The Surprising Benefits (& risks) of Raw Milk

[@DoctorMike]

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[@fizzahnadeem1772]

I’m the first!!!! This the earliest I’ve been

[@Betweentwogames]

The saddest part is, none of what you said is new information, and readily available. Imagine having to explain to someone, heating something kills bacteria. I guess they don’t cook their poultry.

[@LoFiAxolotl]

It's not just not new... it's been known for 181 years... that's almost as long as the US exists

[@npsimons]

> I guess they don’t cook their poultry. I wish. Then this problem would sort itself out in (moderately) short order.

[@turquoise7817]

you joke, but i'm pretty sure this has come together with a rise in "raw meat" diets...

[@baonemogomotsi7138]

Apparently it's the Dunning Kruger effect + motivated reasoning. People who are uninformed talk about topic A ignorantly then their followers select this biased info to push their agenda.

[@advenco344]

Raw milk advocates understand this, but they argue that it also destroys the GOOD bacteria in raw milk that contain many beneficial micronutrients. Please learn the arguments of the opposing side before criticizing them.

[@TheMcgreary]

I remember seeing a meme "anyone who consumes raw milk has never seen a cow up close" and honestly having grown up in the countryside I'm convinced that's true

[@skyeiron5872]

And yet, until recent years raw milk was almost exclusively consumed by the people who own the cows and harvest their milk.

[@justjaein]

@@skyeiron5872someone who is repeatedly exposed to the same bacteria of their farm animals is vastly different to buying raw milk in stores. still not that healthy, though

[@knowthyself178]

I drink raw milk and I’ve worked on multiple farms with cows 😂😂

[@lanychabot-laroche135]

@@skyeiron5872 There is likely a lot less bacteria in milk you drink in the same day at the farm than milk that has been shipped and sitting in a store for a few days.

[@jasperzatch610]

​@@skyeiron5872 if that's a defense for drinking raw milk, you missed the point of the video and are part of the problem ❤

[@MZOfficial104]

idk why this debate even started

[@ChristineG-f3d]

@MZOfficial104 BECAUSE JOE ROGAN and his motley crew of nitwit had something to say about it much like they had to talk smack about vaccines.

[@DarlingJubilee]

Cuz ppl for some reason are scared of "harmful chemicals" being in their milk to where they're willing to risk getting sick instead :P

[@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep]

Because major world governments (not naming names here) are putting people in power who want to bring back raw milk

[@luodeligesi7238]

I drink raw milk everyday and I'm fine, but first it has to be heated to 161F for 15 seconds and then rapidly cooled.

[@chukwuezeokoli4919]

​@@luodeligesi7238That's literally pasteurized milk

[@Zora72954]

I hate the running belief that if its natural, then it must be good. Yeah, say that to someone thats dying from natural poison they digested in the wild

[@joanfregapane8683]

Exactly! I love rhubarb for example, but parts of the rhubarb plant are poisonous! Give me a break.

[@portugahbk]

Malaria is totally natural....it kills 600 thousand people worldwide annually....but, in a very natural way, it's important to remember that. /s

[@trixxart777]

Yeah whenever someone says that I reply that a lot of poisons are made from natural plants

[@JohnDBlue]

Honestly, I think it should be legal to put natural toxins into the "amazing raw products" and feed it to the scam artists who are trying to fool people online for money and fame... Because sadly some people fall for it and it's difficult to get them out

[@ZAELish]

Ebola and anthrax are all natural. Actually cant anthrax infect milk. Ow we can keep it clean the only way you are going to do that is put actually diapers on the cows. Notice how close the udders are to the poop shoot people

[@doomelements4679]

I can't believe this is even a thing today. I used to drink raw milk 20 years ago in my teens, and we used to heat the raw milk before we drink it, similar to the pastuerisation process. It is common sense, just like how we cook meat with heat before eating. Just common sense.

[@toseltreps1101]

idiocy has lost all shame

[@ChrisParayno]

Key here is you still pasteurized the milk

[@danzackblack5829]

So you didn't drink raw milk? I'm confused by your wording

[@Swampert384]

@@danzackblack5829they bought raw milk, basically pasteurized it at home, and then consumed it.

[@JulianaBlewett]

You still pasteurized it. You may have bought it raw, but you still pasteurized it. You don't seem to understand anything, do you?

[@SKY031]

When people can't understand the dangers of eating Tide pods, good luck explaining how the bacterial cow juice can be detrimental to their health. Sadly, it's usually their unfortunate children who end up paying the price for their parents "beliefs".

[@mose-p2c]

I am from Africa (Botswana) and growing up in my grandma's farm we drank "raw milk" everyday. By raw milk I mean immediately after getting it from the cow we placed it's container inside a pot of boiling water over a fire until the milk started foaming. I grew up being taught that it was to prevent passing any diseases from animals to us humans. As for probiotics we normally make madila(fermented/sour milk) which is made from actual raw milk and the fermenting process kills any harmful bacteria.

[@jtplays7411]

That's pasteurized milk.

[@GB-jo9ky]

by raw milk you mean you pasteurized your own milk and drank it?

[@Reelix]

> I grew up being taught that it was to prevent passing any diseases from animals to us humans. That's correct. The heating process you did is called pasteurization. It's just a fancy way for saying "Enough heat was added to it to get rid of any of the bad stuff".

[@Yata544]

That's basically what pasteurization do btw 😅

[@clarawolfe4490]

I swear Doctor Mike teaches me more than my high school… 😢 please don’t stop wat you do best!!!!!!!!!❤❤❤❤

[@TheMETALMULITIA]

To quote slipknot" that's what you do best" *face melting riff*

[@blackspider4]

maybe start paying attention in classes?

