Paleo Diet: Raw Paleo Diet and Lifestyle Forum
Members' Journals => Journals => Topic started by: zeno on May 10, 2011, 12:08:00 am
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To be honest, I discovered that even though my blood type is A, I digest meat exceptionally well. I don't normally get gas or feel uncomfortable. After introducing raw meat into my diet I realized how even when I drink fresh vegetable juices, my body creates gas!
I love how efficiently my body (seemingly) digests raw meat. I want to quickly move my diet to ZC as soon as I can, but as I have a bit of leafy greens and such around the house I will have to eat through these slowly. Hopefully I will soon be predominantly ZC, supplemented by fruits and only eat veggies when I truly feel like it.
I have to reiterate how amazing it feels when the diet is simplified--not just in a broad sense, such as removing modern denatured foods--but when meals are tapered down to bare minimums (such as nothing more than raw meats), I feel my body working easier.
After have read articles on the human GI tract that suggest humans are more similar to carnivorous dogs rather than herbivorous sheep, all of my experiences with the RAF diet seemed to be confirmed.
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On another note, after being a vegetarian and vegan for several years, the transition to a RAF diet seemed to contradict my very core--in some ways a slight case of identity crisis seemed to disturb me mentally. It is so peculiar how after being a firm vegetarian and understanding a sense of moral "correctness" how quickly I was able to change my diet, but how I lingered emotionally, mentally in the realm of how I defined myself. I'm sure this will affect everyone I know too; all of my acquaintances and family members know me as a vegetarian and relate to me as such. As a diet of raw meats is not only outright weird (in America) it is not only inconvenient, but also socially estranging.
Regardless of the peculiarity when compared to the SMD, I know I will quickly be comfortable with eat raw meats in public unabashedly. The only concern I have is trying to be able to relate to everyone in my life; food is a part of culture and by eating differently than anyone else (virtually everyone else) my social life will shift dramatically.
This is truly an experiment of several sorts. More people who believe in eating raw meats in my area would be well appreciated. I would enjoy the company.
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Experience with Instinctive Eating
After eating both vegetables, fruits and lean raw meat for the first 3 days (sirloin and salmon all weighing about 1 pound) my body began to crave fat. This may also be due to my being underweight from a vegetarian diet. Over the next few days I broadened the type of meat and amount; I have been eating rib, sweetbreads, liver and tongue. The fat on the ribs is like butter and cheese--so delicious! However, after eating a certain amount of fat I became sated and realized that again my body was informing me to eat in moderation. I know understand better the importance of balancing a daily diet of fat, muscle, and organ.
Experience with High Meat
High meat is so delicious! The meat is tangy like yogurt! Also, I feel as though the increased fat intake has been a little difficult for my stomach, or maybe it is that I am still eating vegetables. I'm trying to eat through all the vegetables I had stored so that I can move closer to ZC. Anyway, after eating high meat at the end of lunch, I had a bowel movement at the end of the day. I have been suffering from constipation as of late and I feared that the fat would only add to this, but it seems the high meat may assist in the digestion. The probiotic benefits are par none! I will continue to eat high meat as often as possible as a form of desert and try to remove fruits and vegetables as much as possible from my diet to simplify my diet for the sake of my stomach.
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Dietary Transition and Interest in Non-meats
Today for an early lunch, I decided to eat some rice that I had fermenting in order to get rid of it. Spooning through the rice I thought: this is not appetizing and hardly satiating. I then thought that although the human body can digest plant material, it doesn't mean it is ideal. Whereas when I eat meat, I am able to receive trace minerals, vitamins, fat and protein. On a plant based diet, combining is necessary in order to get the necessary requirements of protein and the like. Lex's testimonial echoes this sentiment:
Gathering is for lean times when meat is not available. I had been doing almost the exact opposite.
(http://www.rawpaleodiet.com/testimonials/lex-rooker-usa/ (http://www.rawpaleodiet.com/testimonials/lex-rooker-usa/))
I am indebted to Lex and for everyone who openly provides such a bounty of personal information and resources related to RAF diets; it is invaluable to novices.
On that note, I'm excited for a real meal.
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Lack of Fat
Today, I ate meat for breakfast for convenience which consisted of mostly leans meats. In the afternoon I ate a relatively heart meal of raw vegetables with steamed broccoli and engorged myself on hemp seeds. I specifically noticed myself craving fat. I think that over the years when I was vegetarian and would binge on peanut butter and chocolate, it was due to the lack of protein and fat in my diet. My experience today confirmed this. Had I healthy serving of fat, I would have not craved hemp seeds.
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Awesome learning there.
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Addictions
The other day I partook in a community pot-luck. I prepared a raw vegetable dish as I knew bringing raw meat would have been bizarre. (Now that I think about it, sashimi would have been a good idea.) I had been suffering from indigestion all day because I had eaten some Filipino snack made with brown sugar and coconut after a meal of raw meat because I was craving something sweet.
At the pot-luck, even though I was not hungry, I ate (for obvious reasons of courtesy) and regretted it, too. I tried eating as little as possible but still found myself craving to eat more just because I felt greedy and selfish. The food looked delicious and I wanted to eat as I pleased (without regard to how full I already was or how much the others wanted to eat. I feel that there is some deficiency that is present which causes this sort of ravenous eating. Although I ate the least compared to every other person, I still felt guilty because I knew I ate too much. Also, I was surprised at the voraciousness to which some of the others ate. Overweight, yet these people can still find the ability to truly stuff their faces. I am no better than them, just different in degree. I feel that this strange greed is of course explainable psychologically but also there may be some trace deficiency which is causing satisfaction to not occur. I suffer from this problem, too. If not psychical deficiency, then most definitely mental. I look forward to making daily progress.
I payed the price for my selfishness; I suffered greater indigestion as a result of overeating too much poor quality foods and cooked foods. A lesson well learned.
On a different note, after reading honey and longevity (http://www.honey-health.com/honey-13.shtml), I realized the importance of incorporating small amounts of honey to my diet not only to curb cravings of sweetness after eating raw meat but to assist in digestion as well. I find that raw honey does a great job of assisting digestion. A tablespoon in warm water is a satisfying beverage.
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Overcoming Addiction
Yesterday I did not eat a decent breakfast and thus had a late lunch that was hearty with raw meat and felt completely satisfied all throughout the day. I even had the opportunity to go out to eat with my family who wanted to eat sushi which gave me a great opportunity to be able to preserve the RAF diet and share a meal with my family. However, I had no appetite throughout the day. Moreover, I had no urge or desire to eat in spite of my previous predilection of eating when full. The ability to refuse came naturally; I was so perfectly sated that I could not dare to even put down much water let alone food. I feel as though my instincts and my ability to heed to such instincts are becoming stronger.
In the past, despite being full, the sight and smell of food might excite my salivary glands and I would force "just one or two bites more". Now, I feel sated; I understand I'm sated and I have no desire to eat. Also, the quality of food at chain restaurants is such that the food is hardly appetizing (which in honesty, only helps).
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Health History
1988-2006: I was raised on a typical SAD diet. My health during high school was fairly decent because I was a young, fit athlete. Once I enrolled in college, my health began to deteriorate markedly due to the rigorous demands made of students which tend to lead to unhealthy habits.
2006-2011: I took my studies quite seriously which caused all sorts of problems from insomnia, unhealthy habits (of sleeping, eating, alcohol consumption, recreational drug use and exercise), exhaustion, stress and adrenal exhaustion to name the major, recognizeable issues.
May of 2006: I began vegetarianism which helped me to improve my health slightly after transitioning from a SAD diet. I would often eat huge meals of carbohydrates because I believed I needed the carbs to fuel my body (I commute solely by bicycle everywhere) and then would binge on peanut butter and chocolate for things like fat and protein. This diet seemed to be decent, but the insomnia that I developed in 2006 became much worse because I was overeating and had no idea because I was so thin; rather than being properly assimilated all the food became stuck to the walls of my intestines as compacted fecal matter. I was also full of mucous because I loved foods that produce mucus such as wheat, peanut butter, and dairy products.
2008: I was struck by a car while riding my bicycle on my left knee which furthered complicated the above issues and created new issues. In some ways this accident was a blessing because through it I was able to realize the flaws of my health. I began experimenting with yoga, meditation and in general self-help rather then prescribing to the advice of modern medicine which was a great decision. Although I would and continue to make mistakes, I am wholly better off.
2009-2010: I studied in Japan which worsened my health due to unhealthy habits (of sleeping, eating, and alcohol consumption), but I also continued to experiment with fasting and meditation which was beneficial.
Late 2010: I lived on a farm in Japan for several months which completely altered my life and served as a breakthrough. After intimately observing the workings of life through agriculture, health and the importance of wholesome foods and a wholesome lifestyle became extremely important. I realized that without health there is nothing and nature is the perfect guide. Henceforth, I wanted to be able to commune daily with nature and personally provide and raise my sustenance to enrich my life andsustain my being rather then being dependent on complex, fragile food systems.
January to May of 2011: I discovered the idea of healing my body with nutrition through the book Healing With Whole Foods (Pitchford) and Eat Rght for Your Type (D'Adamo). These books and my experience of Japanese culture particularly influenced me that a plant based diet would be the solution to my problems and meat need not be a concern. That my blood type is A also reaffirmed that consuming meat was foolish. I began experimenting with fasting and veganism. I continued to lose quite a bit of weight. I also began experimenting with colon cleanses and using herbs and drugs to purge my body of heavy metals and yeast overgrowths.
May of 2011: After reading an interview with Aajonus Vonderplanitz, I decided to eat a pound of raw meat to see what would happen and have never looked back since.
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Initial Stage of Raw Animal Food Diet
I've taken photographs to document the physical appearance of my body before my outward appearance has altered dramatically from eating a raw animal food diet.
The photograph of my teeth shows a degeneration of my teeth that I unknowingly inflicted upon myself. I was preparing to see a special chiropractor in Japan that had a specific regimen that called for patients to suck on lemons as much as possible for two weeks straight. The acid from the lemons must have started to break down the enamel on my teeth. I went to see a dentist about my enamel and they said there is nothing that can be done. However, since I have started a raw Paleo diet, my enamel has been restoring itself back to its initial bright, white color. Amazing!
The picture of my body demonstrate how thin I had become. I was always pretty thin (5'11" at approximately 145 to 150 pounds since high school, regardless of diet), but I feel as though my weight dropped pretty low--somewhere around 130.
The picture of my face captures the fatigue that plagues my face. This was one of my personal goals before becoming concerned with my health: I wanted to understand why my face showed exhaustion all the time. The purple circles under my eyes bothered me. I thought I was not getting enough sleep, but I soon realized my body was not resting well because I was plugging it up with indigestible foods! My organs weren't able to rest properly which then caused the rest of my body to overheat and when I would wake up I would be exhausted rather than well-rested.
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I think in a few months you will be a success story. You have the foundation for a quick recovery looking at your photos.
I hope you stick with it.
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Haha, thank you, Wodgina! You don't know how happy your comment has made me!
I feel a certain optimism as well. I have been feeling positive effects since my first raw meal and they continue to slowly build.
Again, thank you!
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Loss of Appetite
Over the past few days I have lost my appetite completely. I have decided to stop eating as of today and fast until I regain my appetite again. For the past few days I persistently ate even small amounts of raw fruit, meat, and honey regardless of my lack of appetite out of confusion and fear.
I have experience fasting in the past, but this would be the first time my body has expressed a will to fast; beyond my control my body is not interested in any forms of food. Sometimes I yearn for something but it is not hunger for food and small amounts of water usually quell this desire.
As a result of this strange development and the abundance of free time I have I have taken to sleeping throughout most of the day. I'm not sure what's occurring but hopefully the extra sleep will only be beneficial. I will be able to rest my digestive system and give it the energy and focus it needs by sleeping more than usual.
