The Maker's Diet is a 40-day eating plan that was created by Jordan S. Rubin after overcoming his own lengthy health battle with Crohn's disease and colitis. The program is based on biblical principles and avoids all processed foods, focusing instead on organic foods such as berries, vegetables, grains, nuts, seeds, fish, grass-fed beef, pastured poultry, wild fish and raw cultured, non-pasteurized, non-homogenized dairy products. Rubin claims that many lactose intolerant individuals benefit from eating a more natural diet including goat milk and lacto-fermented dairy products, which contain less lactose and are more easily digested.
Lactose Intolerance
Lactose intolerance is the inability to digest and absorb lactose, a sugar in milk, due to low production of the enzyme lactase. This intolerance to milk can be chronic or temporary due to inflammation, illness or disease. According to the Mayo Clinic, symptoms such as gas, bloating, diarrhea and abdominal pain generally begin within 30 minutes to two hours after consuming food or drinks that contain lactose.
Goat Milk
The first two weeks of "The Maker's Diet" is restrictive, with the goal of cleansing the body of toxins and decreasing inflammation, illness and insulin levels. According to Rubin, raw goat milk is good for consumption because it does not suppress immune function and contains much less lactose than cow milk. Goat milk is non-mucus forming, less allergenic and more easily digested than cow milk. Phase one of "The Maker's Diet" includes goat milk yogurt, homemade kefir from goat milk and soft and hard goat milk cheese.
Lacto-fermentation
Rubin recommends raw milk cheese, kefir, whole milk yogurt and other fermented dairy products. The probiotic bacteria that are involved in the process of lacto-fermentation use lactose, leaving behind the simple sugar galactose, which is more easily digested. This fermentation process makes most dairy products more easily digestible for those with sensitive stomachs and protects the food and drink from dangerous organisms. Organic high-quality fermented dairy provides calcium, aids in lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, and contains natural vitamins, enzymes and fats.
Back to Nature
Modern milk production technology adds growth hormones to boost milk production of animals, which humans in turn ingest. The pasteurization process destroys undesirable bacteria, but it also destroys beneficial bacteria and enzymes and alters amino acid structure. "The Maker's Diet" stresses eating grass-fed organic dairy products in their most natural state to receive the maximum of amount of nutrients, enzymes and probiotics. Rubin credits his healing to prayer and eating foods in their most natural state.
References
- "The Maker's Diet"; Jordan S. Rubin; 2004
- MayoClinic.com: Lactose Intolerance Symptoms
