Who here has gone the route of Weston Price? How did that work out? Typically, speaking in terms of my own experience, I have jumped on this and that bandwagon over the last 7 years, only to find that it wasn't what I thought it was going to be ( some of the wagons include - raw food, budwig, kelley/gonzalez, gluten-free, candida diet variations) I have finally learned to take the good and leave the bad from each of these based on my own observations of how various components of each of these effected me personally. (This contrary to doing something repeatedly because you think it SHOULD work). For me this has come to mean that I eat mainly pot roasts with cooked veges, steamed broccolli/ cauliflower, some salads. And to be honest that is it. Everything else proves to be negative over the long haul.

So I ask, who has gone the Weston Price path, and taken away key points that helped them?

I am particularly curious about Vitamin A (animal based), which becomes like 10 times a normal amount when a person follows the Weston Price model.

Put a different way, has anyone taken a large amount of cod liver oil, say 2-3 tablespoons per day, for an extended period of time?

I can vouch for the high animal fat. For the past few years, I have observed consistently that I do well will saturated fat (mainly from roasted grass-feed beef) My adrenals seem to like it. And like a good bit of it. Sometimes often like 2 or 3 times per day. Were it not for additional HCL and enzymes, I couldn't digest it well though, this I have proven to myself upon several occaisions. What I'm getting at is the following chart:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960076011002433#fig0005


(see fig 1 steroid hormone metabolism)

See how cholesterol sits as a building block atop ALL THE HORMONES of the body? Amazing concept. Price people say that at every conversion from one hormone to the next, vitamin A (animal based) is needed. They also draw a line in the sand the beta carotene is NOT vitamin A. And that most people are quite incapable of converting enough beta carotene to vitamin A. And thus significant endocrine disfunction occurs, I guess. I guess it would have to. I mean if you can't make the hormones, then that's a bad thing, duh. Given the shear volume of people with low adrenals, low testosterone, low thyroid function, is cod liver oil the majic bullet? And if not, is it helpful? I am very tempted to think that it might just be the ticket (provided other things, mainly sleep and digestive problems, are fixed). There are people that look at aminal sourced vitamin A as if it is a posion, except in small amounts. Then there is the debate of A vs. D ratio and harmful interactions. I'm not so interested in debate or theory, but more have you tried a large amount of cod liver oil for extended period (while maintaining adequate 25 OH D status 50-70ng/ml) and how did this make you feel? very simple did it help or hurt?

Is there anything within the Weston Price school of thought that you have found, by observation NOT to work for you? I suspect the RAW Milk thing not to be all that it's cracked up to be for most people. Mainly because it is still mucoid forming and potential for food allergy still there (though obviously superior to super market milk).