I don’t think milk is the main cause of Parkinson’s disease, no. But the correlation in this particular study makes sense to me. The Standard American Diet with it’s high proportion of sweeteners, grains especially wheat (gluten, phytates, lectins - all very hard on the body), vegetable oils, and soy products, and sky-high levels of Omega-6 fatty acids compared to Omega-3s, is incredibly inflammatory to the human body. Over time this constant low-grade inflammation leads to a higher incidence of many autoimmune and degenerative conditions. It’s been established that dairy products (much more so those containing the hard-to-digest compounds lactose and casein, such as milk and cheese - butter not so much) also trigger inflammation for some people, but this seems to depend much more on the other things they are eating. People with celiac disease, for example, caused by a systemic reaction to wheat gluten, are often dairy-interlorant as well. But after wheat products are removed and the gut has healed, many celiacs find that they are able to eat dairy products again with no ill effect.
Thank you! We’ve been biting our nails for eight years worrying about this.
Oh, good grief.
I find the whole “food is inflammatory” nonsense on the net to be sheer quackery. Nothing about it has been “established” except in the minds of people who want to believe. As we have established in many other threads, however, no foods are hard to digest (certainly not lactose and casein). If the body has the enzymes, which it almost always does, it will digest proteins, carbohydrates, and fats just fine. What the body does with them afterward may lead to a variety of conditions, but digestion itself is seldom the culprit. (And that includes food allergies.)
For anyone interested in science, there is a simple explanation why people with celiac disease are often lactose intolerant. (There is no such thing as dairy intolerance, under any spelling.) Lactase, the enzyme that digests the sugar lactose, is manufactured at the tips of the villi, the tiny projections that line the insides of the small intestines. Celiac disease literally damages the villi, cutting off lactase production. A healed intestine may start functioning properly again, and manufacturing lactase in sufficient quantities.
Nothing to do with inflammation or the digestibility of lactase or anything at all about dairy. Just the difference between a damaged intestine and a healthy one. Obviously, pathological conditions that damage the intestines (like celiac disease) are in a different category from normal digestion. Food in healthy intestines is not inflammatory, though the claim has one healthy effect: it is a marker that you can stop reading and go to a different website.
The one thing is that is clear in my experience, is that being neurotic leads to food allergies.
Food is made out of chemicals. Glucose, sucrose, sodium chloride, dihydrogen monoxide, and many many other chemicals. Whether or not a specific chemical is made by nature or by man has nothing to do with the safety of said chemical. Only properly done studies can tell if a particular chemical is harmful at the amounts a person would normally consume, and the degree of that harm.
I would love to know how being neurotic caused me to end up in the hospital when someone slipped a mushroom into my food, causing my body to have an anaphylactic reaction to something I couldn’t see or taste…
And by the way, the American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) has eliminated the category of “Neurosis”, reflecting a decision by the editors to provide descriptions of behavior as opposed to hidden psychological mechanisms as diagnostic criteria.
Maybe because you had food allergies? Of course there are people who really have allergies, and you showed the classic effects. But there is a much larger group of people who claim to have food allergies but do not. I don’t think real allergies follow fads. First everyone had a problem with sugar then yeast, then tomatoes, then dairy, now it’s gluten.
Somehow the world managed to limp along with us eating cereal and milk for breakfast, but now it’s poison.There are expert diagnosticians who do things like put a potential allergen in your hand and then see how hard it is to push it down. This is nutty stuff.
More here.
Yes, but you said that neurosis leads to allergies, when it seems the data says that neurosis leads to people mistakenly thinking they have allergies. You can see how the former might seem nonsensical to a real allergy sufferer. Heck, if you use a certain definition of cause (the one that says it is the sole cause), it could seem factually incorrect.
I have never understood why people want to come up with other tests for allergies. I could understand for a quick home test that needs to be followed up by a doctor, but it otherwise seems really stupid. We already have an allergy test that is quite accurate.
And all of this isn’t helped by the conflation in popular society of intolerance, malabsorption, and allergies. New discoveries of the first two do happen–usually due to something that was previously overlooked. But the symptoms of allergies are pretty well defined, so only extremely rare allergies could have possibly escaped notice. And if it’s an extremely rare allergy, why would it suddenly be a fad?
I don’t know the answers to any of these questions. Now I feel all inadequate and stuff.
I’m going back to bed.
One thing you can be certain of: If you stop eating entirely, right now, you will never be in danger of developing Parkinson’s disease.