Fun fact but most dairy consumption doesn’t come from drinking milk in the literal sense. Instead it comes from cheese or other processed forms of the dairy
I went vegan in January. Before I went vegan, I used to suffer from terrible muscle pain, tightness and inflammation for thirty years. After I cut out all animal products, 95% pain, tightness, inflammation GONE, and my chronic hemorrhoidal symptoms haven’t flared up since I’m pretty sure it was the dairy. I feel awesome and normal!
That is great to hear. Interestingly, people who go on carnivore often report the same findings. Personally, I think people should experiment with their diet and find what path suits them best. For some that will be vegan, for some it might be carnivore, and for others it could be a combination that excludes processed foods. I don't believe in a one size fits all. If that were the case then everyone could eat peanuts.
@@myrhev There is a ton of proof we are all different. Each of us need to experiment on ourselves to find out what is best for us. I'm 82 and still drink whole milk every day. I have done every diet including Vegan and Keto. I have done fine on all of them for a while. After two to three weeks, I didn't feel good. At this point I eat what is in front of me. As soon as I added red meat, I feel normal again. Exercise has been my passion all my life and still is. I can't tell you if exercise made any difference but I'm sure it hasn't hurt me. No meds. and haven't had a physical sine 1986. I do my own Blood pressure, 105/ 63, and my fasting glucose is always around 85 to 90. I don't worry about cholesterol. Do your homework on yourself. Listen, but fact check everything you hear because 95% percent of it is opinion and the other 5% is propaganda. There are a few things written in stone, but the most important one would be to get skinny. Obesity is the biggest killer. It literally affects your whole body in one way or another and runs hand in hand with sugar. This is not advice. It is a warning. Good luck
First off, i don't believe anything you're saying. Second, if it was true you went vegan in January then all of that stuff you were going through wouldn't go away in February. You're not vegan in 30 days, it would take 6 months to a year for all that dairy eating pains to go away. You still have dairy in your body. You think years of dairy eating magically went away in just thirty days. You must've been paid to leave a fake comment.
@@FeedZeek I think they say most of the population are deficient in a lot of that you mentioned. Supplements; you’ve heard of them? Plants are rich in all nutrients that we need. Plus, only plants are rich in cell-repairing antioxidants, while animal products are rich in cell-damaging free radicals.
I drank a ton of milk growing up, but it was one of the foods that made me outrageously nauseous during my first pregnancy at 23. I was never able to drink milk after that. Lucky me, I guess.
The simple fact is a lay person cannot possibly evaluate the validity of any of this. The studies are cherry picked, very quickly summarized, and there may be other explanations. Maybe people in milk drinking countries have more fractures because they are also countries where there are a lot of old people, who knows what was controlled for, what wasn’t controlled for. It’s always difficult to evaluate when the person presenting the information is the spokes person for a particular perspective.
@@johndunn3492 try for your self. It worked great for me. Plant based since 2018, I was vegetarian since 1997 and my colesterol, blood pressure and weight significantly improved. In less than 6 months I lost 10kg (22pound) mostly abdominal fat. I did not do caloric restriction, I was not even planning to loose weight, but I feel much better now than before.
Hopefully my 10 years of experience of trying every diet and program on earth and going to doctors as well, to adress my pain, depression and fatigue can validate at least something. Only specifically giving up dairy worked. Not eating dairy is the only thing I do, I eat everything else, and only this worked.
What about people who have eliminated dairy from their diet? Have there been any studies shown a reversal of effects (similar to people who stop smoking have similar risks as non smokers after 10 years of smoking)?
One of the main things people need to keep in mind is diary causes a ton of inflammation in the human body. And inflammation is the root cause of all illness and disease in the human body.
@@shaneashby5890 it looks more like certain foods must be damaging our organ tissues and the body tries to respond with inflammation. Like fever for infections.
When I went from vegetarian to vegan, I stopped getting yeast infections. It has nothing to do with any of the content in this vid, but it's definitely a fantastic benefit of quitting dairy. I used to get frequent yeast infections and they were miserable.
I stopped getting sick in general as well, I had to take antibiotics every winter. Now it's been a decade without being sick and not a single antibiotic taken
Up to two weeks ago I used to drink 8oz of black coffee mixed with 8oz of full fat milk, frozen into a slush - everyday as an afternoon treat. Also my hot a.m daily black coffee with full fat milk was a regular routine. I honestly didn't realize how much sugar is in milk. Nor did I know how cancerous (especially breast cancer) milk is. So I stopped drinking it but will confess I miss it. But I've also discovered I like just plain black coffee hot and chilled. No more dairy products period. Not even cheese.
way to go!! you'll be so glad you ditched it. I made the cut many years ago due to breast cancer in my family and cystic acne it was triggering. I highly recommend oat milk for coffee btw! I tried it not too long ago and it's awesome!
You won't miss it anymore after a while especially when you remember where it comes from, how it is produces and what it contains. You can try plant milks (oats, soy etc) if you need it for some things.
Hey hey Kati-ana, got a great recipe for you. Can use raisins or dates, in the blender with boiled water and a dash of macadamia nut oil or any other oil at all, just a teaspoon or so. Jazz it up with chilli pepper, turmeric, ginger, mint, or.. .my favourite ... aniseed. Makes a hot sweet creamy drink. I stopped coffee because its a vicious substance that skews the personality. Seriously nicer person without it. Not having milk or sugar, major plusses in life
Giving up dairy is easy for me, but sugar is impossilble. I don't eat dairy anymore and I feel absolutely amazing, but I can't give up sugar. Sure hope it's not as cancerous as everyone says.
Thanks a lot. No Milk or diary, nor animal bodies or secretions, nor pharmacutical drugs nor supplements nor sugar oil salt . Eat only whole plants. Only drink water. God bless!
When I was a child I realised that I’m not a baby cow so why am I drinking the milk of another animal. Once you realise that it’s easy to give up dairy.
Thank you so much for the information question for you. Was type of milk was used . A1or A2? . Non organic or organic? . Homogenized or non homogenized . Pasteurize or raw? Thank You
Definitely not raw milk. Raw milk has lactase which helps digest the lactose. As well as complete protein, many vitamins proteins and fats that are denatured and destroyed when pasteurized and homogenized. Raw milk is very healthy.
