Is Milk Healthy? Health Experts Fact Check Dairy Health Claims

Dr. Neal Barnard and registered dietitian Lee Crosby joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll to fact check dairy health claims. Does milk do a body good? Does milk build strong bones? Do women need to consume dairy products?

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[thesmartgene]

I've been vegetarian for 7 months and vegan for 1.5 months. I have autoimmune issues (Hashimoto's/ Addison's Disease) and I have never felt so amazing. I had assumed these conditions would make me forever feel low in energy, but I am now as active as ever. I am so happy, and never experienced these benefits with vegetarianism alone. The weight loss is also pretty cool.

[peayen]

I used to think that giving up cheese would be sooo difficult but after a while your taste buds adjust. Don't miss it at all now.

[שגהש]

Nutrition is so confusing you hear something is good then you hear the same thing is bad how can we even be sure who’s right?

[debbielente]

Weaning off dairy, Greek yogurt and hard cheddar/feta, we was forced to drink milk at young age, yes, fact is now with all of the hormones that our industry had ruined the process. Have started the Vegan diet. Glad I have exposed myself to YOU All... truly amazing what I learned and Grateful. God Bless and thank you ALL

[cmdunn]

My cousin’s daughter (age 10) was recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. T1D is an autoimmune disorder where risk increases with consumption of dairy casein.

[jesperpetersen]

We humans are getting smarter. Thank god. Of cause cow milk is not good for humans.

[LeckieInstallsLondon]

Ive had digestive issues my entire life, heart burn that use to bring me to my knees. Dropping dairy meat and eggs and I haven’t had ANY of these problems in 5 years. It was basically overnight that I felt massive improvement. Unfortunately, because I cut all of the animal foods out all at once, I dont know which one is actually responsible for the benefit. Im sure all animal products I use to consume contributed to some extent.

[HopeFilledPen]

I consumed a TON of milk as a kid and adult, but a couple of years ago my body started a revolt and I stopped consuming dairy when I vomited every time I did. I also had to stop consuming gluten because I had a reaction as well. One phone call with a health coach led to me adopting a whole foods plant based diet. My health drastically improved. I fell off the wagon once and got really sick again, but I'm back on tract now and haven't had dairy in at 2 years. Processed food makes me sick so I stick with wfpb. I don't even look at dairy.

[judithhoell]

Thank you very much! I am not taking any diary products and eat no meat for 5 years now and feel much better . Everyone should watch your video

[extropiantranshuman]

I was an athlete at one time - doing 5k's and triathlons. The reason why people eat dairy chocolate milk after exercising is for the magnesium in chocolate (plus caffeine - which helps with muscle recovery), which relaxes muscles. Milk has potassium and sodium - which replace lost electrolytes. It also has whey - which is a recovery protein for building muscle mass after tearing muscle to build it. So you don't need milk for magnesium - it has nothing in it. if you want to relax muscles - you can use bananas for potassium and baking soda for the salt. It also neutralizes acids formed from exercise. Milk is inflammatory with its acids and just adds onto the acid load - which means you're breaking down muscle just to build up more - which makes no sense. It likely would lead to extra pains - which is what happened to me when I drank chocolate milk after exercise.

Instead - I recommend (if you eat chocolate, which I don't) - chocolate, bananas, baking soda, and a high protein oat milk (as it has the same electrolytes as milk and the proteins too). I personally like pea milk - so that works too. Both together is perfect!

However, I developed something called an athletic lunch - which is way better - rice protein, orange juice, and berries (for antioxidants in recovery).

The truth is - you shouldn't feel pain after you exercise - as muscles don't really have pain-sensing nerves - those're under your skin. Instead that's a sign there's an issue with acid overload or an injury - which should be tended to - rather than think 'no gain, no gain' - which isn't true! By going back to the gym - you can cause injuries and acids to get worse.

[caneroskar]

Thanks.
Some individuals facts-I'm 63 years old, and consuming diary from age 0.thank God, I am very healthy, for the last 5 years I didn't had any kind of illness, even not fever.in these 5 years I avoided completely of Alcohol.
Food for thought.

[Shakamanzulu]

I’m new to the vegan plant base diet and one of the things I was worried about when I did my research was how to get my vitamin B12 and omega 3 fats and I found out that Ka’chava which is a plant based protein powder give you your daily intake of vitamin B12 and a 12 ounce of butternut squash gives you your daily requirement of omega 3. Since I eat just one meal a day when I break my fast, I start with a smoothie mixture of Ka’chava protein powder and my roasted butternut squash and that’s complete meal for me.

[chiangchengkooi]

When the dietitian said that saturated fat is bad, she do not know about human diet. Bye.

[FBeckenbauer]

Just in case you're wondering, yes these guys are all vegan activists so you can guess where this video is going.

[postculthygge]

Cheese consumption is going up and milk is going down because often people get an upset tummy and other nuisances with milk. But not so much with cheese.

[davidthescottishvegan]

Why does it mention Lee Crosby in the description but she's not in the video? The description has to be changed.

[sabby]

I have a concern. I carry one copy of the APOE4 allele. My pattern is E4/E3.

The users on the APOE4 info website and Dr. Steven Gundry all say that APOE4s cannot eat a high carbohydrate diet and must stick to avocados, olive oil, non-starchy vegetables, and some fish.

Indeed, 2.5 hours after eating 8 small purple yams (1.5 to 2 lbs.), my blood glucose is still 148 mg/dL.

I would hate to replace yams, beans, fruits, and oats with avocados and olive oil, but my glucose just is not improving despite eating extremely little fat.

I once went on a low carbohydrate diet for several years to control my acne which did not go away despite a low fat high carbohydrate plant based diet, but had to stop because my cholesterol and LDL became elevated. Now I no longer have acne, but my glucose is still unable to be controlled.

I never drank dairy back then when I had acne and still do not consume it.

[benitabrannon]

What about organic fat free grass fed milk? Is this a better alternative?

[lizziedripping]

I can see how historically when humans moved from hunting/gathering to farming, life became more sustainable & safer. Dairy & meat were solid forms of food to stave off starvation. Coming from a farming background, like Dr Barnard, I grew up thinking dairy & meat were fundamental building blocks of our diet. From a compassionate standpoint my family were organic & not intensive farmers but things have changed & of course now they are due to economic pressures, modern methods etc etc. We have to hammer home the science (such as given here) to convince people to adopt a WFPB lifestyle. Keep up the good work 👍

[jessevegan]

Thank you for this podcast. Everybody needs to watch this and take dairy out of their diet… As well as animal products of course.