Francis M. Pottenger Jr. (1901-1967) was the son of Francis M. Pottenger Sr., the physician who founded Pottenger Sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis in Monrovia, California.
He completed a residency at Los Angeles County Hospital in 1930 and became a permanent assistant at the Sanatorium. From 1932 to 1942, he also did what is known as the Pottenger Cat Study.
In 1940, he bought several huts from the Monrovia sanatorium and founded Francis M Pottenger Jr. Hospital. . Until closing in 1960, the 42-bed hospital specialized in treating non-tubercular lung diseases, particularly asthma.
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Work
One particular question Pottenger addressed in his study relates to the nutritional value of the heat-labile element - a nutrient that is destroyed by heat and available only in raw foods.
He applied the principles of nutrition and endocrinology early in his practice. Dr. Pottenger is a pioneer in using rough extracts of the adrenal cortex as a supplement to treat allergic states and fatigue. In her treatment of respiratory diseases such as tuberculosis, asthma, allergies and emphysema, she always highlights the proper diet based on the principles found by Weston Price. In his hospital, he serves a large amount of liver, butter, cream, and eggs to cure the patient.
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cat Pottenger
Pottenger uses a laboratory cat donated to test the potential of the adrenal extract hormone he makes. This cat adrenal gland is removed for experimentation. She feeds a supposedly nutritious dietary cat consisting of raw milk, cod liver oil and meat cuts cooked from the liver, tripe, sweet bread, brain, heart and muscles. When the number of cats donated exceeds the available supply of food, Pottenger began ordering raw cuts of meat from local packing plants, including organs, meat and bones; and feeding a group of cats separate from this supply. Within a few months, this separate group emerged in better health than the undercooked meat group. Their kittens are more energetic and, most interestingly, their post-operative mortality rate is lower. At some point, he decided to start a controlled scientific study. Pottenger conducted a study involving about 900 cats over a ten-year period, with three generations of cats being studied.
Meat studies
In one study, one group of cats was fed two-thirds of raw meat, one-third raw milk, and cod liver oil, while the second group was fed two-thirds of cooked meat, one-third raw milk, and cod liver oil. The cats that are fed raw foods are all healthy while the meat-fed cats develop a variety of health problems.
- By the end of the first generation, cats begin to develop degenerative diseases and become very lazy. * By the end of the second generation, cats have developed degenerative diseases in middle age and are beginning to lose their coordination.
- By the end of the third generation, cats have developed degenerative diseases early in life and some are born blind and weak and have a much shorter life span. Many third-generation cats can not even produce offspring. There are many parasites and pests while skin diseases and allergies increase from a 5 percent incidence in normal cats to over 90 percent in deficient third-generation cats. The third generation kitten did not survive for six months. Bones become soft and supple and cats suffer from adverse personal changes. Men become tame while women become more aggressive. Cats suffer most of the degenerative diseases encountered in human medicine and die total by the fourth generation.
At the time of the Pottenger Study, the amino acid taurine has been found but has not been identified as an essential amino acid for cats. Today many cats develop with a cooked meat diet in which taurine has been added after cooking. The diet lacks sufficient taurine deficiency to allow the cat to properly form protein structures and produce the observed health effects. Pottenger himself concludes that there is a possibility of an "unknown" protein factor that may be sensitive to heat.
Dairy Study
In another study, dubbed the "Milk Study," cats were fed 2/3 of milk and 1/3 meat. All the groups were fed raw meat with different groups getting raw milk, dried vitamin D, pasteurized, evaporated, sweet or raw condensed. Cats on raw milk are the healthiest while the rest show a variety of health problems similar to previous studies of cooked meat. This particular Pottenger cat research has been cited by supporters of raw milk as evidence that it may be healthier for humans than pasteurized milk.
References
Books
- Pottenger Cat: A Study of Nutrition . ISBN: 0-916764-06-0
- Fundamental Chemistry in Lab . ISBN 0-673-07877-9
External links
- Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation website.
- Francis M. Pottenger, MD and "The Hazards of a Health Fetish" By Ron Schmid, ND
- Lessons from the Pottenger's Cats experiment: nonhuman cats (review of raw foodies claims on Pottenger's Cats experiment)
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