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Brain disease can be caused by factors such as alcoholism, accumulation of heavy metals in the brain, the genes you inherit, malnutrition, and even lifestyle factors. But a new discovery shows that UHT milk (also known as ‘Ultra Heat Treated’ milk or Long Life milk) is one of the biggest dietary causes of brain disease.

The food we eat and drink is responsible for most brain disease. Genes and smoking are also responsible for brain disease, but to a lesser extent.

Here we are referring to serious neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington’s, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Lou Gehrig’s Disease. All these diseases are mainly caused by damaged proteins.

What happens is that damaged proteins accumulate in the brain over time and cause brain disease. This is supported by virtually all the scientific research into this subject, and there are many published studies that support this view.

How does UHT milk come into this? Up until now few people realized that UHT milk is very high in damaged proteins. Even fewer people have ‘put two and two together’ to realize that as a consequence, UHT milk is one of the biggest dietary causes of brain disease.

This hasn’t come to light before because it can take a long time for brain disease to develop, and the rapid growth in UHT milk consumption is a relatively recent development.

UHT milk is not the same as regular pasteurized milk. It has a different molecular structure. UHT milk is pasteurized at twice the temperature of regular milk (and about 57 percent higher the homogenization pressure). This drastically changes the fundamental nature of milk, making it very high in damaged proteins.

In the USA, Canada, and the UK nearly 10 percent of all milk sold is UHT, but sales of UHT are growing rapidly. And about 80 percent of all organic milk sold in the USA and Canada is UHT. In many other countries such as Spain, France and Belgium over 95 percent of all types of milk are UHT.

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