[Fwd: Re: fermented clo standards]

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This was posted tonight in Native Nutrition by Dave Wetzel, the owner

of Green Pastures and producer of High Vitamin Butter Oil and High

Vitamin Cod Liver Oil. It's an important read if you are still

purchasing cod liver oil from regular vitamin/health food stores.

This confirms that he will no longer be carrying his prized HVCLO

because all the manufacturers are going to synthetic Vitamin A & D -

he will only be carrying the Fermented CLO.

For what it's worth, we ordered a bottle of the Green Pastures

Fermented CLO - it's pretty harsh if you aren't used to the the fishy

taste, but not as bad as butter oil, or taking a teaspoon of magnesium

chloride straight up.

-vanessa

.... sorry for the horrendous formatting

--- Re: fermented clo standards

Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:10:38 -0000

From: dcw338 <dave.gpp@...>

Reply-

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> Dave,

> It would be helpful to all of us if you would not only share an

assay of Green Pastures

fermented CLO, but also teach us what to look for.

this is what i have learned in 8 years working with CLO.... you asked

so i'll ramble on what

to look for in a clo

1. if the clo is heated at all then it must be cleaned. heating breaks

bonds and create

many problems. many natural elements we call toxins...true, they are

toxins when man

starts industrializing the sacred foods. cleaning is done by the use

of heat and pressure in

the industrialized model. for the most part everything coming out of

industrialized

nations such as norway and iceland will be good. these mills are all

new mills and have

excellent standards as for a cleaning the oils and shelf life.

i would be concerned with refined oils coming out of places like

china... i guess i would be

concerned with all food coming out of china.

2. i have never seen a non-heated (fermented) clo ever having any

metals or pcb's of

concern. i do not know if it is the processing method or the location

of the species. i

suspect it is the processing method.

3. after seeing first hand the 'industrialized' manufacturing method

of our sacred food/

clo i started to to work on manufacturing of clo. i was offended with

the practice that was

in place just as i am offended with ultra pasteurization and

homogenization of our milk.

who would go through the effort to buy a 100% grass fed milk only to

ultra-pasteurize

and homogenize it prior to drinking? same is true with clo.

4. the important nutrients of clo are far beyond A/D. there is sooo

much more to the

story. REAL clo has thousands of nutreints and they are naturally

bound within the fatty

acid structures. farmed raised fish and processing methods can have

dramatic effects on

the fatty acid structures and the vitamins/quinones and hormone

structures.

5. hormones are nutrients... beyond vitamin D hormones.

6. there are 15+ forms of vitamin A and upto 3000 derivatives of

vitamin D hormones.

i personally have 100 times more questions than answers.

7. living foods the forms of the nutrients are difficult to measure

and to make sense. i

know we want to categorize things and define things but i'm not sure

science has the tools

to define everything that is going on in a REAL clo.

so your original question: It would be helpful to all of us if you

would not only share an

assay of Green Pastures fermented CLO, but also teach us what to look for.

i'm not sure what to share, generalities above are for consideration

in general: if you buy a industrially processed clo then only buy

something from norway

or iceland that has been molecularly distilled/deodorized process. and

i suggest the

product has to be high vitamin... naturally occuring.

the last of this high vitamin product was made fall 2008 and is no

longer available. the

last of our stock will be gone by this spring. we will only sell what

we produce... the

fermented cod liver oil. we will not sell sythetic nutrient cod liver

oil or low nutrient

content cod liver oil. just as we will not sell any nutrientless

industrialized fish oil. it is

out of principle to not carry the synthetic forms.

as far as sharing assays, please call or go to one of the WAP shows i

go to. in past i have

brought copys along and on the table for discussion. in the past

almost no one has

looked or cared. this last show i did not bother to bring the booklet

i will try to remember to bring to the fourfold path to healing show.

and if we do a clo/bo

tour this summer it is part of the discussion. we had a small

wholesale event this past

summer and might do it again

dave