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225. Heal your gut with RAW MILK: a conversation with Mark McAfee from Raw Farm

Paul Saladino MD podcast

Paul Saladino, MD

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s podcast, Paul sits with Mark McAfee on the largest raw dairy farm in the world, RAW Farm. They talk about about Mark’s process of raising and caring for cattle that produces clean, safe raw milk, the overall benefits of raw milk and colostrum in terms of gut health, and why we should “make milk RAW again!”


00:09:08 Beneficial bacteria in milk & kefir

00:11:13 The history of pasteurization in America

00:18:18 Benefits of breastfeeding (mammalian milk)

00:27:38 Germ theory & terrain theory

00:29:38 The role of raw milk & colostrum

00:36:38 The origins of RAW farm

00:42:18 Comparing dairy farms production methods

00:45:08 Why isn’t raw milk legal everywhere?

00:48:53 The milk barn story

00:51:18 The process of making RAW cheese & the importance of bacteria

01:12:08 Benefits of butter and milk fat



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Transcript

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0:00.0

I've not seen any food that is as healing,

0:04.1

and I mean that word sincerely,

0:05.6

healing for the human gut, as Ramil.

0:09.0

In this week's podcast, I have the honor of sitting with Mark McAfee

0:12.4

on his farm, the largest raw dairy farm in the world

0:17.3

in the Central Valley of California.

0:19.4

I spent three days at raw farm there and learned all about

0:22.9

their process of raising cattle on grass,

0:25.3

how they milk them, how they care for the cattle,

0:27.6

how they ensure that milk is as clean as possible,

0:30.1

how they double test the milk.

0:31.6

They are really setting the standard for raw milk.

0:34.3

In this country, and I hope it is something that can be scaled,

0:36.8

and Mark has done an incredible job of educating raw milk producers

0:40.4

all over the United States, and even abroad,

0:42.5

into how to do this safely.

0:44.1

As we talk about in this podcast, raw milk,

0:46.7

I think raw dairy in general, whether it's yogurt,

0:49.0

kefir, butter, truly raw cheese, or milk's,

0:52.6

colostrum, have incredibly valuable roles for humans,

0:56.4

and I think they've basically been overlooked.

0:59.1

This is essentially, as I say in the podcast,

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