Why avoid milk products?
The reason that milk products cause acne is because milk contains hormones that “turn on” oil glands. The cows that give the milk are pregnant and milking most of their lives. These hormones are not injected into the cows – they are natural hormones that cows make during every “menstrual” cycle, but during pregnancy these hormones are produced continuously at high levels and so are found in all cows’ milk. What about hormone-free milk? There is no such thing as “hormone-free” milk. The confusion is caused by a company that sells a hormone (called either bovine somatotropin – BST or recombinant bovine growth hormone – rBGH) for injection into cows to make them produce more milk. Some milk producers have made the point that they do not use this injection by advertising that the milk is “hormone-free”. It obviously does not contain the injected hormone but all the cows’ natural hormones are still in the milk. We do not know yet what the injected hormones do to the levels of natural hormon
