Weird because mommy cow surely will make the calcium as available as needed to the calf, maybe we simple are not that good digesting the cow milk as a calf is, what makes sense... But then surely there are some anti nutrients in leafy greens who could compromised calcium absorption or not?
@@enriquemartinez4790 Depends on where you live. Here in Pennsylvania raw milk can even be found in some super markets. When we buy it we usually have to drive 45 minutes to buy it from the farm.
Yea I have grass fed goats milk. My family and I love it. It’s legal for us to drink. However it illegal for me to sell it to others. The fda says my grass fed milk, meat, and eggs are unsafe. But all them rows of sugar foods in the store are perfectly fine.
My cousin, who passed away a week ago at 92, was a life long dairy farmer. Real butter, whole unpasteurized milk straight from cow, farm raised grass fed beef and pork, fresh eggs. Never sick, had the energy of 2 men, worked every single day, day light to dark (except on Sunday, just did the milking) loved God, loved his life, loved being a farmer. Ate and consumed everything MD medicine said not to, only consumed beer and wine in very small amounts and very infrequently, didn't use tobacco. He was lean, slender and strong his entire life. He was a textbook example of what living a lifestyle based on these very principles will produce. Thank you Dr. Ekberg for yet another in a long list of confirmations as to what this type of lifestyle can produce.
My great-grandparents owned a commercial dairy farm, and they had the same kind of food every day. My great-grandfather died very young of a rare blood disorder that was genetic, but my great-grandmother lived to *101.*
I used to be a very sick kid with a completely destroyed immune system. Then my parents send me to our relatives in a countryside over summer where I drank raw milk every day, still warm from straight under the cow. Came back as healthy as it gets, never had health problems ever since, for 35+ years.
Or maybe you just had a terrible sickness when you were a kid and then it went away, like it usually does, and you linked it too your raw milk diet when it actually had nothing to do with it.
@@kooroshrostami27 "like it usually does", what? Personally most of the kids I've known including myself have not had terrible sicknesses that just goes away with age lol.
I have seen the difference between raw milk and pasturized milk. Some years ago I bought raw milk from a farmer. Over the years I drank hundreds of litres, never any issue. I'm Scandinavian. Two women from the Philippines in the family couldn't drink milk because they couldn't digest it, but they could perfectly well handle raw milk. Seing is believing.
Tell me something. Does domesticated cows that "produces raw milk" take the same vaccines, the same hormones, the same medications of the cows that produces the "regular" (homogenized, etc.) milk that we buy in the market? Just curious.
@@jmvneto51 i would assume most definitely but it would depend on what farmer or rancher you are buying it from. I don't know where small farms get their cattle from or how they vaccinate their livestock or if the live stock was vaccinated before purchasing. But I would assume some raise the cows from birth and I do not know when or if those cows are vaccinated. As far as I know all the milk in stores is all from cows that have been vaccinated with god knows what straight into their mammory glands
I was born in Armenia and I never drunk milk growing up and none of my neighbors kids either and we rarely had bone related weaknesses as it has been brainwashed upon people.What we consumed a lot were natural cheeses from unpasteurized natural milk.Agree with Dr.Ekberg 100%
I stopped drinking/using milk about a year ago, (I use coconut milk) I will share this with my family, my 3 grandchildren during a gallon of milk every 1-2 days
No plant can produce milk , try A2 milk ? Its very digestible and is becoming popular ! I grew up dairy farming and have literally hundreds of cousins and friends that ALL drink gallons every week ,ZERO that I know had any health problems associated with milk ! Let your grand kids enjoy milk !
At the age of 71yrs. I had mostly experience a problem with milk that I loved and had been told that I was lactose intolerant. I decided recently to try verified organic milk from grass fed cows only and I have begin to enjoy milk and not experience bloating or stomach pains of the past. Thanks for the information.
This is fascinating. I had also been told that I was lactose intolerant, but yet I drank milk fresh at a dairy and did not get sick at all. I love milk and dairy products and I do think they are healthy as long as we don't do silly things like drink gallons of heavy cream
Thank you Delores Barrett for sharing. That is great that you are able to drink it again. Not many of my patients can tolerate pasteurized homogenized milk.
The pasturized milk is a problem for me. I remove the hard cream, and leave the amount of the second rising cream to the taste and texture I like. I made yoghurt, custard, quiche. It may be that 'twice-cooked' milk is the problem, said to cause 'ama'. I had no problem with milk, until I had homogenized milk, and the 30-day standard made it much worse. I was told chemicals were added to make milk shelf stable for the 30-day standard. Next, milk was superhomogenized. I have heard that affects leaky gut, or helps cause it.
Hi Dr. Sten, I have my PhD in food science and one of your followers just sent me your video. From a food science aspect there are a couple of inaccuracies in your video. First, pasteurised milk is not sterile. The aim of pasteurisation is simply to destroy any harmful bacteria in milk. There are plenty of other bacteria, yeasts, and molds that survive this process. Similarly, it's inaccurate to say pasteurised milk has no enzymes. Sure, some enzymes may be heat labile but definitely not all. Thirdly, when a protein denatures it doesn't become solid. It simply unfolds and loses it's original tertiary and possibly secondary structure. In general, I think we would disagree on the harmfulness of pasteurisation but I wish you the best of luck!
I wonder where you live. IN the UK the pasturization is quite gentle, and the stuff that is delivered to the door in glass bottles has cream on the top and will go off . I think perhaps that supermarket milk might be more severely pasturized and that Sten is referring to a more severe regime in the USA.
Dr. Ekberg, you're the best! Not only your perfect health knowledge, but also your precise way of communicating all that information so effectively! I've been cleaning up my diet for about 7-8 years now; but ditching dairy has been the best decision I ever made. For 50+ years I suffered (snoring, blocked nose, sinus headaches, sleep apnea, runny nose etc etc) and got rid of all of these conditions by quitting dairy. It was magical! Quitting all other processed factory-made foods wasn't enough to fix my breath-related issues. Thank you so much for your great work!
Thank you for all the work you do. I read Nathan Pritikin’s Live Longer Now in ‘71 and bought into the low fat/no fat cholesterol is bad farce. Worked out always, active in many sports, but as years past developed love handles. No amount of working out or dieting erased them. I could lose weight but handles remained. I found your channel and instantly admired not only your content but your delivery style. Thank you. I have trimmed to my gymnastic weight of my youth and I am close to eliminating those handles. I save just about all your videos and pass them on to friends and family. You have helped me in a short period of time shed 22 pounds but more importantly I recognize what put it there initially.
I can only speak from experience, I suffered from Seborrhea dermatitis for the most part of my life and I had tried everything under the sun to control it, someone suggested to give up milk and eat fermented foods and when I did I was very surprised by the dramatic improvement in my skin, just to confirm that milk was the culprit I began to drink milk again and sure enough my seborrhea dermatitis returned
I am not native 'ın English, and most of the doctors speak so fast so i can understand very small of their speech, but you are putting everything so smootly and understandable, that you became my favourite one. Thank you.
I love milk and I will never stop drinking it. No matter what you say. I grew up in Michigan. I have never had any problems digesting milk I especially love cottage cheese.
@@SachelleCambriabecause vegans don't believe there are harmless milk, they think all harm animals. I respect for them, but saying 100% is harmful is wrong!
Since we are discussing personal experiences with Dairy: When I am leaner, and exercising often I find it very nice and often crave it. Over the past year when I could not exercise as much, dairy would give me digestive issues. I noticed that people are over weight nearly always have problems with dairy, and most people that I lift and exercise with have few issues and often make whey and casein protein part of their diet.
There are days where my body is fiending for a glass of milk. I dont even love milk, but that urge has to be something real and i always feel good after.
I like this story. It sounds to me that when the body is depleted through hard work, such as lifting or otherwise living an active lifestyle, milk is one thing that can replenish and boost the body. Mike Mentzer used to talk about the systemic effects of exercise, and I would say that different types of nutrition fit into the system differently. Thank you for sharing, great information.
This is likely a function of gut bacteria. Overweight people have different gut microbiomes than thin people. So, the thin people's guts can process milk better the same way they process everything else better.
You may be right. I am a thin 86 year old with no health issues and drink lots of 2% milk and always have. I just don't understand why it is not healthy and not recommended. @@allhimwithme5115
Im already 41.i used to know your videos for only 7mos now..i hope it is not too late to be healthy. I share the knowledge to my loved ones also so they could gain benefit from it too..thanks God for u doc. Ekberg 🧡🧡🧡
At 41 it is not too late to be healthy. I'm 72 and have had problems for years that are now leaving me as I eat the kinds of food that Dr. Ekberg recommends. Even though it can take years to become unhealthy, the body is amazingly quick to return to health if you just give it a chance.
You are the best teacher ever!!!!!!! Where were you when I was studying science medicine? I had a sore throat for years and kept having to take antibiotics. Turned out I was having a reaction to milk. Haven't touched it in years and no sore throat. Its so sad that the public have no idea what is good or bad since the media and manufacturers tell lies
I love the way you deliver information in an organized and clear way. I am fortunate to have found this channel while I still have some time to correct my eating lifestyle. You have gained a new subscriber. Thank you.
Thank you MohOEM and welcome to the channel. Keep watching my videos, so you get a clear understanding about what health really takes. If you have any questions feel free to ask.