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Diagnosis
I don't know what was wrong with me but I got into a weird mental slump and convinced myself I wasn't hungry. However, I think part of the problem was that I was eating too much indigestible fat; all I had was this chalky fat that seemed to clog up my digestion, which in turn slowed my bowel movements and then affected my mental and physical state.
Other changes I've made to my diet:
1. Returned to eating several smaller meals rather than one huge midday meal
Although other RPD'ers choose to eat one large meal I find that this usually causes indigestion for me. Moreover, I have a hard time telling when to stop eating and will sometimes end up over eating. Recently, I have tried eating a small piece of fruit once I feel like I should stop eating and the small amount of sugars will end any hunger.
2. Cut the amount of daily sugars and carbs (in the form of fruits and honey) and salt
Before, I was eating copious amounts of salt with every meal which may have led to over eating (raw fat plus salt is irresistible to me) and I was also eating copious amounts of honey after each meal of meat (around 1/8 of a pound).
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Over Consumption
Being a fit, young male all my life I have taken to eating as much as I pleased and now that I am some what of a hypochondriac, I tend to "over indulge" in too much of a good thing; because I believe raw meat is great for me, sometimes I eat too much and don't know when to stop.
I believe eating too much was what caused my recent lack of appetite; eating too much (indigestible fat) caused my digestive system to get backed up and without having a bowel movement, my body went into a slump.
Over Consumption as a Sign of Obsession--Not Gluttony
This tends to be the root of several of my personal problems. I see my desire to eat too much as a symptom of gluttony, but truly it would be more precise to categorize this weakness as obsession. When I was on a vegetarian and vegan diet, I easily starved myself to unhealthy levels because I believed that the body only needed a very small amount of food to survive. Now that I am eating meat, the same problem persists in the opposite vein. This isn't gluttony, but obsession. Addressing my obsession with my health will allow me to stop worrying about eating too much or eating too little. This will be a healthy progression for me as my obsession seems to be hindering my progress by over eating at times, and also worrying about food and eating constantly throughout the day.
Hmmm...
Patience and balance are the key. Experimenting to find what works for myself is key. All the information in the world can't help me unless I try to implement it and take note of the reaction.
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what fats are indigestible for you? which are better digested?
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I seem to digest the chalky, crumbly fats poorly. I personally don' find them appetizing either. This is the fat I had begun to eat too much of.
The oily, chewy fats, on the other hand, are delicious in my opinion and I seem to digest them decently. I've decided to render the fats that I don't digest well in the future.
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I seem to digest the chalky, crumbly fats poorly. I personally don' find them appetizing either. This is the fat I had begun to eat too much of.
The oily, chewy fats, on the other hand, are delicious in my opinion and I seem to digest them decently. I've decided to render the fats that I don't digest well in the future.
Render?? :o
You could blend the into a creamy smoothy with milk and honey or if you don't eat dairy with eggs and honey. Makes them a lot easier to digest. Way better than destroying them with heat I'd say..
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Render?? :o
I got the idea to render the fat from Lex. I'm not sure if I digest tallow much better but I thought I would give it a shot when I was making a bone stock. I did notice that my stools were horribly runny!
You could blend the into a creamy smoothy with milk and honey or if you don't eat dairy with eggs and honey. Makes them a lot easier to digest. Way better than destroying them with heat I'd say..
Thank you for the tip! I would love to try your tip but I don't eat eggs, milk, or honey. Maybe I can try fat with water...
Do you have any other suggestions?
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I got the idea to render the fat from Lex. I'm not sure if I digest tallow much better but I thought I would give it a shot when I was making a bone stock. I did notice that my stools were horribly runny!
Thank you for the tip! I would love to try your tip but I don't eat eggs, milk, or honey. Maybe I can try fat with water...
Do you have any other suggestions?
Fat and water might work with a bit of soap ;)
Seriously though fat and water don't mix.
I know one other thing I read it here donno where. Put the crumbly fat in a blender and blend with short bursts thill it is a powder. Than mix it with cocnut oil. I tried it ones made my suet into a very nice smooth paste. Quite tasty too.
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Seriously though fat and water don't mix.
Woops! I guess I was thinking of a combination of the only liquid I drink (water) with the fat, but of course they won't mix, haha! l)
Thank you for the tips! I will have to do some experimenting!
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Recent Alterations to Diet and Lifestyle
Before, I was eating salt with every meal and it was causing me to over eat fat. I would add copious amounts of salt to my fat which would make it delectable but irresistible.
- Alteration of meal size and number
Rather than eating one large meal and fasting for the rest of the day I have been experimenting with small meals when hungry.
- Alteration of meal quality
I decreased my daily fat intake. Lately I have been craving fat less so this is a good sign. Hopefully I will strike a balance.
- Decrease in domesticated fruit intake
I was eating apples and other small fruits daily but have stopped. I will try to only eat fruits that I pick from the wild.
- Introduction of probiotic
I began taking about 2 capsules of Floraderm daily.
- Introduction of "zapping"
Ala a Hulda Clark Zapper, I began zapping for the first time last night. As of yet I haven't experienced any dramatic results but do feel good in general. The combination of all the alterations seems to beneficial. I'm not sure if I house an parasites, but I felt fear-mongered into the idea of removing unpleasant parasites for some time now and am glad to experiment.[/list]
Diet
As for my diet, I have reached a point where I am only consuming raw meat every day. I believe this will change soon as I don't like the idea of such a simple diet.
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After listening to the Superhuman Radio Show which covered raw foods I realized that a poor reaction Ive been having to ground beef might be due to the fact that its ground, but also frozen.
This morning I had a fillet of fresh salmon and felt great. I began to eat a little ground beef and noticed I didn't feel as good and digestion was more difficult. The difference was stark and immediately noticeable. This could also be due to the fact that I don't consume as much seafood and my body is hungry for the seafood (with the different variety of minerals and vitamins). I've also noticed that I can eat more and enjoy eating cuts of previously frozen meat over previously frozen ground beef. The ground beef is cheap, but the quality seems poor according to the way my body reacts.
I'm going to experiment with fresh, unfrozen meat. I intend to purchase a live animal and butcher it at home (now that I have a home again and I'm not traveling).
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Animal Foods
Yesterday I ate 1 lb of raw suet and it felt great. There is something about eating raw meat that makes my hunger insatiable. There are plenty of times where this causes me to overeat and my digestion seems to suffer. However I also feel a sense of pride in being able to savor the flesh, organs and fat of animals. I've never felt the same lust for nourishment when I was a vegetarian. Although I did enjoy my carefully crafted plates of steamed vegetables and perfectly cooked grains, the hunger and satisfaction I get from eating raw animal foods is completely unlike what I've felt in the past.
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Unemployed
Is anyone else feeling the burden of our economic mess? I'm a college graduate without any experience that pertains to my local economic region and thus I'm left to searching for meager, menial work. I'm an idealist and can't stand to be relegated to perform work I don't find inspiring or at the least provides decent compensation.
Woe is me.
Paul Graham (http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html) writes there are two options for labor:
The organic route: as you become more eminent, gradually to increase the parts of your job that you like at the expense of those you don't.
The two-job route: to work at things you don't like to get money to work on things you do.
Does anyone have any words of advice, or can offer any assistance or opportunity?
To be honest, I dream of just being able to provide for myself. I hate how complicated this world has become. I would love to just eat, drink and be merry. I'm torn between the conveniences of an urban life (civilization), the sufficiency of a rural life (homesteading), and the freedom of a wild life (a life in the wild). I would love to be able to walk out into the wild and survive simply but I fear of not being able to survive on my own and a lack of community. I would much rather share the beauty of such a lifestyle with a community of friends and family members.
What to do? What to do?
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internships are a must for a recent grad to get a job. we hire a lot of interns after they graduate. i myself doing different things than what i've studied, and pretty happy with it. also there is huge shortage of skilled experienced labor. there are so many people out of work but reality is most of them are unskilled gray mass that current economy has little demand for. no matter how bad economy is, if you are an expert in your field you'll always find a good job.
for a recent grad shoveling dirt in the beginning is probably ok, i did that before i moved to my current position. or you'll have to be lucky to land a job you like right away.
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Sometimes the career path gets glamorized, and folks think that they have failed if they don't land a choice job right out of college. My first fulltime job was in a similar financial slump as we have today, and I took what I could get. After that, I took what I could get again. Truth is, I didn't have a clear picture of what I wanted to do when I grew up. Somewhere along that path, I started defining myself and getting ahold of my own steering wheel. Then, I started getting jobs that matched my skills and my passions. My life has followed the organic route that you described.
I believe in the saying, "Do what you love and the money will follow." One detail that must be added: make sure "what you love" doing is a career. I've talked to a lot of people who "did" what they loved, but it was not anything of service to society. Money represents goods and/or services, so make sure you're in goods/service mode.
A book I like is Fail Up by Tavis Smiley. My own career path has been about failing better each time, until I finally "made it." I first had to become the person who deserved success and who stayed buoyant with each failure.
I wish you good fortune. That's all I have to say. I hate old ladies who get all long-winded with advice.
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I'm interested in committing myself to something but I'm not quite sure what at this point in my life--perhaps agriculture (like a bison rancher), perhaps something more closely related to my urbanite upbringing (like a teacher). I feel a sense of urgency pressing me to make the decision about not only my professional career, but my future as well, and now. Moreover, I not only feel compelled to satisfy my needs but as eveheart notes, my choice should also be valuable to society--that balance is difficult.
I suppose I need to relax and make some compromises for the time being because I'm quickly draining my savings.
The most frustrating part about all of this is that I feel if the world weren't so violent, chaotic and complex, I would be able to fit right in (I'm sure plenty others would agree these days). But now with all the stress of modern life, I would prefer to just abandon it and this diet has only increased that urge. >D
Lately, I've been so fixated on reaching some point of satisfaction that when I don't find the satisfaction I was searching or aiming for I become overwhelmed with futility and frustration. I've forgotten that in life experience is based on perception. All I can focus on his how I've gained so much knowledge in the past few years of my life and I have nothing to show for it, which says quite a bit about my understanding of "knowledge" and "truth".
I just seek more from life than the average job may provide and I haven't come to terms with the idea of making that sacrifice. I don't want to be like my father, hating everyday of his life and waiting impatiently for retirement to find out that retirement is empty and just as unsatisfying as employment. I believe that he and I both suffer from not being able to realize that we are the master of our destinies; if we are unsatisfied we only have ourselves to rely on to either change our situation, or change our perception to appreciate our situation.
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Hunger
After eating less than a 1/4 lb of fat and 1 lb of stew meat, I ate more fat and another 2 lbs of frozen ground beef this afternoon and I still felt a hunger--or thirst rather. I feel that while eating raw animal foods is amazingly savory, I hunger for something that frozen ground beef cannot satisfy. I'm determined to experiment with a raw, fresh food source soon. I believe there is something to the idea of devouring as much of an animal as possible to receive the full benefits of this diet, rather than just eating steaks everyday.
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Grains
The other day I volunteered at the local food cooperative in the morning stocking foods. I stocked the bulk foods. When I stocked the long grain brown rice I took a big whiff of the rice and was disgusted by the smell of the rice. My sense of smell has become much more sensitive to grains.
I used to love the smell of grains, or at the least not mind them, but this odor truly was the opposite of appetizing. Strange...
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Cooked Food Encounter
This weekend I visited a friend and enjoyed a breakfast meal together, which included: fried and microwaved bacon, pan-fried vegetables and eggs, fruit and yogurt, tea and condiments. I had already eaten a raw meal that morning and was quite full, then on top of that I stuffed myself again. The reaction I had was terrible. I produced the most noxious gas throughout the day; felt bloated; couldn't think clearly because my body was trying to digest the chaos of the cooked food and terrible combination of food; and to top it all of, I wasn't able to sleep at night.
