Should you switch to A2 dairy?

No doubt: Dairy products have issues. The issues with dairy are not as bad as they are with grains. After all, the consumption of the seeds of grasses was an entirely foreign practice, introduced very late in the human experience—we have spent less than 0.4% of our time on this planet consuming seeds of grasses, despite their dominant dietary role today, thanks to the lobbying of Big Agribusiness, Big Food, and the bungling of the USDA and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Grains are physiologically inappropriate for consumption by Homo sapiens at any time, in any form. Wild, hunting, primitive humans did not consume it for the first 99.6% of our time here. But consumption of dairy products has a human precedent in consumption of the milk of female humans, i.e., infants are meant to breastfeed for up to 4 years after birth. Consumption of the products of mammary glands is therefore not a practice foreign to us human mammals. What IS foreign is 1) consuming the product of bovine or other non-human mammary glands and 2) continued consumption after age 4. Our yogurt-making, by the way, with fermentation extended to 36 hours to amplify counts of L. reuteri, reduces (but does not eliminate) some of the undesirable features of dairy since it consumes virtually all the lactose and converts it to lactic acid (thus the tartness), thereby reducing the pH that denatures (breaks down) the casein protein (though the residual immunogenicity, or immune-triggering potential...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: News & Updates casein dairy gluten-free grain-free grains lactose whey Source Type: blogs