@@kareemahmed7028 He recommends to completely avoid pasteurized dairy, which is mostly all the dairy you can buy in a store, and recommends moderate quantities of raw or fermented dairy. Long story short: find a farm nearby, drink some milk from there, let it ferment and eat a great yogurt or learn to make kefir from it. That's it, nothing more. If you want calcium eat leafy greens like salat or spinat.
Thanks for explaining this in an unbiased way. I always hear vegans talk about milk like it's poison and the other side is just people who hate vegans and don't give any real facts about milk.
I nursed my four children. I weened them after time. The longest I nursed was 22 months. They got the colostrum at the beginning. I know I've never seen animals drinking milk all their lives like humans do. Thanks for the video. I always learn something here.
Wow things have changed. I just Googled raw milk and it is now only 1 hour and 6 minutes away by car used to be 3 or 4 hours. I can't wait to visit this little dairy farm
A couple more points: If you are on a low-carb diet, anything lighter than whole milk has too much sugar. It's ironic people think skim milk must be more healthy, but it's not. Also grass fed is important, as grain fed introduces contents we don't want.
"A dietary pattern preferring dairy products was associated with increased survival in Tokyo-area centenarians." 2003 article title: Dietary patterns and further survival in Japanese centenarians.
My Dad is 103 and still happy healthy and functional. He has always drank milk. Probably 3 quarts per week. And my Mom is 96 and she drinks milk too. They always have milk with cereal. Usually low fat milk.
Well that "food" a literal poison. You can find out in the video why. Also, outside of low fat milk with gmo cereals, they had to have eaten extremely healthy and do sports/exercise to get to their age and be functional
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Great information. I was a powerlifter who drank, on average, a 1/2 gallon of milk daily. I also consumed massive amounts of meat and starchy carbs. And while I had 18.5” biceps and could lift a small car, I was unhealthy. I’m currently on a Keto eating lifestyle, accompanied by a modified CrossFit training program and my weight has stabilized at 200 lbs (beginning weight: 242). At 54 years of age my blood pressure, which formerly was high, now averages 115/65 with a resting pulse rate of 50.
If you are on a Keto diet make sure to eat exactly as our hunter gatherer ancestors ate. Eat only wild game, and only when it's available which is not that often, also the mainstay of your diet should be freshly picked vegetables and herbs.
@@neiljohnson7914 there are different qualities of supermarket meat, from the cheap and nasty grain fed stuff to animals out on the pasture their entire lives with little to no health intervention (antibodies, vaccines, etc) also important to keep in mind that wild game varies in quality too
Pasteurized is not sterile. Yes, a lot of the bacteria is killed, not all of it. The concepts you are teaching are valuable, don't spoil your credibility with false statements, unless that's the plan to get people like me to comment down here.
I have always been able to tolerate pasteurized milk, but for 6 years, I have been drinking raw milk, and it has done so many good things for me, like better digestion, and im a lot less sick. Before that, I stopped drinking milk for two years, but I didnt feel any change. For me raw milk is a superfood without any doubt! On the other hand I dont tolerate vegetables very well. I get diarrhea and headaches from many of them. Now I have ordered raw butter from England. I hope its doing well on its trip to Denmark, haha.
Without seeing you I wouldn't be able to give you anything specific. There is probably some imbalance in your gut such as gut flora, permeability, SIBO, etc.
It's fine. I have been drinking Milk (boiled with tea/coffee) for the last 10 years and am still healthy. I'm lucky my home is 4 km apart from a cow farm.
You’re not healthy. You just assume you are fine! Sorry to say that but in time you’ll definitely face health issues if you don’t stop drinking that milk!!!!
We had a jersey house cow.. milked it twice a day when I was still at school.. sometimes myself and my sister would spray milk straight in our mouths from the teet when we would go outside with the animals.. good times.. very good milk and a very beautiful tame animal. It was the small type of Jersey cow.. very very tame. I really miss her
Dr. Sten, I just looked up the stats on raw grass fed whole milk - 12 carbs in a glass. From the food combining days I always would consume dairy separate from other foods. Doing IF or OMAD, when and how is the best way to consume my raw milk - slightly ahead of the rest of the meal or treat it as a meal a few hours away from other foods? Thanks! I am "hooked" on your videos! Learning so much from you.
Thank you Betsy Dettloff. Food combining is a good idea, especially if you have some digestive troubles. I would probably do it slightly ahead of the meal.😄
Relative to the pasteurization issue... some States, such as New Jersey, will not even allow a sunny side up egg to be served in a restaurant. Everything has to be cooked to death.
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Perhaps the biggest argument in the medical world Is that people with either osteopenia or osteoporosis need milk. What say you? Please do a video on asked you paralysis in calcium
He’s not even an expert in this area,,, what are you talking about? This dude is just like “dr” berg... using titles and certifications to trick low-information-voters into thinking they’re experts,,, Anybody who pushes dairy products is a doofus
Many more Scandinavians these days are finding out they are lactose intolerant and more lactose-free products are now offered on store shelves within the past ten years. I don't know if this is due to milk now being largely consumed that is pasteurized and homogenized instead of raw and if people are now developing problems with lactose, but something is changing in this regard. My neighbor is a diary farmer and any raw dairy or dairy productsyou consume must be tested thoroughly for listeria and brucellosis and assayed as not having these as they can really ruin your health if you get them.
All my life I have been taught that anything with milk is supposed to be the "perfect" & "natural" food. Wether it be Ice cream, cheese yogurt or milk: it was always good for you. But somehow( other than cheese), I have naturally moved away from eating or drinking milk products, and really haven't missed them at all. But now good whole milk cheese is another story altogether. Lol
Well, here’s the gig, Doc: 1. While not a ‘big’ milk drinker, 2. I like the taste of milk. 3. Raw milk is not legal where I am, so finding it and acquiring it - not to mention risking drinking it: ridiculous. 4. I eat yogurt, leafy green vegetables, etc., etc. 5. I am not lactose intolerant or have any allergies or sensitivity to milk 6. So, regarding the bacteria and enzymes - not to mention the calcium, protein, and vitamin D, e.g. - what’s the big deal between drinking pasteurized, homogenized milk vs. drinking nothing? So, I drink milk. What’s your solution?
Drink half & half instead, if you can afford it. The high fat content counters the high sugar, greatly lower the 'Glycemic Load*. Read the ingredient label and buy the one that says only: Milk, Cream.
I grew up on a dairy farm and we drank milk straight from the cows teat. so to speak. Fresh cow's milk is great. The stuff from the grocery store? I only use cream for my coffee. Farmers got paid by the fat content of the milk, the more fat the more money, now they sell 1%. I agree with the doc, todays' milk leaves to be desired.
Fermented yoghurt high fat no added sugar sounds best for me. I have iron overload, so I combine eating meat with fermented milk for protein & fat, the yogurt or cheese has calcium, casein & whey that reduces iron absorption.
If you know someone who owns cows, ask them for some fresh milk, non pasturized, it's so much better! Unfortunately, most stores are not allowed to sell raw milk, but if you know people who own cows or goats, ask them for some.
@@drekberg You're welcome, I worked in a grocery store for many years, and even the manager couldn't tell me why they weren't allowed to sell raw milk. It's ok to sell raw honey, but not milk.
Milk is designed for baby animals not for great big fat adult humans. I have not had any dairy products in 30 years. My osteoporosis has reversed, my IBS issues have gone and I no longer have mucus issues. In all, I am an extremely healthy 67 year old.
It's simply not true that Asians across the board have lost lactase and become intolerant to milk. I am a 100% Asian and have absolutely no problem with lactose, my son has no problem with lactose (although he was allergic to milk in the early days of his infancy, which is a totally different problem), and as far as I know, most Asians are not intolerant to lactose, although it has been said that lactose intolerant is higher in Asians than in Europeans.
I love Sten’s videos - always very insightful, thorough and educational - but I often feel that he commits naturalistic fallacies. I understand how evolution has shaped us according to our natural surroundings, but still it’s not sufficient to just point out that something is or isn’t “natural” as an argument for or against it.
I’m pretty sure when you change the nature of things problems occur. Most food distributors change foods obviously to cut prices, so is this bad to say he is wrong? But if your saying he is bias against anything un natural, you may have an argument.
Applying the naturalistic fallacy to foods that come from nature is inherently fallacious. Humans don't do better with animal fats over PUFAs just because. It's because one is something we evolved to metabolize and the other is industrial sludge. The null hypothesis or "assumption" therefore is that natural food is always better until proven otherwise. Applies to real meat over beyond meat, water over sodas/juices, whole foods over processed, organic produce over GMO, herbicide/pesticide covered produce.
Raw dairy is key. I avoid pasteurized dairy because of congestivity from pasteurized dairy. Also, with raw milk, I don't refrigerate it, I let it culture ferment at ambient room temperature. The milk can be drunken from fresh through till whenever, usually within a week or two.
I used to drink about 4 to 6 pints of pasteurised milk every day during the summer (a bit less at other times of the year). I found it more satisfying and thirst quenching than other drinks, especially after exercise. I never had any bad reactions to it, but I became a bit weary of consuming that much dairy, so about a year ago I switched to soy milk. Now I'm waiting for a video telling me how bad that is 😄.