There's broscience, and then there's experimental gerontology. Exercise is useful for maintaining BMI and maintaining muscle/bone strength. But I'd guestimate its about 15-20% of the formula for heathspan. Those Okinawan centenarians do nothing more strenuous than gardening, but very low fat and protein diets, comprised mostly of sweet potatoes, mimic the dietary interventions that extend lifespan in other mammals.
@@MrDarrylR The major I think you are missing is stress reduction and also elevated moods from exercise. Gardening is a stress reducer for many. I have 3 family members ranging from 87-101. Their diets are far from ideal. Certainly a country mile away from vegan. They all have had low stress lives as long as I've known them. Two out of three have stayed very active physically. Clearly, great genes as well. I'm certainly no expert...
Yay Canada! I take it dairy is included in the group "animal based foods" and that dropping your intake of them to less than 10% of dietary calorie intake vastly reduces the risk.
I find it funny that some people get so defensive about dairy milk. I have never liked the taste of cow’s milk. As a child we were forced to drink a small bottle of milk each day at school ‘for our health’. I could barely get it down. At home I only drank milk if it had flavouring in it , to disguise the taste of the milk. Giving up animal milk for me was a non-event. But then I don’t like chocolate either, unless it is loaded with sugar, so maybe I’m just weird?! It is nice not to have to struggle to give up everything that is not good for us to eat or drink.
I find this «science» somewhat doubtful. Most of the world’s population lacks the enzymes to digest milk, and these reports tend to generalize humanity form this majority. A genetic mutation occurred around Lake Balaton in Hungary about 3400 years ago which made milk digestion possible. In northern European climates it was hardly possible to survive without this added nutrition. The population is among the longest living on the planet. That dairy products pose difficulties for those without a genetic disposition, is no surprise. For us living under these conditions, it’s strange reading the absolute “facts” presented elsewhere. Reading in the BBC, sleeping in a lighted room at night will take years off of your life. In our “the land of the midnight sun” we only use thin, white veils as curtains, and enjoy sleeping in the “White Nights”. Again, this does not affect our longevity. I register that this “Science” has a great appeal to fashionable eating disorders, which claim that maximum processed foods are the only natural healthy alternative. So be it.
@@lmknow7x Nut milks/juices are NOT needed for a healthy plant based lifestyle.....but nothing wrong with them when you make your own. All it takes is a blender, raw organic nuts. No need to consume processed products. Everyone can make their own. DAIRY MILK is 100% cancer food, destroys calcium deposits in the bones and contains foreign molecules unrecognized by human physiology (xeno-autoantigens), Molecular biology clearly proves this. The only milk we need is our mother's milk when we were babies. The delusion of the ones promoting animal dairy drinking is huge !
Please remember milk not equals dairy products. So mixture of different perspectives was used in the video, not giving clear recommendations regarding dairy products subtypes, which vary. Regards
i'm guessing something to do with arteiosclerosis/ hardening of arteries/heart disease? Very glad i never drank cow's milk even as a child...i was the goofy kid who wouldn't even put it in my cereal! Butter has never appealed either! Cheese and yogurt were my vices when i ate dairy. But once i learned that it was causing my cystic acne in my late 20's, i quit dairy and have stayed that way nearly two decades. It's also WAY easier to maintain your weight with far less exercise or calorie restricting!
Meat's are out, dairy (milk, cheese, etc.) is out, most breads are out. Got news for you, most of the world would love to have access to fresh milk, meat, and veggies organic or not. Tell someone in the third world to refuse milk, meat, cheese and buttered bread when it's offered. Any kind of food is welcome. You guys are living in a bubble.
Another anecdote: Asian parents in law in their 60s started drinking one glass of dairy for the first time in their lives every day after someone in their church group said it was essential for health and bone health. A month later mother in law stops doing the laundry because her knees have made it unbearable for her to use the stairs. We point out the only thing changed was the sudden dairy. After a year they relent and start to space out the health elixir and both of their knees start to improve. Eventuality they stopped altogether and have not complained of arthritis for years since.
You can't prove that milk drinkers die younger. What else did those milk drinkers consume in their daily lives? If milk drinkers lived a healthy lifestyle then what would happen.
Thing about us folk with chronic kidney disease or decreased renal function, even at the upper edges before its severe, is that our kidneys can't process animal protein out of our bodies and even the milk in coffee is too much and the body tries to get rid of it through the skin as a rash, "sun allergy" etc
9% to 11% increase in an associative study is well within the error range. Look up Gary Taubes on epidemiology. You want over 300% to take it seriously. And it is still an associative study, not a randomized control trial.
This is always an interesting topic for me. I tend to agree we shouldn't be drinking another mammals milk intended for its children as what "good" could possibly result from that......that being said, I do think that perhaps drinking this stuff in your youth "might" be okay, but at some point, its time to go cold turkey from it as I've seen many people who simply become lactose intolerant and get bloated and have other side effects which eventually lead them to stop drinking milk. I also think that it is the fat in the milk that is most harmful to us and that consuming low fat or fat free dairy, although, not ideal, is still a "much" better option for one's health.....finally, the most interest aspect of this is that many of the world's oldest humans have been known and shown to have consumed or were still consuming yogurt as part of their diet.......just saying.....so I believe he refers to that in calling it fermented dairy in this vid and says that its not as harmful as whole milk is........
Lol one study says milk is bad and another will show that milk is good and another will say drink raw diary only ! It’s no wonder why people just say F it and eat a Big Mac
I really wish he'd explain how the milk study stratified participants for obesity... but I suspect he can't b/c these are meta analysis so they don't actually know ALL the demo data for every single participant. I suspect the linkage between milk drinking & hip fractures has more to do with obesity than some genetic condition preventing the detoxification of galactose... i mean if you're lactose intolerant, why would you be drinking 3 cups of whole milk per day??? Wouldn't it make more sense that chronic whole dairy drinkers are also quite "hefty" red meat eaters, "hefty" bread/butter/bacon/eggs eaters, "hefty" cake/cookies/muffins/waffles eaters TOO??? If you're a 280lbs woman who falls down, that's A LOT of force rammed into the hip bone.... it's MORE LIKELY TO FRACTURE! But you're NOT obese. If you're a woman who doesn't consume dairy, then you're also someone who's more likely (though not guaranteed) to be MORE health conscious. THIS woman likely ISN'T eating a ton of steak, butter, cheese, pizza, bacon, ice cream & cake. THIS woman likely isn't obese. This woman likely doesn't weight 280 lbs. So when this woman falls down and lands on that EXACT SAME SIZED hip bone, she's not putting 280lbs through her hip. Hence fewer fractures. Therefore I'd like know if this meta analysis controlled for obesity.
