He also did work to remineralize caries (cavities). It may not have been in this book, may have been in other writings of his. I believe it was kids in an orphanage who he put on a special diet and proved teeth could be healed. He and his wife wanted to find a indigenous group that was vegan but did not every find one (makes sense since it's not nutritionally complete/supportive of reproduction). Don't miss the 'Pottenger's Cats' work as well. Good stuff!
Dr Chris Knobbe does a fantastic lecture on TH-cam on the harmful effects of vegetable seed oils . These oils aren't just harmful to human health but to biodiversity as well . My county of Kent in the UK is covered in Rapeseed now . It just trashes biodiversity for few positive benefits except for food companies. Rapeseed is pretty ubiquitous in ultra processed foods now in the UK/Europe.
Thank you for posting this!! I agree! Also read Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon Morell. It’s based on Price’s finding but updated and mentions seed oils. It has recipes, the science of certain foods and so much information! Anyways, thanks for sharing!
i recently transitioned to a weston a price diet and i do find that i dont really need to brush my teeth anymore at all. even after not brushing for a few days, my teeth and gums are in impeccable shape and do not bleed or hurt
I can’t even fall asleep if I haven’t brushed my teeth-or if I do, I’ll wake up soon after, and I’ll get up to go brush. I haven’t had a cavity in over twenty years. I’m really happy your teeth are doing so great, but I’d be scared to not brush! ❤
great video and love any content sharing this book.. i do think the title of the video is a little unfair. He didnt miss anything, those problems were just not around then , be it over abundance or seed oils. - maybe title it , " what he would say today" -
Love the book and dip into it from time to time just to look at the happy faces. It wasn't just physical health he noticed happier disposition too. Carb eaters tended to have more decay. Seafood and animal was king. Randle cycle is modern culprit.
I think metabolic syndrome just messes with your brain. I was a happy, healthy carb eater as a teenage cross country runner. Then I stopped running, started consuming more sugar, got stressed out by school, and developed some metabolic issues. Once I reversed them through a low carb, high nutrition diet, I could eat carbs and remain happy. But the moment I started to overdo it, the depression and anxiety came back.
Vegetable fats and High Fructose Corn Syrup wasn't a part of life in Dr Prices era. They are only recent developments - margarine displacing butter and saturated animal fats post World War II based on Ancel Keys (dodgy) work; HFCS hitting the processed goods shelves (displacing sugar) in the 1980s.
True, aport is important too! But price back then managed to stop the degeneration of teeth from every person he treated with his special diet (with highvitaminbutter etc..) (and also the childrens intellicence improved.) And witch dentist ever told you this?😉🤔
I remember Dr. Price mentioned pearl divers (iirc), that had to eat modernized foods on their job for about 6 months. And this time was enough to give them rampaging tooth decay, despite of having a ton of exercises through diving.
I think the problem is the ratio of calories vs nutrients in the food, no so much the over abundance of calories. For instance, the Inuits ate on average 10 000 calories daily just to stay warm, but the amount of nutrients they ate along with the calories was probably very high in order to maintain health and good physiques. Empty calories is the key expression here. However, I do agree if we don't need the calories for physical work or maintaining our core temperature that excess will eventually cause problems regardless of the nutrient/calorie ratio.
I would say the car analogy gives a good insight as to what causes overeating with the vegetable fats. The body needs more than just calories, so it is not going to signal satiation unless it also gets enough nutrients. Eating modern foods devoid of anything but energy therefore means the body will signal hunger. But trying to fix the issue with eating even more foods that only contain energy still leaves the person deficient, with the excess energy becoming fat on the body. Using the car analogy, it is just like trying to add more and more fuel to fix old paint and a flat tire.
I read Nutrition and Physical Degeneration years ago but in its entirety. However, I once saw a interesting table which was pulled out of the book. The table rated the people who had the least amount of cavities to the ones who had the most. The ones who had the most cavities were the starch eating people and the winners were the ones who ate a completely animal based diet... The Inuits, even though over all none of those groups of people had the extensive dental problems that we now have in our society.
