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I can vouch for it and I'll try to keep this brief. I loved milk and everything dairy all my life.
Ate tons of cheese and ice cream and whatever. 2 years ago raging digestive issues developed and
while I waited for a month to get into my doctor appointment I did an experiment on myself - I cut
out all dairy products. I was better the next day, and utterly normal in 2 days. When I saw the
doc he said the vast majority of adults have trouble digesting milk and just don't know it unless a
reactive problem like mine develops.
And I'm lucky because my case isn't that bad. If I eat a little dairy the worst that can happen is
a quick or nasty trip to the bathroom. There are others who get far more sick from it than I.
And I want to clarify that it isn't really about raw versus not. There's a particular shape of
protein in cow's milk which is usually the culprit and believe it or not it has a similar shape to a
protein in wheat which also gives some people a problem. It's not unusual to meet a person with
trouble digesting BOTH milk and wheat for that very reason. |
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No.
Lactose is milk sugar. Lactase is the digestive enzyme for this milk sugar. It disappears in the
human gut at about age three.
Calves have four stomachs to digest cow-milk.
Humans have one stomach.
Goats have one stomach: Goatmilk is similar to human-milk, easier by far to digest.
Cow milk has casein: Varnish for fences is made from casein. It is a hard to digest protein. Baby
calves can stomach it: Humans not so much! |
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31 Oct 2008 14:00
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