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General Discussion / Re: Allergic to animal products
« on: January 30, 2011, 08:37:27 pm »
I'm also thinking of trying duck and/or goose eggs.
That's a good idea. I don't do well on chicken eggs, even when pastured, but I do somewhat better with duck eggs. Quail eggs work well too but I pop the whole egg and eat the shell too as they're a pain to crack open cleanly. I also avoid the whites on chicken/duck eggs as I personally do poorly when I eat them.

Have you tried intermittent fasting? Or maybe even a short water fast? It sounds like your body might need a break for a while to just try and heal up the gut a bit.

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General Discussion / Re: Allergic to animal products
« on: January 30, 2011, 06:20:31 am »
Well, Djr-81, I think, mentioned had some food-intolerance to raw, grainfed meats, but was fine on raw, grassfed meats(I think even a little grain-feeding caused isuses?)
I definitely have a high sensitivity to grain in an animal's diet.

Interestingly Haii I have differing reactions to red meats.
Beef and venison, provided they have not been eating grain or corn, sit fine.
Goat tastes good but when eaten more than a couple meals binds me up and leaves mucus in my bowel movements.
Lamb gives me very loose unpleasant stools and stomach distress.
I don't like bison so haven't experimented much with it.

I have various reactions to seafood as well.
I've been diagnosed, through blood tests, with allergies to many non-fish seafoods. Those that I have tried, such as scallops, since eating RAF have sat better than cooked but resulted in allergic reactions.
Swordfish sits fine.
Mako Shark was fine.
Tune seems to sit fine as well but I don't enjoy most varieties.
I've tried a couple white fishes and these cause some mucus in the stool.

I encourage you to diversify your diet and find the meats that sit well. I do not have personal experience with fruitarianism but I skew to moderation in general and a diet based on one food group doesn't seem ideal in the long run (I eat RZC myself and have been trying to expand my diet towards a more omnivorous approach myself). :)

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Journals / Re: Round 2: From addiction to recovery
« on: January 30, 2011, 06:09:09 am »
I forget where on the coast you are KD but both you guys have an invite to stop here anytime you're passing through; just give me a heads up beforehand.

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Off Topic / Re: Jack LaLanne Dies
« on: January 25, 2011, 07:43:56 am »
I heard about this today. A hell of a life he led. RIP.

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Health / Re: Vitamin D source - suet/tallow?
« on: January 22, 2011, 07:52:07 pm »
Those living in NYC/NJ,  where do you procure your raw seafood from?
I buy from a fisherman at a Farmer's Market in Westchester. His goods are a mix of what he's fished as well as things he's purchased at the Fulton Fish Market. You could just take out the middleman and go to the fish market yourself one morning.

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Hot Topics / Re: ZC Approach and craving
« on: January 22, 2011, 08:32:31 am »
  My own experience with RZC was with huge amounts of raw grassfed fat, and, in , 1 or 2 cases, lots of cooked fats, in the case of cooked suet.
Oh, I know. You definitely gave RZC a good run and more/less fat probably wouldn't have made a difference in your case. I was commenting to achillezzz. :)

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Hot Topics / Re: ZC Approach and craving
« on: January 22, 2011, 08:25:52 am »
You might not have been eating enough fat. I get cravings when I don't get enough.

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General Discussion / Re: What is Your Favorite Yummy Fruit?
« on: January 18, 2011, 07:20:55 am »
I've never eaten a Durian, so my favourite is a Cherimoya (a custard apple).  It tastes like ice-cream to me.

(I'm with Mark Twain on this one; he called the Cherimoya "the most delicious fruit known to men.")
I would have to agree. I'e only had two in my life but they were both fantastic. :)

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Off Topic / Re: What is the next frontier in societal nutrition?
« on: January 16, 2011, 04:10:09 am »
Please disregard the message by TD that is exactly what I was not interested in. This isn't a debate about population control.
It's hard to discuss the growth of a diet like ours without commenting on the difficulty of sustaining it on a global scale. Insects seem to be one of the only avenues which could achieve this.

