Ep // 73: Is Dairy Good or Bad for your Health?
Fitness Stuff (for normal people)
Tony and Marianna
4.9 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Got Milk? I guess we will see after this episode! Join your hosts, Marianna and Tony, as they review the history, benefits, myths, and so much more regarding dairy. Dairy used to be perceived as one of the healthiest foods you could eat; however, over the last decade the table has started to shift and whether milk was "healthy" became questionable. As always, Fitness Stuff for Normal People will bring you an unbiased and scientific explanation for it all.
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what is dairy? (8:28)
lactose intolerant (14:11)
MYTHS
dairy contains dangerous hormones (32:39)
it’s too processed, raw milk is better (43:17)
pus + blood + somatic cells (53:47)
full fat dairy is a threat to heart health (56:57)
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| 0:00.0 | What is up, everyone? |
| 0:01.4 | Welcome back to the Fitness Stuff for Normal People podcast. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm Tony. |
| 0:05.5 | And I'm Mariana. |
| 0:06.5 | And it's no secret, the fitness industry, the very one that we're in right now, it sucks. |
| 0:11.7 | Whether it's the corrupt multi-billion dollar supplement in weight loss industry or the endless supply of influencers promoting absolutely anything to drive page views. |
| 0:20.5 | The bottom line is we're not trying just to provide another fitness podcast. |
| 0:24.3 | There's enough of those, but completely change the fitness industry for the better by providing you with the knowledge and tools to give you the confidence to apply the best possible training and nutrition into your own lives. |
| 0:35.4 | Where today we are talking about the dirty dairy. |
| 0:41.7 | Something that we've been talking about for a long time. |
| 0:43.9 | I only title it dirty dairy because when I was in my late teens and I learned to hate |
| 0:48.9 | dairy, it was based on a podcast that called it dirty dairy. |
| 0:52.8 | And I just thought it was funny. |
| 0:53.9 | I like alliteration. But it stuck with me until this day. But milk used to be touted as one of the healthiest foods you can consume. I don't know if you remember this. But back in like the 90s, I remember I was playing soccer as a kid. Do you remember the gut milk campaigns where all the famous athletes have like a milk mustache. It's packed full of protein |
| 1:11.8 | and calcium and other nutrients to make you strong. It was all over the place. In the bodybuilding |
| 1:16.3 | community, it was one of the best things you could do to build lean muscle fast. Chocolate |
| 1:21.9 | milk was a little extra hack as well. But this last decade, milk has been under some heat, |
| 1:26.6 | mostly on social media and in health |
| 1:28.3 | documentaries on Netflix, not only doubting the nutritional value, but proposing a list of actual |
| 1:33.3 | negative health effects as well, saying that these things contain lactose, pus, animal |
| 1:38.3 | blood, hormones, and more, they're going to destroy your health. |
| 1:41.5 | So not only just milk, but dairy as a whole. So today, we're going to look |
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