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Pilot Research Study

Live Blood Analysis of Adults Comparing the

Weston A. Price Foundation Diet
and the Conventional Modern Diet

by Beverly Rubik, PhD

Beverly Rubik, PhD,
is president and he most easily monitored tissue that shows changes
founder of the in response to nutritional status is the blood. As there
Institute for
Frontier Science, T are numerous differences between the traditional
Oakland, diet recommended by the Weston A. Price Foundation
California;
core professor, (WAPF) and the conventional modern diet, we would
Graduate College, expect to find key differences in the blood of persons con-
Interdisciplinary
Studies, suming these two different diets. In this exploratory pilot
Union Institute and
University, study, we pose the following question: How do live blood
Cincinnati, Ohio; analyses for persons consuming the traditional diet rec-
adjunct professor,
Integrative Health ommended by the Weston A. Price Foundation compare
Studies, California with those for persons consuming conventional modern
Institute for
Integral Studies, diets?
San Francisco, Live blood analysis is carried out through visual examination of a
California; and
faculty member, small droplet of fresh capillary blood, typically taken from the fingertip,
College of and observed under a high-powered light microscope, either dark-field or
Mind-Body phase contrast. This method offers a qualitative visual perspective of the
Medicine, blood cells and state of the blood plasma at high magnification enhanced
Saybrook University,
San Francisco, by modern optical techniques. It offers a visual perspective on the ecology
California. of the blood, sometimes referred to as the “biological terrain.”

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