Paul Saladino· MD
In 1986, there was a huge outbreak of salmonila from pasteurized milk. I think over 200,000 people got sick from pasteurized milk. So the important thing when you're drinking raw milk is that you know the quality of the raw milk. Get it from a good farm that's reputable. And on the flip side, what are the benefits of raw milk? Raw milk has been shown in multiple studies, the parsible study, the Gabriella study to have benefits in terms of allergy and immune effects in humans. So, kids that grew up on or off farms drinking raw milk versus pasteurized had lower rates of asthma, eczema, and allergies. That's crazy. Especially because I grew up drinking pasteurized milk and I had asthma, eczema, and allergies. That is the attopic triad, guys. That is what I suffer from. And raw milk has helped with that. Basically, that was the reason I did the carnivore diet. That's a whole separate story. So, what is pasteurization? Pasteurization is heating milk to a very high temperature. It's usually over 400° F and that changes the confirmation of proteins in the milk. There's definitely research showing that the whey protein in milk changes confirmation and that may affect humans negatively imunologically or you may lose positive imunologic benefits from a whey protein that is undenatured. When you pasteurize milk, you also wipe out all of the flora in the milk. So, there's no bacteria in pasteurized milk, which can be a good thing if there are harmful bacteria in raw milk, which happens very, very rarely, but it's often a bad thing because there's nothing in the milk. There's no organisms. And so, if anything contaminates a pasteurized milk, it's going to go crazy. It's like an augur plate in a science lab. If you put bacteria on an augur plate, it goes wild. It just grows everywhere. Lots of colonies. And so if salmonila or campflact get into pasteurized milk like happened in 1986 like happened recently in Canada with silk milk, soy milk and almond milk, then you're going to have major problems. There's no other organisms there to out compete the bad organisms. There's an age-old debate guys between terrain theory and microbe theory. The microbe theory has kind of won out in western medicine, but I think it's missing the boat a little bit. Micro theory is kind of like the school of Louis Pastor