Is DAIRY Scary?? Inflammation & Obesity Concerns - 2024

hi I'm dr. ken berry family physician and in this video we're going to discuss lots of facts and tidbits of knowledge about dairy it's very scary will it lead to inflammation and perhaps even obesity now if you haven't already done so please take one second and click the subscribe button down below this little video and click the little bell right beside it and choose all so that every time I have a bright idea like this you'll be one of the very first people to know now let's talk about dairy and if it's scary I'm going

to try to get several broad concepts and topics about dairy in this video to kind of give you a broader understanding and a just a an awareness of what dairy is where it comes from why we should or shouldn't drink or consume dairy products and how it reflects on your health how you can actually improve your health as studies are done watching this video so stick around to the end I think you're going to really enjoy the things we discuss first of all let's talk about the purpose of Dairy Milk in the mammalian species why

do mammals make milk why do infant mammals drink milk so that's the the first concept I want you to understand mammals are born very early on in their development process but most of us are defenseless or almost defenseless the moment were born and so a mother has to give her baby mammals something that's going to help it grow and gain weight and develop as quickly as is possible that is milk the one and only purpose of milk is to help a helpless young mammal gain weight and grow as fast as possible so I've actually told

patients in the past if you want to gain weight as quickly as you really can drink lots of the milk and we will talk about which dairy if you're trying to gain fat there's definitely a dairy that will help that and we'll talk about that later in this video every mammal on this planet as an infant can use dairy can use milk can drink milk and and can't digest it effortlessly and use it to grow and develop very quickly there is a window of milk usability for most mammals most mammals when we would consider them

to be an infant mammal they can drink as much milk as they can swallow and they can grow and develop and become stronger young mammals from that but there's a window after a certain age every mammal on the planet including human beings are not able to digest milk any longer and it's usually the sugar in milk and we'll talk about that more in a second there so yeah even you even and so over half of the population of human beings on this planet after a certain age and that age is somewhere between two and five

years of age they lose the ability to completely digest and completely use dairy or milk without certain side effects you may be one of these people some of these effects and side effects of drinking dairy past your milk ingestion window some of these symptoms are quite obvious you drink milk and you immediately have effects or side effects some of them are much more subtle and many people leave including many doctors don't know to blame it on the dairy and so that's why it becomes more of a complex issue of just dairy yes or no next

let's talk about what's actually in milk and milk is the most common form of dairy there are actually all three macronutrients in milk there are carbohydrates there is protein and there is fat you have all three in milk and they are blended at the perfect ratio of carbs to protein to fat to help a young mammal gain fat and gain weight as fast as is possible in nature the carbohydrates in milk are predominantly lactose which is a milk sugar all milk has this when you're a young developing that when you need some sugar like this

you need lactose there's no doubt about it but you need lactose that comes from a species specific milk so if you're drinking your own mother's milk or the milk of another mammal that is your species that's fine and so many human beings cannot tolerate cow milk or even goat milk or the milk of any other mammal but they can tolerate human milk just fine as long as they're in this window and that's because we have an enzyme called lactase that helps us break down the lactose into galactose and glucose and then our body can use

those now it's I have a theory that there are some of us and after we've passed the milk congestion window when we're older mammals we can't definitely can't digest the lactose and we may even have problems assimilating the galactose the next macronutrient in milk is protein as there's actually a variety of proteins in milk the most common two are casein and whey you've probably heard of those too there's actually over a hundred different proteins and amino acids in milk but these are the two ones we talk about most often a lot of people have not

necessarily an allergy to the proteins in wheat but they do react they have an inflammatory response somewhere in their body so for many people that's in the good a casein or the way they have they have a gut reaction and then that inflammation manifests in other places in the body for some people and we're going to contain this too talking about just humans now some humans when they ingest casein or way that has not been acted on by a microbe they can have skin inflammation they can have brain inflammation they can have all kinds of

different inflammation in their body that can be quite subtle and obtuse and not not and seemingly not be related to the dairy but it is in fact a Dairy inflammation or a dairy allergy but not necessarily to lactose and that's why many people seemingly can drink milk just fine but then a day or two later they'll have a migraine or they'll have a flare-up of their eggs a'mma or they'll have an irritable bowel flare not immediately but later a day or two later you can have joint inflammation from the proteins in milk many people don't

realize they have this and many doctors don't even know this is a possibility but it is absolutely a real thing and the final macronutrient in milk is fat there is quite a bit of fat in the whole milk which is the milk that you would drink straight from a mammal we can actually do things to Dairy whether liquid or solid forms of dairy to make it more or less fatty and that's actually a big deal in something that you really need to take into consideration before you consume the dairy most mammalian milk that we would

drink consists of about 65% saturated fat 30% monounsaturated fat and 5% polyunsaturated fats now let's go through all the dairy choices that you have at your supermarket and talk about them and kind of rank them from the absolute worst to the least bad or the best dairy products that you can consume there's a wide range and you know for the last few decades we've all been enamored with low-fat or fat-free and indeed that is the worst possible choice you can make in the grocery aisle if you pick a skim milk product or a fat-free dairy

product basically they've removed all the fat which is the least bad of the macronutrients in there and so all that can possibly be left is a lot of the milk sugar the lactose and proteins some and as I said earlier some some of us can seemingly digest the milk proteins without a lot of inflammation some of us absolutely not so skim milk or fat-free is the absolute worst whether we're talking about milk whether we're talking about cheese yogurt it doesn't matter if it's skim or fat-free then always left is the sugar and the protein and

