Raw Milk Benefits

It is no secret that raw milk is packed with goodness. Multiple studies, as well as anecdotes from our own customers, have correlated raw milk consumption with a variety of nutritional and health benefits. At Hook & Son, our cows are grass-fed, farmed organically and extensively, and the milk produced in hygienic conditions to maximise these amazing benefits.

Milk straight from the cow is packed full of beneficial bacteria, proteins and enzymes that serve a multitude of functions throughout the human body. When you are born, for example, raw milk is the only thing you're given, so this has to be responsible for not only sustaining you, but also growing your muscles, bones and organs, as well as building your immune system to fight infection. These proteins, enzymes and bacteria are destroyed by pasteurisation, meaning that pasteurised milk contains a lot of dead bacteria.

On this page we make many references to The Milk Cure, a 1929 article by Dr Crewe of the Mayo Clinic, Minnosota, where raw milk was used to treat patients with a variety of ailments.

Disclaimer: We at Hook & Son are not qualified to give out medical advice and though we quote great health benefits, please consider anything you read on our website, and other websites we link to, to be information only. Before modifying your diet or health practices in any way, always seek out and consult with an enlightened medical professional.

Drinking raw milk could reduce children's risk of suffering allergy-related conditions such as eczema and hay fever. This seems to be the main medical reason for people wanting raw milk today. Milk straight from the cow is full of bacteria. These all get killed by pasteurisation, resulting in pasteurised milk containing lots of dead bacteria. Is it true that as these dead bacteria decompose and breakdown in pasteurized milk they release histamine that can cause eczema? We have lots of customers that have told us that within three weeks of having our raw milk, their eczema has gone.

From 'The Milk Cure': Crewe spoke of the “worst case of psoriasis” he’d ever seen: “This boy was literally covered from head to foot with scales. We put him on a milk diet and in less than a month he had a skin like a baby’s.”
Crewe said he even had a number of patients who used the raw milk fast as a beauty treatment: “The tissues become firmer and the general appearance is markedly improved ... It is well known that there is no time in the life of practically any mammal, but especially of the human, when the body is so beautiful and perfect as during the period when milk is the only food,” Crewe writes.

One of the major raw milk drinking advantages is that it contains the beneficial bacteria both in terms of gut health and fighting infection, which otherwise get destroyed when the milk undergoes pasteurisation process.

Raw milk contains multiple, redundant systems of bioactive components that can reduce or eliminate populations of pathogenic bacteria. One of our customers has a child who had a lump caused by bad bacteria that antibiotics wouldn’t clear up. Their consultant suggested raw milk, as part of the child’s diet, and within three months, the infection had gone.

Studies in Europe have correlated children's consumption of raw milk with decreased rates of allergies, fevers, ear infections, and respiratory conditions such as asthma.

British medical journal from 1823 'The Lancet' reported that resistance to tuberculosis increased in children fed raw milk instead of pasteurised."

From 'The Milk Cure': Crewe received a letter from a soldier quarantined in a government hospital with tuberculosis. He’d heard about Crewe’s method from a former patient and was doing so well on it he’d inspired several other patients in the ward to try it. “The patients had to buy their own milk and received no encouragement from the hospital authorities,” he said.

Milk has sugar for energy in the form of lactose (80% of the carbohydrate in milk) which, studies have found, does much less damage than glucose to teeth. Our milk also contains A2 casein which is a phosphoprotein and considered to be a protective factor in teeth health to prevent caries. It does this by it’s ability to concentrate calcium and phosphorus in the plaque with the effect of reducing some of the plaque bacteria. Raw milk serves as one of the best sources for calcium consumption. Furthermore, when milk is from organic grass-fed cows, which is usually the case with certified raw milk, the calcium in the milk is of the highest quality. That means your body will be able to make the most use of it to produce strong teeth and bones.

From 'The Milk Cure': “Striking results are seen in diseases of the heart and kidneys and high blood pressure. Patients with cardiac disease respond splendidly without medication.”
“One patient with very advanced cardiac and nephritic disease lost over thirty pounds of edema in six weeks. One would expect the large quantities of fluid would increase the edema but the above experience has been repeated many times in lesser degrees.”
“One patient reduced from 325 pounds to 284 in two weeks, on four quarts of milk a day, while her blood pressure was reduced from 220 to 170.”

Steve had his cholesterol tested in 2011. His score was 6 which is slightly high. The average cholesterol score for a person in the UK is 5.7, and normal is considered to be 5.2 or less. So Steve’s was a bit high. The average person in the UK within there whole cholesterol score, has a breakdown of two thirds bad cholesterol, and one third good. So with Steve’s score of 6, you would expect there to be 4 bad units , and 2 good. However, Steve’s cholesterol was the complete opposite, 4 good, and 2 bad! The consultant couldn’t understand it.

However, when Steve told him that he had always drunk raw milk, the consultant said that that must be the reason, and he didn’t need to prescribe statins.

Thinking about this, is it right that cholesterol in raw milk is in its natural state, and the body uses it, whereas once milk is pasteurised, is the cholesterol physically altered into a form the body can’t handle, causing cholesterol problems in the blood?

For more on cholesterol, click here