Contrary to the notion that milk is a very nutritious food and should be made an essential part of an individual’s diet, here’s an opinion that drinking milk can be harmful for a person’s health as it can cause cancer.  Milk contains high levels of the hormone estrogen. Dietary hormones, especially estrogen, have been linked to cancer.  Such natural hormones are considered to be much more harmful than the estrogen-like compounds present in pesticides.

According to recent studies, consuming dairy products increases the risk of hormone related cancers like testicular cancer, prostate cancer and breast cancer. Dairy products like milk, butter and cheese, and also meet and eggs have high levels of natural hormones in them that increases the risk of cancer.

In modern dairy farms, milk is obtained from pregnant cows. Milk collected from pregnant cows has higher levels of the estrogen compound esterone sulfate (an estrogen compound) than in milk from non-pregnant cows. In Mongolia, the milk producers do not harvest milk from pregnant cows. So now, the option is to adopt this model and collect milk only from non-pregnant cows.

Recent studies have also made it clear that betacellulin present in pasteurized milk increases the risk of cancer by passing into the digestive tract and stimulating the growth of cancer cells. So this study places raw milk as a healthier choice.