Raw Milk
The Raw Milk Cure
Many of us swear by the daily consuming of raw milk and other raw dairy products as part of a real food for real health lifestyle. It may be news to some that raw milk can have not only a generally supportive role in good health but used in a certain way can have a VERY powerful curative effect on disease.
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This was known by medical doctors in the 19th and early 20th centuries ( see here and here for two examples) but forgotten with the coming of both pateurization and the pharmaceutical industry. I have some personal experience with a modified mlk diet regime as a teenager (my before and after photos are here) when my life was saved by nutritional scientist Rheo Blair who himself got his start when as a sickly young man he turned his life around with the milk cure (see here).
Today, the raw milk cure, or diet, is getting some fresh attention. Scattered raw milk enthusiasts are taking a look at the raw milk cure and trying it out for themselves. One such person is Joanne Hay, Editor of Nourished Magazine who chronicles in writing her experience in Milk Milk Glorious Milk – The Real Raw Milk Cure. Now comes a new set of videos by Jini Patel Thompson who discusses the raw milk cure here, and relates it breast cancer here. She has just completed a series of three videos made as she herself goes through the raw milk diet regime. Her remarks are candid and honest. This is must see footage!
The Raw Milk Diet: A Physician’s Experience With Real
Healing
The pharmaceutical industry gets rich making drugs that “manage” rather than “heal” disease. But a licensed M.D. had astounding success with real healing using a simple food substance from nature: Grass-fed Raw Milk. He wrote a book about his work. Another man, a nutritionist, healed himself using the milk diet and went on to build upon and modify it.
Milk Diet As A Remedy For Chronic Disease by Charles Sanford Porter, M.D
First, do no harm. Dr. Charles Porter practiced medicine at the turn of the 20th Century. He took to heart the words in the Hippocratic Oath “to obstain from doing harm.” We know these words better as “First, do no harm.” This phrase reminds us of another popular one: “sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.” The problem with this latter phrase today is that modern medical cures don’t typically cure but only manage the disease so one can live more comfortably and perhaps with it: diabetes, heart disease, cancer, etc. But the dictionary definition of “heal” is “to make healthy, whole, or sound; restore to health; free from ailment.” Free from ailment. Our modern drugs don’t, as a rule, free us from ailments; they modify symptoms: i.e. blood pressure, etc. But once one stops taking the ‘medication” the effect stops too. So one is not healed of the problem for which the drug is taken. Worse, the side effects can include possible damage to the organs. If you have never looked through the Physicians Desk Reference, do so. Take a look at the possible side effects for any drug. It is not a small matter. However, a rarely mentioned side effect of most every drug is that of nutrient depletion. These drugs do not just go in and do their job; they tend to deplete the body of nutrients — vitamins, minerals, etc. Now how is it possible to heal the body while depleting it of nutrients? “Do no harm”?
Healing, not managing; feeding, not depleting. But Dr. Charles Porter was keenly interested in effecting actual cures, and doing so with one of natures finest substances: raw milk. While he surely lived by the the motto “first, do no harm,” I believe he should have had a second motto: “feed the body.” He successfully treated and cured thousands of patients with 6 quarts of raw milk daily using a specific regime. Under his care, his patients typically recovered from their illness, they healed. Subsequent to the milk diet they did not require nutrient depleting medication to manage a disease they no longer had. Their bodies had been fed with high doses of a nutrient-dense super food giving the body the nutrients they needed to heal on their own. The body can heal itself; it just needs the tools. The milk diet supplied those tools.
The Milk Diet, in brief:
*Raw milk is a nutrient dense food that gives your body the tools it needs to heal and rebuild.
*Since it is liquid, it is more easily absorbed than solid food.
*The raw milk diet is exclusive — nothing but raw milk for a period of about 3 weeks.
*Daily intake of about 6 quarts taken on an ongoing “sipping” basis throughout the day.
*Sipping slowly throughout the day allows nutrients to constantly enter the body without compromising assimilation via digestion overload.
*High density nutrient feeding is coupled with bed rest 24/7 throughout the diet. This is impractical for some but is ideal for the truly ill.
*The intense rest allows and enables the body to focus it’s limited energy exclusively on healing, not exertion.
