I get an unlimited amount of lamb fat from a Mediterranean restaurant, it would just be put in the garbage if I didn't take it.

I would say that 50 percent of the calories in my diet is free, and if I get a good road killed deer then I can live cheap and still maintain my lavish diet.

( in a nut shell) I have had a good experience in my 11 months of going paleo, thats one reason why I still hang out here and rave about the issues and try to learn as much as I can. I had reached a point last year when I could no longer eat anything without severe gut pain and sugar spikes. I don't know what condition to compain about the most, but somehow everything seemed to suck. I got viral meningitis a couple of times, hand foot and mouth, K9 parvo(seriously I though I was dieing and couldn't eat anything for a week, was dry heaving and spitting up foam.) My white counts were a little low and my blood sugar a little high and my liver enzymes were off, but no doctor could tell me what was happening. I would have swollen glands and lympnodes and joints lock up during some type of flareup. I had no money or insurance and so was show the door with a scrip for anti depression meds, by uncaring roboticaly trained doctors (Its an injustice that I will never forget.)

I became so wheat intolerant that I would have disorienting episodes and gut pains after eatting any. So I promised to do something about it, and began to research, which lead me into the smokescreen and mirrors of the natural health movement which is so missleading that I often wonder about all those poor souls who actually follow their guidelines of whole grains and low fat and soy.

Eventually I found out about Weston price and Av and while my wife was in the hospital with our new baby I went straight into a raw carnivorous diet. Within a week my blood sugars stabilize and would only spike if I ate a piece of fruit or drank some raw milk, so I took those out of the diet  and after about 3 weeks my blood sugars stayed around 100, whereas before it was over 110. My stomach stopped hurting and my liver became  unclogged. I was having the most complete digestion of food I can ever remember. I eventually lowered my sugars to the mid 80s and even after a large meal I wont go over 95, (when I was ill I would sometimes spike up to 170 and then stay in the 130s,and I would feel terrible all day).

I am eatting a ketotogenic diet were at least 70% of my calories come from raw fat(lamb trimmings, bone marrow, fatty cuts, egg yolks,coconut. While about 20 to 25% come from protein and only 5% from carbs. I am on one of the more extremely carnivorous forms of the raw paleo diet, because of my bloodsugar issues I didn't have much choice, But I can tell you that my recovery has been truly incredible.

Perhaps for someone who isn't as damaged as I was, trying to adapt to this type of extreme diet may not be best, and there may be draw backs for some people that may have different issues. People with less desperate problems might want to try gradually easing into a more ketogenic diet and try to test for themselves how much raw fat they feel good with, also its importaint to know, source matters. I have developed extra sensory perceptions when it comes to tasting meat and I can tell after a difference between different qualities of grassfed, some store bought stuff just doesn't taste right, so I will have look for something different. Before I found my unlimited lamb fat source I was constantly searching for quality beef fat. Sometimes I would get some that was just excellent and other  times I was put off by something that I cant really describe. (now I am ranting), but I often wonder about how some peoples lack of success on this high fat diet may be a quality issue. If you are going to live off of animal fat then it is more important to make sure its 100% pure, than someone who only eats 30 percent or lessof fat and is living using alot of clean paleo carbs.

It is estimated that 10% to 20% of the adult population of the United States suffers from trichinosis at some time. In many people with the disease exhibits no symptoms and is discovered only at autopsy. In others it causes diarrhea and other gastrointestinal symptoms as the worms multiply in the digestive tract. When the larvae circulate through the bloodstream, the patient experiences edema, irregular fever, profuse sweating, muscle soreness and pain, and prostration. There may be involvement of the central nervous system, heart, and lungs; death occurs in about 5% of clinical cases. Once the larvae have embedded themselves in the muscle tissue, the cysts usually become calcified; however, the infestation usually causes no further symptoms except fatigue and vague muscular pains. There is no specific treatment.

