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magicbuzzyesterday at 7:14 PM3 repliesview on HN

If you were breast-fed, you drank raw milk as a child. And pasteurization removes/diminishes nutrients in milk. It’s much more nuanced than ‘raw milk is bad’.


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InitialLastNameyesterday at 8:39 PM

> If you were breast-fed, you drank raw milk as a child

If people were drinking raw milk directly out of the udder, in a clean environment and blessed with a baby cow's immune system and microbiome, that would be pertinent, but they aren't. Even human breast milk extracted in a clean environment with sanitized tools gets risky very quickly when stored.

guyzeroyesterday at 8:22 PM

I expect the average human mother maintains a higher level of sanitation than the average cow.

nutjob2yesterday at 8:13 PM

At that age you've mostly got your mother's immune system, so it's a little different.