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Chasing Life

Should We Be Drinking Cow’s Milk?

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.47.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

“Drink your milk,” we are told as children. CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta examines our practice of continuing to drinking cow’s milk as we grow up. Plus, how to get the best sleep if you work the night shift.  Producer & Medical Writer: Andrea Kane Showrunner: Amanda Sealy Senior Producer: Dan Bloom Technical Director: Dan Dzula Executive Producer: Steve Lickteig Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey there, and welcome to paging Dr. Gupta.

0:08.3

Thank you so much for joining us today.

0:10.9

This is the place where I get to take a deep dive into some of your health questions,

0:16.4

address some of your concerns, and hopefully get you some answers that are backed by the best available evidence.

0:22.7

Kira is with us. Who do we have first? So today's first question is actually coming from one of our

0:28.7

younger listeners. His name is David and he wants to know about a very popular childhood drink

0:35.0

and whether you should still be having it as you age.

0:41.1

Hello, this is David, age 14, calling from Florida.

0:46.2

And my question is, is milk from cows good to drink?

0:50.7

Because my dad, I remember he told me that drinking milk from cows is basically like drinking baby milk.

0:59.8

It's not really good for teenagers or adults.

1:03.5

And I was wondering, like, we don't drink milk from other animals, so why do we drink for a cow?

1:09.0

Thank you so much.

1:10.1

And I'm thinking for having

1:11.3

the show. Okay, David, age 14. Thank you for calling in. You know what? We're going to milk

1:18.4

this question for all it's worth, hopefully give you a lot of useful information. We'll do it

1:24.3

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