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"It is virtually useless to search for single factors as causes of complex diseases or to ascribe cause-effect relationships by simple, isolated, biochemical mechanisms." Hormones in milk Re: "What's in your milk?"1 Although Ron Kensinger claims that pasteurization reduces IGF-1, the opposite has been found.2 In addition, there is a huge difference in the ability of the body to regulate endogenous chemical signals compared to those which are foreign. There is a c

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Re: "What's in your milk?"1 Although Ron Kensinger claims that pasteurization reduces IGF-1, the opposite has been found.2 In addition, there is a huge difference in the ability of the body to regulate endogenous chemical signals compared to those which are foreign. There is a chronic and cumulative effect on growth hormone signalling and a threshhold level that is differentially set for different people. Hormones - by virtue of their purpose - have large effects in small quantities, and sometimes it is the smaller quantities that have a greater influence due to the lack of negative-feedback they'd produce.

Shirin Kalyan, PhD
Division of Endocrinology, Faculty of Medicine
Univeristy of British Columbia
shirinka@hotmail.com

My laboratory has investigated the question of dairy protein and experimental cancer development since the 1960s and we have shown, in dozens of publications in top journals,1-3 that reductionist research findings are more than likely to be very misleading. ...

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