The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marksissons and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

The definitive guide to dairy.

I knew going in this was going to be a tricky one because dairy, especially raw and or fermented, full-fat dairy, resides in a primal gray area.

The literature, the evolutionary reasoning, and the anecdotal reports all unanimously point to sugar, cereal grains and legumes, processed foods, and industrial

vegetable oils as being net negatives on the human metabolic spectrum.

But dairy is somewhat different.

The other Neolithic foodstuffs we can rule out because the science condemning them is fairly

concrete and they weren't on the

menu 20,000 years ago. Heck, they weren't just off the menu. They were basically

unrecognizable as food in the raw state. Dairy, on the other hand, is a relatively recent

food chronologically, but it is most assuredly an obvious and viable nutritive source

in its raw form. It's full of highly bioavailable saturated fat, protein, and carbs in equal

proportions. You could conceivably survive on milk alone. I wouldn't recommend it, but you could technically do it.

Try doing the same with honey or raw millet.

Milk is baby fuel. It's literally meant to spur growth and enable a growing body.

Our bodies definitely recognize dairy as food, even foreign bovine dairy.

But is it good nutrition?

I don't know. I'm not sure anyone really does, in fact, which is why I place dairy firmly in primal limbo.

And so this definitive guide to dairy may come across as being a bit less than definitive,

but that's only because I'm being honest. We simply don't know whether dairy is suitable for

regular human consumption. Whether you include or exclude it from your diet, the decision must be

borne from a review of the available

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