by Courtney Meyerhofer
Is grass fed butter healthy?
Butter has been demonized the last few decades, but it’s coming back into vogue as more people are adopting a whole foods, ancestral approach to nutrition.
100 years ago, Americans ate 18 pounds of butter per person per year!
Today, Americans eat about 5 pounds of butter per person per year.
People then didn’t have the chronic disease epidemic we have today, and they didn’t worry about their butter consumption.
Grass fed butter is high in trace minerals.
Iodine
Calcium
Phosphorous
Magnesium
Iron
Selenium
Modern diets are generally low in these minerals because of soil depletion AND we use more of these minerals due to our higher stress pace of life. This means we need all the minerals we can get.
2. Grass fed butter is high in fat soluble vitamins A D E and K.
Fat soluble vitamins are needed for every cell, every hormone and are linked to longevity. Vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant that helps our bodies handle inflammation and stress.
3. Anti-cancer conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) is uniquely rich in the products of grass fed ruminants.
You can find CLA in grass fed meat, grass fed dairy and butter.
4. Grass fed butter is high in butyric acid, a powerful anti-inflammatory hard to find in most foods.