Raw Milk in A Capsule for Osteoporosis!

are you looking to optimize your supplements for bone health today I'm going to discuss a new product that we've added to our list of frequently suggested supplements this one's called lacto Farin we're going to review the available literature and discuss my own experience clinically that really pushed us to make this switch if you've had a good or bad experience with lacto faren we'd love to hear about it please leave it in the comments on YouTube all right so I'm going to give you the full recipe for how we use this product including the dose and the brand now I have no Financial relationship with this product so this is purely just evidence-based information before I do let me give you a little bit of background so many of you probably have not heard of lacto Farin lactoferrin is a naturally occurring protein that is found in the milk of most mammals including humans it's also particularly abundant in the early milk after a mammal gives birth called colostrum and that is not a coincidence so while lactoferrin is present in cow in Goat in sheep milk and in human milk it is not present in anything that's been pasteurized so the protein gets broken down in the heating and the pasteurization process so lactoferrin is only available in raw milk if someone has access to raw milk so lactoferrin when you read about this you'll find that lactoferrin is thought to be antibacterial it's antiviral it helps to regulate iron absorption it helps to regulate iron metabolism it's anti-inflammatory it improves immune function it improves gut health it's kind of like a Panacea now whenever anything is sold as a Panacea I raise a red flag and I say show me the evidence what's really compelling is that there is quite a bit of evidence for lactoferrin I'm not going to review it all but what I do see is that there's a lot of evidence for lactoferrin on bone health and that's what I really want to review today I got introduced to lactoferrin through a product called milk basic protein or MBP and in that video we discussed that MBP as an intervention has been studied and it does inre bone mineral density on its own and half of MBP by volume is lacto Farin the other half is lactoperoxidase so before I get to the dosing and the products let me tell you a little bit about why I think lacto Farin is probably better than MBP alone okay so let's get into the studies that actually show that lactoferrin is a really compelling product to use for bone health so this first one I'm going to show here this is a 2023 review paper and it's specifically looking at lactoferrin as a target for future Therapeutics so you see this kind of research when a company or an industry in general is looking at a product as something that they can potentially patent and you know potentially make a drug out of so you see these kind of like blanket approaches looking at all the available literature what they found here is that lactoferrin regulates function of osteoblasts so those are the cells that make bone condra sites those are the cells that make cartilage and also that can turn into part of the Matrix and then osteoclasts so osteoclasts are the cells that break down tum bone and then mesenchimal stem cells and stem cells are the things that can become other things like osteoblast and osteoclast although from different cell lines the paper discusses all the detailed mechanisms and I won't bore you with that but what's interesting is that they are the same as some of the pharmaceutical mechanisms that are out there now what's really cool about lactoferrin is that like most natural products it works on both sides of the equation so a lot of the pharmaceutical approaches are going to work simply on one side in fact they all work pretty much on one side meaning that the anti-resorptive drugs will work on the osteoclast side the the anabolic drugs work on the osteoblast side but natural products tend to work on both so lacto Farin will work on both osteoclast and osteoblast it's kind of cool the conclusion of this study says that lactoferrin can rescue disregulated bone remodeling and osteoporotic conditions by stimulating bone formation and suppressing bone resorption that's a pretty powerful statement because we don't see drugs that can do that and so if there were a drug that could do both and improve bone metabolism overall it would be a showstopper of a pharmaceutical and then I looked at all the animal research that supported basically coming out of that one review paper so I'm just going to point these out so the 2 3D fourth fifth 6th 7th and eth studies that we reviewed these are all animal studies but what's cool is that they all showed benefits in an animal model so before I get into the human studies because there are some human studies just a quick reminder that if you haven't gone through our Master Class already and you're struggling to try to figure out what is the right combination of stuff for you what's the right approach to help you to improve your bone health and potentially reverse your osteoprosis consider our Master Class the master class is totally free if you're on YouTube look for the link in the description below and it is our opportunity to talk to you about how we go through building an osteoprosis program and we'll talk about all the updates to our program and we'll have some time for Q&A all right so what about the human studies so the human studies actually look pretty good and there's some issues that I'll talk about but in 2010 there were two studies that were published and these were on our population of Interest we'll say it that way so this was a study that looked at 38 postmenopausal women and they were looking at lactoferrin specifically for information in bone health for six months so that's