I have also read that at least 7% of autopsies in my part of the world discover trichinosis, so I think its a prevalent issue that is ignored. The  majority of people afflicted only have mild symptoms and if your immune system is healthy then perhaps a small load could help stimulate a cleansing immune responce, sadly many people are not so resilient and as they reach elder years they are less able to contain the infection and I believe that a good number of elderly people suffer from the debilitating symptoms of trichinosis, and are just written off as having nerve issues of age induced senility. Its just a hunch, I could be mistaken and those 10 to 20 percent of us who have contracted it are entirely unharmed by it and the symptoms of initial infection are so mild they are mistaken for food poisoning or some cold, its worth debating, although in the end there is nothing you can do about it , besides attempting to avoid highly contaminated meats and keeping yourself healthy.

I eat about a pound of coconut better every 5 days and feel alright, although I often wonder about long term effects of soo much coconut, I may turn into a coconut , I am fairly convinced that I eat more coconut than anyone  around here, so small amount of coconut amino's should be fairly safe even if they are not optimal by paleo standards as long as you don't have any noticeable issues with it.

 I use my butter for the same reason, to make raw meat into a dessert.

I have been making counter top jerky with my deer meat. Its the winter time and with the fernace going the air is fairly dry, and any meat I leave out on the counter will get dry and crusty, I love the soft chewiness of deer that's been left out for days.

My beef cases would take me a while to go through, so I would leave about 15 pounds in the fridge and freeze the rest. It came in vacuumed packed 25 pound pieces and if I didn't eat it within 10 days or so after opening, it  seemed to get a sourness that isn't to my liking. It was different from a properly aged taste, maybee because I kept in in the plastic bag it came in so it sat in a soggy sack and wasn't aired right.

One day I would like to be able to hang it in a meat locker so it could age things properly.

Well, look at the bright side at least you live in Canada, there should be cleaner waters up that way, I grew up off of cloudy looking chlorinated fluoridated tap water, that came from the Ohio? / Kentucky river.

There are some of the most pristine limestone springs in the area of the world I live in , but people are to ignorant and greedy to allow for the development and distribution of clean unshackled drinking water. There are agency's  that go around and refuse to let horse farmers dig wells under some asinine excuse that there is excessive bacteria in the soil so the farmers will be forced to use city water. I did work for a woman that had the cleanest looking most pristine spring along with an abandoned well on her property and she was told that she couldn't put a new well on her property because of soil bacteria(oh really). The water regulators have all been compartmentalized to the point where no one is allowed to do indpendant testing and local communities have no say so in what chemicals are allowed in their water supply. I live on the ass end of Lexington and I can taste and smell the chemicals in the tap water, all I can do is to buy RO water for 39 cents a gallon and use a 5 gallon water dispenser. If I had the money I would by a water generator. Its sad because the area I live in was once renowned for the quality of water by the horse farmers and whiskey brewers that settled here.

I always had doubts about the whole anti oxidant vs. free radical wrestling match that's been portrayed in the established medical view of things. A lot of the synthetic antioxidants are poisonous in themselves and some free radicals are produced by the cells for some reason and could stimulate a protective responce within the body without the need of synthetic antidotes., so this indiscriminate war that's been waged against the free radical seems reckless and half baked.

Once you label a natural process like the production of free radicals as some totally negative phenomenon without truly investigation all the variables like how the process might be necessary to trigger a protective reaction within the body , and also suggest that a person take unnatural substances(synthetic antioxidant) to fight against these naturally occurring substances;then you have made some quantum leap beyond the application of good science, and have entered into the realm of nutritional witchcraft, supplemental sorcery, and free radical conspiracy.