I've already seen that video saying that soy isn't good for you. I have been drinking large amounts of pasteurized cow's milk from the grocery my entire life and at 66 years old I am very healthy. I am of northern European descent and have never had any digestion problems with milk. One day I was playing around with a calculator and estimated that I drank enough milk in my lifetime to completely fill up my 2 car garage from top to bottom, LOL. I couldn't even imagine giving up cow's milk as I love it too much. We're all different.
@@CaneFu Actually, I switched back to milk a week or so back. I've also seen recent concerns about soy, particularly for men. I'm now drinking organic milk, usually unhomogenised. It's expensive but it tastes lovely!
@@CaneFu I'm almost 69, Canadian (European), drink at least a liter of pasteurized milk per day since childhood. I'm in excellent health and take no meds, walk 10 k per day. I couldn't imagine life without milk (and beer, wine and weed).
I'm in tx, and unless you raise the animal, you can't do raw milk. I'm in a city in a apt, so any milk I have access to is pasteurized. The only loophole in the law is a person having a friend who raises milk producing livestock gifting or bartering the milk, or a under the table transaction. I don't drink milk much anyway because there is a chemical compound in milk based dairy that causes the body to produce more mucus and I have severe seasonal allergies that have caused multiple instances of bronchitis over the years. I've had boughts of bronchitis bad enough, coupled with my hereditary asthma, to cause coughing fits bad enough to cause my abdominal muscles to seize hard enough to crack my ribs. It's extremely painful. I also know I have low bone calcium levels, so cutting out milk isn't wise. Yes, I eat lots of veggies but it hasn't done enough. I did find a way to deal with milk somewhat. Because I grew accustomed to not drinking milk, I never really developed a craving for it. However, I've always liked yogurt and other fermented dairy. So, I make my own yogurt, and sour cream. I haven't gotten cheesemaking down yet. But that's on my list of things I intend to learn. It would allow me to make my pasteurized milk easier to process while allowing me to stop having to buy cheese to have on hand
I am a new subscriber to your channel and I love the way you explain the things. My whole family is watching you. Thanks Doctor! Greetings from Germany/Berlin!
If you have horrible menstrual pain, consider avoiding dairy. A1 kasein may cause those cramps. After eliminating dairy from her diet, my daughter experienced huge relief. Pain level dropped to 2/10 for her immediately.
Well, the statement „calcium from milk is poorly absorbable“ is not completely right. For example, dairy foods have a bioavailablity of about 30% absorption so if a food label on milk lists 300 mg of calcium per cup, about 100 mg will be absorbed and used by the body. Plant foods like leafy greens contain much less calcium overall but have a higher bioavailability than dairy.
@@dannychurch7223 Berg advocates way too much about eating veggies. And it's not right. Recently it's been proven that our soil is depleted and therefore nutritional value of those veggies goes down. If you are able to get fully organic with no pesticides whatsoever or better - grow it yourself, then it's great. But how many people are able to do that?
In the UK the milk we get delivered in glass bottles on the doorstep is only gently pasturised and not homogenised - the cream settles to the top. Obviously it is not completely raw - but it will go off, whereas sterilsied milk does not. I wonder if you have yoghurt, and real cheese you will get all the bacteria you need that replaces what you would have got from raw?
What can you do about constipation? I have always had a tendency to have it, but it is worse since I’ve been on the Keto diet. I eat a lot of vegetables. I don’t drink milk, but I eat sour cream and heavy cream. Thank you for your clear explanations delivered at a pace that allows me to understand them.
I don't know if you still have this problem but I had the same problem.it's normal for the constipation to get worse on keto. What we mostly eat on keto is meat, eggs and milk - it's protein and consuming more protein makes constipation worse. So you need to lower the protein you consume and consume more fiber. This may mean that you will not be on the strictest keto diet, but being constipated is worse. Also you can take magnesium supplement because it's vital mineral that helps with digestion and many more processes in the body
Had the same problem on low carb to now I make a ground mixture (mixed in a coffee grinder), of pumpin seeds, hemp seeds and add some psyllium husks. Two teaspoons mixed into a pot of natural full fat yogurt each day and hey presto the extra healthy fibre that is needed
Pasteurized milk made me sick, I drank it for two years everyday in high quantities because I was working out and wanted to build muscle. I started having inflammation and infections inside my body, teeth problems, bone problems, bloating and belly ache ... I feel much better now that I stopped drinking it. I hate pasteurized milk. Only use with raw milk.
Well, i'm Portuguese, i drink a lot of milk (around a liter daily), and eat plenty of cheese, both pasteurized. It doesn't seem to do me any harm that i'm aware of, so i suppose i'm very lactose resistant.
Thanks for the great info. I'm inclined to think that the problem with milk is in the gut not the milk. The Western/American diet is probably what creates milk allergies and intolerance. I grew up in a culture where milk is drank throughout life from infancy to old age and I'd never heard of lactose intolerance or milk allergies before I came to America. Through much of the world (Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe) pasteurized (boiled) milk is drank either directly or in tea and has been for a very long time without problems. When I was growing up milk was considered the go to food for infants and the elderly and infirm. We had cows , we milked them, WE boiled the milk, refrigerated it and boiled it again to make tea or drink straight. Never heard of a problem. I do know people who developed milk allergies and lactose intolerance for the first time after coming to America, despite having been raised drinking milk well into adulthood.
I think it's like anything if you're having a problem introduce it slowly and you will be able to adjust just as the infant does. People who completely stopped Dairy like I once did had to reintroduce it slowly and I'm fine with it now
I have been meaning to watch this explanation. Thank you to Dr Ekberg. Always adding the educational component to help us make better food decisions. I think I’ll stick to plain yoghurt and not the pasteurized store bought milk
My grandfather was a farmer and he sold raw milk, BUT it's almost impossible to find raw milk today and when I was very young (toddler stage)I drank raw milk and I got diarrhea, pasteurized milk, I can drink it all day
I have no side effects from milk. I am on keto so I do not drink too much of it but I like to mix my collagen peptides with warm milk and water. I have no bloating, no gas, no symptoms of any kind.
Pasteurization is just getting the milk heated and cooled to kill bacteria. Homogenization is forcing the milk through a small hole that breaks up the large fat blobs into tiny blobs. This changes the texture and almost all other characteristics of milk. These are two very different things! You can pasteurize but not homogenize milk, that takes care of all the health issues that a government can be worried about. The fact that the US uses so much homogenization is about shelf life it has nothing to do with health. It would be easy for manufacturers to make milk pasteurized and NOT homogenized. This kind of milk is what we usually get in Europe. If you leave pasteurized but not homogenized milk out it separates out, you can boil it up to get the solid white part (Americans don't even have a name for it - it's like cottage cheese but not exactly) and the whey ... both are edible and good. Also you can make home-made yoghurt with it (just needs some previous yoghurt for the bacteria). If you leave homogenized milk out it just goes bad. The sad thing is most Americans don't even know how real milk should behave they think this is normal. My issue with this presentation is that it bundles pasteurization and homogenization together. These are not the only two options! It is possible to get pasteurized and non-homogenized milk and then you still have most of the benefits.
You can assimilate calcium easily from milk and other animal origins. From plants.... like most of the nutrients from plants they aren't easy bio available, in order to get significant values you need big quantities, so that's not a very good advice
Plants contain high amount of oxalates and Salycilates. Milk is much better and absorbable, animal mammals need an absorbable source of calcium to grow. If milk is not desirable, then chewing chicken bones will provide all the calcium you need
Also, eating seafood is one of the most common way to get food poisoning. Yet no-one has banned it and it's never reported as a serious health threat. The truth is, I've been consuming raw milk for over 10 years.I've never even had an upset stomach. You must get it from a reputable source and there'll be no issues. It's as simple as that.
Before I knew it was ever pushed I loved it since I was a kid. I’m hooked on the stuff that’s pasteurized and probably drink too much but at least I’m down to a gallon a week.
Good tasting honey is from a small group of hives not just a giant mix from multiple aparies. I bet the same goes for milk. Small farms with grass fed free range cows. Unfortunately farming practices are not good for the animals or environment. It took a year but I am now able to drink almond milk in coffee. I am lactose intolerant so this was a game changer.
When I was growing up, I never ever heard of anyone being lactose intolerant and now half of the people born since 1990 are lactose intolerant and I've never had a problem with drinking milk
I'd like to try Raw Milk, but I'm concerned about its safety. If we're not used to certain bacteria in our gut, I'm afraid it could cause a bad reaction. Wasn't there a reason milk had to be pasteurised? (I'm in the UK) Any comments, anyone? 🤔
Here's Wikipedia's take, from its page on pasteurization: "Milk is an excellent medium for microbial growth,[17] and when it is stored at ambient temperature bacteria and other pathogens soon proliferate.[18] The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says improperly handled raw milk is responsible for nearly three times more hospitalizations than any other food-borne disease source, making it one of the world's most dangerous food products.[19][20] Diseases prevented by pasteurization can include tuberculosis, brucellosis, diphtheria, scarlet fever, and Q-fever; it also kills the harmful bacteria Salmonella, Listeria, Yersinia, Campylobacter, Staphylococcus aureus, and Escherichia coli O157:H7,[21][22] among others."