pretty awesome now what I don't like about this study is that they chose to use a a combination of ribonuclease and lactoferrin and so what does that mean ribonuclease is something you can attach to something and so they used a ribo enrich lacto Farin why would they do that because that is a unique molecule and a unique molecule can be patented so clearly this is again this is a a company looking to produce something that they could then patent and obviously make money on that's how the industry works so we have to take this a little bit for what it is but this ribonucleic enrich lacto Farin at 225 milligrams a day they Ed that as an intervention Plus calcium and then the placebo group had just calcium what they noticed is the inflammatory markers changed in the correct direction in both sides meaning that the pro-inflammatory markers went down and the anti-inflammatory markers went up and there's markers that you can measure for both of those which is pretty cool they also noticed this thing called rank Lagan which you've heard me talk about in reference to some drugs rank Lian went down which is what you see with the drug and then also CRP which is a marker for inflammation also went down so can we say that this ribonuclease enrich lactoferrin is the same thing as lactoferrin not it's not can we say that the effect is coming from the lactoferrin or the Rabon nucleus we can't but it is certainly pushing Us in the direction to say that there is probably something relevant here what's also good about the study though is that it starts to give us a dose like all the animal studies are going to use doses all over the map and how do you relate that to a human but these are human studies and we're using a clear dose and we can pull out a number from there which I'll show you in a minute all right so then the next study is also from the same group I would assume it's from the same group because it's 38 postmenopausal women using ribon nucleus and R lactoferrin so probably the same study group but anyway they were looking at bone turnover markers specifically and they did you know dosage for 6 months so what they found is that there was indeed decreased bone breakdown and increased bone building so again it's working on both sides of the equation which we really like so those are the only two human studies we could find now is that enough human studies to use it well I think the answer is yes and here's why because lacto Farin occurs naturally I mentioned earlier that you find it in raw dairy and we know that raw dairy has a very different impact than does pasteurized Dairy one of the reasons to consume raw dairy if you can find it and and deem it to be coming from a safe source so lacto Farin is in colostrum it's in raw dairy and it's available as an over-the-counter supplement so let's assume that you either don't tolerate Dairy don't have access to raw dairy or just want to consume the supplement where do we get it from so the two companies that we use right now in our practice and again no relationship with these companies but that's allergy research group or ARG and gerro both of these companies have a product that is the lacto faren um the ARG group uses a K in it just to make it look different and has a reasonably high dose and jro has a a similar product their doses are around 250 350 milligram something like that in each of us serving and then if you look at the study that 225 MGS in the Rabon nucleus enriched Lao lactoferrin if you do the math on which of the products is heavier and there and what's the combination it's likely to be about 200 Mig of lactoferrin so somewhere between that 200 300 400 milligram seems to be what the researchers were thinking would should be studied if you think about how much is in raw milk this gets a little bit super physiologic though because in raw milk there's about 20 to 25 milligrams per cup of milk so to get to 200 to 300 or 400 you know milligrams of lactoferrin you're talking about 10 20 30 cups of milk which is obviously a lot of milk so I also wanted to say this one thing which is that some of these products like ARG and gerro I think both of them are available on Amazon I strongly discourage people from buying supplements on Amazon or from big box stores because there have been multiple studies showing how the things that are in the bottle are not necessarily what's supposed to be in the bottle and also there's no guarantee that those have been stored appropriately in a temperature controlled Warehouse how long have they been there what is the you know the true expiration date Etc so strongly encourage people to buy products from companies like full script which is an online dispensary that a lot of doctors will use we use it in our practice as well if you don't have access to full script by any of the doctors that you know and you want to have access to our full script without being a patient consider joining our health span nation which is our membership Community where people are upleveling each other visiting us once a week for a live Q&A with myself or a team member and they have access to both our full script which has a lot of these products in it but also so to other discounts that we give to our members and patients the cost of or the cost difference in those discounts can offset the cost of the membership in a second so something to consider and you can check out links for that in the description or go to our website optimal human health.com and you can find that there so this was a review of lacto Farin and if you like this consider this video the three best supplements to build bone health or this video the best supplements for building muscle mass all of them obviously on supplements so remember that osteoporosis isn't the end but deciding to reverse it is a beginning