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LIVE BLOOD ANALYSIS All of the meats used were of the highest
The blood is the tissue most easily monitored quality from sustainable small farms raising
to show rapid changes in response to nutrients. pastured livestock. Five preparations of meat
Live blood analysis involves visual examination were used:
of a small droplet of capillary blood from the
fingertip. The blood is put on a glass slide and 1. Unmarinated pastured center-cut pork chop;
observed under a high-powered light micro- 2. Apple cider vinegar-marinated (twenty-four
scope, typically dark-field. This method offers a hours while refrigerated) pastured center-cut
qualitative visual perspective of the blood cells pork chop;
and plasma, known as the “biological terrain” 3. Uncured pastured prosciutto;
in integrative healthcare, which supports and 4. Uncured pastured bacon;
sustains the cells and their vitality. 5. Unmarinated pastured lamb chop.
Analysis of the blood can reveal numerous
conditions, including the stickiness of red blood The meats (1), (2) and (5) were cooked over
cells (RBCs) and their tendency to aggregate and low heat in a cast iron skillet for up to one hour,
clot, as well as the formation of fibrin—the chief with a little water but no added fat, and salted to
clotting protein—and aggregation of platelets. taste. The cooked meats were prepared well done.
The presence or absence of these clotting factors The bacon was cooked until slightly stiff, but not
can be readily seen using dark-field live blood crisp or dry. The prosciutto was consumed from
analysis. Early blood clotting has been linked the package without any preparation.
to chronic systemic biochemical inflammation, After consuming the pork, subjects were al-
which is at the root of chronic disease. lowed to leave the laboratory, instructed to drink
Live blood analysis is described in detail in only water as needed, and to refrain from eat-
a previous article by the author. Moreover, the ing anything else. Five hours later, each subject
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blood testing of adults consuming the traditional returned to the laboratory for a post-meat blood
diet recommended by the Weston A. Price Foun- test.
dation showed a much healthier biological terrain Microphotographs of the blood samples
than those consuming the modern organic diet. were recorded and scored. The data for the three
There was considerably less RBC aggregation, subjects were also averaged for each condition
platelet aggregation and fibrin in the blood. and plotted in tables and graphs.

SUBJECTS AND STUDY PROCEDURES PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPARISON OF BLOOD
Inclusion criteria for subjects were normal BEFORE AND AFTER EATING MEAT
healthy adults eating the traditional diet recom- The results show unequivocally that con-
mended by the Weston A. Price Foundation suming unmarinated cooked pork shows a sig- The results
(WAPF) for over two years, and having a clean nificant negative effect on the blood. Five hours
healthy biological terrain as observed in live after consumption, subjects showed extremely show
blood analysis. coagulated blood, with extensive red blood cell unequivocally
Three adults, including two females aged (RBC) rouleaux (cells in the formation of stacked that
thirty-seven and sixty, and one male aged fifty- coins), RBC aggregates, and the presence of
two, participated in the study. The average length clotting factors, especially fibrin, which is seen consuming
of time they had consumed the WAPF diet was as white threads in dark-field microscopy. umarinated
forty-five months. Subjects each came to the Figure 1 shows the blood of a subject, male, cooked pork
laboratory once weekly for five weeks at the same age fifty-two, whose blood showed the most dra-
time of day by individual appointment. On the matic changes after eating unprocessed cooked shows a
days in which they participated, subjects were pork. Initially, this subject's blood looks very significant
required to fast for at least five hours. A baseline healthy. The RBCs are separate and uniformly negative
blood test was first done. Each subject was then round, and there are no debris or clotting factors
given a measured amount of meat to consume, seen in the plasma, which appears black in dark- effect on the
at least three ounces. field. Figures 2 and 3 show his blood about five blood.
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