From Modern Farmer:
Have an upset stomach and Pepto
Bismol just isn’t doing it for you? Maybe you should head over to the
Russian city of Kostroma – about four hours outside of Moscow – and try a
glass of warm, salty, moose milk.
Carefully drawn from the teats of these northern giants, this
pine-scented delicacy is renowned in the area as a cure for peptic
ulcers. High in butterfat (usually coming in at around 10 percent,
compared to cow milk’s average 5 percent), loaded with double the amount
of essential amino acids as cow’s milk and chock-full of lypozyme – an
enzyme that kills ulcer-creating bacteria – the slightly acidic milk has
been used by Kostroma’s Ivan Susanin Sanatorium as a treatment for an array of diseases and disorders for over 30 years.
The sanatorium – an alternative therapy retreat for people suffering
from gastrointestinal diseases – sources their entire milk supply from
the nearby Sumarokovo Moose Farm. Originally established in 1966 and
designed to house over 800 moose, the farm is now home to just under 30
animals....MORE
