Positive Thinking?  I definitely do not think that that works I have tried that a long time too.  I more was referring to unconscious traumas that have not been processed and made peace with.  And i agree that Hamer did not put nearly enough to nutrition.

Has anybody looked into the emotional/conflicted theory of MS and other auto-immune issues, lyme, CFS, FIBRO, etc, cancers.  German New Medicine Dr. Hamer almost always found a "conflict-shock" in patients with cancers or other serious illness.  These could be traumas (adoptions, attempted abortion, rape, abuse, divorce, fear, etc.)  He worked with the people to resolve their conflicts and most of the time the "illness" went away.  Personally i believe it is all big.  Good nutrition, lifestyle factors, environment go a long way, but your just fighting uphill all the way unless you resolve the emotional factors as well.  Personally, i think thats why so many people struggle for years and years only to have problems linger around.  Everyone is different.  Always find your own "Nails in your feet," and remove them to achieve lasting health/wellness.

Just being a little paranoid today after 2nd liver flush.  my meals today were juiced celery/carrots, an apple, 4 raw eggs, and some cooked veggies with good amount of coconut oil.  I am nowhere near where i want to be but i can tell my body is screaming for the raw fats it just has been blocked up.  Anyways, off topic.  So question is, when switching over from cooked paleo to more raw and rare foods do you find that you don't need the same amount of food to feel satisfied?  For instance, eating 4 raw eggs feels like i get the same protein/fat as if i ate 3 cooked eggs plus a good amount of cooked chicken.  I would assume that the reason for this is that the raw fat/protein actually get mostly absorbed where the cooked proteins are much harder to break down.  And it seems in general, the longer i have been eating "healthfully," the less food i need.  Just want to believe i'm not going nuts.  It's like my body says, thank you for these beautiful eggs.  We don't need any more till tomorrow.  A little spacey tonight i know. Early bed tonight.  All i know is i love raw fat right now.  I think my liver congestion has had me deprived for a VERY LONG time.  Avocados anybody?

-Joe

I'm in the same boat somewhat.  In the process of decongesting the liver/GB so i can tolerate good fats better.  My body also does not seem to like the "cold turkey" route.  What helps me is slowly transitioning.  For the meats that you do cook, cook VERY LOW/SLOW.  chicken/turkey are the only meats i cook all the way through.  Eggs are pretty easy raw to get used to.  so is rare salmon/beef.  Supplement with good raw fats. coconut, olive, avocados, etc.  Maybe find a local grassfed butcher/farmer who has good quality organ meats and fats.  Honestly i think for me, its the raw fat that i have needed to start fixing my liver.  High heated anything (Fatty fried meats, roasted nuts/butters, cooked oils) will bog you down big time.  Juicing also helped me a bit.

I know nothing about that, but i am not against it in any way.  If i remember correctly, most cultures traditionally ate insects as a good source of food.  I'm sure you have to be careful nowadays if you live in industrialized areas.   Bad food, chemicals the bugs might eat who knows.

I personally think that eggs are mainly a problem when they come from supermarket and are "grain fed, hormones, etc."  As long as i don't eat them every day i seem fine with it

Well i believe in chinese medicine and similar theories the consciousness lies in different organs of the body.  Anger/frustration/resentment lie in the liver/GB.  When we do not acknowledge or release/deal with these emotions they build up and energy cannot flow through these organs.  It is very common to have emotional healing reactions as well.  When you release a big event, resolve a conflict, forgive others, hit a punching bag, etc, the consciousness is allowed to go back into the organ and the energy resumes.  Kinda like unkinking a garden hose.  I just picture all of these energetic hoses running through the body.  When we have emotional/spiritual blocks these hoses get kinked up.  Local metabolism slows down.  I had a lot of issues related to a birth trauma.  If you want to go even deeper, its possible that these are not even our own issues.  If you look into family constellation work or the writings of John Bradshaw or Bert Hellinger, they show that energetic/emotional issues can be passed on from ancestors.  Most people understand this as the viscious cycle (parent abuses kid, kid abuses his kid, etc.)  If parents don't deal with their own issues they are passed down the chain.  As all energy cannot be destroyed, only shifted, the energy has to go somewhere.  I'm not sure if you guys are familiar with "klinghardt's 5 levels of healing" but it is definitely worth checking out for anyone having ongoing health issues that seem stubborn to resolve.  Personally, i am finding that a relationship with God/the universal energy, etc, is the best guidance.  Once you have that on an intuitive level than you will know the best course of action for you at any given time.  Shamanism and Dreamwork are also good avenues to receive answers to questions that we cannot ask in the ordinary physical world.  The more i learn about all this the more mysterious it all gets. 

