a2 milk.... Good, bad or no effect?????

I would like to fully disclose my background and then give my opinion on the A2 milk question.  I am a Speech Language Pathologist with Asperger's and work exclusively with kindergarten through high school ASD students.  My husband has a small (very small) raw milk business that provides A2 milk to persons with ASD, the Mennonite Community in our area and other health conscious people in our area.  We did not start the dairy for the A2 aspect,  but got interested when a friend gave us Keith Woodford's book, THE DEVIL IN THE MILK.  With that and other research in hand I convinced my husband to test our Jerseys ($25 a cow was not cheap!).  All but one was A2/A2.  We have had reports from people that have children with allergies, "suspected" lactose intolerance, those with ASD and myself that they can drink our milk without digestive or behavioral effects that commercial A1 milk produces.  We all know that "if you have seen one person with Autism, you have seen one person with Autism". I have seen first hand the changes in students that are on a strict CFGF diet and sadly those that are not. There is a marked difference in focus, tolerance levels with sensory issues and skills acquisition in these students on a CFGF diet.  A2 milk is not a medicine. A2 milk is not a cure all.  But it is not snake oil.  There is a real difference in the make-up of the milk produced in the large commercial diaries and what an exclusively A2 dairy can provide.  I would try to find a farmer that has a Jersey or Guernsey cow and try the milk. Those breeds are typically A2.  If the farmer will let you, the cow can be tested by sending tail hairs to a certified lab.   I am not trying to sell our milk here.  I am trying to broaden the awareness of the real health and behavioral changes that occur when the opiod-producing beta-casomorphin-7 (BCM7) found in A1 milk is removed from the diet.

I would like to fully disclose my background and then give my opinion on the A2 milk question.  I am a Speech Language Pathologist with Asperger's and work exclusively with kindergarten through high school ASD students.  My husband has a small (very small) raw milk business that provides A2 milk to persons with ASD, the Mennonite Community in our area and other health conscious people in our area.  We did not start the dairy for the A2 aspect,  but got interested when a friend gave us Keith Woodford's book, THE DEVIL IN THE MILK.  With that and other research in hand I convinced my husband to test our Jerseys ($25 a cow was not cheap!).  All but one was A2/A2.  We have had reports from people that have children with allergies, "suspected" lactose intolerance, those with ASD and myself that they can drink our milk without digestive or behavioral effects that commercial A1 milk produces.  We all know that "if you have seen one person with Autism, you have seen one person with Autism". I have seen first hand the changes in students that are on a strict CFGF diet and sadly those that are not. There is a marked difference in focus, tolerance levels with sensory issues and skills acquisition in these students on a CFGF diet.  A2 milk is not a medicine. A2 milk is not a cure all.  But it is not snake oil.  There is a real difference in the make-up of the milk produced in the large commercial diaries and what an exclusively A2 dairy can provide.  I would try to find a farmer that has a Jersey or Guernsey cow and try the milk. Those breeds are typically A2.  If the farmer will let you, the cow can be tested by sending tail hairs to a certified lab.   I am not trying to sell our milk here.  I am trying to broaden the awareness of the real health and behavioral changes that occur when the opiod-producing beta-casomorphin-7 (BCM7) found in A1 milk is removed from the diet.

I found myself here because after casually weighting our milk choice toward A2 my autistic daughter suddenly made massive leaps, such as planning ahead, taking responsibility, massively improved response time, proactive, tolerance to timed math problems, mastering math that had previously challenged her, reading entire sentences (written math problems) where a week ago reading one word challenged her.   She’s a different person all of a sudden.  It occurred to me that this past week she had been drinking mainly a2 milk.  I observed the changes these past 3 days.  Hmm..,