What he found out is that a natural way of eating with local food and a natural way of living keeps us healthy. Today we are sedentary, eat food including unnatural oils and altered vegetables as well as fruits and oats…. and get sicknesses of all kinds..So my conclusion is … move, eat as natural, local as possible and everything in moderation 😊
Thank you!! I'd love to see a list of what oils are recommended and not recommended! (I've been thinking olive oil and coconut oil are just fine to do lots of cooking with and I buy yummy vegan "butter" that's simply avocado oil but I could be wrong?) Also: I've seen my mood brighten, energy improve, and less bloating/gas/constipation and stomach pressure since switching to way less sugar and much more eating complex whole grains and complex whole grain products instead of white, simple flour and white rice. Along with more fruit, more greens, more veggies, almost never eat dairy anymore, more nuts, more seeds. I don't eat them enough but like adding in sourdough bread, kimchi, miso soup, coconut yogurt.
Butter, tallow, ghee, and even bacon grease and non-hydrogenated lard are going to be the best to cook with. EVOO and coconut oil aren’t terrible, but are lacking nutrients that are in animal fats.
His study was based on his time mainly I think a comparison of diet/ nutrition on humans. Obesity as we know these days WAS NOT an issue at the time. People stop waking and leaving inside their houses after WWII, overall, for his time I think he was way ahead.
This is a copy an paste, of my OP here: I think it's really good that you are doing a review of Dr.Weston's book & discoveries. As someone who has been struggling with trying to implement Dr.Weston's diet to combat my ongoing cavities, I absolutely am all for new information to aid and develop Dr.Weston's information, instead of calling the first Director of research for the American Dental Associations, a quack job, a bigot, a snake oils salesmen, ad infinitum, that I hear everyone in the livestock following of the FDA and mainstream Medical Practice, doing. one thing I'd like to ad for those curious about the validity of the healthy-ness (of Dr.Westons book & discovery), and to your point in 9:10, is that most if not all the people that had the diets suggested by Dr.Weston were SUPREMELY ACTIVE people in a lifestyle that their SURVIVAL depended on their DAILY ABILITY to be MANUALLY active in their jobs, duties, and recreation. Instead of having the ever increasing sedentary lifestyle we have today to survive, i.e. 8-10 hours a day sitting in front of a computer, or doing menial labor tasks.
Hi Kevin, Great book, great video. I have a few queries about supporting remineralization, We don’t have Raw Milk available, is unhomogenized organic milk beneficial to drink? Does it have the required nutrients? Does milk spike blood sugar levels and therefore interfere with remineralization? With your diet how do you maintain vitamin C requirements? I constantly sip organic white tea during the day, with milk, does this encourage or discourage remineralization? Are there teas, or other sipping drinks that we could have throughout the day which encourage remineralization? Would appreciate and value your comments. Thanks
@LA, this is a great comment, and I’d love to know the answers too! I love your idea of sipping on white tea with milk all day! Seems like a healthy thing for teeth to me. 😊
@@PeaceIsYeshua yeah I’ve been sticking to grass fed lamb, cauliflower, sweet potatoe, onion, broccoli, carrots, and sardines or salmon. I drink milk for desert and 15 cups or so of white tea per day, also brushing with sensodyne repair and protect. All is well not more issues, diet is a great dentist.
Archaeological records suggest they did (starting with the advent of agriculture). The indigenous people that Dr. Price studied suggests "ancestral wisdom" passed down since the advent of agroculture helped prevent decay in these people. What I found interesting is that even among these indigenous groups eating a native diet, those eating higher amounts of grain did tend to have higher rates of decay than those eating mostly/just animals (like the Native Americans and Inuit in the north, and the African tribes eating mostly milk, blood, and meat).
Its the carbs causing obesity. Eating healthy carbs don't give you a free pass to eat all the carbs you want because they will convert to fat in the body.
I hadn't read the book yet. Does anyone know what was the lifespan of these indigenous populations? In useless to talk about degerative diseases if they died at 40.
@@ingweking8748 That would be the average lifespan, since infant death is factored in, which _greatly_ lowers the age, but for people who made it to age 21 or so, I’m guessing they lived a normal lifespan of 70-80 years, as has been shown in other past cultures. 😊
No veg or seed oil as they go rancid quickly. You can have ghee, butter, tallow, & coconut oil. Virgin olive oil, if you can find good one, is great for salads.
