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The International Milk Genomics Consortium (IMGC) continues to challenge the conventional wisdom about milk. After deleting one of its articles from the October issue about the potential benefits of raw milk, it now has an intriguing article in its November issue suggesting that buttermilk could be the antidote for both many common intestinal disorders, and to susceptibility to pathogens.
Its article summarizing research from around the world is about the growing importance of intestinal lipids from fat and carbohydrates, called glycolipids, in protecting against inflammatory diseases, and even pathogens. It seems timely coming in the midst of the intense discussion following my previous two posts about the terrible price paid by families of children who become ill from raw milk, especially since it is about scientific research as apart from all the emotion that has come with the debate here.
Unfortunately, the rapid degradation of glycolipids in the intestine, typical of inflammatory intestinal diseases, is associated with a further increase in pro-inflammatory signaling, inflammatory markers, and susceptibility to pathogens,” the article states, in making a connection between intestinal problems and pathogens. “Conditions like necrotizing enterocolitis (in infants), inflammatory bowel diseases, and Crohns disease (in adults) are becoming a new health problem, affecting over 1 million Americans each year. Because neither surgical nor drug interventions cure these diseases, there are increasing demands for new treatments.
The answer may lie in buttermilk, the article says likely produced from colostrum. Conventional buttermilk might offer an option as well, though more needs to be learned, the article says.
Will drinking store bought milk provide the desired benefits? The answer to that question is, unfortunately, no. The amount of glycolipids in store-bought milk is too low to elicit bioactive action. However, there is another possibility for recovering and concentrating these molecules from milk.
During industrial milk processing, the fat is disrupted and, as a result, the glycolipids move from the “fat” part of the milk to the “watery” part of the milk. When butter is made, the “watery” part is a byproduct that can then be used to make buttermilk. It is from this buttermilk that glycolipids could be extracted. It turns out that buttermilk can also be produced from colostrum – the early milk – that is naturally richer in glycolipids compared to mature milk. Colostrum contains as much as 63 mg/kg of glycolipids [5]. Therefore, buttermilk made from colostrum could be a rich source of glycolipids.
Its not clear whether the buttermilk would need to be produced from conventional dairy, raw milk, or from raw colostrums. Does it really matter?
I have to applaud the IMGC for remaining focused on the potential benefits to be extracted from dairy for countering chronic and pathogen disease, even if the antidote may originate with raw milk. The article concludes, If buttermilk were to be used in clinical studies to demonstrate enhanced quality of life for people suffering from intestinal diseases, it could become the new star of the dairy industry!
The colostrum that is spoken of is raw
The continued Splash newsletter publications is nothing short of an academic third finger to John Sheehan at the FDA and all that he represents
I don’t recall who recommended the book: ‘The Worst Hard Time’, Thank you, I have finished it, and it was very enlightening, a good read.
My school bus driver used to religiously drink an 8 oz. glass of buttermilk, with chunks of butter floating in it, followed by stiff shot of whisky every night before he went to bed.
Some of you may find the following article quite interesting.
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/15/science/from-birth-body-houses-microbe-zoo.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
For example, the common scum on human teeth, known as plaque, contains the relatives of a bacterium, Synergistes jonesii, first identified in the intestines of African sheep. These sheep could eat a toxic legume with impunity, Dr. Dewhirst said. But when sheep elsewhere in the world ate the legume, they died. When researchers fed African sheep feces to Australian sheep, they too could eat the legume. The protective factor, a gut bacterium, was transmissible, he said. This phenomenon was reported several years ago in the journal Systematic and Applied Microbiology.
With respect to microbes that colonize the human body, Dr. Abigail Salyers, a microbiologist at the University of Illinois states, We should love them. They’re like our mother. They clean up our messes.”
Ken
If someone was to send say butter, to another place; How would they wrap and send it to prevent spoilage?
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/dining/buttermilk-often-maligned-begins-to-get-its-due.html?pagewanted=all
Raw butter does very well in a paper box with a cold pack or none at all or just wrapped up with plenty of paper. We leave our butter out at home and it tastes great. We make cultured raw butter with Flora Dinaca cultures added to the cream prior to churning, as the butter ages it gets really yummy smelling and even better tasting.