@@rachelm7525 Does sound as if, if you're very careful with raw milk, you'd probably be fine. Whether the benefits are worth it, I'm not sure. Perhaps, as Ekberg sort of suggests, products like yoghurt and kefir give you the best of both worlds - safety, but with helpful enzymes and good bacteria.
I have started buying fresh milk from a farm nearby. I do not boil it so as to keep bacteria and enzymes. My question is: how long do these bacteria and enzima remain alive in milk? Should I get fresh milk every day or they resist a couple of days (stored in fridge)? Thanks a lot!
Great videos! It became a tradition for me to watch one before going to the supermarket 😉 What do you think of other milk-like-looking alternatives on the market these days, like milk from plants? Greetings from Bavaria, cow region.
Milk from plants are not healthy and not actually milk. Only coconut milk is natural. Alternative is to make your own oat/almond milk and stay away from soy or shop made
This was a good video, but it did not mention how milk increases estrogen, or spikes insulin. I love dairy, but I'm down to about a half gallon of milk per month. Grown men should drink little milk due to the estrogen issue.
@@MJ_Coaching_Online but I really don’t think companies waste any energy on disliking this video. I think it’s frustrated vegans because the dr. Didn’t feed the „milk causes cancer“ narrative.
Not all pasteurized milk is homogenized. Making kefir from pasteurized milk is the best - puts life back into the milk, makes it more digestible, and some people have to pasteurize raw milk to be able to make kefir because there is too much bacteria competing. Kefir bacteria break down the lactose.
A grown human doesn't need milk, we don't have a ridiculous calcium requirement past infancy. Commercial cow's milk contains antibiotic residues. One could argue that milk is more toxic than it is beneficial for adults.
A great video, thank you. I remember when I was a kid in the 60's when we got milk in glass bottles, if it was left to stand, the cream did come to the top, it must have been more natural in those days.
Growing up in the 50s and 60s in England we had free milk every day at school. It was pasteurised but it separated. The pasteurised milk delivered to the doorstep by the milkman also separated. We would rush to be first to breakfast to put the cream on our cornflakes. Today, pasteurised milk doesn’t separate. What happened?
The separation was due to the milk not being homogenized. This process denatures the fats and doesn't separate the fat out. This is different from pasteurization.
Adressing the argument that "the majority of people do good with raw milk products". You should also mention how many humans in history died from consuming raw milk products before pasteurization was invented due to infections by e.g. Salmonella and other pathogens. With that in mind, the benefits of pasteurization definitely outweigh the downsides. This reporting is really one sided and results in false conclusions. Can you give any scientific references like research papers that verify your conclusions? I don't see any in the video or in the video description. The argument that raw food = always good and processed food = always bad is wrong in most cases and the increase in global life expectancy over the last decades is a good counter argument (of course also due to new medical achievements).
Here in eastern Europe until 10 years ago, every home had 1-2 cows. Everybody ate raw milk and milk products. They even sell them in markets and it's fine, no infections.
I do share your concerns about raw milk, and I've never tried it, but I certainly believe that processed 'foods' account for a great many illnesses in our modern time eg: arthritis, Coeliac Disease, Type 2 diabetes, obesity all of which are at epedemic levels in the western world. I do agree we should be cautious, but on balance I believe more natural foods are biologically appropriate. 🙂
@@V.D.22 My grandparents on both sides raised cows their whole life and NEVER drank raw milk, nor did they made any cheeses before boiling the milk. This was just common sense and practiced by 99% of the people in my Eastern European country, Bulgaria, home of the yogurt. So many people died from consuming raw milk that no-one questioned that milk should be boiled first. Brie, Parmigiano, Roquefort, etc. are all made from raw milk, but in Eastern Europe, the traditional cheeses (white "feta"-like and yellow "kashkaval") are made after boiling the milk first. The same is true for home-made yogurt.
There are some serious study that showed correlation between milk and prostate cancer so I advice men to read more about the subject and reduce a little bit their consumption of milk.
Sten, because New Zealanders pay more for our own fresh milk than Australians do, I boycott fresh milk and mix it from NZ milk powder - which is raw milk, not homogenised. But I have A sneaking suspicion the evaporative process is the equivalent of homogenization - is that correct? Also, the powdered stuff seems to have some soy added, and there is some trans fat in there now. :( Which is going to be less bad for me? Because there is no way on Earth I am giving up milk. I can stop sugar, I can stop soda, I can stop french-fries and chips, and I can even stop toast and potatoes - but milk? No way. No how, and at no time will I ever stop drinking it. I have reduced my intake, and I have just received my glucose meter, and have tested at 7.3 and then 7.2 today. Thanks for your assistance, I have learned a lot from you!
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Dr. Sten Ekberg what can I do to restore kidney function and what kind of food should I be eating for proper maintenance of your kidneys?
Dr. Sten Ekberg. is there a place where they sell raw milk ?
Weird because mommy cow surely will make the calcium as available as needed to the calf, maybe we simple are not that good digesting the cow milk as a calf is, what makes sense... But then surely there are some anti nutrients in leafy greens who could compromised calcium absorption or not?
Stef Diaz Diaz milk is very bad for u coconut and almond is better
@@enriquemartinez4790
Depends on where you live. Here in Pennsylvania raw milk can even be found in some super markets. When we buy it we usually have to drive 45 minutes to buy it from the farm.
Yea I have grass fed goats milk. My family and I love it. It’s legal for us to drink. However it illegal for me to sell it to others. The fda says my grass fed milk, meat, and eggs are unsafe. But all them rows of sugar foods in the store are perfectly fine.
@Alien , its silly to compare humans to animals
Just have to read it in the order it goes , food and then drugs . Really selfexplanatory.
@Farmer , cant you farmers go to the court to fight this injustice ?
@@kunjikorans Well, no - cause we are very similar to mammals. Its pretty much our brain thats the biggest difference and makes us superior.
@@prebengjestang4636 And the big brain of ours is the fact that we need very dense animal foods including cow,goat milk.
My cousin, who passed away a week ago at 92, was a life long dairy farmer. Real butter, whole unpasteurized milk straight from cow, farm raised grass fed beef and pork, fresh eggs. Never sick, had the energy of 2 men, worked every single day, day light to dark (except on Sunday, just did the milking) loved God, loved his life, loved being a farmer. Ate and consumed everything MD medicine said not to, only consumed beer and wine in very small amounts and very infrequently, didn't use tobacco. He was lean, slender and strong his entire life. He was a textbook example of what living a lifestyle based on these very principles will produce. Thank you Dr. Ekberg for yet another in a long list of confirmations as to what this type of lifestyle can produce.
You had a really great cousin, seems like the best dude ever, RIP
@shreddedbagelwabiwabo8342 thank you. He surely was
That sounds like a beautiful life. God bless him.
sorry for your loss brother
My great-grandparents owned a commercial dairy farm, and they had the same kind of food every day. My great-grandfather died very young of a rare blood disorder that was genetic, but my great-grandmother lived to *101.*
I used to be a very sick kid with a completely destroyed immune system. Then my parents send me to our relatives in a countryside over summer where I drank raw milk every day, still warm from straight under the cow. Came back as healthy as it gets, never had health problems ever since, for 35+ years.
Goat milk is good too
Did you drink milk from straight under the cow since 35+ years?
maybe that protein-rich fluid called liquor puris (a.k.a. pus) that is filled with dead, white blood cells supercharged your immune system.
Or maybe you just had a terrible sickness when you were a kid and then it went away, like it usually does, and you linked it too your raw milk diet when it actually had nothing to do with it.
@@kooroshrostami27 "like it usually does", what? Personally most of the kids I've known including myself have not had terrible sicknesses that just goes away with age lol.
My ancestors became genetically adapted to milk as a food. I have been thriving on milk for 78 years with no issues.
I'll still take any form of milk (or water, of course) over poisonous soda or sugary fruit juice.
EXACTLY
That’s the whole point
Stick dairy and sodas on the same level.
Milk is full of sugar and saturated fat
Why drink anything but water?
@@Desimcd Saturated fat is not bad for you!
I have seen the difference between raw milk and pasturized milk. Some years ago I bought raw milk from a farmer. Over the years I drank hundreds of litres, never any issue. I'm Scandinavian. Two women from the Philippines in the family couldn't drink milk because they couldn't digest it, but they could perfectly well handle raw milk. Seing is believing.
Tell me something. Does domesticated cows that "produces raw milk" take the same vaccines, the same hormones, the same medications of the cows that produces the "regular" (homogenized, etc.) milk that we buy in the market? Just curious.
@@jmvneto51 i would assume most definitely but it would depend on what farmer or rancher you are buying it from. I don't know where small farms get their cattle from or how they vaccinate their livestock or if the live stock was vaccinated before purchasing. But I would assume some raise the cows from birth and I do not know when or if those cows are vaccinated. As far as I know all the milk in stores is all from cows that have been vaccinated with god knows what straight into their mammory glands
@@jmvneto51
All Farm Animals are Vaccinated and Wormed.
I was born in Armenia and I never drunk milk growing up and none of my neighbors kids either and we rarely had bone related weaknesses as it has been brainwashed upon people.What we consumed a lot were natural cheeses from unpasteurized natural milk.Agree with Dr.Ekberg 100%
Hi Ruben Drink Raw Milk is best
It is soooo nice to follow a doctor who has understood how the body works. Love your videos
I stopped drinking/using milk about a year ago, (I use coconut milk) I will share this with my family, my 3 grandchildren during a gallon of milk every 1-2 days
Yes they definitely need to know this information.
