Re: Milk Diet, day 65 update

[Guest guest]

Jerome--

We have waited with much Anticipation for your Update. Many Newbies have heard about you, but straight from the mouth of one so "youth-ing" is much more compelling.....

and I really want to know about the Hair thing....lol. And you quite beautifully addressed the Sex thing.....

I am so pleased that you are doing so well. Hopefully you will be able to get all of this into a more affordable format and then maybe your wife and young son will follow in your dietary footsteps.

One concern I have about all of this was brought home to me today on TV. The point was made (referring to all that crazy Low-Carb & Atkins food) that now only the Rich will be able to be Healthy and Thin. They estimated it costs appx $100 per person per week to eat from the store now. This I find highly disturbing, as I've thought the very same thing, but thought maybe I was over-reacting.

Here's where Culturing really comes into the picture. Just as Anja mentioned about the Swill being Pasteurized for Safety, you can take a less-than-perfect milk (not UT) and turn it into something Affordable and highly Nutritious. The cultures at www.dairyconnection.com really are quite good, and the cost won't make you hold your heart. The Buttermilk/Sour Cream one is really good.

Get yourself some Kefir Grains and see if you aren't satisfied with less volume. I can drink a glass of that stuff and go most of the day. Experiment with Smoothies. Only Eggs have ever given me that much of a boost. Hard-boiled pastured eggs, raw cheese, and toasted nuts travel very well.

The costs of living are beyond all common sense now. There is room for farmers who feed some Grains in this world of Dairy. I would be very happy to purchase clean milk that was lightly pasteurized from the store again. Unfortunately it's almost impossible to find anymore .

Love,

--Terry

Hello all,I realized that it's been over a month since I last checked in,so here is a report from the field, where our intrepid explorer,Jerome, has been subsisting on almost nothing besides raw milk,cream and colostrum for over 64 days........- Jerome, his mouth coated with the buttery after-taste of fresh spring Guernsey-Jersey milk, on day 65 of raw milk,cream and colostrum (plus a little butter and cheese)

[Guest guest]

Jerone,

I think I now understand where Walt Whitman got his inspiration.

Do you old timers to this board remember Laurel telling us to

" Act like an American - the old kind. " ? Well maybe they had the

same presence of mind as Jerome.

That was beautiful Jerome!! Thanks! and please keep it up!

-Blair

p.s. I'll bet there's a lot of raw milkers south of the border...

Also, do you mind if I send this to the Colorado Board of Health?

> Hello all,

>

> I realized that it's been over a month since I last checked in,

> so here is a report from the field, where our intrepid explorer,

> Jerome, has been subsisting on almost nothing besides raw milk,

> cream and colostrum for over 64 days...

>

[Guest guest]

--- " Terry L. " <tls@x> wrote:

> and I really want to know about the Hair thing....lol.

I'm sorry to report that male pattern baldness seems to be

proceeding apace... ;^( The good news is that I'm in such

a good mood that I don't care!

Meanwhile, I do have the impression that there is more color

in the new facial and head hair, but have yet to find a single

hair that has color at its base but is grey farther out,

so I suspect that " wishful thinking " is at work with regards

to the return of hair color.

> I am so pleased that you are doing so well. Hopefully you will be

able to get all of this into a more affordable format and then maybe

your wife and young son will follow in your dietary footsteps.

It is getting much more affordable. By patiently searching out

and working with local farmers, I have cut the cost of this high-

quality diet down dramatically. My wife sincerely believes that

she is " not the milk type " , while my son alternates between refusing

and asking for milk...

> One concern I have about all of this was brought home to me today on

TV. The point was made (referring to all that crazy Low-Carb &

Atkins food) that now only the Rich will be able to be Healthy and

Thin. They estimated it costs appx $100 per person per week to eat

from the store now. This I find highly disturbing, as I've thought

the very same thing, but thought maybe I was over-reacting.

A very disturbing trend! Even the non-nutritious processed junk is

becoming increasingly expensive... This with oil prices just

beginning to rise, and first-world wages still having a long way to

fall to compete with China and India... Time for people to start to

think and act local with regard to their food!

I found myself at a Chinese resturant the other night, watching my

friends, frustrated and hungry, waiting for their expensive and not

very nutritious food. White rice, deep-fried egg rolls, sauces made

with sugar and food dye, deep fried soy bean curd, etc, YECH!