-Joe

Hey yea,

I have heard of German New Medicine.  I think eventually they will be able to pinpoint all of this stuff a lot easier.  I think diet is extremely important.  I think emotions are extremely important.  Some people have terrible diet and really healthy emotions and can get away with junk food a lot longer.  Some people have perfect diets but are stress fanatics or have repressed emotions.  I look at health as the "nail in the foot" approach.  If you have a nail in your foot you can eat a perfect diet but it's not going to stop your pain.  The body knows how to heal if you remove the obstructions to healing.  We are not taught that repressed emotions are "nails" that need to be processed and dealt with sometimes in order for true healing to begin.  I think most people with chronic fatigue, fibro, lyme, as well as most autoimmune illness and cancers have big emotional components.  In a lot of mental/emotional circles they will tell you that "not accepting/loving yourself unconditionally" is the basic illness in all of us.  And sometimes being religious about eating PERFECTLY is actually bad for your health.  I think the biggest thing is finding out what our "nails" or "root causes" are and removing them, and then trust that our body knows how to heal when we give it the proper food, rest, exercise, etc.  It's really all about facing up to our demons and respecting ourselves enough to tell people what our needs, wants, as well as limits are.  And accepting ourselves even in moments of weakness.  This is what it means to allow yourself to be human.

-Joe

Hey guys,

I understand basic food combining rules.  No cooked starches with cooked proteins.  No fruit for at least 2 hours after meals, etc.  Question is when eating raw i feel like these rules don't necessarily apply.  Like when i eat 3 or 4 raw eggs i should be able to eat some fruit an hour or so after that right?

-Joe

Jessica, thats funny.  When i first came off of gluten and pastuerized dairy a year ago and switched to basically a cooked paleo diet my body was so desperate for fats that i was globbing up everything that had fat in it, good or bad.  This includes roasted nut butters.    Anyway, my body has a lot more nutrition and energy on board now so doing these big cleanses is not quite as overwhelming as it used to be.  No more roasted nut butters.  swapped out for small amounts of raw dehydrated nuts.  rare salmon/beef.  I think i'm on my way its just going to take some time to clear out everything and then heal/seal the stomach lining.  One thing i have noticed that really helps me is to take a 1 WEEK break and do the GAPS-introduction diet.  This is basically chicken stock, very mushy vegetables, and very slow-cooked meats.  No fruit, raw veggies, nuts, spices, etc.  It does wonders to give the digestive tract a chance to heal up and not have roughage for a week.  I'm gearing up to do the "hulda clark" style liver flush this weekend.  Hopefully all goes well

Hey guys,

Been having health issues that are slowly correcting for a long time.  probably my biggest 3 issues are liver toxicity, weak adrenal function, and bad digestion.  It is spring where i live and i am being drawn to raw foods more.  I juice vegetables, eat fruit, raw egg yolk, raw nuts, very rare salmon/beef, and lots of cooked vegetables and poultry.  I think my main problem is liver/digestion.  Everyone talks about eating raw foods and what not but my stomach/digestive system can't handle mass quantities of this stuff.  It just blocks me up.  Any ideas to fix some of these issues?  By the way, i started doing the egg yolk liver flushing and this seems to help me get a little more bile flowing but i'm not sure if it is powerful enough to really CLEAR me out.  I plan on doing a few of these weekly to see if results accumulate.  Otherwise, in a few weeks i plan on doing the classic "epsom/oil/lemon" flush.  Any thoughts?

-Joe

I know it doesn't make sense but its almost like my body goes WHAT is this?  Honestly, when i cook the whites a little i feel better.  I think its the whites that i react to.  I have done raw yolks for quite a while now.