We have been drinking ONLY oat milk for about 6 years, but we don’t necessarily drink it, mainly just for baking.
@@drekberg Milk is better for kids than adults.
No plant can produce milk , try A2 milk ? Its very digestible and is becoming popular ! I grew up dairy farming and have literally hundreds of cousins and friends that ALL drink gallons every week ,ZERO that I know had any health problems associated with milk ! Let your grand kids enjoy milk !
I love coconut milk, I like the taste more than milk also chocolate oat milk is pretty good yummy
At the age of 71yrs. I had mostly experience a problem with milk that I loved and had been told that I was lactose intolerant. I decided recently to try verified organic milk from grass fed cows only and I have begin to enjoy milk and not experience bloating or stomach pains of the past. Thanks for the information.
This is fascinating. I had also been told that I was lactose intolerant, but yet I drank milk fresh at a dairy and did not get sick at all. I love milk and dairy products and I do think they are healthy as long as we don't do silly things like drink gallons of heavy cream
Thank you Delores Barrett for sharing. That is great that you are able to drink it again. Not many of my patients can tolerate pasteurized homogenized milk.
@@scarlet8078 Thank you for sharing too. That is great that you lived on a farm and were able to drink milk that was very fresh.
The pasturized milk is a problem for me.
I remove the hard cream, and leave the amount of the second rising cream to the taste and texture I like.
I made yoghurt, custard, quiche.
It may be that 'twice-cooked' milk is the problem, said to cause 'ama'.
I had no problem with milk, until I had homogenized milk, and the 30-day standard made it much worse.
I was told chemicals were added to make milk shelf stable for the 30-day standard.
Next, milk was superhomogenized. I have heard that affects leaky gut, or helps cause it.
Reminds me of how people are finding out that a lot of "glutten" problems may actually come from rampant glycosophate pesticide usage on wheat
Hi Dr. Sten, I have my PhD in food science and one of your followers just sent me your video. From a food science aspect there are a couple of inaccuracies in your video. First, pasteurised milk is not sterile. The aim of pasteurisation is simply to destroy any harmful bacteria in milk. There are plenty of other bacteria, yeasts, and molds that survive this process. Similarly, it's inaccurate to say pasteurised milk has no enzymes. Sure, some enzymes may be heat labile but definitely not all. Thirdly, when a protein denatures it doesn't become solid. It simply unfolds and loses it's original tertiary and possibly secondary structure. In general, I think we would disagree on the harmfulness of pasteurisation but I wish you the best of luck!
Thank you for this valuable information
Why would "the good guys " (bacteria) survive pasteurisation but "the
bad guys " get killed off ?
@@brianterence3211 Heat seems to be conscious and attacks only the bad guys.
@@brianterence3211 Because they are different in heat tolerance. The temperature is controlled in the process..
I wonder where you live. IN the UK the pasturization is quite gentle, and the stuff that is delivered to the door in glass bottles has cream on the top and will go off . I think perhaps that supermarket milk might be more severely pasturized and that Sten is referring to a more severe regime in the USA.
Dr. Ekberg, you're the best! Not only your perfect health knowledge, but also your precise way of communicating all that information so effectively! I've been cleaning up my diet for about 7-8 years now; but ditching dairy has been the best decision I ever made. For 50+ years I suffered (snoring, blocked nose, sinus headaches, sleep apnea, runny nose etc etc) and got rid of all of these conditions by quitting dairy. It was magical! Quitting all other processed factory-made foods wasn't enough to fix my breath-related issues.
Thank you so much for your great work!
I also noticed my joint pain reduce dramatically.
Thank you for all the work you do. I read Nathan Pritikin’s Live Longer Now in ‘71 and bought into the low fat/no fat cholesterol is bad farce. Worked out always, active in many sports, but as years past developed love handles. No amount of working out or dieting erased them. I could lose weight but handles remained. I found your channel and instantly admired not only your content but your delivery style. Thank you. I have trimmed to my gymnastic weight of my youth and I am close to eliminating those handles. I save just about all your videos and pass them on to friends and family. You have helped me in a short period of time shed 22 pounds but more importantly I recognize what put it there initially.
If I may ask, what are the top couple tips Dr. E gave you that helped the most? I am pretty much in the same boat you are in now.
I can only speak from experience, I suffered from Seborrhea dermatitis for the most part of my life and I had tried everything under the sun to control it, someone suggested to give up milk and eat fermented foods and when I did I was very surprised by the dramatic improvement in my skin, just to confirm that milk was the culprit I began to drink milk again and sure enough my seborrhea dermatitis returned
Try raw,unpasteurized milk.
I think it is better to try fermented foods like Kefir or yogurt or cheese from raw milk too.
Doctor, you have said they we get milk from our mothers and other animals.
I love it!
I am not native 'ın English, and most of the doctors speak so fast so i can understand very small of their speech, but you are putting everything so smootly and understandable, that you became my favourite one. Thank you.
What country are you in?
@stripedrajang3571 georgia.
@@braniya99, amazing. I didn't know there was a country named Georgia.
@@stripedrajang3571 where are you from?
@@braniya99, I'm from the Caribbean Islands.
I love milk and I will never stop drinking it. No matter what you say. I grew up in Michigan. I have never had any problems digesting milk
I especially love cottage cheese.
There’s no reason why you should give it up as long as it doesn’t bother you.
@@SachelleCambriabecause vegans don't believe there are harmless milk, they think all harm animals. I respect for them, but saying 100% is harmful is wrong!
I'm from Detroit Michigan I drink milk every day and very healthy
Since we are discussing personal experiences with Dairy: When I am leaner, and exercising often I find it very nice and often crave it. Over the past year when I could not exercise as much, dairy would give me digestive issues. I noticed that people are over weight nearly always have problems with dairy, and most people that I lift and exercise with have few issues and often make whey and casein protein part of their diet.
There are days where my body is fiending for a glass of milk. I dont even love milk, but that urge has to be something real and i always feel good after.
Dairy 👍🏾
I like this story. It sounds to me that when the body is depleted through hard work, such as lifting or otherwise living an active lifestyle, milk is one thing that can replenish and boost the body. Mike Mentzer used to talk about the systemic effects of exercise, and I would say that different types of nutrition fit into the system differently. Thank you for sharing, great information.
This is likely a function of gut bacteria. Overweight people have different gut microbiomes than thin people. So, the thin people's guts can process milk better the same way they process everything else better.
You may be right. I am a thin 86 year old with no health issues and drink lots of 2% milk and always have. I just don't understand why it is not healthy and not recommended. @@allhimwithme5115
Im already 41.i used to know your videos for only 7mos now..i hope it is not too late to be healthy.
I share the knowledge to my loved ones also so they could gain benefit from it too..thanks God for u doc. Ekberg 🧡🧡🧡
At 41 it is not too late to be healthy. I'm 72 and have had problems for years that are now leaving me as I eat the kinds of food that Dr. Ekberg recommends. Even though it can take years to become unhealthy, the body is amazingly quick to return to health if you just give it a chance.
You are the best teacher ever!!!!!!! Where were you when I was studying science medicine? I had a sore throat for years and kept having to take antibiotics. Turned out I was having a reaction to milk. Haven't touched it in years and no sore throat. Its so sad that the public have no idea what is good or bad since the media and manufacturers tell lies
With governments blessing
I love the way you deliver information in an organized and clear way. I am fortunate to have found this channel while I still have some time to correct my eating lifestyle.
You have gained a new subscriber. Thank you.
Thank you MohOEM
and welcome to the channel. Keep watching my videos, so you get a clear understanding about what health really takes. If you have any questions feel free to ask.
He never disappoints, I follow every video he makes and it has really helped me for years.
Hello, does the doctor recommend the use of dairy products or not?
@@kareemahmed7028 is that a real question. Without dairy you would probably be dead by now.
@@kareemahmed7028 He recommends to completely avoid pasteurized dairy, which is mostly all the dairy you can buy in a store, and recommends moderate quantities of raw or fermented dairy.
Long story short: find a farm nearby, drink some milk from there, let it ferment and eat a great yogurt or learn to make kefir from it. That's it, nothing more. If you want calcium eat leafy greens like salat or spinat.
Thanks for explaining this in an unbiased way. I always hear vegans talk about milk like it's poison and the other side is just people who hate vegans and don't give any real facts about milk.
Thank you Juani Rabellino. I really appreciate your feedback and so glad that you liked it.
Yes 🙌 totally true. Glad he made this video.
Bro never trust a Vegan…
@@toosweet6046 ikr
I nursed my four children. I weened them after time. The longest I nursed was 22 months. They got the colostrum at the beginning. I know I've never seen animals drinking milk all their lives like humans do. Thanks for the video. I always learn something here.
Wow things have changed. I just Googled raw milk and it is now only 1 hour and 6 minutes away by car used to be 3 or 4 hours. I can't wait to visit this little dairy farm
A couple more points: If you are on a low-carb diet, anything lighter than whole milk has too much sugar. It's ironic people think skim milk must be more healthy, but it's not. Also grass fed is important, as grain fed introduces contents we don't want.
"A dietary pattern preferring dairy products was associated with increased survival in Tokyo-area centenarians." 2003 article title: Dietary patterns and further survival in Japanese centenarians.
