What about sheep dairy? I like sheep milk yoghurt bc it’s rather like Greek yoghurt. Would sheep dairy be the least inflammatory? Would it be higher in CLA?
Does the inflammatory effect of dairy have something to do with pasteurised vs raw? Not that I’m suggesting acidity is the cause but I’ve also read somewhere that pasteurisation causes dairy to become more acidic for the body.
Reaction to dairy actually has a huge basis in ethnographic genetics. Dairy isn’t bad for everyone, but you may genetically not be able to digest lactose or casein. Dairy is fine for me although that may change as I get older. I did a whole research project on this in undergrad and it was so interesting
You are right. Our body changes overtime with age. A lot of foods I can't handle anymore. Rice, milk, some veggies high in oxalate, dried fruits......to avoid or consume in moderation. It's not same as decades ago in my 40s
I had a bad mucous problem with dairy all my life. After starting keto at age 59 I lost 50lbs while consuming lots of diary. I don't know why but I no longer have a mucous problem from dairy since doing keto. I've been on keto over a year now.
The problem is A1 beta-casein found in basically all major milk brands. This is a pro-inflammatory protein that encourages inflammation in the gut. And it also makes you more insulin insensitive. I was only drinking one glass of milk a day and apparently that was too much because after I stopped I started losing an amazing amount of weight after trying for months. That was literally the only thing that I changed I still ate the same clean a healthy diet that I was before.
I didn't know, but Kefir is a fermented milk drink that is made by adding kefir grains (a mixture of lactic acid bacteria and yeast) to milk. Here is a bullet list of the potential health benefits and drawbacks of kefir: Benefits: Kefir contains probiotics, which are beneficial bacteria that can help to improve gut health. Kefir is a good source of protein, calcium, and other nutrients. Some studies have found that kefir may have anti-inflammatory effects and may help to boost the immune system. Drawbacks: Kefir is made from milk, so it is not suitable for people who are lactose intolerant or allergic to milk. Kefir can be high in calories and sugar, depending on how it is made and the type of milk used. There is limited research on the long-term effects of consuming kefir, so more research is needed to fully understand its potential health benefits and risks.
@@baptizedintheholyspirit9691 - I am transitioning from keto to mainly carnivore so have been adding a lot of ghee, like in my coffee and to cook with it. Do you limit consumption or just eat until you are satiated? I ask as I am looking to drop a further 2% body fat?
Great post. Dairy is fine for me. I drink at least 300mls coldpressed full cream raw Jersey daily, + cheeses, yoghurt & butter. It's the majority of the carbs I have in a low carb largely animal based diet. Arthritis, gout etc all gone. I have above average bone density for my age in both hips & wrists. Dairy is predominantly grass fed, here in Australia.
Doesn't surprise me that natural dairy could reverse inflammatory disease! No wonder the criminal FDA won't allow us to have it in the USA. ( It is available in SOME jurisdictions, but not many. ) Americans think that their government(s) are run by saints.
Hey Thomas can you please do a video on raw milk. It’s not as dangerous as the government makes it out to be. I’m talking 100% grass fed a2 cows grain free raw milk
When I watched the documentary ‘Food, inc’ (2008) I removed milk from my diet and it seems like it improved some of my health issues skin tags being one of them I no longer have them
I have Northern European ancestry and know that whole unpasteurised raw milk and dairy do me a lot of good. Blood tests tell me this as well as the fact,at nearly 52 and 40 years of lifting weights,i put most kids half my age to shame at most performance metrics, except perhaps physique,which us largely because I don't take a plethora of steroids.
@@georgepalmer5851 the majority of people from cultures that regularly consume milk from birth maintain lactase expression. Others can consume cultured dairy, lactose free dairy or take lactase.
@@georgepalmer5851 Europeans have been herding cattle and drinking milk for at least 3500 years, and that includes the adults. European women are prone to osteoporosis and are now told not to take calcium tablets. So, I drink milk and eat cheese as my doctor advised, and I hope I can save my bones. I'll know in a year if my new milk diet is going to be enough to solve the problem of not eating enough milk products. The standard American diet used to include 3 glasses of milk for adults, and as we've done away with it, we now have more bone problems, not less.
I found through tracking/journaling that milk and ice cream were actually important for my weight loss. If I excluded dairy, it slowed progress for me. Never understood the science behind it but this video gives me some possible reasons.
