WHY DRINKING TOO MUCH MILK WILL CAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS

The following is from pages 44 and 45 of the book "The Enzyme factor" written by Dr Hiromi Shinya

WHY DRINKING TOO MUCH MILK WILL CAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS

The biggest common misconception about milk is that it helps prevent osteoporosis. Since the calcium content in our bodies decreases with age, we are told to drink a lot of milk to prevent osteoporosis. But this is a big mistake.
Drinking too much milk actually causes osteoporosis.

It is commonly believed that calcium in milk is better absorbed than the calcium in other foods such as small fish, but that is not entirely true. The calcium concentration in human blood is normally fixed at 9-10 mg.

However, when you drink milk, the calcium concentration in your blood suddenly rises. Although at first glance, it may seem as if a lot of calcium has been absorbed, this rise in blood calcium level has its downside.

When the calcium concentration in the blood suddenly rises, the body tries to return this abnormal level back to normal by excreting calcium from the kidneys through urine.

In other words, if you try to drink milk in order to get calcium, this actually produces the ironic result of decreasing the overall level of calcium in your body. All of the four big dairy countries – America, Sweden, Denmark and Finland – where a lot of milk is consumed every day, see many cases of hip fractures and osteoporosis.

In contrast to this, small fish and seaweed, which Japanese people have been eating for ages and were originally thought to be low in calcium, contain calcium that is not quickly absorbed in a way that raises the blood calcium concentration level.

Moreover, there were hardly any cases of osteoporosis in Japan during the time when people did not drink milk.

Even now, you do not hear about many people having osteoporosis among those who do not drink milk on a regular basis.

The body can absorb the necessary calcium and minerals through the digestion of small shrimp, fish, and seaweed.