Letters, Spring 2025

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FROM FRAIL TO FIT

Last week a friend asked me if it were true that one nutritious meal a day could reverse illness. I shared Price’s summary of this from Nutrition and Physical Degeneration (pages 391-393). He talks about the meaty marrow stew, sometimes alternating for organ meats or fish stew, as the foundation of this meal and how the children improved with just this one meal per day.

Thank you for all the resources that you provide to make this information accessible. I know that not everybody has that book dog-eared like I do, with every organ reference marked and high­lighted. This book, the resources the Foundation provides, and the commu­nity I’ve found have literally changed my life and completely changed the trajectory of my children’s health.

I recently had a body scan done (not a huge fan of these tests, but wanted a baseline for the coming years). I was in the ninety-ninth percentile of bone density for my age. Two years before I found WAPF, I broke a toe from barely bumping into a chair barefoot—it stuck out sideways. I had herniated a disc, I could barely walk. I had been so fragile for so many years! I know the fat-sol­uble vitamins are the crux of it all and I have made them a consistent priority, but honestly, I was (pleasantly) shocked to see the results of the bone density exam on paper. This stuff works!

Janine Farzin
Fraser, Colorado

ROUNDUP AND LYME DISEASE

Here is the story of how I came to the conclusion that Lyme disease is caused by Roundup.

One winter I read most of Stephen H. Buhner’s books on Lyme disease and Lyme coinfections. About the same time, Stephanie Seneff’s articles on the effects of glyphosate appeared in Wise Traditions. (Winter 2016 and others.) It seemed like they were both describing the same thing based on how manga­nese and collagen are affected. (Buhner says that Lyme is a collagen problem.)

So, I did an Internet search and found that Roundup came on the mar­ket in 1974 and Lyme disease was first identified in 1975. I was not able to find whether Roundup was used in Lyme, Connecticut back then.

Next I asked Google whether Roundup causes Lyme disease. To my great surprise I got one “yes.” It was a quote of Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt from Connie Strasheim’s book New Para­digms in Lyme Disease Treatment.

Klinghardt said that the more Roundup is used in an area, the more Lyme disease you have. He said glypho­sate causes the gut to take up aluminum. (He also mentioned chemtrails as a source of aluminum.) He found that his Lyme patients had aluminum levels off the charts.

Interestingly, he explained why antibiotics work for about fifty percent of Lyme patients—antibiotics are metal chelators. Of course, germ theory looks at the effect of metals on “disease” or­ganisms rather than the metals being the cause of disease.

So there are multiple ways that Lyme disease and glyphosate connect: collagen, manganese, metals and more. I am curious what brighter minds would say about this connection.

Timothy Martin
Potsdam, New York

THE RUBBER TIP

Several years ago, I had a tooth in the back of my mouth that was very loose. The pockets around it were very deep and it wobbled. My dentist recom­mended that I have it removed but first he said I should see a periodontist.

When I got to the periodontist, he had me sit down with a hygienist. She showed me a rubber tip and said that I should use it once a day to massage the gums on either side of my teeth. Put it in between each tooth, front and back and move it around to massage the gums. Then you should floss, then brush. This exercise takes two or three minutes.

The periodontist said that my tooth was loose because it was higher than the rest of them. So every time I ate, I was banging on it. He filed it down.

Back with the hygienist, she mea­sured my pockets. Many were very deep. I also had a lot of bleeding. She gave me a rubber tip and sent me home.

Back home, I started using the tip every evening before I flossed and brushed.

Now, when I get my teeth cleaned, my pockets are very small and there is no bleeding. Even the tooth that was loose is now quite secure. The perio­dontist said if I keep it up, I should be able to keep all of my teeth for life.

If you go to Amazon and do a search for GUM stimulator, you can find it along with pictures and how to use it. Well worth the effort.

Celeste Longacre
Alstead, New Hampshire

A TRACHEA PROBLEM WITH MY DOG

I have a Yorkie dog that is thirteen years old. Since he was little he has had coughing, gagging and spitting-up ses­sions due to a trachea problem. I don’t really take him to a vet because other than his first rabies vaccine, I don’t vac­cinate. But the few times I have taken him to different vets they have all told me that this “trachea issue” is very common with Yorkies. In other words, I should just live with it.

As he has been getting older, the cough has become more frequent and seemed much harder on him. I was getting concerned and wondered how I could continue to let him suffer. He would cough so hard he would gag and almost throw up.

