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Re:Amish Men Live Longer by graemep on Monday September 15, 2025 @08:59AM (#45249137)
> Humans are not supposed to be drinking bovine milk.

Humans are not "supposed" to eat and drink most of what we do (maybe fruits are an exception). However, we have evolved to consume a lot of things - including, if we have the right genes, milk.

Re:Amish Men Live Longer by Earw0rm on Monday September 15, 2025 @09:20AM (#45249361)
Most fruits are highly bred, nutrition wise they're very different from their wild-type predecessors. Many of which are outright inedible, or close to it.

That said, we've coevolved with technology of one sort or another (the broadest definition, to include cooking, plant breeding, hunting with weapons, domestication and animal husbandry) ever since we began to master fire, a million years ago give or take.

Re:Amish Men Live Longer by Bender on Monday September 15, 2025 @09:03AM (#45249188)
Yeah, no. It's not normal just because people have been doing this for a long time. It has sugar which makes people addicted to it and will argue until they are blue in the face to defend it just like drug addicts will defend their behavior until their last breath. Milk can cause just as much a fatter liver as beer. People can get all their calcium from green leafy vegetables. Raw milk will also contain IGG, IGB, IGA that humans can create on their own. Adding animal immunoglobulins is not well studied. Humans can create their own.
Re:Amish Men Live Longer by Earw0rm on Monday September 15, 2025 @09:17AM (#45249316)
If you're drinking milk in the quantities many guys drink beer, it's going to fatten a lot more than just your liver.
Re:Amish Men Live Longer by Bender on Monday September 15, 2025 @09:19AM (#45249355)
If you're drinking milk in the quantities many guys drink beer, it's going to fatten a lot more than just your liver.

As many people do and get a fatty liver and ultimately Cirrhosis.

Re:Amish Men Live Longer by graemep on Monday September 15, 2025 @11:17AM (#45250687)
According to this meta-analysis dairy reduces the risk of fatty liver: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9992538/