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Raw milk is having a major moment, with fans claiming it’s a gut-healing superfood that can prevent everything from asthma to allergies. But others are like HOLD ON — we pasteurize milk to make it safe! Drinking raw milk can kill you. So, who’s right? Could there be some benefits to guzzling milk straight from the teat? Or is it a terrible idea? We talk to food science Prof. John Lucey and pediatric allergist and immunologist Prof. Christine Seroogy to find out.
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There's very little bugs of any description, good, bad, or indifferent, in milk. That's where the science is right now, is not that there's a really important, good bacteria flora in the raw milk.
“if you imagine your gut like a rainforest, and then you drink some milk and say it's like a pigeon comes in to the rainforest, it's not going to change things, it's not going to flourish.”
“The Amish community is, like, super protected. Like, they had decreased allergic diseases across the board. Compared to the Old Order Mennonites. This might suggest that what matters here is that they're doing all this stuff by hand with the animals.”
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