Why Do Milk Drinkers Live Shorter Lives on Average?

Galactose, a breakdown product of the milk sugar lactose, is used by scientists to accelerate aging in lab animals. How might we reduce the risk of premature death from dairy consumption?

The videos I mentioned are:
• How Well Do Medicines Like Fosamax Work to Treat Osteoporosis? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-well-do-medicines-life-fosamax-work-to-treat-osteoporosis)
• Is Milk Good for Our Bones? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-milk-good-for-our-bones/)
• Are Calcium Supplements Safe? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-calcium-supplements-safe/)<br />
You can also try switching to soy milk. Check out Is Soy Milk the Most Nutritious Non-Dairy Milk? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-soy-milk-the-most-nutritious-non-dairy-milk).

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67 Risposte a “Why Do Milk Drinkers Live Shorter Lives on Average?”

  1. OK here is my honest opinion. Firstly injecting galactose or sugar into your blood stream is not going to be the same as drinking milk; we know the food matrix matters. Secondly you are going to get adverse effects from injecting sugar into your blood stream of any sort; if you do it with fructose you will end up with liver dysfunction while if you do it with glucose you likely encourage insulin resistance; this doesn't mean that sugar or their precusors should be completely avoided; eating loads of fruit doesn't cause liver cirosis while eating high fructose corn syrup likely does. Secondly you have to look at the evidence basis in full; there are plenty of studies that show benefits of milk consumption even in all cause mortality studies; I know you will be tempted to dismiss many as 'conflict of interest' but that kind of feels to me like an easy way out if I'm honest. Here is a recent review that shows all cause morality is asociated with decreased all cause mortality (https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12967-023-03980-4) largelly as a result of positive effects on CVD which may outweigh, for example, increased risk in certain cancers (which may preferencially also affect certain subgroups; partially explaining different results from different studies). Having read the full body of evidence milk consumption in moderation seems to have a mix of positive and negitive effects and largelly comes out neutral (unlike cream or butter) while fermented dairy (especially yogurt and kefir) comes out as unequivocally being positive. As an aside, saturated fat in milk is complicated; we know that saturated fat is linked to increased mortality by increasing LDL cholestorl as the primary mechanism BUT despite high fat milk having the same lipid profile as butter or cream it does not have the same cholesterol raising effect (obviously after first accounting for the overall higher fat percentage in butter) indicating that the complicated liquid food matrix of milk (this also applies to yogurt and kefir) has an impact that eating the fat directly does not; milk does contain a high amount of short chain fatty acids which may be even higher when slowly processed by the gut biome that have positive impacts on blood serum LDL; seemingly this mitigates the impact of the palmitic acid in a way that butter or cream does not.

  2. Sir in this study having high consumption of yogurt and fermented milk has hazard ratio of .8 .means milk products shows better result.

  3. What about people who have eliminated dairy from their diet? Have there been any studies shown a reversal of effects (similar to people who stop smoking have similar risks as non smokers after 10 years of smoking)?

  4. One serving of dairy per day is acceptable.
    Jim Arrington, 90, Guinness world record oldest bodybuilder eats daily, cottage cheese, beef, chicken and fish, also has raw salads with each meal, consumes about 1 liter of olive oil per week and has moderate carb intake. Herbert P. Douglass Olympic Medalist, age 101, favorite foods are ham, spinach, macaroni, eggs, milk, Italian bread. Dr. Fred Kummerow age 102, consumes dairy every day, Leita Hayden age 103, drank milk or cream every day and always did lots of exercise, Yukichi Chuganji age 114, He didn't like to eat vegetables, but liked to eat beef and pork. He only consumed alcohol in moderate amounts and drank milk every day, Ebby Halliday age 104, likes farm foods and lots of milk but never any junk food, Filomena Taipe Mendoza age 117, likes potatoes, goat meat, sheep milk, goat cheese and beans and never any junk foods, Dr. Zheng Ji age 110, for breakfast he eats 1 egg, 250 ml of milk and oatmeal, and two slices of bread; for lunch, he eats meat and vegetables, with a bowl of soup before meals; dinner is mostly porridge, Guinness World record highest IQ Marilyn vos Savant 5’8” 125 lbs favorite foods are burgers, fish, vegetables, potatoes plus bread with butter, Louise Levy age 112, eats yogurt everyday for lunch, Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara age 105, drinks one glass of milk with one tablespoon of olive oil every day, Colette Maze age 109, a pianist ate 3 eggs per day and brie cheese, Manohar Aich, age 104, 1952 Mr. Universe, he credited his good health with a simple diet of milk, fruits and vegetables along with rice, lentils and fish, Dr. Bessie Delany age 104, the second black woman licensed to practice dentistry in New York State and Sadie Delany age 109 the 1st African American to teach domestic science in the NY public schools, eats every day an egg, fruit and oatmeal, cod liver oil, chicken or beef, vegetables and a big vanilla milkshake.

  5. My mom lived to 97 drinking full fat milk daily. My father would have but alcohol cut him short at 91. We're Spanish. Is there a genetic component? We have longevity genes and milk doesn't seem to hurt anyone in my family. I myself don't drink it, don't like the nasal drip.

