Hello everyone!

I would really appreciate what your experiences are about this topic.

I got my ferritine levels checked after Christmas and they were 180. A red flag for me, not for my doctor though but I think they really have no clue about iron overload.
I started to read about it and put 1 + 1 together....... some minor issues that I had experienced this last summer and fall... that I had not really been able to figure out.
A hurtful joint and a little swollen too, on my finger, but I thought it was because I work a ton in summer as a waitress and we had those new plates that are heavy to carry. Also my fingers were kind of a little swollen? Now I am pretty sure, it was from too much iron. Also one of my knee made some issues so I could not continue running, what I had started to do as season at work ended. I thought it was a injury issue from this summer when I hurt my knee a bit... but I do not think so anymore.
Also in fall my liver started to feel stressed at times, some minor discomfort,  especially when I vacuum cleaned for a longer time(working a second job as housekeeper).. I thought maybe the magnetic/electric radiation and the iron reacted somehow. Logical, because iron works like a magnet.
The more I learned the more I am sure I had way too much iron accumulated!! I have been eating mostly raw galloway beef, very high quality pastured meat from a farmer here, they do not get any other feed that what is on the pasture. Not even parasite medication. Nothing.

My friend told me, in France, doctors tell anemic people to eat raw meat. It must be raw because that is how the iron is best absorbed.

I would never have had the slightest idea, I could accumulate too much iron!! And that is really not a good thing. It makes you age way faster.. and causes many issues in your body wit time. It can take many years before issues start to appear though.
Also if your ancestors are from Irland or Norway or other Scandinavian coutries, it is a 10% probability that you have a genetic mutation for excess iron uptake - that used to serve people well and help survival long ago, but today it does the opposite.... because of how we live and eat in the modern world.

I am now doing things differently to reverse it. This is what I do;

No more red meat. If, just liver, once in a while, as it is high in copper and that is what is neded to mobilize the iron. Also heart because it has other benefits too. But no more muscle meat for me in a while, until I have solved this issue.
Instead I eat seafood. Herring and mackerel and oysters I eat raw, and wil caught salmon and cod etc, the less fatty fishes, I eat cooked. Very gently cooked though.
Also raw eggyolks, and here and there some raw sheepsmilk cheese.
I drink peppermint tea a lot, always with meals, because it should help reduce iron uptake. Also green tea.
I do raw coconut oil for fat - seems my liver loves it right now - too much raw beef fat seems not too good at the moment. Small amounts are fine.
I also eat black sesame/sesame seeds because they are high in copper. Or some hazelnuts. Also high in copper. I try to naturally get in more copper, because how I see it is, I have too much iron and too little copper.
Oysters are high in copper and might have saved me for quite a while on the road... balanced all the excess iron out for a bit - but this fall I did not have oysters for a month and that is when my issues in the liver started. In winter it is hard for me to source oysters because it is so much water in the sea as there are plenty of storms here then.

I might do some more veggies/greens when the sun gets stronger, we are in the middle of winter right now so I want to stay mostly carnivore.

And most important, I am donating bood.
This is so important! My blood is really good quality and doctor was happy to get some of it .
But in Germany you can only donate 4 times /year as a woman. So I will do those 4 times and hope it is enough, in addition to all the other changes I have made.
I have to say, my liver is feeling better already, even if I have donated only once so far(funny thing is, my liver bloodwork all come back great, all my bloodwork was great - despite the discomfort I have been feeling from time to time. Also my HDL was really good, which also indicates a healthy liver...)
I feel really good about it, like I am on the right path


I am worried now that other people trying to eat raw carnivore and doing lots of raw meat, wil run into an iron overload issue....
Seems really many have some issues and trying to solve them. Please speak out about it so we can learn from you.

To have a metal accumulate in your body is not at all fun because today there is so much nnEMF everywhere. Imagine, it is like you are walking around as a big antenna.... 

This video says it all I guess........

http://soulspottv.com/blog/video-i-am-nature-change-life/

Much love to you all on the Raw Paleo Forum, and thank you for your persistence <3

Just made this. A miracle food for me

http://youtu.be/CEq8Yc5tk3s

Fish head smoothie

He shows us how beneficial skin, tendons, organs etc. is raw.. and how we better do not chew!!! Amazing stuff........

There is another part of this story few are putting together…………raw protein and substrate of the ketogenic diet with seafood like chitin and shells provide both pre and probiotics to feed the distal gut microbiome. The microbiome is designed to convert all this stuff to butyrate, a short chain fatty acid in the colon. Many people ask me why I don’t talk about veggies like Dr. Wahl does in her version of the paleo diet.  In my view,  she has only half the story right.  And yet, it seems to have worked for her.   I personally think she has the ability to get even better if she tweeks what she is doing further.