I'm lactose intolerant, so I stopped drinking cow's milk for almost 2 decades. I drink soymilk for cereal. However, I did consume cheese and butter. I was already aware of the high amount of saturated fat, trans fat, and cholesterol in dairy, but I didn't know about the galactose potentially enhancing biological aging in humans. All the more reason to remove it from one's diet.
I drink gallons of it a week So did my grand parents that lived long healthy lives Going to enjoy my milk and hope for the best Of course I don’t drink store bought milk either Nor do I eat a lot of useless toxic vegetables I eat the ones I grow mostly and extremely few bought in stores. Maybe I’ll die earlier but I’m living the whole time Never get sick Unaffected by the pandemic Not on any meds My husband is same He’s 62 I’m 53 and we don’t go to doctors either But we do take our d3K2 vitamins So there is that
My mom lived to 97 drinking full fat milk daily. My father would have but alcohol cut him short at 91. We're Spanish. Is there a genetic component? We have longevity genes and milk doesn't seem to hurt anyone in my family. I myself don't drink it, don't like the nasal drip.
Cohort studies are better than nothing but they aren't great either. The gold standard is double blind randomized control studies, but that isn't feasible on something that will take years and years. The cohort studies often depend on asking the participants questions and depending on their honesty and memory. For example, the milk drinkers might also be alcoholics or smokers. They then try to subtract and average out to account for those factors, but it hurts accuracy of the study. I personally avoid dairy due to allergies to casein as well as lactose intolerance. Since I already have the dairy issues it made doing whole food plant based an easier option. However, I have ran into blood sugar issues with it so we will see if I continue it.
The studies are about the increase or decrease of risk factors on the general population. This doesn't say much about specific individuals and their longevity. (yes, genes could have something to do with it, but another 1000 factors could also influence it)
I'm from the Middle East and my ancestors survived on camel's milk for weeks when they had nothing. Anecdotal but my grandma , a local villager, also drank milk everyday till she died in her 90s. Sometimes I wonder if these studies have sample sizes that are skewed towards certain populations more than others.
One serving of dairy per day is acceptable. Jim Arrington, 90, Guinness world record oldest bodybuilder eats daily, cottage cheese, beef, chicken and fish, also has raw salads with each meal, consumes about 1 liter of olive oil per week and has moderate carb intake. Herbert P. Douglass Olympic Medalist, age 101, favorite foods are ham, spinach, macaroni, eggs, milk, Italian bread. Dr. Fred Kummerow age 102, consumes dairy every day, Leita Hayden age 103, drank milk or cream every day and always did lots of exercise, Yukichi Chuganji age 114, He didn't like to eat vegetables, but liked to eat beef and pork. He only consumed alcohol in moderate amounts and drank milk every day, Ebby Halliday age 104, likes farm foods and lots of milk but never any junk food, Filomena Taipe Mendoza age 117, likes potatoes, goat meat, sheep milk, goat cheese and beans and never any junk foods, Dr. Zheng Ji age 110, for breakfast he eats 1 egg, 250 ml of milk and oatmeal, and two slices of bread; for lunch, he eats meat and vegetables, with a bowl of soup before meals; dinner is mostly porridge, Guinness World record highest IQ Marilyn vos Savant 5’8” 125 lbs favorite foods are burgers, fish, vegetables, potatoes plus bread with butter, Louise Levy age 112, eats yogurt everyday for lunch, Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara age 105, drinks one glass of milk with one tablespoon of olive oil every day, Colette Maze age 109, a pianist ate 3 eggs per day and brie cheese and did lots of yoga, Manohar Aich, age 104, 1952 Mr. Universe, he credited his good health with a simple diet of milk, fruits and vegetables along with rice, lentils and fish, Dr. Bessie Delany age 104, the second black woman licensed to practice dentistry in New York State and Sadie Delany age 109 the 1st African American to teach domestic science in the NY public schools, eats every day an egg, fruit and oatmeal, cod liver oil, chicken or beef, vegetables and a big vanilla milkshake.
@@tamcon72 An anecdote is my grandmother who I will not provide her name started driving a car at age 68. But the real people in my list of Guinness world records, Olympic athletes, highest IQ, Ph.D scientists who helped save many lives, all slim and fit non smokers who had access to the best health and medical advice to make their lifestyle choices are not anecdotes. Those people are real science because they are the science.
@@Jeffs60 That is not real science, but it is compelling anecdotal information. You could also cite individuals who, in spite of smoking daily, lived to a good old age: unfortunately they are the *exception*, not the rule. So cherrypicking exceptional individuals is not a good or reliable guide to lifestyle choice-making. All the science tells us that animal proteins should constitute 10% or less of total calorie intake.
@@tamcon72 They are not anecdotes because they copied what others in their family did and Jim Arrington also copied similar to all the other great athletes so it is an anecdote of them all. Do you need me to clog up the site with the full list of names? Reading these so called studies where they never list any name of any real person so you can actually find out if the study is truthful does not compare to real life stories and some of these studies are bought and paid for.
Thank you so much Dr Emovon on RUclips for all your hard work and support during this difficult time. Your humility, kindness, and strength are greatly appreciated. Keep being the best doctor that you are. for curing me from bad breath and body odor totally without any side effects...🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Kind and reasonable people, please stop supporting cruel animal industries for the animals, they don't deserve to be slaves and objects! As you see, it will benefit your health as well
Canada food guide still has "protein foods" including "fish, shellfish, eggs, poultry, lean red meat including wild game, lower fat milk, lower fat yogurts, lower fat kefir, and cheeses lower in fat and sodium."
Drink raw milk, avoid pasteurized and ultra-pasteurized. Many nutrients and immune-enhancing components are destroyed by exposure to high heat and the temperatures used during pasteurization. Vitamin A (among many other vitamins) is degraded, proteins and enzymes are denatured, and immunoglobulins are destroyed.
