Drink Milk for Weak Bones
Fractures Anyone?
Are you as tired as I am with the “authorities” feeding you lies and propaganda?
Today let’s take on more propaganda, this time from the Milk industry. For decades people have been encouraged to drink milk in order to have strong bones. MD’s have been pushing calcium as important for strong bones.
Calcium is one supplement I have never recommended. But let’s get back to milk.
Yet another study has shown that drinking more milk increases your chance of fracturing a bone and also increasing all cause mortality.
https://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g6015
In Sweden, they studied 61,433 women and 45,339 men (total age ranges of 39 to 79 years old) and followed up on them for over twenty years. What did they find? For every glass of milk consumed per day the risk of all cause mortality increased by 15% in women (but only 3% in men). Overall each glass of milk increased the risk of any fracture by 2% and 9% for hip fractures (for men it was only 1% and 3%).
The first question probably is: Why are women impacted more than men? My opinion is that this is due to men doing more “strength training” (lifting heavier objects). So that points out one of our first steps toward maintaining strong bones: use them! Do strength training! Use it or lose it!
The study believes that a lot of the harm comes from galatose (which humans create by metabolizing the milk sugar lactose). They may very well be right and the more your metabolism burns sugars (think physical activity) probably the less vulnerable you are to harm – just like other sugars!
My opinion is that our processed milk turns raw milk from a healthy food into a harmful food. There are several problems with most milk in the USA. A1 vs A2 milk (that’s a whole other story but you can buy A2 milk now in stores). Pasteurization! Urgh, yes it’s great to heat milk to kill bacteria if you have tainted milk such as when milk started to be shipped into cities from industrial farming. Homogenization. Yet another unnecessary and unhealthy process. Also I’d advise buying only milk from organic grass fed cows.
Let’s not dwell on the negatives. What can you do to have strong bones?
I’ve already mentioned strength training. That’s critical.
Yogurt (fermented milk) – good healthy yogurt can reduce your risks by 10% to 15%.
Cheese (another form of fermented milk) – cheese is a great source of Vitamin K2 which takes calcium out of your arteries (you really didn’t want your arteries to harden did you?) and puts it in your bones. Yes, calcium is an important mineral in your bones. Just don’t take supplements! As if it needs saying: I’m talking about real cheese, not processed “cheese products”.
Green tea – three cups a day is associated with a 30% reduction in hip fractures.
Vitamin C – Yes, supplemental vitamin C is vital for good bone mineral density.
Minerals – Bones are a great storehouse of minerals and there are a lot of them: zinc, boron, etc, etc, etc. Make sure you get lots of trace minerals too.
Chocolate – good dark chocolate is a rich source of magnesium (a mineral that I recommend everyone supplement). Healthy chocolate is very healthy!
Enjoy life! Don’t trust advertising!
I wonder if the study was based on processed milk or raw milk. There is definitely a huge difference between healthy, raw milk from organically-raised grass-fed A2 cows (Jersey, Ayershire, etc) and typical grocery store milk. Two other factors that help:
1) Get some sun! Yes, sun. Contrary to the lies you've been fed about skin cancer, sun exposure is necessary to good health. Our primary source of vitamin D is from sunlight - our bodies produce it in response to exposure. If you're worried, just get 5 - 15 minutes per day, preferably between 11am and 1pm (really kinda depends on time of year because of daylight savings, but the angle of the rays has an effect on which UV rays are getting through the atmosphere), and D is beneficial for calcium absorption.
2) This was mentioned by way of a passing note, but participate in weight-bearing strength training. Studies have shown resistance training to make bones stronger and help reduce the chances of osteopenia and osteoporosis.
Just a couple of tips, if anyone cares to listen.
You won’t find me ever going for gimmicks, low fat, reduced fat or any other weight loss silliness. I believe in eating whole foods....period!!!! Organic as much as possible. As few chemicals as possible!!!! Always have! Yes, I have my few indulgences, but oh well! When it’s hard to eat one does what they can.
Yes, I will admit, though, that I need to move more!!!! We all have things we’d like to do better or work on or whatever.
Yes, I need the iodine. No thyroid and no blood that picks up iron. So yes, it’s important. But, I’m not consistent with anything. That’s why I want to try the Cardio Miracle stuff. Because it’s in a powered form and it has no chemicals and crap. It’s made by supposedly good reputable scientists. I don’t need to make a smoothie or a jump through any other hoops every day. I want to see if it will help me want to be more consistent when it comes to supplements.
I’ll get the link to the website for you to check them out. I’d love to hear your opinion. People that have been honest over the last five years, talked about no jabs, shared what’s really going on with new order agendas, etc... have said it’s worked for them. But, I learned a LONG time ago not all good things are good for all people. So I’m more curious than anything else. If it works great if not great.....at least I tried it for myself is my attitude.
Here’s the site: https://cardiomiracle.com/