Hilda Gore joins me on today's podcast. Hilda is the host of the Wise Tradition Podcast, which is part of the Weston A. Price Foundation. If you aren't familiar with the foundation, it is based off the research of Dr Weston A. Price, a dentist who studied isolated nonindustrialised people and the impact of nutrition and nutrient-dense foods on their health. In this episode, Hilda gives a history of Dr Price's work and outlines 11 guiding principles.

Selected Links from the Episode

Hilda Gore website

Weston A. Price Foundation website

Unstress episode with Cliff Harvey on carbohydrate appropriate diets

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Dr Ron Ehrlich:             Hello and welcome to Unstress. I'm Dr Ron Ehrlich. I've often referenced the work of Dr Weston A. Price. Many of you will have heard of him. Some of you may not, but I believe he did some of the most important pieces of research that have ever been done in human health. A big statement I know, but I'm putting it out there. It's research that was done in the first half of the 20th century and covered many areas in the world, but it's just as relevant, if not more relevant, to us today than ever. Now, the repository of this work is the Weston A. Price Foundation. My guest, today, is the host of the Wise Tradition Podcast, which is part of that foundation. My guest is Hilda Gore. Hilda gives the history of Dr Price's work and outlines 11 guiding principles. I love them. I hope you do too. I hope you enjoy this conversation I had with Hilda Gore.

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Dr Ron Ehrlich:             Welcome to the show, Hilda.

Hilda Gore:                   Thank you for having me, Ron.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:             Hilda, you're a podcaster as well and we're going to talk about your connection with the Weston A. Price Foundation, but I always like to hear about your own journey, professionally on your ... and your own health journey and how they relate. I wonder if you might share that with our listener.

Hilda Gore:                   Absolutely. So my story actually begins before I was born. No kidding.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:             No, no. That's a good place to start.

Hilda Gore:                   So when my mother was pregnant with me, she got exposed to the German measles and the doctors told her that her child was going to be born with a serious birth defect. And of course, my parents were alarmed and concerned and I was born with a birth defect. It was a hole between the lower two ventricles of my heart. So I had a hole in my heart. The blood was flowing in a direction it's not supposed to flow and the doctor said, "Gosh, if we don't perform surgery, this is not going to correct itself and your daughter will not live very long." So I had open heart surgery, Ron, when I was nine years old. Can you imagine?

Hilda Gore:                   So they performed the surgery and after that, they said, "You can do whatever you want." So what did I want to do? I wanted to take good care of my body and I think it also shaped the direction of my life. I wanted to help other people do the same. So I kind of had a shaky start. I couldn't be super active when I was little because they didn't know if the hole would get larger or whatever. They were always monitoring me at the National Institute for Health. And then after the surgery, they said, "You can do whatever you want." And so then, I took off in the direction of health and wellness as a field and a career.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:             Well, that's ... I mean, I know the work. Weston A. Price, who talks a lot about preconception health and the whole journey from that point on. But nine years is actually quite a long time. I mean, in my own book, I quote a friend of our family's who had a similar experience, mind you, only a few years ago, and had open heart surgery at two weeks old. So nine years was a long time to wait to correct this issue. It must have really affected you.