I would buy into this if I didnt know starch (the most commonplace hydrocarbon in every plant we eat from potatoes to corn and rice...) ALSO decomposes into galactose. it's also created and used by the bodies of lactating mothers and it even has a place in our cellular membranes (is your blood a B-type? Congrats. That's galactose on your cell membranes!) Are you saying a sugar our body literally evolved to obtain from EVERYTHING and that it literally creates so we can feed our progeny is a cause of death...?! Bruh... Oxydative stress is mainly originated from oxygen intake (free radicals which is basically one in several oxygen molecules having an extra electron) should we stop breathing? Several lines of studies have reached the conclusion that the main reason dairy consumption causes problems is (surprise surprise), the one reason you barely touched before dismissing, Fat. Along with 2 others you didn't touch. Salt and sugar. Dairy products usually contain either a lot of salt (butter, cheese...) or sugar (ice-cream...) there's also the fact that while scientists try to consider for external factors in those big studies it's ALWAYS noted at the end how people who DON'T consume dairy products are usually more careful about their diets which also includes more exercise and less sweets. Of course you simply followed this with "ah! But you see... Those scientists are bought by" big dairy"! " to justify why milk is still largely considered healthy (no, it's not the calcium. That is a misconception and scientists have removed milk from the calcium sources because it's mainly not in bioavaliable form. it's because it's cheap and contains LARGE amounts of sugar, fat and protein, all of which you need and will not do you anything bad if you exercise regularly) ignoring that there's 1)a HUGE amount of scientists in that panel. And 2)they're the exact SAME people who made the studies and are alerting for the problem of consuming too much dairy products causing health issues!
Note: 3 glasses of whole fat milk. The problems didn't seem to be associated with lower fat milk, but you're probably better off with soy milk. Lots of FUD with soy. He mentioning that fermented milk products are associated with lower death rates. What doesn't get much attention is the research on traditional / homemade kefir shows numerous health benefits (The less positive results are consistently due to studies using store-bought kefir - still has some positive effects of fermented)
Depends on the cheese recipe and cheesemaking process. Fermenting lowers the galactose content of the milk, not sure if the cheesemaking process would also lower galactose levels. But either way, cheese is a source of saturated fats and animal proteins, so should be a very small part of a healthy diet. Also note eating lots of fruits and veggies, as mentioned in the video, cuts the risk from the dairy intake.
yeah and cheese and even more aged cheese concentrate naturel animal hormones, sat/trans fat, cholesterol, pollutants and the harmful allergenic casein for which an adult body doesnt make the enzyme chymosin anymore to break this down completely, hence why casein cause all sort of digestive and immune problems.@@Westernwilson Lactose need lactase and casein need chymosin.
Lactose in lactose free milk is simply broken down to glucose and galactose by addition of enzymes such as lactase / B-galactosidase. As galactose seems to be one of the culprits, I don't think lactose free milk would be any better plain milk
This shamelessly biased doc is a good example of why clinicians with little research expertise themselves shouldn’t be in the business of searching and presenting research literature to unsuspecting lay people.
I'm a fan of Dr Greger but if you listen to him long enough you realize everything leads to a "premature death". So enjoy your milk as life is short enough as it is. I know I will.
My 102 year old dairy farmer grandpa probably had more milk, cheese and yoghurt then 10 people combined. He lived and breathed it. Was a very happy man. That's probably way more important then what you eat in the first place for health and longevity.
I still cringe thinking of all those years that I used to gulp down bovine lactations. > ugh < 🤢
Same here, just gross! You never think about it at the time either. It's ridiculous how normalized it has become in our society.
Me too😮
It is almost like 33% of humans evolved to drink it.
Fun fact but most dairy consumption doesn’t come from drinking milk in the literal sense. Instead it comes from cheese or other processed forms of the dairy
@@dennisp8520that's not fun at all. I love cheese. Damn.
I went vegan in January. Before I went vegan, I used to suffer from terrible muscle pain, tightness and inflammation for thirty years. After I cut out all animal products, 95% pain, tightness, inflammation GONE, and my chronic hemorrhoidal symptoms haven’t flared up since I’m pretty sure it was the dairy. I feel awesome and normal!
That is great to hear. Interestingly, people who go on carnivore often report the same findings. Personally, I think people should experiment with their diet and find what path suits them best. For some that will be vegan, for some it might be carnivore, and for others it could be a combination that excludes processed foods. I don't believe in a one size fits all. If that were the case then everyone could eat peanuts.
@@myrhev There is a ton of proof we are all different. Each of us need to experiment on ourselves to find out what is best for us. I'm 82 and still drink whole milk every day. I have done every diet including Vegan and Keto. I have done fine on all of them for a while. After two to three weeks, I didn't feel good. At this point I eat what is in front of me. As soon as I added red meat, I feel normal again. Exercise has been my passion all my life and still is. I can't tell you if exercise made any difference but I'm sure it hasn't hurt me. No meds. and haven't had a physical sine 1986. I do my own Blood pressure, 105/ 63, and my fasting glucose is always around 85 to 90. I don't worry about cholesterol.
Do your homework on yourself. Listen, but fact check everything you hear because 95% percent of it is opinion and the other 5% is propaganda. There are a few things written in stone, but the most important one would be to get skinny. Obesity is the biggest killer. It literally affects your whole body in one way or another and runs hand in hand with sugar. This is not advice. It is a warning. Good luck
B vitamin deficiency, iron deficiency, omega 3 deficiency, vitamin d deficiency. Need me to go on?
First off, i don't believe anything you're saying.
Second, if it was true you went vegan in January then all of that stuff you were going through wouldn't go away in February.
You're not vegan in 30 days, it would take 6 months to a year for all that dairy eating pains to go away.
You still have dairy in your body.
You think years of dairy eating magically went away in just thirty days.
You must've been paid to leave a fake comment.
@@FeedZeek I think they say most of the population are deficient in a lot of that you mentioned. Supplements; you’ve heard of them? Plants are rich in all nutrients that we need. Plus, only plants are rich in cell-repairing antioxidants, while animal products are rich in cell-damaging free radicals.
Doc - thank you for all the work that you do. This is much appreciated. 💚
I drank a ton of milk growing up, but it was one of the foods that made me outrageously nauseous during my first pregnancy at 23. I was never able to drink milk after that. Lucky me, I guess.
If you drink pasteurised milk then no doubt you got sick, try it raw
The simple fact is a lay person cannot possibly evaluate the validity of any of this. The studies are cherry picked, very quickly summarized, and there may be other explanations. Maybe people in milk drinking countries have more fractures because they are also countries where there are a lot of old people, who knows what was controlled for, what wasn’t controlled for. It’s always difficult to evaluate when the person presenting the information is the spokes person for a particular perspective.
