by natalia | Jan 14, 2022 | Life Force Families
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CURRICULUM TOPICS FOR PRECONCEPTION INCLUDE:
- Why Preconception Cleansing is Essential
- Why Both Men and Women Need to Do Their Part
- How to Apply Transitioning Basics to Preconception
- Shopping List Ideas
- Detoxification Tips for Preconception
- When to Go Off Birth Control
If you are reading this now and thinking about starting a family, you are about to receive a precious gift for you and your future children! This is your opportunity to create an amazing foundation for your family-to-be. The longer you are able to cleanse your grateful cells prior to conception, the better. And any amount of time is better than nothing! Never fear that it’s too little too late. You are preparing your body to be a home for your baby, and now is the time to focus on cleansing and strengthening that home to be ready for conception. You are literally pre-protecting your little one.
We are in a state of emergency. Our children are getting sicker and heavier. People in their late teens are suffering from the same conditions that plague people in their 50s, such as joint pain and rheumatism. We should never see these diseases in children under 20, much less in a first grader, yet they are manifesting at earlier and earlier ages. Babies are born with a litany of allergies. Young children are developing cancerous tumors. Why is this happening? In an unclean body, which carries years of toxic accumulation and a poor health lineage, the sperm or egg has compromised blood chemistry. This is passed on to offspring, and with each generation this DNA becomes weaker and weaker.
Healthy humans living in clean air, on clean soil, drinking clean water, and on a diet of fresh fruits and vegetables would not have compromised blood chemistry. Their offspring would be a reflection of their perfect cells. When you start introducing elements that are not meant to be in the body, the cellular structure starts to mutate and the DNA starts to shift. The damages were lighter in earlier generations because the toxic load in soil, water, and food sources were lighter. Cows grazing on clean grass in natural pastures produced a raw milk product that was very different from the milk we typically drink today. Post-industrialization is then thrown into the mix. Our immigrant ancestors arrived in this country coming from clean farm living and eventually adopted the Standard American Diet. Now we have a dire situation.
Cleansing through clean eating and living is no longer a luxury. Cleansing your pre-conception body starts the ball rolling, and you begin your child’s life by giving him or her a huge leg up. Pre-conception cleansing is the best health insurance you can provide. A clean egg meeting clean sperm produces a clean baby. This means that this process is not just for women: it takes two to tango! Viable sperm is just as important as a viable egg.
Let’s use the analogy of soil and seed. A farmer does not take the time to prepare his soil—composting and tilling in fresh fertilizer—only to then plant inferior seeds. Nor does he neglect the soil and then plant carefully cultivated heirloom seedlings in it. Both sides of the equation need to be in place. We should not be surprised that infertility is such a common issue today. In fact, it’s high time we look at this seriously. All of the evidence is right in front of us: if we are not able to conceive, or if we are producing unhealthy offspring, it’s clear that something is seriously amiss. The survival of our species is being threatened. This is not happening randomly. ADD and ADHD, allergies, cancer, childhood leukemia, diabetes, and obesity in preschoolers are realities for a huge number of families. This is not a throw of the dice. This is the result of the mindless mass consumption of substances that are unfit for the body.
Here’s the good news: making dietary and lifestyle changes can be fun and easy! When we embrace a cleansing lifestyle, we don’t dive full-throttle into an all-vegan, raw diet. In fact, we operate outside those labels. We make a graceful, intelligent transition, with full awareness of where we’re coming from and where we want to go. This is the time to begin wading slowly into cleansing water. You can dive right in, in terms of your determination and conviction, but transition your body gently and slowly. Are you ready? Let’s get started.
Note: The great thing about pre-conception cleansing is that you are still outside the realm of critique in many ways. Once you become pregnant, you’ll find your nutrition program to be under much higher scrutiny. Right now, you don’t yet have to listen to the mother-in-law, spouse, or friend who doesn’t think you’re eating enough meat or drinking enough milk. You have freedom from prying eyes and criticism.
