Goats milk?

Anyone drink it? Does it cause problems? I just picked up some non-fat powdered goats milk because I've been craving milk like crazy the last couple days and I figured this would be easier to digest.

It was all the store had available. I would've gone for the full fat otherwise. :)

I love goat cheese and eat it almost every day.  One of my faves is a grilled cheese sandwich, I use goat cheese and low fat swiss (also low in salt).

I've used Goats milk, it tasted kinda sweet if I remember correctly...I became lactose intolerant (again, first time I was a toddler) and I switched to Goats milk because it's much easier to digest and I believe better for you than cows milk....I believe it's safe for lactose intolerant people to digest cuz it doesn't have any lactose in it from what I remember...a quick google search will confirm either way.

Hi,

Just came here to swing by... it's been a while...

I have been getting grass fed raw goat/cow milk, grass fed meats and it's expensive($17 a gallon) delivered from upstate Amish towns right at my door in NYC and I think it's helping me stay in remission longer. Dont wanna jinx it but I think it's helping. I drink about 1.5 - 2 gallons of raw goat/cow milk every week.

I found out that so MANY people get it this way or actually go to the farm during the milking hours with a few gallon sized bottles. Only about 2 hours away so... P.s. these farms are certified.

Grass fed beef patties + grass fed cheese + flourless sprouted bread + organic veges = yumm

Remember, if it's pasteurized then it lost all its enzymes, probiotics and vitamins. Must be raw or it's going to taste like crap(IMO). I used to get Meyenberg's goat milk from the whole foods market but it's pasteurized and tastes pretty bad.

Raw goat milk tastes just like cow's milk, maybe creamier. And goat's milk doesn't need to be homogenized.

Studies have shown that babies digest goat milk within 20 minutes. But the cow's milk doesn't get digested fully for hoursss. Goat's milk resembles human breast milk in every aspect, scientifically speaking, so if you don't have problems digesting it then drink up!

Google goat milk's benefits, it should help you understand.

Post Edited (CollegeStudent) : 1/20/2012 5:32:22 PM (GMT-7)

Hi InSoFla,

It's great to hear that you are doing well.

I'm not on Paleo diet since I eat grains based food such as bread. Diets like Paleo and SCD led to unhealthy loss of weight and it was too excessive.

Although some do well just on protein and fats as their main intake, I couldn't handle it. We're all different.

But as for the grains, I only eat them in sprouted form in moderate amounts. Ezekiel bread/cereals from Food for life and Alvarado bakery breads are all made from sprouted grains without flour and I tolerate them very well.

I'm basically following the Biblical diet, very close to Maker's diet by Jordan Rubin, or eating what God gave us. The Bible says to eat raw dairy, grass fed meat, barley(sprouted), wheat(sprouted), raw dairy from goats/cows/sheep, olive oil, small fruits, soups/stocks, a lot of saturated fats from raw milk butter/coconut oil and some fermented dairy(raw goat kefir/yogurt).

Gotta admit that raw cow cheese tastes bad(esp. cheddar) but other ones like chevre garlic tastes alright to me.

I don't know how I landed on this diet and I try to be a faithful Christian(not really) but this diet made sense to me so I kept at it. I just stay away from pork and shellfish based products as these are unclean food according to the bible.

It's expensive to keep up with this diet at times but there are a few tricks which I've learned doing this to limit my expense.

I stopped LDN after making a gradual transition to this diet and it's been good. I know that the studies and research shows almost no side effects of taking LDN, but I still didn't like the idea of taking something artificial to boost my immune system.

I take goat protein supplement. I also take IntestiNew when I binge on pizza, chocolate cakes or outside food on some occasions.

I sprained my ankle pretty badly while shoveling some light snow out today and can't walk... and I'm supposed to pick up my new car, which I waited for 2 months from Japan... what a day

Anyways, I'm happy that you've found your own way of staying in remission and I hope more people find the way to do this without using hardcore meds unless it's absolutely necessary.

We follow a modified version of the Makers diet. That is where we learned about Goats milk. When I say modified.....we buy pasteurized goat milk from the store...not raw from the farm. I didn't want to chance too many things with a young child. We have modified on the breads slightly and occational pork when mixed with other meat. But, for the most part, our family follows the Makers diet.

He does "grainy" carbs...rice, cuscus, whole grain. Like you said, nothing refined....all natural....a lot of organic. Besides sprouted, sour dough is acceptable. He likes oatmeal and Health aisle cereals.

Jini Patel has a "raw milk protocol" and there are people who swear raw milk (cow or goat, apparently raw cow's milk has all of the enzymes intact and so it's possible for people to tolerate it) healed their CD. I won't try it with a child but if it were me I would probably try it. BTW, I was a child in India and for at least a few generations there milk was brought locally from straight from the cow in the morning but then it was boiled thoroughly before drinking. Never had it raw, considered too dangerous.

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Post Edited By Moderator (Red_34) : 1/25/2012 6:54:20 AM (GMT-7)

Regarding goat milk:
I have personally become ill multiple times from Meyenberg's goat milk / Meyenberg goat milk (refrigerated, full fat, purple-pink and white printed cardboard containers). The cardboard containers are frequently (as in every week or every other week) 'puffed out' in the grocery store, before the the expiration date. I kept trying it as there was no other source I knew of. I have now given up on it. Getting a pathogen or contaminant or whatever they are placing in their milk that is getting me ill (it is not every carton that does this, and I never, ever drink from a 'puffy'-looking carton) could damage my health worse than the horrid experience of being poisoned few months from the stuff (it's happened 6 times in 1.5 years). This was what I read about Meyenberg's in another forum. It seems to explain why I see the puffiness and why Whole Foods, Trader Joe's and other places I've bought it from continue to get puffy and toxic product from them. Internet search these words to see the source of the quote:

"I can't drink the stuff. That brand was the first goats milk I had ever tried and I nearly puked. It turned me off goats for years. After tasting some raw goat milk I decided goats weren't so bad. And now I love them and their milk.

Having been in and around commercial dairy goat farms I can tell you some of the many reasons the milk taste so different from the milk you will get from a backyard farm.

#1. Over pasteurization. They cook the heck out of it.
#2. Mastitis. Many of the farms do not treat mastitis until it gets bad or sometimes not at all unless the goat is bleeding into the milk. 
#3. Heavy use of Swiss breeds. Many Toggenburg and some Alpines have strong milk.
#4. Deficiencies. Many animals just can't get what they need out of a one size fits all mineral.
#5. Dirty conditions. You simply can't keep a pen clean enough when you have hundreds of goats in it.
#6. They are unhappy. A stressed goat isn't going to give you its best.


I have seen one time where one of the does teats rotted off and the whole half of the udder was on its way out but they still milked the other side since it wasn't bleeding or spitting chunks into the milk. You could smell it from feet away. That's not going to make the batch of milk taste good I can tell you that much. As long as the cell counts in the bulk tank are low enough and there is no contaminants in the pasteurized milk they are A-Ok to sell."