Gary Null: Effects of Dairy

As wholesome as motherhood and apple pie? Most of us have been raised to think of cows’ milk as wholesome. We take it for granted. Throughout history, milk, coming as it does from “mothers,” tends to be a trusted symbol of nurturing and nutrition. We give it to our children. We are told that milk builds strong bones, yet “most research shows that dairy products are not beneficial to bone health”[501] at any age.

The milk of one species is not designed to support the health of another. There are, for example, natural hormones in cows’ milk for the mother cow to pass on to her calf. When humans drink that milk, we ingest those strong hormones that are designed specifically to regulate the biochemistry of another animal’s system, not ours.