“Life in all its fullness is Mother Nature obeyed.” -- Weston A. Price, DDS
Pick your absolute favorite vehicle—Mercedes, Corvette, Ford F-150, Maserati—it doesn’t matter. The real question is this: How would you treat it? Would you give it the best fuel? If I owned a high-end car, I’d do everything I could to keep it looking and running at its best.
Even with whatever vehicle I can afford, I still treat it well—regular maintenance, quality fuel, careful driving—so I avoid costly repairs and make it last as long as possible in as good condition as possible. I will not be putting diesel fuel in my gas tank; nor will I put apple juice in it, either!
Our bodies deserve the same respect. They are exquisitely designed—whether by the Creator’s hand or through the wonders of evolution—to heal, repair, restore, and thrive when we live in step with nature’s laws. Interestingly, the ancient Saxon word, hal, is the root to our words health, whole, and holy. Consequently, to be healthy is to be whole is to be holy.
Dr. Weston A. Price’s global travels in the 1930s revealed more than just nutritional wisdom. The vibrant peoples he studied lived in natural harmony: eating mineral-rich, animal-based diets; spending daily time in the sun without chemical sunscreens; walking barefoot on the earth; rising and resting with the sun; breathing clean air; and avoiding the environmental toxins that saturate our modern world.
The healthy groups Dr. Price studied:
- Were strong, sturdy, and attractive
- Were free from modern diseases such as cancer, chronic/degenerative illness, dental decay, infertility, and mental or emotional disorders
- Produced healthy children with ease, generation after generation
- Needed no doctors, dentists, or orthodontists
- Required no medications or vaccinations
- Needed no police or prisons
- And—the most intelligent and courageous groups—ate the most animal products
This is the opposite of our modern society, where disease rates climb higher with each generation. Dr. Price also found unhealthy groups—those consuming the modern diet of the 1930s—and their decline was clear.
Good science is replicable. Dr. Francis Pottenger, a physician in the early 1940s, became well-known for his decades-long nutritional experiments with cats. While studying the effects of diet on health, he discovered that cats fed their natural diet of raw milk and raw meat remained robust and fertile for generations, while those fed cooked or processed foods developed illness, deformities, and infertility—each generation faring worse than the last. His famous cat studies echoed the same truth: thriving health and fertility endure only when living things receive their intended nourishment and natural conditions. Remove those essentials—replace them with processed foods, artificial living patterns, or toxic influences—and health declines generation by generation, until vitality disappears.
Here is a slide I prepared based on Dr. Pottenger's work, using his own words to describe the cats. His findings were striking: cats fed an inadequate diet could not survive past four generations. Each generation developed more health problems—eerily similar to today’s human chronic diseases. These weren’t special lab animals, but ordinary cats that people had dropped off, housed in large outdoor enclosures with shelter available when they wanted it in sunny southern California. In some cases, Pottenger switched diets between generations. Within just one generation on the inadequate diet, disease appeared; yet it took several generations on the proper diet before full health returned. There were no supplements, no medicines—making it clear that genetics played no role in the health outcomes.
Today, the same warnings are all around us. But the path back is clear: obey the timeless laws of nature. Eat real food, honor your body’s natural rhythms, seek sunlight, breathe fresh air, touch the earth, and guard your environment from harmful toxins. These simple, ageless habits are the blueprint for vitality—not only for your own life, but for the lives of your children and grandchildren.
"Our modern process of robbing the natural foods for convenience or gain completely thwarts Nature's inviolable program."
Weston A. Price, DDS
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