Milk

“inside of your gut will use that food. Let's begin with Dairy. Dariush explains why butter, cheese, and cream can all affect LDL cholesterol differently and how the membrane surrounding the droplets of milk fat may help account for some of those differences.”

“membrane around the fat so that it can dissolve in water. It's called milk-fat globule membrane. And we started studying these when we scientists were understanding why breastfeeding was so good.”

“a mammal that's trying to feed its young. And there's been really great studies showing that these milk-fat globule membranes interact with the gut microbiome in a positive way. They actually bind cholesterol and reduce cholesterol absorption in a positive way. They lower LDL cholesterol.”

“whereas butter doesn't. In butter, you throw it away in buttermilk. That's what buttermilk is. You're throwing away this milk-fat globule membrane. So there's all these complexities. There's the multiple effects of saturated fat on factors beyond LDL cholesterol. There are the types of saturated fat, which vary between, let's say, red meat and coconut oil and dairy.”

“showing benefits of giving MCT oils. And then in terms of the milk, fat, globule, membrane, so this is naturally present so that the fat and water don't mix, right? Fat is hydrophilic, water is, I'm mixing it up, fat is hydrophobic, water is hydrophilic, they don't mix.”

“And so you have to have this kind of membrane in milk to have the fat mix with the water. And that's why if you take, that's what homogenization does, actually. Homogenization breaks up that membrane.”

“There's no problem with that, actually. The membrane is still there, but it's been broken up. So homogenization isn't negative, but that's why you homogenize milk. In butter, to be able to make it and pack it into cubes, you have to get rid of this membrane because it'll interfere with sort of the creation of butter.”

“And even butter is not that bad, which we can get into. But among the dairy foods, butter is probably the worst. And then cheese and cream and yogurt and milk still contain it. And so, there's a wonderful randomized trial done in Europe by a colleague of mine, Ulf Rizarus, who had sort of seen”

“So, when you're talking about this milk-fat-globule protein, is that part of the food? Membrane, membrane, not protein. Yes, membrane, fat, milk-fat, globule membrane. Is that part of the food matrix?”

“I'm thinking about my parents when you saying, you know, low-fat, non-fat milk, non-fat yogurt isn't necessarily better than eating full fat. And to them, I mean, it's in their brains. I mean, like, it's like they can't go to the store and not buy non-fat.”

“So I put kind of yogurt at the top and then maybe cheese and other fermented foods. And I think milk actually has anti-hypertensive peptides linked to lower risk of stroke. So milk is pretty reasonable. Full-fat milk? Any fat. Any fat milk? Oh, they all have the peptides?”

“like the milk-fat globule membrane in the milk and the cholesterol in the milk. But again, this is now cross-foods. And my father, who's passed now, was an endocrinologist who did a lot of great research and was a clinician as well.”

“Our kids, when they turn two, our pediatricians in Boston, at Boston's top hospitals, would say, okay, so now you're switching to low-fat milk, right? And we'd say, no, we're going to stick with whole fat. And they're like, oh, well, you're supposed to switch, right? And I'm like, no, we're going to stick with whole fat. Thank you.”

“It's also a fermented food. People forget cheese is fermented and maybe because of that. And then milk seems to have particular benefits for blood pressure and stroke. And it doesn't seem to matter whether it's whole fat or low fat. And so what I recommend to people is probably the most important thing is to make sure you're having yogurt and cheese.”

“milk. It tastes better. I'm a little bit lactose intolerant. I'm fine with cheese. I'm fine with yogurt. But if I have like a half cup of milk, I'm going to kind of notice it. So I use oat milk. You know, that's fine.”

“And I was like, and I said, I took it. I said, I'm never going to eat meat again. Later on, I did eat cheese and milk. I wasn't vegan at that point. But when I was a professor at Cornell in the 1990s, I went to an animal sanctuary in Watkins Glen, New York.”

“It's not going to be a kind of berry because, again, that's going to be too much in the sugar. I'll give you a hint. It's the first food you ever ate. Milk? Yeah. Wow. Milk is rich in fat and it's rich in sugars, right? And but after you wean, you know, that's it.”

“He was so good. He really did. He called in a medical staff? Yeah, it was like rubbed hot sauce all over his face. He's chugging milk. It was great. I was crushing the milk. Milk helps. And it wasn't. That's when he was like, He was. You drink a lot of milk. You should really get raw milk with all the creams in it.”

“Get it at a farmer's market. The Amish, brother. Yeah. I drink raw milk. I drink a gallon of raw milk every week. You know what I like about the Amish? It's so good. The Amish is cool because they don't force it on anybody. No. They do their own bullshit. They're in the buggy. They're churning butter. They don't want each other.”

“They don't take kids and just jab them up filled with aluminum and fucking mercury. Milk is also a thing for autism, yeah. What? Yeah. And it might be the non-raw milk because no one drinks raw milk. I think the issue with milk is it does cause. Yeah, the ones that the children that they found that have autism are the ones that were adopted.”

“Okay. Yeah, vegetarian is eggs and milk. I mean, you would want it sourced from like an ethical farmer where you can watch him milk his cows, where it's not like some fucking machine where the cow's like got its head in a harness and then just yanking on its tits.”

“That they've passed this idea that if you don't homogenize and pasteurize your milk, that you're in danger. And I don't know if you've ever seen some of these gaslighty articles, but some lady, I wish I saved it.”

“milk and soft cheeses. Dangerous. Yeah, those are dangerous. Serious. Look, serious pathogens, like listeria and salmonella. Okay.”

“It's not a good substitute. But also that all these healthy fats that you're getting from milk, that you're getting from eggs, eggs in particular. We've been told eggs are bad for you, the cholesterol and eggs. Eggs, you could live off just eggs.”

“moving to a farm because I want to eat better meat. Or I want to drink better milk. Or I want to make some supplement or I think collagen or not collagen. What's the breast milk that comes out right when the baby's born?”

“They're primarily animal-based, so seafood and red meat. Herring is going to have one of the highest concentrations, salmon, as well as beef. Very small amounts in milk and dairy. So you'd have to drink all the milk in the Jersey cow to get a sufficient amount. So it definitely comes down to animal-based flesh.”

“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.”

“fueling panacea. Kids will eat it. My child can digest milk. So she's got cow milk on there, right? You could choose whatever milk, but I need to get some calories in after that, right? That thing has a little bit of protein. It's not going to be a huge, crazy fat meal.”

“especially if your goal is rapid polyphenol absorption and maximum cognitive benefit. So here's what happens. Milk contains casein and whey proteins, which bind tightly to coffee's main antioxidants, the chlorogenic acids, these protein polyphenol complexes slow down early absorption in the small intestine”