Dr Weston A Price was a Canadian-born dentist who became a mad researcher, traveled around the world, studied people's mouth and correlated

dental health with physical health and physical health with diet nutrition, and made a bunch of

very interesting observations using the scientific method.

And here's what he discovered.

He's the communities and cultures he visited who relied primarily on grains.

So let's think of wheat and corn and rice, they tended to have poor

dental health and poorer overall health than the communities that relied specifically on higher

fat but in higher protein animal-based foods.

So as you can imagine the Western prices work has been very influential in the

paleo communities and in the low-carb high-fat movements the keto movements the Atkins diet all these kinds of things.

I don't really think that's a natural connection to draw. I think people get way too focused on what

they're eating and not focused enough on how to eat.

I really like Weston Price's work because it's kind of thinking about systems, it's thinking

about on a macro level, what's happening in these communities where people are

healthy what's happening in the communities where they're not I don't think adding an

ism to any of this is really helpful whether it's paleoism or or veganism

I don't think you learn anything with

dogma and belief systems. I think where you learn something is by pulling back

and looking at the big picture and rather than asking what people are eating, ask how they're eating, what is the macro picture,

what do their nutrient breakdown look like and from that perspective I think you can learn a lot.

In fact the raw food is claimed that Western Price proved their case and the

vegans proved, say that Western Price proved their stuff and of course the

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