In this latest clip from one of the Healing Quest episodes featuring the Weston A. Price Foundation, it begins with an interview of a doctor at a medical practice where they became disillusioned after treating kids using conventional methods, and decided to make a change…
“‘Stacia had seen that children were getting too many vaccines and too many antibiotics, including her own children and she felt it was time to do something new. The main reason I became disenchanted with Western medicine is that I actually saw kids getting sicker from the treatments I was giving them. The antibiotics caused them to have diarrhea and recurrent ear infections, and the foods they were eating were becoming more and more processed. They weren't thriving.'
To reverse that trend, Lindy and her partners have integrated into their practice an emphasis on food as medicine along with naturopathic principles and homeopathy.
‘Homeopathy has completely changed the way I practice medicine. It's actually our first line of medicine for most of our children, so say a child comes in with an ear infection. In our practice, we almost never treat ear infections with antibiotics. We've been doing this now for almost 14 years and I'm really proud to say that we almost never have a child go to the ear nose and throat doctor for those little tubes. We don't have any children who have recurrent antibiotics to treat their ear infections.'”
More controversial topics…
Later in the show they eloquently present the truth about raw milk benefits, soy dangers (don't give your baby soy formula!), and if you can't breastfeed, how easy it is to make superfood homemade baby formula with this homemade baby formula kit.
Next they spoke with Ron Schmid, who has a sign outside his office with the famous Hippocrates quote that I love, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” (As a matter of fact, I love it so much that I put on the back of my Kitchen Kop business cards.)
Ron Schmid wrote a great book that you'll want to read if you haven't yet, especially if you're still unsure about drinking unpasteurized dairy:
The Untold Story of Milk: Green Pastures, Contented Cows and Raw Dairy Products
Dr. Nicholas Gonzales was up next, explaining how he's used intensive nutritional therapy for the last 25 years to treat advanced cancer and other incurable diseases.
“He says it's almost impossible to over-emphasize the importance of food as an influence on our health. Everything in our body, every brain chemical, every enzyme, every molecule in our liver, our toenails, this stuff comes from one place. From our food. You gotta think, every time you take a bite of food you can approach it two ways: I'm doing something to help my body work more efficiently, or I'm gonna do something where I don't care how it works, well there's a price to pay if you don't care and believe me, I treat advanced cancer patients every day and all of them wish they had it to do over again.”
If you know someone with cancer, you'll want them to read this book by Nicholas Gonzales:
Let's help support Roy & Judy, producers of Healing Quest, because as we all know, it's not easy putting these truths out there. There are always ramifications. You've got to know that many in the world of conventional medicine aren't happy that they're presenting alternative methods of healing that do NOT involve pharmaceuticals or expensive medical tests.
Let's thank them for their courage in getting this controversial information on TELEVISION!
Here are ways you can support and thank them, as well as supporting the Weston A. Price Foundation:
- Spread the word and share this post using the social media buttons above or below!
- Call your local PBS station to request that Healing Quest be added to their line up if it's not already!
Also:
- Find your local chapter and get involved! (West Michigan readers, here's our local chapter.)
- Become a member of the Weston A. Price Foundation and receive the quarterly journal, Wise Traditions, which is full of the latest health and nutrition news and common sense.
- Go to a Weston Price Foundation conference! The next one is in St. Louis, MO very soon!
Enough rambling already!
Now watch this video clip from the show, and share your thoughts in the comments below!
Kat says
This is great. Thank you for sharing Kelly.
raw milk? says
hi kelly,
my husband has been in the hospital for the past week fighting a brucellosis infection from raw milk. he’s being loaded up on intravenous antibiotics. has anyone here dealt with a brucellosis infection before? any advice about additional treatments?
also, real food bloggers may want to add a warning to readers in other countries. dairy herds in america are all vaccinated for brucellosis but there are some countries where that is not the case.
this experience has raised some questions for me. for instance, how are raw milk and anti vaccine positions reconciled when access to safe raw milk depends on vaccines?
