My Dad has this crazy immune disorder that leaves him with swelling skin that bursts into "black holes of nothingness" as my little cousin calls them. This has left him in "I will try anything" to fix myself mode. One recent interest of his that also caught mine was raw milk. The general idea behind the benefits of raw milk are the the enzymes that aren't removed when pasteurized. These enzymes are there for the purpose of digestion. He fen-angled some and I must say that I have avoided milk most of my life but this stuff didn't make me feel bad at all, real talk. But this isn't your average rant about intolerance
He then took the dairy fascination a step further and made kefir, it's like those yogurt shakes. It's made by adding a bacteria or something like that and then it thickens and becomes the kefir. I noticed that there are many other process like cottage cheese or buttermilk etc. that are made from varying degrees of milk as it ages, as if it never goes bad bust just keeps becoming another dairy product at our grocery store. What's really interesting and why I started to write this is that raw milk and the various bacteria laden milk products like cottage cheese, kefir and such don't go bad. I think the milk can sustain itself and resist molds because it is complete; has all it's enzymes. Our milk is pasteurized because we supply our massive cow farms inferior grains with hormones and additives and the like. The result is milk that will mold if left out because it was made by weak cows, so they pasteurize it. Then they ban raw milk because they, "the MILK MAN" wants to keep making more money at the cost of our health and the poor girl cows.
I'm never done. Beer is a natural process formed by yeast, which is everywhere, or ubiquitous in nature. This is why alcoholics have been around since the dawn of man, yeast digested some sugary based substance in standing water an alcohol formed. From that the brutes caught on and refined their tastes to honey, grapes, you know, sweet things. The point is that naturally occurring alcohol is stable in open air, like raw milk. Vinegar is the same, it's actually the process that breaks down alcohol even further. Naturally occurring vinegar is stable in open air.
If a plant catches diseases it's usually because it's sick and in a weekend state. I heard that the smell of a flower is a representation of its health. Would it be fair to say that most things that smell bad are usually sick or dying? I know there's that one huge flower that smells like shit, but what about old people? Old people have that "I'm going to die soon because I'm old" smell. Lazy animals that sit around indoors all day smell. Rotting vegetables stink. Death stinks. Healthy things don't stink.
Interestingly in other parts of the world manure, or shit, isn't neccesarily gross at all. It's seen as a valuable product or gift, that can only be produced by that animal, usually the cow because of its insane stomach. The basic point being that poop isn't neccesarily bad. Look at it like a machine. The product is only as good as the materials it starts with. If your poop smells gross because it's full of shit. However poop is recognized as a natural gift in remote parts of the world because the animals are eating good quality natural food. Now being smart in society is being crazy in society, it's unavoidable.
Fear of bacteria is a hoax. If things are catching diseases it's more likely that they are weak then disease is strong. Of course theirs malaria and aids and such. Native Americans weren't weak when they died at the hands of Wuropean bacteria, they where out of touch, bacterialy speaking. I don't mean ANY disrespect to Native Americans, it just seems like the logical explanation. I feel that people who die from common sicknesses like the flu or colds, or get sick from staying up to late is from malnourishment. Hippy talk yes, but it still makes sense.
During the black plague there where supposedly these dudes who would rob the houses of the dead and not get sick because they drank super special vinegar. The idea is that alcohol is first formed by using the yeast that is ubiquitous in the air. This means the yeast was surviving during the black plague. The yeast breaks down sugar and produces ethanol, the ethanol then uses acid bacteria, also ubiquitous and co-existing in the air during the plague, which then produces vinegar. If the thieves really did do this, then this would be why it worked, the bacteria they ingested worked like any other beneficial bacteria and gave them an immunity others didn't have.
All I'm saying here is that bacteria is beneficial when supported by healthy living body, whether plant or animal. If we're running from bacteria we're running from ourselves. I eat at Carl's Jr. and smoke a cigarette here and there, I'm not a health nut. I don't think the four thieves where either.
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