This meal, though, provided a great revelation: for when I was a vegetarian, I ate just as these people did. The insomnia I suffered from was akin to the past when I was eating cooked foods. I now know that it wasn't necessarily insomnia that I was suffering from, but indigestion which caused insomnia because my body was working so hard to digest the food I had eaten. In the meantime, because I thought I needed a ton of food as a vegetarian, I was overeating constantly, which made matters worse.
The improvement in my sleep alone demonstrates the improvement and ease of assimilation of raw foods over cooked foods.
I'm glad to have an experience which reaffirms my decision to stop eating cooked foods.
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Difficulty of Assimilating Meat
As much as I'm glad to have moved to a raw diet, I still feel uncomfortable eating the large amounts of meat that I do. My carbohydrate intake is still quite low and I feel that meat may be causing my body to be too acidic. In general, I feel that I don't digest meat well and therefore it is difficult to tell when I'm sated, leading to overeating and then feeling quite terrible.
Lately, I've been drinking blood and digest it fairly well which leads me to believe that my cravings for milk are a sign I should head. Since I began this diet I've craved fat but haven't experimented with a fluid fat source (such as milk), only a solid fat source (suet).
After reading through Macfadden's text, The Miracle of Milk (http://milk-diet.com/classics/macfadden/macfaddenmain.html), and Brady's account on the milk diet I hypothesis that I'm not quite ready yet to ingest solid foods. I'd prefer something that is easier to digest. I recently found a source for raw milk and will begin experimenting with raw milk.
Gratitude
I'm thankful that I've been able to learn of this diet. The insomnia I experienced when I was eating cooked foods haunted my every moment. I was surprised I hadn't fallen over and died from the lack of sleep.
Now that I've made a small improvement by removing cooked foods, I find another discovery which may lead me to a healthier existence at which point I will be able to consume raw animal foods as easily as most others do.
It seems that my condition is much worse than I could have imagined, or that the diet I had before was so nutritionally devoid and devastating that I slowly was deteriorating. I can see now the progression of improvements that I've made (and that most make over time): first cutting out poor quality, cooked proteins and fats; then removing processed foods; and then removing cooked foods. The next step may be removing solid foods for a short time.
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Comparing the Student Body of the University of Nevada, Reno in Photographs
I remember walking around the UNR campus and admiring the beauty of the students photographed over one-hundred years ago. The students show stunning health compared to the students of today.
1900
(http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/cgi-bin/getimage.exe?CISOROOT=/campphotos&CISOPTR=4340&DMSCALE=50.00000&DMWIDTH=700&DMHEIGHT=700&DMX=1036&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&REC=20&DMTHUMB=1&DMROTATE=0)
1989
(http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/cgi-bin/getimage.exe?CISOROOT=/campphotos&CISOPTR=5198&DMSCALE=25.00000&DMWIDTH=700&DMHEIGHT=700&DMX=291&DMY=300&DMTEXT=%20lambda&REC=16&DMTHUMB=1&DMROTATE=0)
2011
(http://studentsforliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/UNR-SFL-Group.jpg)
Photographs such as these demonstrate how malnourished (obese and underweight) we have become. Our state of health is truly deteriorating quite rapidly; even just a few decades ago people showed a greater vibrancy on average than we do now.
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Raw Dairy: Day 1
I'm feeling great after a day of raw milk! With meat, I always felt that I was getting too much of certain things and not enough of others. With raw milk, the nutrition is more balanced. I can drink (sip, rather) several servings of milk and feel plenty nourished! I don't need pounds and pounds of meat. Perhaps in the future, after I've nourished some deficiency through milk.
Raw milk may be just the thing to build oneself up in order to be able to handle raw meats just like the other people who thrive on them. I remember when I first ate raw meat after being a vegetarian and vegan for quite some time, that I exploded with great vitality and force. After a while of a diet high in meat, I was realizing that I was missing something else. I hope to be able to thrive on a low carbohydrate diet such as others do.
Perhaps, a primal diet (one that includes more carbohydrates in vegetables, honey, and dairy) would be better suited for me. Rather than just raw milk, or mostly raw meat, all of these things combined would be best.This seems quite balanced. Enjoy everything in its raw and pristine state: foods from the sea, foods from the sky, foods from the earth and foods from the water (lakes and rivers). This is the way Native Americans survived, too.
Consumption of Raw Dairy: Technique of Sipping
The natural way all mammals imbibe milk is through sucking on a teat. Macfadden stresses that dairy is not to be drunk but sipped. I cannot stress this enough. Although I desire to drink milk heartily, the moment I do I produce gas and I can feel large curds forming in my stomach. Sipping that imitates the sucking of a teat is the only way dairy should be imbibed. This observation by Macfadden is tantamount.
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Necessary Tool for the Milk Diet
After reading The Miracle of Milk and drank my first glass of raw dairy (and first glass of dairy in years) I realized the importance of sipping the milk. Upon pondering the consumption of milk more, I realized: Well if newborns suck the teat of their mother in order to draw the milk, then sucking at the lip of a cup seems silly when baby bottles were invented for just such that purpose.
As ridiculous as it may seem I decided to buy a baby bottle in order to most properly imitate a newborns suckling at a teat. The bottle has been amazing in maintaining a small curd size as I ingest the milk and actually creates a sweeter flavor of the milk through the sucking action. (On top of that, the bottle makes measuring out 8 oz. of milk convenient.) Foolishly drinking milk like water or other liquids would be disastrous due to the large size of curds that form in the stomach. Moreover, that milk is a food for newborns it only makes sense that the consumption of milk such imitate the way in which newborns consume milk.
(http://blogs.smarter.com/blogs/guests/baby-bottle2.jpg)
It may all seem crazy, but its working. Besides the awkwardness and inconvenience of this diet, I'm really enjoying constantly drinking milk.
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Zeno, is that bottle made of glass? Plastics, well, not as paleo lol. Sucking from a woman's areola/nipple or an animal teat, the head would be in a different position than from a regular bottle. Also, a breast doesn't get air in it, as many bottles do. It could make a difference, not to mention a regular bottle you make an mmmm suck, while with teat or areola/nipple you make a LLLLL suck. Maybe you'll check additional nipples/bottles out http://pregnancy.about.com/od/babyproducts/tp/tpbottles.htm (http://pregnancy.about.com/od/babyproducts/tp/tpbottles.htm) I haven't myself, I just drink my milk slow, when I drink it.
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well i hope that is only a temporary part of your healing and that, like an infant, you move on to solid food...:)
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well i hope that is only a temporary part of your healing and that, like an infant, you move on to solid food...:)
Yes, I always think of cutting out milk from a person's diet as "weaning"! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)
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Thanks for the information on milk bottles! The bottle I bought was a BPA-free plastic bottle although I'd like a nice amber glass bottle ideally.
I'll try to find a bottle nipple that would allow for me to suck with my lips and not my tongue. I noticed that I do suck more with my tongue using a nipple. How did you know the difference between sucking on a nipple and sucking on a bottle? ;D
I think I'll eventually wean myself both from using a bottle and excessive raw dairy in the future. I'd like to try to maintain this diet for at least one month. The only reason why I wanted to experiment with the bottle is to see if there was any value in it. Besides, sucking on the rim of a glass was tiresome and uncomfortable. Sucking on a nipple is so comforting! I feel like I'm re-living my childhood! ;D
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Macfadden on Sipping
Just for convenience, here is what Macfadden wrote about sipping milk rather than drinking it:
"The milk should be sipped slowly. It is very important that the milk enter the stomach in small amounts. The smaller the sips the smaller the curds in the stomach and the better the digestion. If taken as one drinks water, large, difficulty-digested masses are formed. The preferred and, in fact, the ideal way to take milk, and the manner that more nearly simulates the nursing baby’s way, is to close the lips very tightly over the rim of the glass, the edges of the lips barely covering the rim of the glass, with a very small opening. This plan necessitates a vigorous sucking in order to draw the milk into the mouth and this sucking produces a contraction pressure upon the salivary glands, forcing their secretion into the mouth and in contact with the milk, to dilute it and to help produce smaller curds when the milk passes into the stomach. Besides, the milk tastes better when taken in this manner, and both salivary and gastric juices flow more freely. This naturally favors more nearly normal digestion of the milk."
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How did you know the difference between sucking on a nipple and sucking on a bottle? ;D
I had to breastfeed 3 or 4 babies. Also calves have sucked on my hands and feet. The tongue squishes the udder or nipple against the roof of the mouth. With a bottle suck with lips, and squirt larger amount down throat. Breastfeeding instead it bathes the mouth, and comes out the slowest usually. With the lips it's yummmm, with the tongue squishing to roof of mouth it's Lalalala.
...Besides, sucking on the rim of a glass was tiresome and uncomfortable. Sucking on a nipple is so comforting! I feel like I'm re-living my childhood! ;D
No one in my lineage used a plastic, rubber or polyurethane nipple. I guess if I shall ever get nostalgic about nursing, I'll have to find a woman. I think sniffing an armpit should be enough though. I was nursed. Olfactory stuff sticks with me more I think.
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With a bottle suck with lips, and squirt larger amount down throat. Breastfeeding instead it bathes the mouth, and comes out the slowest usually. With the lips it's yummmm, with the tongue squishing to roof of mouth it's Lalalala.
That's a great description. I observed that the nipple squirts the milk down my throat if I use it the way its intended. I opt to just suck on the end of the nipple.
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Birth Defect
I'm not certain what my birth complications have to do with my present health, but my Mother told me I was born with jaundice. However, I was breastfed--which I'm very thankful for.
I know nothing about jaundice. Perhaps research into this disease might shed some light on possibilities of abnormality.
From Wikipedia:
"Jaundice (also known as icterus;[1] attributive adjective: icteric) is a yellowish pigmentation of the skin, the conjunctival membranes over the sclerae (whites of the eyes), and other mucous membranes caused by hyperbilirubinemia (increased levels of bilirubin in the blood). This hyperbilirubinemia subsequently causes increased levels of bilirubin in the extracellular fluid. Typically, the concentration of bilirubin in plasma must exceed 1.5 mg/dL[2] (>26µmol/L), three times the usual value of approximately 0.5 mg/dL,[2] for the coloration to be easily visible. Jaundice comes from the French word jaune, meaning yellow.
Jaundice is often seen in liver disease such as hepatitis or liver cancer. It may also indicate obstruction of the biliary tract, for example by gallstones or pancreatic cancer, or less commonly be congenital in origin."
This suggests my suspicions of a poor digestive system could be related to this birth defect.
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Bowel Movements: Transition
My most recent bowel movements have been deep red and extremely dense. I most recently ate goat meat, goat blood, and sauerkraut regularly until I began the milk diet. However, at the tail end of my last movement faded to green and was a comfortable density.
I suspect the sauerkraut fortified the feces to be extremely dense and fibrous while the blood effected the pigment. Those last movements required a lot of force--except for the end of the second movement. I'm curious to see what the future holds on this milk diet.
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my Mother told me I was born with jaundice.
See neonatal jaundice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonatal_jaundice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonatal_jaundice)
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Whenever I eat raw sauerkraut, I always find that my stools are much, much bigger than before.
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Birth Defect
I'm not certain what my birth complications have to do with my present health, but my Mother told me I was born with jaundice. However, I was breastfed--which I'm very thankful for.
I know nothing about jaundice. Perhaps research into this disease might shed some light on possibilities of abnormality.
Where were you born? At home? In a hospital? Was your mother awake at your birth? Were there any medical supplies around or personnel? Were you actually jaundice at birth, or did it start a few hours later?
