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University, I learned from the old timers of her mother in a rural environment in ful Russian drink kefir is made from raw
(the traditionally trained naturopathic the far north of New Zealand. We got milk, never from pasteurized milk.
doctors), that this condition can be a the cod liver oil from the local chemist Today, Alper gets his raw milk from
symptom of omega-3 deficiency in the (pharmacy). It all tasted the same, quite a dairy near Houston, Texas.
diet, as well as probably excess of ar- fishy, and we washed it down with copi- U.S. doctors have a few things to
tificially hydrogenated vegetable oils. ous amounts of water. learn from our cosmonaut friends and
Basically the artificially stiff oils make In hindsight, it was worth it for we their doctors. Recently, the cover story
stiff ear wax (and stiff joints, etc.). did not succumb to flu—in spite of not of Time magazine gave America a fail-
A person with adequate omega-3 receiving a flu shot. And, best of all, it ing medical check-up. It is a must-read
oils in their diet will have softer ear wax, was carried out year in, year out. That article. Medicine that ignores whole
which will naturally coat the canal and was way back in the 1930s. food nutrition is doomed to failure.
drain properly. Geoffrey C. Morell, ND Mark McAfee, Founder
This tidbit leads us directly back to Washington, DC Organic Pastures Dairy Company
traditional food wisdom and the work of Fresno, California
Dr. Price. My first line of treatment for CONVERSATION WITH A
wax-clogged ear canals (and subsequent COSMONAUT PAIN-FREE ACTIVE LIFE
infection) is cod liver oil and raw milk I’d like to report on a recent con- To all the wonderful people at
from grass-fed cows. Unless there is versation I had with Edward Alper, a WAPF, God bless you every one. I found
a rare genetic condition, cod liver oil Russian cosmonaut. He was trained at WAPF three years ago while researching
along with elimination of margarine Star City, which is located just thirty nutrient-dense foods and superfoods to
and artificially hydrogenated oils usu- kilometers east of Moscow. He is now help my ailing sixty-two-year-old body.
ally opens the ears within a month. Just an engineer and lives in Texas where I latched onto the WAPF guidelines
another reason to listen to our elders! he trains Russian cosmonauts for the like a drowning man to a rope and now
Sally B. Boyd, ND Russian space program. my wife and I have not had to take any
Kapoho, Hawaii At Star City, cosmonauts train for medications for over two years. We
space flight and work and live with their enjoy a pain-free active life again in the
RELIC OF THE PAST? doctors to achieve optimal health. Most best rested health since our teen years
When I was growing up, in the town of the doctors have dual training that on farms. I look like I could go wrestle
of Opotike, New Zealand, the daily includes medication-based medicine on my high school team and my wife is
event before school was a teaspoon of and alternative, nutritionally based pre- very active with horses again on a daily
cod liver oil. ventative medicine. Schools at Star City basis. Others in our families are experi-
There were no beg-your-pardons. educate children from grades three to encing greatly improved health—some
This was an established requirement. eleven. All the diets are controlled, and of it astonishing—as we overcome their
One could submit to it gracefully or have no Cokes or other sweetened carbonated skepticism about your diet.
one’s nose held. When you opened your beverages or junk food are allowed. All Jerry Denney
mouth to breathe, down it went. the food is whole and unprocessed. . . Pueblo, Colorado
The purpose was to build up an and all the milk is raw. According to
immunity, particularly against colds, Alper, illness is very rare in Star City. CONCERNS ABOUT SOIL-BASED
flu and chest problems, which the cod Edward said that in Russia they ORGANISMS AND PROBIOTICS
liver oil did quite successfully. This was describe pasteurized milk as “watered As a nutritionist who reads Wise
all seen to by my strong-willed mother, down sheetrock” because it has the same Traditions faithfully and listens to what
who in turn was imitating the efforts taste and nutritional value. The wonder- the contributing experts have to say, I

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