This information comes to us from Thomas Cowan, MD.  Dr. Cowan is one of the founding board members of the Weston A. Price Foundation, a frequent speaker and The Wise Traditions Conferences, and author of The Four Fold Path to Healing.

Between 1932 and 1942, Dr. Francis Pottenger conducted research on how cooked food vs. raw affected cats. In these studies, Pottenger took perfectly healthy cats and kept them healthy on a diet of raw milk, raw meat and cod liver oil.   Then he would alter the diet, for example, substituting pasteurized milk for raw milk, and the health of the cats would progressively deteriorate.

And how many generations did it take to restore the cats to perfect health when they ate the optimal diet?Seven generations – the same timespan that held special significance for Native Americans, who believed that for every important decision, the leaders should imagine the consequences of that decision for those coming seven generations.

Sadly and, right now, tragically, it is clear that our leaders and corporations have not been following this wise dictum.   If they had, we wouldn’t have built nuclear power plants, we wouldn’t have used up much of the stored energy and minerals on our planet, and we wouldn’t have treated our rivers and oceans like sewage dumps.    But we have done those things, and now we are possibly facing yet another grave threat to the health and well being of our planet: the spread of radiation from the destruction of the nuclear-power plant in Japan.

Many people have asked me what, if anything, they should do to prepare for the possibility of increased radiation exposure.   Here are my suggestions, based on my understanding of the research on preventing and treating radiation sickness.  I also want to thank the many people who have written to me to help me sort out the voluminous research on this subject.

First, because there is no clear evidence of current danger that I know of, we should do now only what is safe, inexpensive and otherwise healthy.   This includes our Nourishing Traditions/GAPS diet, with liberal amounts of good fats, broth, lacto-fermented vegetables and greens.   Special foods that have been shown to counteract radiation sickness include naturally fermented miso, beets, kombucha and sea vegetables, such as kombu.   Fermented cod liver oil at the usual dose of ½ teaspoon or 2 capsules is best.   Next, detoxifying baths with a cup of Epsom salts every couple days is an inexpensive aid to boosting magnesium levels, relaxing muscles, and aiding the elimination channels…. Read the whole article >>