It Does a Body Good

It does a body good.....or so most all of us have been told all of our lives.  I am sure most of us grew up with the infamous words, drink all of your milk, it is good for you.  Mom couldn't be wrong could she?  Certainly she wouldn't tell us something that isn't true!  Maybe she didn't have the whole story though and was only telling only us part of the truth!

We all know there are different kinds of milk – cow's milk, goat's milk, mother's milk, etc. - but did you realize there are different kinds of cow milk?  Unpasteurized and pasteurized aside!  Actually the pasteurization process was developed for beer!  Yes, it was developed so that beer will not spoil!  Of course many things  can be  pasteurized, turning them into 'dead' things and increasingly, it seems our government is finding more and more to pasteurize.  In recent years, a bill passed in California, requiring the pasteurization of almonds.

Pasteurization has its place and use in our health, after all who wants to drink spoiled beer?

When it comes to milk, pasteurization does not keep it from spoiling but only serves to make it 'safe,' or some claim.  Actually, the pasteurization process heats up milk and destroys valuable enzymes, such as vitamins A, C, B6, and B12,  are diminished, milk proteins are transformed into unnatural amino acid configurations that may actually be worse for your health.  The pasteurization process also destroying beneficial bacteria in milk, promoting pathogens!

Requiring the pasteurization of milk is a great way to tax milk which supposedly is much of the reason for requiring milk to be pasteurized.  If the milk is not required to go from the dairy farmer but directly to the purchaser, the government has no way to track and tax the milk.  Another way for taxation?  In studies conducted, lactose people (some) were able to tolerate unpasteurized milk even when they had been diagnosed lactose intolerant on pasteurized milk.

What I didn't know and you probably do not either

Unless you have done research, as I have, or you are in the bovine industry, you probably do not know that there are two types of milk produced by cows, A1 and A2 milk.  The protein beta-casein is the interest in these two types of milk.  Proteins are long chains of amino acids.  In the case of beta casein it is a chain of 229 amino acids.  This protein is produced with a proline at number 67 in A2 cows.  On the other hand, A1 cows have a mutated proline amino acid, that converts to histidine.

There is another small protein called BCM 7 which A2 milk has a strong bond with helping to keep it from being released.  The mutated protein (Histidine) only weakly holds onto BCM 7 for it to be released in the GI tract of animals and humans.  BCM 7, a powerful opiate can detrimentally impact your health.

Neither raw goat or sheep milk contains BCM 7 and may be considered as a safe alternative.

The most commonly discussed problem is the production (release of) phlegm, which confirms findings in reference to drinking milk.  More potential hazards which BCM 7 have been linked to:
 

• Type 1 diabetes
• Neurological impairment, including autism and schizophrenia
• Impaired immune function
• Autoimmune disease
• Heart disease

For further reading on beta-casein, you can read www.beta-casein.com for a comprehensive list of published reports on A1 and A2 milk, their differences and the health risks.

Primarily the 'wrong' breeds of cattle are raised in the United States, black and white breeds such as Holsteins and Friesians.  In the United States, Holsteins are one of the most popular breeds.

A2 milk producing breeds include Jersey’s, Guernsey, Asian and African cows.  These breeds primarily produce A2 milk.

You can locate raw (real) milk producers in the United States by visiting this link Real Milk  Stores in California, can be located at California Locator
To check out the legal status of raw milk in your state, go to Raw Milk Legal status by state