First, take the adult Assessment Survey and calculate your transition level. Follow the instructions for your transition level and apply as many of the dietary principles as possible. Gather your supplies of Transition Foods per the shopping list below, and incorporate as many of the Transition Ideas (also provided below) as you can into your diet
SHOPPING LIST OF TRANSITION FOODS
- Fresh fruit, including berries, apples, pears, melon, bananas, and anything delicious that is in season
- Fresh veggies, including greens, broccoli, carrots, beets, eggplant, cabbage, and any other favorites
- Starch-based vegetables, including sweet potatoes, yams, acorn squash, butternut squash, and kabocha squash
- Whole-grain pasta, including Spelt, Kamut, and Quinoa varieties
- Sprouted-grain breads, bagels, tortillas, and cereals
- Whole-grain snacks, including Ak-Mak crackers, Guiltless Gourmet tortilla chips, and Terra Veggie Chips
- Whole grains, including millet, quinoa, buckwheat, and wild rice
- Raw honey, stevia, organic pure maple syrup
- Sea salt
- Nama Shoyu soy sauce
- Marinara sauce without added sugar (such as Seeds of Change)
- Organic Dijon mustard
- Sulfur-free dried fruits, seeds, and nuts, including Lara Bars, pumpkin seeds, raisins, dates, walnuts, almonds, and other favorites
TRANSITION IDEAS
- Substitute your processed flour breads and bagels with sprouted-grain options. Alvarado St. Bakery and Ezekiel make sprouted-grain tortillas, breads, bagels, and English muffins.
- Start to incorporate big, fresh salads into your diet. Try an avocado salad accompanied by a sprouted-grain bagel with butter and honey.
- Begin your day with a veggie juice, even before you eat breakfast. Play with combinations that please your palate, and add stevia to sweeten the deal.
- Eat more fresh fruit. Having fruit for breakfast on an empty stomach is such a delicious and energizing way to start the day.
- Replace sugar and artificial sweeteners with stevia, organic maple syrup, and raw honey. Drizzle syrup over your berries, add stevia to your juices and salad dressings, and enjoy honey on your sprouted-grain toast.
- Switch out your oils. For cooking, use organic butter or coconut oil. And high quality, cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil is a great addition to your salads.
- Choose healthy condiments. Marinara sauce with no added sugar, organic ketchup, organic Dijon mustard, and Nama Shoyu soy sauce are delicious with your new snack and meal options.
Note: Many women worry about weight gain during pregnancy. If you properly prepare your body for pregnancy beforehand and maintain cleanliness throughout pregnancy, there is no reason why you shouldn’t have a better body after pregnancy than you had before. The concept of ruining your figure with pregnancy is part of mainstream thinking, because if you follow the Standard American Diet, it will most likely be true. Stretch marks, sagging, weight retention, pigmentation, gestational diabetes, and developed food sensitivities are not a part of this lifestyle.
Now that you’re prepared, it’s time to dive in and start employing your cleansing principles. You will note that these are the sample principles that we recommend for those who are struggling with infertility, but with slightly different emphases. Whether you are struggling with infertility or not, these are still the best steps you can take to help prepare you for parenthood and create a clear and welcoming space for your future child.
1. Give Your Body a Rest from Digestion
The more your body can rest from the process of metabolizing substances, the more your energy can go toward healing, turning over cells, and cleansing the blood. This means throwing out the false concept of a “fast metabolism.” There is no metabolism per se, which implies an actual, measurable part of the body. The concept more accurately refers to what I call “metabolization”—the act of taking in, breaking down, and eliminating substances. When more substances are going into your body than you can fully process, you become like an assembly line gone amok. You become overloaded and end up spewing matter everywhere!
When you overeat, or eat in combinations your body doesn’t recognize, your body works very hard to adapt. Overworking your system in this way ages you faster and also deteriorates your blood chemistry and DNA, which you will pass to your offspring.
Proper food combining (or eating in “Quick Exit Combinations“) is the best way to give your body a rest. Miscombined foods take about 8 hours to metabolize vs. approximately 3 hours for a properly combined meal. While going through the process of digestion, the food sits and ferments in your stomach at 98.6° Fahrenheit. This heated ball of festering matter feeds bacteria, fungus, and yeast, and it’s all downhill from there.
Eating your meals while sticking to the basic rules of food combing will be a huge step in the right direction. Basically, you only want your meal to include one food category at a time, accompanied by large amounts of neutral raw and cooked vegetables.
2. Flood the Body with Health-Generating Foods
Our job is to alkalinize the body and hydrate old waste matter to get it ready for removal. When these two things take place, you begin to soar. The best thing to consume for alkalinizing the body is pure vegetable juice, always including at least one leafy green. Leafy greens bring chlorophyll, or synthesized sunlight, into the body, giving us the highest energy levels possible.
All raw fruits and vegetables are alkaline and hydrating, so including them with every meal is an important part of the cleansing process. Eating a large salad before every meal, starting your day with raw veggie juice, and opting for fresh fruit for breakfast and snacks are easy ways to start to mobilize old waste and alkalinize the blood.
