Strong Medicine, by Dr. Blake Donaldson

Auntie Em · 02-13-2012, 10:04 AM

Dr. Blake Donaldson's book, Strong Medicine, can be read, here:

HathiTrust Digital Library - Strong medicine.

This is one of my very favorite books.

Auntie Em · 02-19-2012, 08:33 AM

Here is a review of Dr. Donaldson's book:

Strong Medicine. BLAKE K. DONALDSON, M.D. London. Cassell &
Co. Ltd. 1963. Pp. 245. Price 18s.

All doctors in general practice must by now have been confronted with the obese patient in late middle age who cannot lose weight on a checked low calorie diet. Indeed, this may prove fairly common if we stop discounting our patients' protests that they have followed our reducing diets faithfully. Dr Donaldson may have found a solution for these failures in a return to a diet of primitive animal flesh and fat. This is known to stimulate the pituitary gland which, in turn, damps down insulin blood levels. The author bases his hypothesis on modern sources in America and Great Britain which express the importance of a complete enzyme breakdown of muscle glycogen to carbonic acid and water. Each stage liberates motive energy and heat, but if one enzyme is missing, for instance, pyruvic acid will accumulate in the blood; this has a damping effect on
fat katabolism and increases the fat deposit.

The author is concerned to show in half a dozen brilliant and witty clinical pictures, that this form of enzyme-deficient obesity is the apex of a sexology of diseases: heart disease, hypertension, osteoarthritis, diabetes, gall stones and allergy.

The telling of his tale is absorbing because it is vividly biographical; it is instructive because it is shrewdly clinical in the choice of case histories to illustrate each disease. The dietary advice is accurate and meticulous in culinary detail. One quotation from the book will explain what it is all about.

"Food was the primary concern of man as he evolved, and it had to be
right. He lived on the fattest meat he could kill and on water. In those
million years every weakling who could not maintain perfect health on
that food was bred out. If he could not leap six feet straight up in the air
to catch the branch of a tree, some sabre-toothed tiger was likely to solve
all his problems. The ability to live well on meat and water is the
inheritance of mankind."
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feelinggreat · 02-20-2012, 05:44 AM

Thanks! Bookmarked for later.

soontobesexy'ntx · 03-19-2012, 12:24 PM

EM
ya wanta do it again?? my lowest weight on Strongmed/Eskimo was 194 would love to be that again or lower!!

02-13-2012, 10:04 AM	#1
Auntie Em Major LCF Poster! Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 2,895 Gallery: Auntie Em WOE: VLC-Ancestral, restricted calorie Start Date: Maintenance since 2000	Strong Medicine, by Dr. Blake Donaldson Dr. Blake Donaldson's book, Strong Medicine, can be read, here: HathiTrust Digital Library - Strong medicine. This is one of my very favorite books.

02-19-2012, 08:33 AM	#2
Auntie Em Major LCF Poster! Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 2,895 Gallery: Auntie Em WOE: VLC-Ancestral, restricted calorie Start Date: Maintenance since 2000	Here is a review of Dr. Donaldson's book: Strong Medicine. BLAKE K. DONALDSON, M.D. London. Cassell & Co. Ltd. 1963. Pp. 245. Price 18s. All doctors in general practice must by now have been confronted with the obese patient in late middle age who cannot lose weight on a checked low calorie diet. Indeed, this may prove fairly common if we stop discounting our patients' protests that they have followed our reducing diets faithfully. Dr Donaldson may have found a solution for these failures in a return to a diet of primitive animal flesh and fat. This is known to stimulate the pituitary gland which, in turn, damps down insulin blood levels. The author bases his hypothesis on modern sources in America and Great Britain which express the importance of a complete enzyme breakdown of muscle glycogen to carbonic acid and water. Each stage liberates motive energy and heat, but if one enzyme is missing, for instance, pyruvic acid will accumulate in the blood; this has a damping effect on fat katabolism and increases the fat deposit. The author is concerned to show in half a dozen brilliant and witty clinical pictures, that this form of enzyme-deficient obesity is the apex of a sexology of diseases: heart disease, hypertension, osteoarthritis, diabetes, gall stones and allergy. The telling of his tale is absorbing because it is vividly biographical; it is instructive because it is shrewdly clinical in the choice of case histories to illustrate each disease. The dietary advice is accurate and meticulous in culinary detail. One quotation from the book will explain what it is all about. "Food was the primary concern of man as he evolved, and it had to be right. He lived on the fattest meat he could kill and on water. In those million years every weakling who could not maintain perfect health on that food was bred out. If he could not leap six feet straight up in the air to catch the branch of a tree, some sabre-toothed tiger was likely to solve all his problems. The ability to live well on meat and water is the inheritance of mankind." __________________ Support Thread for Lifetime Carnivores __________________ Maintainers Over 55 Best wishes for happy, healthy LCing.

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02-20-2012, 05:44 AM	#3
feelinggreat Very Gabby LCF Member!!! Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: In the garden Posts: 4,060 Gallery: feelinggreat Stats: 224/185/150 WOE: low carb Start Date: 4/02	Thanks! Bookmarked for later.

03-19-2012, 12:24 PM	#4
soontobesexy'ntx Way too much time on my hands! Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: cajungurl Hitched to a Tejas boy Posts: 19,579 Gallery: soontobesexy'ntx Stats: 204.9/202.6/150 WOE: Souping our way thin 2013 Start Date: 1/1/13	EM ya wanta do it again?? my lowest weight on Strongmed/Eskimo was 194 would love to be that again or lower!!