Animal fats are the leading cause of insulin resistance, disease, and diabetes. Insulin resistance causes obesity. Carbs are required for healthy gut microbiomes, energy, longevity, and overall health
actually it is and more to come start doing your homework fool because you are wrong and way off base. In fact it is meat consumption that cannot be proven as healthy. It is the leading cause of disease in every country on earth!@@Nana-uo2th
Wonder why so many people that eat animal-based/carnivore end up reversing diabetes and healing themselves from various health problems? Yet carbs cause the diabetes and make conditions worse hm
Wait, you blame plant oils for obesity but give animal fats a total pass? Heart disease is the #1 killer in America and the AHA recommends less than 6% of calories from saturated fats. Those saturated fats are coming mostly from animals. In contrast, Olive oil has been a part of the Mediterranean diet for centuries and it is one of the best diets in the world for longevity. Many meats like hot dogs, bacon, deli meats, and sausage are considered class 1 carcinogens. I’m all for getting rid of the processed carbs like sugar and too much oils but there are wonderful whole food plant based diets that meet all of the dietary needs (except B-12). Price was way off 80 years ago and your update seems way off too.
@@tanyasydney2235 Right… the American Heart Association (heart surgeons) are way off. The American Dietetic Association also warns about saturated fats as does Harvard’s TS Chan School of Public Health. I am studying to be an RD. Where is your research coming from?
@@robertturner1308 Then why does Hong Kong have the longest life expectancy when they eat on average 2lbs of meat per day? That surely sounds like quite a bit of saturated fat.
@@yooper9062 This answer comes from a resident of Hong Kong named CalvinL who posted it online at Quora for your exact point: “Correlation is not causation. Hong Kong is an affluent city. So they can afford to eat meat. Hong Kong also happens to have the highest life expectancy in the world. That’s correlation. But there are other factors impacting life expectancy. First of all it’s decent healthcare. HK people are health conscious, they exercise and have the means to eat healthy. They have relatively easy access domestic helpers who can take care of the elderly at home. HK is also very safe so it’s less likely that you’ll die an unnatural death. That’s causation” His point is it is a great lifestyle and health care that are the actual cause of their longevity on Hong Kong. The other major issue is Hong Kong has made intense efforts to end the culture of smoking so smoking is shunned. This alone has added two years of life expectancy for people in Hong Kong over Japan where smoking is common and lifespans are nearly as long. If you really want to look at long lived people then look at the Blue Zones populations who live past 100 and where they mostly eat plant based diets. The main common denominator in terms of food from these different populations around the world is they eat beans regularly and mostly a plant based diet. The only Blue Zone population in the US are the 7th Day Adventists in Loma Linda California who eat a largely plant based diet.
@@robertturner1308 Honestly this isn't even worth my time. Anyone who brings up the 7th day adventist and blue zones is not worth arguing with. Good luck on your vegan diet.
Here's more about Dr. Westin Price and what our teeth say we should eat: academy.meat.health/courses/meat-mouth-keynote
In Price's day they didn't have bottles of seed oils taking up a quarter of the shelf space in stores
He also did work to remineralize caries (cavities). It may not have been in this book, may have been in other writings of his. I believe it was kids in an orphanage who he put on a special diet and proved teeth could be healed. He and his wife wanted to find a indigenous group that was vegan but did not every find one (makes sense since it's not nutritionally complete/supportive of reproduction). Don't miss the 'Pottenger's Cats' work as well. Good stuff!
Dr Chris Knobbe does a fantastic lecture on TH-cam on the harmful effects of vegetable seed oils . These oils aren't just harmful to human health but to biodiversity as well . My county of Kent in the UK is covered in Rapeseed now . It just trashes biodiversity for few positive benefits except for food companies. Rapeseed is pretty ubiquitous in ultra processed foods now in the UK/Europe.
