Allergies
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Then when I was 10 or 11, a couple of things happened: I hit puberty, and we started getting raw milk from a farmer. My parents were still worried about my famine victim appearance, and admire the robust-looking kids of a professor friend who lived on a small farm. The friend told my dad that he had several cows, and all seven of his kids were drinking the milk. He was aware of the track record of raw milk in treating illnesses, and told my dad that a couple of my distant cousins in town were also drinking it. He didn't tell my dad about how it had been used in the past, though.
A couple of years later, everyone was marveling how I'd outgrown my allergies; even my allergist was amazed at my turnaround. I was gradually weaned off most of my medicines.
Then I went away to college, and my allergies returned within about 5 months, just a tad. Just enough to need a rescue inhaler and be on antihistamines that year. But they gradually worsened, until within 10 years I was on all kinds of experimental drugs, and within 12 years I was as bad as I'd ever been. I almost died when my son was 11 months old from a food reaction, only the second I'd ever had. Mine were all molds and pollens and danders.
About 2 years after that, we moved and I made new friends. One of them told me about someone who was going to have raw milk, and I was excited because it just represented health to me. I couldn't have the extensive garden and orchard my parents had had to plant when I was a child, but I could at least give my kids raw milk.
And within 6 months, I was wondering why there was no ragweed season. Within 12 months I'd let most of my allergy medicines run out without refilling them. And within 14 months, I'd been challenged by spending the night in a room with 5 of my top allergies, only to awaken with clear sinuses and lungs, still alive, even though I had no medicines with me.
I then found out that there had been a particularly severe ragweed season that year, and I hadn't even realized it. I realized the only thing that had changed for me during that time was adding raw milk to my diet. So I did some research and found out about the natural steroids in the cream that are destroyed by heat, and how substances in the milk heal small leaks in the intestines that may contribute to allergies.
At the same time, I noticed my 12-month-old daughter's eczema had vanished. I'd thought it wasn't active during the summer; then realized it hadn't reappeared during the winter. She now has lovely skin at age 10. And no cavities ever, because she's had pasteurized milk only a handful of times in her life.
That's the biggest thing I've noticed from drinking it, and it's such a huge thing in my life. The two times that I've had trouble getting raw milk for several months since then, at the end of that time period I would sometimes react to my strongest allergens again, just a little; and my daughter would sometimes have slight flair-ups of eczema. We do our utmost to make sure we can have raw milk!
(Oviedo, Florida, United States)
08/07/2012
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I too am getting over allergies since drinking raw milk. And I'm noticing that tooth cavities I had are no longer there. BTW, Louis Pasteur was a fraud.
Broad Benefits
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Raw milk also cured my joint pains, digestive problems, bone spurs and a host of other health issues that I thought were part of life and growing older, and to be stoically borne. Prior to this, I had not drunk milk in 30 years as I was severely allergic to pasteurized milk.
Broad Benefits
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Nerve Pain and Bone Problems
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I've been drinking raw milk since 2005. I had severe arthritis and nerve damage as a result of an accident. I am still having some issues with inflammation but my bone pain and nerve pain are gone. Raw milk has healing enzymes and healthy bacteria and after I started drinking it I didn't get sick. I also know of someone who drank raw milk after getting c-diff many times and the c-diff never came back.
Also, raw milk helps with IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome).
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(White River Jct, Vt)
03/24/2012
All Raw Dairy is awesome. Some people just are phobic about Dairy, they are told it is EVIL and that is that discussion over. If any wanted to research, 'dairy' today; http://www.naturalnews.com/035081_pasteurized_milk_cancer_dairy.html
or be truly grossed out here; http://www.naturalnews.com/035039_raw_milk_pasteurized_CDC.html
If you want to fear, that is the 'dairy' to fear, up there with GMO's, hormoned food etc.....
RAW Dairy is healthy and good for you.
(Bozeman, Mt, Us)
03/27/2012
I completely agree with you, Had from White River Jct, Vt. In my state it is still illegal to sell raw milk which is very frustrating for people who want to be healthy and eat the way we are meant to eat. It seams ridiculous to me that Louis Pasteur invented pasturization in 1864. Which was way before the refrigerator was even invented. Seriously, why does the Government not realize that alot of the food born illnesses "pre-fridge" days came from the milk not being kept cool. The fridge was invented about 1876 and wasn't even widely sold until the 1940's so why can't we try to go back to unpasturized raw milk now that most of us (except maybe the occasional vagabond, hillbillie, or gypsy) have refrigerators and understand the importance of keeping food cold. Oh well, I guess I will be getting my family our own cow until then:)
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(Puyallup, WA, USA)
06/19/2009
I was raised on raw milk until I was about 9. Since then I have a problem whenever I drink milk, increased mucus. My husband & I recently began drinking raw milk on a a regular basis. I have noticed a decrease in any mucus after drinking milk. It does take some getting used to, it smells & tastes different. But the benefits far outwiegh the adjustment period. Don't take someone else's word that is it good or bad. Do the research yourself. Some sites that were especially helpful to me are:www.raw-milk.facts.com, www.realmilk.com, www.organicpastures.com. Check out the information before making a decision one way or the other.
