Dairy is a part of our culture and unfortunately so is disease. Few people understand how these are linked. Here are a few diseases that are directly linked to dairy.

Research has shown that children who have been exposed to dairy milk at a young age are more likely to have type I diabetes than their counterparts who were raised on breast milk.

Milk contains fat and lacks fibre, resulting in a rise in intramyocellular lipids. This causes insulin resistance. Stopping all dairy often results in a dramatic drop in blood sugar levels.

All our hormones are orchestrated by the pituitary gland. When one hormone goes out of balance other hormones also get affected. Dairy is full of hormones since it’s the secretion of a female mammal. It contains growth hormones, oestrogens, progesterone, prolactin, oxytocin and so on and therefore promotes hormonal problems like diabetes, hypothyroidism, premature puberty, PCOD, infertility, prostate enlargement, hirsutism, as well as breast, prostate and ovarian cancers.

Both Ayurveda and naturopathy recognise milk as mucus forming. Almost everyone who stops consuming dairy will see, after an initial cleansing reaction, that colds, coughs and sinus problems disappear or become less frequent.

Most people notice that their skin becomes soft, clear and even glows after stopping dairy. Initially, though, there can be a cleansing period where the skin temporarily breaks out.

The milk protein, casein causes tumour growth and is a known carcinogen. Milk also contains growth hormones and proteins. Proteins are the food for growth and cancers are growths. There is a clear connection. Ovarian, breast and prostate cancers are hormone dependant cancers and are promoted by the hormones in dairy.

All animal products including dairy lack fibre. Fibre cleanses the intestines and is necessary for easy bowel movement. Lack of fibre causes constipation and the absorption of toxins; and this can lead to colon and rectal cancers.

High protein foods cause excess acid secretion in the stomach leading to acidity. Contrary to popular belief, stopping dairy actually helps reverse acidity and ulcers. The conventional home remedy, cold milk, may neutralise the acid temporarily but ends up maintaining the cycle of acidity.

Milk is the food for a calf to grow into its full size in just 18 months! It’s replete with growth hormones. One of the biggest causes of the obesity epidemic so prevalent today is the consumption of dairy in concentrated forms, such as cheese, paneer and sweets.

Stop dairy and other high proteins and watch allergies gradually disappear in months!

In order to produce dairy, cows are repeatedly made pregnant and their babies taken away from them. They are often kept confined in extremely stressful conditions. This causes adrenaline secretion, which ultimately ends up in our bodies and fills us with stress and anxiety too.