i started this out of necessity, not intention. the cost of this as a primary food source is less than half, maybe 1/4 compared to meat, so i certainly don't have a glucose meter or BP/HR monitor device.

regarding the domestication: you would have to tame the cattle first. modern cow breeds are more placid by nature due to thousands of years of selective breeding, but wild ones they would have taken a team to take down, and probably at first a lot of peoople would have been gored in the process. there is no way you can just "make friends" with a wild herd of Aurochs, you have to definitely know how to make rope, and definitely build enclosures for them that they can't break out of.

following them around - logically this would be a good nomadic movement strategy, since humans can do that, whereas other predators of such large heavy animals would have been more restricted in their range, and they go for other, different species as well, that for eg speed would preclude humans hunting them.

but this doesn't take the taming and breeding process out of the equation. imagine how it was after they start taming them and still to not neuter the males yet except for the chosen alpha. OUCH. and that's soft as mush domesticated bred cows, the wild ones would have been intense.

i'm wondering though if it was cattle first, since goats and sheep both also have similar milks and are a lot more manageable. goats and cattle also have very different natural habitats, the goats live in more rough terrain and cows in the plains where there is also more team hunters to contend with. there's no doubt that the cows have some serious benefits for their carrying capacity though, and eventually, labor capacity for farming.

vitamin D is also present in the cow milk. sure it would have been helpful for all those cow wrangling injuries probably but it's just one of thousands, probably millions of different photocatalytic reactions that increase in frequency with more light.

i did have some issues with hypertension initially, i have dialed back the salt intake now, i just do one teaspoon, and have it with mint-tea containing ayran mix for one of the 3L i have. well actually, today just doing the ayran properly for the first time. the mint is great cos it calms down my gut in general, i do get a thing every so often where i can hear my stomach unloading every couple of minutes and lots of gurgling noises, this happens less if i'm drinking some mint tea.

i've also dropped the cacao from the mix, and though its effects are mild i definitely went through an adjustment after i ran out.

anyhow, i'm pretty sure that the milk is increasing my regeneration in general, it's not miraculous but it's visible. i'm definitely getting improvements in my nervous system function, less of those common age-related glitches, and i'm watching very closely to see if it leads to some DNA repair that alters hair growth that went wrong years ago from anorexia, and general common age related hairs growing thicker and longer where they shouldn't be.

i'm also getting a decent response from exercise as regards to muscle development and increasing strength and stamina. it's definitely adequate for protein. the low fat milk, however, is badly balanced and was part of why i was having problems with ketosis when i was also fermenting it.

i'm looking forward to when i can take it to the next level with unpasteurised goat milk in the future, hopefully that will happen next year.