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Lactose Intolerance -- A Problem with Pasteurization?

An increasing number of people have digestive problems, leaky gut, or lactose intolerance today which makes drinking processed milk products impossible. In fact, milk allergy is one of the top eight allergies. Lactose intolerance is an inability to break down certain sugars in milk, although to say that people have a "lactose intolerance" is not as correct to say that the processed milk is missing important components that aid digestion.

Lactose intolerance is seen much less often when drinking raw milk. That is because in whole, raw milk, an enzyme called lactase exists in order to digest lactose. Lactase is destroyed during the pasteurization process. So nature provides a perfect balance of enzymes, nutrients, and bacteria, that can easily become damaged or destroyed in the heating process.

Other proteins, nutrients, or enzymes that are damaged or destroyed during pasteurization are:

*Nucleosides and nucleotides

*Polyamines

*Oligosacchirides

*Transfer proteins (proteins that transfer nutrients such as B12 across the intestinal wall in order that they be utilized by the cells)

*Peptides that support blood pressure and blood clotting

*Peptides that support the immune system

*Antioxidants

But Problems Digesting Milk Didn't Always Exist...

In fact, in the 1900s, patients at the Mayo Clinic suffering from such acute and chronic illnesses as cancer, kidney disease, allergies, skin problems, prostate conditions and chronic fatigue would be given what was known as "The Raw Milk Cure" -- a semi-fast in which the only food given was raw milk. People experienced very good results with this cure, and it was done exclusively with raw milk, as pasteurized milk did not present the same results. (Crewe, J.R., Raw Milk Cures Many Diseases, www.Realmilk.com)

Valuable Enzymes and Bacteria are Destroyed During the Pasteurization Process

In whole, raw milk, nature provides a multitude of enzymes and bacteria in order to aid digestion. Nature provides a perfect first food, intended to be easily digested, in its perfect, unadulterated form.

However, even moderately low heat can destroy valuable digestive properties in milk, in addition to destroying or reducing nutrient values of important vitamins.

So the many people who are unable to digest processed, pasteurized milk may be able to drink whole, raw, milk, and even receive needed health benefits from doing so.

Click here to read about more health benefits from raw milk.