Breastfeeding And Infertility - Are They Connected? [Episode #12]

The Age of Infertility: Wisdom from Pottenger’s Cats

For thousands of years the image of a pregnant woman, round and radiating with health, sometimes with an older baby at the breast, has been the sign of Mother Nature’s approval of our species. We see these kinds of pictures in National Geographic. The woman is content, nourished… glowing. The babies are satisfied at her breast or comfortably perched on her hip… content.

Have you noticed the fading quality of this image here at home, in the United States? The increasing concern of infertility? The diminished ability to breastfeed? The rise in infant death and sickly children?

Let’s take a moment to address some of the forbidden information surrounding what’s going on and how we can begin to turn this thing around as a society.

There was a man named Dr. Pottenger, who in the 1930s-1940s did some very interesting work with cats. To make a long story short, he fed groups of cats varying diets and then compared them over time to note the health of each generation, including lifespan, the incidence of disease, and reproductive capacity. What he found was that cats fed a diet of either pasteurized milk or cooked meat, in contrast to those fed raw milk or raw meat, had significantly shortened lifespan, increased incidence of chronic, degenerative disease, and by the third generation, an overwhelming prevalence of infertility.

So let’s think about this for just a minute. Sure, we are humans, not cats. But did you know that the nervous system of cats is remarkably close to that of humans? So while our experiences may not be identical, we should at the very least take note of generational trends and knowledge that may be applied toward preserving our own species.

Perhaps you have seen the cover of… oh, just about any magazine at the grocery store checkout. Can we agree that almost all of the featured women appear to be… well… hungry? Is it any wonder Mother Nature is deselecting these women, and many others like them, when it comes to the ability to bear children?

Don’t get me wrong. This is no indictment against women of today. We are simply responding as a society, as a culture, to the misinformation provided us by the regulatory powers that be. “Don’t eat fat.” “Don’t eat salt.” “Don’t eat meat.” “Sanitize everything.” “Pasteurize everything.” We respond with a fear of fat, a fear of animal foods, a fear of bacteria—the very things we must have to survive and thrive.

Women who eat what they crave—fat, salt, meat, including plenty of RAW foods, yes, even milk, just like Pottenger’s cats—have healthy hormonal systems, bear healthy children, and feed them healthy, rich, life-giving, RAW milk. This perpetuates the cycle and those children grow up to do the same. 

Our fertility and our children’s fertility is well within our control. That forbidden doctor—our innate intelligence—longs to cooperate with nature in bringing about generations and generations of healthy, robust offspring to carry our genetic material far into the future. Think about that as you set the table tonight. Are you following all the “rules,” or are you eating what you crave? Let’s shake things up and make a move toward really living.

What you will learn in this episode:

Why almost nobody ever gets cancer of the upper intestine and how it relates to breastfeeding, infertility, and death. Hear a report on breastfeeding and how good intentions went wrong. What the United States Dairy Association does with cows’ milk. Raw milk? Pasteurized milk? Which is better/safer? Why mother’s milk is so incredibly vital to a newborn. Dr. Francis Pottenger Jr., and his cats. A story of how one woman got rid of all the tumors in her two Dobermans from cancer, within four months. Infertility: if a woman has low-fat content, has nature already deselected her for reproduction? Options for women who are unable to nurse- other than commercial formula. Sugar is the number one fuel of cancer cells. Why one in 40 boys in Utah are autistic. Why some of the best minds in this country—a professor at MIT—says by 2025, it’ll be one in two. Why aren’t we as concerned as we are about pasteurizing milk, and not being as careful as that with vaccinations?

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