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Letters

SOY ATTACK MIRACLE BIRTH just gazed at me. It was the most amaz-
My thyroid didn’t bother me at all A few years ago, I was told I had ing moment in my life! She continues
my whole life. Then my doctor recom- a very slim chance of ever getting in good health, has gained back all the
mended soy milk because of my love pregnant and only about a 30 percent weight she initially lost, and is a nurs-
for milk. I was at Costco and saw that chance of keeping a pregnancy. This ing pro. She is a very content and happy
they had soy milk so I decided to give was due to having PCOS, endometriosis, baby. We are really blessed!
it a try. I started getting pains in my fibromyalgia, mild lupus and Sjogrens My traditional diet, local organic
heart, chest and neck almost right away syndrome. Most of my doctors told me foods, and organic raw supplements
but I didn’t associate it with my thyroid there was nothing I could do but to go during pregnancy have sure paid off.
or my soy milk. I decided my problem on drugs for the rest of my life! Instead, Thank you to our local farmers and
was too much cholesterol and so I cut I changed my diet, lifestyle and used al- the Weston A. Price Foundation for the
out meat, butter and milk completely priceless work, research, education and
and drank more soy for protein intake. advocacy for healthy traditional diets.
I got worse and worse until I had two We are truly grateful.
heart attacks that I now think were thy- Mary Stankey,
roid attacks—but the heart doctors saw biochemist and WAPF chapter leader
it as a great opportunity to use me for Darrington, Washington
their next boat payment and I got three
stents. DEVIL IN THE DETAILS
But the pains didn’t go away. I tried I am writing in response to the book
blaming it on my Crestor for keeping review of Devil in the Milk (Fall, 2009).
down my cholesterol but I kept drinking I am very confused! Are you saying that
my soy, faithfully. I was in Hawaii when, raw milk is very harmful to humans
after five years of thinking I was about unless we have a strong GI tract? And
to have a heart attack every day and that only milk from Jersey cows, or
becoming a couch potato, a friend told maybe not even those cows, because of
me to try sea weed or kelp. I did and the the modern breeding, have milk that is
pain went away. I would still have times safe for humans?
when my thyroid caused me stress, pain Where do we find old-fashioned
and sluggishness but now I realize that ternative Japanese wellness products in A2 cows? I have finally found a reliable
that was when I would have soy milk. our home. I soon found myself pregnant, source for raw milk. It is from Jersey
When my wife heard that soy could and more important, my pregnancy was cows, but is that milk the safe milk from
be the problem, we cut out the soy and so smooth and easy! an A2 cow, or would it be wise to start
the pains started getting better almost Our sweet baby girl, Sofia Shea drinking goat milk because BCM 7 is
right away. I have lost five years of my Stankey, was born safely at home after not found in goat milk?
precious life and suffered fear of heart a 100 percent drug-free and natural de- Susan Chrzan
attack and pain in my neck, throat, chest livery. She weighed over seven pounds Alpena, Michigan
and armpits, and I truly believe soy is and is in perfect health. She was amaz-
the culprit. Help me find a way to stop ingly alert from birth and nursed within Raw whole milk from pasture-fed cows
the soy industry from hiding the truth. ten minutes of coming into the world. is safe and wholesome for most people.
Mark Rush I’ve attached a precious picture of her The significance of the A2 findings is
Lincoln, Nebraska after she finished nursing where she that it may explain why some people
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