Add some raw potato to that smoothie? “One of the enzymes found in raw potatoes is phosphatase,” wrote Dr. Royal Lee in a 1958 article in Let’s Live Magazine, “which promotes assimilation of calcium and iron in particular; another is tyrosinase, an essential component of the vitamin C complex and associated directly with the function of the adrenal […]
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Are we starving at full tables? As confirmed by this report from the 1940s, scientists have been showing a link between a deficiency of trace minerals in the soil and disease in both animals and humans for decades. One big reason to eat organic foods!
In this 1953 speech, Dr. Ralph Bircher—son of the famous Maximilian Bircher-Benner who created the raw Swiss health food muesli—explains the science behind raw foods and why a diet of processed foods leads to “mesotrophy,” a state in which a person eating such foods continues to function almost free of symptoms as degenerative disease silently develops within. […]
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