Doctor Mike Is Wrong About Raw Milk @DoctorMike

Watch on YouTube · 2025-02-17 · 28 min

0:00 Hey guys, as requested, I'm gonna be reviewing a video by Dr. Mike. The surprising truth about raw milk.

[video] 0:06 People love milk. Pour me a glass of milk! I get it. It has minerals, vitamins, protein.

0:13 It has every nutrient as far as it has been studied. It's the first food that we get. Obviously, we enjoy drinking it.

[video] 0:22 There's actually so many options for milk in the aisle.

0:25 Yeah, but these new options are not even milk. Almond milk, soy, that's nothing to do with milk.

[video] 0:31 The dairy industry has begun to complain that nut milk isn't real milk, but I...

0:36 Well, yeah, because it isn't milk by any definition of the word. Really, it's a scam, if not even more than that. Because realistically, if you buy almond, so-called milk, and you actually believe that you can get what you can get out of milk from that, then you are being scammed, really severely lied to, and really you can call it dangerous.

[video] 1:03 Yeah, but raw milk is just milk.

1:19 It's strange to call raw meat meat which has not been cooked, when in reality it's just meat. It's the natural state that it's in. It's the same with milk. Raw milk is just normal milk. It's what you got as a baby. It's what all the other animals get. There's nothing bad inside of it. Except, of course, if the animals aren't healthy. He will probably talk about that.

[video] 1:45 What is raw milk?

1:47 It's milk that has... Man, that we even have to ask this question today, what is raw milk? It's so stupid. That already shows you where we are at in this civilization. ...hasn't been pasteurized, meaning it hasn't gone through the heat... Yeah, that was all of the milk on the surf up until pretty much 100 years ago. Yeah. There were some forms of cooking the milk before that, but it was so unheard of. In Europe, really up until the 40s, 50s, so not even 100 years ago, everybody drank raw milk. And by everybody, I mean over 90% of people.

[video] 2:24 Yes, and this is something that still has to be proven.

2:33 I've linked this video many times, but I will link it again. I have a whole video about bacteria, parasites and all of that. You can watch that and then make up your mind, research it even more.

[video] 2:44 Cow, unprocessed and unfiltered. Advocates say it's more natural and therefore more nutritious than pasteurized milk.

2:51 Well, yes, it is more nutritious, obviously, because heat kills chemicals, the nutrients.

[video] 2:57 But is it really better for you to cover the entire truth?

3:00 Well, if it's more natural, if it has more nutrients, then it's obviously better. How can a more nutritious food not be better for you? I wonder what he will come up with now.

[video] 3:14 Truth behind raw milk. We need to look at how humans started consuming milk in the first place. Milk has been part of the human diet for thousands of years, ever since people domesticated it.

3:22 Yes, in some places on Earth. In others, people never used to drink it.

[video] 3:27 cows and other livestock back then milk was consumed fresh straight from the farm it was an important source of nutrition for rural communities but as cities grew during the industrial era milk production changed and not in a good way actually in the 1800s milk turned into a full-on public health threat it was being shipped over longer distances and produced in increasingly dirtier urban environments these

3:44 Yes, exactly. Dirtier, which in this case could actually be the right term, because the animals were living in their own feces, they were getting sick, being fed bad food, and that's why the milk was also contaminated. there were actual toxins inside of the milk and that's why people were starting to get sick. There's whole documentaries about this and why they came up with pasteurization, even though I believe that there's more to it. When you look at who actually invented pasteurization, you will see really where it comes from, what the idea is behind it.

[video] 4:27 Changes led to outbreaks of deadly diseases like bovine tuberculosis, typhoid fever, and diphtheria. These illnesses weren't mild either. They were often fatal, especially for children and infants. Producers tried to preserve milk by adding formaldehyde to it. Formaldehyde, the same chemical we use to embalm corpses. Not surprisingly, it didn't solve the problem as it didn't kill enough bacteria and kids kept getting sick.

4:46 That is pretty funny that he mentions it because it's also added to another thing which Dr. Mike says is... I don't even know what to say here.

5:00 It's good to use it, let's just say. I'm not even gonna get into any details. I'm pretty sure that you know what I mean. But then it's fine. When you use that, then it's always fine. But outside of it, it's bad for you. And I love this, what can you even call it? Hypocrisy double standard or whatever.

