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In the days before raw milk was being shunned and it was seen as medicine, this idea that if you had a specific ailment, you could be matched to a specific cow that was grazing in a specific field. Tell me more about that.

Yeah, milk was definitely considered a medicine, not of last resort either. There are oftentimes a first resort for people that were having gastrointestinal illnesses.

And doctors were aware of certain types of grass providing certain types of health benefits.

For instance, milk from clover fed cows was often prescribed for respiratory illnesses.

And milk from cows that fed on Timothy grass, you know, that would be more for digestive

complaints.

And even beyond the types of grass, the certain pastures on certain farms were thought to have certain properties maybe based on the mineral content that was in the soil.

And these are the sorts of peculiarities that you get when you live in harmony with not only your food, but with

those who produce your food in such a way that the farmers that were stewarding the cattle

that made the milk were aware of you and your health conditions.

And they would often recommend milk from certain cows and certain pastures

because they knew that those types of grass or those areas of their farm tended to fare better for a particular condition.

And the modern listener will hear that and think that just sounds insane,

that sounds so strange when, you know, all of our medicines now come from a lab and are made with

machines and robots that we can't understand. But this was the way of things back then.

And note went on just so you know, to become a very, very famous cure.

They had something they called it, the milk cure.

And even the world's wealthiest man, which was Rockefeller, he had gastrointestestinal illness that was so bad.

His weight, I believe, had gotten under 100 pounds.

And he famously offered a million dollars, which is a lot of money back then and still is, offered a million dollars to anyone who could cure him because he was at Wits End and, of course, had seen every doctor on the planet trying to help him.

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