Raw Milk

Raw Milk

Swap to raw milk and effortlessly boost your vitamin and mineral intake. Improve lactose intolerance and increase your intake of pro-biotics and enzymes. Use to make raw milk Kefir for the most potent probiotic available.

The following information is taken from my raw milk supplier's website. Hook and Son deliver my milk every week. You can set up a standing order once you figure out how many pints you need a week. I share my delivery with my neighbour to help keep the cost down (about £1.90 per pint) and only 2 pints need to go in the freezer, the rest keep in the fridge. It's best to not freeze too much milk as it effects the fat molecules.

Pick up a bottle from the elliehillyoga studio to try it out.

www.hookandson.co.uk

It is claimed that only raw milk has the following health benefits: 

"Raw milk contains multiple, redundant systems of bioactive components that can reduce or eliminate populations of pathogenic bacteria. One of our customers has a child who had a lump caused by bad bacteria that antibiotics wouldn’t clear up. Their consultant suggested raw milk, as part of the child’s diet, and within three months, the infection had gone" 

"Raw milk consists of important enzymes that aid in assimilating the nutrients present in milk. Possibly the most important is lactase enzyme that helps digest lactose milk sugar. We have lots of customers who thought they couldn’t have dairy as they are lactose intolerant, really enjoying milk again. Maybe it’s a case that they are pasteurized milk intolerant?" 

"Raw milk serves as one of the best sources for calcium consumption." 

"One of the major raw milk drinking advantages is that it contains the beneficial bacteria both in terms of gut health and fighting infection, which otherwise get destroyed, when the milk undergoes pasteurisation process." 

"The British journal The Lancet reported that resistance to tuberculosis increased in children fed raw milk instead of pasteurised."

"Drinking raw milk could reduce children's risk of suffering allergy-related conditions such as eczema and hay fever. This seems to be the main medical reason for people wanting raw milk today. Milk straight from the cow is full of bacteria. These all get killed by pasteurization, resulting in pasteurized milk containing lots of dead bacteria. Is it true that as these dead bacteria decompose and breakdown in pasteurized milk they release histamine that can cause eczema? We have lots of customers that have told us that within three weeks of having our raw milk, their eczema has gone." 

Milk has sugar for energy in the form of LACTOSE (80% of the carbohydrate in milk) which, studies have found, does much less damage than glucose to teeth. Milk also contains casein which is a phosphoprotein and considered to be a protective factor in teeth health to prevent caries. It does this by it’s ability to concentrate calcium and phosphorus in the plaque with the effect of reducing some of the plaque bacteria. Furthermore, when milk is from organic grass fed cows, which is usually the case with certified raw milk, the calcium in the milk is of the highest quality. That means your body will be able to make the most use of it to produce strong teeth and bones.

I would also add that grass fed, organic diary and meat contain a better ratio of omega 3 to 6's. 3's being anti inflammatory and 6 being pro-inflammatory. Our current diet of sunflower and corn oil tip the balance way too far in favour of omega 6.