After listening to this for many years and because it seemed to be get­ting worse, I succumbed to trying a drug, a steroid, for him. It may have helped a little bit but not much and drugs are never my first choice. So then I tried homeopathy which did help slightly but didn’t solve the problem.

As a side note, Chewy has had real food his whole life with the meat usually raw. I felt like that has kept him healthy “except” for this aggravating bad cough. It was hard to watch him have an episode.

Lo and behold, a friend told me about a brand of raw dog food that has organ meat in it. As a nutritionist and WAPF chapter leader, I became very excited because of the added organs. To make a long story short, I bought and tried the dog food and almost immedi­ately my dog’s cough was gone. Yes, gone! In two weeks’ time I have heard him cough (without gagging) two to three times, lasting about two seconds instead of a full minute. Previously he had been coughing ten to twenty times a day. Now the only time I hear him cough is after drinking water and even that is short-lived.

It is like a miracle! It took me a few days to completely realize it but this food has changed his life. It’s the organs in it, I’m sure of it. Here are the ingredients: Beef, unwashed green beef tripe, beef lungs, beef bone, beef liver, beef trachea and beef heart. Would it have helped him if the beef trachea wasn’t in the mix? I don’t know. I just know he’s like a different dog and I am so very thankful!!

It’s made me think about “upping my own organ meat.” I smelled it once and it was kind of “icky” so I just don’t smell it anymore. The owner says it’s the tripe that gives it that smell.

The name of the dog food is Raw Advantage, located in Iowa (rawadvan­tagepetfoods.com). I just had the owner come and speak at my WAPF meeting because I want to share my story with every pet owner. I am not a dealer—just a very satisfied customer!

Elaine Michaels, NTP, CGP
Certified Vaccine Education Specialist
WAPF Chapter Leader
Cedar Rapids/Iowa City, Iowa

THE HARMS OF VACCINATION

I am an active family nurse prac­titioner with over forty years of expe­rience. In the many years involved in patient care, I have met many for whom one vaccine ruined their life forever. That’s when I took a deep dive into the whole process. I learned things they didn’t teach us in medical or nursing school. Today, journalist Chris Hayes and his host spoke about vaccines as the holy grail completely ignoring the other side or the science and the many who have truly been harmed by even just one vaccine.

You can’t imagine the horror when one dies due to a vaccine, or when the victim can no longer walk and they were never told that vaccines could do this. Please take another look and read Dr. Suzanne Humphries’ book, Dis­solving Illusions (drsuzanne.net). Those of us who speak up are ostracized by the medical community and the fairy tale of safe vaccines continues. Here are the facts:

• All vaccines contain neurotoxins (mercury, formaldehyde or alumi­num); these cross the blood-brain barrier, often beyond the body’s ability to detox. The body does not thrive on neurotoxins!

• In the history of vaccines, there has never been a double-blind study using normal saline as the placebo. The control group is always given neurotoxins!

• Native immunity has always outper­formed those vaccinated as long as a healthy diet is present. But these studies are never done.

• Inflammatory markers go through the roof following the injection of any vaccine.

• Day one after birth a baby is given hepatitis B vaccine, though no risk is present unless the mother is an IV drug user. No long-term safety stud­ies have been completed on giving babies the HepB vaccine on day one.

• Most doctors and nurses are spoon-fed the information to repeat without ever looking at the real science. If you don’t fall in line, you are asked to leave or stay silent.

• All patients should have to read the product insert and understand what’s in the vaccine before vascular entry. No vaccine should be forced on any­one, anywhere, anytime.

• Vaccines are the leading cause of anaphylaxis. Side effects are un­derreported by a minimum of 90 percent.

• CDC whistleblower William Thomp­son stated that proof of correlation of autism from vaccinations had been destroyed.

• The Amish use no vaccines and have no autism! Coincidence or neurotox­ins?

Once you have to take care of someone for the rest of their life because of one injection, it opens your mind to what are we doing. Fortunately, there are highly qualified doctors and insti­tutes who still care for the welfare of their clients. And yes, first do no harm.

Dr. Humphries is a nephrologist who simply asked that her patients not receive the flu vaccine at her hospital. She had multiple cases of those who re ceived the vaccine and needed immedi­ate dialysis. For this, she was removed, demonized and ostracized.

