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2. COMPARISON OF MIDDLE-AGED ADULTS per week; six tablepoons of saturated fat per day;
Figure 7, below, is a blood microphotograph from a fifty-five-year-old cod liver oil supplementation daily; preparation
female on the WAPF diet. She has consistently been on the WAPF diet of 90 percent of grains and nuts by soaking or
for three years; diet is 98 percent WAPF; all of the meat that she eats is sourdough; daily consumption of fermented
from pastured animals. She also consumes the following: two quarts raw foods; no alcohol. Figure 9 shows the blood of
milk per week; 14 eggs per week; five tablespoons saturated fat daily; one the eighty-three-year-old male initially. Only a
alcoholic drink per month; preparation of 100 percent of grains and nuts few small platelet aggregates or other inclusions
by soaking or sourdough; daily consumption of fermented foods. Figure 7 are found in the plasma; no clotting is seen.
shows relatively clean blood plasma with some microbial forms, no fibrin The blood of a seventy-nine-year-old female
or other clotting factors, and free RBCs. on a conventional modern diet with numerous
The blood of a fifty-five-year-old male eating a conventional modern supplements provides a comparison. Figure 10,
diet with supplementation is shown for comparison in Figure 8, below. Most below, shows the blood of the seventy-nine-year-
of the RBCs in Figure 8 are grossly misshapen, which indicates that the old female initially. Rouleau of RBCs and fibrin
blood is already clotting. (RBCs give up their round shape to fit together deposits manifested initially.
like pieces of a puzzle in a blood clot to form an impervious wall of cells.) In addition, the blood of the eighty-three-
Figures 7 and 8 were taken at the same time, thirty minutes after blood year-old male on the WAPF diet was examined
draw, for comparison. twenty-four hours after blood draw, shown in
Figure 11, below. Although the RBCs are cre-
3. COMPARISON OF ELDERLY ADULTS nated (wrinkled), which is probably due to the
Figure 9, below, shows the blood of an eighty-three-year-old male who slide drying out to some extent overnight, the
consumed the WAPF diet for over ten years, with the following dietary RBCs are still intact with no sign of clotting,
habits: meat from pastured animals 80 percent; no milk; fourteen eggs which is a sign of excellent biological integrity
when stressed.

Figure 7. Microphotograph of peripheral Figure 8. Microphotograph of peripheral
blood from a 55-year-old female on the blood from a 55-year-old male on a
WAPF diet. conventional modern diet.

Figure 9. Microphotograph of freshly Figure 10. Microphotograph of freshly Figure 11. Microphotograph of blood
drawn peripheral blood from an 83- drawn peripheral blood from a 79-year-old drawn 24 hours after first micropho-
year-old man on the WAPF diet. woman on a conventional modern diet. tograph, far left, from an 83-year-old
man on the WAPF diet.
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