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Personals / Re: Raw Paleo Forum Chat
« on: January 16, 2011, 04:07:02 am »
I check in occasionally but there really doesn't seem much traffic there. If people post that they're in chat on here it will hopefully encourage others to log in and chat. It takes time to get people acclimated to it though.

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Journals / Re: Sully's Journal
« on: January 14, 2011, 08:23:25 pm »
I am in Oregon with yon yonson. Were going to be working on agrass fed farm. We here to change the world!
Awesome. Good luck to you guys. :)

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General Discussion / Re: raw eggs, the oldworlds vitamin supplement?
« on: January 12, 2011, 10:32:48 pm »
Myself and three siblings regularly drank raw eggs as a kid. My mother had a drink that, I believe, her grandmother used to make her which she made for us. She would pour milk into a blender, add a couple eggs, add a banana, and add a 1/2 teaspoon of Ovaltine. Blend it up and it was a great frothy almost milkshake but not overly sweet at all. We loved the drink. She called it a "Pisca Egg" (not sure on the spelling) but I can't find anything online close to that.
FWIW you could very easily make this with raw milk, pastured eggs, a local fruit in season, and a bit of honey and have a very healthy and tasty snack which was close to raw paleo (the milk is debatable).

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Off Topic / Re: Psychic Phenomena
« on: January 12, 2011, 08:39:35 am »
Maybe because they get used to entertaining their younger siblings, so they continue to entertain people with their stories?
It's easy to ridicule that which you have not experienced. There is much in this world many are oblivious to. ;)

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Off Topic / Re: Psychic Phenomena
« on: January 12, 2011, 05:26:30 am »
Both my wife and myself are very attuned.

Deja Vu used to be a fairly frequent (at least weekly) occurrence for me when on SAD but has greatly diminished since going RAF. I did have particularly strong, and long (~30 seconds), instance recently though which I attribute to a combination of the fruit I had consumed and it's negative effect on my body as a whole as well as a poor night's sleep.
I've got a friend who kept a dream journal. He interestingly enough had a dream months, or perhaps it was years, earlier about a particular event in which he was putting on a seat belt in a car and he noted the peculiar color of the belt. After having this same event occur in "real life" and sensing the Deja Vu he was able to go back and find the old entry which fit things to a "T".

My wife and I have also both experienced paranormal entities. I've caught things out of the corner of my vision as well as heard things and felt things. My wife has done the same but has also seen entities full-on.

My personal view on psychic phenomena is that one generally encounters it when one's body is in greater states of distress. Both bad diet and lack of sleep have increased the instances of my experiences exponentially. It seems that both had a sedative effect on the body which changed the functional level of my brain waves.

I love talking about this stuff with other interested parties but a forum really doesn't work as well as talking about it. :(

I don't really Know if you will believe me but My son who is four years old has a favorate Aunt and one night before he went to bed he says I want to see aunt Carrol, I told him she was at her house and we will see her next week. She lives 40 miles away and we have had no contact with her for over a week, He then says out of the Blue, Carrol is sick, Dad, I tell him that she is fine and at her house ,but he insist that she is sick, I tell him that she is never sick, and to go to bed. Two days later She gives us a call and says that she had just gotten over a flu that had kept her at home the past couple of days.

Just two days ago I took him over to my Granny's but she wasn't there so as we were leaving I was thinking to myself about where else could we go, and my cousin Todd popped into my mind, we hadn't seen Todd since my 2 year olds birthday in October and I hadn't mentioned his name at all when I heard my son say I want to see Todd, I cant explain it but he had some how read my thoughts.
Sabertooth, is he the eldest? Or at least the eldest boy? I don't know why but many of the people I've met with gifts who were men/boys were the eldest. It seems that the more kids the less likely they are to have gifts (i.e. kid 1 has the greatest likelihood, kid 2 has less, kid 3 has even less) but there are exceptions to the rule (both my wife and my mother were kid number 3 in their family and both are the most attuned in their families).

