When I first started RPD I was talking with my best friends mom about her heart issues and that I was going to eat raw meat. She said yuck, as people commonly do and asked why. I told her I needed to heal my body and feel better and nothing else was working. She has heart issues and eats a lot of "healthy grains" to try and help. She's overweight and stressed. I asked her if she could guarantee her heart issues to be healed would she give up all the candy, snacks, grains, etc? She said her doctors told her the heart doesn't heal, so no. I said aside from what doctors say, if it worked would you do it. She said she didn't want to give up her sweets so no.


The epitome of the human condition: I'd rather suffer with one thing to enjoy rather than give up that one thing (bad food) and suffer a little more for a short while but have greater happiness for longer. We are so focused on the present. That reminds me of a joke me and my roommates made up, the morning after a candy/drinking binge; "my present self is always pissed at my past self, while my future self never gets here"

Yes I prefer high liver to high muscle meat. So I keep making it and my jar is nice and green with the dark rich colored liver oil on top. Its good stuff. Recently my supplier is low on liver so I've added ground beef, very lean, and it now has a fizz to it like soda.

what does it matter if i was ill and desperate when I found the cure. Im far from ill or desperate now.

He's just saying we are all people from different than normal ways of life. That we are the kind of people that commonly throw what may be considered normal to the wind if it can benefit our lives.

People that are willing to eat raw and rotten meat are desperate and generally live with opinions on the edge of society. I'm sure he means no offense, rather that we should expect the unexpected 'round these here parts of town'

The Gods Must be Crazy is a hilarious movie. "Are the voices in my head distracting you?"

well, my puppy has parvo. I'm exhausted. Up all night with her puking. Vet gave her anti-inflammatory, anti-nausea, and anti-biotic medications. I don't like anti-biotics because of how they weaken the immune system. But I'm using them short term so she won't catch anything and the second she gets her appetite back she will be eating my high meat to rebuild good bacteria. I'm also using M.M.S (chlorine dioxide) which supposedly has been very helpful to many people. I'm quite hopeful she'll be okay. After 3 doses of MMS today so far she is less lethargic, wagged her tail once for a bit, and is much less spacey. Still no appetite or desire for thirst but she isn't really dehydrated, thankfully.

We are bleaching the whole house. My eyes burn and my head hurts. I'm burnt out and want to take a nap. I had to get away from the bleach smell so I came and wanted to post this. If anybody has taken their dog through parvo and has other good stuff to recommend (herbal for rehydration?) let me hear it.

I am feeling a little sad right now. The prospect of finding a healthy, woman, or in my goals, women, that would be on board with raw paleo, polygyny, and be very beautiful while having an attractive personality seem to shrinking daily as I learn more and more the potential of the human race. Naturally, there must be some give and take. However, I simply don't think I can believe in marriage in the standard sense anymore. It simply doesn't make sense. It seems... harsh and cold in some regards. This concept of love is laughable; we've only married for love in the last 100 years.

In some regards I can be funny, energetic, and the life of any party. Raw paleo has put me on the top of my game, leaving girls usually eyeing me all night and saying they love how funny, exciting, etc. I am. But... I am not attracted to them. Most of the conversation, while based on comedy and is nice to break loose, is simply shallow.

I am in the middle of nowhere. I am not here for myself. I'm here for my parents. The goal is to help them survive another year. Agriculture, ironically enough in a system based upon agriculture, is dying for the middle sized man. There is a movement towards small organic farms. The giants also are buying up the medium sized guys. My family is a medium sized guy. We can either sell or shrink down. The government subsidizes grains and taxes fruits. So backwards. I can't imagine the strife some of the organic grass-fed cattle growers go through. Or maybe it's not that bad. Don't grow fruit. It's a shitty business.

It wouldn't be so bad here if I could find some beautiful women to hang or have sex with. I haven't had sex in 1 year and a half. Talk about being high-strung.

