Dr. Weston A. Price, DDS
Dr. Weston A. Price (1870-1948), a Cleveland dentist, has often been referred to as the "Charles Darwin of Nutrition." For almost ten years he traveled to various isolated parts of the earth, where the inhabitants had no contact with "civilization," to study their health and physical development. Equipped with a new modern invention, the camera, Price was able to make a permanent record of the individuals he found located in these remote pockets of humanity "who were living in accordance with the tradition of their race and as little affected as might be possible by the influence of the white man". He was a thorough investigator who collected an enormous amount of data and over 18,000 supporting photographs. His photographs, the descriptions of what he found, and his startling conclusions are preserved in a book considered a masterpiece by many nutrition researchers who followed in Price's footsteps: Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.
In every isolated region he visited, Price found tribes or villages where virtually every individual exhibited genuine physical perfection. Beautifully illustrated, in photograph after photograph, these so called “primitives” displayed gorgeous smiles on handsome, well formed broad faces. Price noted that among these groups, tooth decay was rare, dental crowding and occlusions were non existent and that “the natives were invariably cheerful and optimistic.” Such people were characterized by "splendid physical development" and an almost complete absence of disease, even those living in physical environments that were extremely harsh. Dr. Price found that beautiful straight teeth, freedom from decay, stalwart bodies, and resistance to disease and fine characters were typical of primitives on their traditional diets, rich in essential food factors.
Price took samples of native foods home with him to Cleveland and studied them in his laboratory. He found that these diets contained at least four times the minerals and water soluble vitamins--vitamin C and B complex--as the American diet of his day. Even more startling, the diets of healthy native groups contained at least ten times more of the fat soluble vitamin A and vitamin D than the American diet of his day (today we would undoubtedly find a greater discrepancy then in Price’s day due to continual depletion of our soils through industrial farming practices). These vitamins are found only in animal fats--butter, lard, egg yolks, fish oils and foods with fat-rich cellular membranes like liver and other organ meats, fish eggs and shell fish.
Price describes the fat soluble vitamins as "catalysts" or "activators" upon which the assimilation of all the other nutrients depended--protein, minerals and vitamins. In other words, without the dietary factors found in animal fats, all the other nutrients largely go to waste.
Something else Price discovered while studying the diets of his primitives cultures was another fat soluble vitamin which he called “Activator X.” Often referred to as the “X-Activator,” “X-Factor” or “Price Factor,” Price believed it was an even more powerful catalyst for nutrient absorption than vitamins A and D. All the healthy groups Price studied had the X Factor in their diets. It could be found in certain special foods which these people considered sacred--cod liver oil, fish eggs, organ meats and the deep yellow Spring and Fall butter from cows eating rapidly growing green grass.
In his laboratory, Price was able to concentrate this component, into a very high vitamin content product; high in vitamin A, D and “Activator X.” He found that only 1/2 teaspoon of this given to children would reverse cavities, increase IQ scores and would allow their bodies to grow and thrive. He also did animal studies with this concentrated butter oil and found he could reverse osteoporosis; rats fed the oil would grow 3 times the size of their siblings. Even more remarkable, he found that rats fed a combination of X-Factor butter oil and cod liver oil grew five times the size of their siblings. His finding shows that mineral absorption is greatly enhanced when X-Factor butter is used in the diet.
An excellent example of how Activator X enhances mineral absorption is given by Mark Anderson, author of Empty Harvest and authority on the work of Dr. Weston A Price and Dr. Royal Lee. He describes Activator X as one leg of a three legged stool with Vitamin D and Calcium.
“Activator X is what opens the cells and allows vitamin D and calcium into the cell. Without Activator X the cells keep calling on vitamin D and calcium as vitamin D and calcium can not get in the cells. Vitamin D accumulates and calcium continues to be pulled from the bones. This cycle does not stop, as the cells will continue to call on vitamin D and calcium until the cells ‘get their fix.’”
Therefore, based on this information, it may be the lack of Activator X that increases the risk of bone fractures and osteoporosis, not the lack of calcium.
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