In the article entitled ‘The Winter Blues’ (January blog), I mentioned that drinking more milk helped, as a lack of calcium is supposed to be linked to low moods. However, the following facts on milk were pointed out to me by a doctor friend of mine, and they make very interesting reading.

1. “The ph of milk is 6.5 to 6.8 (all approx figures)
This makes it acidic (water is 7.0 -neutral, coffee 5
- acid, lemon 2.3-acid, vaginal fluid 4.0-acid whereas
blood is 7.4-alkaline, semen 7.2-alkaline, eggs
7.6-alkaline, milk-of-magnesia 10.0- very alkaline to
pick out a few at random. So milk is acidic.

2. The acidity of milk (or other food/drink) can be
changed or increased once consumed by the body. In the
gut, milk/dairy encounters hydrochloric acid, lacto
bacteria , pepsin etc that alter its acidity. In many
people, these and other biochemicals can make it very
acidic. Some lacto bacteria produce acids. In a gut
with altered ph (acid or alkaline) different processes
happen. This includes absorption, digestion,
assimilation of nutrients including essential minerals
(i.e. calcium). So, acidic milk can interfere with
calcium absorption leading to osteoporosis. Lesson
here is DONT TRUST THE MARKETERS!

3. Osteoporosis is hugely influenced by nutrition.
Unless a persons diet is particularly poor, it is
difficult to be deficient in calcium. To illustrate
this, soya milk has greater calcium levels than milk,
tap water in South of England contains approx 66 parts
per million of calcium compared to 1 or 2 parts found
in good bottled water- a few cups of tea with this tap
water and that’s all the calcium you need.
As some practitioners generally don’t deal with
nutrition, it is quite likely they are contributing to
the increase in osteoporosis by advising dairy for
calcium. GP’s can do the same when prescribing calcium
supplements. Although there are hormonal & other
causes for osteoporosis, often the issue is not a lack
of available calcium but whether it is absorbed.
Calcium requires other minerals (zinc/magnesium etc)
to be absorbed.

4. Estimates vary depending on which research you read
but it looks likely that approx 90% of the UK
population cannot digest milk/dairy properly. This is
because humans lose the enzymes to digest dairy once
they are weaned from the mother at 2 or so yrs old.
Past this point the body (most people anyway) cannot
digest dairy. With the above in mind it is a scandal
that probiotic yogurts are now heavily marketed
promising to aid gut health. Again, don’t trust the
marketers.

5. Commercial dairy contains lots of unwelcome stuff.
Along with puss (from chronic mastitis) it contains
estrogens which are forced into the female cow to keep
it milking. These estrogens are almost certainly
implicated in cancers, particularly the female variety
and other health conditions.

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