155: The "Isaac Newton of Nutrition"

Wise Traditions

Weston A. Price Foundation

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 8 October 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Dr. Weston A. Price, a Cleveland dentist and researcher from the late 1800s, has been called the "Isaac Newton of Nutrition." His research is just that pivotal to our understanding of the role diet plays in our health. Today, we take a deep dive into the research that Dr. Price conducted and how we can benefit from it. What foods did traditional peoples enjoy that helped them cultivate good health? What did they avoid? And what can we learn from their choices? On this podcast, Chris Masterjohn, a nutrition expert who has a PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Connecticut, explains the foundational work of Dr. Price.

In the 1930s, Dr. Price traveled the world in order to study isolated people groups, visiting sequestered villages in Switzerland, Polynesian South Sea Islanders, African tribal groups, Australian Aborigines, and more. He was interested in finding out how these groups resisted the tooth decay and deformations that he was seeing in his clinic in the United States. The world over, Dr. Price found that those on their traditional diets not only had beautiful straight teeth, free from decay, but they also enjoyed vibrant health and vitality. Chris discusses in detail how Dr. Price went about this work and how it can serve us in our pursuit of good health today.

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0:00.0	Price had heard about isolated people in different parts of the world that seemed to be immune to tooth decay.
0:08.0	So Price basically looked at this and he said, okay, in in America almost all the people here have tooth decay.
0:17.4	This is the America that Price is living in at this time.
0:20.6	The nutrition is at the bottom, the health is at the bottom, and everyone's got tooth decay. And so Price says, how do I find populations that are controls? You know, he's thinking about this like a scientist. He's saying, what do I compare the tooth decay to? How do I get good scientific controls? And so when he hears that there are these populations
0:43.4	scattered around the world who have not really
0:46.0	come into contact with modern society who are free of tooth decay,
0:49.5	he says, aha, these are my controls.
0:52.8	And that brings us to the point where he sets foot off the continent.
0:57.4	Well, I shouldn't say off the continent because some of his investigations were
1:00.8	in North America, of course, but this is when he begins his travels. Welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast, sponsored by the Weston A Price Foundation for
1:16.4	Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts.
1:20.1	We're your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health.
1:29.2	Hey everybody, I'm Hilda Labrada Gore and this is episode 155. My guest today is Chris Master
1:37.7	John. Chris earned his PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Connecticut.
1:43.0	He is a health educator and expert,
1:45.6	and a fellow podcaster with a show called Mastering Nutrition.
1:49.2	We invited Chris to talk with us about the work of Weston A. Price today because he knows it like
1:54.6	the back of his hand and not many do. He has been called the Isaac Newton of
2:00.0	nutrition and I'm talking about Dr. Price not Chris right now because Dr. Price's work is so
2:06.2	foundational for our understanding of good health today. What did he do? In the 1930s he
2:12.2	traveled around the world. He set out to find the
2:15.1	healthiest people to discover what they were eating and what they were doing
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