Raw Dairy Opportunity

Dairy for strength.  As advocated by the founders of CrossFit Football.

I’ve written and spoken before about dairy.  Dairy is not usually included in a Paleo Diet because it is a Neolithic food.  There are people for whom dairy is not appropriate.  Milk is nature’s perfect growth food.  If you aren’t in the market to grow then perhaps you don’t need milk.  Dairy proteins have also been linked to certain health issues.  There is new research linking the consumption of dairy to acne which actually ties the molecular components of milk to the formation of acne.  Although dairy products have a low glycemic index they are highly insulinogenic.  This is the mechanism by which the consumption of dairy results in muscle growth or an anabolic effect.  A high-milk diet has been linked to insulin resistance in children.  However…

Isn’t it frustrating that when it comes to nutrition there is always a “however”?  The fats in dairy are phenomenally important to us.  If the animals have been raised properly, dairy fat will contain Conjugated Linoleic Acid, a fat linked to maintenance of proper body composition, anti-tumor effects and anti-diabetic effects.  The fat in dairy is composed largely of short chain fatty acids which are anti viral, anti fungal, and they are used to repair the gut and produce energy.  Full fat, raw (unpasteurized) dairy contains Vitamin K2.  If you don’t know the function of Vitamin K2, here you go.

“A large epidemiological study from the Netherlands illustrates this point well. The researchers collected data on the vitamin K intakes of the subjects between 1990 and 1993 and measured the extent of heart disease in each subject, who had died from it and how this related to vitamin K2 intake and arterial calcification. They found that calcification of the arteries was the best predictor of heart disease. Those in the highest third of vitamin K2 intakes were 52 percent less likely to develop severe calcification of the arteries, 41 percent less likely to develop heart disease, and 57 percent less likely to die from it. (Geleijnse et al., 2004, pp. 3100-3105)However, intake of vitamin K1 had no effect on cardiovascular disease outcomes.

While K1 is preferentially used by the liver to activate blood clotting proteins, K2 is preferentially used by other tissues to deposit calcium in appropriate locations, such as in the bones and teeth, and prevent it from depositing in locations where it does not belong, such as the soft tissues.(Spronk et al., 2003, pp. 531-537) In an acknowledgment of the different roles played by vitamins K1 and K2, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) finally determined the vitamin K2 contents of foods in the U.S. diet for the first time in 2006. (Elder, Haytowitz, Howe, Peterson, & Booth, 2006, pp. 436-467)”

Vitamin K2 and CLA are available in wild game meats which is why Paleolithic Person did not need dairy, but still was not deficient in these important nutrients.  However, most of us do not eat wild game, or if we do, it is not a substantial part of our diet.  Therefore, raw dairy fat potentially becomes a VITAL PART OF OUR DIET!!

OK-back to your opportunity.  There is a farmer in Texas who can raise his dairy animals on real grass this time of year.  Their milk is thick, nutritious and provides plenty of cream.  He is willing to deliver his dairy products to Tucson twice per month if we can get a decent number of customers.  Here is a description of his farming approach and his products and prices:

And so, Our farmer friend has his cows on pasture as long as the
weather allows it.  Right now they are 100% on pasture so the milk is deliciously
bold flavored, and the butter is rich in Vitamin A.  Just how we like it to be.  He
is a small time farmer, although he is in high demand, and his whole family is
involved.  From the children feeding chickens, to his brother-in-law milking and
delivering.  His farm is organically cared for using no pesticide/herbicide etc or
are his cow grain fed.  NO SOY or CORN for these mamas!  Woo HOoo!

Ok so on to the pricing and so forth.
1 Gallon Milk - $10
1 lb Butter - $10
1 pint sour cream - $10
1 pint heavy cream -$10
1 pint HARD cream - $10  (this stuff is a bigger bang for the buck, and is
scoopable like butter.... so tasty right of the spoon, or let it ripen up like
cheese and use   in a sauce... so.  good.)
1 lb. Feta Cheese - $9
1 lb Mozzarella - $10

I will tell you right now, these are very good prices.  This stuff is like medicine.  Personally, I will be ordering the butter, sour cream and the hard cream and I will do whatever it takes to get it into my kids!!  I am willing to pick up the CrossFit Works raw dairy order for everyone and put it in our fridge so you can get yours more conveniently.  Here is what you must do: email me ASAP with exactly what you want.  It will be important for you to be relatively consistent, although you can probably add to your order later if you want.  If you have never been involved in getting your own real food like this you must understand that it will be your responsibility to find someone else to pick up and use your food if you will be out of town.  The volunteers coordinating this cannot manage everyone’s vacation schedules.  You must also understand that this real food is not going to taste like the bland, pointless food sold at the supermarket.  This will actually have smell and flavor.  Again, if you are interested, email me directly with exactly what you want.  I can’t say strongly enough how fortunate we are to have this opportunity.  If you have any questions about consumption of raw dairy you can ask me or you can go to the Real Milk website.