Lab-Grown Milk Is Coming—Are You Ready? - AI Podcast
Dr. Joseph Mercola - Take Control of Your Health
Briana Mercola
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Story at-a-glance
- Lab-grown "UnReal Milk" is being developed by Brown Foods using mammalian cells in bioreactors. It’s marketed as environmentally friendly despite lacking comprehensive safety testing
- Other companies like Perfect Day are creating synthetic dairy alternatives that also lack long-term safety data while making questionable environmental claims
- Raw milk from grass fed cows contains essential nutrients like C15:0 fat that support mitochondrial health, diabetes prevention, and weight management not found in synthetic alternatives
- The push for lab-made food isn't about providing options but replacing traditional food sources, thus removing consumer control over what they consume
- Take control of your health by buying from local farms, avoiding lab-grown foods, understanding ingredients, supporting real food with purchasing power, and advocating for food freedom policies
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dr. Mercola's Cellular Wisdom. Stay informed with quick, easy-to-listen |
| 0:06.1 | summaries of our latest articles, perfect for when you're on the go. No reading required. Subscribe |
| 0:11.2 | for free at Mercola.com for the latest health insights. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello and welcome to Dr. Mercola's cellular wisdom. I'm Ethan Foster, here to guide our conversation |
| 0:21.9 | on important health topics. Today we're discussing an emerging trend, lab-grown milk. We'll |
| 0:27.8 | cover how it's produced, the claims behind it, and why many are voicing concern. Alongside me is my |
| 0:34.0 | co-host, Alara Sky, who brings a focused perspective on natural health. |
| 0:39.1 | Thank you, Ethan. I look forward to exploring this new development in the food industry. |
| 0:43.9 | Lab-grown milk is being marketed as environmentally friendly and efficient, but many questions |
| 0:48.8 | remain unanswered. We need to look closely at the science, the potential risks, and the |
| 0:54.0 | reason synthetic food |
| 0:55.0 | is on the rise. |
| 0:56.0 | Let's begin by outlining what lab-grown milk actually is. |
| 1:00.0 | One startup that's received attention is brown foods. |
| 1:03.0 | They're creating what they call unreal milk using mammalian cells grown in bioreactors. |
| 1:09.0 | Instead of milking cows, they're attempting to replicate the core |
| 1:12.1 | components of dairy, proteins, fats, and carbohydrates in a laboratory setting. |
| 1:18.1 | Exactly. According to brown foods, their product mimics cows' milk on a molecular level. |
| 1:23.4 | They claim it uses 90% less water, 95% less land, and emits 82% less carbon than large-scale dairy |
| 1:30.6 | operations. |
| 1:31.8 | But here's the issue. |
| 1:33.2 | Their comparisons aren't made against small regenerative farms that pasture raise cows. |
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