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For any and all of you with "lactose intolerance" or "casein intolerance" 
there is news, good news in the long run.  It may very well explain other 
health problems in your non celiac relatives, eg Parkinson's, heart disease, 
Type 1 diabetes, SIDS babies, Autism, schiozophrenia, Crohn's, and 
autoimmune diseases.  I have been preaching the gospel of gluten intolerance 
while my favorite chiropractor has been preaching the gospel of dairy 
intolerance to his chronic pain patients.  I have been shaking my head and 
saying he's missing the point, but he claims to get terrific results, and 
the book he is going by, No Milk, was written by a DC who did likewise. 
Turns out he's a little more right than I am.  The two factors are leaky gut 
(that's us) and milk from mutated cows.  This mutation took place thousands 
of years ago and is found only in cattle from Europe, and not all of them. 
The Holsteins are about the worst, and as they take over the dairy industry 
they have brought the level of mutated "A1 beta-casein" up to 50% in your 
average gallon of grocery milk.  This mutated protein breaks apart very 
easily to produce a small peptide of just 7 amino acids called BCM7. 
Whereas gluten affect just 2 areas of the brain, causing the "fog" that 
typically lifts when we first go off gluten, BCM7 can affect 46 different 
areas of the brain.  Yes, it's terrible for autistic kids and at least some 
schizophrenics.  It's potential for causing autoimmune reactions is at least 
as high as glutens.
    The good news is that eventually we too will have dairies that produce 
only the normal A2 protein.  In NZ there are 2 of them, and a couple in 
Australia.  If you get over that way at all, you can buy labeled "A2 milk" 
that you can probably enjoy with no reaction.  Even Japan has it.  Also 
since all mammals on the planet produce their beta-casein the same way 
except the mutated cows, goat milk is fine.  In fact, a quart of goat milk 
from the grocery is probably the best way for you to prove to yourself that 
this whole notion is real.  AND, if you can find someone with a guernsey 
cow, 96% of them are ok, no mutation.  Only 1/3 of the Jerseys are ok, about 
the same for Brown Swiss, 25% of Holsteins, and maybe 10% of the Ayreshires. 
Of the Dexters, so far tests show if they have horns they are ok.  The 
naturally polled Dexters have been the only Dexters with the mutation, so 
they represent an outcross.  Also if there is a small guernsey dairy in your 
area that's gone independent, their milk should be nearly perfect.  The 
problem is that we need ALL the Guernsey dairies to go independent, and the 
dairy farmers are way too broke to do much of anything.  If you have access 
to a milk cow near you, I have figured out a way to get her tested for free. 
Contact me for more info.  Any of you that are interested in this subject, 
look at reviews of The Devil in the Milk, and then order a copy.  The book 
is even more shocking than the reviews.  I'd like to discuss this more with 
any who are interested.  We the customers have to convince the dairy farmers 
to take action for our sakes, and this is about the only thing that could 
possibly save them.  They are all standing at the edge of a precipice, and 
dairy is being preached against by many many health oriented people and 
groups.  I'd like to see family farms selling their products and know how 
the cattle are fed, not a faceless corporation pooling the milk of hundreds 
of farms.    Donna 

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