[@sonicpsycho13]

​@blackspider4 to their defense, I didn't learn about pasteurization in high school. It was taught in elementary school. This is something 10 year olds are taught.

[@Bearssuperfan]

People growing up on farms have lower rates of asthma? Man, definitely the milk and not the vast open fields of greenery. /s

[@almightycinder]

Not being around as much car exhaust is safer? Inconceivable!

[@MNP208]

Or the animals.

[@biaV1997]

Let's imagine, you live in a place that you have clean air, lot of plants, eat more healthy food that you did plant .. yeah that can lower the asthma, I don't think the fact that you boiled milk or not would interfere in the respiratory system

[@paterpeter1985]

However, poultry is the exception. Makes the air very unhealthy

[@weedwagon24]

so many of these ridiculous beliefs that appear out of nowhere could be irradicated if the US education system was actually good

[@mariogarcia2254]

That’s why we should get rid of it and let the states handle their education system

[@erreyakendo8290]

Maybe. Part of this "ridiculous beliefs" could be from the fact we are isolated and need to feel part of a group, so will prefer to back to life being alone with nobody or still believing this ridiculous idea but has someone to talk to? Other could be of mistrusted of government and the view of everything is corrupted, from top politicians who wanted your vote to Bob from accounting's office. Sometimes education help but isn't the main solution.

[@williamtarleton1857]

​@@mariogarcia2254lol yes, I'd love to see all the schools in middle america lose 30% or more of their funding over night. And surely having no federal standards wouldn't lead to multiple states getting rid of basic science standards in place of pseudo-religious dogma, and I'm sure multiple states wouldn't teach their kids that pasteurized milk is a conspiracy, thus exacerbating the issue that led to this hypothetical "let the states set up their own independent education systems" approach in the first place. Sure, California, New York, and Massachusetts students would benefit, but Mississippi, West Virginia, and Arkansas students would be greatly deprived.

[@manhathaway]

Its about to get dumber in the next 4 years

[@omnitone]

@@erreyakendo8290EXACTLY. THIS IS IT. why tf does no one know this?

[@iimuffinsaur]

I think genuinely just a lot of people forget the history of why things came into being, like pasturized milk lol.

[@sonicpsycho13]

Vaccines, ingredient labels, OSHA, environmental regulations, unions.

[@Xolaress]

People are gonna "milk" this.

[@Tyburn_Lil]

Curdles the blood..

[@FunderDuck]

It’s amusing that people use terms like “organic” and “natural” when describing drinking the baby formula straight out of another mammal. You should avoid consuming raw milk for the same reasons you avoid “raw” unfiltered water.

[@patriciaeichberger458]

Its so stupid because humans naturally dont have to drink lactose after the toddler stage. That's why if you dont consume milk or dairy products, you can become lactose intolerant. And why in asian countries, they have large portions of lactose intolerance because their dailt diets usually dont have cheese or milk.

[@bored588]

so, we developed technology to make something safer, and people are ignoring it, I mean, self solving problems tend to pop up sometimes. they will get sick, realize it was dumb, then lets be honest, we are a persistent species, they will do it again.

[@LoFiAxolotl]

Nobody is worried about these white 30 somethings that are hopefully not showing up on the next census... society is worried about the children that die because they're being fed unpasteurized milk.

[@dog_chasing_cars7576]

I see it as an extra trial step..to make sure it was worth it. Great thing is. Every time it comes back as something we did right

[@spltorky]

The important difference is that now, any village idiot has a loudspeaker to the world. And when you get a bunch of them together, you get flat earthers, antivaxxers, rawmilkers etc. With how interconnected the world has become, it wouldn't be ludicrous to imagine an event like the pandemic, where a super bug is created by people licking cow assholes to be closer to nature, then getting everyone deadly sick. Factor in some orange nitwits who disband the WHO and you get the plague.

[@lanychabot-laroche135]

This is just anti-vaxxers again.

[@MartyrKomplx-Prime]

Except they won't realize it; they'll think they're just not doing enough of it.

[@daetomrossington3623]

Okay... I really like the "MALK" meme insertion at the beginning, Mike! 😂

[@I_am_Lauren]

That guy was one of my favorite KZbinrs back in the day!

[@commanderpinkie7617]

I loved his hot kool aid bit.

[@annarichter484]

My mum was a vet and she brought often raw milk from the farms home. My three siblings and I knew we had to heat it up to boiling before we could drink it. If adults want to risk it fine but keep this rubbish away from kids.

[@jocysatu1038]

I honestly didn't even know about how this debate exists. We know the answer if we just took the time to find another way to this.

[@motherlove202]

That's ideal in a perfect world, but some people are of the "my thinking is right, your thinking is wrong" mentality

[@tranduy8219]

In Vietnam, we are taught (yes, they teach this stuff at school) that raw cow milk is safe for direct consumption within a few hours of milking cows, because of natural antibacteria stuff (enzymes if I'm not mistaken) in the milk. In this phase, yes, raw milk is better (more good stuff - nutrition, beneficial enzymes...). But if you live far away from a farm, then by the time raw milk reaches consumers like you, it is most likely just a concoction of bacteria and viruses. You should only consume processed milk (yes, pasteurization aka heating up milk is a form of food processing, same as you boiling eggs) because it's safer, and accept that it might not be as good as fresh raw milk. In a way, it's just a simple risk-reward assessment.

[@ED-ub8ei]

This makes a lot of sense. Human breastmilk has antibacterial properties as well.

