Cow’s Milk is for Cows. There is nothing bad about drinking milk from the
time you first open your eyes at birth until you are two years of age. That is,
provided the milk is from your mother, and is therefore fresh, raw and
natural. Ideally, mother would be on a high-energy and highly-nutritional,
raw food diet, before and during pregnancy. However, in our culture we tend
not to breast-feed our children. Most of us were weaned on cow’s milk or
synthetic formulas, which are almost twenty times more concentrated than
cow’s milk.
Cow’s milk tends to be high in proteins, minerals and fats—a necessity
for baby cows that will grow to 300-500 pounds in one year. Needless to say,
human babies do not grow that fast. Cow’s milk has at least four times as
much protein and over six times as much mineral content as human milk.
Such heavily concentrated milk is extremely hard for infants to digest.
Human enzyme production for handling milk products is much less than a
cow’s enzyme production. Without proper enzymes in the right quantity,
human babies suffer digestive problems and mucus congestion in the sinus
cavities, lungs, brain and ears. Many types of allergies are also created from
the excessive congestion that started with cow-milk consumption.
Adults cannot digest milk at all and develop deeper congestive problems
as they get older. Cow’s milk is also low in essential fatty acids, which are
vital to humans in the production of systemic cholesterol, steroids, brain and
nerve tissue, etc. Raw cow’s milk is more for skeletal/ muscular growth,
where human milk feeds brain and nerve growth. This is one of the main
differences between frugivores and herbivores.
Roughly between ages three and four most children lose the enzymes that
digest milk, especially lactase, which breaks down lactose— the main sugar in
milk. This is because, biologically, we are supposed to be weaned after three
or four years. Since we lack the proper digestive enzymes to break down
milk, we get an increased mucus production. Milk now becomes highly
irritating to the mucosa of the GI tract, which causes even more mucus. This
mucus mixed with starch can cause a heavy mucoid plaque to build up on the
intestinal walls.
Remember John Wayne? He was reported to have died with up to fifty
pounds of impacted fecal matter in his bowels. Such im-pactions cause
inflammation, pocketing (diverticulum), and tissue weakness of the intestinal
wall. This leads to bowel restrictions, ulcerations, lesions and cancers. Several
years ago, the now former U. S. Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop, M.D.,
told the world: “Dairy products are bad for you.”