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You could use a mallet/meat tenderizer on it. :)

The white part could either be fat or connective tissue. Both are edible.

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Send me a PM GS. ;)

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General Discussion / Re: Invert sugar doesn't feed Candida?
« on: January 05, 2011, 08:20:29 pm »
It's based on personal experience.
Exactly. It's individual anecdotal experiences from multiple members here on this forum.
If you eat something and it makes your symptoms flare you avoid eating it. A number of members have noted this occurs with carbohydrates. I don't understand what is so hard to acknowledge. ???

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General Discussion / Re: Invert sugar doesn't feed Candida?
« on: January 04, 2011, 08:20:11 pm »
Millions of primitive people who had been eating quite a lot of carbohydrates hadn't had any Candidiasis whatsover.
These are the culprits:
Antibiotics and lots of other harmful medicines
"Shit foods"
Weak immune system


No. Candida Albicans, as well as other strains, are naturally present in the body. The things listed cause the imbalance required for it to outgrow the healthy bacteria which typically keep it in check. Once it has gained this foothold the ingestion of underutilized carbs helps it continue this heightened proliferation beyond the  healthy bacteria.
I will concur that antibiotics has been a culprit in the cause. In fact I would say it's been the #1 cause of the overgrowth of fungi in modern people.

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General Discussion / Re: Invert sugar doesn't feed Candida?
« on: January 04, 2011, 07:48:54 am »
It talks about raw honey being an invert sugar so it doesn't feed candida.Anyone here can explain further or have experience with this?
Noting Brady's success with raw honey I've experimented over the weekend to see if adding a bit of honey causes a reaction in me or not. Unfortunately it does seem to spur the same brain fog & itchy skin in me which are my initial signs. For me it's not any more suitable of a carb source as fruit.

I wonder if too much protein, which are converted to glucose, feed candida.
That's what occurs in me. It's why I do so much better with one, or usually more commonly two, meals a day. If I eat more meals than that I get light dulling of my senses and over time the Tinea Versicolor I have on my skin, which seems tied into the underlying Candida virulence, flares up.

Gee, you exaggerate.
Carbs haven't got anything to do with this problem.
Besides it's quite often rediculous when people, who aren't profesionally diagnosed, think that they've got some candida-problems, when in fact they have got some other issues.
Have you got this? -
[img]http://www.grzybica.net.pl/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/kandzdoya-jamz-ustnej-11-300x214.jpg[img]
I have to find the blood work but I do believe I came back positive for Candida. I do know that I did have it systemically. My tongue was not quite that bad but it did have noticeable white build-up/thrush.
What I can confirm is that the proliferation Candida fungus most definitely has a correlation with available carbohydrates in the body. As noted though this isn't solely ingested carbohydrates but also unnecessary/underutilized proteins.

Well, any sensible person will experiment to see what works best for them, RVAF-wise.
Agreed. :)

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Just a vague caution, but I recall most RZCers focusing more on raw fats from raw meats/organs like raw suet or raw tongue. Raw eggs should never be used as a major staple on a rawpalaeodiet, omnivorous or zero-carb.
While many of us do there are others here on the forum who do fine with a fair number of eggs each day. I wouldn't recommend dozens but 3-4 like he's eating should be ok. This volume is definitely not natural or sustainable in the wild but we live in a modern world which can provide this opportunity. The yolks are very assimilable which will help during the transition but I would personally begin cutting back after a couple months.

Gosu: You're definitely eating a lot of food each day. I know part of it is due to increased hunger in the transition period but it seems like a ton for your size (per your picture). As long as you're hungry for what you're eating and not forcing it I don't see an issue with it. You might just be gaining weight to a healthy bodyweight set-point.
There seems to be two changes that occur when people eat RPD. Many lose some weight (due to the fat ingested being underutilized until keto-adapted) until they stabilize at a healthy weight and seem to hover there without much effort or thought. Some others gain weight until they reach a weight and stabilize there as well. My guess is this is from a nutritionally starved body (even if the person felt good on a different diet) which quickly puts all the good food brought in to work rebuilding. You might just be putting on some healthy weight. Is it concentrated in one area or sort of evenly distributed out in the body?