(Walnut Creek, Ca)
05/27/2013
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Not ALL cows carry the bovine leukemia virus, and there are MUCH fewer documented cases of bacterial infections, and otherwise, due to consumption of raw dairy, than there are documented cases of ailments and illnesses affiliated with pasteurized dairy. Further, Louis Pasteur developed this process for beer and wine to give it longer shelf-life. Commercial industries adapted it and a homogenization process to dairy. The first poster (Marian) is exactly right -- pasteurizing kills all of the good enzymes necessary for proper digestion, as well as any potentially harmful bacteria (not all bacteria is bad). People that are lactose intolerant, can often drink raw milk. Other syndromes that are triggered by dairy (I have one) are not exacerbated by raw dairy (I speak from first-hand experience, as well as corroborated research findings).
Another rather disgusting side-effect of pasteurized dairy: since the extreme heating process does such a good job of killing (pasteurizing is flash-heating to lethal temperatures, for those who don't know) many of these producers keep less than sanitary conditions and use milk that would otherwise be considered diseased. I, for one, do not relish consuming a cupful of dead harmful bacteria, any more than I would the living variety. Raw, organic dairy farms, who grass-feed their free-range cows, rather than grain-feeding (a source of many bovine ailments) confined animals, are also usually highly meticulous about the conditions of their dairy facilities. Here in CA, (as well as in NM, CT and 2 or 3 other states) it's legal to sell through Whole Foods, so it's quite regulated (and expensive!! @ $16/gal.) and many dairy farms permit tours of their facilities.
Other states have more restrictive laws concerning the sale of raw dairy to the consumer, so finding a source is usually a little more creative and independent process. There are websites available to help with the search for a quality provider. Weston Price, a leading health and nutrition expert has a great website with info about the health, legal and economic issues surrounding raw milk: http://www.realmilk.com , as well as an additional wealth of information on nutrition and other raw foods.
In addition to my own personal experience, and a ton of educated research (I am a scientific researcher by trade, and gather my information from qualified sources), my family is Amish. My direct lineage has not been in the community for 3 generations now, but cousins and older family members still are, and I grew up thinking it was quite normal to have the family car parked next to the horses and buggies at the local market. All foods among my family are organic, direct from the farm products. As of yet, since the late 1700s, when we settled here, I've never heard any tales of rampant bacterial infections running through the community. We have very little disease or other illness. My great-grandmother lived to 102 in her own house, unassisted, and likely had the health to live much longer, if she'd had the will. Her husband was 90. Her daughter is now 96 and going strong. Any relative in my family who dies before the age of 90 is considered too young.
So, from first-hand personal experience, plus documented knowledge of hundreds of years throughout generations of my family and their community, as well as extensive educated research on the matter -- I urge anyone with an open mind enough to circumvent the anti-nature propaganda of the commercial food industry to research the facts and seriously consider replacing the over-processed dairy in their diet with the real stuff.
Peace & Health!
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(Friendswood, TX)
03/10/2009
Silly Oregon person. Do you work for the National Dairy Board? How much have you researched raw dairy? Have you experienced any healing from it at all? Perhaps you should become a bit more educated on the subject before supporting federal mandates to regulate and control what folks put into their bodies.
(Boston, Ma)
08/19/2012
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I have been drinking raw milk from various sources for almost 15 years with no illness. Let me add that I drink at least one gallon per week. If there were any truth to this germ phobic nonsense I would have stumbled across it by now. One of the biggest stories aganist raw milk that came out in papers and magazines in the 1950's turned out to be completely fabricated! Stop believing what the media forces on you and learn to t think and judge with your own brain for God's sake!! Come back to reality.
(Sioux Lookout, On, Ca)
08/19/2012
Right on... I grew up on raw milk and its products, I. E., cream, butter, buttermilk, cottage cheese, etc. (yes, even yogurt). I'm 71 and feel just fine.
(Thousand Oaks, Ca, Usa)
08/19/2012
Hi Celland and Sordub, I give my kids raw milk and for over a year made kefir from raw milk. I absolutely love it! I haven't been making it for awhile but have recently begun fermenting again and currently have a big crock of veggies getting ready. Of course, it made me think of making my raw milk kefir! I decided that when the fall school year begins, I will begin making it again. It healed my issues with dairy and after several months of raw milk kefir, I could eat dairy once again without my body reacting. Best to you both, Lisa
