Farming Nutrients
Food Chain Radio Michael Olson
Urban Farming Agriculturalist
Farming Nutrients – the Lost Food
Can farming return the nutrients missing from food?
Guest: Daphne Miller, M.D., author of The Jungle Effect and Farmacology
Following in the footsteps of Weston A. Price, physician Daphne Miller went looking for healthy people. Like Price, she found them in primitive cultures.
Among the elements that gave primitive people healthy bodies, and long lives, was the primitive foods they consumed. What made the difference was what was in primitive foods but not in civilized foods, and what was not in primitive foods but in civilized foods.
Food Chain Radio Michael Olson hosts Daphne Miller, M.D., author of The Jungle Effect and Farmacology
What both Price and Miller discovered was that primitive foods, though certainly not as pretty or as big as civilized foods, contained a higher concentration of essential nutrients. Thus primitive people could eat less food and yet get more essential nutrition.
What was not in the primitive foods, but in the civilized foods, were the additives that gave civilized foods taste and shelf life, including processed sugars, partially-hydrogenated oils, chemical preservatives, and so on.
Considering the consequences of eating foods in which essential nutrients have gone missing, and in which synthetic elements have been added, both Price and Miller concluded that eating civilized foods can lead to sickeness and disease.
This observation leads us to ask…
Unfortunately our modern ways to prepare food, or more correctly, let
industry produce it in big scales to save time for other purposes still
destroys important nutrients needed to sustain life.
When boiling fish or frying fish or boiling with lot of flour as thickeners
lots of free, not-protein based amino acids are lost, amino acids that
function as osmolytes, scavengers of free radical, of hypochlorite made by
immune system or used to make mRNA reading more effective by aminoacylating
certain mtRNA molecules (for humans, UUR-tRNA that is dependent on taurine
who is lost by boiling fish or frying or heating with carbohydrates.
Our dependency on taurine, like cat, is not popular knowledge btw fanatic
vegans as it is a proof of man is not a vegan, but omnivore who is dependent
on both fish and meat in addition to vegetables for optimal health.
US and Scandinavia has worlds lowest daily excretion profile and
correspondingly high rates of heart diseases, while Mediterranean area has
about 10 times higher excretion, most probably because how food is prepared
there (home made food, and next to no use of starch based thickener except
in few cases and far lower rates.
While Japan has wordls biggest daily excretrion rates of taurine and lowest
rate of heart problems.
Look at WHO Cardiac study on 24-hour excretion profiles of taurine
excretion.
Sushi, sashimi and raw sea food like oysters harvested out in salt sea
together with chicken legs and muscles from physically active animals are
amongst the most riches sources.
And unfortunately, we do our best to destroy the molecule.
Hope this is of interest