Truth About Dairy & Cancer: What You Need To Know | EP 142

**Learn about the Healing Power of Prolonged Fasting:** HERE **What if the one food you’ve been told to avoid isn’t always the problem, and when prepared the right way, could actually support your healing?** In this episode, Dr. Katie Deming brings back Monica Corrado, a traditional foods educator, author, and ancestral nutrition expert to dig into what’s actually true about dairy, cancer, and the gut. They break down the difference between the dairy you’ll find on grocery store shelves and the kind traditional cultures prepared for centuries. They cover everything from Holstein cows versus traditional brown cows, to A1 versus A2 casein, to why raw milk dairies may be held to stricter safety standards than conventional pasteurized dairy. You’ll also find out why some people feel sick after trying raw milk for the first time, and why that reaction may have more to do with drinking too much of a potent, microbially live food too quickly than with the milk itself. **Chapters:** 00:06:08 - Why Modern Dairy Changed 00:07:18 - The Problem With Store Dairy 00:08:24 - The Dairy That May Heal 00:09:12 - The Raw Milk Difference 00:10:05 - How Culturing Removes Sugar 00:11:18 - Why Raw Milk Scares People 00:15:21 - How Milk Quality Got Lost 00:18:11 - Drinking Dead Bacteria 00:20:29 - A1 vs A2 Dairy 00:24:19 - What Better Dairy Looks Like 00:26:09 - Making Dairy Cancer Friendly 00:30:08 - The IGF-1 Question 00:36:10 - Why Kefir Is Different Dr. Katie also shares what she’s observing in her own practice about IGF-1 levels in patients who are eating long-cultured dairy, a question her fasting community has been asking about for a long time. By the end, you’ll understand what kind of dairy may support your microbiome, why long culturing matters, and how Monica recommends making yogurt or kefir at home. **Press play and learn how an ancient food you may have written off could become one of the most overlooked tools in your healing toolkit.** Chef Monica's Books: https://simplybeingwell.com/2nd-ed-gaps-complete-book **Join Dr. Katie's 3-Day Guided Fast, for expert support, daily live calls, and a community to fast alongside:** Sign-Up  Follow Dr. Katie Deming on Instagram **Watch on** Youtube **DISCLAIMER:** The Born to Heal Podcast  is intended for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for seeking professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Individual medical histories are unique; therefore, this episode should not be used to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease without consulting your healthcare provider. A thought-provoking podcast explores cancer through the lens of holistic medicine and functional medicine, discussing causes of cancer, metabolic health, and unconventional approaches like water fasting, fasting and autophagy, and detox, while weighing fasting benefits against chemo side effects and radiation side effects, sharing stories of a cancer survivor navigating chemotherapy, natural medicine, holistic healing, and even spiritual healing on the path toward cancer remission and holistic health.