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Not a single      hours after consuming the unmarinated cooked  apple cider vinegar (with the “mother”). The
                  free-floating     pork chop. His RBCs are completely congealed  subject’s blood looks completely normal before
                                    in tight rouleaux. Additionally, Figure 3 shows  consuming this pork chop. Then, five hours after
                      RBC was       that the blood has a high level of fibrin as well  consuming the same size portion of a marinated
                      observed      as rouleaux. Not a single free-floating RBC was  pork chop, the subject’s blood is shown in Figure
                   throughout       observed throughout his blood sample after he  5. The RBCs in this blood sample show a very
                                    consumed the unmarinated cooked pork. This  slight stickiness or tendency to aggregate, and a
                      his blood     subject also felt considerable fatigue about two  few platelet aggregate forms are seen, with no

                        sample      hours after eating the pork chop, although he  fibrin. The subject’s blood is largely unchanged
                        after he    insisted that he was not sleep deprived that day.  from before. The other two subjects showed es-
                                        The other two subjects showed similar  sentially no change before or after consumption

               consumed the         blood results following consumption of the un-  of the marinated cooked pork.
                 unmarinated        marinated cooked pork chop. Two of the three     Figure 6 shows the blood of the female sub-

                cooked pork.        subjects felt fatigued after eating the pork chop,  ject, age thirty-seven, fasted, prior to consuming
                                                                               four strips of uncured pastured bacon. Again, this
                                    which suggests reduced peripheral blood circu-
                                    lation due to RBC stickiness and aggregation.  subject’s blood is normal and healthy, without
                                    Because the tiniest microcapillaries are smaller  any RBC aggregates or fibrin. Figure 7 shows
                                    than the diameter of a single blood cell, each cell  the blood of the same subject, five hours after
                                    must pass through singly and deform its shape  consuming the bacon. The subject’s RBCs are
                                    in order to do so; blood cell aggregates simply  not aggregated; there is only a minuscule amount
                                    cannot pass through them.                  of platelet aggregates and fibrin. This blood is
                                        By contrast, all three subjects reported  essentially unchanged over baseline. The other
                                    no fatigue or other symptoms after eating the  two subjects’ blood samples also appear about
                                    marinated cooked pork chop. Figure 4 shows the  the same, before and after consumption of bacon,
                                    same subject’s fasted blood on another day prior  too.
                                    to eating marinated pork. The same cut of pork     Figure 8 shows the blood of a subject, male,
                                    was marinated in the refrigerator for twenty-four  fifty-two, prior to consumption of prosciutto.
                                    hours, completely submerged in unfiltered live  This blood looks normal and healthy, with sev-


                                                                                           FIGURE 2. Microphotograph
                                                                                           of blood of male, 52, five
                                                                                           hours after consuming the
                                                                                           unmarinated cooked pork chop.
                                                                                           RBCs are entirely stuck together
                                                                                           in rouleaux (stacks of coins)
                                                                                           formations. This blood condition
                                                                                           disrupts the microcirculation.



               FIGURE 1. Microphotograph of blood of male,
               52, before consuming the unmarinated cooked                                 FIGURE 3. Microphotograph
               pork chop. RBCs are seen as round cells, and                                of blood of male, 52, five
               small white patches of platelet aggregates are                              hours after consuming the
               seen. This is the picture of normal, healthy                                unmarinated cooked pork chop.
               blood.                                                                      RBCs are entirely stuck together
                                                                                           in rouleaux (stacks of coins)
                                                                                           formations, and a high level of
                                                                                           fibrin, white threads, means
                                                                                           that early blood clotting has
                                                                                           transpired.

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