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Homogenized Milk and Heart Disease
Kurt A Oster: The XO Factor

Kurt Oster says that the homogenization process of breaking the fat globules into such small pieces that they remain suspended in the milk is a leading cause of arteriosclerosis and heart disease.

Cholesterol Is Not A Problem
 
Cholesterol is manufactured by the body. It is so vital that all tissues fabricate it and all cells contain it. The fragmented logic, which gave birth to the hypothesis that cholesterol may be the causative agent of heart disease, is beginning to fall apart under the weight of recent evidence, including that of the National Research Council. In short, because cholesterol is so important physiologically, it is a rather foolhardy assumption that the human system has become dependent on the biochemical that can trigger its self-destruction. There are many people in many countries in the world who consume more cholesterol consumption that we do, but suffer far less heart disease. Fat and cholesterol consumption has not changed significantly in this country in the last 150 years, and yet heart disease skyrocketed fifty years ago.

The Real Culprit
 
Cows milk is usually nutritious. However, when it is tampered with by way of homogenisation, it becomes a type of slow poison for the circulatory system. Homogenization was introduced into this country in 1932. It is a process that breaks down the fat into very small blobules to keep the fat from separating. The primary purpose is to extend the shelf life of the product.

Milk fat contains a substance called Xanthine Oxidase (XO). This XO is usually not a problem in our system, but homogenization causes some of this XO to pass through the wall of the intestine into the circulatory system. There it creates havoc by attacking specific targets in the artery walls as well as heart tissue, causing lesions. The body responds to this attack by attempting to heal the damaged areas. Fatty tissue and cholesterol are laid over the “body bandaids” that build up over the damaged areas and eventually cause obstruction. 

Homogenization causes a supposedly “noxious” enzyme called xanthine oxidase to be encapsulated in a liposome that can be absorbed intact. Xanthine oxidase is released by enzymatic action and ends up in heart and arterial tissue where it causes the destruction of a specialized protective membrane lipid called plasmalogen, causing lesions in the arteries and resulting in the development of plaque.
The fats damaged by homogenization can be passed through the walls of the digestive system directly into the circulatory system, where they “scratch” the artery walls, making a problem area to which cholesterol flocks ( cholesterol is like the ambulance or mechanic in your circulatory system, repairing issues in the arteries ). This forms plaque and causes heart disease, and it’s all because the fat globules got too small.

 If this hypothesis is correct then the heart disease rate should be highest in the countries with the largest consumption of homogenized milk containing this active XO ingredient. Statistics from around the world confirm that this is exactly the case. Finland is the only country in the world that consumes more homogenized milk than the United States.  It is interesting to note that exercise has little effect on the problem because the Finns are very active people.

A heart attack is the product of years of arterial damage, not the result of some sudden overnight occurrence. Considerable arterial damage occurs before the age of fifteen when the greatest volume of milk is consumed. Scarred arteries have been found in infants after autopsy. Studies have revealed that one half of the American children have lesions by the age of ten. The evidence also suggests that it is unwise for pregnant women to drink homogenized milk because of the potential damage to the unborn foetus.

Homogenized milk is a denatural product; is not natural. Egg cholesterol, and fats, do not trigger heart disease. Heart attack was rare before they began to homogenize milk in 1932. Now even young people are dying from it.

Studies of soldiers killed in Korea showed Americans had heart disease at age 22, Japanese and Koreans did not. The difference? Only the Americans drank homogenized milk.

The enzyme XO smuggled into the bloodstream by homogenized milk causes half of all heart attacks. 30% of the heart muscle and artery walls are composed of plasma-logen. This is usually not in the liver or small intestine for good reason. XO serves a useful purpose in the liver and, the small intestine, but destroys plasmalogen if it is present; they cannot co-exist. Plasmalogen is missing from heart muscle of the heart attack victim, but XO from cow’s milk will be found at the site.

XO in regular milk is digested, but in homogenized milk is transported intact directly into the blood stream where it attacks arteries. When XO attacks the artery, an area is literally eaten away. The body, in its wisdom, tries to heal this area with 15 different substances, including cholesterol. As this buildup continues, the risk of heart attack is increased.

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 Aaro Löf:
 "Homogenointi muuttaa lehmänmaidossa olevan terveellisen rasvan mikroskooppisiksi rasva “palloiksi” jotka sisältävät ksantiinioksidaasia joka on yksi voimakkaimmista ruoansulatuksellisista entsyymeistä. Pallot ovat niin pieniä, että ne ohittavat mahalaukun ja suoliston seinämät ilman “käsittelyä”. Homogenoinnin ansiosta tämä äärimmäisen terävä “proteiinileikkuri” saa vapaasti kellua veressä ja kehomme neisteissä. Kun ksantiinioksidaasi kuoriutuu rasvapallosta, se hyökkää lähimpänä olevan kuljetuskanavan seinämään (esim. verisuoni) ja tekee siihen haavan. Keho reagoi tähän paikkaamalla haavan ja se käyttää laastaroimiseen kolesterolia. Tämä kolesteroli on hyvin usein LDL kolesterolin oksidoitunut muoto johtuen syömiemme rasvojen heikosta laadusta. Oksidoitunut kolesteroli on niinsanotusti pehmeää ja keho vahvistaa “laastaria” kalsiumilla. Tämä tuo mukanaan mm. verisuonten kovettumista, sydänsairauksia, rintakipuja ja sydänkohtauksia."