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[teddywolf]

An interesting little article came my way suggesting that raw milk may be good for you. At least, when its done right.

It does make me wonder how much we've lost by megafood production.

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[kightp.livejournal.com]

Genetic diversity, for one thing.

[cowgrrl.livejournal.com]

Wow. Fascinating article. Makes me wonder how much of my milk allergy has to do with what is destroyed during pasteurization.

The obvious solution: I need to have my own cow. :-)

industrialized food - just say NO

[callibr8]

If you're interested, check out Real Food, by Nina Planck. Expounds on raw milk, and much much more. We're using the knowledge we've learned there to overhaul our diet, and are generally finding that we have more energy and better immune system response (i.e. resistance to passing bugs), than we used to do.

[quietann.livejournal.com]

I used to be able to get raw milk in California (before I went to college.) Alta Dena Dairy started out doing solely raw milk and milk products for health food stores. The raw milk cottage cheese was to die for, and the milk was pretty good too.

I've also had milk right from the cow, still warm, which is completely yummy.

By the time I moved back to CA, in the early 1990s, Alta Dena barely sold any raw milk products at all. I don't know if they got sued, or what. Their pasteurized stuff is still better than your average grocery store product, though.

The best I can do around here (and not often, because of the drive) is to go to Richardson's dairy in Middleton and buy their milk. It's pasteurized, but very fresh (the cows live out back), and the skim milk is the best I've ever had.

[gosling.livejournal.com]

It does not surprise me at all. It isn't just *human* milk that is full of antibodies and molecules that protect the digestive tract (and probably all sorts of other good stuff of which we are not yet aware). All of this gets destroyed by heating, or even by bumping the milk around too much or shaking it.


Eczema is an autoimmune problem. It is also known that the longer a child is breastfed, or presumably has raw human milk in general, the less likely that kid is to have autoimmune problems when older, so it is not really that much of a stretch to think that raw milk from a different animal would help with an adult's autoimmune problem. (This is WHY I am so adamant about pumping milk for Benjamin until I can't possibly squeeze one more drop out of myself. He is at extremely high risk for Crohn's Disease, which is an autoimmune disease of the digestive system, so as much raw human milk as possible for absolutely as long as possible is a VERY good idea for him. I was planning on them making sure he was getting as much yogurt as possible after that, but after reading this I think I am also going to make quite a search for a source of raw milk for him.)

Raw milk, human or otherwise is known to help with autoimmune problems of the skin when applied topically, so it is even less of a surprise to me that ingesting it would also be helpful, even for an adult with a skin autoimmune issue. (I actually use a bit of my milk topically on my psoriasis. It helps a lot and would help more if I was consistent about it.)

[magid.livejournal.com]

There's a local cooperative that delivers raw milk, Just Dairy (http://www.justdairy.org/). I haven't used it (it costs far too much for just one person who doesn't use much milk), but it might suit what you're looking for.

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

My uncle used to run a small dairy farm. Raw milk tastes different from store-bought whole milk. It's hard to describe. There were times in my childhood where I liked raw milk better, and also times where I liked store-bought milk better.

But whole milk Rocks the Socks off of 2% or 1% or skim. That I DO know.