Most Replayed Moment: Is Milk Healthy? The Truth About Dairy, Sugar, Fruit And Fasting

“milk. Yeah. Because I got told that it would make me tall like my brothers. So I used to drink milk like crazy. Yeah. Straight from the carton. Just as many gulps as I could take from the food. Did it work? Did you grow?”

“And the dietary guidelines for Americans says that the average American should have three glasses of milk a day and kids should have two glasses of milk a day to be healthy. You cannot get money in funding for school lunches in America without having milk on the menu.”

“Now, there is no evidence to support this. In fact, there's opposite evidence that skim milk causes weight gain because it doesn't satisfy your appetite, that milk can cause cancer, that prostate cancer, that it doesn't create strong bones.”

“I was like, what happened? Like, when did this start? Oh, it started when he was like 12 months old. I said, what changed? Well, I stopped breastfeeding and I started giving him milk. And all of a sudden, he started getting these ear infections. I'm like, oh, this is before I even knew about all this. It was just kind of an interesting footnote.”

“other food programs, child infant nutrition. So it's really unfortunate, but milk is not nature's perfect food. It's only nature's perfect food if you're a calf. Is there health benefits to milk? Yes. So that's the other side of it.”

“gut issues, less problematic for the body. So sheep and goat milk have A2. Certain cows like Jersey or Guernsey cows have A2 in them. And you can get A2 milk. You can A2 ice cream now.”

“We have estrogen that we add into the cows. It's in the milk. We have 60 different hormones in the milk, some of them naturally occurring. But we milk pregnant cows and that milk has a lot more hormonal effects. So I think current dairy is not something we should consume.”

“So having fruit, for example, you have frozen berries in your... I had frozen cherries, for example, in my whey protein. That's okay. There's protein in there. It mitigates the effect. What about eating times? When to eat? Yeah. Have you got any thoughts around when we should and shouldn't be?”

“For example, I use Goat Whey as my morning protein shake. So Goat Whey is from goats, obviously. There's very little casein in it, but it's A2 casein if there's any.”

“Here's a guy. It's a guide called Good Food on a Tight Budget. How to eat well for you, for the planet, and your wallet. And it's made by the Environmental Working Group. You can get it on ewg.org. It's free.”

“So having fruit, for example, you have frozen berries in your... I had frozen cherries, for example, in my whey protein. That's okay. There's protein in there. It mitigates the effect. What about eating times? When to eat? Yeah. Have you got any thoughts around when we should and shouldn't be?”

“I wrote about this in my book, Young Forever, where we talked about how do we have our own repair, renewal system kick in?”