[video] 5:19 Fortunately, a solution came in the form of pasteurization. A process invented in 1864 by Louis Pasteur, originally creating it to sanitize wine. In the pasteurizer, the milk is heated to exactly 161 degrees for just 15 seconds, and then is quickly cooled to about 35 degrees. At first, doctors worried that heating milk would destroy its nutrients, but when unpasteurized milk kept killing babies, the medical community fully came around.

5:38 Well, yeah, obviously it kills the nutrients. Wasn't there an experiment, maybe somebody can link it in the comments, where baby cows, wheel, were given pasteurized milk and they died from it. And that's how bad it is. A baby can essentially not even survive on it. If you would right away, from birth, try to give a baby pasteurized milk, depending on how much you heat it, but if you really heat it up, There's way too little nutrients left, not even enough for an animal to survive, so it really is very dangerous to do that. Pasteurized milk should never be seen as actual food that you can really survive off. You can for sure get something out of it, and that will always depend on how much it has been pasteurized.

[video] 6:23 Actually, in New York City, pasteurization laws cut the infant mortality rate dramatically.

6:29 Yes, if you were feeding the babies this kind of milk, which I talked about before, from these very sick animals, which were full of poisons, then of course it would help because heating up any kind of food neutralizes the poisons. That's why nowadays you can buy factory farmed meat, absolute garbage, the fat is super toxic. If you eat it raw, you get diarrhea, you may even throw up or get really severe food poisoning. You may even be hospitalized if you eat factory farmed organs such as liver. That's how toxic these animals are. And if you would drink milk out of this poisonous, toxic animal, then you would of course also get sick. So there's no surprise at all that this helped. It's just what heat does. It's just that heat destroys everything. Heat doesn't differentiate between toxins or nutrients. It just kills everything off, and then you have something left over in the end.

7:28 Even if you cook toxic fat, the fat will still cause slight discomfort in your gut because it's still slightly toxic. It's just not as toxic anymore, depending on how much you cook it. And if you would pasteurize at a very low temperature for one second, nothing would happen. If you would drink poisonous contaminated milk, then you would still, of course, get poisoned, obviously.

[video] 7:54 From 240 deaths per 1,000 births in 1891 to just 71 deaths per thousand in...

8:02 Yeah, but why did they not get food poisoning from their mother's milk? Because the mother did not live under such conditions, right? Otherwise, we should start pasteurizing human milk also when we give it to our babies. And crazily enough, believe it or not, there are actually women who do that. And the babies get really, really sick. I don't know how, but somehow they believe that they should pump their milk using a pump and then boil it and then give it to the baby. This is actually happening really since the 80s, 90s kind of. Women got that brainwashed that they thought that giving their own milk to their babies is wrong.

[video] 8:50 1921. By the 1920s, pasteurized milk was the norm. The federal government established a gold standard for how milk should be pasteurized, stored, shipped, and distributed. This was called the Grade A Pasteurized Milk Ordinance. That's why on groceries...

9:03 It was really, in all of the history of humanity, in the top three of the biggest mistakes we ever did. Even though it actually wasn't a mistake when you look into it, but on the outside that's how it seems like. Unbelievable that we are at this point.

[video] 9:22 on the back of milk cartons, you see it says grade A on it. But this wasn't a mandatory policy. Local and state governments could choose not to adopt it. Most states, however, did go on to pass laws about milk pasteurization, even fully banning the sale of unpasteurized milk. The first and only federal pasteurization law was passed in 1980.

9:35 Yeah, that's pretty interesting. I think that there's also some stupidity simply involved. It's not as if everybody was in on some kind of plan. They just didn't even think about having better conditions, food and everything for the animals, so that you have healthy animals with healthy milk. Now instead they said, let's keep creating the same kind of bad milk, but let's pasteurize it and then try to neutralize and destroy the toxins. But along, of course, with the toxins you destroy the nutrients.

[video] 10:05 And it banned all interstate sales of unpasteurized milk. That means a farm can't produce raw milk in one state and then ship it to another for it to be sold. But remember, all of these pasteurization laws that we're talking about are about selling it, not drinking it. It's always been legal to consume raw milk anywhere in the country. With the lack of access, raw milk was pushed to the fringe for most of the 20th century, but it has made a huge comeback in recent years. The organic and natural food movements of the 2000s helped make it popular, and today raw milk sales are...

