A viewer asks: “Some very avant-garde doctors and a growing number of North Americans say raw milk is far healthier for us than pasteurized because they say the heating process kills the beneficial microbes they say would otherwise be passed through from the cow. A dietary expert doctor who is pro-raw milk claims that raw milk will help reverse or prevent things like asthma in kids who are brought up on it. Is that true?” What can Creator tell us?

There are partial truths here, but whether they truly matter will be highly dependent on the individual user. It is not a general necessity for all to drink milk from cows and have the full array of their microflora entering their system. This is more a marketing ploy than a meaningful health consideration. There are as many arguments for pasteurization, with respect to removing known pathogens, so any such practices need to be looked at with respect to known risks versus theoretical ones.