  6. I drank a ton of milk growing up, but it was one of the foods that made me outrageously nauseous during my first pregnancy at 23. I was never able to drink milk after that. Lucky me, I guess.

  7. I went vegan in January. Before I went vegan, I used to suffer from terrible muscle pain, tightness and inflammation for thirty years. After I cut out all animal products, 95% pain, tightness, inflammation GONE, and my chronic hemorrhoidal symptoms haven’t flared up since I’m pretty sure it was the dairy. I feel awesome and normal!

  8. Yay Canada! I take it dairy is included in the group "animal based foods" and that dropping your intake of them to less than 10% of dietary calorie intake vastly reduces the risk.

  9. I gotta wonder how much long term damage I did to myself from following the herd for so long. Thank goodness I stopped eating animal products 12 years ago. I just wish I had known decades sooner 😮

  10. My grandmother drink milk anf lived 86 years.. This all is such a BS they just want to people go insane.. All mefical scainst is such is bs.. And they are mostly bad people who only think on money and not on lives

  11. Canada food guide still has "protein foods" including "fish, shellfish, eggs, poultry, lean red meat including wild game, lower fat milk, lower fat yogurts, lower fat kefir, and cheeses lower in fat and sodium."

  12. This is always an interesting topic for me. I tend to agree we shouldn't be drinking another mammals milk intended for its children as what "good" could possibly result from that……that being said, I do think that perhaps drinking this stuff in your youth "might" be okay, but at some point, its time to go cold turkey from it as I've seen many people who simply become lactose intolerant and get bloated and have other side effects which eventually lead them to stop drinking milk. I also think that it is the fat in the milk that is most harmful to us and that consuming low fat or fat free dairy, although, not ideal, is still a "much" better option for one's health…..finally, the most interest aspect of this is that many of the world's oldest humans have been known and shown to have consumed or were still consuming yogurt as part of their diet…….just saying…..so I believe he refers to that in calling it fermented dairy in this vid and says that its not as harmful as whole milk is……..

  13. Well done to Canada. Seems like they have a culture of having a relatively clear and logical thinking government – when compared to other countries.

  14. You can't prove that milk drinkers die younger.
    What else did those milk drinkers consume in their daily lives?
    If milk drinkers lived a healthy lifestyle then what would happen.

  15. Please remember milk not equals dairy products. So mixture of different perspectives was used in the video, not giving clear recommendations regarding dairy products subtypes, which vary. Regards

  16. Up to two weeks ago I used to drink 8oz of black coffee mixed with 8oz of full fat milk, frozen into a slush – everyday as an afternoon treat. Also my hot a.m daily black coffee with full fat milk was a regular routine. I honestly didn't realize how much sugar is in milk. Nor did I know how cancerous (especially breast cancer) milk is. So I stopped drinking it but will confess I miss it. But I've also discovered I like just plain black coffee hot and chilled. No more dairy products period. Not even cheese.

  17. Interesting. I’ve heard of many benefits from drinking camel’s milk though. I know it’s expensive, but people swear by it to improve gut health and even treat autism. It actually serves as an antioxidant.

  18. Thanks a lot. No Milk or diary, nor animal bodies or secretions, nor pharmacutical drugs nor supplements nor sugar oil salt . Eat only whole plants. Only drink water. God bless!

  19. When I was a child I realised that I’m not a baby cow so why am I drinking the milk of another animal. Once you realise that it’s easy to give up dairy.

  20. When I went from vegetarian to vegan, I stopped getting yeast infections. It has nothing to do with any of the content in this vid, but it's definitely a fantastic benefit of quitting dairy. I used to get frequent yeast infections and they were miserable.

  21. i'm guessing something to do with arteiosclerosis/ hardening of arteries/heart disease? Very glad i never drank cow's milk even as a child…i was the goofy kid who wouldn't even put it in my cereal! Butter has never appealed either!
    Cheese and yogurt were my vices when i ate dairy. But once i learned that it was causing my cystic acne in my late 20's, i quit dairy and have stayed that way nearly two decades. It's also WAY easier to maintain your weight with far less exercise or calorie restricting!

  22. I am not sure I am reading the studies correctly but it looked like the higher mortality was related to full fat milk? Most people are consuming skim milk. I have osteoporosis. I have given up cow’s milk and have replaced it with soy milk. ( I’m 4 weeks into a whole food plant based diet).I hope I’m doing the right thing.

  23. I'm lactose intolerant, so I stopped drinking cow's milk for almost 2 decades. I drink soymilk for cereal. However, I did consume cheese and butter. I was already aware of the high amount of saturated fat, trans fat, and cholesterol in dairy, but I didn't know about the galactose potentially enhancing biological aging in humans. All the more reason to remove it from one's diet.

  24. Another anecdote: Asian parents in law in their 60s started drinking one glass of dairy for the first time in their lives every day after someone in their church group said it was essential for health and bone health. A month later mother in law stops doing the laundry because her knees have made it unbearable for her to use the stairs. We point out the only thing changed was the sudden dairy. After a year they relent and start to space out the health elixir and both of their knees start to improve. Eventuality they stopped altogether and have not complained of arthritis for years since.

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