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Hello everyone,

I had an interesting discussion with a patient recently about how so many more people have chronic illness at a much earlier age. She asked why that is, and what can she do about it? And something came to mind.

Years ago, I read about an experiment called "Pottenger’s Cats". This study was a well-documented study done between 1932 and 1942 and thus was very different than the studies that are performed today.

The “Pottenger’s Cats” study looked at different diets in cats and how it affected their health (specifically cats that had their adrenals removed—you can look up more details about the study here).

One group of cats was fed raw meat and milk, the second group was fed cooked meat and milk, and the third group was fed a mixture of raw and cooked food. The study followed the health of these cats for over five generations.

Spoiler alert: the cats fed cooked food mimicking today’s processed foods subsequently got sicker and sicker generation by generation, exhibiting problems like anxiety, depression, mental illness, arthritis, heart disease, and infertility, until the fifth generation could not reproduce.

If you look around, these health problems are the same problems that plague us today. The heavily processed foods started in the early 1900s, and so we are actually between third- and fifth-generation Pottenger’s people!

But take heart, all is not lost. Another conclusion could be drawn from this study—cats could return to good health (slowly, generation by generation), if they were returned to uncooked (unprocessed) diet. We have found that we can improve even quicker using the right supplements and whole foods concentrates, especially Standard Process supplements.

Here’s a link to the video about Dr. Pottenger’s study on YouTube. And, this is an interesting essay about raw vs. pasteurized milk by Dr. Pottenger. It’s fascinating to observe how these astute doctors could see the tide of chronic disease coming. Their observations are valuable, and many of their solutions and strategies still hold water (we still use them and they work!). Keep in mind, I don’t approve of experimenting on animals, but since this study was done almost 100 years ago, we can honor the lives that were lost by learning from their sacrifice for us.

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Sincerely yours,

Dr. Keith Sheehan

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