I think it's about the difference between raw and cooked meat. Cooked meat I feel fine. Raw meat I feel acid, and crave cooked to settle my stomach.

My tentative conclusion is that cooked food makes more of the acid, and raw food needs less so I need to get used to it.

"You want everybody, athletes especially, to be able to burn fat efficiently. So when they train, they are on a very low carbohydrate diet."

..... With athletes, let's think about that. What is the effect of carbohydrate loading before an event. What happens if you eat a bowl of pasta before you have to run a marathon. What does that bowl of pasta do? It raises your insulin. What is the instruction of insulin to your body?

To store energy and not burn it. I see a fair amount of athletes and this is what I tell them, you want everybody, athletes especially, to be able to burn fat efficiently. So when they train, they are on a very low carbohydrate diet. The night before their event, they can stock up on sugar and load their glycogen if they would like.

As for trichinosis it seems to me that the parasite would want the host to be weakened so that it would be easy prey for other carnivores to consume. Thereby moving cysts to new hosts. This might explain why it weakens and kills humans.

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.

John Locke