Today I ate no egg yolks but I upped my fat that I mix in with my ground beef a lot more. I was eating it as I normally do but I found that I felt full pretty fast so I set the rest aside. I ate some more several hours later and I felt full fast again. Basically today I ate 1.3 pounds of total mixture and I'm feel full. Normally I would be wanting more meat/egg yolks and whatnot but I feel very full. And I also feel somewhat heavy. Is this because I'm getting the fat/protein ratio right?
That's roughly what I eat each day. I easily sustain my ~180lb frame on this. Granted, I am definitely adapted after ~16 months.

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Maybe the heaviness feeling is due to putting way more suet into my mixture than back fat? Maybe put in a larger ratio of back fat since that is supposedly easier for digestion and will thus get rid of the heavy feeling?
That's definitely a possibility. Suet is incredibly saturated and as a result calorie dense. It does take a lot of bile to break down amounts like you're eating. I assume that your body is up for it though as you're not mentioning diarrhea.

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Off Topic / Re: Would you eat seafood from the Gulf of Mexico now?
« on: December 31, 2010, 07:36:51 am »
Sounds counter-intuitive but I would still even post-spill take my chances with possibly contaminated fish than 100% certainly problematic farmed fish. Exceptions would be bivalves and a few other things which can be safely and ethically farmed in some cases.
I completely agree.
I'll continue to eat my fish when I have a hankering. If it's from the gulf so be it.

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Journals / Re: Ramblings of a madman...
« on: December 30, 2010, 03:25:32 am »
Time for another update. :)

Against better judgment I had two separate cooked meals during the holidays.
One meal was a small piece of very rare seared tuna at the office's Christmas lunch. My boss seemed disappointed that I couldn't eat anything so I ordered the tuna. It was tasty but gave me a headache and made me very tired.
The second meal was broiled filet of dover sole. A client took a couple of us out for a holiday lunch so I chose it to so as to not offend his offer. Again I had a headache along with malaise and just a general bleh. Can't say I miss cooked food.

I've also indulged extensively in carbs. I took my wife for her first time to the Middle Eastern & Asian markets and stocked up on tasty foods (dried figs, dried red plums, dried sour plums, and the most delicious dark honeycomb). Following this we did some shopping at the store and I bought lots of fruit (persimmons, mango, papaya, kiwis, starfruit/carambola, cherries).
Far and away my favorites this time were the kiwis and starfruit/carambola. The cherries was also tasty, as always, but not as much as they usually are. I attribute this to the fact that these weren't local.
The persimmon was still tasty but got cloyingly sweet after just a few bites.
The mango and papaya were too starchy for my liking. They tasted OK but nothing I'd pursue again.
The dried fruits were all good but too sweet.
The honey was delicious in small amounts (really dark comb with a very heavy mineral-rich flavor) but anything more than a teaspoon worth was too much.
Surprisingly I did exponentially better with these foods than I did even a month ago. My indulgences were spread out from 12/17 until 12/26. I began with small amounts and ate progressively larger percentages of carbs over the next few days. At most I had two carb-based meals and one meat/fat based meal in a day.
I did note even on the first day that I got very sleepy an hour or two after eating the carbs. I even found myself passing out watching TV on the couch with the wife at night which I don't do eating raw-carnivorous.
I also noted a much greater volume in fecal bulk immediately. I went to the bathroom ~2-3 times a day and the volume was at least double, but frequently much more, what I pass eating raw-carnivorous. It all passed without issue though and I did not note an itching anus which I used to get when my Candida flared. I did develop increasing gas over the time I was omnivorous which had a very strong and unpleasant smell.
I noted a small hit to my mental focus but not as great as I have noted in the past. Since cutting out the carbs again I have noted it was a bigger hit than perceived. Still diminished from the past.
I did also note when shoveling snow on Monday (we had our first real snowstorm and got 18" of snow Sunday into Monday) that I had major inflammation in my finger joints which was a common problem in the past but had diminished greatly on raw-carnivorous.
Lastly I've got the itchiness on my skin back but my Tinea did not flare.
Ultimately my experience indicates that my Candida has been improving but still has a ways to go. Some day it does seem that I'll be able to indulge in fruit on a once-a-week or bi-weekly basis. Also the fruit is much better for me than the vegetables were the last few times. Probably due to the hydrating nature of the fruit.