It's the same in the USA. If it's not soy, it's canola (cultivar of rapeseed)
beef dripping loyal
I’m currently reading this book, it’s fantastic and has very profound findings about the human biology. Thank u for the commentary! Great video. 😊
Thank you for posting this!! I agree! Also read Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon Morell. It’s based on Price’s finding but updated and mentions seed oils. It has recipes, the science of certain foods and so much information! Anyways, thanks for sharing!
i recently transitioned to a weston a price diet and i do find that i dont really need to brush my teeth anymore at all. even after not brushing for a few days, my teeth and gums are in impeccable shape and do not bleed or hurt
I can’t even fall asleep if I haven’t brushed my teeth-or if I do, I’ll wake up soon after, and I’ll get up to go brush. I haven’t had a cavity in over twenty years. I’m really happy your teeth are doing so great, but I’d be scared to not brush! ❤
great video and love any content sharing this book.. i do think the title of the video is a little unfair. He didnt miss anything, those problems were just not around then , be it over abundance or seed oils. - maybe title it , " what he would say today" -
Nice video. The book is a life changer.
Love the book and dip into it from time to time just to look at the happy faces. It wasn't just physical health he noticed happier disposition too. Carb eaters tended to have more decay. Seafood and animal was king. Randle cycle is modern culprit.
I think metabolic syndrome just messes with your brain. I was a happy, healthy carb eater as a teenage cross country runner. Then I stopped running, started consuming more sugar, got stressed out by school, and developed some metabolic issues. Once I reversed them through a low carb, high nutrition diet, I could eat carbs and remain happy. But the moment I started to overdo it, the depression and anxiety came back.
Wish this had gone on longer.............great!
Vegetable fats and High Fructose Corn Syrup wasn't a part of life in Dr Prices era. They are only recent developments - margarine displacing butter and saturated animal fats post World War II based on Ancel Keys (dodgy) work; HFCS hitting the processed goods shelves (displacing sugar) in the 1980s.
Do not forget the lifestyle. We are a society on wheels, the indigenoues were on foot. So they can consume tons of calories and refrain from obesity.
True, aport is important too!
But price back then managed to stop the degeneration of teeth from every person he treated with his special diet (with highvitaminbutter etc..) (and also the childrens intellicence improved.)
And witch dentist ever told you this?😉🤔
I remember Dr. Price mentioned pearl divers (iirc), that had to eat modernized foods on their job for about 6 months. And this time was enough to give them rampaging tooth decay, despite of having a ton of exercises through diving.
I think the problem is the ratio of calories vs nutrients in the food, no so much the over abundance of calories. For instance, the Inuits ate on average 10 000 calories daily just to stay warm, but the amount of nutrients they ate along with the calories was probably very high in order to maintain health and good physiques. Empty calories is the key expression here. However, I do agree if we don't need the calories for physical work or maintaining our core temperature that excess will eventually cause problems regardless of the nutrient/calorie ratio.
I would say the car analogy gives a good insight as to what causes overeating with the vegetable fats. The body needs more than just calories, so it is not going to signal satiation unless it also gets enough nutrients. Eating modern foods devoid of anything but energy therefore means the body will signal hunger. But trying to fix the issue with eating even more foods that only contain energy still leaves the person deficient, with the excess energy becoming fat on the body. Using the car analogy, it is just like trying to add more and more fuel to fix old paint and a flat tire.
Thanks for summarising and presenting it in a nutshell. Its a big book and quite expensive to get.
Great summary. Thanks
Thanks for the interesting talk
I read Nutrition and Physical Degeneration years ago but in its entirety. However, I once saw a interesting table which was pulled out of the book. The table rated the people who had the least amount of cavities to the ones who had the most. The ones who had the most cavities were the starch eating people and the winners were the ones who ate a completely animal based diet... The Inuits, even though over all none of those groups of people had the extensive dental problems that we now have in our society.
They all cherished animal fats and nutrient density
What he found out is that a natural way of eating with local food and a natural way of living keeps us healthy. Today we are sedentary, eat food including unnatural oils and altered vegetables as well as fruits and oats…. and get sicknesses of all kinds..So my conclusion is … move, eat as natural, local as possible and everything in moderation 😊
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Thank you!! I'd love to see a list of what oils are recommended and not recommended!
