Why fresh, raw milk?

Using raw, grass-fed, unpasteurised milk from a registered dairy, with a few tweaks necessary to make it optimally nutritious for your baby, results in an infant formula that is much closer to mother’s milk than anything else could possibly be. See Raw Milk Baby Formula recipe at www.realmilk.com (which will be the topic for a separate article). Children over 1 year can drink whole milk as it comes.
Raw milk is living milk in the same way that mother’s milk is – which is also fed raw to babies – both retain various live constituents needed for optimal growth, development and immunity.
These factors are destroyed by pasteurisation and homogenisation, and are unique to raw milk (human, cow and goat) and are critical to your baby’s health.
The process of pasteurising milk damages and destroys the nutritious proteins and fats, vitamins, minerals and immune-boosting components found in fresh milk.
This can result in an immune response to pasteurised milk – leading to allergies, asthma or autoimmune conditions. At the same time, it is difficult to digest and so uses up digestive enzymes, energy and nutrients stored in the body, to break it down.
Fresh, raw milk digests itself and does not deplete the body’s nutrient and enzyme stores to do so.
Raw milk supplies nutrient-rich and immune boosting factors that are effortlessly assimilated.
Mother’s milk is low in iron for a reason: iron competes with zinc, which is needed for neurological development. However, the lacto-ferrin in raw milk helps the baby absorb all the iron contained in the milk. After 6 months, the baby needs additional iron. This should be given in the form of egg yolks and liver; liver is the first weaning food in many traditional cultures for this very reason.
Immune health: Compared to children given pasteurised milk, children fed raw milk have more resistance to TB, scurvy, flu, diphtheria, pneumonia, asthma, allergic skin problems and tooth decay. In addition, their growth and calcium absorption was superior. (www.realmilk.com/abstractsmilk)

For more about raw milk visit www.realmilk.com.
To find real milk in the UK www.naturalfoodfinder.co.uk