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Why butter may be ok
Milk contain everything that mother eat, even rocket fuel:
https://www.livescience.com/177-rocket-fuel-chemical-breast-milk-women-18-states.html
Goat's butter is white, and online it says that is because the carotenes are turned into A by the goats.
The yellow of cow butter is seasonal, peaking in the fertile times of spring and fall.
Someone pointed out that nature sure is dumb putting A into breast milk if it is a toxin. I agree! The God's must be crazy.
Weston Price thought spring and fall butter had helpful things, and I suppose it still may (if you aren't A toxic).
A is also in eggs which turn into little chicks. Eggs have always fascinated me and made me think that everything is in that crazy egg: the beak the feathers the liver and etc. Fish roe, being red and orange-- high A. Insect roe in my potato plants is bright orange as well.
My free range chicken egg yolks are much yellower than store bought. Up until this week, I THOUGHT that meant they were better! hahaha oh my
Why is A in these baby production foods? ?
Does it have to do with coloring the animal or human? This is just a thought that occurs.
I'm extremely light. Do pigments like A's become a burden to me, because my body can't use them?
I've read that darker skin is stronger against insect attacks. And look how darker skin goes with hotter climes. Hotter climes also have cuisines heavy with more fuits, vegetables and spices. (Does this also have to do with use of copper?)
Some of Europe's most productive animals are white like the Saanen goat and the Longhorn chicken.
Goats and chickens of warmer places are more colorful.
Arctic animals are white, do they have fewer carotenes in their food chain?
Just sharing my train of thoughts.
@lil-chick Wondering if the mother transferring immune system to breast feeding babies contains vitamin A as a weapon. Transferring the heavy weapons to defend against measles and the like.
Quote from Orion on June 3, 2019, 12:29 pm@lil-chick Wondering if the mother transferring immune system to breast feeding babies contains vitamin A as a weapon. Transferring the heavy weapons to defend against measles and the like.
I think that is how plants use them? So it would be logical.
Breast milk is not pure in the sense that all sorts of toxins find their way into it. See this post by Garrett Smith.
I would like to bump this thread and getting it back to the headline question:
"Why Butter May Be OK"
why does dr G allow butter? Does he mean just a tad bit?
are there special properties of butter or butterfat that make the "cheat" of having VA worthwhile?
There was something in the original post here about how after butter there was less A in the blood? Is that why?
Would non-cow butters (such as goat) which are even whiter (less carotenes but more A) be even better to use?
Anecdotally, I've added some goat butterfat to my diet and my face looks pretty good but my torso is itchy.
ETA: I just realized I was making a big mistake with my coffee I bought this week. It had chicory in it, which is very high in VA! So, I must re-do this butter addition.
ETA again: Oh look, I'm ACTUALLY allergic to chicory. Suffering with chills, miserable. Turns out, it can happen if you have rag-weed allergies! Here's a vote for EATING REGULAR STUFF
So is the reason because of the butyric helping to make the wrapper to transport the A around in?
When I was about 12 I went to a historical re-enactment place and we churned butter and they served it to us on saltines. It was the most delicious thing I've ever tasted, before or since. I would not be surprised to find out that butterfat is, on whole, helpful, although it might have to be limited to a topping and not a lifestyle.
Does anyone have the text of this study? It is currently unavailable. I'm interested in whether it was grass-fed oil or not. I have 2 options, either it is phytanic acid or progesterone in butter.