- Dairy products, particularly those containing conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), may have beneficial effects on weight loss and insulin sensitivity. - Exercise and CLA may have a synergistic effect on insulin sensitivity and weight loss. - CLA may improve insulin sensitivity in sedentary individuals. - Certain types of dairy may have anti-inflammatory effects on the gut microbiome, which may improve insulin sensitivity and contribute to weight loss. - More research is needed to fully understand the relationship between dairy and weight loss.
I discovered after only a week of removing dairy, it was the cause of all my aches and pains. Not everyone will be the same. I don't care. Why would I do something that caused me so much pain?
I did not drink a lot of dairy, In September I ran across the guide for making L. reuteri yogurt from Dr. William Davis and have been making it ever since I am enjoying many of the benefits, I use A-2 half and half. I also in December started making Kefir, using A-2 whole milk . The A-2 is on par with goat or sheep's milk according to Dr. Guidry but a lot cheaper.
I stopped most dairy about a month ago. I can have it every now and then, but any consistency to it I find I get inflammation, itchiness, stomach upset (which also feels like anxiety a bit).
My family & I, 6 months ago started drinking Raw A2 organic grass fed-grass finished cow & goat milk. We get a gallon each a week from our local farmer. Before we would drink store bought regular pasteurized A1 milk. We had a host of problems for years. Lactose intolerance, deficiencies, bloating, allergies, eczema, diarrhea, dry skin, etc. Once we switched to raw cow & goat milk all health problems went away!! Raw milk has been a miracle for us! So personally i think it just depends on the type of dairy.
Raw A2 100% Grass-fed milk is best. If you don't want to buy 'raw' (unpasteurized), you can also find at Mom's Market or WF's. It will say that it is 'gently' pasteurized and not homogenized.
I eat a lot of dairy including heavy cream , yogurt and cheese cake of course keto but I do just to maintain my weight or else I would fade away 165 lbs and 55 years old.
For me, milk = instant constipation. But an ounce or two of cheese doesn't really bother me to much. This is the perspective of someone who has psoriasis, though it's mostly healed, the few spots that remain can be used as an easy way to measure food sensitivities, because they'll flare up overnight if I eat something that doesn't agree with me. Cheese is fairly neutral for me, thank god.
@@luisthegoat3006 I haven't tried taking enzymes, but I have tried all types of milk. Milk, from the worst 2% bought at the store, to goats milk from local farms that I personally fermented into kefir, all makes me constipated. If it's about the lactose, fermenting it should help. But it didn't, though admittedly, I never fermented it until it was completely sour. If I still cared I would try enzymes, but I've long worked my diet around not drinking any milk, so at this point I don't really care.
Psoriasis and the majority of all "_sis" afflictions are inflammatory diseases. Reducing the body's inflammation is always indicated. Fasting is a good start but one must always be vigilant to consume less inflammatory products. ALso, inflammation spikes insulin and chronic high insulin throws other hormones out of whack. Generally speaking, whatever spikes the blood sugar will cause chronic inflammatory disease. Having a blood sugar test kit handy is a good thing. What inflames one person, doesn't necessarily do it to another. I'll be testing my blood sugar this weekend after having a glass of wine, after two years of finally getting my blood sugar back into a normal , sub pre-diabetic range. ( caution: what the AMA criminals and their "doctor" drug pushers consider "normal" is a technically _diabetic!_ Keeping blood sugar levels in the 70 - 85 range is healthy, whereas the criminal medical clowns say that 120 is OK! No wonder 70% of all Americans are technically diabetic !). Sorry to preach.
Milk is really inflammatory at least to my body. I stopped drinking full fat milk for awhile, the brand Straus with cream top at the wholefood market, that I consumed for years. It's so delicious. But I realized it bothered my arthritis joints. I switched to having dairy products with full fat yogurt and full fat cottage cheese that my body handle pretty well. I thought grassfed pasture raised milk could be better but NO, it still causing inflammation on my joints badly and rised my blood glucose, not very bad but not to ignore. I also noticed that I gain over a pound immediately the next day after taking milk, even after 20 hours fasting. I am a hard to gain weight even for an ounce!!!!! No matter what type of milk make no difference to me, but in the form of cottage cheese and yogurt is ok. I guess everyone is different that makes sense we all have different blood types.
I have been binge watching these videos b/c I just started keto 3 weeks ago (I need to lose 60 lbs) and they are so useful. given the fact that you lost 100 lbs I will be following your advice to the T. god bless
QUESTION: What is considered overdoing it? I love Kerry Gold butter and have it in my coffee each morning. How many grams of saturated fat can we safely consume each day?