If he was right about this theory about how this catecholaine thing causes adrenalin overload and the development of Adrenalin resistance then the Eskimos could not be as healthy as they are considering their cradle to grave low carb diets. There may be something else to it because none of us are following the Eskimo version of a low carb diet, so there may be some truth to his claim based on differing individual circumstance, like negative effects of plant foods, or flat out cheating with sad foods, short of a double blind study or some personal testimonial backed by evidence I will remain skeptical

I was adrenal fatigued before this diet and now I have energy galore and haven't noticed any decline so far. I heard him talking about blood temperature being related to metabolic disorders, which reminded me that since I was a teenager my blood temperature was rarely above 97 degrees, and I think I have always suffered from some metabolic sluggishness, but I can tell you that now my temperature is spot on 98.6 and I don't feel so week and cold in the mornings like I used to. When I was real ill I remember waking up with a temperature of 96.8 and even if I was sick I would rarely spike a fever. I also am more cold hardy and can work outside in fridged weather without getting fatigued by the cold, the last two winters before this diet were terrible and I could hardly tolerate having to do a whole days work.

I will sometimes eat an egg yolk with high meat, but I haven't had high eggs, although I have found a few eggs my chickens had layed that were about three weeks or so out in the summer heat, they were a little sour but not what you would call high.

I have done my fare share of raving against probiotic supplaments and their ineffectiveness. Its all baloney, scientist have found that healthy guts are infested with strains of bacteria and have cherry picked only a few of the countless liveforms that inhabit the gut and have labled it pro biotics and have sold it as some wonder supplament, while ignoring all the other factors involved in symbiotic relationships which are really what is responsible for healthy gut ecology. People who live on paleo foods are not going to need a gut loaded with acidophiles bacteria, that primarily feed off of vegtable matter and dairy. High meat is the ultimate digestive tonic and should provide all the beneficial bacteria paleo people require

I think that trichinosis and blood parasites are much more prevalent and harmfull than medical science has acknowledged.

There were major genetic changes that focused on the immune system during the rise of paleolithic man.
We humans have a longer gut that is less acidic than other predator animals which makes us more vulnerable to worms in general, so evolution  gave our guts an extremely powerful immune system to provide protection against carrion worm and other parasitic infections, as humans began to become more carnivorous. The problem is that now we live removed from those primal conditions so that now young children are not exposed early to worms and other symbiant organisms and therefore are not able able to develop the iron guts as our paleo children did, and even if modern kids are breastfed there is little chance that the milk is loaded with antibodies against such parasites, because of the sterility of modern life.

This powerful immune system developed by our carnivorous ancestors is being abused and misused by the neolithic diet, along with the sterilize the world mentality of our time. This notion is in tune with what worm therapy is dissigned to do, which is to stimulate the immune system of the gut in  order to purge it of other more harmful organisms,  it may even help heal the damage done by eatting the wrong foods, by letting the immune cells exercise their fury upon true invaders instead of exhausting itself with autoimmune reactions to the wrong foods.

you can google for pictures, but its like small ring worms that start as speck and then grow outward. Within  a few days they will go away and heal, only to come back within a week or so. Sometimes the ring is followed by a secondary candida overgrowth. The taste buds within the ring become wore down and smooth looking and can sometimes hurt. Its kind of scary to have, but its not like I have a choice, so I tolerate it and prey that it will go away. It has improved drastically over the past few months, my whole tongue used to be constantly covered by it, and now I only get a few smaller ones that come and go.

I meant foggy headedness, but my spell check claims its not a word, go figure, anyway

I have gottin such improvement since going ZC but I remember that my limbs would feel real weak and I would often have to struggle to get up a flight of stairs and remember that heavy feeling , it usually was worse after a meal that contained carbs, but of course I was pre diabetic, on top of being eattin with fungus, I believe it was fungal overgrowth that was at he heart of the symptoms and I have managed to rid my gut of it fairly well on this diet, but I still have it on my tongue. I also used to have chronic organ and gut pain that seemed to coinside with the flare up of spots on my tongue and episodes of fatigue. I often forget how bad I was a year ago. By that time I couldn't eat any grains or starches or sugars without feeling demented and wiped out.