperature at my place, I was wondering if this will have the same damaging effects as when the milk is pasteurized in specialised factories.
I would very much like to switch from pasteurized to raw milk but I'm worried about the heating effects, so please give a suggestion.

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fire wife — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 02:02:27 GMT

Does anyone know where you can get raw dairy products around Cincinnati, OH? I am open to cow, goat, sheep... I'm just not having any luck locating it on my own!

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lovin2lose — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:58:11 GMT

I've got a question: We get raw milk from my husband's family's dairy farm, but it is not pasture-fed. The cows are healthy and compared to a farm my husband works on part-time (not affiliated with his family's) who uses BGH, higher mastitis and is fed a "richer feed" (i.e. more corn) where the cows get twisted stomachs. I asked my alternative care MD her opinion but she hasn't gotten back to me yet. It is saving us a lot of money. For a while I didn't accept drinking this milk until I came onto Dr. Mercola's site and saw all the reasons raw milk was better. We know my husband's family farm milk is BGH-free, has a high hay content in their feed too so that's gotta count for something. My husband would be offended if I went off and found raw milk elsewhere, I think there's a risk-benefit there (with the impact a happy marriage has on your health, too).

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Ken Thompson — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:33:28 GMT

I was brought up in Trinidad&Tobago and came to Canada 37 yrs ago. I drank pure milk that was unpasteurised as we had to boil it before we drank it. Since I have been here I have been unable to drink milk as I have become mysteriously become allergic to milk. Also the cows that we were getting milk from were always grass grazed. No man made products for them.

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knightlyguy — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:25:00 GMT

Dr. Mercola,

My wife had Breast Cancer and is now cancer free and we are working on prevention of reoccurrence. We are doing a lot of the things that your site talks about and I had a question.

My wife and I are starting to eat organically now and recently started to drink Raw Milk after reading about it on your site. Have you heard of any links with Raw Milk and Breast Cancer. I have read about some with Pasteurized Milk.

My wife found this old artilce http://www.cbcrp.org/research/PageGrant.asp?grant_id=107
that says not to drink Raw Milk and does talk about a link to Breast Cancer. We don't know whether or not she should drink raw milk or is she putting herself at greater risk of a reoccurrence if she does.

We have a great local source for Raw Milk and just started drinking it, but my wife has now stopped until we can found out what that risks are. Your input on this is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Ken

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kimbarry — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:33:54 GMT

I also have a problem with milk/milk products, and think it's just not fair. Have been trying to analyze it through EFT and I think I'm on the right tract in joining it with mother's milk. All three of my mothers( natural, in-law, and other,) did not live up to their role as its providers, physical and/or symbolic. The milk of human kindness did not flow in my life either, nor did I live a privileged life in the land of milk and honey. All these powerful metaphors seem to direct our lives for better of worse, and hold us prisoners of the words.

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PKP — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 06:28:59 GMT

Dr. Mercola - What is your opinion of NAET? I'm sure you've heard of it. Both my sister (a NAET provider) and my physician (an MD who provides NAET at her office), credit it with saving their lives. They suffered from uncurable conditions which are now gone.

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egglover — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:24:05 GMT

Raw milk is fabulous. My 7 year old had 9 cavities when we started drinking raw milk one year ago she now only has 3 and hopefully in another year will not have any. The mood changes in my children have also been dramatic, they are so much more pleasant. Also all complaints of legs aching from growing pains is gone. Absolutely drink raw milk if you can.

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curious7 — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:28:49 GMT

Many studies suggest, and I concur we as humans have no need for milk once weaned. Even before we are weaned we as humans have no need for the milk of animals.

At that, once we are weaned we would not drink "Human milk," would we? No one can present any human need for milk, in weaned humans. If one states it is for the calcium, we only need to be consuming lots of raw dark green leafy vegetables, a rich source of useable calcium. As for Vitamin D, we get all we need from sunshine. Then there is that whole sunshine and skin cancer thing. Well all the sunshine one needs can be provided by exposing skin about the size of a quarter, on the arm or leg. Therefore no need to lie out in the sun for hours. Depending on ones pigment, anywhere from 30 minutes, to an hour of exposure.

So why do we need milk again?

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mwl119 — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:34:36 GMT

Anyone know where you can buy raw milk around Birmingham, Alabama?

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Shelly Dixon Moran — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:52:45 GMT

bridestein and Lynn, I was thinking maybe the local post office, UPS shipping store, or Federal Express shipping store may accept them. Don't they have to express cold things? Maybe not.

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Perka — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:26:29 GMT

Can anybody tell me if yogurt can be made with raw millk without heating the milk? Does heating it defeat the purpose? Thanks.

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snowtracks — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:02:30 GMT

For years I suffered from lactose intolerance symptoms. Then, about six years ago, a representative of Organic Pastures was distributing raw milk samples at my local Whole Foods.

I liked the taste of that sample and from that point forward the only milk that I have consumed has been raw. About the same time I started drinking raw milk, I also started taking vitamins which included pro-biotics.

I've since stopped taking supplemental vitamins and pro-biotics. However, from the time I started (almost exclusively) drinking raw milk (and eating cheese made from raw milk), I have never experienced lactose intolerance symptoms.

Possibly related the adverse renal impact of dairy, as mentioned by Dr Mercola, I notice that raw milk (and possibly other dairy) imparts a very distinctive olfactory bouquet to my renal output. I wonder if the mechanism of my reaction to raw milk is somewhat similar to the mechanism exhibited by some, when they eat asparagus.

Also against the grain (though not literally), my body "seems happier" when I consume raw milk from cows fed with dried grasses and other plant material--possibly including grains. It's almost as if pasture-fed cows produce raw milk that contains too much (for me) of one or more nutrients.

In California we are very fortunate to have raw milk commercially available on a state-wide basis from two great dairies: Claravale and Organic Pastures.