so we slowly go up the milk spectrum from worse to less bad to ultimately probably good and so 1% dairy products are they have 1% milk at 99% sugar and proteins and so for most of us that's that's not going to be an option and plus it tastes terrible next is 2% milk and then whole milk which is the milk that would come straight from the cow or the goat or whatever mammal you happen to milk and that's going to be about three and a half to four percent note fat so that leaves 96 percent

sugar and 96 percent protein left half and half which you might put in your coffee some few people drink half and half is about 20% no fat so you've still got eighty percent left for the sugar and the protein then we come to heavy cream which a lot of us in the low-carb Akito carnivore community love because it tastes delicious it's 36 percent milk fat and many people are under the misconception that heavy cream is all fat absolutely not the case you still have 70 percent room last 65 70 percent room left for the protein

and the sugar for some of us heavy cream is a viable dairy option and so we need dairy that's 36 percent or higher milk fat probably is going to do okay for most of us at least at the beginning of our journey back to good health some of us and I'm one of these included found out that after a certain point I actually stalled on my fat loss and I still had quite a bit of inflammation in my joints and skin and other body parts from using even 36 percent milk fat dairy products it still

had too much of the lactose and it had too much of the potential inflammatory proteins many cheeses and many yogurts and kefir that you buy have been acted on by microbe and so this microbe consumed almost all if not all of the lactose but it also in the process some of its byproducts bit the protein molecule and so for many of us that makes formed dairy products like cheese yogurt kefir and other things like that cream cheese makes it less inflammatory for many of us some of us that it's a thirty-six percent or higher milk

fat and it's a formed solid like a yogurt kefir or cream cheese or another hard cheese it seems to not be very inflammatory for us at all some of us however may being included even the higher fat dairy products that are still inflammatory enough and insulin spiking enough for me that I noticed the difference and I do bear it better when I only stick to the fattiest end of the dairy spectrum now the next step up is butter and again many people mistakenly believe that butter is 100 percent milk fat it has nothing else that

is absolutely not true the average butter that you buy and the grocery is going to range anywhere from 70% to 82 percent milk fat so there are still there's you know there sometimes it's just water lip but there's always gonna be some of the protein solids left the casein in the way you just almost can't get it all out of butter just with the churning or the beating process and so if you're under the mistaken thought that butter is 100 percent fat and so there's no way it can be inflaming me yet you're still having

inflammatory symptoms somewhere in your body I'm sorry I'm sorry but it might be the butter because it's not 100% milkfat now the the best absolute macros you can get from dairy is G GA te or some people call this clarified butter and so you would beat her with the dairy into butter then you would take the butter in and it's one more simple step to clarify it or to form it into ghee this is 99 to 100 percent milk fat you've got rid of definitely all the lactose or the milk sugar you've also gotten rid

of virtually all of the inflammatory protein that would be left in dairy and so even if you have a severe milk allergy whether it's to the casein or the way over to the lactose ghee is a usable dairy option for almost all of us and as I said earlier it's got a beautiful breakdown of fats 65% saturated fat which is very good for your brain your nerves and other body parts 30% monounsaturated fat and about 5% polyunsaturated fat that's a great fat distribution for almost every human on the planet so sum up keep in mind

that when you are a small infant mammal you can drink milk just fine but it really needs to be species specific if you're a human you need to drink human milk if you're a cow you need to drink cow milk and so on some of us can tolerate cow's milk or goat's milk when were younger but almost all of us lose the ability to break down the lactose the milk sugar and milk at some age now for most people on the planet that's for me somewhere between 3 and 6 years of age you give or

take it's different for every person but some of us even Caucasians notice that as we get older in our twenties thirties forties are beyond we are less and less able to tolerate liquid milk you can get all the nutrition that you've been told as in milk from other excellent low low carbohydrate sources you don't have to use any dairy whatsoever after you are a child mammal or older now when you're an infant mammal you need milk there's no doubt about it drinking even cow's milk or go is infinitely better for your baby than the crap

garbage soy and corn solid formulas and infant formulas that you find on the market and toddler formulas now that trying to even branch out it and say that your toddler needs formula absolutely not true your baby needs milk of some kind preferably human milk now some of us can get by just fine on thirty six percent milk fat or higher dairy some of us need to be full fat light or 36 percent fat or higher and to have been acted on by a microbe to bend the protein molecules so therefore to make a cheese or

a yogurt or kefir some of us need the milk fat to be even higher upwards of seventy percent which you would find in butter at seventy to eighty percent that's the only dairy we can eat in any meaningful quantity without developing inflammation somewhere in our body and some very few of us probably less than one percent need 100 percent milk fat in ghee or clarified butter and that's the only place that we can rest on the dairy spectrum without risking inflammation somewhere in our body if you know someone who suffers from migraines from skin conditions

from psoriasis eczema to just itchy skin if you know someone that suffers from any gut symptom from also that colitis to Kremlin's to irritable bowel you need to share this video with them because very commonly a doctor will just attach a diagnosis to a gut symptom and say oh you've got Crohn's irritable bowel ulcerative colitis and not really know what they're talking about and that can absolutely be an allergic reaction to the protein in milk but plus or minus the reaction to the lactose in milk if you are not a Caucasian then you already know

what I'm talking about if you're Asian or African in descent and have darker colored skin you know you can't drink dairy you're gonna you're gonna pay in the restroom later on for that and that's actually we've been taught that that's a curse but that's actually probably a blessing because there are so many other subtle inflammations that we get from dairy that you don't have to suffer from but many Caucasians in the world think that and have been told that oh you can you can eat there you can drink there it's fine not true alright thank

you so much for sticking around to the end this is dr. Barry I'll see you next time