10:28 Supposedly this milk, which you just saw from California, the cows are fed canola, actual flowers, which is obviously not what they are naturally supposed to eat, at least not in such quantities. Here and there, maybe some they would eat just because they don't really care what they are eating, but they want to eat grass, green kind of plants for the most part. It does make the milk slightly

10:59 Not necessarily unhealthy, it's just not optimally healthy, just so you know.

[video] 11:03 Absolutely sorry. In 2019, according to the FDA, 4.4% of Americans said they'd consumed raw milk in the last year.

11:10 4.4, that's nothing, man. Yeah, it sounds like a lot, but really? I don't know.

[video] 11:18 That number is almost certainly bigger today since the raw milk movement has really picked up steam within the last two years. Weekly sales of raw milk increased by 21% just last year.

[video] 11:28 Others that banned the sale of raw milk still even allow what's known as herd shares. That means even if raw milk can't be sold commercially, state residents can buy shared ownership in a cow or a herd of cows and then get a portion of whatever raw milk is produced that way.

11:40 Another- I think that that's what people in Canada do, as far as I know.

[video] 11:45 Weird tactic, I find kind of shady, that raw milk producers use to bypass state laws is to sell raw milk labeled as pet food.

11:51 But why is everyone- Yeah, I remember getting that in Florida. Yeah, who cares? Whatever.

[video] 11:58 going through all that trouble just to access raw milk. Well, advocates believe it's healthier, claiming it has more probiotics, enzymes, and nutrients than pasteurized milk. Some even say it can cure lactose intolerance, asthma, and chronic diseases like osteoporosis.

12:12 It can cure a lot of diseases, obviously, because People don't consume any raw foods anymore. If you've been drinking pasteurized milk and you switch to raw milk, it will just taste better, you will feel better, but it's just milk. It's not as if... It's the same as going from well-done meat to raw meat, because the texture is so much different than everything, whereas there you're just drinking this raw white liquid, which is hard to differentiate from the pasteurized white liquid.

[video] 12:43 Blame pasteurized milk for modern health problems like obesity and argue raw milk is more natural and better for digestion.

12:50 What do you mean natural? It's literally natural because it comes out of the animal. What do you mean, man? Why does he put it in quotes?

13:03 What the hell? It's just the natural state of the milk.

[video] 13:07 Where is all this positive talk about raw milk actually coming from? Well, it started with research out of Switzerland, which showed that there may be a connection to children raised on a farm drinking raw milk and the development of healthier immune systems. This farm effect is actually incredibly interesting, as it was backed up by future studies conducted all across Europe and the US. These children that were raised on farms were truly found to have lower rates of allergies and asthma. It's speculated that their immune...

13:27 Well, yeah, but that's also because they eat better food in general. If they drink raw milk, then great. In a city you grow up eating garbage, you're surrounded by toxins everywhere, even in the air. They are everywhere, but a lot less if you grow up on a farm.

13:57 Yeah, because these are made out of fat and children grow up drinking pasteurized milk, which is not gonna have a lot left. And even the fat that you do get, it's pasteurized, the molecules change. What you can actually get out of pasteurized milk is still a mystery today, it hasn't been studied. Whatever you find in there doesn't mean that you will actually get that, because it all changes chemically, of course, from the heat.

14:27 Homogenization, of course, also. And who knows what else they do to the milk today.

14:34 Obviously, the immune system is going to suffer, seeing as you can't even produce immune cells. The meat that you get is also lean, super overcooked anyway. It's absolutely no surprise. That's why, again, as I say, seeing as most people are not going to start eating raw meat and fat, organs, Drinking raw milk, giving it to your children is a great idea then, because it's just much easier.

[video] 15:00 Have some non-specific bioactive molecules that may subtly play a role in immune development. Also, farm children develop gut microbiomes, that's the bacteria in your gut, that produce more butyrate. It's a metabolite that's been linked to reduced asthma risk. It's important to note these benefits were only seen with very early exposure, either in utero.

15:18 But that again has to do with fat. I wonder if he doesn't understand it or he doesn't want to mention it.

[video] 15:26 There are legitimate dangers to consuming raw milk, so let's touch on those. Raw milk is significantly more dangerous to consume than pasteurized milk. It's 840 times more likely to cause significant illness.

15:39 What? 840 times? I'm never drinking raw milk again. What the fuck, man? Oh, my God. Oh, I think I got really lucky that I didn't get sick yet. 840 times, oh my God.

