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we drank milk from the cow. Bread ARRIVED JUST IN TIME a day. My body had gone from adrenal
for breakfast and for supper, potatoes, I would like to thank the Weston A. fatigue into hypothyroidism during this
vegetables for dinner. We ate meat we Price Foundation from the bottom of my pregnancy, and I didn’t know that this
slaughtered, a pig mostly, so plenty of heart. Your Spring 2011 issue arrived illness causes a decrease in milk sup-
bacon. Every dinner my mother would just in time to resolve a serious health ply. By March of this year, I had fully
fry bacon and put the fat in a small bowl problem that I have. As I pondered the weaned Elijah so that I could take herbs
that was placed in the center of the table results from my January doctor's visit it to support my body.
so everybody could dip his or her potato became obvious that I had a liver prob- I didn’t know about the Weston
in it to eat. lem, but I had no clue what it might be. A. Price Foundation until April of this
“Bread we must have bought be- Sadly this fact had completely slipped year. When I discovered your materials,
cause I cannot remember that we baked by my doctor. Then I saw it in black and I immediately searched for a source of
it. Cheese my father made, especially white, in a sidebar in Chris Masterjohn's raw milk, as I was really starting to
during the war. We had chickens, a article on non-alcoholic fatty liver dis- worry about Elijah. His weight wasn’t
vegetable garden, and fruit trees. We ease: that a fatty insulin-resistant liver budging past 22.4 pounds, which he
made sauerkraut in a big tub, which was loses the ability to suppress the synthesis reached by the end of January. His
white cabbage sliced and a big rock on of glucose. Bingo! Give that man a cigar! weight remained the same and he had
top. In the long run it became sauerkraut. Actually, I was not at all surprised stayed in the same sized clothing for
We had raspberries and gooseberries. to find information like this in Wise the previous six months. Finally I found
I cannot remember if we drank goat Traditions. I have been anticipating, re- a source of beautiful raw milk from
milk. During the war we slaughtered ceiving and devouring issues for nearly grass-fed, happy cows. I started him
every calf that was born. Otherwise the ten years. The journal has consistently slowly on it and combined it with the
Germans took them.” provided articles of the highest quality pasteurized goat milk I had been giving
As a fledgling small farmer, I read information that is not easily obtained him already (mixed with formula). For
this in amazement; I am my great grand- elsewhere. the past three weeks or so he has been
mother! I save the bacon drippings and Dave Bjork drinking a combination of raw kefir, raw
fry the boys' potatoes in them! I drink Maplewood, Minnesota milk, raw cream, and recently an addi-
milk from the cow, keep chickens and tion of a raw egg yolk in his bottles. He
grow vegetables. I have fruit trees and RAW MILK TO THE RESCUE loves this milk, it is nearly all he craves
raspberries (hopefully productive one I am a mother to five wonderful and I give him as much as he wants. I am
day). I make sauerkraut! My sons are healthy children ranging from sixteen happy to report that he has gained one
eating the diet of at least two of their years old down to fourteen months. I pound already! He is now 23.6 pounds!
eight great-grandparents. May they am writing you about my youngest son, He is sleeping so much better now
live into their nineties and beyond and Elijah. He was born last June at a robust too, all through the night, and he takes
tell stories of their mother, who made nine pounds. I am a believer of extended three naps each day. I feel that the
sauerkraut and bacon. breastfeeding and I planned to nurse amount he is sleeping indicates that his
Amy Lykosh, Chapter Leader him as long as he wanted to as I had body is healing and growing.
Albemarle County, Virginia with my previous children. He latched I am very thankful for this source
on quickly after birth, but right away of information— thank you to every-
Thank you for sharing the story of your the first twenty-four hours he didn’t one who volunteers to spread the truth
grandmother. Just one point of clarifi- seem satisfied so I supplemented with about real milk and real food. This may
cation: the diet of Hawaiians was not formula, just one ounce. But that ounce have been a life-saving change for my
low in fat because it included pork and became more frequent and supplemen- son. I don’t know what was going on in
coconut oil. tation became necessary several times his little body, but obviously he wasn’t
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