There's nothing stopping you from doing your own research. But that research must include the funding behind the science.
@@johndunn3492 try for your self. It worked great for me. Plant based since 2018, I was vegetarian since 1997 and my colesterol, blood pressure and weight significantly improved. In less than 6 months I lost 10kg (22pound) mostly abdominal fat. I did not do caloric restriction, I was not even planning to loose weight, but I feel much better now than before.
Hopefully my 10 years of experience of trying every diet and program on earth and going to doctors as well, to adress my pain, depression and fatigue can validate at least something. Only specifically giving up dairy worked. Not eating dairy is the only thing I do, I eat everything else, and only this worked.
What about people who have eliminated dairy from their diet? Have there been any studies shown a reversal of effects (similar to people who stop smoking have similar risks as non smokers after 10 years of smoking)?
I like your question and I hope it gets addressed.
One of the main things people need to keep in mind is diary causes a ton of inflammation in the human body. And inflammation is the root cause of all illness and disease in the human body.
@@shaneashby5890 it looks more like certain foods must be damaging our organ tissues and the body tries to respond with inflammation. Like fever for infections.
I eliminated dairy and completely reversed Crohn’s and fibromyalgia. Multiple sclerosis is taking longer, but has drastically improved.
@@carmadefries3729Stay away from pork also. Pork has been implicated in MS risk.
When I went from vegetarian to vegan, I stopped getting yeast infections. It has nothing to do with any of the content in this vid, but it's definitely a fantastic benefit of quitting dairy. I used to get frequent yeast infections and they were miserable.
I stopped getting sick in general as well, I had to take antibiotics every winter. Now it's been a decade without being sick and not a single antibiotic taken
Up to two weeks ago I used to drink 8oz of black coffee mixed with 8oz of full fat milk, frozen into a slush - everyday as an afternoon treat. Also my hot a.m daily black coffee with full fat milk was a regular routine. I honestly didn't realize how much sugar is in milk. Nor did I know how cancerous (especially breast cancer) milk is. So I stopped drinking it but will confess I miss it. But I've also discovered I like just plain black coffee hot and chilled. No more dairy products period. Not even cheese.
way to go!! you'll be so glad you ditched it. I made the cut many years ago due to breast cancer in my family and cystic acne it was triggering. I highly recommend oat milk for coffee btw! I tried it not too long ago and it's awesome!
You won't miss it anymore after a while especially when you remember where it comes from, how it is produces and what it contains. You can try plant milks (oats, soy etc) if you need it for some things.
Try oat/coconut/cashew/soy/rice/almond milk. There are also combinations of them too. I've never looked back
Hey hey Kati-ana, got a great recipe for you. Can use raisins or dates, in the blender with boiled water and a dash of macadamia nut oil or any other oil at all, just a teaspoon or so. Jazz it up with chilli pepper, turmeric, ginger, mint, or.. .my favourite ... aniseed. Makes a hot sweet creamy drink. I stopped coffee because its a vicious substance that skews the personality. Seriously nicer person without it. Not having milk or sugar, major plusses in life
Giving up dairy is easy for me, but sugar is impossilble. I don't eat dairy anymore and I feel absolutely amazing, but I can't give up sugar. Sure hope it's not as cancerous as everyone says.
Cant thank Dr. Greger enough!
That was a really good video on the Hazards of milk drinking.
Always great videos Dr. Gregor.
Thanks a lot. No Milk or diary, nor animal bodies or secretions, nor pharmacutical drugs nor supplements nor sugar oil salt . Eat only whole plants. Only drink water. God bless!
When I was a child I realised that I’m not a baby cow so why am I drinking the milk of another animal. Once you realise that it’s easy to give up dairy.
agreed.. i initially quit dairy for health reasons but that part always gave me the creeps too. didn't feel right.
Then why all animals crave milk? Stop believing in fairy tales vegans sell you
Thank you so much for the information question for you. Was type of milk was used
. A1or A2?
. Non organic or organic?
. Homogenized or non homogenized
. Pasteurize or raw?
Thank You
Gosh, just have organic kefir instead, and in moderation, especially from goats rather than cows.
You'll be fine.
Definitely not raw milk. Raw milk has lactase which helps digest the lactose. As well as complete protein, many vitamins proteins and fats that are denatured and destroyed when pasteurized and homogenized. Raw milk is very healthy.
I'm not buying it.... With a reasonable diet, I personally believe exercise and managing stress are the biggest factors for longevity.
There's broscience, and then there's experimental gerontology. Exercise is useful for maintaining BMI and maintaining muscle/bone strength. But I'd guestimate its about 15-20% of the formula for heathspan. Those Okinawan centenarians do nothing more strenuous than gardening, but very low fat and protein diets, comprised mostly of sweet potatoes, mimic the dietary interventions that extend lifespan in other mammals.
@@MrDarrylR The major I think you are missing is stress reduction and also elevated moods from exercise. Gardening is a stress reducer for many. I have 3 family members ranging from 87-101. Their diets are far from ideal. Certainly a country mile away from vegan. They all have had low stress lives as long as I've known them. Two out of three have stayed very active physically. Clearly, great genes as well. I'm certainly no expert...
Thanks
Yay Canada! I take it dairy is included in the group "animal based foods" and that dropping your intake of them to less than 10% of dietary calorie intake vastly reduces the risk.
I find it funny that some people get so defensive about dairy milk. I have never liked the taste of cow’s milk. As a child we were forced to drink a small bottle of milk each day at school ‘for our health’. I could barely get it down. At home I only drank milk if it had flavouring in it , to disguise the taste of the milk. Giving up animal milk for me was a non-event. But then I don’t like chocolate either, unless it is loaded with sugar, so maybe I’m just weird?! It is nice not to have to struggle to give up everything that is not good for us to eat or drink.
I find this «science» somewhat doubtful. Most of the world’s population lacks the enzymes to digest milk, and these reports tend to generalize humanity form this majority. A genetic mutation occurred around Lake Balaton in Hungary about 3400 years ago which made milk digestion possible. In northern European climates it was hardly possible to survive without this added nutrition. The population is among the longest living on the planet. That dairy products pose difficulties for those without a genetic disposition, is no surprise.
