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The X Factor of Weston Price
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CURING CAVITIES
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Why I'm in Awe of Activator X Butter Oil and Cod Liver Oil
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More: http://www.westonaprice.org/traditio...ry_wisdom.html
** This one meal consisted of:
Orange or tomato juice with 1/2 tsp each cod liver oil and high vitamin butter oil added, bone marrow broth stew with meat and veggies including very yellow carrots (or substituting fish chowder or stew with organ meats), whole wheat sourdough bread that had been made from freshly ground wheat, raw butter, raw milk, cooked fruit with very little sweetner.
Even though they ate donuts fried in vegetable fat, white flour and syrup and coffee with a lot of sugar for the rest of their meals at home, the fortification of this extremely high vitamin/mineral content lunch protected them.
Minerals in saliva increased a huge amount and bacterial counts in the mouth went way, way down. Behavior and learning was also improved.
The X Factor of Weston Price
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| Price travelled the world over in order to study isolated human groups, including sequestered villages in Switzerland, Gaelic communities in the Outer Hebrides, Eskimos and Indians of North America, Melanesian and Polynesian South Sea Islanders, African tribes, Australian Aborigines, New Zealand Maori and the Indians of South America. Wherever he went, Dr. Price found that beautiful straight teeth, freedom from decay, stalwart bodies, resistance to disease and fine characters were typical of primitives on their traditional diets, rich in essential food factors. Dr. Price discovered an additional fat soluble vitamin which is now called the Price Factor or Activator X. It is a powerful catalyst which, like vitamins A and D, helps the body absorb and utilize minerals. It was present in the diets of all the healthy population groups he studied but unfortunately has almost completely disappeared from the modern western diet. Sources include organ meats from cows eating green grass, fish eggs and shellfish. Butter can be an especially rich source of Activator X when it comes from cows eating rapidly growing grass in the Spring and Fall seasons. It disappears in cows fed cottonseed meal or high protein soy-based feeds. Fortunately, Activator X is not destroyed by pasteurization. http://www.realmilk.com/price.html |
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| ...Secondary dentine, a less well-organized form of tubular dentine, is produced throughout life as a patching material where cavities have begun, where the overlying enamel has been worn away, and within the pulp chamber as part of the aging process. Sometimes when cavities occur, production of secondary dentine can "heal" the decayed spot or rebuild portions of the tooth that have worn away. If vitamin D is adequate, secondary dentine will be well calcified. If vitamin D is lacking, dentine will be of poor quality or not present at all. There is some evidence that the mineralization of dentine may depend on calcium derived from saliva rather than blood; in other words, it is deposited from the exterior rather than the interior of the tooth. The book describes studies by Dr. C. L. Pattison who, working with Mrs. Mellanby, determined that the calcium content of saliva doubled or even tripled when the diet contained adequate vitamin D from cod liver oil. http://www.westonaprice.org/basicnut...dliveroil.html |
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| I've had a personal revelation, and I'd like to share it with you. I was eagerly reading my copy of Eat Fat Lose Fat, the new book by Sally Fallon and Dr. Mary Enig, when a paragraph on page 77 stopped me in my tracks. It said, Dr. Price explained that vitamins A and D are catalysts to mineral absorption and protein utilization. Without them, you cannot absorb minerals, no matter how abundant they may be in your food. In addition, Price discovered another fat-soluble nutrient, a potent catalyst for mineral absorption that he labeled Activator X. It was present in all the diets he studied. "Wait a MINUTE!!!!" I thought. "Mineral imbalances and deficiencies can lead to all KINDS of health problems!!!! Did Dr. Price mean that if I wasn't getting enough vitamin A and D, I couldn't absorb MINERALS ????????" I read the paragraph again. That was certainly what it had said, hadn't it? It was like someone had hit me upside the head! ...Case Three: During the severe industrial depression, rampant caries developed in a great number of cases in the families of mill workers...twenty-seven mission children were selected on the basis of rampant dental caries. Since these children were all from poor homes, many of the families being on relief, one extra good meal a day at midday** was provided for the entire group at the mission. This was preceded by administration to each child of one teaspoonful of a mixture containing a high vitamin butter oil. This butter was selected on the basis of its high content of activator X. It was mixed with equal parts of a high-vitamin, natural cod liver oil. The clinical effect was apparent complete control of dental caries for the entire group, as shown in the x-ray films. In many of these cases, the open cavities were left without fillings; and, in all such cases, the exposed dentin took on a hard glassy finish. There were many other evidences of betterment. http://greenpasture.org/awe_butter_oil.php |
** This one meal consisted of:
Orange or tomato juice with 1/2 tsp each cod liver oil and high vitamin butter oil added, bone marrow broth stew with meat and veggies including very yellow carrots (or substituting fish chowder or stew with organ meats), whole wheat sourdough bread that had been made from freshly ground wheat, raw butter, raw milk, cooked fruit with very little sweetner.
Even though they ate donuts fried in vegetable fat, white flour and syrup and coffee with a lot of sugar for the rest of their meals at home, the fortification of this extremely high vitamin/mineral content lunch protected them.
Minerals in saliva increased a huge amount and bacterial counts in the mouth went way, way down. Behavior and learning was also improved.
http://journeytoforever.org/farm_lib...e/price16.html
