Friday sessions

This session really opened my eyes about what we consider normal, and what percent of that is only common because of nutritional deficiency.

This started with an overview of Dr. Price's 10 year study of "primitive" cultures: cultures not affect by western food, and that live without a modern doctor or dentist. The question he asked was, are there people that live like this, without doctors and dentists, that are perfectly healthy and not getting life threatening diseases? because, yes, of course there are people like this, he then asked:  What do they eat?

These people he looked at had perfectly perfect teeth. Straight lines of sparkling pearls. No overbites, under bites, side bites, or abnormalities. Now if you go into a school, you can't find 10 people with teeth like that. These peoples skull structure were wide, and broad. Their arches were high and round, not oval, a problem my jaw has. The people grew tall, and lean. The Native Americans could outrun deer. They had perfect eyesight, their babies rarely cried, their children could sit still for more than 10 minutes. These people ate the entire animal, and drink milk, and broth, ate FATS, eggs, and milk products. Vegetables and fruits.  Dr. Price found that the balanced diet would be the best, but every person is different. One person could live on dairy products and eggs their whole life and be perfectly healthy, but that wouldn't work for everybody on this planet. Everyones biochemical structure is different, so you have to find your own balance.

People who ate like this, but then were influenced by western food were effected greatly. Their children were born with much narrower facial structure, dental deformities, and were much more susceptible to diseases.

Sally really pressured the fact that though we have these problems, before and during pregnancy, if we feed our pregnant women these natural diets, the babies will come out healthy, with less abnormalities or deficiencies. Also, the three things that we need now, that is found in all these original foods, are vitamins A, D, and K2. A deficiency in any of the three will effect your health in many ways, and really degrade your body's well-being.

Someone remind me of all this information when i'm pregnant. :)

I sat through a small part of Natsha Caampbell McBride's session on her GAPS diet, and sat through the questions people asked her. One lady was pregnant, and had lupus, and wanted to go on the diet to hopefully heal it, but didn't know if she should while pregnant. Dr. McBride shocked us all when she told us that no, she shouldn't go on the diet, but she should be eating at least half a block of butter. A DAY. Along with LIVER, another answer to many peoples problems, and a usual WAP diet.

Also, something that has stuck with me from Dr. McBrides sessions was when she was talking about how no one should be eat white refined sugar. To digest or process 1 sugar molecule, the body must use 56 magnesium molecules. Because many people don't have enough magnesium to digest all their sugar that their eating, the body must leech the magnesium from other places, bones and teeth. Magnesium is essential in many body functions, like relaxing arteries and veins, it plays a role in the transmission of nerve impulses. It promotes a healthy immune system. If we are eating so much sugar, then the level of our magnesium much be ridiculously low.