For us living under these conditions, it’s strange reading the absolute “facts” presented elsewhere. Reading in the BBC, sleeping in a lighted room at night will take years off of your life. In our “the land of the midnight sun” we only use thin, white veils as curtains, and enjoy sleeping in the “White Nights”. Again, this does not affect our longevity.
I register that this “Science” has a great appeal to fashionable eating disorders, which claim that maximum processed foods are the only natural healthy alternative. So be it.
Highly interesting, thanks from Germany.
Moral of the story, go 100% plant-based !
Is that why there's never been a vegan society before?
exactly.@@ExtraSubtle
Nut waters are highly processed and most have a lot of additives. Raw milk is best
@@lmknow7x Nut milks/juices are NOT needed for a healthy plant based lifestyle.....but nothing wrong with them when you make your own. All it takes is a blender, raw organic nuts. No need to consume processed products. Everyone can make their own. DAIRY MILK is 100% cancer food, destroys calcium deposits in the bones and contains foreign molecules unrecognized by human physiology (xeno-autoantigens), Molecular biology clearly proves this. The only milk we need is our mother's milk when we were babies. The delusion of the ones promoting animal dairy drinking is huge !
You can go animal based without dairy too, I guarantee.
Excellent!
Please remember milk not equals dairy products. So mixture of different perspectives was used in the video, not giving clear recommendations regarding dairy products subtypes, which vary. Regards
i'm guessing something to do with arteiosclerosis/ hardening of arteries/heart disease? Very glad i never drank cow's milk even as a child...i was the goofy kid who wouldn't even put it in my cereal! Butter has never appealed either!
Cheese and yogurt were my vices when i ate dairy. But once i learned that it was causing my cystic acne in my late 20's, i quit dairy and have stayed that way nearly two decades. It's also WAY easier to maintain your weight with far less exercise or calorie restricting!
Thank you so much
Well done to Canada. Seems like they have a culture of having a relatively clear and logical thinking government - when compared to other countries.
I'd be interested if we're talking about cheese or just milk.
Meat's are out, dairy (milk, cheese, etc.) is out, most breads are out. Got news for you, most of the world would love to have access to fresh milk, meat, and veggies organic or not. Tell someone in the third world to refuse milk, meat, cheese and buttered bread when it's offered. Any kind of food is welcome. You guys are living in a bubble.
Another anecdote: Asian parents in law in their 60s started drinking one glass of dairy for the first time in their lives every day after someone in their church group said it was essential for health and bone health. A month later mother in law stops doing the laundry because her knees have made it unbearable for her to use the stairs. We point out the only thing changed was the sudden dairy. After a year they relent and start to space out the health elixir and both of their knees start to improve. Eventuality they stopped altogether and have not complained of arthritis for years since.
You can't prove that milk drinkers die younger.
What else did those milk drinkers consume in their daily lives?
If milk drinkers lived a healthy lifestyle then what would happen.
You didn't watch the video, milk drinkers have healthier lifestyle in average.
Can you write down the link of the studies you mention in your videos, please? Thank you.
I make my own milk using soybeans, barhi dates and water. Would this negate the negative effects of regular milk in your talk above?
Thing about us folk with chronic kidney disease or decreased renal function, even at the upper edges before its severe, is that our kidneys can't process animal protein out of our bodies and even the milk in coffee is too much and the body tries to get rid of it through the skin as a rash, "sun allergy" etc
Great Video!
😭 nooo. I just drank a ton of milk.
9% to 11% increase in an associative study is well within the error range. Look up Gary Taubes on epidemiology. You want over 300% to take it seriously. And it is still an associative study, not a randomized control trial.
I've always disliked milk. Could not drink it, from as far back into my childhood as I have memory.
What about raw dairy? Would love to see research into that compared to pasteurized.
it's still a "milk" that comes from another mammal.
Wowww, do you want to make people healthy by drinking raw milk? No way, let them eat pills, eat grains and man-made vegetables
That must be even more dangerous, due to bacteria
@@lucibrdf1your body is mostly bacteria. Raw milk is very healthy.
Absolutely the same thing?
This is always an interesting topic for me. I tend to agree we shouldn't be drinking another mammals milk intended for its children as what "good" could possibly result from that......that being said, I do think that perhaps drinking this stuff in your youth "might" be okay, but at some point, its time to go cold turkey from it as I've seen many people who simply become lactose intolerant and get bloated and have other side effects which eventually lead them to stop drinking milk. I also think that it is the fat in the milk that is most harmful to us and that consuming low fat or fat free dairy, although, not ideal, is still a "much" better option for one's health.....finally, the most interest aspect of this is that many of the world's oldest humans have been known and shown to have consumed or were still consuming yogurt as part of their diet.......just saying.....so I believe he refers to that in calling it fermented dairy in this vid and says that its not as harmful as whole milk is........
I love this channel!
Lol one study says milk is bad and another will show that milk is good and another will say drink raw diary only ! It’s no wonder why people just say F it and eat a Big Mac
I really wish he'd explain how the milk study stratified participants for obesity... but I suspect he can't b/c these are meta analysis so they don't actually know ALL the demo data for every single participant. I suspect the linkage between milk drinking & hip fractures has more to do with obesity than some genetic condition preventing the detoxification of galactose... i mean if you're lactose intolerant, why would you be drinking 3 cups of whole milk per day??? Wouldn't it make more sense that chronic whole dairy drinkers are also quite "hefty" red meat eaters, "hefty" bread/butter/bacon/eggs eaters, "hefty" cake/cookies/muffins/waffles eaters TOO??? If you're a 280lbs woman who falls down, that's A LOT of force rammed into the hip bone.... it's MORE LIKELY TO FRACTURE! But you're NOT obese. If you're a woman who doesn't consume dairy, then you're also someone who's more likely (though not guaranteed) to be MORE health conscious. THIS woman likely ISN'T eating a ton of steak, butter, cheese, pizza, bacon, ice cream & cake. THIS woman likely isn't obese. This woman likely doesn't weight 280 lbs. So when this woman falls down and lands on that EXACT SAME SIZED hip bone, she's not putting 280lbs through her hip. Hence fewer fractures. Therefore I'd like know if this meta analysis controlled for obesity.