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I was born in a hospital in Munich, Germany in 1988 after the Chernobyl incident, because of which, I'm not allowed to donate my blood (it's "tainted"). My Mother was awake at my birth and I had jaundice at birth. After my birth I was moved to a phototherapy chamber shortly there after.
My Mother would have to travel a great distance from the maternity ward to where the incubators were located to breastfeed me but she did so successfully.
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I'll have to ask my Mother about how I was cured of jaundice, whether a bili light was used or not.
From Wikipedia:
"Light therapy is used to treat cases of neonatal jaundice[30] through the isomerization of the bilirubin and consequently transformation into compounds that the newborn can excrete via urine and stools. A common treatment of neonatal jaundice is the bili light.
"A bili light is a phototherapy tool to treat newborn jaundice (hyperbilirubinemia) which in higher levels causes brain damage (kernicterus), leading to cerebral palsy, auditory neuropathy, gaze abnormalities and dental enamel hypoplasia. The therapy uses a blue light (420-470 nm) that converts bilirubin so that it can be excreted in the urine and feces. Soft eye shields are placed on the baby to protect their eyes from damage that may lead to retinopathy due to the bili lights."
The bili light sounds intense and damaging...
So, I've learned that jaundice is caused by increased levels or accumulations of bilirubin in the blood.
"In neonates, jaundice tends to develop because of two factors - the breakdown of fetal hemoglobin as it is replaced with adult hemoglobin and the relatively immature hepatic metabolic pathways which are unable to conjugate and so excrete bilirubin as quickly as an adult. This causes an accumulation of bilirubin in the blood (hyperbilirubinemia), leading to the symptoms of jaundice."
It seems that jaundice could be misunderstood easily as well and then patients are simply placed in a phototherapy box and if the color of the eyes and skins normalizes then the patient is assumed healthy. This is especially possible since the high rate of neonatal jaundice:
"This condition is common in newborns affecting over half (50 -60%) of all babies in the first week of life.[2]
"Severe neonatal jaundice may indicate the presence of other conditions contributing to the elevated bilirubin levels, of which there are a large variety of possibilities (see below). These should be detected or excluded as part of the differential diagnosis to prevent the development of complications."
Here is a simplified explanation and definition of jaundice:
"Jaundice is a condition characterized by the yellowing of the whites of the eyes, the mucous membranes, and the skin. It is often caused by dysfunction of the liver. The yellow coloring comes from bilirubin, which is caused by aging red blood cells. The accumulation of excessive red blood cells within the body results in jaundice."
This is enlightening. This suggests all my concerns of poor assimilation and liver function could have been caused by neonatal jaundice. I doubt that I still have jaundice (or, high levels of bilirubin in my blood), but it is possible that I may be suffering from some effect of a weak liver at birth.
Perhaps a blood test would be enlightening. I haven't seen a doctor in years...
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Milk Diet: Day 3
I slept poorly last night. Insomnia occurred just as if I had eaten cooked foods. I even had a nice bowel movement before sleeping which I thought would have relaxed me considerably. However, I tossed and turned all night which disturbed my assimilation of the food I had consumed during the day. Bummer.
Hopefully this will not occur again and was caused because I was becoming accustomed to consuming so much raw dairy. Hmmm...
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My Mother was awake at my birth and I had jaundice at birth. After my birth I was moved to a phototherapy chamber shortly there after.
My Mother would have to travel a great distance from the maternity ward to where the incubators were located to breastfeed me but she did so successfully.
Did your mother tell you whether your jaundice got worse before it went away? Did anyone let you have any sunlight to treat the jaundice? How old were you when they released you from phototherapy care? When did the jaundice go away? Your liver may be fine now. There are various types of jaundice in newborns. Some are too rare for doctors to mention, or because they willingly won't talk about it, unless you already know, and even then .. I'm wondering if you had a different kind.
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Did your mother tell you whether your jaundice got worse before it went away? Did anyone let you have any sunlight to treat the jaundice? How old were you when they released you from phototherapy care? When did the jaundice go away?
I don't have an answer to any of these. I'll speak to my Mother and reply when I can.
Wouldn't blood tests also be of assistance understand my present state--such as bilirubin production and accumulation levels or otherwise?
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What color are your sclera? Do you think you look jaundiced? Is your skin pale? Sallow? Are your teeth yellowish? Your palms? The soles of your feet? Does yellow oil come from your skin? Does your liver hurt? Do you make excessive ear wax? Does your urine appear normal? Go ahead and test your bilirubin. I'd tend to prefer to put a hot water bottle on my liver and eat raw goat butter.
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Jaundice went away after a few days of treatment under a bili ligt (yikes). The jaundice never became complicated.
Sometimes I believe my palms and such to be slightly yellow but nothing extreme. I do not produce yellow oil. My kidneys can hurt at times, but I've never felt my liver hurt--unless I'm mistaking the two (the liver is quite large).
I do believe that I produce excess earwax. Whenever I swallow in my ears a sound of wax being squished is constantly heard. I cannot remove this sound and have heard it from as far back as I can remember. The only way I've successfully treated this phenomenon is by holding my breath and stretching my jar downward, thereby stretching out the aural cavities. In September, a naturopathic doctor examined me and commented on some sort of build up in my nasal and aural cavity and I think this may be related. I once thought that everyone heard this sound as they swallowed until I stretched out the cavities and discovered it is possible to swallow in silence.
I think I'll follow this lead and see what's up. I'll get my blood checked to see if I can't learn something about myself.
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Whenever I swallow in my ears a sound of wax being squished is constantly heard.... In September, a naturopathic doctor examined me and commented on some sort of build up in my nasal and aural cavity and I think this may be related. I once thought that everyone heard this sound as they swallowed until I stretched out the cavities and discovered it is possible to swallow in silence.
Maybe get an osteopathic practitioner to perform some cranial sacral therapy for your head.
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Why do your kidneys hurt, mercury? Smoke? What kind of toxins? It doesn't matter. Highmeat kidneys may help.
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I noticed that days when I was overeating meat and not drinking an adequate amount of water my kidneys would be sore in the middle of the night and usually water would cure the pain. I believe this to be a sign of severe dehydration. I've experienced a pain from the same region at various times in the day. Sometimes I get what I think is lower back pain but is truly some sort of discomfort in one of my organs from digestion or indigestion. I always thought this to be my kidneys but because the liver is so large it could also be the liver. Its difficult for me to differentiate.
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Liver is right front lower quadrant of abdomen.
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The pain is along my backside just below my rib cage.
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your adrenals are right on top of your kidneys as well...try not to stress out so much on your health and make sure you take part of the day to focus on what is good in life, i am sure you can find many things:)
i was a yellow baby as well, and figure that is why i am extra sensitive to toxins/pollution/foods and CRAVE sunshine like nobodies business(outside and not very clothed right now!)
focus on a moderate healing and really try not to push your body or overstress it in trying to force healing or becoming hypochondriac...i think when you try and detox so much you can just force symptoms to manifest in other areas
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Thanks for the advice Jessica!
To be honest this forum facilitates my hypochondria but only because I allow it to.
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Raw Dairy: Day 6
Ugh. I ran out of raw milk and decided to substitute it with pasteurized butter. I ate 1.5 sticks of butter. It was tasty at first and I've never eaten pure butter so I thought I might give it a go for fun. I felt a huge surge of energy immediately and I'm not sure if it was the butter or the fact that I hadn't eaten or drank since 5:00 PM the night before (a mini-fast).
Anyway, I came home and decided I'd take a break from the milk by eating some raw meat. I chowed down a ton of goat meat and couldn't help myself from gorging. With meat, I don't find it as easy to control myself from overeating. I just want to consume and consume. Now, I'm digesting the meat which is requiring quite a bit of blood, which is slowing down the rest of my body, which is why I'm feeling lethargic.
With milk, the meal is balanced and all you need is a few cups every hour. The digestion is quick and harmless, even if I do feel a little bloated at first. By the end of the day, I can tell that I'm reaching some sort of limit and produce a bit of gas but I still feel light and energetic. Also, my body utilizes the milk better than the meat. My body seems to regenerating itself much more quickly then ever before.
Eating meat causes me to exhaust myself. Also, I'm not sure how well I'm digesting it.
The next time I run out of milk I think I'll simply fast for the day rather than eating meat or consuming pasteurized dairy products.
Also, today I'll be receiving some kefir grains and breast milk from a nursing friend.
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Also, today I'll be receiving some kefir grains and breast milk from a nursing friend.
let us know how it goes. i tried to make kefir from my wife excess milk but it did not turn out well.
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Pasteurized butter while eating otherwise a raw diet makes me sick!
Raw milk is a whole food. A raw sardine or a raw cornish hen with gizzards is a whole food. Lean meat is not a whole food. Try to balance it if you eat it again, or it makes most over eat.
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Milk Diet: Breakthrough
I broke the Milk Diet because I ran out of the necessary amount of milk. I ate raw goat. I didn't digest the meat well and I admittedly overate again. I didn't like how I felt after eating the goat. I'm enjoying raw milk, butter and kefir much more.
The Milk Diet works for me because the milk is nourishing and so simple to digest relative to solid foods. I can't seem to handle raw meat because I always end up overeating and becoming uncomfortable one way or another. I also seem to become too acidic when I eat raw meat.
After eating solid food I realized the secret to the Milk Diet: it is in the liquid state of milk. It is so easy to digest compared to solid foods. This explains the modern tradition of juicing vegetables and fruits. It seems that water and milk were the nourishing liquids of the past before technological revolutions in juicing and blending technology which allow us to juice produce and fruits. After experiencing the benefits of raw dairy, I now understand how people could decide to simply drink milk for their entire lives.
There is just something about milk that feels so much more right than raw meat (for the time being). I thought about re-introducing solid foods into my diet in the future, but after my last break in the Milk Diet I don't really want to. I'd rather just drink milk and possibly supplement my diet with other foods. Perhaps fish, eggs and fermented vegetables. I'll inevitably have to break my diet again. At that time, I'll try something else besides red meat.
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Milk Diet: Breakthrough II
Okay, having to ration five gallons of milk across seven days has forced me to cut back my milk intake below the minimum required amount. I thought that I could just fast on days with only a few cups of milk, but rather than do that I've found another food source which I can use as a supplement when I run short on milk: raw egg yolks.
I got the idea from Caveman while reading his raw dairy journal (http://www.rawpaleodietforum.com/journals/first-raw-milkdairy-journal-(usa)/). Yesterday I was starving by 2:00 PM and started to slowly drink a dozen eggs. I noticed I started to feel great and energized--just as when I feel from drinking milk. My brain started to play tricks with me and I thought myself into being hungry more than I truly was and had some avocado, raw cacao butter and then six more egg yolks until about 8:00 PM and noticed that after eating all those eggs I didn't crave egg yolks and thought that this was probably because I had consumed such a large amount. Ultimately, I suffered from insomnia, too. This was most likely due to eating all the strange foods late at night.
Overall, I'm excited, though; I found a second food source that seems to serve me well. I'm also excited to enjoy a food that is high in cholesterol, saturated fats, vitamins and minerals rather than starving myself until I could get more milk.
Raw Butter
I began skimming my milk and using the cream to create raw butter. It's been heaps of fun and a delicious experiment. When drinking milk produced by a Jersey cow one's metabolism has the potential to crash because of the heavy cream content (I've read that the milk of Jersey cows is even partially indigestible to calves). Rather than drinking the cream, using the cream to make butter and enjoying the butter is an alternative option which I find much better for maintaining one's metabolism and enjoying a completely different nutritious food.
The first time I ate raw butter I could only handle a few small teaspoons at a time. I felt some strange power that forced me to enjoy the butter slowly. Powerful stuff.
