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Should We Eat Dairy? Part 2    In this week's excerpt from Lessons from the Miracle Doctors, Jon Barron continues his discussion of whether or not we should eat dairy.
 "When talking about dairy, you need to consider the problem of the growth hormone used in dairy cows (in the United States) to increase milk production. This growth hormone, called both bovine-somatotropin (BST) and recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH), was developed by Monsanto. It was supposed to be identical to the actual growth hormone found in cows.
In fact, as part of their 55,000-page application to the FDA, Monsanto submitted a chart identifying the 191 amino acids contained in BST showing that they absolutely matched the amino acid chain found in natural growth hormone. However, it seems that the application is inaccurate. The problem occurs at amino acid 144, which was supposed to be lysine in both the natural growth hormone and in Monsanto's BST—it isn't. In 1994, Bernard Violand, a Monsanto scientist, published evidence that amino acid 144 in Monsanto's growth hormone is, in fact, epsilon-N-acetyl-lysine, a freak substance. Whoops! But then you probably think that once this problem came to light, totally nullifying the Monsanto application, that BST was recalled. Sadly, no, not in the United States.
The FDA gave its approval for the sale of Monsanto's BST in 1993, but in Canada and the European Union, BST remains unapproved because of strong circumstantial evidence that it may promote cancer in cows and humans. Understand, this change in one amino acid is not insignificant: the replacement of one amino acid can drastically change the configuration of a protein, and configuration determines the properties and effects of a protein. Although the chemically detectable difference between true BGH and Monsanto's BST is slight, the effects of the two hormones on the human body may be quite different indeed.
It should also be noted that the body digests milk differently once gastric juices begin to flow at around 18–20 months old. Before gastric juices flow, milk is alkaline and non-mucus-forming in the body, but once gastric juices enter the picture, they turn the milk acid, forming mucus, causing sinus problems, allergies, colds, etc. That's why every animal except man weans its young off of milk. Think about that for a moment.
Another factor to consider is that milk proteins are large and tend not to break down completely. Cow's milk proteins damage the human immune system. Cow's milk contains many proteins that are poorly digested and harmful to the immune system, such as casein, alpha-lactalbumin, and beta-lactaglobulin. Repeated exposure to these proteins may eventually lead to disease.
Your body views these large proteins as foreign invaders, which stimulates an allergic response. This takes the form of both excess mucus running out your nose and encasing your stools, and increases in circulating immune complexes (CICs), which ultimately end up lodged in your body's soft tissue, promoting swelling and water retention. Quite simply, cow's milk is one of the primary allergy-producing foods you can eat. In fact, the FDA now requires that products containing dairy carry a food allergen warning! And of course, this is all above and beyond the issue of lactose intolerance, which affects those who lack sufficient lactase to break down the milk sugar lactose and thus suffer major intestinal distress."
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