Gray Graham - Pottengers Prophecy: How Food Resets Genes for Wellness or Illness

As a doctor on the front lines of the current obesity epidemic, I have become increasingly alarmed that people simply are unaware of how to eat, or what the food they put into their mouths is doing to them. People no longer know what or how to eat. Food choices are based on whats fast and what big business and big agriculture tells us is correct. We are dealing with a country of obese people who are chronically malnourished. Drs. Pottengers and Price showed us decades ago what was to come of tainting our food supply, yet we failed to heed their warnings. This book has again introduced us to concepts that we should have listened to decades ago. Perhaps this generation will pay attention! We will continue to die of obesity related chronic illnesses until people begin to reclaim their health by understanding what and how to eat again. This book lays it out for us.
Tyna Moore, ND, DC

This is an excellent book illustrating the current plight facing our Western culture, warning us of the perils of a poor diet as predicted by Dr. Pottenger in his book Pottengers Cats , published in 1946. After giving an intriguing explanation of the new science of epigenetics, and how that profoundly influences our health, the authors then provide us all with timely, healthy, well-reasoned, scientifically-sound nutritional strategies to fetch us back from the brink of nutritional melt-down. Bravo!
John A. Walck, MD

Deborah Kesten is the author of:
The Enlightened Diet
The Healing Secrets of Food
Feeding the Body, Nourishing the Soul

Larry Scherwitz is co-author of:
The Enlightened Diet

Gray Graham is the founder of the Nutritional Therapy Association (NTA)

Copyright 2011 by Gray Graham, Deborah Kesten, and Larry Sherwitz.

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or used in any form, or by any means, without prior written permission of the publisher.

Destiny Health Publishing
6977 Little Rock Road SW
Tumwater, WA 98512
www.pottengersprophecy.com

ISBN: 978-0-9836974-2-8

This publication contains the opinions and ideas of its authors. It is intended to provide helpful and informative material on the subjects addressed in the publication. It is sold with the understanding that the authors and publisher are not engaged in rendering medical, health, or any other kind of personal professional services in the book. The reader should consult his or health practitioner before adopting any of the suggestions in the book or drawing inferences from it.

The authors and publisher specifically disclaim all responsibility for any liability, loss, or risk, personal or otherwise, which is incurred as a consequence, directly or indirectly, of the use and application of any of the contents of the book.

This book is dedicated to the memory of
Weston A. Price, D.D.S. and
Frances M. Pottenger Jr., M.D.,
whose nutritional wisdom guides us to this day.

This book is possible only because of the landmark and groundbreaking research of individuals who preceded it. With this in mind, we extend gratitude to Gregor Johann Mendel for his discovery in the mid-1800s of how individual traits are passed on through generations; the pioneering work in the 1930s of innovators Francis M. Pottenger, Jr., M.D., and Weston A. Price, D.D.S., who made the link between diet, genes, and health-through-generations, well before the concept existed. We also owe thanks to British geneticists James D. Watson and Francis Crick, who identified the structure of DNA in the early 1950s; and the relatively recent discoveries by Swedish epidemiologist Lars Olov Bygren, Ph.D., and British geneticist Marcus Pembrey, Ph.D., who not only revealed that diet affects genes and whether they express through wellness or illness, but also that gene expression can be passed on to the next generation. Clearly, these foundational discoveries, which show that food and nutrition are far more important than we previously realized, provide the thesis of this book. In this regard, we also want to acknowledge the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation in Lemon Grove, California, whose work is exceedingly relevant to this book.

Each health professional and research scientist interviewed for this book is continuing to contribute to the rich repository of wisdom about food, nutrition, genetics, and epigenetics that has evolved over the decades.

To Robert T. Pottenger, Jr., M.D., who generously shared memories about his uncle, Francis M. Pottenger, Jr., and his before-their-time feeding experiments in the 1930s with catswhich provided early clues about the food-gene-health link.

To educator, doctor, researcher, and a leading authority on natural medicine, Joseph Pizzorno, N.D. Founder of Bastyr University, who discussed his knowledge about genetic testing and genes as they relate to health and healing and the future of medicine.

To Lara Pizzorno, M.A.(Div), M.A.(Lit), L.M.T., and Senior Medical Editor, who generously shared both her medical expertise and personal gene-nutrient health odyssey.

To Pamela Snider, N.D., a brilliant, beautiful friend who is Founding Executive Director of the Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Health Care (ACCAHC), and Executive Editor, Foundations of Naturopathic Medicine Project. Heartfelt thanks for providing pearls of wisdom about epigenetics and natural medicine.

To Dana Dolinoy, M.P.H., Ph.D., for insights about her research on genistein and its ability to alter coat color and protect avy mice offspring from obesity by modifyng the fetal epigenome; thank you, too, for giving us permission to print a photo about your research in our book.

To David Granatstein, a sustainable agriculture specialist from Wenatchee, Washington, who provided invaluable insights into the full spectrum of organic and conventional farming practices; for providing his excellent chart on this topic; and for his broad-spectrum wisdom about soil and food quality.

To Malea Balmuth, her husband, Edward, and their children Eliza and Jake, for sharing their food pioneer experience about the sustainable and organic farm they created for the nourishment of the family.

To Preston Andrews, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Horticulture, Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture, Washington State University at Pullman, who shared his knowledge about living soil, food quality... and more.

To John P. Reganold, Ph.D., director and founder of Washington State Universitys organic farming major. His novel and pioneering farming systems research has shown that organic, biodynamic, and integrated farming practices are sustainable, and can mitigate some of the hazardous effects of conventional agriculture on the environment.

To Matthew Anway, Ph.D., for his time and in-depth insights into both his own innovative research on epigenetics, and also for providing an arc overview of this emerging new science.

To Linda Roghaar, for her ongoing support, enthusiasm, and publishing expertise extraordinaire.

To Joanne McCall, for applying her finely honed public relations skills to get the word out about our book. We appreciate the coverage she achieved in top-tier print, broadcast, and online media, and her ability to help create a spot on platform that effectively communicates our work.

To book designer Rebecca Neimark, of Twenty-Six Letters, whose brilliant work superbly reflects the quality of the contents.

To Joy Graham, for her ongoing support, and for sprinkling her intelligence and sparkling personality on our many meetings; and, wow, what a cook!

And to all those who continue to research and eat the green-gene way that resets genes for wellness... thank you for contributing to the stream of wisdom about optimal eatingfor yourself, your children, and future generations.