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during the pregnancy itself for a mother to extract sufficient nutrition from current food to build a totally
healthy fetus, no matter how nourishing the food she is eating may be. Thus a mother-to-be needs to be
spending her entire childhood and her adolescence (and have adequate time between babies), building and
rebuilding her reserves.
A mother-to-be also started out at her own birth with a vitally important stock of nutritional reserves,
reserves put there during her own fetal development. If that "start" was less than ideal, the mother-to-be (as
fetus) got "pinched" and nutritionally shortchanged in certain, predictable ways. Even minor mineral fetal
deficiencies degrade the bone structure: the fetus knows it needs nutritional reserves more than it needs to
have a full-sized jaw bone or a wide pelvic girdle, and when deprived of maximum fetal nourishment, these
non-vital bones become somewhat smaller. Permanently. If mineral deficiencies continue into infancy and
childhood, these same bones continue to be shortchanged, and the child ends up with a very narrow face, a
jaw bone far too small to hold all the teeth, and in women, a small oven that may have trouble baking babies.
More importantly, those nutrient reserves earmarked especially for making babies are also deficient. So a
deficient mother not only shows certain structural evidence of physiological degeneration, but she makes
deficient babies. A deficient female baby at birth is unlikely to completely overcome her bad start before she
herself has children.
So with females, the quality of a whole lifetime's nutrition, and the life-nutrition of her mother (and of her
mother's mother as well) has a great deal to do with the outcome of a pregnancy. The sins of the mother can
really be visited unto the third and fourth generation.
This reality was powerfully demonstrated in the 1920s by a medical doctor, Francis Pottenger. He was not
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gifted with a good bedside manner. Rather than struggling with an unsuccessful clinical practice, Dr.
Pottenger decided to make his living running a medical testing laboratory in Pasadena, California. Dr.
Pottenger earned his daily bread performing a rather simple task, assaying the potency of adrenal hormone
extracts. At that time, adrenaline, a useful drug to temporarily rescue people close to death, was extracted
from the adrenal glands of animals. However, the potency of these crude extracts varied greatly. Being a very
powerful drug, it was essential to measure exactly how strong your extract was so its dosage could be
controlled.
Quantitative organic chemistry was rather crude in those days. Instead of assaying in a test tube, Dr. Pottenger
kept several big cages full of cats that he had adrenalectomized. Without their own adrenals, the cats could not
live more than a short time By finding out how much extract was required to keep the cats from failing, he
could measure the strength of the particular batch.
Dr. Pottenger's cats were economically valuable so he made every effort to keep them healthy, something that
proved to be disappointingly difficult. He kept his cats clean, in airy, bright quarters, fed them to the very best
of his ability on pasteurized whole milk, slaughterhouse meat and organs (cats in the wild eat organ meats first
and there are valuable vitamins and other substances in organ meats that don't exist in muscle tissue). The
meat was carefully cooked to eliminate any parasites, and the diet was supplemented with cod liver oil.
However, try as he might, Pottenger's cats were sickly, lived short and had to be frequently replaced. Usually
they bred poorly and died young of bacterial infections, there being no antibiotics in the 1920s. I imagine Dr.
Pottenger was constantly visiting the animal shelter and perhaps even paid quarters out the back door to a
steady stream of young boys who brought him cats in burlap sacks from who knows where, no questions
asked.
Dr. Pottenger's assays must have been accurate, for his business grew and grew. Eventually he needed more
cats than he had cages to house, so he built a big, roofed, on-the-ground pen outdoors. Because he was
overworked, he was less careful about the feeding of these extra animals. They got the same pasteurized milk
and cod-liver oil, but he did not bother to cook their slaughterhouse meat. Then, a small miracle happened.
This poorly cared for cage of cats fed on uncooked meat became much healthier than the others, suffering far
fewer bacterial infections or other health problems. Then another miracle happened. Dr. Pottenger began to
meditate on the first miracle.
It occurred to him that cats in the wild did not cook their food; perhaps cats had a digestive system that
couldn't process or assimilate much out of cooked food. Perhaps the problem he had been having was not
because the cats were without adrenal glands but because they were without sustenance, suffering a sort of
slow starvation in the midst of plenty. So Dr. Pottenger set up some cat feeding experiments.
There were four possible combinations of his regimen: raw meat and unpasteurized milk; raw meat and
pasteurized milk; cooked meat and raw milk; cooked meat and pasteurized milk, this last one being what he
had been feeding all along. So he divided his cats into four groups and fed each group differently. The first
results of Pottenger's experiments were revealed quickly though the most valuable results took longer to see.
The cats on raw meat and raw milk did best. The ones on raw meat and pasteurized milk did okay but not as
well. The ones on cooked meat and raw milk did even less well and those on all cooked food continued to do
as poorly as ever.
Clearly, cats can't digest cooked food; all animals do better fed on what they can digest. A lot of people have
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