Note: When blood becomes acidic, the body alkalinizes it by releasing calcium from the bone stores. To grow a baby with strong and healthy bones, keep blood alkaline with plenty of raw fruits and vegetables.
3. Remove the Rubbish
Nothing that you consume can heal the body if its problems are caused by obstructions. An infected splinter cannot be remedied with cream or a Band-Aid. The splinter must be removed for the skin to begin to heal. The same principle holds true for all ailments of the body. As we begin to mobilize the old toxic waste by hydrating it with water-rich, alkaline foods, we can begin to remove the offending obstructions.
Do not be fooled by all of the products at drug stores and health food stores with the word “cleanse” on them. Remember, true cleansing only takes place when waste matter leaves the body. Luckily, we have the tools for waste removal at our disposal. We can use colonics and enemas to gently hydrate waste and send it on its way. This is an imperative part of the process. Alkalinizing and hydrating waste is the first half of the process, and the removal of waste is the second half. One is useless without the other.
Note: Beginning a relationship with a qualified and skilled gravity method colon-hydrotherapist will give you much deeper insights into the workings of your body, and a partnership that can last for many years. Visit our Colon Therapy Directory to find a gravity-method colon hydrotherapist near you. Click here to see our favorite enema option for those times when colonics are not an option.
4. Set the Stage
By beginning this process, you are setting the stage for the whole future life of your child. The seeds are sown during pre-conception. Parents who are socially conditioned with life-deteriorating ideas and who are consuming life-deteriorating substances will very likely end up dealing with a rebellious sixteen-year-old who’s abusing drugs. That child will have internalized sixteen years of untruth in every aspect of his or her teenage life, and will feel broken by it. Sixteen years of unfit substances piled onto compromised genetic lineage, and compounded by unfathomable social limitations, create unlivable conditions.
This is not just about diet. We need to change our thoughts, look at our environment, and evaluate our values. How are we treating each other? What are we going to offer our children? Will they be accessories? Is having a child just something that your spouse wants, or that you feel you’re supposed to do? Or do you actively want to create a person who will truly get to live and thrive on this planet?
Having children is not about getting them into Harvard or having the perfect Pottery Barn crib. We will reap what we sow, and the more we can change our attitudes and weed out bad relationships, the more our blood chemistry will improve. At conception, the baby receives not only the current condition of the mother’s blood chemistry, but also an imprint of the parent’s values as well. Cleansing the physical body is extremely important for healthy conception and pregnancy, but cleansing our emotions, relationships, and lives in general is just as important for the birth of a healthy human being. After all, how can we create vibrant, inquisitive, bright-eyed, healthy children when we ourselves are not vibrant and healthy and receptive to the world of truth? During this pre-conception cleanse, we encourage you to dive into this self-exploration in order to help set the stage for the lives of our unborn children.
5. Practice the Art of Sacred Sexuality
The words “sacred” and “sexuality” rarely go together in our culture. Our concept of sex is generally one of selfish indulgence and lust—which leads more often than not to a feeling of emptiness. We all too rarely approach sexuality with the goal of giving and becoming one with a partner. Conception is far more often the result of either an accident (from a night of intoxication or blind lust) or an overly mechanized, stressful process of temperature taking, pill-popping, and “perfect timing.” Today, conception is rarely the result of the powerful union of male and female, of two human beings expressing their love for each other and sharing their united intention to bring about new life.
True lovemaking, as an art of sacred sexuality, is a lost practice. We’d safely bet that most of you did not learn about this from your parents, your friends, or from Hollywood! However, there are still cultures today (especially ancient cultures) that honor the power, beauty, and balance of male and female sexual energies. The balance of yin and yang, of night and day, and of earth and sun are all metaphors for the perfect whole that results from the union of male and female. Explore this exciting world with your partner in books such as Grant Me a Higher Love by Cindi Sansone-Braff, the entire Anastasia Ringing Cedar Series by Vladimir Megre, Tantra: The Path of Ecstasy by Georg Feuerstein; and Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love by Daniel Odier.
When you are ready to have a child, one of the best things you can give your child is the power of your combined intention to bring new life into the world. Learn about this now so that, when the time comes, you are ready to pass this gift along to your child!
IDEAS TO REMEMBER:
- Healthy, clean sperm and eggs make healthy, clean babies
- Pre-conception cleansing is just as important for men as it is for women
- Transitioning to a cleansing lifestyle should be easy and gradual
- For all of your favorite foods, there are health-conscious alternatives that will work during your cleanse
- There is no metabolism per se. Metabolization is the act of taking in, breaking down, and eliminating substances.