The high quantity of milk is vital to the success of the program. Dr. Porter writes: “there is no halfway method of taking the milk diet for people who have much the matter with them. Enough milk must be taken to create new circulation, new cells, and new tissue growth, and cause prompt elimination of the waste and dead matter that may be poisoning the system.” (pp. 126-7)
Two Personal Stories. My life was saved in 1978 by a nutritionist whose own childhood was marred by illness and turned around by the milk diet. Rheo H. Blair, who carved out a career for himself from the 1950′s to the 1980′s as the “Nutritionist to the Hollywood Stars,” lost a kidney in an accident around the age of 9, subsequent to which his health plummeted. He was one very sick young man and so weak he was finally removed from high school as an invalid. He tried everything in desperation to get his health back. He exercised to no avail. He went on many diets including the carrot juice diet, a vegetarian diet, etc. Now while some of these might work for someone else, it did not work for him — we are all different in our body chemistry and what works for one will not necessarily bring the same results for the next. So Rheo finally heard about the milk diet and gave it a shot. This worked perfectly for him. For the first time in years his respiratory and sinus problems cleared up. His chronic fatigue and weakness turned into energy, vim and vigor. He put on weight — muscle. He got a job and for the first time in over a decade began to lead a normal life. Over the next few years he developed a nutritional regime for which he became famous that included high levels of protein, supplements, and rest, 24/7. He achieved many miracles during his career. At the base of his philosophy and methods was always the milk diet. The high levels of milk supplied high levels of protein. The supplements aided in the assimilation of the milk and worked along with the milk to improve the organs and alter the chemistry of the body. The bed rest allowed for better healing and growth.
The second personal story is my own. At the age of 16 I was put under the care of Rheo Blair. My own situation was quite similar to his as a child (although I had not lost a kidney). My parents were terribly concerned such that I was taken out of school to be with Rheo Blair at his home on a 24/7 basis. Now I hasten to add that the program I followed was not the milk diet as described by Dr. Porter. But the similarities were substantial and the basis for the core of the Blair system was the milk diet. All day long I remained in bed (though I insisted on being out of bed from time to time — try to keep a teenager down!) All day long I sipped a milk and egg based non-denatured protein mixed with raw milk (and in some cases, raw cream). With this I took supplements to enable and enhance the milk/egg protein my body was being flooded with. I did some minor exercising. My un-retouched photos are below; you may judge for yourselves. The period between the photos is 90 days. Were it not for the milk diet, this would never have happened and I would not be writing this blog.
Not only did I gain 35 pounds of muscle, my complexion cleared up, my respiratory and sinus problems went away, my hair took on a new luster, my energy went through the roof, I stopped getting colds on a frequent basis. I was brand new. Reborn. In my before state, Rheo, who grew up on a farm, said I “looked like a chicken getting ready to die.” In my after state, an author who included my story in a book some years ago, described me as an “adolescent hunk.” Chicken getting ready to die —-> transformed into an adolescent hunk.
The power of nature. The power of the body given the food, nutrients, and rest it needs to heal, transform and grow.
Now, dear reader, you know something about the person behind this blog and why I am so interested in what I call “real” health. I am blessed to be married to someone who shares my passion for the wisdom of nature and the goodness of raw milk. Lorraine drinks it daily and says she could not live without it. I have seen her own health transform over the past few years as raw milk has become a staple for her.
Bottom line of this post: real food both feeds and, where necessary, heals, the body. Raw grass-fed milk is real food.
If you would like to obtain your own copy of the Milk Diet book, which at 250+ pages goes into far more detail than I can here, including exactly how it the diet works, details on the immune factors in colostrum, and much, much more, please click on the link below to order directly from Amazon.
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The following books will facilitate your further study of this important subject. The more information you have, the more you can do for your own health and that of your loved ones!
Milk Diet, as a Remedy for Chronic Disease
Raw Milk: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
I still like Whole Foods Market; I really do. But it is getting harder to say that and mean it. The recent decision by WFM to ban raw milk from its shelves has left a bad taste in my mouth and I literally think twice now before going. Oh they talk a great green story. Even their website is colored green. On that site is even a page called Green Action. On that page are found these telling words: “Wise moms everywhere remind us that actions speak louder than words. We can all talk about saving our planet but making those smart and sometimes challenging choices every day is what’s going to get the job done. We’ve been trying to make green choices since we opened our first store. We understand that companies can have a large impact on our environment.” Wow. I agree 100%. But do they really mean it? Does WFM know what they are saying and how starkly their ACTION of banning raw milk flatly contradicts their WORDS? Go back and read the words again. We’ve made them green so you can’t miss them. Now, think about those words and what they mean while you watch the following video made by a man and a company actually living those words, not just saying them.
You have seen the video, now guess which milk WFM recently banned from its shelves?
