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The blood       1. COMPARISON OF YOUNG ADULTS              year-old female eating a modern conventional
                                  Figure 3, below, shows the initial blood mi-
                                                                         diet, shown in Figure 4, below. By contrast, this
           of this WAPF         crophotograph of the youngest subject, female,  figure shows sticky RBCs aggregated into loose
         subject shows        age thirty, who has been on the WAPF diet for  “rouleau” (rolls or stacks of coins) and the pres-
          mostly round        eight years; whose diet is 90 percent WAPF;  ence of the clotting protein, fibrin, in a network.
                 RBCs of      who consumes the following: 90 percent of meat  Fibrin is seen here as white fibers that look much
                              eaten is from pastured animals; one quart of raw  like a disorganized spider web. This photo shows
                relatively    milk per week; twelve eggs per week; cod liver  sticky blood with activated clotting factors.
            uniform size      oil daily; six tablespoons of saturated fat daily;     Microphotographs  of  blood  taken  at  45
            and without       fermented foods three times per week; prepara-  minutes after blood draw for the same two 30-
                              tion of 100 percent of grains and nuts by soaking  year-old subjects were compared. Figure 5, be-
           any debris in      or sourdough; and no alcohol consumption.   low, shows the blood of the female on the WAPF

            the plasma.           The  blood  of  this  WAPF  subject  shows  diet. The blood is still intact with a few areas of
                              mostly round RBCs of relatively uniform size  platelet aggregates, but no fibrin. By contrast, the
                              and without any debris in the plasma, which is  blood of the female on the conventional modern
                              characteristic of normal healthy blood, with the  diet, shown in Figure 6, below, shows that the
                              blood initially showing no activation of clotting  rouleau have dissipated into smaller aggregates
                              or plasma debris. Compare this to the initial mi-  of RBCs, and the fibrin net is now apparent
                              crophotograph of peripheral blood from a thirty-  throughout the field.





















                Figure  3.  Microphotograph  of  freshly  drawn   Figure  4.  Microphotograph  of  freshly  drawn
                peripheral blood from a thirty-year-old female,   peripheral blood from a thirty-year-old female
                eight years on the WAPF diet.                 consuming a conventional modern diet.




















              Figure 5. Microphotograph of blood drawn 45      Figure 6. Microphotograph of blood drawn 45
              minutes after first microphotograph, above, from   minutes after first microphotograph, above, from
              a thirty-year-old female eight years on the WAPF   a thirty-year-old female consuming a conventional
              diet. Two white blood cells are also seen.       modern diet.
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