I wish I could find one other person, male, female, attractive, unattractive, doesn't matter at this point, that wants to do raw paleo with me. It's been the best change I've done in my life with the easiest effort and the greatest results. I've never felt this great day to day or looked this good not only in athletic shape but overall complexion. And people comment on it. My friends that know I eat this way think it's interesting, and that it's obviously helped, but have no interest in giving up brownies or bread or donuts, or any other grain/dairy, not even to mention eating meat raw.

Oh well. Sorry to anyone reading if I sound like I'm throwing a pity party. The thing that bothers me the most is feeling alone as I do. Any lack of loneliness involves people that simply want to party. The area is a desert. Maybe you guys have some advice for getting over this sort of issue? Maybe I need to take a weekend trip with some friends to the city and be social and meet 100 new people in 2 days?

So after following the day-long debate, but not being able to respond, I'll just put my two cents in here.

I live in an area where there is no wild fruit. I'm an avid outdoorsman and have yet to come across anything that remotely resembles fruit in this area, even if I don't know what it is, it's all pretty much grass and trees. So there's two conclusions I can draw: 1- fruit is not abundant in this area so if I were to adapt to it I'd have to eat mostly animals. 2- whether or not it is beneficial, evolution is about change, and the change that needs to occur to survive in an area.

I have many reasons for doing VLC/ZC right now:

-Seasonal changes: it's getting to fall and about the only fruit left is apples and pears. Nothing can be found wild so I choose not to eat domesticated fruit right now.

-Previous health issues are going away being on ZC: my teeth enamel in growing back, they are becoming stronger, acne is clear, all symptoms that showed up immediately upon consuming carbs in any form, including raw local honey. My energy deteriorated with carbs and on zero-carb I feel like a warrior, going for most of the day with no desire to stop and watch tv as I previously wished to. Not to say I'm over-working myself, rather that I'm being productive for my day, with many activities being sit-down (music, reading, conversation, etc.) Also my desire to be social is returning to what it was in high school, when I felt great.

-I come from Scandinavian and Slavic heritage, both cold climates. Who knows how many generations this goes back but let's assume for a moment that within the realm of unprocessed foods one must adapt to his environment quickly or die. To adapt to cold climates one must consume fat and very few carbs; it's all that nature has available and in fact provides an advantage for that person. I notice on my highest fat days I struggle a little in the heat but can drench myself in a cold shower or sit in the car with the AC full blast, feeling cold but it doesn't bother me. In fact, it's almost enjoyable to live at a refrigerated temperature of 50-60 degrees F, or about 14-20 C.

-I have always had a disposition towards meats and fish, again possibly Scandinavian heritage.

-Sweets have been my addiction, struggling to not eat them day in and day out. With ZC, I don't feel that pull anymore and with a few bites of carbs I feel a pull to continue consuming even though I know it's unhealthy. They make me sick so I need a break.

-Sleep is better. When I was young I was always noted as the first to bed and first to rise. Looking back I was just sensitive to the natural cycles of the day and enjoyed following them. From 13 yrs. to just a few months ago of age I have had sleep difficulties that are being sorted out again by being ZC. I am more likely to be in bed by 10 and wake up naturally at 6-7. This is not consistent yet but I am feeling more rested and more energetic overall, which tells me something good is happening.

As stated earlier, I have no intention of living my life in a zero-carb state. It is an experiment I need to conduct to figure out the best carbs for me and how to tolerate them without a loss of energy. If that means I must live in a ketogenic state where most of my energy comes from fat, so be it. If the way I feel now continues (not likely, everything changes) I'll continue what I'm doing. It's the first time in my life I've felt this good.

