“May your foods be your medicines” – Hippocrates

Whey has been used for health related reasons for more than 24 centuries. Hippocrates (446-337 BC), the father of medicine, prescribed it to his patients. Following him, Galen (131 BC-200BC), another founding father of medicine, advised his patients to use whey. Since then, it has been recommended by doctors and authors in many different regions of the world. It is known to have been used in Europe, the Middle East and the Indus Valley region for over a millennium. Whey is a natural substance, the liquid part of fresh milk that is left over from the making of cheese.

In 1749, a patient, who could not be cured by his doctors, went to the Swiss mountain village of Gais and was healed by drinking whey on a daily basis. Word spread and people flooded to Gais to benefit from the miraculous properties of whey. A health spa was soon opened in this tiny village, followed by more than 160 spas across Switzerland, Austria and Germany. These spas were most active throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Emperors and aristocrats came from across Europe to cure their illnesses and for general well-being.

These eighteenth century health spas employed a carefully timed system. Whey that had been prepared late at night was carried from remote mountain cheese makers after a 3-4 hour walk to ensure that whey arrived at the spas before dawn. Liquid whey is an extremely perishable beverage, which must be consumed within 10 hours. Now, thanks to the fabrication of whey in powder form, its benefits are available to everyone.

However, much of the whey available in packaged form today is adulterated and chemically treated, and has lost its healing properties. The Organic Whey™ is the purest form of whey available to you.