First, Elmer McCollum couldn’t get a job.
He had a doctorate from Yale, but couldn’t find work in his field. It was only after a long time searching all over the Midwest (he was from Kansas) that he even got hired.
The University of Wisconsin took him on as an instructor. But he had to switch his field of study because that was the only way he could get a position.
Then, the school wanted him to look at the diets of grain-fed cows to find out why they were dying or giving birth to malformed calves.
After all, grain contained everything that chemists, physiologists, and medical men considered essential… even thought it was obviously not enough to sustain the cattle’s lives.
But McCollum felt the cows weren’t getting enough nutrition from grain. He had to go against convention and the people who wouldn’t listen to him to find his answer. He stopped doing cattle research and set up his own lab to study nutrition in smaller animals.
It took him more than two years, but in 1913 he discovered what he called “fat-soluble A.” You and I call it vitamin A.
But that’s not the reason I’m telling you this story. The reason I want you to know about this is because this is still happening today.
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He was nearly blind.
The pain in his eyes was so intense he thought he would go insane.
But he kept hiking, stumbling along over a small plateau high in the Rocky Mountains.
His sight was so far gone that he almost stumbled into two grizzly bear cubs and their enormous mother bear.
He was lucky he wasn’t attacked… and he knew he couldn’t walk much farther in the mountains and stay alive.
The prospector came to the mouth of a rocky pass, sat down and started sobbing. He was sure he was never going to see his family again.
As he sat there holding his throbbing head, he suddenly heard a voice behind him…
Nature Wants To Protect You
I love peppers. Especially bell peppers. They’re so crunchy and sweet. I like to get mine at my local farmer’s market.
One of my favorite ways to eat them is roasted. I like to put a big red pepper in the oven and turn it every now and then until it’s soft. They’re delicious that way. Plus, you get to eat the skin where a lot of the nutrients are.
Which gets me thinking… do you know why brightly colored fruit and vegetables are so delicious? It’s because you’re supposed to eat them. Nature wants you to. It’s one of the ways we get our nutrients. Like vitamin A, for example.
Vitamin A is an “essential” vitamin because you can’t make it in your body. The only sources are animal products like meat, eggs and fish.
Get the Most Potent Plant-Based Source of Omega-3s
I trekked through the Amazon jungles in search of healing herbs. Instead, I found something else: Sacha Inchi – the “super food” of the ancient Incas.
This oil – which comes from nuts, not fish – is incredibly healthy…