My Dad is 103 and still happy healthy and functional. He has always drank milk. Probably 3 quarts per week. And my Mom is 96 and she drinks milk too. They always have milk with cereal. Usually low fat milk.
Supermarket kind??? Or raw?
@@jamesechevarria6177 super market
Well that "food" a literal poison. You can find out in the video why. Also, outside of low fat milk with gmo cereals, they had to have eaten extremely healthy and do sports/exercise to get to their age and be functional
Cereal is terrible. Sugar factory
Low fat and skim milk is the worst to buy. Very high in milk sugar.
My grandfather's diet was mainly lacto ovo vegetarian and lived to be 94. True that he only drank raw milk from his own cow.
That's probably healthier
I remember they tried to tell us raw milk was bad.
@@shawnsanborn2057 raw milk is extrenely dangerous
@@SteelKicker01 im sure it is today! But when i was a teenager on a small farm i drank it often. Today from a big dairy? No way!
@@SteelKicker01 ok whatever you say.
Thanks!
Thank you @stevewhalen6973 so much for showing your appreciation and supporting the channel, and for helping me get the message of health out to the world. 🙏 🏆 😄
Great information. I was a powerlifter who drank, on average, a 1/2 gallon of milk daily. I also consumed massive amounts of meat and starchy carbs. And while I had 18.5” biceps and could lift a small car, I was unhealthy. I’m currently on a Keto eating lifestyle, accompanied by a modified CrossFit training program and my weight has stabilized at 200 lbs (beginning weight: 242). At 54 years of age my blood pressure, which formerly was high, now averages 115/65 with a resting pulse rate of 50.
Congratulations. Keep it up - there is no substitution for true health.
I have heard football coaches imploring high school-age athletes to drink copious quantities of milk.
If you are on a Keto diet make sure to eat exactly as our hunter gatherer ancestors ate. Eat only wild game, and only when it's available which is not that often, also the mainstay of your diet should be freshly picked vegetables and herbs.
@@drekberg You really think eating supermarket meat is true health?
@@neiljohnson7914 there are different qualities of supermarket meat, from the cheap and nasty grain fed stuff to animals out on the pasture their entire lives with little to no health intervention (antibodies, vaccines, etc)
also important to keep in mind that wild game varies in quality too
Pasteurized is not sterile. Yes, a lot of the bacteria is killed, not all of it. The concepts you are teaching are valuable, don't spoil your credibility with false statements, unless that's the plan to get people like me to comment down here.
So is it much more beneficial to drink raw milk?
I have always been able to tolerate pasteurized milk, but for 6 years, I have been drinking raw milk, and it has done so many good things for me, like better digestion, and im a lot less sick. Before that, I stopped drinking milk for two years, but I didnt feel any change. For me raw milk is a superfood without any doubt! On the other hand I dont tolerate vegetables very well. I get diarrhea and headaches from many of them. Now I have ordered raw butter from England. I hope its doing well on its trip to Denmark, haha.
Without seeing you I wouldn't be able to give you anything specific. There is probably some imbalance in your gut such as gut flora, permeability, SIBO, etc.
It's fine. I have been drinking Milk (boiled with tea/coffee) for the last 10 years and am still healthy. I'm lucky my home is 4 km apart from a cow farm.
@@pringles4312 Yup. Human practically drink cow/goat milk from early age,
You’re not healthy. You just assume you are fine! Sorry to say that but in time you’ll definitely face health issues if you don’t stop drinking that milk!!!!
We had a jersey house cow.. milked it twice a day when I was still at school.. sometimes myself and my sister would spray milk straight in our mouths from the teet when we would go outside with the animals.. good times.. very good milk and a very beautiful tame animal. It was the small type of Jersey cow.. very very tame. I really miss her
Dr. Sten, I just looked up the stats on raw grass fed whole milk - 12 carbs in a glass. From the food combining days I always would consume dairy separate from other foods. Doing IF or OMAD, when and how is the best way to consume my raw milk - slightly ahead of the rest of the meal or treat it as a meal a few hours away from other foods? Thanks! I am "hooked" on your videos! Learning so much from you.
Thank you Betsy Dettloff. Food combining is a good idea, especially if you have some digestive troubles. I would probably do it slightly ahead of the meal.😄
IF
I'm going to drink milk I drink it about 10 or 15 minutes after I finish everything else
If you ferment your milk into kifer it takes away the carbs in the fermenting process
Grateful to see this video. I have to adjust my habit. Thank you, my favourite doctor and your channel!
Relative to the pasteurization issue... some States, such as New Jersey, will not even allow a sunny side up egg to be served in a restaurant. Everything has to be cooked to death.
Once again great information ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Thank you Yaquelin Llerena.
I appreciate how thorough you are in each of your videos, very well done.
OMG THE BEST EXPLANATION TO A LONG LONG TIME QUESTION ABOUT MILK .... THANK YOU SO MUCH DR.EKBERG
Thank you Leticia Cabbigat. I really appreciate your feedback and so glad you liked it. The greatest compliment you can give is to help us help more people by sharing the videos.
Perhaps the biggest argument in the medical world Is that people with either osteopenia or osteoporosis need milk. What say you? Please do a video on asked you paralysis in calcium
He’s not even an expert in this area,,, what are you talking about? This dude is just like “dr” berg... using titles and certifications to trick low-information-voters into thinking they’re experts,,,
Anybody who pushes dairy products is a doofus
@@mr.t7221 I take it you're a vegan right Mr. T?
Many more Scandinavians these days are finding out they are lactose intolerant and more lactose-free products are now offered on store shelves within the past ten years. I don't know if this is due to milk now being largely consumed that is pasteurized and homogenized instead of raw and if people are now developing problems with lactose, but something is changing in this regard. My neighbor is a diary farmer and any raw dairy or dairy productsyou consume must be tested thoroughly for listeria and brucellosis and assayed as not having these as they can really ruin your health if you get them.
All my life I have been taught that anything with milk is supposed to be the "perfect" & "natural" food. Wether it be Ice cream, cheese yogurt or milk: it was always good for you. But somehow( other than cheese), I have naturally moved away from eating or drinking milk products, and really haven't missed them at all.
But now good whole milk cheese is another story altogether. Lol
how come naturally moved away despite that long life time training??!! you have sensed your body very well then..!!
Well, here’s the gig, Doc:
1. While not a ‘big’ milk drinker,
2. I like the taste of milk.
3. Raw milk is not legal where I am, so finding it
and acquiring it - not to mention risking drinking it: ridiculous.
4. I eat yogurt, leafy green vegetables, etc., etc.
5. I am not lactose intolerant or have any allergies or sensitivity to milk
6. So, regarding the bacteria and enzymes - not to mention the calcium, protein, and vitamin D, e.g. - what’s the big deal between drinking pasteurized, homogenized milk vs. drinking nothing?
So, I drink milk. What’s your solution?
Drink half & half instead, if you can afford it. The high fat content counters the high sugar, greatly lower the 'Glycemic Load*. Read the ingredient label and buy the one that says only: Milk, Cream.
I grew up on a dairy farm and we drank milk straight from the cows teat. so to speak. Fresh cow's milk is great. The stuff from the grocery store? I only use cream for my coffee. Farmers got paid by the fat content of the milk, the more fat the more money, now they sell 1%. I agree with the doc, todays' milk leaves to be desired.
Humans are thee only creatures that drinks another creatures fluid's what other creature does it? Cows milks isn't drank by a pig nor a horse etc
Fermented yoghurt high fat no added sugar sounds best for me. I have iron overload, so I combine eating meat with fermented milk for protein & fat, the yogurt or cheese has calcium, casein & whey that reduces iron absorption.
Plain Greek yogurt, walnuts, a few berries whole, a few berries smashed (to sweeten the yogurt ) = yum !
If you know someone who owns cows, ask them for some fresh milk, non pasturized, it's so much better! Unfortunately, most stores are not allowed to sell raw milk, but if you know people who own cows or goats, ask them for some.
Exactly! Thank you Rebecca.
@@drekberg You're welcome, I worked in a grocery store for many years, and even the manager couldn't tell me why they weren't allowed to sell raw milk. It's ok to sell raw honey, but not milk.
I believe it is called protective politician and public health officials with no understanding of natural vs processed.
@@drekberg In india , we get raw milk directly going to the owner of cow and other cattles. Further they are also allowed to sell it.
In india , we get raw milk directly going to the owner of cow and other cattles. Further they are also allowed to sell it.
Milk is designed for baby animals not for great big fat adult humans. I have not had any dairy products in 30 years. My osteoporosis has reversed, my IBS issues have gone and I no longer have mucus issues. In all, I am an extremely healthy 67 year old.
It's simply not true that Asians across the board have lost lactase and become intolerant to milk. I am a 100% Asian and have absolutely no problem with lactose, my son has no problem with lactose (although he was allergic to milk in the early days of his infancy, which is a totally different problem), and as far as I know, most Asians are not intolerant to lactose, although it has been said that lactose intolerant is higher in Asians than in Europeans.
I actually found that by cutting out dairy for the majority of my diet, my acne practically vanished.
Thank you, for all the advice you gave. God bless you.