[@CommonThresher]

Taught this in uk aswell

[@normalchannel2185]

enzymes are just catalysts. Basically enzyme makes chemical reactions happen faster. Having enzymes prolly won't do jackshite for safety. There maybe some compounds in it though

[@juliamrtn4837]

Yes here in Germany we have the same rule, you can only buy raw milk directly from a farm. Milk in the supermarket has to be pasteurised

[@AIHumanEquality]

One thing I will advise everyone since this is a common occurence I see, ancient civilisations were more advanced than people often realize. Gears, steam engines, combustion, all of these things existed in the ancient world. The oldest known computer is from Ancient Greece known as the Antikythera Mechanism and it was the first analog computer. Don't underestimate what they knew about medicine and preparing foods just because it wasn't as advanced as today.

[@el_dogetaco812]

I live in Bangladesh and you can buy raw milk quite easily here, especially if you live in a rural/sub urban area, but pasteurized milk is the way to go. Milk goes bad so easily during summer especially if you don't keep it correctly.

[@leepicgaymer5464]

Yea we used to get raw milk probably everyday here in BD but we always heated it up and then drink it. I always wondered why we couldn't just drink the milk we got but its obviously for our safety.

[@notfound_humanexe]

Our education system is failing so hard 😭 I will say though, so many people grow up drinking raw milk and their entire family is used to it because they’ve all been drinking it since childhood and they don’t get sick. That’s very different than Karen going to a farmer next door and getting raw milk and replacing it with pasteurized milk which she’s never drank before.

[@opgamer-so4qw]

Dr Mike be destroying all conspiracy theories 😭🙏🏻

[@stevePDx]

You think these people are receptive to logic though? They won't be conspiracy theorists if they can critically think and abstract information from all sources.

[@ajd2393]

True, but the only people who will listen are the ones who already know it's bad. The idiots will be idiots regardless

[@Reelix]

Some people still beleive the earth is flat. Do you think those people will believe this?

[@freemovies411]

I was not prepared for that Julian Smith cameo at the beginning. XD

[@rjwolf8873]

Julian Smith reference is ELITE

[@randallthomas5207]

I was raised on raw milk. We had so much milk in the fridge, we drank milk, instead of water. Mom made home made cottage cheese, which got fed to the chickens when there was an excess. We separated the cream and churned our own butter. But we had our own cow, which we milked twice per day. There was a sequence of things we did to clean and sterilize the udder and teets before milking. And the buckets were washed and cleaned before every milking.

[@rosettasilvermist]

Doctor Mike killing misinformation with udder skill!!

[@crunch1167]

Its a bad sign for the education system when people dont believe pasteurisation kills bacteria

[@Amy-bl8sp]

There are people who don't believe in microorganisms at all so they think "the system" is putting chemicals into milk for no reason at all.

[@apollosaturn5]

In 2025 there are people who believe the Earth is flat. That should give you an idea of how bad misinformation and disinformation has infected today's society.

[@ScottieTheCat]

I remember reading a tumblr post about raw milk. Specifically, about cow sh*t and how no matter how hard you try, it (and the germs in it) still gets in the milk, hence why pasteurization is absolutely necessary.

[@skyeiron5872]

That's BS. You can absolutely avoid getting sh*t in the milk by 3 simple steps. 1. _Wash the udder._ 2. Hand milk into a small jug. 3. Empty the small jug into a larger jug or bucket when it is full . Repeat steps 2 & 3 until you have the amount you want. Alternatively; 2. Put cups on. 3. Remove the cups when the cow is done. Of course this is specific to small farms. Any large scale milking operation doesn't have the time to wash the udder of every cow or ensure that no cow kicks the cups off into sh*t.

[@SaraBrannon-g2r]

So...I teach Food Safety and Foodborne Illness Prevention as a part of my Culinary Arts classes and I have never been happier to find a video IN MY LIFE! You have no idea how much this is going to help my students. Thank you so much!!

[@LucyMorningstar999]

Killing harmful bacteria in the foods we eat is important. I grew up in a small village in the Caribbean, and we drank raw milk from time to time, but pasteurization in order to kill potentially harmful bacteria and organisms is definitely the way to go in my opinion. Everything is sensationalized these days, even when they really are not that complicated.

[@quoteworld3375]

people drinking raw milk without boiling is a news to me !

[@BlakeElliott246]

I think this happened because nobody took time to explain that anti-biotics aren’t being used in the pasteurizing process. Fans of raw milk tend to believe that digestive problems related to milk consumption are caused by and correlated to anti-biotics degrading the integrity of our digestive systems.

[@robinsakofske9975]

My grandmother used to get raw milk from her cousin, who was a dairy farmer. He did not sell it to anyone. The milk was very sweet and had a thick layer of cream that had to be stirred. Re the death rates in NYC, I bet there were a lot of factors that contributed to the decrease in infant mortality.

[@WolvenSpectre]

@@robinsakofske9975 My god you can lead an idiot horse to water but you can't make him drink.

[@alethesnonillusion]

That’s exactly what happened to me. I used to think they used chemicals, but then I learned in General Bio that pasteurization is just heating it. I can’t believe how silly I was being.

[@normalchannel2185]

@@robinsakofske9975 Did you boil the milk before drinking it? If you did, you just pasturised it

[@Applemangh]

​@@robinsakofske9975 I imagine the risks of drinking raw milk are a bit lower if you're getting it straight from a farmer (and cow) that you know and trust and live close to, as there'd be less time for any bacteria to multiply. But just because it might be "less bad" doesn't make it a good idea. Also doesn't change the fact that pasteurization kills germs. And the evidence of "benefits" from raw milk is pretty slim while the evidence of risks from it is very strong.

[@egeabali]

My mom buys raw milk from the local farms time to time but she always boils it first to kill the bacteria just in case before using it.