As far as Splash is concerned…you read it like Cipher code…it is what is not said and how what is said is stated. Instead of raw milk…they will say breast milk, ancient milks, unprocessed milks or butter milks
( remember that butter milk is cultured and that increases the enzymatic and probiotic values)…when they condemn pasteurized milk they say “store bought” milk. You will not see the PhD’s saying raw milk or pasteurized milk. Those are no no’s in PhD politically correct speak. To make that mistake will cost you your job and your grant funding…I have heard this first hand. Breast milk is raw milk. Colostrum is also UC Genome Speak for raw milk. All proper code…it makes it all so fascinating to read.
BTW…UC Davis genomic researchers will be attending the WAP conference this weekend. Probably in disguise. I do not blame them one little bit. Come hang around the RAWMI booth and you can probably get a glimse of one and maybe even sneak in a conversation in plain lanaguage not UC PhD Code.
These researchers are getting pretty near the FDA cliff and they sense it. They also love it. It is like Columbus challenging the establishment…saying the world is round. Researchers know that greatness comes from being an exception and not the follower.
I grew up drinking fresh buttermilk. A lot of people don’t like buttermilk because they’ve only ever tasted the stuff from the grocery store, that shouldn’t even be classified as buttermilk, IMPHO.
Grocery store buttermilk is all I’ve ever tasted, and didn’t like it. I look forward to making butter and buttermilk when I next obtain some raw cream.
That is disgusting.
A 15 minute take on the evolution of the American diet. I think it also shows the correlation between diet and health.
Great TED link on the modern history of foods…it really sent the clear message…processed foods suck and they are addictive and they are the central cause of illness in first world nations. Unprocessed whole foods and good animals fats are missing from our diets. The graphs and charts are amazing.
This from a PhD who has studied the data and the food history in the last 250 years…great stuff. I put it upon our OPDC Face Book page.
Just have to say, I went to Wal Mart yesterday to buy some more large ice chests for the WAP event this week. I was shocked by what I saw.
Fat people…. I mean really fat people everywhere, people limping with braces on their knees. People in Wal Mart supplied electric wheel chairs…dazed people with crying fat kids. This is a crisis….a crisis that is profitable to the medical system and the shelf life oriented food system.
Gut life and nutritional prevention be damned.
Thank you again Sylvia!!
I have taken 6 calls this morning from our consumers that wanted to know what OPDC’s position is on prop 37.
Monsatan has done a great job confusing the issues and trying their best to create a prop 65 litigation debacle out of prop 37. Under prop 65, the litigation challenges were big when improper store posting of chemicals known to the state of to cause cancer was an issue.
Bottom line….Monsanto is an enemy of the people and is all about control of people and life on earth through control of food and its seeds. Any one that could argue straight faced that a corporation should be able to patent life…is immoral at a deep level. Some day…Monsanto will roast in hell right next to Mike Taylor and John Sheehan.
I feel for those people at wally world et al. They have followed the system and this is where they landed.
Some do try to improve their nutrition, but there is so much conflicting information bombarding those who seek it out, it’s hard to tell what’s true, what’s distorted, what’s out right lies, etc.
That’s why I think giving concise facts and elaborating in addendums and when questions are asked. People don’t listen when they get information over-load, they shut down.
Teaching healthier ways of preparing healthy non-processed junk is key for better nutrition. It seems people think it’s a bother to cook from scratch, I do understand that most don’t feel like cooking anything after working 10-12 hours plus fighting traffic….. When I was working 3 or 4-12 hr shifts in a row, I’d live on a pot of soup or leftovers from when I was off. All I did was eat and sleep when not at work.
Also, look at what items are pushed at those people. When at my son’s in Little Rock, it is appalling at the ‘choices’ offered in the local grocery store chains. Processed junk. No different than wally world. The farmers market in Little Rock, is NOT cheaper than the stores (the farmers market in Sacramento was cheaper than the stores) Food in Little Rock was higher priced than Sacramento, even the locally grown.
I think when the webmaster, or whoever, deleted Mark’s repeat post, he also eliminated my post right below it. Oh well, not a big deal, but the fact of the matter is that it may happen again to something much more important, no? We need to watch these things.
As Americans we need to get rid of the idea that illness care should be profit driven. Medical care should be universal. Then it would become cheaper….much cheaper. We would then be burdened by its costs universally and the pressure would mount to prevent disease. Then and only then would drug companies begin to lose their grip on profitable sickness industrial systems that they love.