Melissa B. says
I don’t know much about brucellosis but I do know it is rare – one site suggested 100-200 cases in the U.S per year. Did other’s get sick from the milk? If it was truly a brucellosis from raw milk I would think others would have fallen ill as well. I did read that it can also be passed through eating undercooked meat. Have you toured the farm where you get your raw milk from? Do they have their milk regularly tested? These are only questions that are popping into my head – sorry if they seem basic or condescending (they aren’t meant to be!). There is a good outline of the process a farm should follow if there is a brucellosis outbreak here at this site: https://www.realmilk.com/whichchoose.html Might be helpful to pass onto your farmer? I believe all cows (whether they are in CAFO’s or more “normal” farms, even organic), are immunized for this between 2-6 months of age, right? Either way, I hope your husband recovers quickly!
raw milk? says
hi melissa, thanks for responding. brucellosis is, worldwide, the most common foodborne and the most common animal to human transmitted illness. 500,000 cases annually worldwide. which is the reason i said the bloggers should add a note to readers in other countries to check on vaccinations for dairy animals.
no one else has gotten sick yet but my husband had complications from another condition that could have caused him to be susceptible. there hasn’t been any milk or meat that he’s eaten that hasn’t been eaten also by many others. we recently got milk from our neighbor who has a ‘farm’. (we are in saudi arabia and a ‘farm’ is any spot, anywhere in the desert where you set up a tent and water tank.) he has camels, sheep and goats. it could have been camel milk or goat milk from there or from another ‘farm’ where we sometimes buy milk. saudi arabia has no vaccination program.
again, i’m really wondering about the whole raw milk thing if it depends so heavily on vaccinations. what did people used to do? i know they didn’t heat the milk. from herders in somalia to traditional chinese medicine there is quite an emphasis on milk being fresh and raw. but so far i’ve only found one herbal treatment (hawkweed) and one tcm treatment (duhuo jisheng tang) and we can’t get either one here.
anyway, thanks again for responding, melissa!
AmandaLP says
First, I am so sorry to hear about your husband. We do spend a lot of time talking about the benefits of raw milk, but there are some people who do get sick from it.
Secondly, dairy vaccinations are different from human vaccinations in many ways. First, dairy cows do not have the same mental capacities as humans. Most anti-vaccination people are worried about the neurological and body conditions of their children, and for a cow with limited mental capacity, this is not that much of an issue. Secondly, dairy cows receive far fewer vaccinations than humans. I found a list online of 5 vaccinations given to dairy cows, with an addition 5 vaccinations given to breeding cows. Right now, on the CDC schedule has a child getting 8 different vaccinations, many of them multiple times, for a total of 28 vaccinations from birth to 6 years. Lastly, we do not vaccinate children to make their meat and body fluids safe for others to drink, and we do a lot of things to our fruit, vegetables, dairy, meat, and water supply, that we would not do to humans.
Lastly, there have been some studies that show that grass fed dairy cows are far less likely to carry e. coli and other pathogens, and since cows have to be exposed to brucelloisis in order to get the disease, it is much more rare in countries that do have vaccination programs and limited mobility between herds.
Vaccination does exist in Saudi Arabia. If you choose to continue drinking raw milk, you can ask your supplier about their safety procedures, including vaccinations and how the milk is handled.
I wish for safe recovery of your husband.
raw milk? says
hi amanda, thanks for responding. thanks for sharing about the vaccines. is there no concern for our health then, from drinking milk from cows that have received vaccines? also, can you tell me more about vaccinations in saudi arabia? we were told that there is no national program here for vaccinating camels, like they have in kuwait, because the area is considered too large and the camel population too numerous. also, it’s hard for us to talk to suppliers because we don’t speak much arabic. camels are not primary carriers though so maybe we’ll just stay away from mixed herds. anyway, thanks to you and kelly for your good wishes!
Kristi says
Love it. I sent an email to my local PBS station to request that they add this to their lineup. 🙂
Melissa B. says
Thanks for sharing this Kelly – so much great info!
Stanley Fishman says
Wow, this is such a great series! Thanks for sharing it, Kelly.