I eat 1/2 stick of Kerry Gold ( or similar ) butter every day. But I am no expert;) Dr. Ekberg eats ONE STICK per day. But he's unusually fit for his age.
For years I noticed drinking 2% milk and it seem to be a problem I thought I was lactose intolerant and my youngest son reacted the same way .when we had a neighbor who got real milk right from the cow from an Amish couple and they ranted and rave how good it was and how much better health they were in .so I started trying it and sure enough I don’t have any reactions like I had with homogenized 2% milk . my son who had gone to the doctor and was diagnosed with lactose intolerance ,actually tried this real milk and he has no problem so I’m wondering what is it they put in store-bought milk that people are having a reaction to you ? You might do a little research and see what you think. Thanks for the video always good.
And the bacteria that are taken out during pasteurization. Also, reduced fat milk will have even more lactose than whole milk. And the sugar to fat ratio is worse making it spike insulin more.
@@bulgarianb3ast Else I know is my son was lactose intolerant all of his life when he drinks real milk from the cow unhomogenized he doesn’t have a problem something tells me we have ruined real milk
Fat free milk is pure poison for most human beings. So isn't "modern wheat" ! ( genetically modified in the 50s to grow taller ) The FDA are criminals.
I don't know if it's worth pointing out, but most (if not all) CLA supplements are made using safflower oil and aren't from animal sources. I'm guessing that getting CLA from quality dairy is superior to a safflower oil based CLA supplement, but I don't really know the full measure of benefit or detriment between the two CLA sources. Is one bad, one good? Are both good, but one better than the other? Equal? Could be another good video topic.
My husband never had trouble with dairy until they started homogenizing it back in the late 50s. A process there is no need for. It changes the protein and the taste. So much better without being homogenized.And you never heard of people having issues with milk on a large scale until they started this. I bought some old fashioned milk at a health food store. He had no problems with it. Unfortunately can not buy where we live now. I do great on dairy and it helps me keep the weight off. I also do fine using whey protein in baking. The reason to avoid the pre shredded cheese is that they add sawdust to keep it from sticking together. They do not half to list it on the packagingif it is under a certain amount. A Market Place study showed they added more than the legal limit. I discovered this many years ago when I suddenly could no longer eat pre shredded cheese without extreme gut issues. I personally have trouble digesting saw dust for some strange reason. I also have problems with grains and lugumes. They cause inflammation and weight gain.
Nice video timing I've been noticing recently when I started trying some Greek yoghurt that I kept getting constipated and getting pain and cramps. Which is a shame because I liked it. Maybe i lack the bacteria to process it now though because I never eat any dairy other then 200 grams of cottage cheese almost daily with no issues at all. A bit confusing but the cottage cheese bacteria mighy be a slightly diff strain than those in greek yoghurt.
I love cheese and my husband goes to the cheese shop(fromagerie) every couple weeks. My favorite is very fresh goat cheese. We also have a little fromage frais every morning which is like yogurt without sugar added but higher protein. We don't have many milk products outside of that. I think it's all about moderation and what works for you.
It's not about moderation. If you're allergic to dairy protein then that's like a celiac eating gluten moderately. You'd have to be chasing the Darwin awards.
@@cincin4515 if you're allergic or can't digest lactose then it doesn't work for you. That's why I included that part. Some people may be able to have some and not others. Goat cheese is lower in lactose for instance.
@@francescab6457 I've read research papers that suggest that it is the consumption of goat cheese that is the key diet factor in longevity found in people living within so called Blue Zones.
I had to let dairy go once I found out it was causing me high inflammation so much I would itch and it’s long term was hard on my GI. So no more dairy for me…
I buy raw milk kefir as well as yogurt and cheese made from raw milk; the cows are brown jerseys producing A2 milk. They are fully pastured (grass fed & finished). I never drank milk until I found this farm at 47 years old. It actually helped me; no digestion issues, and I lost weight. I started eating this soon after starting keto. No issues in 3 years. You could try it and see if it helps. Can't hurt you, really.
To lose ten pounds of fat in a week and a half you would have to be in a 3,333 calorie deficit everyday, which is almost impossible! Sounds like you lost some water weight or something else.
@@DungeonClimber Idk. Was 190 one day after a big meal, a few days later after a run I was 179.8. Probably mostly water weight, yes, but I struggled like crazy to get down under 180 and it came very easily after a few days without cheese.
Humans evolved to be able to digest milk (originally goats I guess) as adults as part of our diverse ability to survive in a world that does not owe us a free supply of food. We are not by nature vegan nor non-milk consumers.
