BORON TO THE RESCUE
I am writing about the suggestion to use boron published in the Wise Traditions journal (Fall 2024).
I started doing this about a month ago due to a knee injury and I am now pain-free! Who knew something so simple would have such dramatic results?
I have started adding a teaspoon of the boron solution to my mom’s water every day without her knowledge because she rejects everything I say, and I have not heard her complain about pain since I’ve been doing it.
Doctors say that my pain is related to arthritis and nothing about loss of cartilage. They have no answers for me that actually work. I highly suggest that everyone check out that little info graphic, and try it for yourself.
Thank you, Weston A. Price Foundation for excellent articles in the journal!
Katrina Fournier
Hazel Park, Michigan
THE WISE TRADITIONS BABY FORMULA
I used the homemade formula, based on raw milk, with one of our daughters. I breastfed exclusively for about six months and then transferred to the formula. It wasn’t what I wanted to do, but we were dealing with frequent hospital stays and my full-time job. I just couldn’t maintain a good milk supply.
My daughter was born with heart defects that were later corrected (ASD and VSD) by surgery, and then she ended up with a pacemaker as a result of an accident during a surgery. All this to say that she entered life with some real challenges. She was behind developmentally as a result of having had congestive heart failure for quite some time. At the age of five months (when the surgery was done to repair the holes between the chambers of her heart) she still weighed only nine pounds. I used this formula, and thankfully even the ladies at the daycare gave it to her even though it certainly looked strange, because I used yogurt (no access to raw milk).
It took a little while for her to get used to it. I introduced it slowly, adding just a little into breast milk, and then gradually increasing the percentage of formula until she happily accepted this formula. I still tried to give her breastmilk as much as I could over the next six weeks or so, and then it was over. My daughter did great with this formula. She gained weight appropriately. There were no problems with it at all except for the work involved in putting it together. I sometimes froze it in breast milk freezer bags. My daughter gradually caught up. She didn’t begin to stand until about eighteen months of age. By the time she reached kindergarten, she was on track enough to enter with her own age group. She seemed a little immature compared to others, but by second grade she was completely on target. She is a healthy thirteen-year-old today, on the swim team and getting good grades.
I mention all that just because I know she was living on this formula during some critical periods of development and recovery. It did not harm her. She also has no allergies, even though my husband has asthma and strong allergies, and some of her siblings have had milder versions of this. And she was never a picky eater. Maybe it comes from drinking such a strange concoction as a baby?
So, if you are considering using this formula, I highly recommend it. I would certainly use it again if I were unable to breastfeed or needed to supplement breastfeeding.
Krista G.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
INSULIN RESISTANCE
I interviewed a doctor that conducted research on indigenous peoples in Canada. They are an interesting group to study because they have ten times the rate of insulin resistance compared to the rest of Canada’s population, and they most recently ate their native diet only fifty to sixty years ago, at which time they were not plagued with insulin resistance.
It was a study funded by Health Canada. The study recruited practically an entire town on Vancouver Island, employing a diet to mimic their former diet. The former diet was high in saturated and monounsaturated fats from oolichan fish, which was a very important part of their diet. The grocery store even stocked the high-fat foods needed for the study.
The results were astounding: complete reversal of diabetic and metabolic symptoms across the board. I think the study was less than a month and the diagnostic tests proving the reversal were quite convincing.
There are many such studies, but I like this one because it was so recent that the native peoples ate their native diet, and the results are indisputable.
I do think some people and body types thrive with a little different mix of carbs to fats to proteins. It seems that those in the North like the Eskimos and the native people of Canada do better with a higher fat diet.
Lawren Pulse
Montesano, Washington
THE UBER DRIVER’S STORY
Many are having joint problems and replacements these days. It is unfortunately normalized. At my forty-ninth class reunion last August, one of my classmates confessed to having two replacements already. She is sixty-six. This is definitely not a problem of overuse of the joints, as many try to say!
None of my ancestors had such illness, ever. When they died, my dad was ninety-one, mom ninety-six, my grandfather one hundred two; none had such structural issues. All of them worked into their late eighties. My grandfather rode his bike until he was eighty-six. My mother climbed ladders to pick apples and washed slanted, heavy rooftop windows at eighty-eight, standing on her kitchen sink just to reach, turn them and wash both sides.
I got driven home by an African Uber driver yesterday (about thirty years old) and took the opportunity to ask him questions. He had a heavy accent. He grew up in Africa in a small village, French was his native language. He told me that his family grew everything, had goats and sheep, and he knew about drinking raw milk and blood! The toothbrush was a stick from a tree, prepared by making bristles. There was no sugar. No one in his village had tooth decay! The oldest in the village was a healthy one hundred forty-five years old and only passed recently! Another was one hundred thirty-five years old.
Because I’m a “completely recycle person”, and knowing how bodily waste was collected and always used in gardens by my ancestors, along with animal waste, I asked him about humanure. “Yes! Of course we did this and spread it on our gardens!” Before mom passed, I asked her how long they waited to spread the humanure onto the gardens. She replied, when the holding tank, which was outside next to the garden and below the toilets, was full. You emptied it with the gohn, which was a long-handled pole with an attached pot. It was diluted and put on the gardens. At least thirteen people lived at that house, so there was a lot of humanure!