Then and only then would the cost containment driven concepts begin to drive our medical care systems. Then we would incentivize health and nutrition. Then we would be concerned about health and not the profits of the sickness grinder. Health care is already universally provided becuase of our moral code….but this code is corrupted and an excuse for continued illness. Change the profitability of illness and make health profitable…and there will be change.
Sounds a little socialist…I do not care what label you put on it….the most morally and humanely capitalist thing we can do is to correct the incentives in our country. Make health a profitable thing. Make Obesity expensive and unprofitable. Make diabetes and asthma unprofitable and its prvention profitable.
Change the economics of illness and you will change America. Unfortunately…we have allowed Monsatan and Mike Taylor to captain our US ship. The “USS GREED”.
I like our “life boat” here in CA…
Mark, I don’t think you grasp the basic economics involved. Medical care was once nearly universal and relatively inexpensive… before the government got involved in the 70s… and it has been a nightmare and mess ever since, and getting worse by the decade.
We already are not just burdened by the cost, but doomed by it… anyone who thinks the gov’t can promise a nation that will soon reach 40% obesity (doesn’t include overweight, just obese people) universal health care and the like is just unwilling to face the numbers.
The incentives were messed up by the government – it is funny all the anger hurled at insurance companies, when Obama himself admitted in an interview that they are less than like 3-4% of the cost of insurance. The insurance companies are a tiny part of the equation, and their role is hugely inflated for political purposes.
The government mandates for insurance (you have to cover pyschiatric, you have to cover this, etc…), the ban on interstate competition between companies, etc., that is one of major driving factors in skyrocketing costs, along with the Fed Reserve absolutely destroying the middle class a (billion) dollars printed and trillions in gov’t debt at a time…
As soon as you promise/require healthcare, you provide a disincentive to being healthy, just like when you provide welfare, you create a disincentive to work.
This is why young people generally don’t want to get “health insurance,” because it is little more than disease care, and they don’t want to subsidize someone else (nor should they be forced to).
You are right, the system is messed up, and the incentives are all wrong, but your prescription would make things far worse, not better.
If you really want to make America healthy, lets throw away the farm bill… make cola more expensive than Kombucha overnight. Anyone who is serious about fixing our nation’s health needs to start with the root problem, and that is at the USDA and FDA.
I knew I would get everyone all hot and bothered on election day by even mentioning health care.
I just know that the incentives are all wrong. Lets just say…I also agree with most of what you have said as well.
Who ever is president is screwed. The president is subject to corporate America. Corporate America runs the congress and the senate and most certainly runs our regulatory agencies.
So…lets feed the people and run this country from the foundations up. To heck with the top. It is so corrupt it is falling apart anyway. Dollar voting and internet eduational mentoring works for me. OPDC is thriving as a direct result of just this.
Who ever wins tonight is screwed…we will still have Monsanto, Mike Taylor and John Sheehan. I wish we could vote for regulatory heads and wall street corporate CEO’s. I wish they could be made to defend their morals, priorities and decisions.
No…ballot voting does not work either….forget all of this.
Just dollar vote with educated people. That works.
“Colonization of GF mice with a normal gut microbiota led to a normalization of bone mass and immune status in bone marrow. ”
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1753-4887.2012.00498.x/abstract
During industrial milk processing, the fat is disrupted and, as a result, the glycolipids move from the “fat” part of the milk to the “watery” part of the milk. ”
What about store-bought non-homogenized milk?
http://www.examiner.com/article/nestl-recalls-nesquik-chocolate-powder-due-to-salmonella-concerns
http://nj1015.com/food-recalls-on-the-rise-cost-227-million-report-says/
http://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls/default.htm
Why don’t they change the way the foods are raised? and processed. Seems that would eliminate a lot of the steps of potential contamination. Also, I read that (I didn’t save the link) the bagged produce grows bacteria faster than the loose produce…..
Spinach,chard, kale, can be grown in a window or on a patio/balcony easily. At dads I had a little 2X3 ft container on his covered patio and grew mixed salad greens most of the year. Tossed manure and compost and watered the plants and they did quite well.
“More responsibility for food safety being shifted to the company, with federal oversight of HACCP plans and in-plant intervention systems replacing the direct physical presence of inspectors on the lines.”
OMG the fox is going to be in charge of the hen house. More reason to avoid the tainted over processed foods.
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This is the company that provided the spinach and mixed greens that are on recall, I can’t find information on them. I am assuming they are a distribution center? Wonder where the produce comes from?
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