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psst have you ever looked into vitamin c to help your teeth? i used to do the same thing with lemons and limes, especially when i was eating a lot of liver, cause i really craved vitamin c...probably why ive had a lot of deterioration, but, i still crave the c and sometimes munch down super hard on raw cabbage or eat lots of rose hips and want berries, which isnt that great a solution so i have started taking asorbic acid in water, trying not to keep it in my mouth so my teeth not compromised...its also has a lot of other benefits....just something to consider
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psst have you ever looked into vitamin c to help your teeth? i used to do the same thing with lemons and limes, especially when i was eating a lot of liver, cause i really craved vitamin c...probably why ive had a lot of deterioration, but, i still crave the c and sometimes munch down super hard on raw cabbage or eat lots of rose hips and want berries, which isnt that great a solution so i have started taking asorbic acid in water, trying not to keep it in my mouth so my teeth not compromised...its also has a lot of other benefits....just something to consider
Too much liver causes vitamin A toxicity and vit C helps to break down vit A. Might explain why you crave vit c when eating lots of liver.
Synthetic ascorbic acid is not the same as real whole foods vitamin C.
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ideally of course natural is better but natural sources often come with a host of other nutrients that can inhibit the action of the vitamin c, plus its a lot less expensive source and i am really paying attention to my diet right now to help my body heal what hasnt had a chance to as my health has improved, i feel like its working through all of my systems that i have seriously deteriorated and this is what its asking me to focus on right now
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ps teeth an kidney health are interrelated.....kidneys are largely made up of vitamin c(adrenals too) and excessive or unbalanced calcium is hard on kidneys......? milk diet?
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The first time I ate raw butter I could only ..... . I felt some strange power that forced me to enjoy the butter slowly. Powerful stuff.
That sounds familiar. With vegan food I felt compelled to eat compulsively oftentimes. I especially remember the difference when starting out.. I ate the (raw) butter so slow, because it's so slow, because every time drop felt so satisfying in such a deep way.
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psst have you ever looked into vitamin c to help your teeth?
I destroyed the enamel of my teeth from sucking on lemons for two weeks straight during ever waking hour. The acid eventually eroded my enamel. The protocol was recommended by a chiropractor for pre-treatment preparation.
Once I visit a doctor to get my blood tested I'll be able to make a better assessment of vitamin deficiencies and then make a decision. For now, the Milk Diet seems to be working. The liquid is nutritious and delicate enough for me to digest well. My only difficult now is to find the right amount for me.
[b}Milk Diet: Transition Foods[/b]
The other day when I had some aged goat meat I found that the raw muscle meat was not appetizing and difficult to digest. The bone marrow, however, was similar to milk in texture, ease of digestion (being not quite a solid and mostly fat), and flavor. I took this as a cue that bone marrow and soft fats (such as back fat) are foods that I should be able to digest when I choose to incorporate foods more dense than milk.
After dining on marrow, enjoying it for its deliciousness and also tenderness, I realized how awesome this food is and came to appreciate it more than I ever have. Because it is difficult for me to obtain marrow I always overlooked it as a viable staple. I suppose it will remain as just a special treat but I've come to revere it.
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I destroyed the enamel of my teeth from sucking on lemons for two weeks straight during ever waking hour. The acid eventually eroded my enamel. The protocol was recommended by a chiropractor for pre-treatment preparation.
opps yeah i meant to say thats how my teeth deteriorated as well. after starting to eat dairy again and going overboard my teeth actually deteriorated at a more rapid rate and much differently. instead of near my gums, which is much more indicative of a vitamin c deficiency, i lost a lot of the crowns of my molars, and actually before i noticed i had complained that it did feel as though my spine and hips were deteriorating(just a weird constant pain).. i think i was getting too much calcium and not enough of the other trace minerals that need to be held in a higher ration, magnesium, potassium and sodium.....my dairy habit eventually leveled off and is now whenever i feel i need it, its not a constant thing, and i knew the lemon sucking was bad still always want vitamin c and was eating too much raw cabbage to get it(thats hard on the digestion as well as the thyroid) and decided to take ascorbic acid to supplement until my body can feel it has adequate stores and level out.....just offering some suggestions from personal experience thats all......hope the results of your tests help you figure out how to rebuild your health:)
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Thanks for the clarification, Jessica! I'll be sure to pay attention to levels of magnesium, potassium and sodium.
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Milk Diet: Week Three
I've reached the third week of experimenting with milk. I'm slowly reaching a point where I don't relish milk as much as I did. I think I may be hitting a point where some nutritional need is being met.
At first, I drank over a gallon in a single day then backed off to 3.5 quarts. I can drink just this small amount and rise at dawn and last until the end of the day (roughly 6:30 AM to 11:00 PM when I finally get into bed after work) without feeling exhausted until just the end of the day.
Bowel movements have become regular but not consistently solid. I usually move a mixture of liquid and solid stools.
I've been experiencing some insomnia and I'm not quite sure why. It may be due to the digestion of milk. This would indicate that milk isn't necessarily an ideal food but definitely provided great amount of balanced nutrition as a liquid.
The most dramatic change since before starting this diet is that I feel good if not great! I want to shout into people's hearts that I love them. I can't help but be sociable and perky.
I'm not sure if I should take this sign (that I'm feeling satisfied) to continue with the milk diet or reintroduce solid food. At work, I smell things like cilantro and just want to garnish a nice big piece of fat with it. However, I know that my last muscle meat meal did not go well. This causes some confusion. I'm not really sure what to do from hence forward. I'll have to do some more experimentation to figure out what staples I can enjoy.
Animal foods that I seem to digest well include: egg yolks, milk, back fat and bone marrow, but none of these can serve as staples separately. Perhaps I'll experiment with muscle meat but slowly introduce and be certain not to over eat. Ideally I'd like to have a diet founded in raw animal foods supplemented by a small amount of carbohydrates (mostly fermented). To be honest, I'd like to be resilient more than anything.
Hmmm...
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Raw Butter
This shit is so intense! No matter how many times I eat raw butter made from the skimmed cream of raw milk I have to eat it slow and controlled--completely unlike any other food I've eaten. Moreover, I can never eat near the same amount I've eaten of pasteurized butter.
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To be honest, I'd like to be resilient more than anything.
you'll be there.
you've sort of hit on what has become clear to me, that certain foods or even whole diets might not be the most ideal on paper but they either do the trick in the moment, or sometimes are the only or best solution. Of course the reverse seems to be true as well, that plenty of 'healthy' food or 'natural' ways of eating just don't account for many peoples' needs. Either way, if someone isn't in some deadly crisis, theres always the option later to just eat whatever plants and animals and ignore everything else and see how that goes.
Animal foods that I seem to digest well include: egg yolks, milk, back fat and bone marrow, but none of these can serve as staples separately. Perhaps I'll experiment with muscle meat but slowly introduce and be certain not to over eat. Ideally I'd like to have a diet founded in raw animal foods supplemented by a small amount of carbohydrates (mostly fermented).
I don't follow here exactly. seems like these could form the bulk of a diet along with some muscle meats, organs and a variety of dense plant foods forming the rest. You might have to introduce foods slowly considering it like a fast. maybe things like eggs, fruits, avocados are better than eating a bunch of meat or fat after not eating solid food. Some kind of fermented animal food (even dairy) or plant food might also be needed for bacteria.
milk is symptomy for me, but butter still seems to have advantages as well as disadvantages - as you say with milk - to other fats such as suet or marrow. At this point If I was up to the gills in fresh (unfrozen) marrow and backfat I likely wouldn't be eating much butter or only some for those difficult to get nutrients. For people in other situations they still might need to eat alot of dairy fat even with excellent quality other fat. As jessica points out, it goes the other way too as the dairy thing might need more attention to balancing various other things, which is why attention to eating from various dense plant sources might also be a good idea. Perhaps more so than other non-dairy LC folk.
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You could try drinking raw milk kefir(the real one made with grains) with your meat meal. This helps with the digestion in my personal experience.
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Milk Diet: High Point
I'm feeling amazing! I've haven't felt this good in a long time. I remember that I began this journey searching for the vigor and vitality I felt while I was in high school. That time was when I felt the most active and capable. Right now, I feel better!
I'm drinking just 7 pints of a mixture of kefir, sour and sweet milk a day (3.5 quarts). On the days I run out of milk I've been fasting or eating a small amount of raw butter that I've made myself.
I've gathered that because milk is such a wholesome yet easily digestable food that my weakened digestion system has the ability to just get enough of what I need in caloric intake to survive while feeding some sort of nutriment deficiency that I've created through poor nutrition over the years. Finally, because I'm pumping my gut full of too much food I'm capable of assimilating the milk easily and resting soundly at night rather than suffering from insomnia from indigestion. Although I do suffer from a slight sleeplessness, it is not consistent and does not persist the entire night.
I'm rebounding into a good place. Moreover, I feel the raw state of the milk has helped with acidity issues and also bacteria balance in the gut. I'm having regular bowels that are not solid but are most liquid. I wish these bowels were more solid, but I believe that will come with time.
I think I will slowly introduce solid foods as I transition of the Milk Diet for the winter until spring.
you'll be there.
Thank you KD. That you are reading this journal and see a glimmer of hope fills me with honor and gratitude.
I don't follow here exactly. seems like these could form the bulk of a diet along with some muscle meats, organs and a variety of dense plant foods forming the rest. You might have to introduce foods slowly considering it like a fast. maybe things like eggs, fruits, avocados are better than eating a bunch of meat or fat after not eating solid food. Some kind of fermented animal food (even dairy) or plant food might also be needed for bacteria.
I see your point. A quart of milk, some raw egg yolks, perhaps some tender sauerkraut and a small amount of meat and fat to top it off could serve as a nutritious diet that is easily digested. To be honest, I may need even less than that on a daily basis if I can survive on three quarts of milk.
I suppose the only problem is trying to create a mental list of foods that are ideal for me that I can rely on. When I began eating raw meat I ate under the presumption that it would benefit me personally on the premise that you, sabertooth, TylerDurden, and Sully have benefited from it, which is illogical to say the least. Ideally, yes, raw animal foods may be a superior food but it may require more energy and bacteria than I have available at the moment. Which is why I need to pave a path of foods that work until I've built a solid foundation and eat mostly animal foods. Or perhaps, that day will never come as we are all individuals and I may have some requirements that are unique (but I doubt this). 'll build off of raw dairy and slowly add foods and if they seem dangerous I'll be cautious.
As Jessica points out, it goes the other way too as the dairy thing might need more attention to balancing various other things, which is why attention to eating from various dense plant sources might also be a good idea. Perhaps more so than other nondairy LC folk.
I believe this to be true, too. However for the time being I feel that liquid is just the best thing for me. It's just easy and wholesome enough. I would like to be able to enjoy raw and cooked vegetables in the future, but I think this will require a steady reintroduction if they aren't fermented like sauerkraut. Before I began the Milk Diet, I was eating sauerkraut, blood, and meat on a daily basis and the blood and sauerkraut I seemed to digest well.
Aside: A-ha! I forgot to add blood to my list of nutritious and easily digested foods. >D
Dietary Fixation
I've always thought that the number and variation of nutritional choices to be staggering. In the past people just ate what was available, from the Native Americans of the plains living off buffalo to the Aborigines of Australia grubbing on ants, to the Inuit indulging in blubber and mostly animal foods. Of course the world and humans were much different then, but this observation proves that humans are capable of being resilient and thriving off whatever. I don't believe that humans need all these specialty diets to address health issues permanently. Once corrections are made and nutrition is sustained we restore our resilience. This is the power of life, or the force of survival.
