Seventh Day Adventist Studies

• Preventing Disease Through Genetic Testing

  Dr Jane Tiller, Ethical Legal and Social Advisor, Public Health Genomics at Monash University realised that value of DNA genetic testing that could prevent thousands of cancers and heart attacks every year.

  Tiller spent more than a decade fighting for the reform, which throws open the door for larger-scale studies on “preventative genomics” to help identify the 90 per cent of people carrying high-risk genes who are currently undetected.

  Her vision is for a publicly funded national DNA screening program.

  Professor Michael Brown won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1985. In a speech at the 2006 International Achievement Summit in Los Angeles, California, he tells the Academy’s students that we do not need new discoveries, we need to implement what we already know. The problem, he explains, has switched from science to changing people's behaviour - which is much more difficult.

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  31 October 2026

• Lifestock’s Long Shadow

  Dr Henning Steinfeld is an agricultural economist working at the UN as the head of the livestock analysis and policy section. In 2005, he was the lead author of a 400 page UN report Livestock’s Long Shadow.

  It stated that the biggest contributor to environmental damage was livestock agriculture. Livestock agriculture includes poultry - both meat and egg production. It is a bigger contributor than transport.

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  18 March 2026

• Endometriosis is Curable Without Supplements

  The WHO states the endometriosis is incurable and the cause is unknown. Using references from peer-reviewed medical journals and case studies, I can show that this is not true.

  It is caused by an overabundance of oestrogen, in particular oestradiol which is the result of a high-fat, high-protein diet as advocated by low-carbohydrate and ketogenic diet advocates such as Dr James Muecke, the 2020 Australian of the Year. Many references are provided from my website.

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  8 September 2024

• Seventh-Day Adventists and Loma Linda

  The first major study of Adventists began in 1960 and has become known as the Adventist Mortality Study. It consisted of 22,940 California Adventists with an intensive 5-year follow-up.

  In 1979, Dr. Fraser received his doctorate from the University of Auckland. He is Professor of Cardiology at Loma Linda University School of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, Loma Linda, California.

  Dr. Fraser is author of more than 100 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals.

  Gary Fraser is the director of the Adventist Health Study-2, at Loma Linda University. Terry Butler is the associate director of the Adventist Health Study-2..

  Together they have produced dozens of papers verifying the validity of a vegan diet.

  My website has many posts discussing the importance of the Seventh-day Adventists studies and their implications for our health.

  In Australia, 250,000 head of cattle are slaughtered every month. 3 million “unviable” day-old chicks hatched in the Australian chicken meat industry and 12 million male chicks hatched into the Australian egg industry every year are gassed, scalded or minced alive each year as they are “surplus” stock.

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  12 April 2023

• Vitamin B12, Homocysteine and Methylmalonic Acid

  B12 (cobalamin) is a group of cobalt-containing vitamins. Hydroxocobalamin and cyanocobalamin are synthetic forms of vitamin B12. The two forms of vitamin B12 naturally occurring in foods are methylcobalamin and adenosylcobalamin. These forms are biologically equivalent.

  B12 is produced by a number of different species of bacteria which is found in the soil, on the surface of some plants and some red and green algae.

  Lack of vitamin B12 can have serious consequences as does high levels of homocysteine. Determining the status of vitamin B12 and homocysteine can be difficult and can be determined by measuring serum vitamin B12, homocysteine and methylmalonic acid (MMA).

  A number of products contain riboflavin, pyridoxine, folate, B12 and methionine way in excess of dietary requirements in an attempt to resolve B12 metabolism problems.

  Many magnesium supplements contain pyridoxine which is usually unnecessary and detrimental.

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  5 August 2021

• Dr James Muecke Australian of the Year in 2020

  Dr. James Muecke is the Australian of the Year in 2020 which was awarded for his work as an eye- surgeon and his work in preventing blindness.

  He is trying to convince Australians to eat more meat, eggs and dairy. Australia is ranked number 2 in meat consumption, just behind United States but in front of Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and New Zealand.

  Dr. Muecke has declared that we need to “Declare war on type 2 diabetes and cut back on sugar” in order to reduce the incidence of blindness.

  He believes that it is the introduction of sugary drinks and highly processed foods are the cause of diabetes – not a high-fat, high-protein diet as shown by numerous papers dating back to 1927.

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  11 November 2020

• Seventh-day Adventists and Health

  A strong commitment to health has been a part of Seventh Adventist’s tradition since in founding in the 1840s.

  Within the Californian Seventh-day Adventist community, as the diet becomes more vegetarian, so do the health outcomes.

  Californian Seventh-day Adventists are much healthier than the average American.

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  31 December 2019

• Gut Health and Robert Beson

  Australian Traditional Medicine Society FUNCTIONAL GI SYMPOSIUM 2019 was held in Sydney on Sunday 15th September.

  Robert Beson presented a session Gut Health: Environmental & Internal Profile Consideration.

  Unfortunately, there is very little information regarding his proboitic treatments.

  Internet search results for "Robert Beson probiotics" or "Robert Beson gut healthy" lead to the Progurt website which sells probiotic supplements.

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  30 October 2019

• 2040 Documentary

  2040 is a documentary by Damon Gameau that targets a young audience to convince them that they can make a difference to planet Earth’s well-being using technology that we all ready have at our disposal.

  The key areas addressed in the documentary are transport, electricity production, agriculture, marine permaculture (kelp farming) and education.

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  14 September 2019

• When Vegan Diets Do Not Work

  It is not uncommon for people to claim that they have tried a vegan diet and it simply did not work for them. Not all vegan diets are healthy.

  Much publicity is given to the longevity of the people of Japan and Okinawa (an archipelago that stretches from southern Japan to Taiwan). However, the population with the longest lifespan and the highest levels of health on the planet is the vegan Californian Seventh-day Adventists.

  People are not predisposed to vegan diets or otherwise. When it comes to nutrition, we are pretty much the same – allergies being one significant difference.

  Below are components of a healthy whole-food, plant-based diet. Many people on a unhealthy vegan diet are missing a number of important components of an optimal diet.

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  27 April 2019