Does cow’s milk make you healthy and strong?

Question to Dr. Rau:

You mentioned that the milk from today's cows has changed. What exactly has been altered in cow's milk?

Answer from Dr. Rau:

In truly natural milk, from cows that have not been cross-bred for high milk production, the allergenicity is lower and also the content of growth factors in the milk is significantly lower. These, it can be assumed, are the carcinogenic factors that could cause cancer development.

Cow’s milk has become, in the Western world, the most important allergenic factor. The content of the protein beta-Lactoglobulin is a leading factor and its proportion in cow’s milk has approximately tripled in the last 40 years. This is due to the cross-breeding regimes employed and much higher milk production. This protein is a particular problem for people (especially children) with weakened intestinal mucosa and poor intestinal flora because it can pass through the intestinal wall in its undigested form. This is very much the case if the so-called “leaky gut syndrome” is an ongoing problem, unfortunately a very common problem in children and adults today. It can lead to a higher frequency of allergenic responses.

It is a T-lymphocyte activator, which causes late-type allergies such as “silent inflammation”, a tendency to infections and asthma, but also "irritable bowel syndrome".

Surprisingly, a strict abstinence from cow’s milk for at least 3 months brings a significant improvement in such people.

The Danish professor of agriculture Prof. Clauss Sall made a very interesting study. He brought Danish, cross-bred, high-performance cows from Danish cowsheds to the Swiss and Allgäu Alps at altitudes of 1500m above sea level or higher, for just one season. He was able to demonstrate that the allergenicity of their milk decreased very significantly within a 3 month period and the content of good free fatty acids increased. It can be concluded that the “environment” in which cows are kept strongly determines the quality of their milk.

Question to Dr. Rau:

Is cow's milk potentially carcinogenic?

Answer from Dr. Rau

I know of only a few studies on this topic. There is one study that describes a connection between prostate cancer and milk consumption.

However, from a pathophysiological view point it is almost logical that modern cow’s milk production and consumption (as described above) leads to a reduction in T-lymphocytes and NK cells (which stands for natural killer cells used in the body to fight cancer). This reduces the body’s own defense against cancer cells.

The question of whether cow's milk contains a carcinogenic factor concerns the growth hormone HGF, which is regarded as having a cancer-activating effect. The content of this growth factor, actually a growth hormone, is significantly higher in the milk of high-performance cows than in the organic milk from traditional Swiss brown cows kept in the Alps.