Cow’s Milk Casomorphin and Autism

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DESCRIPTION: Opiate-like casomorphins liberated from the cow’s milk protein casein are accused of participating in the cause of such conditions as: autism, crib death, type I diabetes, postpartum psychosis, circulatory disorders, and food allergies. Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at ‪ and I’ll try to answer it!‬ Please also see the last two videos in this series, Cow’s Milk-Induced Infant Apnea ( and yesterday’s video ( Breast is always best, but the breast milk of women eating plant-based diets may not only exclude bovine casomorphins, but contain lower levels of industrial pollutants like dioxins. See Flame Retardant Chemical Contamination ( For other effects animal products may have on healthy development, see Dairy & Sexual Precocity ( and Protein and Puberty ( No wonder Dr. Spock, the most esteemed pediatrician of all time, recommended children be raised without exposure to meat and dairy (see Doctors’ Nutritional Ignorance – And if that isn’t enough, there are and hundreds of other videos on more than a thousand subjects (

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