@@SpamMouse The thing is, it's all about choice, when it comes to beverages. As for me, my favorite beverages are sparkling water, soda, fruit juices and, God forgive me, an occassional adult beverages. I have no use for milk
@@MrRKWRIGHT For your next Winter adult beverage consider warm milk with brandy, add a little sugar and cinnamon perhaps. In the heat of Summer chilled milk with a manly shot of either Bols (brand) Banana liqueur or a nice refreshing Creme de Menthe. Milk is more than just the kid's lunch box lubrication, explore it's dark side. 🥳
@@SpamMouse I might just try that. Sounds good - and very warming. Thanks for sharing the tip. On second thought, maybe milk ain't that bad after all. 😊😎😎
It's not the altitude it's the diet.Cows higher up are feed pasture because the higher altitude usually comes with slopes and soils that are not as deep so growing crops is not as easy.
I’m doing keto and doing good. Started adding some milk and heavy cream then started to feel really bad again. Maybe this is what it is but still in the process of figuring it out
you can do a few things to boost weight loss by boosting your natural GLP-1, CCK and PYY hormones: at the evening eat 40g oat bran + 40g whey protein + 10g of psyllium husk + water 3 times per day 600mg n-acetyl-cystein + 1g glycine + 300mg vitamin B1 detailed explanation: the psyllium husk creates volume and slows down the digestion of the oat bran and whey protein the volume from psyllium husk results in more satiety through the triggering of CCK hormone. it lowers gluconeogenesis in the liver and therefore reduces insulin resistance and this metabolic switch aids fat burning. the beta glucan fiber in oat bran is a different fiber than psyllium husk and has a different function. it feeds the good gut bacteria. they produce SCFAs for many hours and that makes the L cells produce a lot of natural GPL-1 and PYY. they whey protein of course delivers building blocks for your body but also triggers the release of CCK, GLP-1, PYY. so you don't need extra GLP-1 injections. the downside of artificial GPL-1 injections is, that is does not contain PYY which tells the body to lower the hunger hormone ghrelin. so, these injections cover only one side of the "golden medal". please don't leave one of the ingredients out, the combination is extremely important! the supplements: n-acetyl-cystein and glycine are two of three rate limiting factors for the body to produce the master antioxidant glutathione. and glycine is also very important for your brain, the krebs cycle (creating enough ATP energy), new collagen for skin and joints.... basically those two amino acids are essential for repair and youth. vitamin b1 is usually low in people with insulin resistance. it helps resolving damage from insulin resistance and is also needed as cofactor for the krebs cycle. so, please try this meal and the supplements AND PLEASE report back!
I have a good question for you If I take small amount of carbs after working out everyday do I get the same benefits from going out of keto for like 3 weeks and have bilingual as u said sugar burning and fat burning
Cooked and heated until it’s dead and lacks the enzymes good for digestion, homogenized to where the fat particles can’t be metabolized properly. Plus all the feed concerns.
Thomas, my continuing question regarding dairy, even grass fed goat & sheep fermented products, is how are male hormones and prostate affected by the estrogen in them?
I can only talk about own experience. I discovered after trial and error. But mostly by accident, I'm intolerant to dairy. I discovered all my aches and pains were caused by it. I cut out dairy whilst juicing and after a week, I noticed my bad elbow and shoulder pain had disappeared in just a week. I thought it was just my age. Nobody tells you how should feel when you get to your 50s. I look at people I know who are my age, I'm 55 now, and they move much slower than me. You can't fight father Time but you can fight old age.
Most people don't even know that the shit they buy in the supermarket is highly processed garbage. I once lived on a dairy farm and we drank milk WARM direct from the milking house and our farm hands were quite the physical specimens;)
I have been purchasing and drinking raw milk from my local farm. I understand that there's supposedly the same amount of sugar. Strangely, for whatever reason, it doesn't taste sweet like store milk does (to me)
Cool info. My fave is Swiss cheese though Jarlsberg from Norway is the best for decreasing bone loss and also tastes the best out of the "holey" lower cal hard cheeses (its more expensive than Swiss). Researchers found that eating a daily portion (around 57 g) of Jarlsberg could help stave off bone thinning without boosting harmful low density cholesterol, and that the health benefits are unique to this cheese. Try to avoid drinking more than 2 glasses of milk a day if you like milk because 3+ glasses per day has been associated with increase fracture risk late in life.....The opposite is true of yogurt and cheese (ie true cheese not the processed garbage). Yogurt and hard cheese actually prevents fracture risk later in life besides having higher amounts of protein and calcium. A 3 cm cube of hard cheeses like parmesan, cheddar, Swiss, Edam, gouda, Gruyere, or blue cheese has 245 mg of calcium which also helps keep you satiated. People oft only talk about insulin, but there are many other factors to healthspan late in life to keep you fit till old age. Try to keep those in mind. The other thing is don't do much cream if you want to lose weight. There's no nutritional value to it compared to many other food items.