The Great Milk Fraud
Please make a video about soy, the good and the bad. It seems that everyone attack soy now
I'm lactose intolerant, so I stopped drinking cow's milk for almost 2 decades. I drink soymilk for cereal. However, I did consume cheese and butter. I was already aware of the high amount of saturated fat, trans fat, and cholesterol in dairy, but I didn't know about the galactose potentially enhancing biological aging in humans. All the more reason to remove it from one's diet.
Because the questionnaire was not designed correctly!
Going vegan has been hugely positive for me
Fantastic
I drink gallons of it a week So did my grand parents that lived long healthy lives Going to enjoy my milk and hope for the best Of course I don’t drink store bought milk either Nor do I eat a lot of useless toxic vegetables I eat the ones I grow mostly and extremely few bought in stores.
Maybe I’ll die earlier but I’m living the whole time Never get sick Unaffected by the pandemic Not on any meds My husband is same He’s 62 I’m 53 and we don’t go to doctors either
But we do take our d3K2 vitamins So there is that
Wow. So funny. I am following a strict carnivore diet with a lot of dairy. I simply love it. Go on, vegetarians, best luck to you all.
My mom lived to 97 drinking full fat milk daily. My father would have but alcohol cut him short at 91. We're Spanish. Is there a genetic component? We have longevity genes and milk doesn't seem to hurt anyone in my family. I myself don't drink it, don't like the nasal drip.
Cohort studies are better than nothing but they aren't great either. The gold standard is double blind randomized control studies, but that isn't feasible on something that will take years and years. The cohort studies often depend on asking the participants questions and depending on their honesty and memory. For example, the milk drinkers might also be alcoholics or smokers. They then try to subtract and average out to account for those factors, but it hurts accuracy of the study.
I personally avoid dairy due to allergies to casein as well as lactose intolerance. Since I already have the dairy issues it made doing whole food plant based an easier option. However, I have ran into blood sugar issues with it so we will see if I continue it.
Isn't the nasal drip from inflammatory response?
The studies are about the increase or decrease of risk factors on the general population. This doesn't say much about specific individuals and their longevity.
(yes, genes could have something to do with it, but another 1000 factors could also influence it)
I'm from the Middle East and my ancestors survived on camel's milk for weeks when they had nothing. Anecdotal but my grandma , a local villager, also drank milk everyday till she died in her 90s. Sometimes I wonder if these studies have sample sizes that are skewed towards certain populations more than others.
Was it pasteurized milk she drank?
Confired the "bad" news? Isn't good news when you find out you have more control over your life expexantcy?
It can't possibly include ICECREAM!!!!!!
Sir in this study having high consumption of yogurt and fermented milk has hazard ratio of .8 .means milk products shows better result.
In which study?
@@quazilion he mentioned in this vdo .Milk consumption and hip fracture Swiss women study
How is that better than a hazard ratio of 0?
@@tamcon72 Hazard ratio is based on 1.0 not 0.0. I didn't see where it said not drinking milk gave you a ratio of 0.0, did you?
@@tamcon72 hazrd ratio 0.8 means .Milk has positive result
He just admitted fermented dairy doesnt have bad effects!
Way to go Canada!! Hopefully, the rest of the world follows.
Plant based for 14 years ❤
Finland life expectancy 81 years drinks the most milk
One serving of dairy per day is acceptable.
Jim Arrington, 90, Guinness world record oldest bodybuilder eats daily, cottage cheese, beef, chicken and fish, also has raw salads with each meal, consumes about 1 liter of olive oil per week and has moderate carb intake. Herbert P. Douglass Olympic Medalist, age 101, favorite foods are ham, spinach, macaroni, eggs, milk, Italian bread. Dr. Fred Kummerow age 102, consumes dairy every day, Leita Hayden age 103, drank milk or cream every day and always did lots of exercise, Yukichi Chuganji age 114, He didn't like to eat vegetables, but liked to eat beef and pork. He only consumed alcohol in moderate amounts and drank milk every day, Ebby Halliday age 104, likes farm foods and lots of milk but never any junk food, Filomena Taipe Mendoza age 117, likes potatoes, goat meat, sheep milk, goat cheese and beans and never any junk foods, Dr. Zheng Ji age 110, for breakfast he eats 1 egg, 250 ml of milk and oatmeal, and two slices of bread; for lunch, he eats meat and vegetables, with a bowl of soup before meals; dinner is mostly porridge, Guinness World record highest IQ Marilyn vos Savant 5’8” 125 lbs favorite foods are burgers, fish, vegetables, potatoes plus bread with butter, Louise Levy age 112, eats yogurt everyday for lunch, Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara age 105, drinks one glass of milk with one tablespoon of olive oil every day, Colette Maze age 109, a pianist ate 3 eggs per day and brie cheese and did lots of yoga, Manohar Aich, age 104, 1952 Mr. Universe, he credited his good health with a simple diet of milk, fruits and vegetables along with rice, lentils and fish, Dr. Bessie Delany age 104, the second black woman licensed to practice dentistry in New York State and Sadie Delany age 109 the 1st African American to teach domestic science in the NY public schools, eats every day an egg, fruit and oatmeal, cod liver oil, chicken or beef, vegetables and a big vanilla milkshake.
Anecdotes don't belong in serious discussions about nutrition, and you must be new here if you don't know this.
@@tamcon72 An anecdote is my grandmother who I will not provide her name started driving a car at age 68. But the real people in my list of Guinness world records, Olympic athletes, highest IQ, Ph.D scientists who helped save many lives, all slim and fit non smokers who had access to the best health and medical advice to make their lifestyle choices are not anecdotes. Those people are real science because they are the science.
@@Jeffs60 Yes, they are still anecdotes, in that, statistically, they are not significant. Maybe look up the definition of the word "anecdote"?
@@Jeffs60 That is not real science, but it is compelling anecdotal information. You could also cite individuals who, in spite of smoking daily, lived to a good old age: unfortunately they are the *exception*, not the rule. So cherrypicking exceptional individuals is not a good or reliable guide to lifestyle choice-making. All the science tells us that animal proteins should constitute 10% or less of total calorie intake.
@@tamcon72 They are not anecdotes because they copied what others in their family did and Jim Arrington also copied similar to all the other great athletes so it is an anecdote of them all. Do you need me to clog up the site with the full list of names? Reading these so called studies where they never list any name of any real person so you can actually find out if the study is truthful does not compare to real life stories and some of these studies are bought and paid for.
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I love ice cream. I've given up milk, but I won't give up my ice cream!
basically same as milk but more sugar. try the ben and jerry's dairy free ice cream - it's really good.
