milk & dairy

[Guest guest]

Here's some information about milk and dairy I was able to glean from

Masson. Apparently, he makes no distinction between raw or

pasteurized milk/dairy (I don't know if this omission really impairs

his observations). He seems to be talking about milk from all

ruminants, including cows, sheep, goats. Also, he seems rather

indifferent to metabolic types. I want to share this with you, but I

am not selling any of this as the final judgement on milk and dairy.

He doesn't mention kefir.

1. No animal in nature drinks milk after being weaned, and no

animal suffers from a bone disease if he is submitted to his

ancestral diet and lifestyle.

2. The peoples from Asia who haven't drunk milk for many years

don't suffer from a bone condition (or only very rarely), especially

not from osteoporosis.

3. The peoples who consume a lot of milk, cheese and yoghurt [he

goes on to mention Americans, Swedes and the Dutch] provide the

largest contingent of individuals suffering from osteoporosis and

prone to hip fractures after they are over 50.

4. There are two elements to account for the bone alterations

produced by milk and dairy: a) milk contains a factor – the

parathyroid related peptide – which activates the osteoclasts [cells

which destroy bone tissue]; the antibiotics given to the animal

are mainly expelled in the milk and are poison for the osteoblasts

[cells which build bone tissue].

5. The more you consume milk, cheese and yoghurt, the higher the

concentration of plasmatic homocysteine in the blood. Plasmatic

homocysteine has a role in precipitating cholesterol into the

arterial intima. The proteins rather than the fats (butter) in milk

are responsible for that.

6. Lactose isn't always entirely broken down by lactase into

glucose and galactose and goes into the bloodstream. The not-broken-

down lactose can generate cataract in the crystalline lens.

7. Milk proteins increase the production of serotonin which in

turn aggravate all inflammatory conditions.

8. Milk, cheese and yoghurt seem to activate the production of

estrogens for women and may lead to mastoiditis, ovarian cysts,

fibromas and hormone-related cancers.

9. Milk from ruminants contain very hard-to-digest casein. The

proteins of milk are broken down into peptides and then aminoacids.

In a normal condition, about one thousandth of these proteins should

go into the bloodstream. In this case, they would have a healthy role

in stimulating intestinal immunity. But in reality an excessive

amount of proteins from milk go into the bloodstream, and this is the

origin of allergic, " auto-immunogenic " , inflammatory and infectious

diseases.

I hope this clarifies a few things. I apologize for my poor

translation from French into English and the use of so many technical

terms.

José