Milk does not help bone density information is not the real truth study after study shows it depletes bone density the cause acid in your body and depletes calcium
@@cooperparts That's what I indicated. In clinical studies, anything about 2-3 cups of milk leads to increased risk of fractures but anything under that is fine.
You have to train your body to tolerate dairy, it takes months to build up the cultures in the gut to cope with it. Some people never can. I am yet to meet a person who stopped eating milk and milk products who did not feel a lot better after doing so.
if lactose is the problem, just eat yogurt. The fermentation is made by bacterias which are eating this lactose ... Thats the reason, after some time, yogurts are acid : bacterias ate all (or most of ) the lactose.
Who here is actually consuming high quality truly grass fed (cows that have never had an ounce of grain) raw dairy ? I didn’t start consuming dairy until I was in my mid 20’s and I only will buy and eat / drink grass fed raw dairy and have had zero issues. It helped me heal my gut.
The hard cheeses I normally get have 0g of sugar, ie No carbs at all. _All_ the lactose has been broken down. I don't drink much milk at all, but when i do I always get the A2 type
Uh-oh...he's back to "say-tee-ate-ing" again. I've been a big fan of full fat CLEAN cottage cheese for a long time, but I'm still not sure if I'd be better off without it, or not. It's sad how many big brands are NOT clean. Daisy is the one major brand of which I'm confident.
One way to make dairy more acceptable is to just drink whipping cream or half and half, both of which have no carbs or proteins. That is what I have been doing for years. You don't have to worry about the sugars or the proteins giving you problems. And if you want a high amounts of animal fat for keto or carnivore, this is an ideal and practical solution since so many meat cuts are lean.
You may not have to worry about sugars but consuming A1 casein is highly inflammatory, so will result in a big problem further down the line, unless of course your dairy is coming from cows that produce A2 casein
@@theriac. First of all, in half and half there are negligible amounts of protein and sugar. Second of all, there are no studies to back up what you claim regarding consuming dairy on people who a eat carnivore. I have been low carb since 1996 and when doctors would tell me that doing something was harmful my response was always you don’t know that. Why? Because I was never in the cohort of people being tested. There are not even any studies that say alcohol is bad for you if you are on a carnivore diet. It may not be since most carnivore diets are very high in choline a deficiency of which causes fatty liver. Until the studies are done, you simply have no science to back up claims.
What is most interesting reading the comments is different people's reactions to their local milk, often making generalisations without considering the variation in their body in terms of reaction to the cow's feed and additives/growth hormones and that of other people in more enlightened countries in term of food production. Look at the bigger picture people. 🐮🐮🐮
Read 'The Untold Story of Milk'. Pasturization changes milk substantially. Raw milk is healing, homogenized pasturized milk is an entirely different inflammatory food product.
I used to like blue cheese.. it's too sour to me now. I used to like roqufort.. can't remember the last time I had it. Love brie.. love a nice emmentaller Swiss. Can't stand cheddar.. the way it melts is creepy. I think my two favorites are munster and the German butter kase So.. no mention of the hormones passed through the cow into the milk? What about the antibiotics? Don't they play a role in gut bacteria? We also have to take into account what the cow was fed.. the "harvest-sprayed" grains and "treated" water. I am quite surprised that the phrase grass-fed didn't come out of your mouth too.
Dairy constipates me lol. And I'm a dancer and full time mom of 4. I don't stop moving or exercising. I dropped the dairy and I have normal bowels now. I have no idea the correlation.
Same with me i was walking mountains and swimming. I had to stop as it got so bad! Did a IGg food allergy test and i was 100/100 reacting to cows milk. Now i can walk again. Lol. Its nuts. Ny nose cleared 2! And saliva thinned way out. Its amazing!! Take high potassium foods for constipation. I switched bread for Potatoes and eat way more fruit now
@@SpamMouse it seems to be the protein in the milk. I always found it hard getting up in the mornings . as i increased my milk butter yoghart intake. Things got worse. After 6 weeks no dairy. Today i was up early 4 a morning cycle. Never did that for 20 years lol