Sleep: The Ideal State of Sleep
After being an insomniac for several years, I've always wondered what it must be like to achieve an ideal state of sleep. Once I observed dogs and how they are capable (when they are healthy and young) to sleep and then at a moments notice, begin to run around and exert energy effortlessly. The transition is instantaneous and effortless.
Once, without any solid causation, I slept for a few days just as my dog does. I slept soundly, instantly falling asleep and awoke just as effortlessly than instantly felt the energy to run about like an animal. The only causation I can recall is that I had been fasting to avoid unhealthy food in my home and on the airplane on my return from Japan. The only food I recall eating was apples. After that night of rest in 2010, I've set such sleep as my goal for the future. Right now I'm not quite there, but I feel great and am working towards it.
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After being an insomniac for several years, I've always wondered what it must be like to achieve an ideal state of sleep. Once I observed dogs and how they are capable (when they are healthy and young) to sleep and then at a moments notice, begin to run around and exert energy effortlessly. The transition is instantaneous and effortless.
Once, without any solid causation, I slept for a few days just as my dog does. I slept soundly, instantly falling asleep and awoke just as effortlessly than instantly felt the energy to run about like an animal. The only causation I can recall is that I had been fasting to avoid unhealthy food in my home and on the airplane on my return from Japan. The only food I recall eating was apples. After that night of rest in 2010, I've set such sleep as my goal for the future. Right now I'm not quite there, but I feel great and am working towards it.
I found that taking vitamin D supplements dramatically improves my sleep quality. Getting lots of sunlight helps too, but I basically have to get sunburned to get the same effect as the supplement gives.
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I found that taking vitamin D supplements dramatically improves my sleep quality.
Awesome. Thank you for the tip!
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Milk Diet: Re-introduction of Solid Food for Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving I was able to dine on wild raw goose! The meat was the most deep color of red I've ever seen! The flavor was amazing and complex as well. Definitely what most people call "game-y". Although this wild game was one of the most satisfying pieces of meat I've ever eaten I only wish goose had more fat as I find myself in somewhat of a fat craving as of late.
I began the day by drinking three quarts of raw goat milk. I dined on the goose around sundown. I ate more than the size of my palm and stopped when I became uninterested. Now, it's 2:00 AM and I can't fall asleep. I feel I may have overeaten and caused my digestion to retard. I feel myself yawning and I want to sleep but I'm unable to as if my gut is trying to work through the meat.
In the case of persistently loose stools Macfadden recommends having a solid meal to see if the stool will solidify, so I thought this would be a good experiment but perhaps I ate too much.
"7. Diarrhea also is sometimes induced by the milk diet. This is because of abnormal body conditions and is not due to the milk directly. It may be remedied by simply lessening the quantity of milk. Reducing the cream or diluting the milk will sometimes be all that is necessary. In some cases a high, warm, full enema is valuable. In others the difficulty does not respond satisfactorily to any of the above methods. In these it may be advisable to use a few dates a day – as many as two to four with each glass of milk. In other obstinate cases it will be necessary to take the milk until noon, and an ordinary meal in the evening, or, take a breakfast, and then take milk all afternoon, beginning at twelve or one."
I find that my digestive system is sluggish, in that, it requires a great deal of energy to process foods and I do so at a retarded rate. This explains how the Milk Diet has been successful for me: the milk is much more easily digested than solid foods and also provides a balanced nutrition. However, the Milk Diet has not been perfectly curative because I still find that when I do digest both milk and solid foods, I still require quite a bit of energy to process the foods and I still suffer from a retarded digestion and mal-absorption. I have still yet to gain weight on the Milk Diet. This leads me to believe that while the milk is supplying me with plenty of nutrition which I was previously deficient of (which explains why I've been feeling better than ever since I began the Milk Diet), the Milk Diet may not be enough to solve my issues. To be honest, I really have no idea what I'm facing (in regard to my problem with digesting food)! However, I observe that the only time I've been able to conquer insomnia since high school was when I was a vegetarian eating minimally and now on the Milk Diet.
This brings me to the conclusion that an enema or liver flush would be able to help my sluggish digestive and elimination system but the tone of this forum causes me to be apprehensive. I've tried liver flushes with success and I've had a colonic. I found the liver flush to be taxing yet effective in flushing stones and the colonic to be more pleasant and convenient overall and effective in flushing compacted fecal matter.
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Milk Diet: Thanksgiving Leftovers!
The best part of holiday meals are the leftovers--even for freaky food eaters! Today, I again tried the same meal plan as yesterday: three quarts of milk followed be a meal of meat in the evening.
I still haven't had a bowel movement since dinner yesterday. I'm used to having two to three daily while drinking solely milk. I do feel better about eating meat today. I had a bit of an instinctive meal by laying out a tray of the entire innards of the wild goose I have. I tried each piece little by little until I found myself uninterested. It was more pleasing today. I'm less worried about my sluggish digestion (especially since receiving the advice of others on the issue of enemas).
I still can't believe the difference between wild game and domesticated animals. The meat I've had is comparable to cheap wine that appears diluted in color while the goose was such a dark red that it was captivating. The goose also reminded me of the little venison I've had.
I still have a hankering for animal fat. I need to find a way to satisfy this hunger.
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Milk Diet: Transition to Solid Foods
After three days of drinking milk and eating goose in the evening I finally passed a bowel on the fourth morning. One of the reasons I don't enjoy eating too much meat is because of the length of time required to have bowel movements. I feel a bit congested waiting around with all that sludge inside of me. Hopefully, bowel removal time will decrease over time--especially if I vary my diet to include softer foods such as yolk, milk, butter and so forth.
By the end of December I should only be consuming one quart of raw milk per day and consuming solid foods throughout the rest of the day. Now the goal is to secure a steady supply of wild meats. The goose I ate was a treat and I'm not sure if I'll be able to procure more.
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Zeno,
I cannot sleep either if eating raw meat too late. I just do not get tired.
So if eating meat for dinner I try to not eat it after 6 pm. It helps!
I eat breakfast instead. :)
I get kind of constipated if I eat only lean raw meat. I need some fat. I eat coconut oil mostly but I bet any fat will do it!
Maybe some aged meat too?
Inger
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I get kind of constipated if I eat only lean raw meat. I need some fat.
I've yet to eat just lean meat at any meal. I still feel my digestion is to blame. However, I will be sure to keep eating raw fat and butter to help push a bowel movement.
Thank you for the tips, Inger! :D
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Raw Paleo Diet and Eyesight
Since I've begun experimenting with a diet primarily based in raw animal foods in May of 2011 I have noticed a significant decrease in my eye strength. It takes me longer to focus when the focus of my eyes changes from an item from one depth to another. I interpret this as a good sign of a deficiency due to poor dietary choices. I have underestimated the necessity of organ meats or a small amount of vitamin-rich carbohydrates since I began this diet.
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Milk Diet: Recent Observations
I recently have noticed that a scar on my head has been shrinking in size. This scar has been with me since I attended elementary school and only just recently have I noticed a significant and sudden decrease in the size of the scar. The skin on my head in general feels more soft and less brittle then it has in the past. I've had a mild problem with dandruff before.
My skin has become quite dry. Specifically, the skin covering my achilles tendon. I'm not sure but I believe it is due to the combination of the dry, cold air and the shoes I wear which rub on that portion of my skin. The skin on my face looks relatively healthy and more elastic then it has in previous months.
I've recently become almost certain that for the time being the Milk Diet has provided the maximum benefit it has to offer. When I first began this diet I relished the sweet milk for its building properties. I felt like I was rebuilding something inside of me every time I drank milk. Now, I'm not interested in sweet milk in the slightest. I could handle whole milk before and now I must skim the milk before I enjoy it or otherwise my metabolism will crash or my body will force up the cream. My appetite for sour milk and kefir has increased greatly although in general I feel that after one quart of milk I'm feeling quite satisfied.
My mood and energy level was most astounding when I was purely drinking milk (before I re-incorporated goose meat around Thanksgiving. At this time, my satisfaction in the nourishing sweet milk was at its greatest as well. My mood hasn't risen to that height since. I've heard descriptions of cravings and desires as functions of fungus or bacteria (as KD mentions here (http://www.rawpaleodietforum.com/general-discussion/denise-minger-on-fruit/msg80916/#msg80916)) and I'm not sure if my mood was being swayed upward because I was feeding a fungus or bacteria that thrives on carbohydrates (as there's a high sugar content in the milk in the form of lactose) or if it was because I genuinely was thriving because of the milk. This element can be quite confusing and I've yet to make any solid deductions.
My appetite for raw butter has greatly increased! My first meal of butter consisted of only a few teaspoons. Now, I can handle much more and enjoy it much more, too! Perhaps my body was unprepared and needed time to adjust but it seems to have done so. I wish to understand why, though. Also, it should be noted that before I ever ate raw butter I experimented with pasteurized butter and was able to eat two sticks before I felt the need to stop. I think this demonstrates the inherent weakness of cooked dairy.
I also have come to realize that the consistency of my stools is symbolic of the amount of milk that is ideal for me: When drinking three quarts of milk or more in a day my first stool is solid and the remaining movements I have are increasingly less congealed until I finally will simply pass liquid. I think this means that my body is digesting about one quart of milk well and the rest is passing through undigested. My stools have shown this pattern consistently for weeks.
I also have been experiencing cravings for cooked foods, raw foods other than dairy and still fat! I find wild goose muscle meat to be extremely nutritious and satisfying when I crave protein, but there is hardly any fat on geese and this fat is not all that satisfying.
With all these considerations in mind, I feel that it is time that I stopped drinking more than a quart of milk per day, effective immediately.
Potential of Single Food Diets: The Meat Diet, the Milk Diet and the Effect on Sense
Experimenting with a zero carbohydrate diet and now the Milk Diet has been largely successful for building my intuitions. By re-educating my body of what a single food (in this case meats and milk) has to offer by starving it of all other foods I become much more aware of how a food can affect me. Now, when I eat or drink a food I can sense much better than previously what this food has to offer; what nutritional and physical satisfaction it will be providing; and when that need has been met. I believe that this is almost entirely due to the inclusion of milk in my diet. Muscle meat and fat is far less nourishing in this regard (and therefore damaging unless executed fastidiously and with determination, as in the case of Lex_Rooker) relative to milk because milk is a whole food. Before, I would overeat meat because whenever I felt hungry or felt a craving I would rely on mostly muscle meats--which is foolish! Now that my diet has a greater relative variety it is much easier to control myself and respond to my body.
When I tried raw yolks to supplement my diet the time that I ran short of milk, the eggs seemed to provide a similar nourishment to a certain threshold. I ate a little less than twenty-four eggs before I could feel that the eggs weren't benefiting me any more. This threshold is much more palpable in respect to all foods.
Just now I ate some goose meat and could tell I didn't feel too interested in any of the muscle but was craving some fat since I had just finished all the butter I had available and still felt a craving for butter. Nonetheless, I tried a bit of organ, some fat and muscle meat and found the muscle meat to provide a great satisfaction that lasted very briefly and the fat provided little satisfaction even though I was craving fat. After the satisfaction of eating muscle disappeared I didn't feel the desire to continue to eat, but rather was able to simply stop despite the amazing flavor and draw to continue eating the delicious, tender meat of the goose.
It seems that once again as true everywhere in this existence that balance is the key. My personal experience seems to suggest a contradiction to the theory that man survived on a diet rich in animal foods and scarce in carbohydrates, because I obviously require some amount of carbohydrate intake--and at the moment that requirement is quite high. However, this could be due to damage caused over the years and personal habit that I cannot handle a diet that is carbohydrate scarce. Once the necessary repair has been accomplished perhaps my body may naturally tend to function better with a smaller and smaller carbohydrate intake.
