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🗓️ 6 May 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Last week, we started this two-parter with a big picture view of pasteurization and the raw milk movement. In this episode, we address the alleged health claims made by proponents of raw milk and dive into the very real risks carried by its consumption. Is raw milk actually better for you? Does it have more vitamins or prevent allergies? What deadly pathogens does it harbor? How much does drinking raw milk increase your chance of contracting a milk-related disease? (Spoilers: A LOT). We tackle these questions with reliable data that paint a very different picture of raw milk than that shown by many raw milk influencers. Tune in for all this and more.
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0:00.0 | This is exactly right. |
0:06.3 | Sarah and her husband Brandon had decided to switch their family to raw milk because their oldest son had had some health issues. |
0:12.9 | When they did, his health seemed to improve. The kids loved it, said Sarah, talking about her other two children. |
0:19.5 | It seemed to be better for their immune systems. |
0:21.9 | We drank it for five years. |
0:23.3 | The kids thrived on it. |
0:25.1 | The family also had complete faith in the dairy's sanitary practices. |
0:29.2 | In switching over to raw milk, they had been advised to know their farmer. |
0:33.3 | They believed they had done the right research to make sure the milk they were buying was safe to drink. |
0:38.6 | But then one day, Jubilee got sick, very sick. |
0:42.3 | She was vomiting and suffering from a severe case of diarrhea. |
0:46.1 | Instead of improving over the next several days, she got sicker and sicker. |
0:50.3 | Her worried mother took her to the emergency room, taking along a pull-on diaper that had blood in it. |
0:55.7 | The results of the test came back. |
0:57.6 | It's E. coli, she was told. |
0:59.6 | Jubilee's kidneys are in danger. |
1:02.0 | Meanwhile, her son Titus, who had just turned six, was also sick, but seemed to be handling it better. |
1:08.1 | But then he got sicker and joined his sister in the hospital. |
1:11.7 | He too developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, although he didn't need to undergo dialysis. |
1:17.3 | But he did develop pancreatitis from the E. coli infection he had contracted from the contaminated |
1:22.7 | raw milk, and then a staff infection. Watching them in pain was the absolute hardest thing I've ever done as a parent, she said. |
1:31.4 | The amount of needles for blood draws, medications, transfusions is scary, |
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