TRUTH BOMB ALERT

Eating raw seafood like,  oysters,  shrimp,  and their organ meats  contains the most prebiotic glycans.  Organ parts from seafood and organ meat is particularly good because it has the most prebiotics because it has the most collagen in it. It also has massive amounts of CoEnQ10. When the meat is freshly killed,  like would be the case in human history prior to agriculture; lots of prebiotic glycans would be delivered to a carnivore like microbiome to  allow for optimal gut function.

COOKING MISMATCH

This is why modern cooking techniques need to be questioned too. It is even why bone broths and seafood exoskeleton broths have downsides. Few people see this.  Crock pots and Sous vide’s are great modern tools for convenience,  but they degrade our microbiome and create a new environmental mismatchs that modern humans have had to deal with.  It’s been in their blind spot too.  We need to realize eating the tough sinew and tendons of fresh animals allows for the glycans and GAG’s to go undigested and make it to our distal gut to feed the critters there to keep the colon healthy by changing these things to butyrate and creating subcutaneous fat and not visceral fat.

Eating butter and coconut oil is a “modern paleo strategy” to try to outthink mother nature’s design.  We are better off letting nature do what she does best when we understand circadian biology and the action of protons and electrons.   Instead, we need to consider eating that grisel, chitin, and collagen in our dietary template;   The April 2014 webinar will explain why.  Are you a unhealthy skeptic?  OK……………

http://jackkruse.com/organizational-structural-failure-1-gutcollagen-link/

Yesterday got my AGE levels measured with a AGE Reader (DiagnOptics Technologies BV, Groningen, The Netherlands) that works using skin autofluorescence (SAF). It is a pretty new thing, this link is about one study done

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3672176/

Some in my family got it measured too. You need to put in your real age, then measure and it will tell you what you biologic age is according to your body's accumulated AGE's. My mom was 54 (real age 61) and my dad had about the same numbers, a little worse. My bro had 23 (real age 21), he has not lived a healthy life until now, but since a month or so he does great, eats and does good stuff. I am proud of him. Now... I was pretty excited what my number will be... I just had labs done last week and my cholesterol was so high and my glucose too

    HDL was 119 mg/dl
    LDL was 193,3 mg/dl
    Triglycerides 43,4 mg/dl

    glucose was 108 mg/dl

    and I am eating so much fat and I though holey moley I will have so much AGEs in my body....... but.. my biologic age according to the machine was 5...!?  I had the best by far! They were all stunned.. but I figure it is because I eat almost 100% raw for almost 10 years? When I do not cook anything (almost) there will be way less AGEs? Or is it the lifestyle I am doing? The Kruse style? IDK but I am so happy now! You see... I  have been warned from some raw food people that eating so much protein and fat and coconut oil will make huge amounts of AGEs in my body and it will be very bad for my health and I will age fast. I did not listen to them and now it seems my diet is just right. Maybe my high glucose levels are not bad at all either, maybe my body have just made some anti freeze to take me safe through the winter

    I was not too surprised though to be honest - I really feel like I am 5 yo 

I think this is a great testimonial for the raw vegans that fear animal proteins and fat. I have been eating high animal protein for years now..... Maybe the thing I decided to quit fruits etc years ago was not a bad decision 

I would be interested.. I have come to know someone that wants to make an analysis of the beneficial bacteria  in high meat.. she has the equipment  to do it scientifically. She is a raw meat eater herself. I am going to send her some of my high meat but it is not made in a totally proper way, I sometimes forgot to air it and it was vacuum packed for a few weeks prior..
So please if anyone that lives in Europe has a nice high meat going on please PM me!

Tyler?

So I did not really knew where to post this but thought I could do a journal for updates.
I follow the Kruse protocol now, that includes limit artificial lights after dark, cold thermogenesis (CT), and seasonal, local diet - in winter keto and in summer in addition for CH fruit / berries in season where you live.
I try to eat wild foods as much as I can, it means for carbohydrates I have only wild berries (I live in Finland) and wild honey (small amounts). I feel great with that. There is so plenty of wild raspberries these days that I literally stuff myself once or more / day...
I also do a brain-optimizing diet. That means lots of seafoods, especially whole animal, the heads and all included. Algae are a important part too, very nutritious. I do eat coconut oil, raw and organic. I buy the most expensive brand mostly, that is also very good quality. I tolerate it so good, I can eat a jar in a day I think without issues.. I do eat coconut too at times.
For meat almost only elkmeat or other wild meat, sometimes grassfed lamb too or greassfed beef.

I do eat cooked now and then, fish actually. Very lightly cooked, just for a minute or two. But mostly I eat the fish raw though. Meat I have always raw, and organs too.
I never eat bread or rice or anything junk. I try to avoid dairy, it does me no good.

I already feel the protocol does me good, I never was so happy with my bodycomp! I eat a lot, a huge breakfast, and 3 times / day. Never starve myself or never go hungry. All without practically no exercise!

