50 things I meant to Tweet from the WAPF conference

Here’s a round-up of 50 awesome things I meant to Tweet from the Weston A. Price Foundation’s Wise Traditions 2011 conference in Dallas, TX.

But hey, we just joined Twitter (our handle is DomesticDivaCa btw), roaming charges are extraordinarily expensive and there was no WiFi in the conference centre! (oh well!). We were also pretty busy taking notes

These ‘soundbytes’ are just a small sample of what I heard in the sessions and events I attended featuring the likes of Sally Fallon Morell, Dr. Natasha Campbell McBride, Dr. Mercola, April Renee and Dr. Thomas Cowan (*swoon*).

 

Sally Fallon Morell, Nourishing Traditions author, Weston A Price Foundation co-founder

1. Speaking about diets like South Beach, Atkins, macrobotic, raw etc: “I think all of these diet schemes were design by men who never had to put a meal on the table day after day for a family…”
2. Food was recognized as essential to conception, childbearing and proper growth of young children.
3. I think all of us realize that what we are fighting for goes way beyond the glass of milk.
4. Primitive people got 80 per cent of calories from fat. They had one rule of food combining- they never ate lean meat.
5. On the nation’s poor eyesight: “If we were a tribe dependent on hunting and only 10 per cent of us had good eyesight, I don’t think we’d make it.”

Dr Natasha Campbell McBride (GAPS author)

1. All disease begins in the gut (Hippocrates)
2. A tree can’t thrive with sick roots.The gut flora inside our digestive system is our soil.
3. The overall health of people who eat fish is better than people who don’t (despite mercury) because good gut flora can chelate mercury.
4. There’s a complex and fascinating conversation between gut flora and the rest of the body.
5. 80 per cent of immunity is located in the gut wall. The most important immune organ is our gut flora.
6. The only way to deal with allergies is to restore proper balance of the gut flora.
7. Breastfed babies develop completely different gut flora than bottle-fed babies.
8. Chronic disease is always associated with abnormal got flora.
9. Eat fermented food and take a good quality probiotic before and after going to the dentist to protect yourself from toxins and heavy metal such as mercury amalgam fillings.
10. Colic is the first alarm bell to say baby has abnormal gut flora.
11. Gas is ALWAYS a sign of yeast overgrowth.
12. Alot of children look like the have epilepsy but actually have acid reflux and when acid comes up, they have such bad spasms that it looks like epilepsy and they are put on anti-seizure medication.
13. Ear infections are the most common infection among GAPS kids, the chest infections are next.
14. Autoimmunity issues begin in the gut. There is no doubt about it.
15. We need to focus not on food, but on healing a sealing the gut lining.
16. Alot of chronic back pain actually comes from the bowel.
17. Panic attacks and anxiety are related to compromised gut flora.
18. Every GAPS patient is an autoimmune patient. It’s a given. If you haven’t been diagnosed, it’s because diagnosis is immature, undeveloped and/or expensive.
19. Mainstream medicine attacks immunity. Of course it helps because it slaps down the immune system and a person keeps eating the same diet and never addresses the root cause.
20. Most GAPS patients are fussy eaters. More than 90 per cent of children with learning disabilities limit diet to sweet and starchy foods.
21. Kids with GAPS can act like drug addicts when it comes to getting access to sweet, starchy foods.
22. The body is designed to get nutrition from food not pills.
23. Your body is infinitely more clever than than any scientist, any lab or any doctor.
24. On body care products: We are all dosing ourselves with potent poisons, willingly. We’ve been seduced.
25. Sunbathing is essential. We evolved for millennia in the fresh air and sun. Sunscreens are a commercial hoax. Throw away your sunscreens and sunbathe.

Dr. Mercola @ the Saturday night award’s banquet

1. Don’t buy supplements that contain magnesium stearate or Titanium Dioxide.
2. Don’t take iron. It increases your cancer risk. Beware of Ferritin
3. Don’t ever hold a cell phone to your head. Use a headset.
4. There is going to be an epidemic of brain tumors- that is an indisputable fact.
5. Mercola’s recipe for a great workout: 3 min warm-up, 30 sec peak, rest for 90 secs (repeat 8xs) 2 min cooldown. Do this 3xs a week.
6. You’re more likely to die from a prescription drug than a motor vehicle accident.

 

 

April Renee, Vaccine Information Coalition

1. Mercury was taken out of animal vaccines in the 80s in the U.S. but not in the vaccines they are giving children.
2. The vaccine manufacturers, CDC, FDA and the various medical associations have failed miserably in their duty to protect our children. (Mark Greier, MD)
3. “The best way to raise a healthy child is to keep him/her away from the doctors except emergency care. Most doctors ignore the fact the human body is a wondrous machine with the astonishing capacity to repair itself.” (Robert Mendelsohn, MD.)
4. Vaccine ingredients include: MSG, antifreeze, formaldehyde, lead, cadmium, aluminum, glycerin.
5. “There are huge conflicts where regulators receive money from big pharma and CDC safety meeting chaired by the president of Merck.
6. Reported childhood illness goes up after vaccines.
7. “Nearly all cases of polio since 1980 was caused by the polio vaccine.” USA Today.

Thomas Cowan, MD., Author of The Fourfold Path to Healing

1. Give me a medicine to produce fever and I can cure anything. Hippocrates.
2. The goal is not to suppress fever but to assimilate it.
3. There is not a shred of evidence to show that fever is what is damaging- it’s the infection that can cause damage.
4. Fever is the effective therapeutic response- more so than any natural remedy or medication ever devised.
5. Respect, encourage and know how to guide fever in your child.
6. Lemon socks can help a child assimilate fever.
7. We live on a cancerous planet. And it’s one species that’s causing the overgrowth.