- It is important to go off birth control for at least one year before you try to conceive and avoid all non-essential medications.
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by natalia | Jan 14, 2022 | Life Force Families
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CURRICULUM TOPICS FOR INFERTILITY INCLUDE:
- What Causes Infertility
- Natural Detoxification Tips for Increasing Fertility Odds
- How Long It Will Take to Become Fertile
WHAT CAUSES INFERTILITY?
We recognize that many of you have spent months or years trying to get pregnant. We extend to you our deepest compassion and respect. We know this has been an emotional, trying, and sometimes desperate time for you. We are here to provide an alternative to expensive, invasive, painful, and ultimately harmful fertility treatments. We hope that you can listen with an open heart and seek the truth that resides in all of us.
We can continue to treat infertility from the outside in with drugs and complicated procedures, but if we do this we continue to treat the symptom and not the cause. We continue to ignore the real questions: Why is my body rejecting pregnancy? Why is something that should be so natural so difficult for me? The answer is not the one your doctor will give you—such as ovulatory dysfunction, tubal infertility, endometriosis, etc.—these are just names that further define the symptom but not the true cause.
There are laws of nature, and as much as we try, we cannot will, trick, or fool nature into seeing things our way. The truth is, women are not getting pregnant because the egg, sperm, and vessel are not healthy enough to create and grow another life. In nature, widespread infertility is the first sign that a species is becoming extinct. Infertility is not simply random or unlucky, or something that we can safely treat with drugs and surgery (although these actions sometimes lead to pregnancy and birth, in the end, we leave our children to contend with the bigger picture).
If you are struggling with infertility, you are not alone. Few people today lead the kind of life that’s optimal for fertility. We have knowingly and unknowingly poisoned our bodies to the extent that many of us are no longer fit to create new life. We have spent decades consuming sodas, white pasta and bread, aspartame-laden yogurts and drinks, hormone- and antibiotic-infused chicken, beef, dairy, turkey, and fish, genetically modified produce, birth control pills and antibiotics, immense volumes of dead and dehydrated processed foods, and recreational, over-the-counter, and pharmaceutical drugs. On top of this, most of us spend our days without sunshine or fresh air, in front of a computer or TV screens in windowless offices and homes. All of this has seemed normal to us because everyone else around us is doing the same thing! However, we are now facing the consequences of this lifestyle squarely in the eye.
We can continue to ignore the signs that we are unfit to continue as a species in the way we are (e.g., rising infertility rates, early onset diabetes, cancer, obesity, etc.) or we can take responsibility and make dramatic changes—changes that will affect not only ourselves in this lifetime, but also our children and our grandchildren and so on, for generations to come.
We believe in treating infertility from the inside out, not the outside in. Our philosophy is about recognizing the interconnected web of all life, recovering as much as possible our most authentic selves, and living in peace and harmony with nature, as Mother Nature intended.
Note: This discussion of infertility is as important for men as it is for women. A farmer is concerned with both the viability of the seed and the fertility of the soil when planting crops. In the same way, we must pay attention to the quality of both the male and the female components. Therefore, the following cleansing tips will be most effective if both the man and the woman incorporate them into their lifestyle.
“TILLING THE SOIL” FOR NEW LIFE
Although there are a lot of complex factors that have led to the high infertility rates that we’re seeing today, you can take very simple steps to begin undoing the damage that has been done to your body. These steps will not always be easy or convenient to put into practice, but practicing discipline by implementing them in your life will help to prepare you for the self-sacrifice inherent in creating and providing for another life. Consider this the ultimate training ground!
1. Flood the Body with Health-Generating Foods
Take the adult Assessment Survey to assess your current level of toxicity. Follow the instructions for your transition level and apply as many of the dietary principles as possible. At this time, it is extremely important to focus your diet on foods from the Welcome Inclusions and Transition categories of our Food Chart, to completely avoid any substances in the Toxic category, and to minimize substances from the Non-Ideal category.
It is time to undo your learned behaviors and thoughts regarding food. Forget about calories, fat grams, protein, calcium, guilt, and countless other distracting details that you’ve picked up along the way. Learn to celebrate the simple beauty and vitality inherent in fruits and vegetables and their juices. Allow the transition foods, the recipes in our recipe section, and supplemental suggestions to gently assist you in shedding your food addictions. Cultivate a new approach to food—one that allows you to enjoy preparing simple, high-vibration foods for yourself and for loved ones. This is your time to heal, so take the time you need and enjoy the journey.