For the time being I will base my diet around my milk consumption because it is so nourishing. From there I will eat other foods that I perceive to be decreasingly less wholesome (but still nourishing in their own regard). For example: Milk, eggs, blood, fat and then lastly all other meats. By doing this it will keep me from overeating foods that are solid (and thus more difficult to digest) and foods that are much easier to abuse because of their limited nourishment. I feel that milk is wholesome, therefore I should begin my day with milk, then after eating simple, light foods such as eggs and blood I could easily recognize and respond to my nutritional and physical satisfaction requirements before I ate too much meat.
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Re-introduction of Red Meat
I ate some goose last night (as stated above) and again this morning. I felt quite acidic thereafter. Sometimes I feel this creates a build up of acid that causes me to move less easily. I noticed it today when I rode my bicycle: I felt that my joints and muscles seemed to be grinding rather than moving fluidly and smoothly.
Food Combination Idea
I just got the great idea to dip red meat in eggs while eating. I'll try this for lunch today. Thank you, Ioanna and Sully for the inspiration!
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Milk Diet: Beyond Milk
So I've transitioned back to eating solid foods. I gorged on fat and frozen stew meat the other evening--I just couldn't help myself. I had a heavy dose of depression and loneliness the next morning, but it faded after some exercise and fresh sunlight. Even though I've been craving fat, the fat trimmings I binged on didn't quite satisfy my craving as well as I thought it would. The wild goose fat dipped in yolks, however, was awesome!
When I experimented with goose meat dipped in yolks I found myself feeling satisfaction only for the yolk.
I've been taking one teaspoon of Colosan (thanks to Eve), which seems to ensure that my bowels don't sit too long in my gut. I like it. I move bowels in a much more normal fashion in my opinion.
This is interesting: when eating goose meat, it is more difficult to over eat. I also find that because I can't binge (as I usually do on pounds of pre-frozen meat) my body doesn't require an excessive amount of water to digest the wild goose meat. However, when I eat pre-frozen beef, I find myself eating too much and then dehydrating myself! Water is generally unsatisfying as well, which makes it difficult to hydrate my body. This supports the point raised by GCB on the greater difference between fowl and humans which is assists the accurate use of our instincts in this thread (http://www.rawpaleodietforum.com/general-discussion/raw-paleo-diet-is-mimicking-the-garden-of-eden-times/msg81135/#msg81135).
Cooked Meal
I had dinner with friends and threw all caution to the wind to see how I would fare against cooked foods. My friend follows a cooked Paleolithic-inspired diet. We had bone shanks slow roasted with vegetables and a desert of fresh fruits.
The meat that had been slow roasting for a day tasted like cardboard. I will never choose to voluntarily eat cooked meat. It makes no sense! Meat tastes terrible cooked unless lightly cooked in heavy amounts of fat.
The vegetables, though, were amazing! I found myself relishing the carrots, garlic and onions all covered in bone marrow broth. I think I will re-introduce some cooked vegetables and make a broth of bones I have lying around for some warm nourishment.
Next Phase
Well, I binge on domesticated, pre-frozen red meat and can't find too much satisfaction in the trimmings; I enjoy yolks and milk, still; Cooked vegetables and rendered fat sounds yummy so I may try some of that; wild goose meat is fairly satisfying so I'll stick with that some more; I just made a batch of sauerkraut so I'll nibble on that from time to time. Over all I'd say this is going to outline the majority of my diet for this winter: milk, eggs, goose and I'll occasionally add in seafood, domesticated meat, broths and fermented vegetables.
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the depression may be from opiate withdrawl
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the depression may be from opiate withdrawl
No, I have a feeling it was a bit different. Besides, I still drink milk daily just a single quart though.
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History of Fat Consumption
I just realized yesterday that when I was a vegetarian I also craved fat such as peanut butter and chocolate. I remember buying dark chocolate chips in bulk to sprinkle peanut butter with chocolate chips and spoon them heavily. I thought it was healthy because it was one of my only sources of fat. Now, I do the same with fat trimmings. I also enjoyed raw butter to no end.
I'm not sure what this mean but it may have something to do with my weight and my ability to absorb food efficiently. I'm still underweight at 140 pounds and at a height of 5 feet and eleven inches.
Effects of the Milk Diet
I noticed that my bowels have become quite regular since re-introducing solid foods this time around. I'm not sure if it is due to the Colosan, the curative effects of milk, or both.
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Experiment: Artificial Sun Bathing
I tried artificial sun tanning for the first time. It felt good although I definitely prefer full traditional, full sun exposure. The light seemed to help my posture as I found the light relaxing.
It's interesting how all the experiments I attempt that are unrelated to food seem to produce the greatest results. This is probably because I execute nutritional experiments the worst, ha-ha! I can't seem to commit intelligently, and find myself just hurting myself in the end.
Clay
Today, I decided to begin to mix clay with my morning milk. I accidentally used a metallic spoon so I'm doubtful this batch of clay will be beneficial anymore. I'll be sure to be more careful with the next batch.
For now, I consume two tablespoons per cup of milk.
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Artificial Sun Tanning: The Day After
I don't think I've ever felt that good after a session out in the sun. I decided that I'm going to experiment with sun tanning regularly. I feel warm and relaxed even now several hours afterward.
This experiment with sun tanning has made me realize that all the stress I've applied to my diet have been unnecessary. Re-introducing raw meats, avoiding most grains and so forth have been good changes but beyond that I feel I've been much too concerned with how I eat. Generally I do more harm then good because I worry about minute details too much.
Winter Diet
I've decided just to follow a simple routine that includes:
vegetable juices
sour milk
eggs
red meat
I've noticed that after beginning to eat red meat again I started to crave liquid and sometimes milk doesn't hydrate me quite right. Vegetable juices will serve this purpose.
I have two obstacles to overcome: I don't own a juicer. To be honest I don't want to juice my vegetables because of the technology involved. I'd prefer a diet that is simple. I'll have to has out a more simple way to stay hydrated. I wouldn't mind steaming my vegetables but the water I have access to is unfit for human consumption in my opinion.
The second obstacle: All the meat I have access to is pre-frozen. This means I need to slaughter animals regularly. This is one detail I've yet to obsess too much over and I feel it is necessary because as of yet I've hardly been able to eat fresh meat.
Other than that, I'm going to try to avoid thinking too much about food until spring. This means, cooked vegetables, bone broths and the like will all be acceptable (if I can find a decent water source). I think this will bring a good balance.
When I spend my time outside in the sun, or with friends and family I find that my mental and emotional health is far greater and transmutes to better nutrition in general--even if I am eating cooked foods. Everything is related and transmutable. If I spend too much time worrying about nutrition the other aspects of my life begin to suffer and destroy any potential benefit that my diet may provide because I was too concerned to even enjoy it in the first place. Now that I understand the simple principles to a healthy raw diet I should try to stick to these healthy principles, be mindful of instincts, and just forget everything about food and nutrition so as not to be overly concerned.
Whew.
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Winter Diet: Week 1
I seem to be doing quite well as of late. My routine for the past few days has included:
Raw Milk with Clay
After researching the breadth of fallout I feel very glad to make this addition to my routine. I feel great after the addition of clay to my diet. I will receive some charcoal shortly and am even more excited to use it externally and internally.
Increased Sun Exposure
I felt great after that first experiment with sun tanning. I will continue to tan regularly and increase the amount of time I spend in the sun.
Increased Physical Exertion and Social Interaction
All these things seem to help my well-being and the diversion from worrying about nutrition seems to provide more benefit than the surplus amount of time I devote to nutrition.
Raw, Fresh Meat
The fresh, wild meat is superior to domesticated, pre-frozen meat. The fact that the meat I was eating was pre-frozen affected my problem with self control much more than I previously understood.
Fermented Vegetables
Fermented vegetables are probiotic and hydrating. I only wish I could consume the pure juice at times when I'm feeling most parched.
Raw Yolks
Yolks serve as a good supplement for fat--especially when I'm low on supplies of fat.
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I haven't been receiving any cow's milk and miss making and eating raw butter. This fat source is amazing. It's amazing how certain foods seem very specific needs at certain points in development. At times I crave one fat source and other times I crave another.
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Raw, Fresh Meat
I feel that since I've cut out pre-frozen meat entirely all my concerns of over eating, acidity, indigestion have all disappeared! Because I am of blood type A, I must be very sensitive in that when I ate pre-frozen meat all these issues erupted, but now I feel great. I know there is still progress to be made but I feel much better in general.
Test: Macadamia Nuts
I tried a handful of macadamia nuts tonight for kicks and didn't enjoy them; they didn't provide enough fat and left me hankering for me. Also, they require quite a bit of liquid because of the difficulty of digestion.
Wadging
I enjoy wadging. I do find it hydrating, albeit a slow process. This afternoon, just a few stalks left me feeling hydrated. This evening I masticated celery with squirts of lemon juice, but I enjoyed the lemon juice in too high of concentration and my teeth became sensitive near the gum.
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The Caveman Diet in the Local Newspaper
There was an article about the Caveman Diet in the local News and Review. I didn't know this but through reading the article (http://www.newsreview.com/reno/caveman-diet/content?oid=4658632) I discovered that Loren Cordain, the author of The Paleo Diet, is an alumni of the local university, University of Nevada, Reno.
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The Importance of All Things Not Related to Diet
In this food journey I've come to the conclusion that one of the main reasons I was such a dynamic, vibrant person who slept well during high school was because I was active. Ever since I experimented with veganism my strength has decreased markedly. Now that I'm building healthy dietary habits I finally feel the excitement and urge to get outside and play like a child again. I feel that this slow meandering path was necessary to understand the importance of diet, attitude and outlook, rest and also activity.
If I continue to maintain the amount of time I spend being active outside I foresee a dramatic increase in my health on the horizon.
I was foolish to believe that it was food alone that caused my health to deteriorate when it was the fact that I had become extremely sedentary since exiting high school. The demands of civilization brought me into a pathetic physical and mental state and I intend to reverse it now that I have become aware of it.
Moreover, such a nourishing diet as that as a diet composed primarily of raw foods provides a powerful source of quality energy to be burned and without using that energy and nutrition the nutriment is wasted/clogs up the body without any exhaust system to utilize the energy and nutrition. This seems to be another reason why I may have tended to overeaten or experienced difficulties of this diet in the past: I wasn't prepared to adequately utilize the nutrition properly. However, my progress is finally coming to a head and I feel that I'm finally capable and excited to become more active and destroy my sedentary habits.
Time to get out and play!
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Update
Although I'm digesting meat better than I have in the past I still seem to have issues with over eating and binging. Moreover, because I can't get adequate amounts of fat I find myself eating more red meat than necessary.
I still haven't felt as good as I did since the Milk Diet. If I were to compare on this basis, the Milk Diet is superior for me. With red meat I can't find a good balance which leads to over eating of either meat or other foods (nut butters, cooked butter, etc.) . I sure do love ripping into raw meat, though!
Hmmm. I'm beginning to think I should create a regimented diet. I do great with habits and I've yet to create a habit for a diet of raw animal foods.
Any comments and suggestions are welcome.
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Get more good-quality fat. Be tireless in your search for it. It's extremely important, for your health, and to be able to moderate your meat-eating.
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Get more good-quality fat. Be tireless in your search for it. It's extremely important, for your health, and to be able to moderate your meat-eating.
I appreciate the encouragement!
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Uropathy
I have recently begun experimenting with uropathy out of desperation to ensure that I'm adequately hydrated and to observe any other benefits. I've spent the past few days working up from drops to small sips. Once I began with a few drops I immediately felt an urge to increase the amount to small sips. I'm only capable of drinking a few small sips before I become disinterested. These few sips, though, are more hydrating than several cups worth of water. Before experimenting with uropathy I would feel the need to chug large quantities of water to the point of filling my stomach before I could stop just because I had reached the physical limits of my stomach. This seems to be an old habit from the past when I thought it was acceptable to eat and drink to the point of completely filling my stomach to create some twisted form of satisfaction. I remember days of eating rice or peanut butter to the point where I would force my body into a comatose from the metabolic crash.