(I've been thinking olive oil and coconut oil are just fine to do lots of cooking with and I buy yummy vegan "butter" that's simply avocado oil but I could be wrong?)
Also: I've seen my mood brighten, energy improve, and less bloating/gas/constipation and stomach pressure since switching to way less sugar and much more eating complex whole grains and complex whole grain products instead of white, simple flour and white rice. Along with more fruit, more greens, more veggies, almost never eat dairy anymore, more nuts, more seeds. I don't eat them enough but like adding in sourdough bread, kimchi, miso soup, coconut yogurt.
Butter, tallow, ghee, and even bacon grease and non-hydrogenated lard are going to be the best to cook with. EVOO and coconut oil aren’t terrible, but are lacking nutrients that are in animal fats.
For high temps, you can use ghee also. I don’t fully trust avocado oil to not be partially made of seed oils.
His study was based on his time mainly I think a comparison of diet/ nutrition on humans. Obesity as we know these days WAS NOT an issue at the time. People stop waking and leaving inside their houses after WWII, overall, for his time I think he was way ahead.
This is a copy an paste, of my OP here:
I think it's really good that you are doing a review of Dr.Weston's book & discoveries.
As someone who has been struggling with trying to implement Dr.Weston's diet to combat my ongoing cavities, I absolutely am all for new information to aid and develop Dr.Weston's information, instead of calling the first Director of research for the American Dental Associations, a quack job, a bigot, a snake oils salesmen, ad infinitum, that I hear everyone in the livestock following of the FDA and mainstream Medical Practice, doing.
one thing I'd like to ad for those curious about the validity of the healthy-ness (of Dr.Westons book & discovery), and to your point in 9:10, is that most if not all the people that had the diets suggested by Dr.Weston were SUPREMELY ACTIVE people in a lifestyle that their SURVIVAL depended on their DAILY ABILITY to be MANUALLY active in their jobs, duties, and recreation. Instead of having the ever increasing sedentary lifestyle we have today to survive, i.e. 8-10 hours a day sitting in front of a computer, or doing menial labor tasks.
Pretty sure Dr. Price would've added more...he just didn't live long enough.
how did they ferment the taro?
Hi Kevin,
Great book, great video.
I have a few queries about supporting remineralization,
We don’t have Raw Milk available, is unhomogenized organic milk beneficial to drink? Does it have the required nutrients?
Does milk spike blood sugar levels and therefore interfere with remineralization?
With your diet how do you maintain vitamin C requirements?
I constantly sip organic white tea during the day, with milk, does this encourage or discourage remineralization?
Are there teas, or other sipping drinks that we could have throughout the day which encourage remineralization?
Would appreciate and value your comments.
Thanks
@LA, this is a great comment, and I’d love to know the answers too! I love your idea of sipping on white tea with milk all day! Seems like a healthy thing for teeth to me. 😊
@@PeaceIsYeshua yeah I’ve been sticking to grass fed lamb, cauliflower, sweet potatoe, onion, broccoli, carrots, and sardines or salmon. I drink milk for desert and 15 cups or so of white tea per day, also brushing with sensodyne repair and protect. All is well not more issues, diet is a great dentist.
@@user-el8ef6nm6b
Awesome!! I’m glad it’s going so well for you, and thank you again for sharing all this! 😊
I find it fascinating that pre-SAD diets did not lead to Carie’s.
Archaeological records suggest they did (starting with the advent of agriculture).
The indigenous people that Dr. Price studied suggests "ancestral wisdom" passed down since the advent of agroculture helped prevent decay in these people.
What I found interesting is that even among these indigenous groups eating a native diet, those eating higher amounts of grain did tend to have higher rates of decay than those eating mostly/just animals (like the Native Americans and Inuit in the north, and the African tribes eating mostly milk, blood, and meat).
Chewing. Modern man do absolutely no chewing
What about the lack of pregnant and lactating women and newborns in his photos? Also, the lack of mention to people's age
right, definitely something to think about
he does mention this in the book.
What about sourdough?
Its the carbs causing obesity. Eating healthy carbs don't give you a free pass to eat all the carbs you want because they will convert to fat in the body.