Later I found that my wife and son had spent $20 on their share of

this junk, while I contentedly sipped two quarts of delicious,

nutritious, golden buttery Guernsey-Jersey milk, at a cost of $4

(plus 2 minutes of pro-rated driving time+expense).

Today I plan to attend a " meet the teacher " tea at school, to meet

the woman who is to be my son's first grade teacher. I am expected

to bring refreshments, so I plan to bring the only food I can, in

good faith, bring: raw milk, cream and cheese. My plan was to bring

just three different varieties of raw milk, but writing this story

has helped me to realize that cheese, and possibly cream, might also

be welcome. It will be interesting to see how the milk goes over

with the teacher and the other parents! (I have heard through the

grapevine that the teacher used to keep and milk her own Jersey cow.)

(I should add that I'm only one of many bringing refreshments, so

others won't be limited to my narrow selection of foods).

> Here's where Culturing really comes into the picture. Just as Anja

mentioned about the Swill being Pasteurized for Safety, you can take a

less-than-perfect milk (not UT) and turn it into something Affordable

and highly Nutritious. The cultures at www.dairyconnection.com

really are quite good, and the cost won't make you hold your heart.

The Buttermilk/Sour Cream one is really good.

This is very encouraging! What I hear you saying is that good

bacteria can restore some of the nutrition to even low-quality milk,

despite the fact that the original enzymes have been denatured.

Do the bacteria even " eat " the denatured enzymes and dead bodies of

their pasturization-killed predecessors, turning them into nutritious

live bacteria?

> Get yourself some Kefir Grains and see if you aren't satisfied with

less volume. I can drink a glass of that stuff and go most of the

day. Experiment with Smoothies. Only Eggs have ever given me that

much of a boost. Hard-boiled pastured eggs, raw cheese, and toasted

nuts travel very well.

Thank you for this advice. I've been meaning to get some kefir

grains, and think I can track down a local source... It is hard to

believe that I need 4000+ calories worth of milk per day, so it

makes sense that I might be able to cut down, especially with a

better culture than the raw milk alone possesses...

Those sound like good traveling food suggestions, too.

> The costs of living are beyond all common sense now. There is room

for farmers who feed some Grains in this world of Dairy. I would be

very happy to purchase clean milk that was lightly pasteurized from

the store again. Unfortunately it's almost impossible to find

anymore

Yikes! Has ultra-pasteurized that completely taken over in your

local markets? Our California stores still seemed to have lots

of normally-pasturized milk, last time I checked. But the dairies

I saw on our recent Spring trip were tragic, smelly dung-heaps strewn

with unhappy-looking Holstein cows, eating who knows what. Maybe the

" north coast dairies " touted as the source of Trader Joe's non-BSE,

normally pasturized milk are superior to what I saw in the Central

valley, but so far, in my experience, the actual dairies do not live

up to the reputation painted by the marketing people.

- Jerome, very happily sipping his golden milk with sour colostrum,

on day 66 of raw milk, cream and colostrum

[Guest guest]

Blair,

You are too kind!

Though I don't think it is realistic to compare the likes of me to

men of the stature of Walt Whitman, I do, after drinking this food,

think that those giants of the past did, perhaps, owe some of their

strength, vitality, and even wisdom to the good food they ate.

I know that there are raw milkers south of border, but doubt that

there will be much fresh clean raw milk available to tourists out

on the tip of Baja in the gringo town where the conference will be

held! Perhaps if I lived there a while I could find the good

local sources, probably for seafood if not for milk. Maybe I should

go a day or two early and see what I can find? My concern was that

I might have to " wean " myself suddenly, without much good food to

choose from...

Meanwhile, If you think something good might come from sending my

report to the Colorado State Board of Health, then feel free to do so.

Though living on milk has greatly improved my outlook on life, I

haven't yet become optimistic about the motives and integrity of

those in positions of power. (My dark suspicion is that they are as

closed-minded on the subject as Therese's jailer sister seems to be.

But perhaps not! Perhaps they would find a testimonial such as mine

to be reason to suspect that raw dairy is not so bad. Perhaps they

would ask themselves some interesting questions, such as what would

happen if they tried to eat nothing but the processed dairy that the

" authorities " recommend for sixty days... The old cynic in me

expects that most of them would take it as proof that the raw-milk

people are a bunch of dangerous " kooks " who need to be stopped,

and, indeed, many board members might react that way, but if my story

were to help even one " wake up " , then I suppose it would be worth it.)

Thanks again for you kind thoughts, Blair!

- Jerome,