2. Give Your Body a Rest from Digestion
The more your body can rest from the process of metabolizing substances, the more energy can go to healing and cultivating fertility. When you overeat, or eat in combinations your body doesn’t recognize, your body works very hard in an attempt to adapt. This overwork makes you age faster and deteriorates your blood chemistry and DNA. This can be a major factor in your inability to get pregnant, and if you do get pregnant (with or without the use of fertility drugs), you will pass along this deteriorated blood chemistry and DNA to your offspring.
Proper food combining is the best way to give your body a rest. Miscombined foods take about 8 hours to metabolize vs. approximately 3 hours for a properly combined meal. While going through the process of digestion, the food sits and ferments in your stomach at 98.6° Fahrenheit. This heated ball of festering matter feeds bacteria, fungus, and yeast, which are the antithesis of fertility and life.
Eating your meals while sticking to the basic rules of food combing will be a huge step in the right direction. Basically, you only want your meal to include one food category at a time, accompanied by large amounts of neutral raw and cooked vegetables. Refer to the Quick-Exit Combinations chart or consult any of Natalia’s books (Raw Food Detox Diet, Raw Food Life Force Energy, or Detox 4 Women) for more details. See below for food categories:
Fruit: Enjoy apples, bananas, oranges, melon, berries, cherries, mangoes, and any other fruits you love. Fruit should be eaten alone, and consumed on an empty stomach. Fruit is ideal as breakfast or as an afternoon snack because you know it won’t be layering on top of something else in the digestive system.
Dried Fruit, Nuts, Seeds: Enjoy Lara Bars, almonds, sesame seeds, dried figs, dates, mature coconut, Brazil nuts, hemp seeds, and more. These are great as a snack, and even more delicious tossed onto a big raw salad for a lunchtime option.
Grain: Enjoy sprouted-grain products, whole-grain pasta, cooked millet, quinoa, spelt, buckwheat, oats, brown rice, crackers, and tortilla chips. A grain meal following a large raw salad will pass through the body quickly. Pasta with marinara sauce, a veggie sandwich with mustard, or chilled quinoa salad are some great options.
Animal Protein: You can have eggs, fish, and goat and sheep cheese. Enjoy these in the company of a big raw salad, and with some baked or steamed neutral veggies such as broccoli or spinach. Try a raw goat cheese salad followed by broiled garlic and ginger fish, with steamed kale. Or a salad followed by a goat cheese and basil omelet.
Starchy Vegetables: Enjoy yams and sweet potatoes, acorn squash, pumpkin, kabocha squash, butternut squash, and cooked corn. Avocado can also combine with this category. Try a big avocado and salsa salad followed by baked sweet potatoes with butter.
Note: The by-products of toxic matter are just as detrimental as the matter itself. Miscombined meals and poor meal choices contribute to the overgrowth of bad bacteria, fungus and yeasts, and carbonic gas. These by-products infiltrate the body on the deepest level, and removing them is a large part of the cleansing process.
3. Remove the Rubbish
The female body is designed to be fertile, so we must find our way back to our natural state. Colon cleansing is important during this time, as assisting the body in releasing accumulated matter will speed up the process of overall cleansing. Your odds of getting pregnant will be directly related to the degree of accumulated toxicity that you can eliminate. Colon cleansing will open up essential pathways for life force energy to flow.
Getting pregnant and having a healthy full-term pregnancy is dependent on the flow of life force energy from mother to baby, so we want to ensure the passageways are open and free to conduct energy.
Eliminating accumulated waste matter is also important at this time because the impacted colon can press up against the uterus, causing atrophy and preventing pregnancy. The release of the accumulation will also enable the endocrine system to secrete hormones into the bloodstream in a balanced way.
For additional information, see our section on colonics. To find a gravity-method colon hydrotherapist near you, please visit our Colon Therapy Directory. If you cannot find a therapist near you, at-home enemas are a good backup choice for assisting the body in eliminating waste.
Note: Beginning a relationship with a qualified and skilled gravity-method colon hydrotherapist will give you much deeper insights into the workings of your body, and it may well lead to a partnership that lasts for many years.