[@Poke-ladd]

I grew up on a cattle farm, ive had asthma since i was a kid, then later on aquired Hay fever So im assuming the opposite can also happen

[@LoFiAxolotl]

no.... it's neither caused nor cured by milk

[@kevinyancey958]

Farm boy here. I've always preferred raw milk. It's sweeter and creamier than store bought milk. Working on a dairy farm provided free daily access to fresh milk. I would have to add that raw milk is saturated with fats, which are not exactly healthy. But, I've known many dairy farmers that drank fresh milk. And most of them lived long lives with little health issues, none of which were attributed to milk borne diseases or viruses. They may have had high cholesterol and even heart issues, but these farmers also ate a lot of high fat meals. Country cooking involves fats, both from dairy and dairy products, and from meats. Fresh milk must be stirred nearly constantly to prevent the fats from separating, floating to the top, and congealing into butter. This is why milk is both stripped of most of the fat and the rest is homogenized. I once heard that the daily recommended allowance of milk was the same as eating 8 pieces of bacon. Yum! I credit their long lives to how hard farmers worked. Like lumberjacks back in the 19th century, they ate high amounts of calories and burned them off cutting down trees. I heard that they ate close to 8000 calories a day and never gained a pound! Fresh milk contains active bacteria that will multiply rapidly, even while refrigerated. It doesn't keep very long without pasteurization, and the fat content is too high to homogenize all the fat. If you're going to drink raw milk, be sure you get it from a dairy producer and not some person with a couple of cows on a dark alley. The USDA inspects dairy farms for compliance on cleanliness and sterilization of equipment, the health of the cows, and quality of the milk. Cows do get sick and the milk can get contaminated. Milk fever makes the milk yellow, stinky, and lumpy. You don't want that stuff, for sure. I get a kick out of these "milks" from grass, nuts, and grains. I still can't imagine milking a blade of grass or seeing an almond suckle on another! What's next, chicken milk? White meat making whiter milk? 😂

[@brenda5511]

I just got a visual of a guy in a trench coat saying, “hey buddy…”! When my kids were small, we had a friend who supplied us with fresh unpasteurized milk. I’d skim off the cream and make butter, then heat the milk a bit.

[@CinePhile_Girl_Mahira]

The big deal is legalities and marketing. The big deal breakers are salmonella and gastroenteritis. The benefit of shelf life. The benefit of not playing roulette with a pathogen. Raw milk is great. I've drunken it and been fine. I've also had it and been so violently ill I wished I would die instead of having to regurgitate nothing for the next 6 hours after having done the same for the previous 6. Pasteurised and homogenised is a good idea. It's not done because it is unnecessary. What you will find with cheeses made with said unpasteurised milks is that the cheeses themselves get Pasteurised or treated in some way to prevent said illnesses, and the use of them is to achieve particular subtleties in the cheeses that are made from it.

[@LoFiAxolotl]

Not really... most cheese in Europe (particularly France) that is made with unpasteurized milk is not treated in any way, just that the milk that is used for those cheeses is vigorously tested and can only come from certain farms and the cows are vaccinated against certain pathogens

[@wsollers1]

​@LoFiAxolotl if french cows are so clean then why are a third of the salmonella outbreaks in France from raw milk/cheese??? It is a certainty that if you consume raw milk /raw milk products you will get sick.

[@nicola3293]

I can't say anything about cheese (don't like it, don't care - yes, I got told it's very shocking) But as someone from Europe, who grew up with many farms/ old farmers around, I'd say that I'd NEVER buy raw milk from a grocery store... When you are at a farm with healthy cows and you milk them, and drink the milk, yeah fine But with the gigantic milk industry, parts with not 100% healthy cows and then the transport and storage of raw milk?!?! It's not made for smth like that o_O

[@ryanfox5612]

If cheese is made properly and carefully then it doesn't need pasteurization because the fermentation process of the good bacterial cultures happens so quickly that harmful ones like e.coli can't take hold and all of the sugars that they would eat are consumed.

[@Sigma1_969]

Started watching your videos last week and just subbed today.. i love the information you give and have learned a lot since watching.. i have heart disease and had quadruple bypass graft surgery 3 years ago, on lots of meds and had to retire because my job was too stressful .. so happy to have found you and your channel.. also a dog lover. ❤

[@guilty_as_sin13]

It's 10 pm and never too late for a Doctor Mike video❤😉

[@1dareu2mov3]

Where do you live? It’s 10:40am for me

[@Loveland2uandme_YT]

@@1dareu2mov3 ME TOOOOOOOOO!

[@BabyAxolotl20]

ok, i'm assuming you live in the US or the UK because you speak English. (at the time of typing) it is 11:40 in my area. although some places may be a few hours ahead, or a hours behind. in the UK it's 4:39. although you may live in another country (maybe moved there from an English speaking country, or are a native who speaks English.) this makes me believe you are a bot.

[@KXkanimeoww]

It's 7:40 pm for pm 😉

[@Jahnavi4464]

Same here

[@Ang3lzzzzCr33dPR]

The irony for these "raw milk" advocates is thinking raw milk has less nutritional value than pasteurized milk. As for "good bacteria", yogurt and other fermented types of dairy offer WAY more nutrition and good bacteria than raw milk. If you're worried about that aspect literally just eat a good yogurt or make some yourself at home.

[@doronlevy5158]

I want to add a thought about the farm study. My grandfather lived in an agricultural community, and was a farmer until he got too old for the job. For as long as I remember he got raw milk from his neighbors. But he never drank it raw, he pasteurized it himself, maybe not with all the chemicals, but I remember the huge pot of milk foaming away on the stove. So yeah, maybe they add too many chemicals to milk, I don't know, not my field of study, but if you don't trust corporations, buy raw milk and pasteurize it yourselves, it can literally just be, boiling a pot of freaking milk.

