No Tyler I am not mistaken, trust me on this one, I live in the southeastern united states and I remember my own mother telling me about the study where 7% of autopsy's find trichinosis. The studies have been buried under what whitewash the mainstream has put out , (I have noticed this type of thing happen since the beginning of history). The main stream will bury some of the facts of life that they don't want us to know, especially for something like trichinosis which there is basically nothing they can do. The conventional treatments are often more harmfull than having the worm.

Although toxoplasmosis is also a universal and prevalent issue, I have even heard on a national public radio show about how the majority of humans have had it and that it may be responsible for a large percentage of diagnosed mental illness,.

This is why I made the stand alone statement about how Trichinosis and blood parasites are not taken as seriously as they should be, If you are immune suppressed to the point you have a trichinosis infestation, then I have no doubt that you are also susceptible to bloodparisites.

So the main issue I am raising ties back into the Idea of how immune suppressed individuals may need exposure to more harmless organisms like hook worms and whipworms to prime the immune system in a way to strengthen it against the more harmful ones like Trichinosis and toxoplasmosis. This is where my intersest in the subject has left me.

 

You mentioned that you have BAKED the squash... that means that you've cooked it, some squash is high on the GI so of course if you ate it cooked it spiked your blood glucose. Have it raw next time if you can digest it and I'm pretty sure that it won't be as bad

I was eatting raw summer squash back when I was struggling with blood sugar issues, but at the time my digestion was so impaired that raw plant foods would pass through me undigested. I was so malnourished because cook meat made me feel sick as well, so I was attempting to get my daily vittles from veggies and it wasn't working at all. I believe that squash can be good for people who aren't so damaged, but I am not ready to risk it just yet based on my past issues.

I experimented with baked squash when I was pre diabetic, I had mixed results. My sugars wouldn't spike as much as it did with grains but I still had trouble with carbs in general.

Right now my main carb is coconut and lemon water, although I have had a few berry's without any issues, it seems my diabetes has been cured but I still want to play it safe by waiting a little longer to add more carbs.

I know AV usually recommends eating only tiny, marble-sized amounts of high-meat per day, but I have found that such small amounts simply do not give me the standard effect. I invariably need c. 2 mouthfuls(2 cubic inches?) of high-meat before I get that vast improvement in concentration levels and higher energy.

I saw Av eatting large bites of high meat along with his meal of aged meat in the Ripley's video. It gave me the impression that he ate allot of it personally, Does any one know why he gives such limited recommendations.  I am personally eatting about a tablespoon of high meat every other day. If I eat it every day it loses its effect and if I eat more than a large spoon full I get too wired up to sleep at night, but I still like the effect.

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you usually will."
— Abraham Lincoln

A drunkard had told me something similar when I was sleeping on the streets, he was going into some monolog about how you have to dig in( he had literally made a dug out and lived in a thicket at a city park and survived off of garbage for years, anyway he could tell that I was judging him to be loony and then he said to me,point blank, If you are going to look for fault in a person you will find it. It struck me as being prophetic at the time. I didn't know it was derived from the Abraham Lincoln quote, anyway I began to take him more seriously and even made pilgrimage to northern California because he said it was the perfect place to life as a vagrant. It may have been when he was there 20 years ago but by the time I got there I found much of it to be a meth hole, although the weather was nice and the forrest were beauteous.

I suffered from night cramping before I started paleo, and it would come and go, I think its some type of mineral imbalance issue. It flared up real bad this summer, and I would buy a bunch of oysters or fish and was for a time adding magnesium chloride to my water, I think it helped. Its better now that the winter is here and I no longer have to break a daily sweat, I sure hope I don't have to suffer with it this next summer.

It may be that there is some adjustment that has to take place considering all the other complaints on this forrum about cramping. I had the same cramping issues as KD. There was couple of times I would do yoga and my hamstrings would lock up, I just thought it was from running up and down ladders all day and not keeping hydrated, but based on the testimony here there may be something else to it.

So they have just figured out that people with leaky gut suffer depression, well I could of told them that about 4 years ago when I was suffering from such afflictions. I had a nutritional blood analysis done and it showed that I had excessive fat in the blood as well as parasites and bacteria. I would have mental episodes after nearly every meal where I would feel demented and poisoned,  How could one who has such a condition not also suffer from depression. Isn't most serotonin production within the nerves of the gut, so if the immune stem of the gut is under attack then I seriously doubt those cells are going to be able to pump out the feel good hormones as freely as someone who is afflicted.. 

When I grew up the kids in my family including my self had to constantly endure rashes and irritated skin due to detergent residues in the clothes. I remember breaking out in hives on numerous occasions, and now I am very picky about laundry soap. When I do have to use a cheaper brand of soap I will often use half the recommended amount or if its particularly fragrent and irritating I will do a second rinse cycle to remove the residue.