The media play a major role in mis­informing the public about vaccine dan­gers. If they remain ignorant, so does the society they serve. It’s hard to find healthy, open and well-informed, free-speaking news media. Our healthcare is controlled and based on a lot of lies, and “vaccines are safe and effective” is the biggest one. As a nation we will never be strong again if we continue injecting newborns, the military and our young people with neurotoxins. It serves only the pharmaceutical companies and their profits.

Joanne Mendez, ARNP
Tallahassee, Florida

LOCKDOWNS PREDICTED

I have been listening to Alan Watt (not Alan Watts) since around 2003. One particular podcast was a blast from the past, where Alan predicted lockdowns back in 2009 based on laws being passed then in Ireland that facili­tated lockdowns and running through some of the history of pandemics. I forgive him for then believing that vi­ruses were released but he does blame the vaccines.

U.S. patriot radio was discussing it a lot during that decade, and it was podcasts like this that caused me to join WAPF. I figured that if we knew the truth about health, we wouldn’t fear the hype when they finally locked us down. Little did I know the central role the Foundation would play in challenging the lockdown agenda when it came, so I felt entirely vindicated.

Phil Ridley
WAPF Chapter Leader
London, United Kingdom

FOREVER CHEMICALS

Regarding the bird flu fiasco, it’s all over the Internet about how they use firefighting foam to kill the chick­ens. Just about all modern firefighting foam today is made with FCs (forever chemicals), which harm or kill mankind forever.

The real big problem is that folks believe FCs are only near airports, fac­tories or populated urban areas. Well, if FCs are being used to cull livestock like poultry, pigs and even cattle, that takes the problem out to the ’burbs and rural America, too! No one escapes this killer—no one, because once it gets into the aquifer, it’s there forever! It’s the gift that keeps on killing!

By the way, the moniker doesn’t lie—FCs are forever chemicals. The only way to escape them is to put an RO (reverse osmosis) water system on your water supply. Once this is done, then the homeowners have to augment their intake with supplemental minerals and other good stuff in unadulterated water. FCs cause a whole host of medi­cal problems like pancreatic cancer, thyroid issues and the list goes on.

Tom and Patti Alldridge
Cochranville, Pennsylvania

See the Reading Between the Lines article (page 38) on bioremediation for a more hopeful perspective on “ forever chemicals.”

AMERICAN DECLINE IN MASCULINE HEALTH

I am a physician and digital nomad (for almost three years now) and I’ve had the privilege to observe and work with various medical and wellness practitioners and clinics across Aus­tralia, New Zealand, the USA, Central America and parts of Europe. But it is my time in the United States—a coun­try celebrated for its medical advance­ments and technological prowess—that leaves me deeply unsettled.

Across 2023 and 2024, I was in the USA for about eight months in several American cities, speaking at confer­ences and festivals, but also networking with other practitioners. I would be described as an attractive forty-three-year-old single woman with no kids.

There are three issues that I have observed or encountered significantly more in the USA than any other coun­try: 1) Very low testosterone levels in male patients in clinics and the ensuing symptoms including fatigue and lack of motivation. 2) Seeing young American men (less than thirty years old) out and about, by the pool or at the beach, with gynecomastia (breast development). Many of them are not even obese. 3) American men (mid-thirties to early fifties) whom I date and sleep with, have comparatively low libido and sometimes even some form of erectile dysfunction. Many just want to cuddle.

What shocks me most is the nor­malization of these symptoms. Pound for pound (pun intended), there is a dis­turbing lack of virility in the American men I have encountered compared to the men I have gone on dates with in other countries.

Testosterone, the hormone synony­mous with vitality, virility and overall male health, has been steadily declin­ing in American men for decades. A seminal 2007 study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism found that testosterone levels in American men had dropped by approximately 17 percent per decade between 1987 and 2004. This signifies a substantial, age-independent decrease of testosterone in the male population over that time period. Subsequent re­search has corroborated this trend. A 2021 analysis revealed that levels are continuing to fall, with the average thirty-year-old man today having tes­tosterone levels comparable to a man in his late fifties just a generation ago.

The implications of this decline ex­tend beyond the bedroom. Testosterone is crucial for maintaining muscle mass, bone density, cognitive function and overall energy levels. Its reduction is linked not only to physical symptoms but also to rising rates of depression and anxiety—issues plaguing young men in staggering numbers.

