1. Price WA. Dental Infections, Oral and Systemic; Dental Infections and the Degenerative Diseases (Vols 1 and 2). Cleveland, OH: Penton; 1923.
2. Dr. Price more or less sided with physiologist Claude Bernard in the great scientific medicine debate between Bernard and chemist/microbiologist Louis Pasteur in the 19th century. It is said that Pasteur on his deathbed stated: “Bernard is right. The microbe is nothing. The environment is everything.” However, Pasteur’s germ theory of disease won the public debate, paving the way for today’s extensive use of surgery and pharmaceutical drugs in allopathic medicine. (Source: Metzner R. The Causes of Disease: The Great Debate. Functional Medicine University. https://www.functionalmedicineuniversity.com/public/937.cfm. Accessed December 5, 2019.)
3. In his laboratory studies of special foods, Dr. Price observed a fat-soluble substance that he named “activator X.” He characterized it as a synergistic activator that increased the value and utilization of other nutrients present in the diet. It occurs especially in foods such as butterfat, organ meats, and fat from animals eating rapidly growing green grass and plants, as well as certain seafoods. Some people now believe activator X is a form of vitamin K.
4. Hvidberg MF, Johnsen SP, Davidsen M, Ehlers L. A nationwide study of prevalence rates and characteristics of 199 chronic conditions in Denmark. PharmacoEconomics Open. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41669-019-0167-7. Published July 24, 2019. Accessed December 5. 2019.
5. Price WA. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, 8th ed. Lemon Grove, CA: Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation; 2016.
6. Statistical Extract (Project ID FSEID-00004154), Sundhedsdatastyrelsen, Denmark, 2019. Included are all persons who had a Danish social security number, had a registered address in a Danish municipality, and died in Denmark in 2013.
7. Dødsårsagsregisteret 2013: Tal og analyse [www.ssi.dk]. Statens Serum Institut, December 16, 2014.
8. Mortality figures for pneumonia are level (123 people) for the months of July and August; otherwise, the data fit the general picture.
9. Københavns Universitets almanak Skriv-og rejsekalender for det år efter Kristi fødsel 2013, København, Københavns Universitet, i kommission hos Gyldendal, 2012.
10. Such lab work is beyond the financial means and scope of a pilot study like this one, but, of course, is recommended for future studies.
11. Brink JW. Imagining Head-Smashed-In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains. Edmonton, Alberta: Athabasca University Press; 2008.
12. The “selection” curve includes 2013 mortality data from cancer; other tumors; diseases of the blood, blood-forming organs, and immune system; endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic disorders; nervous system disorders; heart and other circulatory diseases; diseases of the respiratory tract; digestive diseases; diseases of bone, muscle, and connective tissue; and diseases of the urinary and genital organs.
13. Danmarks Statistik, Statistikbanken, Befolkning og valg, BEV3A: Levendefødte og døde på måneder, Levendefødte, all months 2013 and 2014. https://www.statistikbanken.dk/10017. Accessed November 1, 2019.
14. Danmarks Statistik, Statistikbanken, Befolkning og valg, BEV3A: Levendefødte og døde på måneder, Levendefødte og Døde, all months 2010-2017. https://www.statistikbanken.dk/10017. Accessed November 1, 2019.
15. Quass L, Tarpgaard JL. 20.000 graviditeter ender med spontan abort: Overlæge vil kortlægge årsagerne. Danmarks Radio. https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/20000-graviditeter-ender-med-spontan-abort-overlaege-vil-kortlaegge-aarsagerne#!/. Published March 20, 2018. Accessed on October 29, 2019.
16. Personal communication with Associate Professor and Head of Danish Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Unit Henriette Svarre Nielsen (MD, DMSc), Rigshospitalet Copenhagen University Hospital. Received November 11, 2019.
17. Personal communication with Professor Øjvind Lidegaard (DMSc), Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Rigshospitalet, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen. Received November 24, 2019.
18. Jensen J. Menneskene i Danmarks Oldtid, 2. udg. 2006, Gyldendal. http://denstoredanske.dk/index.php?sideId=430793. Published July 13, 2012. Accessed December 3, 2019.
19. From personal visits prior to recent rearrangement of public displays at the permanent Danish prehistory exhibitions at Moesgaard Museum and the National Museum of Denmark, I understand that the period following the Mesolithic in Danish prehistory was associated with skeletal and degenerative physical changes. Since the statements on display at that time were based on the fossil record, there seems to be good reason still to consider them fact.
20. Jensen J. Menneskene i Danmarks Oldtid, 2. udg. 2006, Gyldendal. http://denstoredanske.dk/index.php?sideId=430833. Published July 12, 2012. Accessed December 8, 2019.
21. Anderson MK. Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press; 2006.
22. Gammage B. The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia. Sydney, New South Wales: Allen & Unwin; 2011.
23. Some US readers may be familiar with Mr. Bjerre from his role as presenter of the year at Harvard University in the 1950s, or from his many films and books about Kalahari Bushmen, Australian Aborigines, and other indigenous peoples.
24. Indigenous Native American Prophecy (Elders Speak part 3). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9piIziXU9RE. Accessed October 15, 2019.