Växẍ Säbbäth on Nostr: I suspect that in the usual traditional pattern - family farm or small community - ...

I suspect that in the usual traditional pattern - family farm or small community - raw milk is probably fine; you wind up being a smallish part of a large shared microbiome smeared over you, your family members, the cows, your neighbors, .... that isn't going to permit too many pathogenic excursions (and which will recolonize you with "good" stuff if needed, say if you take a course of antibiotics); it should settle into a stable state and ***mostly*** stay there

I don't know that I would trust raw milk in a transactional universe, though, especially one with a diversity of retards in it; the best raw milk is the kind you produce yourself, the second-best kind is the kind your neighbor makes (whom you have over for dinner every other night), and the rest of your milk products oughta be pasteurized because that's a better idea than trusting a game of Microbial Telephone spanning the length of the usual supply chain, in which the least intelligent participant is the determinant of your family's health

that said, a resilient gut microbiome seems to confer resistance to a lot of nasty things; I can relate that since I've had the habit of eating yogurt, kefir, kombucha, and so forth, I can eat things without issue that in previous years would have made me quite ill