Thanks for the prompt. Here’s the latest installment of the Real Raw Milk Cure.

http://editor.nourishedmagazine.com.au/articles/milk-milk-glorious-milk-the-real-raw-milk-cure-week-3

Blessings

Joanne

Joanne I’ll be trying a week on milk in some weeks, I can certainly use the alkaline calcium elements to rebuild my teeth density which has taken a beaten after five years of breastfeeding. And if I can get lovely breasts as a bonus … well it’s worth trying. You see what you’ve started Joanne now the whole world is drinking milk. Including the O types. I was concerned about being an O blood type and milk but I think perhaps a distinction was not made between raw milk and pasterized milk. I’ll find out. Besides I’m less of a blood type diet follower as I realise that I can eat anything and get away with it as long I have lots of fruits and veges to go with it.

Amanda

I had 1 litre of full fat organic jersey milk
and 1 litre of organic jersey milk that has been soured
(with high protein level as some of the whey is drained) called Ymer - I have never seen it in other countries but Denmark

Well how did I feel?

Well I felt full but also a bit tired and manday eve I had a headache ( maybe lack of coffein from my green tea and dark choc)
- - yesterday afternoon I was craving chocolate ( I eat a bit of 85 % dark chcokc every week)
and salty food BIG time- so I decided that was my last day.

It gave me: 1387 calories a day ( about 800 less than I need to keep my weight- so it could be a easy diet for me….)
87 gram carbohydrates
70 gram fat
100 gram protein
so I´m not surprised I didnt feel hunger due to the pretty high proteinlevel
- but if I havnt had the product Ymer I would have had far less protein- might have been more hungry…

I would lack a lot of vitamins and minerals if I did it full time- especially vitamin C and iron ( and some of B vitamins and potassium and magnesium)
As well as fibres but I did stay regular
- funny enough my p… became ligher and smelled more like fermented milk- kind of breastmilk p…

Would I do it again ?
Maybe! - as part of a fast/ clean up…
but really I like all kinds of food too much
- so this morning when I had my yoghurt with flax and a fresh apple from the garden and a cup of green tea
-I felt I was in heaven..

I too have learned that I do very well on milk. I have been on what I’d call a “cheater’s milk diet” since early August. I’ve had a lot of milk but haven’t gone more than a week on milk exclusively. When I have had other food, it hasn’t been particularly planned but it’s been pretty healthy food.

I did do the old-fashioned milk cure about eighteen months ago for four weeks. I didn’t do complete bed rest, but was so tired on a few days that I was basically compelled to rest. I had improvement in my thyroid function after the diet and I seemed to be satisfied generally on less food. It is as if the diet filled some little deficiency I had yet to discover.

On the current diet I was inspired first to do a detox but then got so heavily involved in my work that I slipped here and there and it became an on-going cheater’s diet. I had intended to do the traditional milk cure without the complete rest, but just haven’t mustered the willpower to stay on it. When I am focused on my work, it is difficult for me to focus on anything else.

But I can report that probably in part due to the milk (and colostrum which I’ve added for the first time), I do believe I have set some personal records in my own work productivity. In addition to far too much contract work for the last two months, I have been building a business based on that work (but with a higher potential hourly rate) to support me as I work on my food work. :)

The cheater’s diet has also made it pretty clear to me that I am allergic to wheat or gluten. The “cheating” part of the diet has helped me nail that down, now I just need to focus on cheating on another food. Actual, serious gluten-free living is pretty darned difficult.

On the weight loss possibilities, in my experience, people with bigger weight issues need to keep the calories down on the milk cure to lose weight. For me and my father, there has been nothing magical about it to help with weight loss (though it does certainly reduce fluid retention). I need to stick to about 3/4 gallon a day to lose whereas following the Porter advice, I would consume about twice that amount. Consuming large quantities did cause me to gain a pound or two in a month on the milk cure, but with the thyroid working better, that was certainly a pound or two well-spent. I don’t know what the health effects would be of half that amount of milk for a month. I should try it some time. :)

Amanda