A1 milk and diabetes

[Guest guest]

I was just reading a study about how the A1 beta caseins in milk can cause type 1 diabetes. As I understand it, the A1 beta caseins are digested and turn into a type of protein that is almost, but not quite, identical to the beta cells in the islets of langerhans in the pancreas. These beta cells are responsible for releasing insulin and amylin. The person's body recognizes the protein from A1 beta casein as an enemy and prepares a defense. In attacking the A1 proteins, the body inadvertently attacks the pancreas. Decreased insulin production results, causing diabetes.

I can't get it clear whether you have to have a genetic predisposition to type 1 diabetes for this to occur, or whether it can occur out of the blue. Traditional thinking held that type 1 diabetes is an inherited disease. If so, it may lie latent until triggered by A1.

Milk that contains only A2 beta casein doesn't turn into the proteins that cause the body to attack the pancreas. That's one reason why I'm trying to build a herd of A2 producing cows.

Research is being done at UCLA using cloned beta cells to replace the damaged beta cells in the pancreas. This is a possible cure for type 1 diabetes.

My primary interest is in the heart disease aspect of A1/A2 milk. I had a heart attack a couple of years ago and lost a lot of heart muscle. I was fit and lean, a champion bicycle racer with no genetic factors involved. I'm trying to determine what role my heavy consumption of commercial dairy milk may have played.

Stem cell research in this country is inhibited. We have to depend upon other countries to come up with methods to repair damage such as I have. We need to change that. If I won the lottery, I could go to a foreign country and get stem cell therapy for my damaged heart. Either that or just keep farming until all the money was used up.

Genebo

Paradise Farm

[Guest guest]

Genebo,

Color me a big skeptic on the A1/A2 issue

until there are some good studies confirming this issue.

But, I have a question, were you consuming

raw milk or pasteurized/homogenized milk at the time of your heart attack?

I was just reading a study about how the A1 beta caseins in milk can

cause type 1 diabetes. As I understand it, the A1 beta caseins are digested and

turn into a type of protein that is almost, but not quite, identical to the

beta cells in the islets of langerhans in the pancreas. These beta cells are

responsible for releasing insulin and amylin. The person's body recognizes the

protein from A1 beta casein as an enemy and prepares a defense. In attacking

the A1 proteins, the body inadvertently attacks the pancreas. Decreased insulin

production results, causing diabetes.

Genebo

Paradise Farm

[Guest guest]

Mornin' Gene,

Keep on farmin'. We've got, as you know, plenty of seasonal A2 goat and cows milk.

Robie

--- A1 milk and diabetesDate: Thu, June 05, 2008 8:39 pmTo: <RawDairy >

I was just reading a study about how the A1 beta caseins in milk can cause type 1 diabetes. As I understand it, the A1 beta caseins are digested and turn into a type of protein that is almost, but not quite, identical to the beta cells in the islets of langerhans in the pancreas. These beta cells are responsible for releasing insulin and amylin. The person's body recognizes the protein from A1 beta casein as an enemy and prepares a defense. In attacking the A1 proteins, the body inadvertently attacks the pancreas. Decreased insulin production results, causing diabetes.

I can't get it clear whether you have to have a genetic predisposition to type 1 diabetes for this to occur, or whether it can occur out of the blue. Traditional thinking held that type 1 diabetes is an inherited disease. If so, it may lie latent until triggered by A1.

Milk that contains only A2 beta casein doesn't turn into the proteins that cause the body to attack the pancreas. That's one reason why I'm trying to build a herd of A2 producing cows.

Research is being done at UCLA using cloned beta cells to replace the damaged beta cells in the pancreas. This is a possible cure for type 1 diabetes.

My primary interest is in the heart disease aspect of A1/A2 milk. I had a heart attack a couple of years ago and lost a lot of heart muscle. I was fit and lean, a champion bicycle racer with no genetic factors involved. I'm trying to determine what role my heavy consumption of commercial dairy milk may have played.

Stem cell research in this country is inhibited. We have to depend upon other countries to come up with methods to repair damage such as I have. We need to change that. If I won the lottery, I could go to a foreign country and get stem cell therapy for my damaged heart. Either that or just keep farming until all the money was used up.

Genebo

Paradise Farm