Hi guys,

As far as I understood instincto diet advices you to eat as much as you want as long as you listen to your instincts well and eat only raw food. It presumes, that instincts will tell you what to eat and they will stop you before you overeat.

Now, I have doubts about two points:

1. Instincts are going to tell you want is best for you at the moment
2. Instincts will stop you before you overeat

Let me explain. No one knows for sure what prehistoric life was, we presume that people used to eat raw food, including animals. This might seem dubious to some people, but I agree with that. What is beyond doubt to me is that there were longer periods of food scarcity with relatively short periods of food abundance.

As a result, instincts would provide survival benefit if they ordered prehistoric man to _overeat_ when there is food abundance (especially such a precious commodity as meat), so that body accumulated reserves for longer periods of famine.

I have read free instincto book, plus GCB replies here, a lot of it makes sense to me but I couldn't find the answer to the points above.

What do you think?

Wow guys, your experience is quite eye opening, thanks!

I see the point that cooked meat is used with all kinds of condiments. I know that boiled meat is pretty tasteless. The thing is that I need only salt to make it tasty, same with potato (a bit of butter for the latter). No need for any contrived sauces.

While raw meat needs very fancy sauce (as in carpaccio or sashimi case) or tons of garlic, spices and salt (like in most cured meats) to make it taste anything to people who used to cooked food.

I think I've got the solution from instincto information, thanks to intrigued for the link! As far as I understood, cooked food is sort of drug, people are able to consume more of it as there is no limiting instinct evolved. I noticed that I can consume huge amounts of cooked meat (with salt only), and stop only when my stomach starts to hurt   But when I eat raw meat, there is definite point when I feel I should stop, after eating maybe one-fourth of what I can eat cooked.

Hi guys,

Thank you, this is great forum. I've been reading it for quite a while but didn't quite understand - do you guys really enjoy the stuff?

I've tried it a couple of times and it just doesn't have a taste. I enjoy sashimi sometimes, but when eaten with soy sauce and wasabi. On its own fish is totally bland to me.

I just can't imagine myself enjoying it, comparing to cooked/cured options.

Does it come with experience? Would you guys really prefer raw meat if there were no health benefits to force you to do it?