[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]alit4 wrote:
[quote]qsar wrote:
My anecdotal experience also tells me there’s something to the benefits of raw milk. Growing up we were given raw goat milk (countryside in Spain). I wouldn’t drink it, but my 3 siblings did. I was the only one to develop allergies later in life. We are obviously very similar genetically, grew up in the same environment, and for the most part ate the same foods. The thought of drinking raw goat milk seemed disgusting to me…maybe I should’ve forced it down. There could be other reasons for my allergies, but hearing that there are studies that echo this experience makes me think that maybe there’s something to it.[/quote]
similar story here. as a child of the 70’s i came from a large ish family with access to the family farm. we grew up on raw milk fresh from the cow," rich jersey milk that was about 30% cream" (mouth watering just thinking about it). to be honest, in those days hygene wasn’t given much consideration to be honest, cow was milked, filtered through an old cloth to get the bits of crap out, chilled and drunk. sometimes while still warm. myself and my family have never had food alergies, or rarely even get stomach bugs or any kind of gastro illnesses.
i have no problem with pasteruized milk per se, in fact i expect it probably is much better in the uk anyway, (grass fed is pretty standard).
(and yes i am am a bit of an old hippy)
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…but, I grew up on store bought milk…have no food allergies and rarely get stomach bugs.
Do I blame that on store bought milk?
That’s what all of you are doing.[/quote]
To be fair, my experience is with 4 kids who grew up in the same environment (as you point out as a possible cause), very similar in genetics, and eating about the same foods except for the milk. Of course this is only a 4 data point conclusion and in no way scientific, but it peaks my interest as I other information along the same lines.
You obviously got incredible results in spite of heavily utilizing milk during a phase of your training so I can understand why you would be skeptical of its possible harmful influence. Milk tolerances vary and it looks like yours was very low or non-existent. Tolerances affect performance, so that may be a factor for some people, yet such tolerances and allergies are different subjects altogether.
I’m looking for a place to try raw milk, but being in LA it’s no easy task.