Research from Harvard and NIH questions safety of modern commercial milk. Posted by a board certified pediatrician on a peds website. Hurrah for integrity! I think something that has been overlooked in the medical community in terms of the negative effects of milk is the amount of hormones we are being exposed to. Im doing some preliminary research in this space (mostly literature review) but the way we produce milk in America is vastly different than how our ancestors did. We basically force cows into a state of overproduction. Part of the problem seems to be milk from modern dairy farms, where cows are milked about 300 days a year. For much of that time, the cows are pregnant. The later in pregnancy a cow is, the more hormones appear in her milk. Milk from a cow in the late stage of pregnancy contains up to 33 times as much of a signature estrogen compound (estrone sulfate) than milk from a non-pregnant cow. In a study of modern milk in Japan, Ganmaa found that it contained 10 times more progesterone, another hormone, than raw milk from Mongolia. In traditional herding societies like Mongolia, cows are milked for human consumption only five months a year, said Ganmaa, and, if pregnant, only in the early stages. Consequently, levels of hormones in the milk are much lower. The milk we drink today is quite unlike the milk our ancestors were drinking without apparent harm for 2,000 years, she said. The milk we drink today may not be natures perfect food. news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/12.07/11-dairy.html Correct me if I am wrong, but I think there could be connection between precocious puberty in children and widespread recommendations for consuming milk in childhood. There is also this theory on alpha and beta casein: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16403684 betacasein.org/disclaimer.php?prevpage=https://google/
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 18:17:46 +0000
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