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began taking two to three heaping table- up to around 90,000 IUs (only from food healthy and I give all the credit to fresh
spoons of desiccated liver daily and lots sources) and will stay there for another milk and other milk products we made
of spleen tablets. Almost within days I month. I’ll retest in a month but based on the farm.
changed totally. I thought it was the iron on the way I feel I’m sure all will be During the Great Depression we
so after a month on this we retested and good. gave many of these same products along
threw in a thyroid test for the heck of it. I suppose that most people probably with fresh eggs and produce to friends
Amazingly my thyroid numbers were have enough vitamin A stored in their and family who lived in town. We were
almost perfect. This was four weeks liver so that the extra D supplements all healthy until the point where I and
after my previous test showing super never push it to rock bottom. In the my friends no longer had access to fresh
high numbers. Third World, children don’t lose their unadulterated products. Lift the ban on
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read Chris Masterjohn’s article about says that vision problems happen when Bill Parrish
the need for vitamin A to balance vita- vitamin A is really, really low. North Carolina
min D. Now I suspect both my A and D Another thought: People following
were low after my illness. I would have the Marshall protocol are warned away RAW MILK AND THE EYES
slowly built up both in tandem on good from taking any vitamin D. I wonder I am just back from Illinois where
foods, such as butter and cod liver oil. whether these people are actually ex- I was unable to get raw milk. It was in-
But once I got the high vitamin D shot WUHPHO\ GH¿FLHQW LQ YLWDPLQ $ IURP YLUDO teresting to observe my body becoming
it used up the remaining low vitamin A infections. When they take vitamin D, full of phlegm, which went away after
and my eye retina paid dearly. it further depresses vitamin A. being back on raw milk.
Now I’m loading on early spring Lynn Razaitis, Chapter Leader I also noticed my vision deteriorat-
butter, fermented cod liver oil, fer- Atlanta, Georgia ing. I do not know what the connection
mented skate oil, liver and medicinal is with raw milk and sharp eyes, but
herbed bone broths. My warts have Thank you for sharing this fascinating I stopped wearing reading glasses in
totally disappeared, sinus problems are story, which illustrates the danger of P\ PLG ¿IWLHV DIWHU VZLWFKLQJ WR UDZ
going away, brain is working again, and overdosing on vitamin D without also milk.
the retinal problems are gone (which, by taking vitamin A. According to infor- I wrote about my grandfather’s farm
the way, my eye doctor said wouldn’t mation in the Spring, 2009 journal, in the Winter, 2007 Wise Traditions ar-
happen and that I would have to get used a vitamin D level of 30 should not be ticle, “The First Cow Share Program.”
WR WKH ÀDVKLQJ OLJKW considered particularly low—normal While back in Illinois sorting
Just after the vitamin D shot, when is in the range of 30-50—so the shot through boxes of family photos, I was
I took cod liver oil it gave me joint pain. of 100,000 IUs vitamin D was not even repeatedly struck by the difference in
However, now, with taking a lot of vi- warranted. the ones of my older sister, who was
tamin A, my osteoarthritis pain is also born on the farm and lived there until
clearing quickly. I think I was not taking LIFT THE BAN six months of age, and the other two
in enough vitamin A and the extra vita- I grew up on a farm in North suburban-raised children. Christina, the
min D in the cod liver oil, on top of the Carolina. I and my eleven siblings were eldest, has a square face, a perfect bite,
huge dose in the shot, was what caused healthy and had very few colds or other and rolls of baby fat. The two younger
the joint pain. health problems because we drank fresh girls had oval faces and less fat. As we
I’ve currently pulled my vitamin A milk every day. I am now eighty-one and grew up, the eldest was the only one who
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