[@Deladus]

There are no chemicals added to milk as part of the pasteurization process and most milk doesn't have added chemicals. Its literally just heating and cooling. I just looked at Walmarts selection of milk online and the only ingredients in each (cow milk, unflavored) were: Milk Added Vitamins Lactase enzyme in the lactose free ones. Unless you are afraid of extra vitamins, regular milk is safe. Lactose free if you aren't afraid of the enzyme and there is no way around that with raw milk. Nut milks are different, but that discussion is different from the raw milk discussion since pasteurized milk doesn't have it.

[@matthewluttrell9413]

To be very clear, the pasteurization process uses zero added chemicals. At a small scale, a container with milk is heated up to the specific temperature for a certain amount of time, and that's it. So exactly like using a pot on a stove top. At a larger industrial level (and to keep the explanation simple) the milk is pumped through heated plumbing to assure it reaches the desired temperature and time. That's it👍🏻

[@lesfrisbees]

Fantastic breakdown and analysis here. This continues to be one of the best channels for clear, unbiased medical information.

[@DaveLopez575]

Another excellent video, thank you!

[@AdmiralBeethoven]

Been drinking raw milk since I was a toddler, still do - just a drama that comes and goes

[@MikesDadvice]

So, can we possibly attribute some of the health problems with "raw" milk from bad practices in collection and storage, not just lack of pasteurization?

[@normalchannel2185]

There is a way, you just need to boil the milk and then keep it at a very cool temprature, this will make raw milk safe And that is pasturisation

[@juliamrtn4837]

Yes that’s why here in Germany you can buy raw milk, but only directly from the farm. And there are safety protocols

[@gracelovely3838]

FACTS DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS

[@Nat-rj4qc]

in Doctor Mike we trust

[@LynxyPie]

FACTS THO!!!!

[@hr_47]

Andi

[@FredPudha]

😊

[@Gideonbollard-s1o]

Yes

[@tygiovanni5314]

My mother died of comlications of bovine tuberculosis so it is a hard no for me. Pasteurization, vaccination, general higiénia is the way to go.

[@unitedhybrid187]

I feel formaldehyde was put into everything back then. If it's toxic, its good for you was the mentality back then

[@shori06]

Formaldehyde is still used. They put it in chicken feed to keep it from going bad.

[@WolvenSpectre]

I realized that in the mid 90's it was being used in several types of Frozen Vegetables. Once I realized I stopped buying brands that used it and a few years later it was banned.

[@fizz03]

It's like I always say. Sit down and eat a freaking yoghurt... It's better even when you don't consider that it's 800 times less likely to give you serious illnesses...

[@Zkuma]

24 seconds early!! RAHHHH I LEARN FROM YOU DR MIKE- UR THE REASON I WANNA BE A DOCTOR!!

[@Ghosts1129]

You got this.

[@KosmoAlx]

I'm romanian. Every summer break since I was 6 was at my grandparents. Every evening, we would stay in barn door to get an iron cup of fresh milk from one of my grandparents . But not always, in some days the rule was "we first make mamaliga (polenta) and boil the milk in what remains stuck(burned) on the walls of the pot used to make mamaliga. Funny thing, my grandparents were against sugar but always ad a pinch of salt to raw milk.

[@1990lietuva]

As an Eastern European Village boy. I been drinking Raw milk before it was cool ;) And we grew up to be big and strong (and kind :P). I know personal experience is not much, but I always enjoyed raw milk (milked 5 minutes ago - still warm) and I will keep enjoying it, but I understand the risks associated.

[@chukwuezeokoli4919]

I mean, Dr. Mike literally said that the issue with raw milk comes from transporting it long distances an producing it in urban production centers. Families on small farms milking their cows and drinking that milk are different.

[@Red-in1xe]

It's also generally safer to drink it immediately, rather than once it's been packaged and sitting on a shelf for who knows how long. Not that it's safe, but safer.

[@1990lietuva]

@ Fair point, but there are a bunch of other issues. I believe some tick born illnesses can be transferred from cow to human, and even some other lesser known diseases :( At least what I heard, but I am not a doctor, just semi-educated individual on the topic. But of course I am not drinking it because of benefits, I am drinking it because it's so yummy, seriously guys that have not drank milk that is basically straight from the cow are really missing out. Of course talking about Summer milk. It tastes wildly different on pasture used and season (mostly because feed is different). But that's all, I understand it's not a great idea, but again to clarify, I never cared about the benefits, it's purely because of taste.

[@jalami]

@@chukwuezeokoli4919 Yea I see this being the primary issue with it here. It doesn't seem to me that raw milk can be safely industrialized. So even if it were substantially better, it's not feasible at scale.

[@Red-in1xe]

@@1990lietuva yeah for sure, that's why I made sure to mention that it wasn't fully safe regardless. I wasn't entirely certain of the sorts of issues outside of bacteria growth over time were so thanks for expounding on it a little bit.

[@theTwilightSystem]

I didn't know what pasteurization is. It's just heating it to a certain temperature? These organic people are against that? I figured pasteurization added chemicals and that's what they're against, but no. Are they against heating up their meat too?

[@luodeligesi7238]

10:20 - politicians drink raw milk and get diarrhea Politicians: "nah, it definitely wasn't the raw milk. Doc is lying. I'm sure it was the covid vaccines"

[@Faustobellissimo]

Doctor Mike: "hygiene hypothesis good..." also Doctor Mike: "killing micro-organisms good..."