Other than that stuff I'm just keeping on keeping on. Christmas was great with my wife, my family, and her family. We got each other lots of cool things (I'm not overly materialistic most of the year but I love the act of giving things to my loved ones and getting stuff ain't too shabby either :)) and had a great holiday. I think next year is going to be a "small Christmas" though where we get each other a couple smaller things. We're also talking about finding a family in need and giving them a Christmas. :)
I've got today and tomorrow to finish up here at work and then have off Friday through Sunday for New Years. ;D

Hope everyone is doing well. I pop in and browse every couple of days but haven't felt the urge to post much as of late. I'm still here though and doing well myself. Happy New Years everyone. :)

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Journals / Re: The Wodg Journal
« on: December 30, 2010, 02:34:40 am »
Had Honey/orange juice glazed ham for Christmas plus some cherries as a part of my Xmas dinner. I also had turkey, prawns, oysters (yum) and drank water but it was the sugary stuff that really got me.

I paid the consequences and the next day I was so hungry for carbs I had some cashews. The next day after that stopping the carb cycle was hard. My candida flared up and I was hungry (no matter how much fat, meat, liver I ate) was anxious, couldn't think and had heart palpitations were so much I could see my heart pounding out of my chest. Felt better by midnight that day.

I'm in the clear today. I really don't think cheating is worth it even though my food on Xmas would of been considered healthy by 99.9% of the population.


I'm sorry to hear it. I still seem to pay some consequences for indulgences myself but they don't sound nearly as bad as you still pay. :(

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General Discussion / Re: how to butcher a deer head
« on: December 16, 2010, 09:54:46 am »
I still have the eyes in the sockets, so are they good eattin or what
I didn't enjoy them much. I'd eat them again though so as to not waste them.
They don't have much taste. The texture was unappetizing for me. Very stiff outer membrane with very thin/runny pocket inside. In the runny stuff there was something which reminded me of a partially cooked lentil. The rest of the eye was chewy/rubbery. All-in-all not a favorite. ;)

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Journals / Re: Sam's Journal
« on: December 15, 2010, 08:57:57 am »
I'm glad to hear that you're doing better. A transition to a raw diet has lots of hardships to it for different folks, be it acculturation or physical adaptations that need to take place, but ultimately it seems to be a better diet for the body for most people once adapted. :)

Do you have an explanation for why RZC's need more water? It seems counterintuitive since raw meats are mostly water already. I did notice an increase in thirst, so now I drink close to a 1/2 gallon. I want to drink even more but don't know how that would affect my kidneys. I do feel pain down there if I drink sometimes. Perhaps water quality is an issue. I am in search of quality water now, since that is all I drink. I feel that the taste and my bodily reaction would be the best indicators for its purity. Right now my approach is to drink more but less often and away from the rest of solid foods. This way seems more natural to me and saves the hassle of carrying water bottle around wherever you go.
Just intuition much like your observation. Others have mentioned it as well. I'm not sure of the "why" though.


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And speaking of fat I don't know if it is indeed a bad idea to eat it twice as much as protein, since Lex is a great example of such a possibility. I certainly can't eat that much at the moment, but that is because my body still prefers glucose and gets it out of it stored reserves, and that is evident to me through my drastic body fat loss.
Don't confuse calorie ratios with weight ratios. Lex's caloric ratios of 70-80% fat are nowhere near a 2:1 ratio of fat to lean by weight. This is what I was getting at. I forget the rough rule of thumb most people point to but it might be ~1:3 fat:lean. I eat by what my body is craving so don't have numbers of my own to throw out. :)

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