Equally concerning is the precipi­tous drop in sperm counts, a trend that has captured international attention. A landmark 2017 meta-analysis pub­lished in Human Reproduction Update revealed that sperm counts among men in North America, Europe and Austra­lia had fallen by more than 50 percent between 1973 and 2011. Subsequent studies have confirmed this decline continues unabated. The younger generations are inheriting a legacy of compromised fertility, raising questions about long-term population health.

Your audience is well-educated about the complex, multifactorial and often uncomfortable reasons why this may be the case but I list a few factors:

1) Poor Light Diet: Lack of unfiltered light exposure, excessive blue light, and excessive light after dark affect the system in so many ways, includ­ing poisoning the mitochondria.

2) Endocrine Disruptors: Chemicals that mimic hormones, such as bisphenol A (BPA), phthalates and parabens are pervasive in the American environment with your seemingly weaker laws.

3) Obesity and Sedentary Lifestyles: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that near­ly 42 percent of American adults are obese. Excess adipose tissue converts testosterone to estrogen.

4) Dietary Patterns: The modern American diet is a stark departure from the nutrient-dense diets of previous generations. The lack of animal fats deprives men of cho­lesterol and vitamin A, needed for testosterone production.

5) Chronic Stress and Sleep Depriva­tion: High-stress levels, coupled with insufficient sleep, compounded by social media and digital distrac­tions, disrupt the hypothalamic-pi­tuitary-gonadal axis, a key regulator of testosterone production.

6) Declining Physical Activity: Physi­cal activity, particularly resistance training, is a potent stimulator of testosterone. Yet studies show younger Americans are moving less than ever, spending upwards of ten hours a day sedentary.

Beyond these biological factors lies a cultural shift that cannot be ignored. Masculinity itself is being redefined in America, with traditional male roles evolving in a rapidly chang­ing society. I don’t want to comment too much on this point as I am not Ameri­can, however I can say that the polarity of gender issues seems to get more air time here in the USA compared to the other countries I frequent, although that is changing, especially in Australia.

This quiet epidemic has been decades in the making, but its conse­quences are now painfully visible. As a physician, I urge men to see this not as a loss of vitality but as a rallying cry to reclaim their health and future. This cannot be another lost generation of men where silence is the standard— doctors need to start speaking up, and men need to start acknowledging that it is not normal to be on testosterone replacement or need Viagra in your thirties or forties (heck, even your fif­ties or sixties!!) or to have gynecomas­tia full stop, or to never or rarely wake up with a morning erection (nocturnal penile tumescence). I hope the new administration takes this seriously because from an outsider’s perspective, the situation is worse than you realize.

Anonymous

OMEGA-6s OR EMF?

The “Omega-6 Apocalypse” article in Wise Traditions (Summer 2023) was superb, and I take no issue with any of its claims, but it is not the only factor that has had ubiquitous, subtle, cumulatively deleterious effects for over one hundred twenty years. While I think it is likely that omega-6 oils are the number-one cause of increased cancer, diabetes and the other maladies mentioned, an often-overlooked factor that may be nearly as culpable is EMR (electromagnetic radiation).

In The Invisible Rainbow, Arthur Firstenberg lays out clearly the cor­relation of the EMR levels with many health problems, going into particular depth about heart disease, cancer and diabetes. As Dr. Knobbe does in the omega-6 article, Firstenberg details the physiological mechanisms. In the case of EMR, it affects mitochondrial func­tion—a different route than omega-6 but equally debilitating. The fact that EMR levels began steadily climbing just as society began the shift to seed oils will make it hard to determine which factor is more detrimental, but clearly both should be avoided.

Ladd Tomlin
Gainesville, Florida

ODE TO THE RAW MILK FORMULA

I want to thank Mary Enig for the raw milk infant formula, which has helped so many babies over the years.

Born November 26, 2024, my granddaughter is thriving on it. At thirteen days old, she guzzles it like a thirsty desert traveler. She actually grabs the bottle with her spidery fingers if you try to take it away. Yes, she loves cod liver oil, too.

She is fully unjabbed, no blood was taken out of her by the hospital (they tried), no antibiotic ointments, no vitamin K jabs and no store-bought formula. They tried it all and failed. They forbade us from using anything but Similac. Three nurses descended on us and told us they needed to approve our choice of baby formula. When asked why, they said “liability.” We gave them a tin of Organic Earth for­mula as “ours.” They probably would’ve called Child Protective Services if we’d mentioned anything else. They rejected the organic formula and said it had to be Similac, made with corn syrup and soy. We took it from them, thanked them and poured it down the sink, and then used the raw milk formula. My daugh­ter was like a tigress—I’m so proud of her. I never thought this otherwise mild-mannered child of mine would be like this.