[video] 15:56 1998 and 2018, raw milk caused over 2,600 illnesses, 228 hospitalizations, and three deaths.

16:04 Wow. Oh my God. In 20 years, 228 hospitalizations. Wow.

16:14 Oh, let me see if I can find it, because I know that spinach causes pretty much the most food poisoning on Earth. I can't find the exact numbers right now. Here it says that it caused food poisoning outbreaks. Spinach, cabbage, and this must be very, very high amounts. Perfect, I think that I found it between 1973 and 2012.

16:42 During the studies, these vegetable associated outbreaks and over a thousand hospitalizations. Oh, but then why do you say that we should eat vegetables in all of your videos? Then they are dangerous. Why do we eat them? 19 deaths? Well, then no more vegetables. Let's just go by your logic.

[video] 17:05 Recent outbreaks have involved E. coli, salmonella, listeria, and even...

17:10 Yes, but as you will see in my video, it's not as if they can actually prove in any way that these specific bacteria actually cause disease. What they mean is that they have been found in the places where people get food poisoning in the sense that you have food poisoning, they do a stool test, for example, and you have a lot of salmonella. Salmonella is found in all of your guts. Everybody who's watching this video right now has salmonella in their gut naturally. Everybody who knows anything about biology and the gut microbiome knows this. But when you get food poisoning, you have a lot more of the Salmonella. And you will see exactly why, it's explained in the video. What he's talking about is the germ theory. It's a belief. It hasn't been proven yet. But they theorize that Listeria and whatnot causes the disease. This has yet to be proven. And...

18:11 I don't think that they will ever be able to prove it if you actually look into it.

[video] 18:14 A batch of whole raw milk being voluntarily recalled tonight in California after health officials detected bird flu in a sample sold in stores. In states where raw milk isn't banned, there are protocols to prevent tainted milk from being bottled and sold. But most experts say these safeguards aren't completely reliable, as even a small amount of dirt on a cow's udders or on the hands of the person milking the cow can pose a risk.

18:34 Not from the hands, except if the guy was touching excrement, was actually dirty. The earth isn't going to do anything, but that's what people call dirt today. They misuse the word, but actual dirt, as in there's excrement everywhere and they... pump the milk in such conditions and the other is full of it, yeah, of course, obviously, you can get food poisoning from it because you're not supposed to eat excrement. If it gets in your milk, it can actually make you really sick.

[video] 19:08 Isn't a sure bet either because they might be present at levels too low to detect. In fact, one popular supplier called Raw Milk Farm, which frequently boasts of struggling to keep raw milk on shelves because of so much demand, has had numerous outbreaks tied to its raw milk and cheese...

19:22 Eight outbreaks. Numerous outbreaks. Eight outbreaks. Where am I missing something? Yeah, that's what it says. It's just, man, this guy is like overreacting like crazy. Three deaths in 20 years. Wow. What the hell? E. coli, again, Campylobacter, same thing. You have it in your stool, you already have it inside of you anyway. And then you have a lot more of it. There are some people who comment on my videos saying that I had food poisoning from raw meat. Technically, it wasn't meat. It was the bone marrow. This was in the first week when I started eating raw meat. I didn't know that much about it back then. I was testing out all kinds of meat. I went to this butcher, which I thought is a good butcher. It turned out that it wasn't. And I ate a piece of meat with the bone and the bone marrow.

20:20 And I only later found out, when I studied this topic, that when an animal can't get rid of the toxins, and if they get a lot of them at once, they store them in the bones or in the bone marrow. That's why you gotta watch out if you make bone broth, where you get the bones. If you get cheap bones from unhealthy animals, then you're gonna get the poisons from the bone marrow, whatever was inside of there, of course. When you make bone broth, it's cooked for a long time. Maybe not that much will be in there still, but the heavy metals will stay in there. And of course, because I ate the toxic bone marrow, I got food poisoning from it. And when I went to do a stool test, they said that I have a lot of Campylobacter. Now I know why I had it. Back then, I didn't understand it.

21:08 It's really pretty simple when you look into all of it. And by the way, what it was, was... basically what Botox is, Botulism. It's a toxin which affects your nerves, which comes from this one thing that animals get, which again I'm not gonna mention.

[video] 21:30 This is why pasteurization was created. And it certainly doesn't destroy all the good microbes in milk or significantly reduce its nutritional value. Pasteurized milk has just as much calcium and heat stable.