[@cyndrigaming]

Holy heck I havent seen Julian Smith in a hot minute lol

[@mageSjoy]

I didn't know this was a thing. The education in this country....

[@RaelinAyala]

Found out so much, thanks bro!

[@Meofalulu]

When I was little my older brother told me a story about a girl who drank raw milk and it made her bleed profusely from her eyes and fingernails. That scared me into never wanting to drink raw milk ever!

[@AZbluedot196]

My mother had to give me raw milk when I was a child. It was 1973 and she got it from the farmer down the street in the small town we lived in. When my son had the same issues with pasteurized milk, he got Lactaid! I would not buy raw milk.

[@MsPeabody1231]

I just don't drink milk and neither does my kid. No big deal as there is plenty of other food to eat.

[@LoFiAxolotl]

Raw milk does not have less lactose than pasteurized milk. You and your mother might just not be very intelligent people

[@OrateFratrez]

I appreciate your honest opinion, and I agree with the statement that industrialization caused a huge influx in sickness because of it. This isn't because of raw milk itself but because farmers weren't taking the time to thoroughly clean the machines, udders, pens, hands, etc. I use the share system and the farm we get it from does filter it to get out any impurities like dirt, and if there is any, what we'll call mud👀, found in it by the machines that they use they will refrain from giving people their shares. Its only happened twice out of the 4 years that we've been using them. Thank you for the good quality content!

[@erdbeerchencake995]

My Greek biology teacher told us about how he was in his village and his parents had raw goat milk. According to him it was the most disgusting thing he’d ever drunken.

[@LoFiAxolotl]

It is. Goat and Sheep milk is not something you would want to drink. Other than Cows and Horses most animal milk is not really consumable for humans.

[@erdbeerchencake995]

​@@LoFiAxolotl It's pretty common to drink goat milk in Greece, for whatever reason.

[@itoo4884]

I dont know how else to describe goat milk than "goatier". Not bad but I haven't had it raw

[@LoFiAxolotl]

@ I don't know what part of greece you're talking about... but not really no

[@TCtouchdown]

Love this video, but I have a weird experience with both raw and ultrafiltered milk. I grew up drinking 2% but then stopped after I got married because my wife is lactose intolerant. I eventually started drinking it again I had a really hard time digesting milk and it would upset my stomach. I then tried raw milk, and had zero issues or discomfort. I then tried ultrafiltered (Fairlife) and also had zero issues. But I still have problems whenever I drink regular 2%, 1%, etc. Not sure what the root of the issue is, but something is definitely different between regular, raw, and ultrafiltered milks.

[@elsie549]

Is water wet?

[@PROVOCATEURSK]

Water makes things wet.

[@shwetanshrathore]

Are you; You?

[@brendolbreadwar2671]

​@@PROVOCATEURSK you cannot make things wet if you are not wet.

[@brendolbreadwar2671]

Water molecules make things wet. Water is made of water molecules, so it is wet by default. It's like asking of a book is readable before it's opened, of course it's readable, there is always a title! 😂

[@fabianvidal2723]

Define wet

[@roberthemsley2]

Hi Dr Mike. Can you make a video on congenital heart decease for heart week?

[@ananasjuice7059]

Ayy julian smith.... loved that guy when i was a kid

[@Damiancontursi]

I'm from Argentina and as far as I know, even family farms don't just consume raw milk, they always boil it first. I always heard about how much "better" so I went to a farm and bought some, I really didn't like it, it was completely different from regular storebought milk. Even the smell I hated, so I really don't understand how these people can just swich up one an another, it's totally different. Appart from that, it's also known farm milk isn't wattered down, so the concentration of fat is quite different and that is usually a cause to why people get stomach aches from drinking it as regular milk. Imagine you have 1, 2 and 3% fat milks and they all taste quite different, then raw milk can go from 3,5% up to 5% so it will be quite "heavier" on the stomach. Also I believe how they measure studies has to be informed more openly because nowadays everyone can just "cheat" in how they take the data and not take into account several points, for example, raw milk cause diseases take into account if the milk was boiled before? what about refrigeration? what about the sanitary conditions on how people who drink raw milk live against the average? Another example on this measleading studies is one that was published recently about "red meat and how it's healthier to not consume it", then if you look at it, the "red meat" used was hotdogs and things of that kind, totally misleading.

[@KXkanimeoww]

Why would you drink this 🤢

[@TheTintedHalo]

The Malk clip is crazy. An absolute KZbin classic right there.

[@astrumcosmia]

TIL that raw milk is just straight from the cow, no? Zero pasteurization or anything.

[@Isredel11]

You could say “raw” milk is supposed to be unpasteurized milk. But as you can tell from a lot of the comments here, many people here described how they would heat/boil the “raw” milk after getting it from the cow…. Which is pasteurization.

[@falcontomto]

I learned about pasteurisation in primary school. Thought this is a common knowledge, turns out most adults are more forgetting than i wish to be.

[@claytonmiller2138]

There is also a difference between a rural person with a "rural microbiome" drinking raw milk vs the average city dweller who lives in a more sterile world drinking raw milk that is trucked in. I do drink raw milk but I am also active in the farm where it is produced, i cannot recommend it unilaterally to people whose exposure to dirt is limited to dust bunnies.

[@iimuffinsaur]

I think this is definitely part of it. If u have been drinking raw milk ur whole life ur probably kinda "immune" to what issues it can cause as compared to people who have only had pasterized their whole life.

[@LoFiAxolotl]

You should probably not talk about things you do not understand...