When you don’t destroy a child, its natural bias is to be chock full of good health. No screaming, no colic, no pain, no muss, no fuss. She sleeps like a log. Smiles and coos like an angel. Grown like a weed already and is happy when she wakes up. Poops are perfecto. I at­tribute it all to the very nutrient-dense formula she is drinking. Blessings to you all for being part of my life. My daughter thanks you, too. I have foisted a subscription of the quarterly journal upon her. Hope one day, instead of tak­ing my word for it, she actually reads it. We owe you big time.

We did do some tweaking. We upped the cream a bit (she loves it and digests it well), used the Humming­bird brand of organic nutritional yeast rather than Frontier—it has no added synthetic vitamins and it just tasted better than the other one they had at our local market, Frontier tasted a bit bitter—cut the gelatin and yeast by a teaspoon when she had constipation for a day but then added it back because we realized we had underused the whey, and upping the whey to the recipe amount immediately fixed the problem, so gelatin and nutritional yeast were not the culprits. And we added them back in to the original amount. So, whey fixed constipation right away. We are using the Natren bifido infantis because the lady at the wellness nook at Community told us that was what she used for her child thirty years ago and it was the best thing ever. The rest of the formula is unchanged.

By the way, we are still looking for a source of organic lactose. The supplier says the organic formula companies have captured it all. There is no retail organic lactose available—can you be­lieve it? You can buy it in Europe how­ever. Seems they are more advanced than us.

The point is not to change the reci­pe, that is, the chemical composition of the formula. It’s been formulated to be the best approximation to breast milk, with much forethought by a brilliant biochemist. Don’t try to improve it.

Sushima Gokhale
Chapter Leader
Sonoma County, California

DISTILLED WATER?

We would like to have some informa­tion on water. We were drinking well water until about ten months ago when we started with bottled, distilled water.

We saw our four-year-old’s chronic di­arrhea clear up, which she pretty much had all her life. She’s still doing great on it but we don’t like the idea of bottled water. Is distilled water a good choice? Is there a good water system out there? To us it sounds like everyone has the best. Lately we’ve been reading about the distiller that Waterwise has.

We do not have Internet access and would appreciate some advice that doesn’t come from sales people.

Abner Esh
Holtwood, Pennsylvania

It’s hard to know what to do about wa­ter filters, there are so many choices. You might try contacting Radiant Life, which sells several different systems, including the less expensive Doulton brand. Their number is (888) 593-9595. Meanwhile, if you are buying bottled water, it might be better to purchase mineral water.

RISKY BEHAVIOR

In your article “Got Raw Milk, UCLA Professor of Medicine says No Thanks!” (Winter 2023), you report that Claire Penasian Donovan “wonders why people would indulge in the risky behavior of drinking raw milk.” She might just as well wonder why people indulge in the risky behavior of eating anything. Every action we take involves risks and benefits. Many things we do are beneficial, satisfying and even invigorating in the short term. But pru­dent long-term choices are what count. Otherwise we end up like the ill-fed cats in Pottenger’s study: in the short term satisfied, in the long term gone.

David Ellis
Portsmouth, Rhode Island

VACCINE WARNING

Regarding the Vaccine Update article (Spring 2024) and the mention of “catch-up vaccines” such as the MMR, how facts are getting turned upside down! In 1988, as a hospital em­ployee, they wanted me to get an MMR vaccine. Never mind that I’d had the measles and mumps as a child. When I was getting the vaccine I was warned not to have sex for four to six weeks! I forget what the reason was, probably to avoid birth defects. Now it’s 2024 and scary times are here.

Linda Cifelli, State Coordinator
Dental Amalgam Mercury Solutions
Williamsburg, Virginia

GREEN POTATOES

An article in your journal said a potato is not safe to eat when even a part of it is green. So my question is, are green-spotted potatoes safe to use as seed? Can I let my green potatoes sprout and then use them for seed? Will the toxins somehow travel through the plant and into the new potatoes? If the Foundation can answer this question in a knowledgeable way, I would be deeply grateful.

Lydia Stoltzfus
Rebersburg, Pennsylvania

Potatoes will always make their toxins anew. It is fine to use the sprouted green potatoes as seed.

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