After each serving of urine I'm overcome by a burst of energy and optimism. Also, my body will frequently crave liquid just as I'm about to urinate which seems too coincidental to be insignificant. It's almost as if my body is trying to preserve itself and it was only until I was able to overcome the repulsion of uropathy that I was able to recognize this source of hydration. Lastly, I've noticed that my fingernails have been growing at a much quicker rate.
When I reflect upon it, I frequently will arise in the middle of the night in order to urinate and I have no control over this mechanical reaction. Even if I wake in the night and try to force myself to sleep I will not be able to return to sleep until I've urinated. I've never experienced this problem to this degree until I increased the amount of animal foods in my diet, decreased my consumption of vegetables (which are mostly water), and also decreased the amount of water I consume. That I wake up consistently and easily in the middle of the night and am uncapable of falling back to sleep until I urinate suggests that my body is trying to offer a form of hydration to preserve itself due to dehydration. Comparatively, this never occurred to this frequency or intensity when I was a vegetarian or vegan and drinking several cups of water daily.
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Uropathy
As of late, that strange and painful tang that I used to feel in the lower region of my back (where my kidneys lie) has not occurred for the past several days. It may be too early to tell but I may have been suffering from severe dehydration and uropathy has helped me to hydrate my body more than any amount of water has ever been able to.
For comparison: When I was on the Milk Diet and now that I'm experimenting with uropathy are the only times this pain has subsided. I'll record whether or not this fluctuates/ is temporary.
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Uropathy
After experimenting with uropathy I'm convinced that it is a powerful survival technique that offers superb hydration. When I drink ample amounts of my urine I feel well hydrated and my body demonstrates hydration by hair and nail regeneration that was paralleled only when I was on the Milk Diet (also hydrating) and a superior state of well-being.
I still tend to drink too much water, which I'm finally observing. This habit of filling my stomach to it's physical capacity (with food or water) is an old habit that I'm beginning to grasp and slowly shedding. Before I thought it was normal to eat and drink as much as I was one year ago. One year has yet to pass since I began experimenting with raw animal foods and I feel I'm making several mistakes but learning quite a bit in the process.
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Supplementation
I recently began a variety of supplementation in the past few days, including fermented cod liver oil, vinegar, and iodine. As for method, I generally mix everything with eggs: FCLO with eggs; iodine and eggs; a little vinegar and eggs.
As for the reactions, everything has been positive as of yet. I've completely stopped chugging water in the past few days and this has not been due to any mental exertion whatsoever. I simply stopped wanting and thinking about water. I'm sleeping quite soundly and dreaming again, too! It's been a long time since I've experienced dreams...
I still drink morning urine, but do not feel a strong urge to do so.
The other day, a friend gave me some raw milk as a gift. I haven't drank milk in over a month. I drank just two cups each day and this combined with vinegar has perfectly hydrated me.
Conventional Beef
Today I was feeling risky so I went down to the hispanic market in town and bought some beef tongue. I over ate and still did not feel dehydrated. I did, however, feel the blood of my body rushing to my stomach for digestion and noticed how my limbs and body became cold. This experience led to an observation: I believe digestion of difficult foods (grains, baked goods, etc.) and a sedentary lifestyle contribute to the low body temperature that most people experience.
Chocolate
At the pressure of a friend I ate a piece of chocolate the size of a nickel and felt the worst indigestion I've felt in months. Nuts...
Rest
I'm coming to realize the importance of not rushing through healing. I still don't feel that I have the strength to begin working out or exercising much. After years of experiencing insomnia, I feel I need to rest a bit more. I'm hoping that I will begin to put on some weight soon and this will be a good sign that I will have the build to exhert myself. Now, I don't feel the motivation to do more than light jogging, simple stretches or movements. I can't seem to push myself at all.
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uhoh you might have just convinced me to drink my pee..! i have a chugaholic habit and painful kidneys too, i drank my pee once while on a super long and last hike, wasnt the worst thing ever
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uhoh you might have just convinced me to drink my pee..! i have a chugaholic habit and painful kidneys too, i drank my pee once while on a super long and last hike, wasnt the worst thing ever
Once I understood blood better I overcame the disgust of drinking urine.
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Conventional Beef Binge Recap
I thought I would be able to digest all the meat I ate during the morning (around 3 pounds, I think), but I didn't. I ended up suffering a sleepless night even though I ate before 12:00 PM! This experience taught me allowed to objectively examine how over-eating contributed to my insomnia in the past.
...But god damn do I love me some tongue! The first few bites are like meat ice cream! You could spoon the meat out because of all the natural fat content! >D
The Art of Eating
I've made some serious progress eating healthy amounts--especially since I've been eating more eggs due to financial necessity. When I first began this diet I was still practiced the old habit of eating too much. Yesterday I ate too much but I didn't want to do so; I ate too much because I had no way of storing the meat and didn't want to be wasteful.
It felt good to know that I didn't want to eat anymore after a small healthy amount but only continued because I thought I could handle it. This demonstrates progress for me.
Although I have gained a little bit of weight since I first began this journal (I now weigh approximately 145 to 150 pounds and stand just an inch shy of 6 feet tall) I still feel underweight. I think this suggests I have absorption issues. I can eat quite a bit but not very much of it gets absorbed properly. Moreover, this diet isn't exactly great for gaining weight unless you are eating a large amount of carbohydrates.
In conclusion, I'm slowly understanding how to eat meat. After being a vegetarian and vegan for quite some time I truly forgot how to eat meat and so did my body, it seems. Now I understand the importance of fat and demonstrate that in my behavior; before I would eat lean meat and wasn't able to make the connection with the pain in my kidneys--and then this would lead to drinking a lot of water and adding to the discomfort.
I sure can't wait to go back on the Milk Diet, though! That was plumb easy, delicious and effective for me! ;D
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Offal
I finally got my hands on some offal. I ate nearly two pounds of beef spleen and feel great. Relying solely on muscle meat and eggs (with the occasional variation) does not bode well.
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Offal: Beef Spleen
Only through this diet have I learned the benefit of enjoying organ meats and have I been afforded the opportunity to learn more about anatomy than ever before.
The spleen is a pouch which stores blood--the perfect resource for blood!
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Conventional Ice Cream and Kefir
I was craving something rich and creamy and was not feeling satisfied with meat or eggs. I downed two pints of ice cream last night and then another two this morning. After that, I downed a quart of pasteurized goat milk kefir. I feel good, too! This could be due to all the sugar, but I'm uncertain.
I generally do terribly on pasteurized stuff but kefir is better than un-fermented milk and ice cream is loaded with just the good stuff (cream and sugars). For all the nay-sayers out there: I think there is something to dairy that is a very powerful food.
Abuse and use anything in life and it will lead to imbalance--this includes meat! That I didn't double over with gas or indigestion and slept soundly last night from a quart of ice cream and a quart of pasteurized kefir suggests that the conventional nature of these foods were negligible in light of my hunger for whatever was in those foods. I'm convinced that animal foods (meat, milk, eggs, etc.) make up a healthy diet. Perhaps I will eventually learn the value of plant foods, but I'm not quite there yet.
I'm definitely becoming more aware of my cravings and how to satisfy them, whether this be foods rich in carbohydrates, starch, fiber, liquid, cholesterol, lipids, and so forth. It feels good to be able to understand one's instinctive cravings and be able to nurture them successfully. The worst feeling in the world is to feel hungry and chow down on a certain food and still feel unsatisfied, but full.
For now, I will experiment with conventional foods (like ice cream) more and observe how these foods satisfy my cravings in absence of higher quality foods (such as raw milk). I have a hankering for dairy and I'm not going to ignore it. The fat of dairy is so much more digestible and satisfying than the dry, brittle fat that collects around the organs of animals.
Liquid Intake
I'm not sure what's going on but I'm hardly drinking water and am not thirsty. I experimented with apple cider vinegar and am still supplementing with iodine and fermented cod liver oil (rich in vitamin D). I'm not sure which of these three is responsible for the change but I've been drinking just eight ounces of water with one drop of iodine and one teaspoon of FCLO daily. I only begin to become thirsty for that single cup of water at the very end of the day just before I fall asleep. Conventional recommendations to drink eight cups of water every day seems in excess! I just think of people in the past: How could they possibly drink that much water and function, let alone have access to that much water. It seems much more likely that they required far less water and operated optimally on small amounts. However, this brings up the contention of our time: Quality and quantity. We're in a period in which food quantity is abundant but quality is perverse, which explains conventional recommendations such as the one I just mentioned.
Fermented Cod Liver Oil
FCLO is truly a super food. I've only consumed one bottle and feel great. It must be the vitamin D, but there is probably a list of other beneficial qualities that I'm unaware of.
Uropathy
I stopped relying on urine for hydration. I no longer feel that it is necessary.
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Matt Stone on the Milk Diet
I discovered an article (http://www.livingthenourishedlife.com/2010/03/guest-post-matt-stone-on-milk-diet.html) by Matt Stone on the Milk Diet confirming my success and the satisfaction I felt from consuming raw dairy by the gallon every day.
Read about why the Milk Diet worked for me and could work for you.
Also, the experience of two others on a diet solely or primarily of raw dairy:
http://www.rawpaleodietforum.com/primal-diet/7-weeks-on-an-all-raw-milk-diet/ (http://www.rawpaleodietforum.com/primal-diet/7-weeks-on-an-all-raw-milk-diet/)
http://www.rawpaleodietforum.com/journals/first-raw-milkdairy-journal-(usa)/20/ (http://www.rawpaleodietforum.com/journals/first-raw-milkdairy-journal-(usa)/20/)
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Instinctive Eating
For the past few days I've been trying to eat whatever I prefer. Here's a short list:
Jam
Jelly
Custard
Cream cheese
Cheese
Milk
Ice cream
Raw honey
Egg yolks
(Aside: What's most frustrating is that none of these foods requires cooking, and my cravings were very natural for high caloric, nutritious foods. Only because our society is so backwards is it that I can't get any of the nutrition I require within my area in a raw, powerful state and I'm forced to sprint to the local grocery store for their processed and deficient counterparts! >:)
After a few days of being completely adverse to the idea of eating meat I began to crave meat flavored with salt. Last night, I enjoyed a nice bit of lean, grass-fed meat generously garnished in salt and felt great satisfaction.
I observed that I simply was craving high caloric foods and in particular carbohydrates (in the form of jams, jellies and honey) and fat (in the form of dairy). Not once did I ever crave something of considerable protein, such as muscle meat. Nor did I crave raw or cooked plant foods. I even tried an apple to satisfy fructose cravings and found that it was not satisfying and I still preferred something sweeter with higher sugar content (yikes I must have been starving).
In regard to my craving for fat: This seems strange considering I had spent the last few days eating cow tongue and ribs with plenty of fat. I'm led to believe that I do no digest animal fats as well as I thought I did, much like Lex Rooker who prefers rendered fat. This seems plausible in that I always seemed to enjoy gelatin and bone broths much more and digested them well. I only believed I should reduce the amount that I eat of these foods because they are cooked.
I think this means that I need to re-adjust my diet in order to compensate for this handi-cap. I will increase my carbohydrate consumption and consumption of easily digestible fats, which are gelatin, bone broths and raw dairy (once I can finally get some).
I'm completely convinced that I'm closer than ever to a way of eating that will provide everything I need to heal and thrive. I only need to make small adjustments in order to supply a greater amount of carbohydrates and easily digestible fat. For the longest time I was scarfing fat because I thought I needed it and I was digesting it well, but I must have been mistaken.