The XO Factor

So far, this is (mostly) correct.

Oops! This fear-mongering statement is false, and irrelevant to the subject at hand.

No, it does not.

No, milk proteins do not become encapsulated in "fat molecules" in milk. (The fat GLOBULES in homogenized milk are much larger than molecules, and contain no proteins.)

Protein molecules are much too large to be absorbed across the walls of the intestinal microvilli. So are the much larger fat globules, of course.

They're not "heart researchers", they are anti-milk zealots.

Even if the claim of antibodies were true, it would prove nothing about protein digestion.

And these "powerful effects" are observed only by anti-milk whackos.

Heart attacks primarily affect the cardiac ventricles, not the atria. The cellular destruction that occurs is caused by ischemia (insufficient oxygen), not by xanthene oxidase. Xanthene oxidase is an enzyme in the liver that usually is not found in the bloodstream. When it is, it's the result of liver damage, not milk consumption.

It doesn't look like Oster and Ross have made a discovery that has held up in the bright light of science.

--Rich

To see why cow's milk may not be suitable for humans, check out these web sites:

You don't even specifiy exactly what brand and kind of milk you drank. Do you realize what causes strep throats? The milk could be a co-factor, presumably, but your claim is ridiculous. I'd advise you learn some basic biochemistry. You could also read Bruce Fife's book "Saturated fat may save your life." There are a few minor errors, but it's good for those who want a fairly easy read, but one with some scientific substance.

Other good books are: "The Deadly Poison" and "Milk: A to Z." See

I used regular grocery store purchased cow's milk (2% fat). I know strep throats is a germ. But cow's milk consumption produces heavy mucus and mucus tends to cause germs to stay in the human body. Thus cow's milk drinkers may get health conditions like ear infections and strep throats and maybe asthma / lung congestion.

If the person eliminates dairy (including cow's milk) products from their diet, those health problems just may dis-appear. I have not drank any form of cow's milk in the past ten years and I don't get strep throats anymore.

I have a chiro doc (& nutritionist) friend who has his young daughter drinking rice milk. He fears she could develop type 1 diabetes from drinking cow's milk.

A google search on ("cow's milk") and (ear infection) may produce some good hits.

I used to think the same thing. I switched to a vegan diet and stayed on it for about 14 years, until I lost the ability to digest food, which almost killed me. Now I eat large amounts of dairy, all organic: cream cheese, raw cheese, plain whole-milk yogurt, butter, whey powder, and (rarely) milk or cream. I will not eat anything that has been homogenized. I haven't been sick for a couple of years now, after always getting at least a nasty cold twice a year while on the vegan diet. There are many ways you can depress your "immune system," and I don't know all the details, but you are describing (mucus, strep, diabetes) makes absolutely no sense. I've done the research, and there's just little or nothing to support such claims. On the other hand, there is real science (meaning you can search pubmed.com and read actual scientific papers, not what your local chiropractor says) behind the damage done by free radical mediated processes; physiological (e.g., Braganza's work on several internal organs), biochemical (Spiteller and many others) and epidemiological (measuring things like MDA levels and then making correlations). Fatty acid expert Mary Enig has noted that any non-whole milk or homogenized product is bad news. If there is a study that demonstrates, controlling for all other variables, that raw, organic, whole dairy has unhealthy properties, please cite it. Otherwise, you are using anecdotes as a substitute for the scientific method. I run into this all the time. Someone reads one or two studies, and then think that no other scientist ever did any experiment that relates to the issue, when in fact there is usually so much evidence that it's difficult to read it all, even on one subject, such as the fatty acid known as arachidonic - hundreds, if not thousands of studies just on this one fatty acid. If you want to make "expert" claims, then at least read a good portion of the relevant literature (assuming there is any) and get a grasp on the underlying mechanisms. Otherwise, you're just "cherry picking," but in the case of your claims, I doubt that there is anything beyond the usually nonsense epidemiology, where they claim that the group consuming more dairy (which isn't even verified) had .07% more diabetes (though the other group may have died of other things instead). If you want to rely on this kind of garbage, be my guest, but if you find yourself in the same place I was in several years ago, that is, eating whole grains, beans, nuts, and seeds, and losing my ability to digest food, just don't say you were never warned about it.

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Good overview. I agree that probiotic dairy is perfectly healthy. What in your vegan diet do you think compromised your digestion? Do you think you may have developed allergic reactions following too limited a selection of foods?

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dairy does increase mucus and the proteins and hormones which become systemic overload the immune system's antibody defense. normally our immune system keeps germ and virus such as strep, colds, flu under control but when the antibodies become overwhelmed by invading whole proteins from dairy then the diseases are able to make us sick.

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