IV — Volume

Science & Evidence

The evidence: pasteurization, Pottenger's cats, Weston Price and the cooking hypothesis.

9
Folios
3
Foundational reads
52
Minutes of archive
Science & Evidence

The reading path

In this order, foundational to reference
1Raw milk vs pasteurized: what the science actually saysPasteurization kills pathogens, and enzymes, lactobacilli and native proteins with them. Worth it?5 min2The Pottenger experiment: 900 cats, 10 yearsTen years, nine hundred cats, two diets, and the fine print most summaries leave out.4 min3Weston A. Price: what he found and why it still mattersA 1930s dentist, fourteen cultures, and a thesis that aged better than its critics.4 min4Raw honey vs fruit sugars: fructose in context"Honey is just sugar": the popular objection that misses almost everything about the comparison.6 min5Lactase persistence: the evolution of milk-drinking adultsEvery mammal infant digests milk; most lose the ability. Some human lineages never did.6 min6Heat-labile nutrients: what cooking measurably destroysSome nutrients measurably fall with heat. The data is more two-sided than either side admits.6 min7The cooking hypothesis: did fire make us human?The strongest scientific argument against raw diets is also one of evolution's most contested ideas.7 min
Every folio in this volume
IV5 minRaw milk vs pasteurized: what the science actually saysPasteurization kills pathogens, and enzymes, lactobacilli and native proteins with them. Worth it?Open folio →IV4 minThe Pottenger experiment: 900 cats, 10 yearsTen years, nine hundred cats, two diets, and the fine print most summaries leave out.Open folio →IV4 minWeston A. Price: what he found and why it still mattersA 1930s dentist, fourteen cultures, and a thesis that aged better than its critics.Open folio →IV6 minRaw honey vs fruit sugars: fructose in context"Honey is just sugar": the popular objection that misses almost everything about the comparison.Open folio →IV6 minLactase persistence: the evolution of milk-drinking adultsEvery mammal infant digests milk; most lose the ability. Some human lineages never did.Open folio →IV6 minHeat-labile nutrients: what cooking measurably destroysSome nutrients measurably fall with heat. The data is more two-sided than either side admits.Open folio →IV7 minThe cooking hypothesis: did fire make us human?The strongest scientific argument against raw diets is also one of evolution's most contested ideas.Open folio →IV6 minAnisakis: the parasite in every raw-fish debateThe risk every food-safety directive names: an invisible worm in perfectly good-looking fish.Open folio →IV8 minRay Peat: the pro-metabolic science of energyHe died without a Wikipedia page; his free essays are now nutrition's most-cited underground reference.Open folio →
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