I hadn't read the book yet. Does anyone know what was the lifespan of these indigenous populations? In useless to talk about degerative diseases if they died at 40.
They had short lifespan because they had high infant mortality rates.
@@ingweking8748
That would be the average lifespan, since infant death is factored in, which _greatly_ lowers the age, but for people who made it to age 21 or so, I’m guessing they lived a normal lifespan of 70-80 years, as has been shown in other past cultures. 😊
Modern day aundance comes from low nutrient food
What about native, unrefined sunflower or rapeseed oil?
No veg or seed oil as they go rancid quickly. You can have ghee, butter, tallow, & coconut oil. Virgin olive oil, if you can find good one, is great for salads.
Any oil that is liquid at room temperature will oxidise quickly.
Animal fats are the leading cause of insulin resistance, disease, and diabetes. Insulin resistance causes obesity. Carbs are required for healthy gut microbiomes, energy, longevity, and overall health
This is not scientific or logical.
actually it is and more to come start doing your homework fool because you are wrong and way off base. In fact it is meat consumption that cannot be proven as healthy. It is the leading cause of disease in every country on earth!@@Nana-uo2th
Price is a clown I crapped more brains this AM>@@Nana-uo2th
Wonder why so many people that eat animal-based/carnivore end up reversing diabetes and healing themselves from various health problems? Yet carbs cause the diabetes and make conditions worse hm
wrong research TRY again....if you are vegan then no worries, you are already too far gone to help
Indigenous? Everyone migrated from Africa Asian or Europe
Semantics
Lordy......
This is actually not true
No
Out of africa theory = BS
Wait, you blame plant oils for obesity but give animal fats a total pass? Heart disease is the #1 killer in America and the AHA recommends less than 6% of calories from saturated fats. Those saturated fats are coming mostly from animals. In contrast, Olive oil has been a part of the Mediterranean diet for centuries and it is one of the best diets in the world for longevity. Many meats like hot dogs, bacon, deli meats, and sausage are considered class 1 carcinogens. I’m all for getting rid of the processed carbs like sugar and too much oils but there are wonderful whole food plant based diets that meet all of the dietary needs (except B-12). Price was way off 80 years ago and your update seems way off too.
Nonsense. SFAs are actually the best fats to consume. Get with the times. Lots of new, updated research regarding this.
@@tanyasydney2235 Right… the American Heart Association (heart surgeons) are way off. The American Dietetic Association also warns about saturated fats as does Harvard’s TS Chan School of Public Health. I am studying to be an RD. Where is your research coming from?
@@robertturner1308 Then why does Hong Kong have the longest life expectancy when they eat on average 2lbs of meat per day? That surely sounds like quite a bit of saturated fat.
@@yooper9062 This answer comes from a resident of Hong Kong named CalvinL who posted it online at Quora for your exact point:
“Correlation is not causation.
Hong Kong is an affluent city. So they can afford to eat meat. Hong Kong also happens to have the highest life expectancy in the world. That’s correlation.
But there are other factors impacting life expectancy. First of all it’s decent healthcare. HK people are health conscious, they exercise and have the means to eat healthy. They have relatively easy access domestic helpers who can take care of the elderly at home. HK is also very safe so it’s less likely that you’ll die an unnatural death.
That’s causation”
His point is it is a great lifestyle and health care that are the actual cause of their longevity on Hong Kong. The other major issue is Hong Kong has made intense efforts to end the culture of smoking so smoking is shunned. This alone has added two years of life expectancy for people in Hong Kong over Japan where smoking is common and lifespans are nearly as long.
If you really want to look at long lived people then look at the Blue Zones populations who live past 100 and where they mostly eat plant based diets. The main common denominator in terms of food from these different populations around the world is they eat beans regularly and mostly a plant based diet.
The only Blue Zone population in the US are the 7th Day Adventists in Loma Linda California who eat a largely plant based diet.
@@robertturner1308 Honestly this isn't even worth my time. Anyone who brings up the 7th day adventist and blue zones is not worth arguing with. Good luck on your vegan diet.
Hi! What is your opinion on so called " dead teeth" because i have 6 of them in my head. Do you recommend taking tooth out or not? Thank you