21:43 Yeah, but calcium is a mineral. Why would it go away? The point of calcium that people always make with raw milk is that because of the enzymes, the body won't be able to assimilate it very well anymore. And... I think it was the 1930s or 40s, doctors were actually officially warning people saying that pasteurized milk causes atherosclerosis because the calcium cannot be assimilated by the body and ends up in the arteries. Maybe it's also because it somewhat changes from the heat that hasn't been specifically studied, but they noticed that when people drink this new pasteurized milk, which was new at the time, they have the calcium which accumulates in the arteries. Atherosclerosis is not only caused by calcium accumulations, but it can be a big part of it.

[video] 22:38 But then by your definition, eating vegetables to make a point is reckless because it kills more people.

[video] 23:01 Yeah, then the milk was from unhealthy animals. You can't actually truly believe that if you have a healthy cow, for example, or a goat, that you milk it and you get sick from it. Otherwise, the babies would get sick and they would die, right?

23:15 So it doesn't make any sense.

23:30 If 19 people died within 20 years officially, How many people actually get sick? How bad is raw milk if you have so few cases? You can name a million other things that kill more people. 19 people is nothing. Not saying that you should just drink any raw milk. It still has to come from healthy animals, obviously.

[video] 23:50 Raw milk worth the risk. Right now, I think not.

23:54 Remember, everything has a... Yeah, but then vegetables are not worth the risk by your definition.

[video] 24:00 What do you mean unproven health benefits? If you don't get enough nutrients, then you become malnourished. Has malnutrition not been proven or what?

[video] 24:21 Overall, it wasn't such a bad video. I was expecting something worse from Dr. Mike because he's usually very ignorant and

24:46 Pretty arrogant also, the way he talks as if he knows everything. He only got popular because he's somewhat good-looking, and that's why people thought, oh, good-looking means informed, knowledgeable, which is naturally how people think about good-looking humans. That's okay, it's just programmed in us, but you shouldn't think that just because somebody is good-looking because of his genetics and because of what he ate as a child would be funny if he drank raw milk himself. Well, he did from his mother, but I'm talking about from cows or goats. It doesn't mean that he's actually going to understand anything about nutrition. But that's how it is nowadays. People more so look at the genetics of somebody and then judge them If some good-looking girl makes a video saying that carrots have vitamin A, 90% of people are not even going to question her, even though no plant on earth has vitamin A.

25:46 If somebody who's bad looking makes the same kind of video, but says that liver has a lot of vitamin A, it's only found in animal foods, then people will not take him seriously. That's kind of what's going on with this channel. He also said that the B vitamins are heat stable. The fat soluble ones are more heat stable, but in all of the studies that I've seen, they still, of course, are destroyed. And the water-soluble ones, which are the B vitamins, are way more sensitive. Of course, more of them will be destroyed. You can also see this in studies about meat. If you cook the meat well, then over 80% of the B vitamins will be gone. I've proven this in my videos, there are studies on this. It's the same for milk, as far as I've seen. You can show me if you have any other information.

26:32 He also said that it's reckless to promote raw milk, but if you go by the statistics, which is what he bases most of his beliefs on, then you should not even be consuming any vegetables, seeing as they are way more dangerous statistically. If raw milk is safer, why not promote raw milk instead of vegetables? Especially raw vegetables, of course. If you cook them, you're probably not gonna get food poisoning from them. That's because it destroys a lot of the toxins. But if you eat raw vegetables, Of course you will. By the way, in case you don't get it, it's not as if people got food poisoning from these vegetables because bacteria were lurking on them secretly trying to attack you. They got food poisoning from these vegetables because they are toxic. Cabbage, for example, broccoli has sulforaphane, a very potent toxin. You eat that stuff enough,

27:33 Along with the fiber, which is indigestible, horrible for your gut. And you're gonna get food poisoning, obviously. A lot of people eat these vegetables, such as spinach, and get diarrhea from them. You have a lot of oxalates also. Your body can deal with these toxins sometimes. Especially if your gut is already somewhat damaged and vulnerable. Still though, it wasn't such a bad video. It's not as if he said, completely stay away from raw milk. He was... at least somewhat open-minded to it. Look into it, actually, and maybe you will start promoting raw milk, Dr. Mike. I doubt it, but it would be cool. Thanks for watching.