As far as scientific stuff goes: babies live in a ketogenic state, eating high fat and cholesterol and doing great. The land mostly provides those macronutrients year round, fruit being seasonal except in tropical places. Yes, I know the stuff about instincto's talking about high fruit areas year round. That is not commonplace nor does it align with evolutionary theory or even practicality for where I live. Otherwise I'd be consuming only domesticated fruit and I'm sure the instincto's don't approve of domesticated fruit. Also, if the instinctos truly had their alliesthetic response the same as our ancestors, why do we not hear them laying claim that grazing on bugs is the most instinctual way of hunting for food? Why work hard at killing a deer that's so fast and requires great spear skill when we can eat these lovely maggots crawling all over the tree? I'm 3 months into raw paleo and as I can see myself maybe in the future attempting bugs, I currently have no interest. I'm already deemed weird enough and don't want to lose any more friends over this

I would like to be more wild in my approach with food; hunting more frequently. I can only imagine how yummy a dove or quail or deer or bear is eaten straight from the wild. My nature may be full of bugs but I'll let the lizards eat the bugs and I'll eat the lizards.

I've also read that most denaturing occurs at 18 degrees.

The dangers and misconceptions of ketosis.

I drank two and a little less than 1/2 a little more than 1/4 glasses of wine tonight.  3 hours later I blew a .38 on the breathalyzer. I am not out of my mind drunk. My mom only said my breath smelled a little bit like alcohol, like ketones. My dad didn't notice. I'm only buzzed. Apparently .35 is enough to be hospitalized and that's by serious drunks.

Yes, my breath alcohol is really high. Mostly because with no carbs my body processes alcohol really fast and strongly. However I can't drink as much as my carb days because with no carbs to diffuse the alcohol it makes my breath and likely blood alcohol really high. Dangerously high.

My limit for a long time has been about 3 drinks in the course of a night, taken over a few hours. It's enough for me. I don't enjoy drunk. Just a little buzz. This works well with ketosis as I only need a drink or two to get there.

http://www.breathalyzeralcoholtester.com/alcohol-chart-estimation I weight about 160. Apparently I'm supposed to be dead.

TESSERACT - Altered State (Full Album Stream)

Take it from a person who is a true musician: I'm 23 years old, I've studied jazz the last 8 years, played sax and guitar for the last 13, and listened to metal/rock/jazz my whole life.

This band really knows music and this album is nothing short of glorious. On first listen, I thought, wow, beautiful. The singing is top notch, rhythms, mix, syncopation, all entertaining. But as I continue to listen, I only hear more and more. I really believe that I will be listening to this group only for at least another 6 months. There have only been  two albums to hold my attention for that long: Kind of Blue by Miles Davis and Periphery II, from Periphery.

If I could suggest to any non-musical person to listen to any music that would totally throw them for a loop at first, but later provide them with the most satisfying musical experience of their life: listen to this album, over and over.

Being ZC for a while now and using my dad's breathalyzer, I frequently blow anywhere from .02-.10% BAC. I've been searching and cant seem to find anything correlating these numbers with blood ketones. Does anybody have any idea if there is something I haven't found that shows if I blow a .10 (like this morning) it means I'm at 3.0 blood ketones, or something similar?

Also, in terms of risk of getting pulled over, taking a breathalyzer, failing, going to jail, does anybody know how to beat this? Does the blood alcohol read ketones the same way breath alcohol tests read breath acetone (ethyl alcohol)? Or do I have to ask to be given a breathalyzer every 2 hours to prove that my "alcohol content" isn't going down and that my body is producing the false positive?

Jess: The only covered meat I eat is high meat. The rest I leave open air. However 90% of the time I leave the juice in there. The other 10% I do drain to dry because the chewiness can be great, though I haven't found a meat that when I dry age it gets more flavor, only when I leave the juice. I aspire someday to be on the level of AV and how he would (sucks to use past tense) eat probably more high meat than any of us.

Is there some secret to getting more flavor out of dry aged meat? Maybe my taste buds haven't developed the skill to taste the subtleties in the dried meat unseasoned? I've been eating more stuff unseasoned but when it's fresh as fresh can be it is very bland, so i'll use hot sauce.