Mark McAfee, owner of Organic Pastures Dairy and seen in this video, is a man of words AND actions. He is a hero. He is the brave David to the Corporate and governmental Goliaths that would slay him. He stands up and fights. He walks the green walk. The cows you see in this video living and feeding on grass are his. The other cows you see in this video, with no grass, living on grains, given antibiotics and steroids, are the concentration camp cows, as he calls them. And you can plainly see what he means. Which milk would you rather put in your body?
Buyer beware. Now there is a lot of milk out there calling itself “organic”– but when you look at where and how the cows actually live, you may be in for a surprise to see that some may resemble the conditions of the concentration camp cows in this video. Others may be raised in good environments, to be sure. But then when it’s ultimately pasteurized, the health giving properties of the milk are destroyed anyway, so “organic” loses much of its meaning. And then that gets us back to words verses actions. The words of some in the organic industry verses the proven actions of the raw milk producers, especially Organic Pastures. I know what I am getting with the latter. I know what is going into my body when I drink raw milk from true grass fed cows.
The bottom line: I can go to WFM foods and pay for the words, or go somewhere else and get the real thing. There are many stores willing to sell raw milk and their number is growing all the time. Those are the stores I will support. Indeed, after raw milk was banned from WFM, Organic Pastures reached out to its Facebook© friends and lined up a large list of new stores in the state of California which will now sell its products.
“Wise moms everywhere remind us that actions speak louder than words.” So true.
We can all talk about saving our planet but making those smart and sometimes challenging choices every day is what’s going to get the job done. Exactly.
We understand that companies can have a large impact on our environment.” Yes they can, and I prefer the truly green environment at Organic Pastures as opposed to what amounts to mere green words in some other places.
Thank you Mark McAfee for your actions. You are a hero.
This post is part of Fight Back Friday at Food Renegade.com.
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Whole Foods Market STILL “Sells a Lot of Junk” But now they have discontinued a very popular real health food: RAW MILK!
Last summer I wrote here about WFM CEO John Mackey’s quickly famous words “we sell a lot of junk.” Since then, we have been waiting for the high-end natural foods store to clean up its act. We are still waiting. To this date, NOT GONE are the huge displays of candy when entering our local store (continues below…) 
Also NOT GONE is their sugar filled dessert bar, or the white flour pizza counter, or the prepared comfort foods many of which are made with canola oil (if YOU would like to know about the dangers of Canola oil, please read The Great Con-ola by Sally Fallon and Mary G. Enic, PhD). And, very sadly, NOT GONE is the enormous offering of alcoholic drinks. I could go on and on. However, last week I noticed their display of organic grass fed sourced raw milk from the wonderful people at Organic Pastures was gone. This seemed strange. Then came this bit of news that WFM was pulling raw milk in four states. WFM talked of the need to develop raw milk “standards” with hints of bringing it back to the shelves in the near future.. All talk. It won’t happen. I was distressed to watch this video update to from Organic Pastures owner Mark McAfee (this a facebook link; sign on to view the video) in which he announced that he has been told by WFM that as a matter of corporate policy WFM will no longer stock raw milk in any of its stores in the U.S. David Gumpert has the story here from which I quote: “Forget all that talk about Whole Foods developing raw milk standards and bringing unpasteurized milk back to its stores in California, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Connecticut. Dairies in California and Pennsylvania were told today that the ban is indefinite, likely long term. “Whole Foods never intended on bringing raw milk back to the shelves in California or anyplace in the U.S.,” says Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures Dairy Co. “OPDC provided the $10 million in coverage requested and everything that anyone would want for food safety…Wholefoods is not putting raw milk back onto any shelves in the U.S. for the short term and foreseeable long term. No rational reason was given…We also were never given the Whole-Foods-team-developed enhanced national raw milk production safety standards that Whole Foods promised to us.” Read the rest. And in an article on the same topic a week earlier David wrote: And you gotta love this. John Mackey, Whole Foods’ CEO, has a new article out on the “high trust organization.” No mention of all the trust created by staying with raw milk.” Our family is fortunate to have a wonderful and rapidly growing natural foods store nearby named Mother’s Market which stocks a wide variety of Organic Pastures products and at prices far below what WFM ever offered. Example: Half gallon of whole raw milk at WFM (was) $9.99; at Mother’s Market (is) $6.99. And Mother’s Market, by the way, does not “sell a lot of junk.” Arrivederci, Whole Foods. I will be sticking WITH raw milk and supporting ONLY the stores that offer it. More information on raw milk: My personal experience with the healing powers of raw milk is found here along with the work of a physician who used raw milk to HEAL disease. ALSO see the following Another person’s testimony of raw milk’s healing power. Dr. Tom Cowan M.D. on raw milk’s medical benefits.
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