Milk is bad, I posted no less than 3 articles about how milk fat creates inflammation, and tens of articles about MAP. I even talked to the authors, milk is bad for you if you have crohn. Let alone the tens of articles that showed a western diet promotes intestinal inflammation.
There will always be people who say milk is fine, there used to be people who said smoking was fine. I do not think we are sensitive enough to these issues to know for ourselves which foods might be causing issues, anecdotal evidence is useless when it comes to food imo. Studies show milk is bad for you, very bad.
Couldn't have put it better myself.
There is value in personal experience here but I think we might just not in tune enough with our bodies to recognize the harm milk has on our bodies.
I never had a problem with milk, not even after my diagnosis but after doing research on the way milk is processed and the way our body digests milk, I knew I had to get myself off of it.
Dairy was the absolute first thing to go in my diet.
Milk, soy, and wheat are three of the most common allergies and you can almost bet you are allergic to at least one if not all. I believe just about everyone has a borderline allergy to all of these.
Milk creates an acidic environment through the process of metabolic acidosis. Metabolic acidosis is basically the digestion of animal proteins. As the body digests these proteins it creates an acidic environment and causes your body to draw out calcium from your bones because calcium is an alkaline base. (this is the link to such high levels of Osteoporosis in the United states: The highest consuming nation of dairy products). This process can be completely normal if it is accompanied by a healthy diet of green vegetables that include magnesium, calcium, Vitamin K, Vitamin D, and Vitamin A. Unfortunately many Crohnies avoid, limit, or cut out vegetables in their raw state and aren't getting these nutrients so the body is especially susceptible to an acidic environment which harbors bad bacteria and promotes inflammation.
That process along with the use of antibiotics in the milk, use of the e coli virus being injected into the cows to speed up metabolism, the study kiny linked above, and the fact that many cows have Johne's disease the basic equivalent of Crohn's Disease in cows amongst other things should really turn us Crohnies off of milk entirely.
I understand that people feel like each diet effects each person differently when it comes to disease and symptom progression but as far as milk goes, I think it should be universal: Avoid dairy at all costs!
Gianni