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Milk Diet as a Remedy for Chronic Disease 55). Supporting evidence of Porter’s blood theory
by Charles Sanford Porter, MD is found in the live blood cell analysis of people
God’s Whey, LLC eating a WAPF diet as published in the winter
Simple. Concise. A true self-help manual. 2009 Wise Traditions journal. This article shows
First published in 1905, the book was written a clear connection between the quality of blood
with the purpose of helping individuals treat and the health of the individual.
themselves with raw milk, Milk Diet as a Remedy Why read the book if the cure seems so
for Chronic Disease by Charles Sanford Porter simple? Porter addresses reactions to the treat-
M.D. chronicles the effects of a raw milk diet as ment, such as how constipation can occur and
he used it in the early 1900s. Unlike many health how to remedy it. He addresses the need for
protocols that require working with a practitio- rest, warm baths and fresh air. He explains how
ner to monitor lab tests and supplements, this the muscles will grow larger and heavier as they
book puts the power of healing in the hands of distend with the large quantity of new blood
the reader. Drawing on twenty-seven years of circulating through them and also how the new
experience in using the raw milk diet as a cure blood nourishes, rebuilds and heals the internal
for chronic diseases, Porter details how to use organs.
a raw milk diet and what to expect during the Within 48-78 hours of beginning the milk
treatment. cure, a person’s pulse will increase twelve beats
Dr. Porter based his version of the raw to the minute. (page 51). Understanding how the
milk diet on a few basic premises. First, raw body is reacting to the milk cure gives a person
milk is white blood and therefore a good source courage to continue on the diet until health is
of materials with which your body can easily reestablished.
make new blood. The second premise is that the In a day and age of increasing chronic dis-
best method of treating chronic disease is by ease Porter’s protocol can have lasting effects
addressing the quality and quantity of circula- on many people. Most intriguing is the fact that
tion of blood through the body. Porter suggests this cure can be undertaken without lab tests or
that, “On the condition of the blood depends the supplements and as Porter declares, it “is a simple
outcome of the struggle, whether life or death, a thing, and within any person’s reach”(page 135).
short or long illness. The circulation of the blood Indeed it is and Porter’s book helps make it so.
is nature’s agent in eliminating disease” (page Review by Shannon Nash

rotting grass will produce methane whether it is inside the cow or not. QUOTABLES
You might as well get a good steak out of it. Dr. Tom Cowan made the
point in his article in the Winter 2009 Wise Traditions that massive herds Africa is not poor. Ethiopia alone, if properly
of buffalo stomped around the great plains for thousands of years. There cultivated, could feed the entire African con-
was no global warming. In fact, the result was some of the thickest, most tinent.
fertile soil in the world. CAFOs are an environmental hazard. Our abuse Pierre Rabhi
of animals is an environmental hazard. Agroecologist, Farmer
The merest suggestion that ruminants are an environmental hazard Our wealth is imaginary. It comes from soil
threatens my access to real food and therefore, my survival. I can’t just let Janine Benyus, Founder,
that go as a minor point. The book overall didn’t exactly rock my world, Biomimicry Institute
and with this key flaw, the thumb is down. Review by Tim Boyd

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