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6.20.2013

A2, not A1, does a body good

Cows
courtesy of guernsey dairy

i'm a little slow on the dairy uptake. i happily drank raw milk when i lived in boulder, straus when i lived in california, and radiance dairy when i lived in iowa. since i've been here on hawaii my experience with food as medicine has deepened (see my other defunct blog) and i heard my body say loud and clear, 'no more cow'. so i've been making almond milk, throwing it in the blender with coldpress, and calling it a day. but i miss it. i miss it from happy, grass fed, foggy-hill-roaming cows. just a little here and there. i didn't really know why i didn't want to drink it anymore. like most things now, it's an intuition that i've become wise enough to listen to. my mother just finished a class at mum given by Peter Swan and she asked me the other day, "do you know the difference between A1 and A2 milk?"

i did not. 

here's a quick explanation courtesy of the american guernsey association. the page has some great links as well. i certainly had no idea that A1 milk (jersey, holstein) can penetrate the human intestinal lining, thereby poisioning the blood and causing or exacerbating any number of allergic reactions (and don't get me started on cellulite, it's diet related).

my intuition was confirmed when i read the research. holy moly, we are all sick on milk (and wheat and sugar and gmos, oh my, good thing it is completely within our power to choose). A1 milk comes from every cow in the western world that is not a guernsey. why are guernseys, goats, sheep, and all the cows in asia and india producing A2 milk but only the hard to find guernsey here in the us? who knows why when it comes to industrialization of food production. so anyway, on the recommendation of scientists and agriculture specialists who are on the edge of these things, stop right now with that A1 milk and watch your body's little or big ailments start to clear. right now there are very few pure guernsey milk producing farms in the us but there is a movement to bring them back as a heratige. 

please click here to see the american guernsey association's links to small farms and support them if you can. 

in honor of the animals that provide such great sustenance to use, please consider supporting your local small farm and organic agriculture community. medicine food is such a great luxury and it's our birthright.

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