I was thrilled to have had the opportunity to speak with the Uber driver. He mentioned how Americans constantly have “health” checkups, every six months or every year, and he knew that diseases begin with poor, undernourished diets. He knew about GMOs and all the other stuff. If one looks at the food intake, or food diaries, it is not difficult to see how people are malnourished. Got nothing to do with anything else.
I asked him where he shops for groceries. He replied, “It might be more expensive, but we have deliveries direct from my home country—and I pick them up in New York!” Wow! I told him about Dr. Price and he reassured me that he will teach his three-year-old son about good nutrition
Minerals, minerals, minerals, and of course vitamins and no junk food. That was basically the Uber driver’s message, which he was so eager to share with me.
Judith Mudrak
Southampton, New Jersey
WEED KILLERS
Obama’s executive order about invasive weeds came out in December 2016 (obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/05/executive-order-safeguarding-nation-impacts-invasive-species), and since then almost every state and county is spraying every state road and highway for weeds with Roundup and numerous other pesticides.
Where I was living at the time, in New Mexico, they slowly started spraying a few chemicals, and only in midsummer. Then they sprayed earlier and earlier every year, and added more and more chemicals to the mix. By the time Covid took off here, in 2020, the New Mexico DOT was spraying as early as February even though it was still freezing and nothing could grow anyway. That year they used up to ten different herbicides in one mixture. In a video, from Covid, they describe the mix of four chemicals they were using at the time, and show how they do it, as everyone on the highway drives by breathing it all in (www.facebook.com/NMDOT/videos/weeds/577894243596339/).
I wonder how many people went for drives into nature when Covid started, to get some fresh air and to feel better, and drove right into the clouds of chemicals left by this kind of spraying? Could exposure to all these chemicals have caused some of what were called “Covid cases” that started in February2020? I read the MSDSs for the list of chemicals they were using at the time. At least one of them the NMDOT used illegally off label. The MSDS for the pesticide clearly stated, “Not to be used in residential areas,” and the NMDOT listings said New Mexico was spraying it on residential streets.
They used to list the spray dates and locations on the NMDOT website. I assumed they did that so people could avoid those areas. But in 2021, the state of New Mexico stopped updating the listings. After they stopped updating the listings, I talked to a DOT employee on the phone. They told me that they didn’t have anyone in the IT department who could upload a PDF to the website anymore, and the website hasn’t changed since then. That doesn’t sound believable, does it? The person I talked to said if I wanted to know when, where and what they were spraying, I had to call her on the phone and talk to her personally, and she would tell me the listings over the phone. That sounds way less efficient than uploading the PDFs of the spray dates and places to the website so anyone can read them. The old listings from 2021 are still up. I guess NM doesn’t have anyone who can remove PDFs from the website either.
The old listings show the locations and all the different chemicals they were using at the time. They used up to ten weed killers in one spot! Those must be some dangerous weeds!
Here’s every chemical they were spraying to kill harmless weeds during the week of June 25, 2021, on every state road and highway in New Mexico during the height of Covid: 1) Brush Rhap, 2) Esplanade 200, 3) Weedestroy, 4) Garlon, 5) Oust XP, 6) E-2, 7) Tordon, 8) Arsenal, 9) Spec 80, 10) Velpar, 11) Vanquish, 12) Deposition Aid (whatever that is), 13) Roundup Pro, 14) Escort XP, 15) Plateau, 16) Polaris AC, 17) Milestone, 18) Opensight, 19) Vista XRT.
Inhaling a complex, unpredictable and untested mix of twenty different weed killers is exactly what you don’t need at the height of a pandemic of respiratory distress. That sure is a lot of different weed killers. How could they need so many? Why would they need to spray ten different ones all at once, for example, on one road (from Unser Blvd. to Tramway Rd.), which cuts through the center of the entire city of Albuquerque? That seems dangerous. Those weeds must be killing people to take them so seriously. They even used Roundup, which Bernalillo County had made illegal to use on county property in 2019 because it was so toxic. Whoops! Guess it’s not dangerous if the NMDOT sprays it in Bernalillo County. I wonder whether that’s one of the reasons there are so many more addicted and ill homeless people all around Albuquerque now? This of course doesn’t include all the weed killer sprayed on many of the properties and most of the businesses in town.
Since the Obama executive order took effect, I met one woman who became unable to drive on any highway in the country in 2017 because of panic attacks—the very first year this executive order took effect. She and everyone in her family thought it was a mental illness of some sort. I’m not sure it was. In fact, I’m sure it wasn’t. I’ve also seen, since then, at least four women become agitated, aggressive, abusive, confused, panicked and even violent not long after they started driving on a highway. Roundup and many other pesticides are highly estrogenic, so it’s like giving people highly variable doses of estrogen treatments. Of course that’s going to make some people, especially women, react harshly. I’m guessing these exposures and the new symptoms and odd behavior are not all a big coincidence, but then I’m not a scientist, so I guess I’ll have to leave it up to the experts.
Robert Bonadeo
New Mexico
BEST SOURDOUGH
Thank you for the delicious sourdough bread recipe in the Wise Traditions journal (Summer 2025, page 5). The bread came out great! Fortunately, I had a sourdough starter on hand to make the bread. I have tried numerous other sourdough recipes with marginal success, but this hit a homerun. I will be preparing this bread often.
I use fresh-milled Kamut flour and bake the bread in a stoneware mini-loaf pan, which makes four loaves, so I can share with others.
As always, the quarterly journals are so full of fantastic information!
Kathleen McIntyre
Avondale, Colorado
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