I have also noticed that African Americans develop at a faster rate than most other races, which gives them a prime advantage in highschool and collage athletics. I hit a late growth spurt and wasn't finished growing to after high school, but there were African American athletes that were fully matured and well mussled by the freshman year of highschool. Collage athletics depend on recruiting the best highschool athletes, then its obvious that the African Americans who reach sexually and physical maturity at an earlyer age, will have an advantage, The early testosterone peak is what gives them black people a head start in developing athletic as well as sexual prowess.  This hormonal burst may have evolved to ensure survival on the African plains, while people from other regions evolved to grow more slowly which allowed them to perfect survival skills over a longer childhood in cooler climates

We are at an age where there is a great missunderstanding about the power of DNA to regenerate under the right conditions. We are being told that all these degenerative diseases is due to genetic flaws or bad genes. What we aren't being told is that its all caused by the same principles that were at work in pottingers cats.There is a downward spiral of circumstances that has lead to the problems of today. As long as the genetic code is still intact and capable of healing then even in many people who have already been labled as having bad genes , cancer genes, diabetes genes there is the capacity to heal. There is still time to reverse allot of the chromosomal chaos that has been caused by the adulterations in the food and environment. I propose that returning to the evolutionary diet is the best way to reverse the damage, and perhaps in some lucky people with the DNA survival structures intact, new adaptions and mutations will occur that will spawn the new age of human development. We are all constantly germinating and the will to survive and thrive is alive within the structures of our genes, we need to focus our efforts to provide the proper nutrition and environment which will restore us to our evolutionary peak. This can be done , and I have faith that my own children could be the beginning of the neo paleo Renaissance and if I am even remotely successful then perhaps within two generations I will have personally spawned a new breed of people with the strength and vitality of the ancient Olympians, and along with proper education and a good work ethic , they will be at the pinnacle of the next phase of our species.(I can still Dream)

Things are fairly dark for those who continue to follow the recommended dietary guideline's, its time for the illuminated people to break rank and take the authority over our own lives and declare I am not an insect in a hive, I don't want to consume food that was dissigned for slave class people. I will not be subject to standardization and will not blindly march the path that has been layed out by society. Anyone here with half a brain can see the new total wave of degenerative humanity that is upon us. The easier our lives become because of mechanization the less our will to live will be exercised and if the current trends persist then those survival mechanism's will soon become switched off completely and the human species will no longer be capable of proactive evolution. This degenerative creature that man is becoming will have no instincts left to protect it from the advances of mad science and will be doomed to extention.

Its up to us to develop a new science based on stimulating positive genetic expression by wholesome means. We can build a life were the DNA is kept pure from contamination and is exposed only to the best nutrition , and a life style were the thrills of the hunt can be reasonably simulated, a life with real pourpose that will drive us to new peaks of experience . If technology were to be properly harnessed then its possible to develop protocol that would insure the health vitality and happiness for people, from an evolutionary perspective. This wont happen on a large scale due to the nature of how the world works, but for a few pioneers there should be enough space on this big blue rock to attain this Ideal on a small scale.

Pre paleo I had the white tounge real bad , after about 3 days into a fast my tongue would clear up,but it would always come back , I was already malnourished before this diet so I decided that starving it out isn't a good option.. I have been raw paleo for 11 months and the white fuzz is gone but I still suffer from an affliction called geographic tongue. My wife has it too and my kids get a spot every now and then,My father and has it as well. Its supposed to be some benign condition of unknown origin that affects some 30 million people, but I believe it is a poisonous fungus that is impossible to get rid of, perhaps some mutant strain that is resistant to virtually everything, I will often wake up with a fungal taste in my mouth. I try to ignore it, but I have noticed it flares up in cycles and when it breaks out, I have vague symptoms of foggy handedness and low energy, It seems to zap the life out of me, although now I am not as bothered by it anymore and when it does occur I am no longer bed ridden with fatigue like I used to be.

This brand of butter is not coconut oil, it is the flesh and cream , there is a difference that is night and day. I know that there are some info sites that claim that coconut butter is just oil, but its false info that was probably circulated before this particular product ever came to market. Coconut butter actually has carbs,protein and fiber, coconut oil does not

I grew up around some real poor and uneducated people who would consider macaroni and cheese as a perfect dinner for the children, with cereal for breakfast and grilled cheese for lunch, its no wonder why so many don't grow up strong and bright. This possessed diet is what my younger brother and sister followed extensively. I was the first born so when my mother was living separate from my father I was just fed  the same food she was eatting, which included a variety of relatively decent homecooked meals. By the time my mother had my younger brother and sister she became so over run with work and responsibility that she caved in to convenience foods for us kids. By that time I already had a taste for meat and so she catered to me and would make me larger portions of meat , she would make Salmon patties and would save me  the bones, or sometimes I would just open a can of tuna and eat it plain. Canned food isn't ideal but I was better off than my younger siblings that seemed to have taken to the convenience foods and got very little of the homecooking that I enjoyed my first 5 years before my mother became to busy to make wholesome meals. My siblings ate very little food that was unprocessed and we all ended up living on cakes and eatting sugar cereal while growing up. Its a testament to mankinds ability to perserver how I was able to build and maintain a sane and functioning mind considering how I lived and what I ate when I was younger.

I knew what was happening during my childhood wasn't anywhere near Ideal but I was poor and didn't have a choice. Now I am still fairly poor but I make more money that my mother made and am determined to spend every penny I have toward providing good living for my family. My goal is to incorporate paleo food into my children's diet and strictly limit questionable foods. Then let nature take its course and prey they are well enough to endure the occasional birthday party food, or piece of candy. Sometimes I wonder how much force I can put behind setting strict dietary standards, without being a fanatic. I am constantly lecturing my family on the dangers of letting children have unlimited amounts of processed foods and candy.