I love Sten’s videos - always very insightful, thorough and educational - but I often feel that he commits naturalistic fallacies. I understand how evolution has shaped us according to our natural surroundings, but still it’s not sufficient to just point out that something is or isn’t “natural” as an argument for or against it.
I’m pretty sure when you change the nature of things problems occur. Most food distributors change foods obviously to cut prices, so is this bad to say he is wrong? But if your saying he is bias against anything un natural, you may have an argument.
wonder if that stuff you drinking on your photo is natural?
Applying the naturalistic fallacy to foods that come from nature is inherently fallacious. Humans don't do better with animal fats over PUFAs just because. It's because one is something we evolved to metabolize and the other is industrial sludge. The null hypothesis or "assumption" therefore is that natural food is always better until proven otherwise. Applies to real meat over beyond meat, water over sodas/juices, whole foods over processed, organic produce over GMO, herbicide/pesticide covered produce.
@@julieprinsloo2232 thats not an argument :)))))))))))
Im SO loving this channel!!!
Raw dairy is key. I avoid pasteurized dairy because of congestivity from pasteurized dairy. Also, with raw milk, I don't refrigerate it, I let it culture ferment at ambient room temperature. The milk can be drunken from fresh through till whenever, usually within a week or two.
I used to drink about 4 to 6 pints of pasteurised milk every day during the summer (a bit less at other times of the year). I found it more satisfying and thirst quenching than other drinks, especially after exercise. I never had any bad reactions to it, but I became a bit weary of consuming that much dairy, so about a year ago I switched to soy milk. Now I'm waiting for a video telling me how bad that is 😄.
I've already seen that video saying that soy isn't good for you. I have been drinking large amounts of pasteurized cow's milk from the grocery my entire life and at 66 years old I am very healthy. I am of northern European descent and have never had any digestion problems with milk. One day I was playing around with a calculator and estimated that I drank enough milk in my lifetime to completely fill up my 2 car garage from top to bottom, LOL. I couldn't even imagine giving up cow's milk as I love it too much. We're all different.
@@CaneFu Actually, I switched back to milk a week or so back. I've also seen recent concerns about soy, particularly for men. I'm now drinking organic milk, usually unhomogenised. It's expensive but it tastes lovely!
@@CaneFu I'm almost 69, Canadian (European), drink at least a liter of pasteurized milk per day since childhood. I'm in excellent health and take no meds, walk 10 k per day. I couldn't imagine life without milk (and beer, wine and weed).
@@paulburley7993 Milk does a body good.
Anything soy is awful for you.
I'm in tx, and unless you raise the animal, you can't do raw milk. I'm in a city in a apt, so any milk I have access to is pasteurized. The only loophole in the law is a person having a friend who raises milk producing livestock gifting or bartering the milk, or a under the table transaction. I don't drink milk much anyway because there is a chemical compound in milk based dairy that causes the body to produce more mucus and I have severe seasonal allergies that have caused multiple instances of bronchitis over the years. I've had boughts of bronchitis bad enough, coupled with my hereditary asthma, to cause coughing fits bad enough to cause my abdominal muscles to seize hard enough to crack my ribs. It's extremely painful. I also know I have low bone calcium levels, so cutting out milk isn't wise. Yes, I eat lots of veggies but it hasn't done enough. I did find a way to deal with milk somewhat. Because I grew accustomed to not drinking milk, I never really developed a craving for it. However, I've always liked yogurt and other fermented dairy. So, I make my own yogurt, and sour cream. I haven't gotten cheesemaking down yet. But that's on my list of things I intend to learn. It would allow me to make my pasteurized milk easier to process while allowing me to stop having to buy cheese to have on hand
I am a new subscriber to your channel and I love the way you explain the things. My whole family is watching you. Thanks Doctor! Greetings from Germany/Berlin!
If you have horrible menstrual pain, consider avoiding dairy. A1 kasein may cause those cramps. After eliminating dairy from her diet, my daughter experienced huge relief. Pain level dropped to 2/10 for her immediately.
I used to drink lots of pasteurised milk and never had any problems with it.
Well, the statement „calcium from milk is poorly absorbable“ is not completely right. For example, dairy foods have a bioavailablity of about 30% absorption so if a food label on milk lists 300 mg of calcium per cup, about 100 mg will be absorbed and used by the body. Plant foods like leafy greens contain much less calcium overall but have a higher bioavailability than dairy.
What's sold in supermarkets is more like 'cow juice' rather than real milk.
Yes ! You need whole raw A2 milk
My dad used to say that milk bought in the store is so thin that you feel sorry for it.
My grandma used to call milk “moo juice.” 😬
One girl told me that she buys store milk because she hates that cow taste in raw one 😂
@@glennso47 f’ing facinating………🙄
Great info. Thank you
Since I started watching your videos I don’t trust others😆
Ikr?😅
Eric Berg is also v good.
@@dannychurch7223 Berg advocates way too much about eating veggies. And it's not right. Recently it's been proven that our soil is depleted and therefore nutritional value of those veggies goes down. If you are able to get fully organic with no pesticides whatsoever or better - grow it yourself, then it's great. But how many people are able to do that?
In the UK the milk we get delivered in glass bottles on the doorstep is only gently pasturised and not homogenised - the cream settles to the top. Obviously it is not completely raw - but it will go off, whereas sterilsied milk does not. I wonder if you have yoghurt, and real cheese you will get all the bacteria you need that replaces what you would have got from raw?
What can you do about constipation? I have always had a tendency to have it, but it is worse since I’ve been on the Keto diet. I eat a lot of vegetables. I don’t drink milk, but I eat sour cream and heavy cream.
Thank you for your clear explanations delivered at a pace that allows me to understand them.
I don't know if you still have this problem but I had the same problem.it's normal for the constipation to get worse on keto. What we mostly eat on keto is meat, eggs and milk - it's protein and consuming more protein makes constipation worse. So you need to lower the protein you consume and consume more fiber. This may mean that you will not be on the strictest keto diet, but being constipated is worse. Also you can take magnesium supplement because it's vital mineral that helps with digestion and many more processes in the body
Eat vegetables and other foods with high fiber. Cruciferous vegetables are great. Chia seeds also.
Had the same problem on low carb to now I make a ground mixture (mixed in a coffee grinder), of pumpin seeds, hemp seeds and add some psyllium husks. Two teaspoons mixed into a pot of natural full fat yogurt each day and hey presto the extra healthy fibre that is needed
Water magnesium green juice
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Pasteurized milk made me sick, I drank it for two years everyday in high quantities because I was working out and wanted to build muscle. I started having inflammation and infections inside my body, teeth problems, bone problems, bloating and belly ache ... I feel much better now that I stopped drinking it. I hate pasteurized milk. Only use with raw milk.
Thanks for explaining this in a organized and sensible manner.
Thank you Sane Enterprises.
Your thoughts on whey protein supplements?
Well, i'm Portuguese, i drink a lot of milk (around a liter daily), and eat plenty of cheese, both pasteurized.
It doesn't seem to do me any harm that i'm aware of, so i suppose i'm very lactose resistant.
Well, that’s fantastic to know🙄
Thanks for the great info. I'm inclined to think that the problem with milk is in the gut not the milk. The Western/American diet is probably what creates milk allergies and intolerance. I grew up in a culture where milk is drank throughout life from infancy to old age and I'd never heard of lactose intolerance or milk allergies before I came to America. Through much of the world (Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe) pasteurized (boiled) milk is drank either directly or in tea and has been for a very long time without problems. When I was growing up milk was considered the go to food for infants and the elderly and infirm. We had cows , we milked them, WE boiled the milk, refrigerated it and boiled it again to make tea or drink straight. Never heard of a problem. I do know people who developed milk allergies and lactose intolerance for the first time after coming to America, despite having been raised drinking milk well into adulthood.
I think it's like anything if you're having a problem introduce it slowly and you will be able to adjust just as the infant does. People who completely stopped Dairy like I once did had to reintroduce it slowly and I'm fine with it now
Really? Pasteurized milk is drank without problem in Asia? A high proportion of Asians are lactose-intolerant, make it make sense.
I have been meaning to watch this explanation. Thank you to Dr Ekberg. Always adding the educational component to help us make better food decisions. I think I’ll stick to plain yoghurt and not the pasteurized store bought milk
I was wondering about this for a while now. Good thing TH-cam showed a preview of your video to me. Thank you for clarifying my curiosity.
Milk isn't good for you but kefir has probiotics and is a better source of probiotics than taking probiotic pills.
My grandfather was a farmer and he sold raw milk, BUT it's almost impossible to find raw milk today and when I was very young (toddler stage)I drank raw milk and I got diarrhea, pasteurized milk, I can drink it all day
Yeah, but ice cold milk taste's so damn good
And that's why I drink organic whole milk.
@@LR-je7nn yea me too, that almond juice is such a scam
Absolutely need it when eating Oreos. Disclaimer: very infrequently eat Oreos! But when I do, I need milk!!
I have no side effects from milk. I am on keto so I do not drink too much of it but I like to mix my collagen peptides with warm milk and water. I have no bloating, no gas, no symptoms of any kind.
Coconut milk is the best substitute for regular milk
I didn't know that coconuts have nipples
Pasteurization is just getting the milk heated and cooled to kill bacteria.
Homogenization is forcing the milk through a small hole that breaks up the large fat blobs into tiny blobs.
This changes the texture and almost all other characteristics of milk.
