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Darius's avatar

I must agree about health advice on TikTok or any other "content creator hell hole" media. But there is a but.

I don't think raw milk is bad for you. Milk should be consumed as soon as possible or made into other dairy products.

Pasteurization is just another way for milk to stay as long on the shelves as possible.

It's good for business but how much nutritional value is in pasteurised milk? I don't think there is much.

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Loudt Darrow's avatar

You're right my friend, raw milk is not bad for you. If you drink it immediately, and right from the source, that is.

It is somewhere along milking, processing, storage, transportation, etc where raw milk gets contaminated with Campylobacter, Cryptosporidium, E. coli, Listeria, Brucella, Salmonella, or any other kind of pathogenic filth that makes it dangerous. That's why the FDA prefers people drinking the pasteurized version.

As to the nutritional impacts of pasteurization, there's been plenty of papers about this. The effect is very low-to-none. Really you're getting all the good stuff with none of the risks.

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