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February 21, 2001: Mad Cow Disease - Dr. Lorraine Day
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Art Bell reunites with Dr. Lorraine Day, the former orthopedic surgery chief at San Francisco General Hospital who famously reversed her own severe cancer through dietary changes rather than chemotherapy. The program opens with a brief segment on the Raelian religion's human cloning effort before turning to the main topic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy and its implications for human health.
Dr. Day argues that mad cow disease is already present in the United States, pointing to hundreds of thousands of "downer cows" that collapse without explanation. She explains that when these animals are ground up and fed to mink, the mink develop a similar fatal neurological disease. She contends that prions, the misfolded proteins associated with BSE, are not the root cause of disease but rather a symptom of immune system breakdown caused by feeding vegetarian animals an unnatural meat-based diet through factory farming practices.
The conversation broadens into Dr. Day's philosophy that all disease stems from violating natural laws of health. She challenges the germ theory of disease, advocates for plant-based nutrition, and warns that Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease cases are being misdiagnosed as fast-onset Alzheimer's. A United Nations report confirming that BSE could spread to over 100 countries supports her assertion that the crisis will eventually dwarf the AIDS epidemic in scope.
Dr. Day argues that mad cow disease is already present in the United States, pointing to hundreds of thousands of "downer cows" that collapse without explanation. She explains that when these animals are ground up and fed to mink, the mink develop a similar fatal neurological disease. She contends that prions, the misfolded proteins associated with BSE, are not the root cause of disease but rather a symptom of immune system breakdown caused by feeding vegetarian animals an unnatural meat-based diet through factory farming practices.
The conversation broadens into Dr. Day's philosophy that all disease stems from violating natural laws of health. She challenges the germ theory of disease, advocates for plant-based nutrition, and warns that Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease cases are being misdiagnosed as fast-onset Alzheimer's. A United Nations report confirming that BSE could spread to over 100 countries supports her assertion that the crisis will eventually dwarf the AIDS epidemic in scope.