Airway congestion: beware of animal milk!

We all live with erroneous beliefs that can ruin our lives... One of the most persistent has been induced by the official media and by advertisements as well as by the traditional health care system since our early childhood. It's about thebeliefs about cow's milk.

These beliefs can be expressed in several ways:

  • milk is good for your health!
  • milk provides calcium and strong bones!
  • to grow up well, you need to consume milk...

Yet the mere observation of human physiology should make us understand that milk is a food only intended for infants. And again, they should only be provided with the milk of their own species, i.e. breast milk.

Indeed, from a physiological point of view, in order to digest the lactose present in dairy products,the body needs lactase. Lactose is a sugar found in milk. Thanks to the action of lactase (digestive enzyme), lactose is dissociated into glucose and galactose by a process of hydrolysis (dissolution in water). The milk is then ready to be assimilated.

Yet by the age of 18 months and up to 4 years, 90-95% of this enzyme disappears and studies show that by adulthood only 25% of humans still have some lactase.

When lactase is lacking, other actions are put in place by the body to digest lactose. This is how this sugar is transformed by bacteria of the digestive system and this results in a production of hydrogen. This can lead to swelling, intestinal cramps, stomach pain and/or diarrhea. This is considered to be lactose intolerance.

But there are other components of cow's milk that are problematic, these are the proteins of which the best known is casein. It causes health problems that are often more marked than those generated by simplelactose intolerance. In this case, we can talk about realallergic phenomena, allergies that can manifest themselves by the simple presence of mucus, sinusitis, coughing or recurrent ENT and respiratory infections. It is important to think about this in young children, but also in adults.

As with lactose, the main protein in milk, casein is also not digested by the human body. Unlike cattle for whom this milk is intended,humans do not require casein. Neither adults nor babies have the enzymes that allow the digestion of this complex molecule. It is estimated that only 50% of casein is digested (children and adults combined). This is again aenzymatic incompatibility. This same incompatibility manifests itself in some people towards gluten or rather towards gliadin and glutenin, complex proteins present in many cereals (wheat, barley, oats?). It is the peptidase (DPP4) that is responsible for reducing complex molecules into simple molecules so that they can be assimilated by the body. This natural process is necessary to extract nutrients from ingested food.

Due to various factors, there is very often a deficiency of this enzyme. Therefore, these complex proteins are not completely degraded and remain in the body of residues. These residues can enter the bloodstream due to increased intestinal permeability that has become common in our populations. These wastes clog the body, irritate the tissues and create a sensitivity to these types of toxins. Over the years,sensitivity to certain allergens can worsen and spread to other natural elements: other foods, but also dust, pollen, animal hair, etc.

There is a concomitant phenomenon to the non-assimilation of lactose and casein, the excessive production of mucus by various tissues in the body. This is a normal inflammatory or immune response and is intended to protect the body from aggressive agents. These viscous secretions are intended to drain or carry with them dust and microbes.

Over the long term, these X number of times repeated reactions eventually result ininflammation and chronic immune reactions (autoimmune type reactions). Excess mucus is well known to naturopaths. They constitute what they call colloidal overloads. These overloads clog the body and are difficult to eliminate by the eliminating organs called emunctories.

The mucus or glues secreted in large quantities accumulate in the body and eventually invade the sinus, nasal and even pulmonary cavities in order to be evacuated.

Animal milk (especially cow's milk, but also goat's milk and sheep's milk) is an incredible generator of mucus. Pay attention to this the next time you eat milk products... And make the connection with your runny nose when you don't have a cold, the "cat" in your throat that makes you "scrape" all night or the morning cough and spit (= mucus) that you are expelling because your body is trying to get rid of what is bothering it.

Mucus production tends to aggravate allergic phenomena as well as asthma, eczema, bronchitis, sinusitis or even ear infections or recurrent ear infections.

Studies conducted in the United States by the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology confirm this assessment. According to Dr. Frank Osi, in the United States, cow's milk is the primary cause of food allergies in children, so much so that nearly half of them develop an allergic reaction to it. The same is obviously true throughout the world.

So if your children, or the children in your life, have frequent stuffy noses or get colds and sniffles, consider advising them to stop eating animal milk products. Their health will certainly improve... As for adults who suffer from osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, inflammatory problems or any other chronic or auto-immune disease, abstaining from dairy products can only be beneficial.

There are currently many alternatives available in organic and health food stores that are made from plant milks. And be reassured, many vegetables, but also dried fruits from which these vegetable milks, are excellent providers of calcium.

HBE Diffusion, PANNE Carol 28 May, 2018
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