Weston Price observed. He conducted an unprecedented ten year study involving nine hundred cats. This was a controlled feeding experiment to determine the effects of raw, species-appropriate foods versus cooked foods on the health of the cats.
He compared their growth, skeletal development, facial and dental structures, resistance to disease, reproductive ability, viability of the offspring, calcium and phosphorus content of their femurs at death, their behavior, etc.
The exact same problems that Weston Price documented in human populations eating refined, devitalized foods, manifested in cats eating cooked foods. While different species have different dietary needs, if we simply define malnutrition as “missing that which the species needs,” then we can conclude that we all seem to respond to improper foods in a very similar way.
Pottenger did not make a direct comparison between cats and humans, but he did say this: “While no attempt will be made to correlate the changes in the animals studied with malformations found in humans, the similarity is so obvious that parallel pictures will suggest themselves.” The cat study and more is documented in his book, Pottenger’s Cats: A Study In Nutrition.
Royal Lee (1895-1967) is known as the founder of Standard Process, a nutritional company. He was an electronic inventor holding numerous patents, a dentist, and a nutritional genius. We saw how Weston Price provided observations and Francis Pottenger, Jr. provided proof of the effect of malnutrition on all aspects of health. Royal Lee provided solutions.
He found the way to make supplements by concentrating food sources without breaking down their living structure. As you read the rest of this book, you will come to appreciate just how important that is, and what a visionary Royal Lee was in his time. He originally designed not just the supplements, but also the equipment on which they were to be made.
The FDA prosecuted Lee mercilessly - he was forbidden from stating that enzymes help digestion, while tobacco companies were allowed to run ads advertising cigarettes as beneficial for digestion. Yes, this is the same FDA that still decides what is safe for us to consume and what is not!
The Need for Supplementation
Food has always provided humans with all the nourishment they needed. What is the problem today?
There are several problems, actually. Let’s start with food adulteration and refinement. In centuries past, humans have either gathered or hunted their food - going to the grocery store wasn’t an option. Most people assume that everything edible in the store is food, and that is simply not the case.
We have plastics masquerading as fats, for heaven’s sake! Margarine, anyone? We have powders containing who-knows-what masquerading as eggs, broth, cheese, etc. We have breads doused with chemicals that can sit on a shelf for weeks. We have liquids that dissolve teeth being the most popular drinks. I could go on, but it’s too saddening. And I haven’t even touched the GMO issue!
An educated shopper can weave through the fake foods and land on the organic section. All seems well, right? Do you know how many feet of soil that food was grown on? You don’t? Then we have a problem. When western civilization landed on the American continent, the land was covered with several feet of rich soil. It was so deep that the plow would sink and get stuck in it. Whatever seed was dropped on it turned into a plant.
What is left today in most places is about six inches of soil, and nobody knows for how long such a thin layer will be able to support life, especially at the rate most of it is being doused with chemicals. The point is, if your food (plants and the animals that eat those plants) comes from unpolluted, deep soil, and you are eating all the foods your ancestors ate, congratulations - you don’t need to supplement.
Why do I mention the foods your ancestors ate? Because we have become as refined as our foods. Think of foods your grandparents loved, such as animal organs, and you are totally grossed out. Just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean that the biological need has gone away.
Even when we eat 100% organic food, we are not getting the nutrient density that was present decades ago. For example, the amount of iron that was present in one cup of spinach decades ago now takes sixty five cups of spinach. The amount of food we would have to consume today to get the same quantity of nutrients we used to get is staggering and impossible to achieve for most of us.
Compounding the problem is the ever increasing load of chemicals (pesticides, herbicides, cosmetics, vaccines, drugs, food additives, etc.) our bodies have to deal with, which causes nutrient depletion in the attempt to neutralize them. That means we need a lot more nutrients now than we did several decades ago, or even just a few years ago, but are getting less.
How do we go about making up for the lost nutrient density of our foods? It seems logical that the more we concentrate the food, the greater its nutrient density. The problem is then in the method, because any drastic measures (extreme temperatures, chemicals, etc.) destroy intricate living processes in the foods. Unfortunately, it is quite easy to turn a living food into an inert substance, but impossible to reverse it. In the next chapter, you will see why that is.
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