Ice cream it's raw cream with egg yolk and raw milk but in slavery countries like US it's from oils and sugar@@CRM-114
Kind and reasonable people, please stop supporting cruel animal industries for the animals, they don't deserve to be slaves and objects! As you see, it will benefit your health as well
Canada food guide still has "protein foods" including "fish, shellfish, eggs, poultry, lean red meat including wild game, lower fat milk, lower fat yogurts, lower fat kefir, and cheeses lower in fat and sodium."
Drink raw milk, avoid pasteurized and ultra-pasteurized. Many nutrients and immune-enhancing components are destroyed by exposure to high heat and the temperatures used during pasteurization. Vitamin A (among many other vitamins) is degraded, proteins and enzymes are denatured, and immunoglobulins are destroyed.
What about Kefir?
Fermented dairy reduces the galactose
Cool stuff, thanks! I'm wondering if there's more correlation than causation there, but best to go easy on the milk just in case eh.
I would buy into this if I didnt know starch (the most commonplace hydrocarbon in every plant we eat from potatoes to corn and rice...) ALSO decomposes into galactose. it's also created and used by the bodies of lactating mothers and it even has a place in our cellular membranes (is your blood a B-type? Congrats. That's galactose on your cell membranes!)
Are you saying a sugar our body literally evolved to obtain from EVERYTHING and that it literally creates so we can feed our progeny is a cause of death...?! Bruh...
Oxydative stress is mainly originated from oxygen intake (free radicals which is basically one in several oxygen molecules having an extra electron) should we stop breathing?
Several lines of studies have reached the conclusion that the main reason dairy consumption causes problems is (surprise surprise), the one reason you barely touched before dismissing, Fat. Along with 2 others you didn't touch. Salt and sugar. Dairy products usually contain either a lot of salt (butter, cheese...) or sugar (ice-cream...) there's also the fact that while scientists try to consider for external factors in those big studies it's ALWAYS noted at the end how people who DON'T consume dairy products are usually more careful about their diets which also includes more exercise and less sweets.
Of course you simply followed this with "ah! But you see... Those scientists are bought by" big dairy"! " to justify why milk is still largely considered healthy (no, it's not the calcium. That is a misconception and scientists have removed milk from the calcium sources because it's mainly not in bioavaliable form. it's because it's cheap and contains LARGE amounts of sugar, fat and protein, all of which you need and will not do you anything bad if you exercise regularly) ignoring that there's 1)a HUGE amount of scientists in that panel. And 2)they're the exact SAME people who made the studies and are alerting for the problem of consuming too much dairy products causing health issues!
Long live Tony Beets!
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My husband drinks a quart or two a day. He's not gonna like this! (Or chanve.)
*change
I ditched dairy years ago.
Good for the orthopedic surgeons
Onvoorstelbaar.
A doctor that looks like he is about to croak any minute now talking about shorter lives? 😂😂
Note: 3 glasses of whole fat milk. The problems didn't seem to be associated with lower fat milk, but you're probably better off with soy milk. Lots of FUD with soy.
He mentioning that fermented milk products are associated with lower death rates. What doesn't get much attention is the research on traditional / homemade kefir shows numerous health benefits (The less positive results are consistently due to studies using store-bought kefir - still has some positive effects of fermented)
"What's a milk drinker like you doing out here? Go home to your mother."
Dairy is a wonderful and necessary food for all mammalian Babies.
But only at that time and from their own species/mother.
So...avoiding Galactose, will help you be a Silver (haired) Surfer of life, for longer 😉
Big Pizza will never allow this info.
should i buy all of dr gregers books or is avoiding the sun, eating whole foods and exercise and weight resistance training the jist of all of it?
Now study raw milk
Does this also mean any dairy, like cheese?
Most probably. It's concentrated milk.
concentrated, fermented and very salted which make it much worse.@@Momfasa
He's got videos about the dangers of eating cheese not to mention several books ❤
Depends on the cheese recipe and cheesemaking process. Fermenting lowers the galactose content of the milk, not sure if the cheesemaking process would also lower galactose levels. But either way, cheese is a source of saturated fats and animal proteins, so should be a very small part of a healthy diet. Also note eating lots of fruits and veggies, as mentioned in the video, cuts the risk from the dairy intake.
yeah and cheese and even more aged cheese concentrate naturel animal hormones, sat/trans fat, cholesterol, pollutants and the harmful allergenic casein for which an adult body doesnt make the enzyme chymosin anymore to break this down completely, hence why casein cause all sort of digestive and immune problems.@@Westernwilson
Lactose need lactase and casein need chymosin.
Icelandic men live longer than men of any other country and regularly drink milk.
Why not anyone else? Cherrypickin? They probably live different lifestyle some grow use to it but not everyone should try avoid
Wait is the glympathic system so under researched?
WhatsApp about lactose free milk?
Lactose in lactose free milk is simply broken down to glucose and galactose by addition of enzymes such as lactase / B-galactosidase. As galactose seems to be one of the culprits, I don't think lactose free milk would be any better plain milk
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Got shares in a world leading diary market.
Done quite well, hay a great way to make money in the foolish, up 55% since buying it
Milk is probably ok for MOST people up until your late teens or early 20s, but after maybe not so much??…
vegetables contains galactose! bell pepper contains 10 mg/100 g and milk 7 mg/ 100 mg. Dont be fooled
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This shamelessly biased doc is a good example of why clinicians with little research expertise themselves shouldn’t be in the business of searching and presenting research literature to unsuspecting lay people.
Watch Cowspiracy.
They get to HEAVEN MUCH Faster!
The others go to Hell
much faster
What's with all the exaggerated voice inflections?? Speak normally.
We live shorter but happier lives
Interspecies breastfeeding brings you joy? That's...I mean, there's a word for people who get joy out of sucking the nipples of animals.
@@CRM-114 I will ☺️
I'm a fan of Dr Greger but if you listen to him long enough you realize everything leads to a "premature death". So enjoy your milk as life is short enough as it is. I know I will.
My 102 year old dairy farmer grandpa probably had more milk, cheese and yoghurt then 10 people combined. He lived and breathed it. Was a very happy man. That's probably way more important then what you eat in the first place for health and longevity.
This is crap.
Nah, it's science. You don't have to like the statistics for them to be true.
nope, this has been around for a while.