What Evil Cows Don’t Want You To Know About Dairy

We have been taught since we were children that dairy is a foundation of our diet.

It provides protein and immense amount of calcium. It helps us grow faster and keeps our bones strong to prevent us from getting diseases like osteoporosis.

Media has drilled into our minds that you aren’t cool unless you have a white mustache. Corporate America, companies like Kraft, make us ask ourselves daily, “Got milk?”

But what if it was a rouse? What if we have been bamboozled by Dairy-Duggery and Cow-Foolery?

What if we found out it was terribly wrong for us to “Got milk?” (My apologies to my 1st grade teacher Dr. Chandler)

What if we found out that it was all a big conspiracy like Soylent Green? What if we found out that instead there were a bunch of irritated cows that wanted vengeance on years of making them a staple of our Fast Food diets and yanking at their teats? Slowly…methodically…letting us drink their milk and eat their cheese only to suffer from chronic diseases.

Warning…this post may make you buy gold, live in a mountain, and pile of up firearms. Or just change your eating habits.

Robb Wolf mentions in his book The Paleo Solution that “In simple terms, dairy and legumes have problems similar to grains: Gut irritating proteins, antinutrients, and protease inhibitors”

Dairy, like grains, can damage the gut lining causing leaky gut issues with intestine content flowing into your gut. Is that bad? That isn’t a good thing. This can translate into chemical sensitivities, food allergies, and autoimmune diseases.

Your gall bladder then doesn’t receive the triggers it needs chemically to release bile salts, which is vital for absorption of fats and proteins. This is what causes gall stones, the eventual removal of the gall bladder, and other digestive problems caused by these utters of mass destruction.

Finally, enzymes called protease inhibitors rear their ugly heads. They prevent the breakdown of proteins, which is very important to help against autoimmunity and allergies. All of this breaking down the human body and causing more diseases, medical bills, and terribly limited lifestyle.

All of which…a part of the Cow plan for world domination. You can bet your cheddar cheese they get excited every time they get milked. One pinch closer to supremacy.

Their Deadliest Weapon: Glucose

Dairy has another colossal issue. It produces glucose, which is insulin spiking. Insulin regulates our blood sugar and in turn our body fat. Insulin is spiked by sugar as well as certain carbohydrates like grains (bread, pasta, or anything with flour whether white or “whole wheat”). When you keep shooting up your insulin levels, your insulin resistance becomes shot. It can’t constantly battle the attack of Glucose that is created by dairy and certain carbs. Hormones like Glucagon that are there to maintain energy levels are crushed. Leptin, which tells your mind “stop eating fatty”, and a host of other satiety hormones stop speaking sense to you.

You are left on an island. Your Jiminy Cricket of fat has bailed on you. The glucose prisoners have slowly broken through the walls like Andy Dufresne in Shawshank Redemption, but they are now running the prison instead of searching for freedom. Anarchy has ensued in your body. You are thrown into a perpetual downward spiral of being constantly sleepy, only charged to get more food, but never satiated.

Welcome to Fatty Paradise: a living nightmare.

Don’t worry there is plenty of other horror stories about what happens after this, but I will save that gory tale for another post. The bottom line is that dairy has pretty much the same effects as many carbohydrates that leads to increased rates of diabetes, accelerated aging, Parkinson’s, obesity, cancer and the list goes on.

Western diet + cow = Cow Zombie Holocaust. (Ok maybe I am stretching that a little.)

Or in other words, The Rise of The Cow. Yes they knew all along. They have been fairly silent all these years gaining beachheads in towns like Green Bay. Just “mooing” us to drink their milk and eat their cheese.

But We Can’t Survive Without Calcium!

This now seems like a catch-22. You have to get calcium, but where if not dairy? We have been taught by parents, government, and the media that dairy is the prime source for calcium. The thought may come up that “If I can’t eat it, then I will surely die”. Not so fast.

Sometimes we get a bit obsessive about milk.

Amy Kubal at The Paleo Solution mentions: “it is well known that dairy is not the only source for this mineral. In fact, some of the best sources of calcium are sardines, trout, salmon, etc, and these protein rich sea creatures also contain long chain omega 3 (DHA) fatty acids, and a plethora of other nutrients.”

There are a variety of areas you can get calcium from foods full of nutrients such as protein that Amy talked about and also vegetables like broccoli, spinach, and kale. It makes you wonder with all of these other sources why there has been a strong push for dairy when it does a lot more harm than good. Is this a government conspiracy with the cows?!?! Are cows majority shareholders in corporations like Kraft?!?! Mind blowing.

Bottom line: Fight the cow. Eat the meat, spare the milk.