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(these pics are from a morning after terribly sleep because of stress.. and I did cheated with HWC last weeks because I was traveling.. so I am far from optimal though.I will do better pictures later)

I guess the cold and the sun does it (and the early go to bed, too). I do only minor CT, I do 3 minutes facedunks in the morning and icepack under my head before sleeping and 5 minutes in the river instead of showering every morning. Sleeping with windows wide open of course.

Yeah.. I have little time for internet now in summer but I will add here about my progress, I know I have messed up my hormones through all the stress last 13 years and late work. I will do some hormone-test soon too, and then I will post the results here. Then I will retest in spring, after a cold dark winter. I am so exited what it will do to my hormone panel. I know it will be good! Now, if everyone would only know, how terribly important our hormones are for our health, and how easy they get into unbalance through modern life!
This feels just so very right! Natural healing. No supplements, no expensive, exotic fruits.. almost all lokal food. I love this!

Here a picture of the lake by my brother in Stockholm (Sweden). I was there for a week and went for a bath every morning, early. Everyone was still sleeping. I always wake up 5-6 AM these days. It was so beautiful.. cannot tell how much I enjoyed this magic time alone at the lake..



Oh.. I ate some mackerel with worms too. I have to test what happens. Nothing so far. They have worms quite often and I need to know if it is safe for me to eat. I guess I need to "rethink" my minor fear for parasites...
I would be happy to hear if anyone else did the same, and what the results was?

I made this the other day, it is in German but I think it does not matter as you can see clearly what I do.
Eggyolks (you can let a bit eggwhite in too, I sometimes do, about 1 eggwhite), wild raw honey. Whisk until foamy. Add berries, I use wild berries only.
If you like you can add raw unsalted butter in the end, to the foam. This is very delicious too. The butter have to be soft and use about 3 teaspoons / 4 yolks added in parts as you whisk - at the end.

First part;

Eierschaum

The end;

Eierschaum teil 2

This is great for non-raw eaters too! My hubby eats SAD and he loves this! He just like it more sweet so I add more honey for him. Very nourishing. I guess great for kids too! There will be zero "yuck"factor with this, as it often happends for people with raw eggs eaten plain.

Inger

This was my lunch today.
My homemade pastured beefheart-jerky powdered and mixed with raw virgin coconutoil. On the top wild cowberries (prefrozen) and dried nettles. This was a great combination indeed! I felt really good after this meal.



Inger

Slice the heart thin, make a nice spicy mix from ground meat. I used elkmeat, spiced it up as I do when making tartar.
Ad a bit of the ground meat on the heart-slice, then a peace (stick) of beef-fat, and roll it. Then cut the roll in two. Ready.
This is a hearty meal.



You could dip it in soysauce if liked, like sushi. I personally  like it like it is.

Inger

These I had the other day;



Just spice up minced wild meat with whatever you like,
I used 1 eggyolk, balsamic-vinegar, onion, capers in seasalt. Then roll them, put them on cucumber and put a tiny chunk of grassfed beef fat on the top.
There are also one quail egg, raw in the shell, and a tiny bit of liver and heart on the salad.

Very nourishing and delicious meal.

Inger

Here my bloodwork I got today (I do them twice every year since last 1,5 years);

(liver)
S-Afos........43 (35.....105)
S-Alat.........22 (10......45)

(blood lipides)
Cholestrerol all together...298  mg/dl
HDL...........105
LDL............182
Triglycerides...44

(regular bloodwork)
B-Hb...........134 g/l (115....155)
B-Leuk.........5.2 10E9/l (3.3.....8,2)
B-Eryt..........4.3 10E12/ (3.85...5.2)
B-HKR..........38 % (34......46)
E-MCV..........88 fl (82......98)
E-MCH..........31 pg (27......33)
E-MCHC.......355 g/l (320...355)
B-Trom........263 E9/l (145...360)

(specific vitamins)
B12 vit........546 pmol/l (180...700)
S-D25 vit......91 nmol/l (50.....175)
(my doctor told me to have optimal bone-healt one should aim for minimum 80 nmol/l vit D)

I have to say I am really happy!  My doc was very pleased too, just not about my cholesterol levels.. But after we talked a moment she realized they was really good too (low triglycerides and high HDL).
 I got to this vit. D level only with sun, just a few vit D pills in the winter on occasion. No other supplements at all, all these 3 years.
I will take vit D supps this winter though, as I want my level to stay at least that high.

Inger

This was my lunch today,
Salmon sashimi. Delicious.

I used Organic Shoyu and Organic Wasabi-powder that I mixed with water. These might not be raw, though.
But I use very little anyway and don't eat sashimi often so I think it is fine. 
The greens are Borage, a very healthy herb with much Omega 3. Tastes like cucumber, nice. You need only a few leaves/day.



Inger