4. Detoxify Beyond the Body
The importance of eliminating toxicity is not limited to your body. In order to create an optimum space for new life, you need to do as much as possible to clear the toxicity in all areas of your life, including your relationships and your emotional and spiritual life. We provide many resources here and throughout the larger Natalia Rose Institute site to help you detoxify beyond the body. In particular, we urge you to visit our Recommended Reading page for more educational and inspirational ideas. Here are just a few of our favorite books on the subject of detoxifying beyond the body: Grant Me a Higher Love by Cindi Sansone-Braff, Women Who Run with Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, and The Power of Silence by Almine.
5. Practice the Art of Sacred Sexuality
The words “sacred” and “sexuality” rarely go together in our culture. Our concept of sex is generally one of selfish indulgence and lust—which leads more often than not to a feeling of emptiness. We all too rarely approach sexuality with the goal of giving and becoming one with a partner. Conception is far more often the result of either an accident (from a night of intoxication or blind lust) or an overly mechanized, stressful process of temperature taking, pill popping, and “perfect timing.” Today, conception is rarely the result of the powerful union of male and female, of two human beings expressing their love for each other and sharing their united intention to bring about new life.
True lovemaking, as an art of sacred sexuality, is a lost practice. We’d safely bet that most of you did not learn about this from your parents, your friends, or from Hollywood! However, there are still cultures today (especially ancient cultures) that honor the power, beauty, and balance of male and female sexual energies. The balance of yin and yang, of night and day, and of earth and sun are all metaphors for the perfect whole that results from the union of male and female. Explore this exciting world with your partner in books such as Grant Me a Higher Love by Cindi Sansone-Braff, the entire Anastasia Ringing Cedar Series by Vladimir Megre; Tantra: The Path of Ecstasy by Georg Feuerstein; and Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love by Daniel Odier.
HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO BECOME FERTILE?
Life begets life, so when we really start living, not merely existing, we’ll be in position to bring new life into the world. However, we cannot have a short-term memory. We have been exposing our bodies and minds to toxicity for many years, and reversing this trend and all the damage it has done will not happen overnight. Moreover, it is difficult to estimate how long any one person will need to cleanse because infertility is the result of a complex combination of the following factors:
1. The amount of waste accumulation one currently has in the body
2. The quality of one’s lineage
3. Emotional and/or spiritual stresses that may be prohibiting pregnancy
As difficult as this may be, try to detach yourself as much as possible from the desired end result. Now is the time to focus as much as possible on cleansing your body and clearing your mind. If you apply the cleansing principles described above, even if you don’t get pregnant, you will still be far more physically and emotionally healthy for yourself, for your partner, and for the children you may choose to adopt. In relinquishing attachment to the outcome, you will allow yourself enough time to become ready physically and emotionally for a new life.
Additionally, the current idea that it becomes dangerous to have a baby after the age of 35 is based on our modern mainstream lifestyle and the damage it does to the body. The accumulation of toxicity reaches a critical mass around the age of 35, which increases the risk of miscarriage and unhealthy offspring. However, if you take steps to cleanse your body, you will lengthen the years in which you can produce viable offspring.
Note: Fertility drugs add toxicity to the body, but if you have chosen to take them, it’s still a good idea to cleanse the body at the same time. Cleansing will remove only some of those added toxins, but it will also increase your chances of having a healthy pregnancy and a faster, easier recovery.
WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM FELINE FERTILITY
A ten-year experiment done from 1932 to 1942 by Francis M. Pottinger (MD) sheds interesting light on the impact of nutrition on our health and fertility. The experiment included 900 cats over four generations, and the cats were divided into five groups. All five groups were supplied the same basic minimal diet, but the major portion of the diets were varied. Two of the groups were fed whole foods (raw milk and meat—real foods for cats). The other three groups were given processed foods and pasteurized, evaporated, and condensed milk.
All four generations of the raw meat and raw milk groups remained healthy throughout their normal life spans. The first generation of all three processed food groups developed diseases and illnesses near the end of their lives. The second generation of all three processed food groups developed diseases and illnesses in the middle of their lives. The third generation of all three processed food groups developed diseases and illnesses in the beginning of their lives, and many died before six months of age. There was no fourth generation in any of the three processed food groups. Either the third-generation parents were sterile or the fourth-generation cats died before birth! Remember, all four generations in the raw food groups were healthy throughout their normal life spans.
Applying his results to human nutrition, Dr. Pottenger said, “While no attempt will be made to correlate the changes in the animals studied with malformations found in humans, the similarity is so obvious that parallel pictures will suggest themselves.”
This study highlights the accumulative effect that poor nutrition can have over generations and sheds light on why we are seeing an increase in diseases in our youth and an increase in infertility even among people of “prime childbearing age.”
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