Walking away from the dairy section like…..👋🏼
I’m going on 11 months of living a plant-based lifestyle, which means no dairy. No milk, no cheese, no yogurt, no ice cream made with cow’s milk.
Here are my Top 5 Reasons Why I Avoid Dairy (and why my family does too!)
1. Cow’s milk contains hormones just like human breast milk contains hormones.
Cow’s milk contains sex steroid hormones, such as estrogen. Female cows are also milked throughout their pregnancies when their reproductive hormones are particularly high. (1) Even organic milk contains natural hormones which may play a role in the various associations between milk/dairy products and hormone related conditions such as: Acne (2) Sexual dysfunction in males (3) Premature puberty (4) Certain cancers such as prostate cancer (5)
2. Any lactating mammal excretes toxins through her milk.
This includes antibiotics, pesticides, chemicals and hormones. … the USDA allows milk to contain from one to one and a half million white blood cells per millilitre. … another way to describe white cells where they don’t belong would be to call them pus cells.” — Robert M. Kradjian, MD, Breast Surgery Chief Division of General Surgery, Seton Medical Centre.
3. There is NO known correlation between cow’s milk intake and stronger bones.
Research shows no significant protection between hip fractures and milk intake (6)(7)
4. I can’t digest it well and you most likely can’t either.
Overall, about 75 percent of the world’s population, including 25 percent of those in the U.S., lose their lactase enzymes after weaning. This means that the majority of us cannot properly digest milk. (8)
5. It makes my skin break out!
According to Harvard researchers, the prevalence of acne in teenage boys was 19% greater in boys drinking more than 2 cups of skim milk per day and 44% greater in girls. (9)
Other interesting facts about cow’s milk:
6. Many green vegetables have absorption rates of more than 50 percent, compared with about 32 percent for milk. In 1994, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reported calcium absorption to be 52.6 percent for broccoli, 63.8 percent for Brussels sprouts, 57.8 percent for mustard greens, and 51.6 percent for turnip greens.(10)
7. Most of our dietary exposure to hormones comes from dairy products. By quantity, it’s mostly prolactin, corticosteroids, and progesterone, but there are also a bunch of estrogens, which then concentrate further when you make other dairy products—like five times more concentrated in cream and cheese, ten times more hormone concentration in butter. (11)
8. Cow’s milk is intended for baby cows just as human breast milk is intended for infants. Calves have to grow approximately 40 times faster than human babies, and so cow’s milk has to be packed with growth promoters, not to mention the hormones in milk.
So there’s my reasons for avoiding cow’s milk and anything that is made from cow’s milk which means some probiotics, protein powders, etc. Because it is one of the top 8 allergens, a product that contains milk must be listed as so.
Questions? Just ask!
Want to work with me 1:1 to create the perfect diet for you and/or your family? Contact me today at dana@thrivekin.com.
Sources:
1. Maruyama K, Oshima T, Ohyama K. Exposure to exogenous estrogen through intake of commercial milk produced from pregnant cows. Pediatr Int. 2010;52(1):33-8
2. Danby FW. Acne and milk, the diet myth, and beyond. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2005;52(2):360-2.
3. Afeiche M, Williams PL, Mendiola J, et al. Dairy food intake in relation to semen quality and reproductive hormone levels among physically active young men. Hum Reprod. 2013;28(8):2265-75
4. Maruyama K, Oshima T, Ohyama K.
Exposure to exogenous estrogen through intake of commercial milk produced from pregnant cows. Pediatr Int. 2010;52(1):33-8
5. Qin LQ, Xu JY, Wang PY, Tong J, Hoshi K, Sato A. Milk consumption is a risk factor for prostate cancer: meta-analysis of case control studies. Mutt Cancer. 2004;48(1):22-7
6. Bischoff-Ferrari HA, Dawson-Hughes B, Baron JA, et al. Milk intake and risk of hip fracture in men and women: a met-analysis of prospective cohort studies. J Bone Miner Res. 2011;26(4):833-9
7. Feskanich D, Bischoff-Ferrari HA, Frazier AL, Willett WC. Milk consumption during teenage years and risk of hip fractures in older adults. JAMA Pediatr. 2014;168(1):54-60
8. Hertzler SR, Huynh BCL, Savaiano DA. How much lactose is low lactose? J Am Dietetic Asso. 1996;96:243-246.
9. https://drive.google.com/…/1CtcZT7v6K7…/view…
10. Weaver CM, Plawecki KL. Dietary calcium: adequacy of a vegetarian diet. Am J Clin Nutr.
11. https://nutritionfacts.org/…/the-effects-of-hormones…/
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