[@ED-ub8ei]

Do you understand farm life?​@@LoFiAxolotl

[@LoFiAxolotl]

@@iimuffinsaur Your immunsystem does not produce anti-bodies to any of the pathogens that would be bad from Raw Milk... which is the problem and why so many babies died from it before we pasteurized milk.... Sometimes... if you don't have any clue about the subject... it's best to just shut up

[@stevencranston91]

Me too. Drank it my whole life and have never had any issues.

[@sayanmullick7559]

The saddest part about the video is That there's no pe whoop😢

[@SheWhoWalksSilently]

Another benefit is pasteurized milk lasts a heck of a lot longer than raw milk. When my parents used to buy raw milk from the neighbor it used to only last maybe five days, not even a full week.

[@ED-ub8ei]

This is similar to pumped and refrigerated raw human milk.

[@carole8312]

Great video. Can you do a video on whether organic food is really better for our health?

[@mohnjayer]

I buy low temp pasteurized/non-homogenized milk from a health food store and it’s honestly awesome. Similar concept to raw milk in that it has more milk fat and is more “un-touched” BUT it also won’t give me food poisoning. A real win-win.

[@LoFiAxolotl]

no such thing as low temp pasteurized milk. Pasteurizing something is a very specific procedure done at a very specific temperature for a very specific time. You might just be too stupid though.

[@WolvenSpectre]

Dude you are drinking warm Raw Milk. YOU CANNOT LOWER THE TEMPERATURE OF PASTURIZATION. That is like saying you are taking a weaker antibiotic so it doesn't wreck your gut biome. Then it won't work for whatever reason you were taking it in the first place. My mother used to buy "Farm Cream" but the people who sold it to us showed me how they sold it in canning jars and put it in jars that were boiled to sterilize the jar and they then added the cream and sealed it. They took me aside and said that the heat in the jars raised the milk past pasteurization and then when they cooled down they stuck them in a fridge. They pointed out that the quality of the cream came from the amount of buttermilk used vs what she got in store. Later, not from me, my mother found out they were pasteurizing the cream and thought they had just started and it "wasn't the same" when it was exactly the same. We got into a big argument that "That wasn't Pasteurization" and I realized I wasn't going to win because she thought she was buying "Farm Fresh" cream like she had as a girl and she felt ripped off the farmer gave a damn about the people he sold his cream and milk to. The quality difference you are tasteing in the milk is because it isn't large vat highly processed. It has nothing to do with Pasteurization.

[@cowboy2006]

@@LoFiAxolotlactually you can pastuerize something at a lower temperature you just have to hold it over that temp for longer.

[@Karinahnava0112]

I LOVE DOCTOR MIKE!!!!! Best doctor I know ! He’s so funny AS SOON as I’m done with school I always turn to watching doctor mike over 12345 times ❤

[@Anne_FortyEight]

I dont care if people are doing this to themselves, but if a parent is giving their children raw milk they should be prosecuted

[@unwantedwolf8310]

I have been drinking raw milk since birth. Should i do something else but its fresh as it can be From our own farm

[@ED-ub8ei]

I've given my children raw milk straight from the farm. I think the difference is freshness. Are you also going to go after ppl who feed their babies formula or their kids cheetos? Lol

[@Anne_FortyEight]

@@unwantedwolf8310 I honestly think you should still pasteurize it, but i guess the odds of being contaminated is far lower because you consume it rather quick. My problem is with people living in urban areas actively searching for raw milk that is not fresh i guess

[@pandamilkshake]

Just get fresh milk, why drink the raw stuff? Fresh milk has been pasteurised but still keeps the nutrients of raw milk. Why are people like this? 😂

[@foxypb9491]

What about breast milk 😂😂😂

[@lechatbotte.]

Lol

[@Shiroroome]

Right, we should talk about why women aren’t producing much milk after having kids…Cuzz why resort to cows milk?

[@ED-ub8ei]

My children naturally weaned and drank RAW human milk 😱 for 2.5 years each.

[@lechatbotte.]

@ that’s as it should be.

[@romangreer2607]

I think that commercial companies should pasteurize their milk. Given the scale of at which they sale milk it’s much healthier for the consumer. However I personally own a farm and have dairy goats. We definitely pasteurize milk we use for cheese but for our dinking milk we love it raw. We also have a rigorous process to ensure it is very clean and free from bacteria. From cleaning the udders to multi stage filters to flash chilling. I by no means think everyone should drink raw milk but I personally love it. Awesome videos Dr. Mike love your content

[@AngelaVEdwards]

Nut milk _isn’t_ real milk. That’s a fact.

[@mariahthebee06]

Hey Dr. Mike! I love you, man! You got me to get off of my but and make a doctor's appointment for the first time in 10 years!

[@BionicMilkaholic]

Good for you!

[@HAMDAAlDhaheri-kr4ek]

Hiiiiiiiiii big fan of your content

[@jasperzatch610]

God I love your editor for the old reference to Julian Smith!!!!

[@casdenblanken8804]

Or maybe not drink a substance which purpose is to make a 40kg/90lb baby animal grow rapidly to become strong and mature to begin with. But I guess that’s too un-american to think

[@WeirdSmellyMan]

But i enjoy drinking milk. What's the issue here?

[@D_To_The_J]

And that's the sad thing about when an organization that has done alot of good, also does some corrupt things. It makes everything come under question and tarnishes years of work.

[@SB07143]

Here in Slovenia which is a small country in Europe there are a lot of farms almost everyone drinks raw milk, we rarely get seriously sick

[@lechatbotte.]

Do you go to the dairy to buy ? Most Americans don’t

[@LatvianVideo]

Same, when i was younger we owned cows and i used to drink raw still warm milk every time we got some. It was soooo tasty. Only 1 store milk has come close to how it tasted

[@SB07143]

@ wdym

[@SB07143]

@@LatvianVideo agree

[@joshngoozen]

Anecdotal at best. There also is the question of how far does the milk travel, what conditions is it kept under, is it small farms or big farms, etc.

