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Letters

Does the gut flora “communicate” this gut flora community. even suggested to me that food might be
damage to the “gut brain” causing the For more information about gut the cause of my troubles.
feeling of sickness? The gut brain is an dysbiosis please read Gut and Psychol- Dr. Price’s book is a powerful testa-
extensive grouping of neurons in the ogy Syndrome and GAPS in our Medical ment to the power of foods to do good
digestive system, which gut flora at- Knowledge. For more information about or evil. The heartbreaking part is that
taches to and chemically communicates the gut brain connection please read grocery store foods amount to a gigan-
with the nervous system. What if the gut Breaking the Vicious Cycle. tic experiment that we are performing
flora community is causing the feeling on ourselves, and we are ignoring the
of being sick after my family eats the Caroline Cooper, Chapter Leader results! Best wishes in your work!
processed foods? Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada Mark Williamsen
This would explain the progressive Milwaukee, Wisconsin
nature of industrial food sickness and COD LIVER OIL EVERY DAY
why it seems to worsen the longer my I recently had a conservation with CHAPTER LEADERS ROCK!
family eats nourishing traditional foods. a lady who was in grade school in the I wanted to let y’all know that
The longer my family eats better, the 1950s, living in Norway. She told me your local chapter in Little Rock rocks!
stronger the population of healthy gut they had to come to school every day A small group of farmers that I am
flora becomes. As the healthy gut flora with their spoon and were administered privileged to sell with had some zoning
population increases, it can send a very cod liver oil, as well as fresh milk and issues with the city of Little Rock that
strong message to the nervous system a large slice of rutabaga—perhaps the shut down our farm-to-school market at
that the processed food is making the rutabaga was to clean their teeth. Pulaski Academy in west Little Rock.
gut flora’s environment poisonous to Wouldn’t that be a good thing to Lisa Lipe and other members of
them. The reason why the processed start to in our schools—mandated cod your local chapter helped communicate
food did not cause illness before eating liver oil! What a concept! to the city how important it was to have
nourishing traditional foods is because Ann Oldham Michael, DC access to locally grown produce.
of gut dysbiosis. There was not enough Chapter Leader In less than a week, the city of
healthy gut flora to send a strong mes- Coyhaique, Chile Little Rock demonstrated reason; after
sage of dismay to the nervous system a review of their ordinances they found
about our food choices. GIGANTIC EXPERIMENT them to conflict with state laws. City
I notice that these days it is easier I recently read Nutrition and Physi- officials have let us re-open our market
to get my children to eat better. Ev- cal Degeneration by Weston Price and temporarily while they sort things out.
ery round of industrial food sickness have to say that the book changed my I can’t speak for all my fellow farm-
reinforces good eating patterns. The life. As a chronic pain sufferer and hy- ers, but having access to that distribution
sad part is thinking of all the people pochondriac for the last fifteen years, I point is a key part of my farm’s financial
walking around with very sick gut flora have recently managed to relieve all of survival. The support demonstrated by
communities, too weak to send a danger a long list of symptoms by simply not your group here in Little Rock is ap-
warning. Most people are not aware that eating packaged grocery store foods. preciated beyond measure.
we are indeed “individuals” but our bod- For example, my resting heart rate Kelly Carney
ies are vast and complex microcosms of has gone from ninety beats per minute to Jacksonville, Arkansas,
interrelating organisms. We are in peril fifty in just a few weeks of eating whole Gifts and bequests to the
if we forget that we interface with the food. This is especially stunning to me, Weston A. Price Foundation
environment on a microscopic level and since during the last fifteen years, no will help ensure the gift of good health
our first line of defense is our symbiotic doctor or other health professional has to future generations.
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