Hauser argued that a vitamin-rich diet could maintain glandular youth: Vitamin D for thyroid function, Vitamin B for pituitary regulation, and Vitamin E for the sex glands, making diet a non-surgical alternative to grafts and gland operations.
Stark’s Hauser-specific source for this mechanism is Hauser’s 1939 New Health article “Prolong Youth … but without Surgery,” which Stark cites for Hauser’s claim that readers should use a vitamin-rich diet to cultivate gland health and for the vitamin-to-gland mapping: Vitamin D for thyroid function, Vitamin B for pituitary regulation, and Vitamin E for the sex glands. Stark separately cites Hauser’s 1930 Harmonized Food Selection for the broader instruction to eat foods that would feed the glands. The claim is recorded as Hauser’s 1939 mechanism pitch, not as a demonstrated biochemical fact or as a measured endpoint.
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- Replace them by Salads and Vegetables: Dietary Innovation, Youthfulness, and Authority, 1900-1939 — Stark JF. 'Replace them by Salads and Vegetables': Dietary Innovation, Youthfulness, and Authority, 1900-1939. Global Food History. 2018;4(2):130-151. doi:10.1080/20549547.2018.1460538. PMID 31565237; PMCID PMC6743713.