[@TheFlyingFestoon]

This is the earliest I've been on a doctor mike video

[@vaibhavsangwan996]

I drink a litre of milk every day for last 20 years. It is a constant breakfast I never miss. Everyone in my life told me not to drink raw milk. Where do these people come from?

[@kathrynsamuelson1983]

They also added lead to add sweetness and hide sourness

[@KJDogluv]

No contraversy, it’s not safe unless heated to a proper temperature nothing more to say.

[@toseltreps1101]

ssshhh, let idiots renove themselves from the gene pool!

[@LoFiAxolotl]

Yeah the only controversy is how humans survived this long considering how stupid we are as a species

[@Mitchcok]

And this process is called pasteurization.

[@CheerfulChristian12]

Thank you Doctor Mike, I live in a state with herdsharing and was going to try it, but I think you’ve swayed me to reconsider. 😊

[@Fatima-c5y1r]

والله العظيم ماكتبت هاذا المناشده الا من الجوع سِالُتكِ بّالُلُُه انَ تْنَقًذَنَا قًبّلُ انَ نَمٌوَتْ مٌنَ شِدِتْ الُجْوَع انَتٌْخيَكِ انَيَ دٌِخلُةِ ْعلُى الُلُُه تْمٌ ْعلُيَكِ انَيَ فَيَ وَجُْهك انَـيَ اخـتْكِ انَـيَ اتْرَجْـاكِ اتْـوَسِـلُ الُـيَـكِ انَـقًـذَنَا لُـوَجُْـه الُـلُُـه. يَــشِــُهدِ الُــلُــُه يَاٌخـيَ انَ مٌنَ الُــصّــبّاحُ حُـتْا الُـانَ يَــحُــرَمٌ ْعـــلُيَـنَـا الاكل غير الماء ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' اخي اول كلامي انا اقسم بالله على كتاب الله اني لااكذب عليك ولا انصب ولا احتال اني بنت يمنيه من اليمن نازحين من انا واسرتي بيننا ایت الشهرب 20 الف يمني والان علينا 60 الف حق 3 شهور وصاحب البيت من الناس الي ماترحم والله يا اخي انه يجي كل يوم يبهدلنا ويتكلم علينا ويريد من البيت للشارع لانناماقدرنا ندفعله الأجار شافونا الجيران نبكي ورجعو تكلمو الجيران ومهلنالاخره الأسبوع معادفعنا له حلف يمين بالله هذا بيخرجنا إلى الشارع رحمه واحنا. بلادنا بسبب هذا الحرب ولانجد قوت يومنا وعايشين اناوامي واخوتي سفار والدنا متوفي الله يرحمه ومامعنا أحد في هذا الدنيا جاانبنا في هذه الظروف القاسيه اخوتي الصغار خرجو للشارع وشافو الجيران ياكلو واوقفو عند بابهم لجل يعطوهم ولو كسره خبز والله الذي له ملك السموات والارض انهم غلفو الباب وطردوهم ورجعو یبکو ایموتو من الجوع ما احد رحمهم وعطلة ردها لقمت عیش والان لوما احدنا ساعدنا في إيكيلو دقيق اقسم بالله انموت من الجوع فيا اخي انا دخيله على الله ثم عليك واريد منك المساعده لوجه الله انشدك بالله تحب الخير واتساعدني ولو ب 500 ريال يمني مع تراسلي واتساب على هذا الرقم 00967735950939 وتطلب اسم بطاقتي وترسلي ولاتتاخر وايعوضك الله بكل خير اخواني سغار شوف كيف حالتهم وساعدنا وأنقذنا قبل أن يطردونا في الشارع تتبهدل أو نموت من الجوع وانا واسرتي نسالك بالله لولك مقدره على مساعد لاتتاخر علينا وجزاك الله خيرا~~/////ااااا\\\ااررااااللاااا|||||=|||ااداااا🎉=🎉=🎉=🎉=🎉= 🎉=🎉=|||😭|||😭||||🙄[😯π😯÷🙄×😯×🙄×😯 😭×🙄なみさんのおしごとはなんですか?😭😭ﷺﷺﷺ😯😯🙄😯🙄😯..

[@Ikea_is_cool]

Same

[@canadianeskimogirl]

Yep...sure...that has everything to do with milk

[@TanjaKrajnc-h3g]

Doctor mike be speaking real facts😭🙏

[@izabelladybacki-xs7vq]

i’ve switch to raw milk like 3 years ago and never had any problems. i actually makes me feel lighter while the regular store bought milk didn’t make me feel good and felt very heavy idk how to describe it. to each their own tho

[@lechatbotte.]

Lol

[@googlesucks6029]

When I saw Joe Rogan endorse it, I immediately knew it's was bs

[@robintauber9994]

I'm also guessing that the confusion of the term "pastuization" in people who already have mistrust of pharmacology and food production makes it sound like something really complicated is added to tinker with a food that comes from a natural source. Messaging that the pasturing process is not adding mysterious chemical tinkering but just heating it up for a short time may alleviate the mistrust.

[@MuttonTheDragon]

Part of me wonders if the reason the debate even started is that schools will teach the “what,” in this case that ‘pasteurization kills germs,’ but not the “how and why.” So in a world where we are told to question everything, they question it because they were never given an answer in an environment where they could do the learning easily, be it lectures explaining how heat can easily kill single-cell organisms or with a science experiment of showing a sample of water with bacteria, heating the sample up hot enough to kill it, the showing the sample to the class under a microscope with the bacteria dead