These are two very different things!
You can pasteurize but not homogenize milk, that takes care of all the health issues that a government can be worried about. The fact that the US uses so much homogenization is about shelf life it has nothing to do with health. It would be easy for manufacturers to make milk pasteurized and NOT homogenized. This kind of milk is what we usually get in Europe. If you leave pasteurized but not homogenized milk out it separates out, you can boil it up to get the solid white part (Americans don't even have a name for it - it's like cottage cheese but not exactly) and the whey ... both are edible and good. Also you can make home-made yoghurt with it (just needs some previous yoghurt for the bacteria).
If you leave homogenized milk out it just goes bad.
The sad thing is most Americans don't even know how real milk should behave they think this is normal.
My issue with this presentation is that it bundles pasteurization and homogenization together. These are not the only two options!
It is possible to get pasteurized and non-homogenized milk and then you still have most of the benefits.
Calcium from plants,🤔. Nobody ever teaches this.🙂
You can assimilate calcium easily from milk and other animal origins.
From plants.... like most of the nutrients from plants they aren't easy bio available, in order to get significant values you need big quantities, so that's not a very good advice
Plants contain high amount of oxalates and Salycilates. Milk is much better and absorbable, animal mammals need an absorbable source of calcium to grow. If milk is not desirable, then chewing chicken bones will provide all the calcium you need
Here in Norway the population consumes a lot of milk products, but non pasteurized is impossible to find.
Here in Ireland drinking raw milk can cause brucellosis, a nasty lung condition
por supuesto, como TBC en otras regiones
Also, eating seafood is one of the most common way to get food poisoning. Yet no-one has banned it and it's never reported as a serious health threat. The truth is, I've been consuming raw milk for over 10 years.I've never even had an upset stomach. You must get it from a reputable source and there'll be no issues. It's as simple as that.
Healthy animals = animals with stronger immune system = milk without pathogens.
I use to drink unpasteurized milk years ago, got very sick from it. Took months to recover!
Before I knew it was ever pushed I loved it since I was a kid. I’m hooked on the stuff that’s pasteurized and probably drink too much but at least I’m down to a gallon a week.
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You sound like me! I live milk. I find it's both Delicious and soothing when warmed up a little.
Good tasting honey is from a small group of hives not just a giant mix from multiple aparies. I bet the same goes for milk. Small farms with grass fed free range cows.
Unfortunately farming practices are not good for the animals or environment. It took a year but I am now able to drink almond milk in coffee. I am lactose intolerant so this was a game changer.
When I was growing up, I never ever heard of anyone being lactose intolerant and now half of the people born since 1990 are lactose intolerant and I've never had a problem with drinking milk
I'd like to try Raw Milk, but I'm concerned about its safety. If we're not used to certain bacteria in our gut, I'm afraid it could cause a bad reaction. Wasn't there a reason milk had to be pasteurised? (I'm in the UK) Any comments, anyone? 🤔
Here's Wikipedia's take, from its page on pasteurization:
"Milk is an excellent medium for microbial growth,[17] and when it is stored at ambient temperature bacteria and other pathogens soon proliferate.[18] The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says improperly handled raw milk is responsible for nearly three times more hospitalizations than any other food-borne disease source, making it one of the world's most dangerous food products.[19][20] Diseases prevented by pasteurization can include tuberculosis, brucellosis, diphtheria, scarlet fever, and Q-fever; it also kills the harmful bacteria Salmonella, Listeria, Yersinia, Campylobacter, Staphylococcus aureus, and Escherichia coli O157:H7,[21][22] among others."
@@JohnMoseley thank-you, that's really useful. My husband and I have been discussing whether or not to try it. On reflection, I think we won't. 🙂
@@rachelm7525 Does sound as if, if you're very careful with raw milk, you'd probably be fine. Whether the benefits are worth it, I'm not sure. Perhaps, as Ekberg sort of suggests, products like yoghurt and kefir give you the best of both worlds - safety, but with helpful enzymes and good bacteria.
Great stuff doctor
Thank you Susan Brownell.
I have started buying fresh milk from a farm nearby. I do not boil it so as to keep bacteria and enzymes. My question is: how long do these bacteria and enzima remain alive in milk? Should I get fresh milk every day or they resist a couple of days (stored in fridge)? Thanks a lot!
Great videos! It became a tradition for me to watch one before going to the supermarket 😉 What do you think of other milk-like-looking alternatives on the market these days, like milk from plants? Greetings from Bavaria, cow region.
They’re awful
Milk from plants are not healthy and not actually milk. Only coconut milk is natural. Alternative is to make your own oat/almond milk and stay away from soy or shop made
This was a good video, but it did not mention how milk increases estrogen, or spikes insulin. I love dairy, but I'm down to about a half gallon of milk per month. Grown men should drink little milk due to the estrogen issue.
47 dairy companies disliked this video
153 now 😂
@@MJ_Coaching_Online but I really don’t think companies waste any energy on disliking this video. I think it’s frustrated vegans because the dr. Didn’t feed the „milk causes cancer“ narrative.
@@bildfluss yeah ik it’s just a joke
@@bildfluss and I think ur right it’s mostly vegans
@@MJ_Coaching_Online yeah I read my comment again. I sound like a party pooper🤪
It’s time to eat some meat.
Is coconut milk a good option? id like to know your opinion about best flour option and milk option. great video
It’s almost impossible to find organic milk or any food.
Where are you based Patrick?
Paul , i’m in the Philippines.
@@commandernoodles2367 You're gonna have to buy your own cow 😁
I'm gonna quit milk and just use cream/yoghurt.
Aldi's sells organic milk.
@@commandernoodles2367 Are you having problems in the Philippines with the Covid lockdown?
Not all pasteurized milk is homogenized.
Making kefir from pasteurized milk is the best - puts life back into the milk, makes it more digestible, and some people have to pasteurize raw milk to be able to make kefir because there is too much bacteria competing. Kefir bacteria break down the lactose.
A grown human doesn't need milk, we don't have a ridiculous calcium requirement past infancy. Commercial cow's milk contains antibiotic residues. One could argue that milk is more toxic than it is beneficial for adults.
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A great video, thank you. I remember when I was a kid in the 60's when we got milk in glass bottles, if it was left to stand, the cream did come to the top, it must have been more natural in those days.
I dont drink milk for 10yrs now, I use Organic Almond milk unsweetend, works for me , I keep my weight perfectly.
There is no such thing as almond ‘milk’. Just another processed ‘food’
Growing up in the 50s and 60s in England we had free milk every day at school. It was pasteurised but it separated. The pasteurised milk delivered to the doorstep by the milkman also separated. We would rush to be first to breakfast to put the cream on our cornflakes. Today, pasteurised milk doesn’t separate. What happened?
The separation was due to the milk not being homogenized. This process denatures the fats and doesn't separate the fat out. This is different from pasteurization.
Adressing the argument that "the majority of people do good with raw milk products". You should also mention how many humans in history died from consuming raw milk products before pasteurization was invented due to infections by e.g. Salmonella and other pathogens. With that in mind, the benefits of pasteurization definitely outweigh the downsides. This reporting is really one sided and results in false conclusions. Can you give any scientific references like research papers that verify your conclusions? I don't see any in the video or in the video description. The argument that raw food = always good and processed food = always bad is wrong in most cases and the increase in global life expectancy over the last decades is a good counter argument (of course also due to new medical achievements).
Here in eastern Europe until 10 years ago, every home had 1-2 cows. Everybody ate raw milk and milk products. They even sell them in markets and it's fine, no infections.
I do share your concerns about raw milk, and I've never tried it, but I certainly believe that processed 'foods' account for a great many illnesses in our modern time eg: arthritis, Coeliac Disease, Type 2 diabetes, obesity all of which are at epedemic levels in the western world. I do agree we should be cautious, but on balance I believe more natural foods are biologically appropriate. 🙂
You misses the entire point of this video
@@V.D.22 My grandparents on both sides raised cows their whole life and NEVER drank raw milk, nor did they made any cheeses before boiling the milk. This was just common sense and practiced by 99% of the people in my Eastern European country, Bulgaria, home of the yogurt. So many people died from consuming raw milk that no-one questioned that milk should be boiled first. Brie, Parmigiano, Roquefort, etc. are all made from raw milk, but in Eastern Europe, the traditional cheeses (white "feta"-like and yellow "kashkaval") are made after boiling the milk first. The same is true for home-made yogurt.
There are some serious study that showed correlation between milk and prostate cancer so I advice men to read more about the subject and reduce a little bit their consumption of milk.
thx sten, you're a champ
Sten, because New Zealanders pay more for our own fresh milk than Australians do, I boycott fresh milk and mix it from NZ milk powder - which is raw milk, not homogenised. But I have A sneaking suspicion the evaporative process is the equivalent of homogenization - is that correct?
Also, the powdered stuff seems to have some soy added, and there is some trans fat in there now. :(
Which is going to be less bad for me? Because there is no way on Earth I am giving up milk. I can stop sugar, I can stop soda, I can stop french-fries and chips, and I can even stop toast and potatoes - but milk? No way. No how, and at no time will I ever stop drinking it.
I have reduced my intake, and I have just received my glucose meter, and have tested at 7.3 and then 7.2 today. Thanks for your assistance, I have learned a lot from you!