Re: CS> Re: Raw Milk
At 06:23 PM 11/14/2004, you wrote:
BUT unless you are "pre-digesting" the milk ( making Kefir) it IS pretty
well proved to be another wrong thing - we like it 'cos it's white! :-)
Like the fabled California Oranges. So big!
I have been too busy to read all the Silver List posts for several weeks,
but just opened the newest one and my eyes fell on the above sentences, and
I was prompted to comment on kefir. For years I have had severe Gastric
Reflux (GERD), and tried a heap of things to get rid of it. Many helped a
little bit, but none fixed the problem and I refused the purple pills and
other pharmaceutical "fixes" proposed by my doctor. Until I followed some
of the advice in Jordan Rubin's book, "The Maker's Diet." Two things I
learned there have set me free, and now that I use his Primal Defense
probiotic religiously, three scoops a day stirred into water (along with a
couple of spoonfuls of powdered "greens," some coral calcium and MSM) I can
expect to get through a week with only one or two mild visitations of that
horrible burning reflux. Rubin is a firm believer in kefir, too. So, I
found a lady who gave me some kefir "grains" to get started making my
own. The "grains" or starter look like large rubbery blobs of tapioca. I
pour a cupful of raw milk purchased at Henry's over them, and set the
covered cup on the counter and the next day I have genuine kefir. It
tastes a lot like buttermilk -- an acquired taste, perhaps -- but I like
it. When I am at home and feel a little twinge of acid coming on, just a
few swallows of the kefir, and all is well once again! Just shows to go
ya, as we used to say when we were kids, that the problem is NOT too much
acid, but instead a lack of healthy "critters" in the digestive tract.
My daughter-in-law's grandmother was so very sick recently with a GI tract
infection that the doctors thought the only thing that might hold out hope
for her life was to remove a large portion of her intestine. That little
old 86 year old lady thought long and hard and figured she might rather
just die and be done with it than go through that. They cleared up as much
of the infection as possible, and she went home to think about her
options. I am surely no M.D., but I sent Rubin's book, some of the Garden
of Life things, including Primal Defense, and some of my kefir grains to
her family caretakers, who live in another city. I have been pleased to
hear the last few times I asked after her health, that "she is doing very
well."
Oh, yes. I take CS at the other end of the day, just before going to bed,
and try to maximize absorption by holding it in my mouth as long as
possible before swallowing, because I am afraid the CS might take out those
healthy bacteria I am trying to cultivate if I take it at or near the same
time as the Primal Defense.
I think it is going to be a "forever" thing. I failed to take the
probiotic along when I went on vacation in August, and within three days
was experiencing the raging inferno once again.
Our fabled California oranges ARE so big! We'll start picking our
wonderful juicy navels off our trees in January, and will eat several each
day from then until June.
If anyone wants some dried kefir grains to start making the real thing,
e-mail me and I will send them until I run out. I have enough stashed in
the freezer for two or three people. There is also a kefir site which
posts names of people willing to share theirs in various areas.
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