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health and mine to the work of Weston oil is to obtain adequate vitamins A and making your IGF-1 lower than it should
Price. D without overdosing on omega-3 fatty be. IGF-1 has multiple actions in the
Let me be clear about where I stand. acids. Important details like these need body, especially in the bone, heart and
I stand with Weston Price, in spirit to be carefully explained to expectant brain. IGF-1 maintains the integrity of
(humanism) and substance (traditional parents. We urge Planck to issue a sec- the organ, without it the volume of the
foods). I stand with every mother who ond edition with more attention to con- organ is lost. That is why the Women’s
wants to reform her diet and feed chil- sistency and accuracy. There is a very Health Initiative studies are important,
dren properly, no matter how far from great need for books that help mothers because the oral estrogen used in the
perfection she is. produce healthy babies with confidence study resulted in THE higher risk of
Nina Planck and good humor, but the best way to heart disease and breast cancer. It would
New York, New York combat nervousness and stress is to be nice if the National Institutes of
provide clear and consistent guidelines, Health would look again at those women
We are so pleased to learn of the care with carefully explained alternative and measure their IGF-1 while on or off
that Planck took with her pre-preg- suggestions for those who cannot follow their oral estrogen.
nancy, pregnancy and early nursing those guidelines to the letter. One study published in the Jour-
diet. Unfortunately, these details were nal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
not communicated in her book Real SOY AND HEART DISEASE showed receptor sites for IGF-1 being
Food for Mother and Baby as they I have reviewed with great interest highest in the heart, strongly suggesting
should have been, so as to encourage your web site. I agree with almost 100 the importance of IGF-1 to the integrity
mothers to take the same care during percent of what is posted. However, and health of the heart. As one research-
their own pregnancies. We are glad that several things struck me as missing. For er said at an international conference
Planck has found the work of Weston example, you note that “soy phytoes- I attended in Brussels, Belgium, “We
Price helpful to her; however, the book trogens disrupt endocrine function and have the medical know how and ability
itself dismisses our careful guidelines have the potential to cause infertility to eliminate the number one killer of de-
on cod liver oil, pregnancy diet and and to promote breast cancer in adult veloped nations, coronary heart disease,
homemade infant formula as too dif- women.” You also talk a great deal about but only France and the United States
ficult or “impossible.” In fact, Planck coronary heart disease (CHD) and its has embraced the use of recombinant
places cod liver oil in the “if you must” possible causes. human growth hormone [rHGH] which
column of her charts on diet and supple- However, you have missed an im- will eliminate coronary heart disease.”
ments during pregnancy. The treatment portant connection. One of the most The use of rHGH in adults has gotten
of other important subjects, such as serious factors of soy as an endocrine a really bad rap in the United States.
vaccinations, folic acid supplements, disruptor involves the hypothalamic/pi- Why? Because it would eliminate many
introduction of grains to infants and tuitary axis and the production of human drugs used to treat CHD, especially the
even raw milk is equally confusing and growth hormone. statins.
contradictory. Especially serious is the It just so happens that phytoestro- You are clearly on the right track of
recommendation to take fish oil during gens, and any oral estrogen or “estro- soy and CHD, you are just missing a very
the later part of pregnancy; this can gen-like” compound goes to the liver big element that I believe your subscrib-
lead to overdosing with omega-3 fatty and directly affects the enzyme system ers and readers of your web site would
acids and to numerous health problems hepatic tyrosine phosphorylation, which find most interesting and up to date. I
including rashes, allergies and suppres- is the system that produces IGF-1 from agree with the WAPF philosophy that it
sion of the immune system. The reason growth hormone. The oral estrogens or is best to support the body nutritionally
we recommend high-vitamin cod liver phytoestrogens affect this same system, to make its own growth hormone, but if
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