As we head into 2022 I have many people contacting me about their general health and asking how to eat. There are often silver linings to times of crisis, and the past couple of years have made many more aware of how important it can be to stay well.
I also have people asking me what I think about published authors like Michael Pollan, Dr. Perlmutter, Dr. Gundry and Dr. Berg. All of these doctors emphasize the importance of food and nutrients to your energy and long-term health, and I applaud them for that.
Long before so many dietary regimens like Paleo, Vegan, or Keto became popular, I considered myself an “Ancestral” nutritionists because I followed the scientific discoveries of Dr. Royal Lee and Dr. Weston A. Price. These last two were giants in the field of nutritional science last century, before pharmaceutical companies took over research.
Both Dr. Lee and Dr. Price were trained as dentists, but each asked a question that few modern dentists even consider-why is there so much tooth decay, loss of teeth, and gum disease? We take it for granted that people have dental issues. Isn’t good dental health seeing your dentist frequently for x-rays, cleaning, and fillings, not to mention braces, implants, and prosthetics like bridges and false teeth? Or are these just costly and painful “solutions” to our inadequate dental health?
It could be said that the first sign of ill health may start in the mouth. Teeth are composed of a mineral complex. With vital minerals missing from our soil, causing us to eat food that is deficient, and high sugar diets that leach minerals, it is no wonder that we need dentists to fix the problems that dietary deficiencies cause.
But you never hear your dentist talk about this subject, except to tell you to brush your teeth because sugar feeds bacteria in your mouth. The real dental education is how to eat so that your teeth are strong enough to stand up to bacteria, as well as how to create an oral environment of healthy bacteria that are not harmful to teeth. As with other organisms in the body, the helpful ones thrive on healthy foods and the harmful ones love junk and sugar.
Dr. Weston Price wrote a book called, “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration” that has become a bible for nutritionists that encourage nutrient-dense foods. He photographed people all over the world who ate natural diets and documented their disease patterns. Those people, who ate like their ancestors, did not have diseases of modern civilization, like Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease, and Obesity. They didn’t suffer from allergies and asthma and autoimmune disorders.
They also birthed healthy babies, and stayed slim and active into old age.
Imagine a world where we didn’t need vitamin supplements and frequent doctor visits for check ups to see which disease we are generating by our toxic environments and dead, lifeless foods.
We could have that world. There would still be a need for supporting health when extra stressors depleted nutrients, or caused a breakdown of organs or systems. But we could actually grow food for our physical survival and medicine, which is the actual purpose of food. Add in herbs, homeopathy, acupuncture, chiropractic, and other non-invasive modalities, guided by wellness practitioners, and we wouldn’t have the epidemics of modern disease states.
Medical doctors could do what they technically do best-set bones and perform rare and necessary surgeries. Big Agriculture, Big Industrial Farming, and Big Food Companies, not to mention Big Pharma/Insurance/Hospital, would all have to go. Drug Cartels, Big Tobacco (now rapidly becoming Big Vape and Pot) and Big Alcohol are also contributing to the problem. These industries have a vested interest in keeping us weak, addicted, and sick.
When you realize that a high percentage of businesses in the Industrialized world have created problems that demand products and services they can sell, rather than offering genuine help, you become an independent consumer and builder of your own natural health and immunity.
This does not mean that all the people who work in the named industries are bad people. Some of them truly wish to help alleviate suffering and help people to get well. But we are known by the company we keep, and there is a responsibility to look beneath the surface of anyone or anything that we support with our money and allegiance.
If you would like to learn about the work of one of the greatest nutritional researchers you can visit www.westonaprice.org. There you will find a wealth of material about healthy fats, raw milk, organic foods, and the superfoods valued by cultures that Dr. Price documented. Health freedom includes having the freedom to eat the nourishing foods that our cells crave and Nature provided.
Leave rocket science to NASA and chemicals to the factories that manufactured them. The Healing Arts belong to those who walked the walk and touched patients’ lives with their wisdom and caring. You can never learn enough from a test tube. We humans bring a lot of stuff along with us-composed of experiences, emotions, thoughts, attitudes, beliefs, not to mentions hopes and dreams. The stuff of Life.
As we draw the curtain on a tough 2021, I wish a whole lot more Life for you in 2022. It takes courage to live a fully and energetically, so I hope that we are all brave enough and insightful enough to find more health and peace in the New Year.