Crowe's Budwig Diet Revision -- Whey isolate far superior to cottage cheese

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The Budwig Diet Revision

Germany's Dr. Joanna Budwig is widely credited for discovering that 2

simple food items, cold-pressed flax seed oil and low-fat cottage

cheese, will cure or prevent many forms of cancer and a long list of

other degenerative diseases including cardiovascular diseases and

skin diseases. But the 50-year old " Budwig Diet " is long in the tooth

and newer data has emerged that shows where we can improve on it.

essential fatty acids references

Sulfur-rich protein and calcium in the " Budwig protocol " is provided

by cottage cheese. Because many people can not take " dairy " , lets

look more closely at the cottage cheese. Human milk is higher in whey

and much lower in casein than cow milk or goat milk; casein is the

main protein in cheese and cottage cheese. Caseins differ somewhat;

cow milk contains a lot of alpha-casein, which because of its

different properties is the main cause of milk and " dairy "

indigestion in humans. Beta lactoglobulins in cow milk can also be

problematic as allergens, and cow milk also contains more alpha s1-

casein than goat milk. All of this explains why many people find goat

milk less problematic than cow milk.

The problematic milk components can be removed leaving low-fat whey,

most of which is an exact match across the whole mammalian order. The

common ingredients are more easily assimilated than any other protein

and do not produce sensitivity or allergy issues. The Physicians

Desktop Reference for Prescription Drugs lists one pure whey isolate

as " well-tolerated by even severely milk-sensitive individuals " , and

practice corroborates that.

Bottom line - although biological incompatibilities exist in foreign

milk, comments that lump 'dairy' products together as problematic are

sloppy; the statement does not apply to high-quality whey, and it is

widely acknowledged to be the most healthy fraction of milk.

The Budwig Diet revision uses undenatured whey instead of cottage

cheese. Undenatured whey contains the sulfur-containing amino acids

methionine and cysteine compounds including cystine. Methionine is

transformed into cysteine by the liver. Cellular cysteine is the rate-

limiting factor in production of glutathione, the body's master

antioxidant and detoxifier. Glutathione is crucial to life; it's

involved in ATP energy generation, immune system support, liver and

other organ support, reducing toxin load and oxidative stress, and

importantly, it shrinks tumors when levels are maintained. More

glutathione information including the role whey can play in cancer

therapy is available here with glutathione references.

Cottage cheese doesn't boast those benefits; in fact it's only a

sulfur amino acid source. The Budwig Diet revision's replacement of

the bio-incompatible cottage cheese with compatible cold-processed

whey adheres to the principles of the " Budwig Diet " , and will provide

huge additional benefit. Unlike cottage cheese, cold-processed whey

is mildly alkalizing to the body, and several cold-processed wheys

are listed in the US PDR as a specific anti-cachexia (anti-wasting)

formula.

The flaxseed oil in the original plan provides the essential fatty

acid alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), which is thought to be a 'good'

omega-3 oil; however, more recent science has revealed that it's a

common but faulty assumption that ALA is physiologically equivalent

to omega-3 essential fatty acids EPA and DHA, and that there is no

known need for alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) independent of its

conversion to EPA/DHA. And in adults the conversion rate is tiny; the

US Environmental Protection Agency has posted this powerpoint

presentation (slide 5) that explains less than 1% conversion of ALA

to EPA (some sources say somewhat higher), and <0.01% to DHA.

Though these details have traditionally escaped the followers of

Joanna Budwig and Udo Erasmus, fatty acids expert Dr. Floyd Chilton

fully explains them in his book Inflammation Nation. Chilton says

(page 97),

" I wish I could tell you that the (ALA) in flaxseed oil could replace

wild fish as a rich source of EPA and DHA but the scientific

literature simply does not support this contention. ...We do the

conversion but very slowly, and we also eat a lot of fatty acids such

as LA that 'compete' for enzymes that convert ALA to EPA and DHA,

further limiting its conversion. "

This competition is most pronounced in the common condition of low

EPA/DHA and higher omega-6 fatty acid intake seen in the modern diet.

Thus the omega-6 content of the flax oil, (25% of the amount of ALA)

seen in the table below, also inhibits the conversion.

Budwig and her followers including Udo Erasmus also purport to supply

the needed fatty acids to rebuild cell walls so they can carry more

oxygen and etc., by supplying ALA; however, cell walls actually

contain negligible ALA and are high EPA and DHA.

This explains why for more than maintenance you may need vastly more

EPA and DHA than an ALA supplement can provide, and why fish oil

supplements are more popular for inflammation. For these reasons flax

oil seems a less brilliant choice for biological support in humans

than it did 50 years ago.

Unlike ALA, EPA and DHA are essential to health and can reverse

illness, including the coronary heart disease, skin disorders and

cancer claimed by proponents of the Budwig Diet. The Budwig Diet

revision ensures adequate EPA and DHA are supplied. Wild salmon oil,

wild fish oil, and cod liver oil provide lots of EPA and DHA. Wild

salmon oil, even minimally refined oil, has almost no impurities.

Inflammation can be further reduced by adding GLA or Borage oil.

Some people may feel safer by staying closer to the original diet by

adding these EFAs rather than replacing the flax oil of the original

Budwig diet, but it is unwise to not include them at all, thus this

Budwig Diet revision was probably inevitable.

[Guest guest]

Jim,

So how are you converting 3 tblsp Flax Oil mixed with 6 tblsp Cottage Cheese to

Undenatured Whey and Cod Liver or Krill Oil???

Thanks,

Rose

From: jim.mcelroy10

http://members.shaw.ca/duncancrow/Budwig-diet-revision.html

The Budwig Diet Revision............

[Guest guest]

I have a cow, and I am feeding her fish. Then I milk her and extract

the whey with the fish oil already in it.

>

> Jim,

> So how are you converting 3 tblsp Flax Oil mixed with 6 tblsp Cottage

Cheese to Undenatured Whey and Cod Liver or Krill Oil???

>

> Thanks,

>

> Rose

>

>

> From: jim.mcelroy10

>

> http://members.shaw.ca/duncancrow/Budwig-diet-revision.html

>

> The Budwig Diet Revision............

>

[Guest guest]

Jim so funny! Seriously, do I have to rephrase the question?!!!

Thanks,

Rose

From: jim.mcelroy

I have a cow, and I am feeding her fish. Then I milk her and extract

the whey with the fish oil already in it.

Gypsy Rose wrote:

> Jim,

> So how are you converting 3 tblsp Flax Oil mixed with 6 tblsp Cottage Cheese

to Undenatured Whey and Cod Liver or Krill Oil???

> Thanks,

> Rose