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California is known to cause cancer and birth defects.
Arizona is bettah.
I was born in San Diego, Ca. Won't ever move back.
Hell I don't even visit often.
Move to Az and coming hiking with me.
California is overrated.
- Expensive property
- High taxation
- Nanny state
High meat had no noticeable effect on my skin. I don't know why, but my guess is that high meat promotes healthy gut flora but does not have a strong antifungal effect. Raw fat did help greatly and fat is known to hydrate--eating fat helped me more than applying it to my skin, though both helped. Raw fermented honey helped further beyond what VLC or ZC or high fat did. I'm surprised but I can't deny what I've seen with my own eyes and felt in my scalp with my fingernails. I don't fully understand why or how it worked, but I do know that raw honey is an antifungal, so that's my best guess. I don't know how well this would work for others. I haven't seen other reports of this, but the Really Raw folks did indicate that others have reported similar results, so it apparently works for at least some other people.
I think that the real danger in people like DV and AV hogging all the spot light is the fact that they may be the only resources that some people will have to base their diets on , and if those people happen to be intolerant to milk or have other serious issues , then the protocol they try to follow may not give them the best results.
From the mountain view that the people of this forum share, the antics of people like DV seem quaint and novel, but heaven help the fools in the valley that take him too seriously, and have no other resource to balance out the new age nonsense with down to earth proven effective protocols. Thats why its important to build up a thriving paleo culture that is much larger and complete than the visions of the particular gurus.
for this site as i think most people in their beginning "newbie" phase of this diet would easily take everything AV or DV says for fact
My moles and other benign skin lesions have gradually been disappearing since I started eating Paleo, but when I mention this to people they just dismiss it as something that happens naturally with age in people. To me that seems like too flimsy a dismissal that doesn't explain why I was developing more and more moles and skin lesions while eating modern foods and then when I switched to Paleo they started disappearing. It seems like too much of a coincidence of timing to assume that it's solely due to a natural aging process, especially since I tend to see more moles on aged people, not less.
When it comes to growth factors from food, eating all the best quality animal foods is already the best thing you could be doing, in my opinion. Of course, colostrum has the most concentrated growth factors in it, I really do recommend seeking out a farmer who may provide you with fresh colostrum.
I'm no expert, but it seems that many different nutrients can help and fuel the production of growth hormones in the body. Foods high in tryptophan can help by stimulating serotonin production, which can act as a growth factor itself.
There are also other amino acids that can influence growth hormones, but I have yet to do more research on that.
I just found this. http://www.vrp.com/amino-acids/growth-hormone-amino-acids-as-gh-secretagogues-a-review-of-the-literature
It's an interesting read and am interested myself. Hormones like these are so important to our health and more people seem to really miss out on them growing up these days. I personally know I missed out big time. Going mainly vegan was horrible during the most important years of my puberty. As a result, I worsened all kinds of hormonal imbalances and am underdeveloped in many ways. Animal foods are wonderful.
if it burns then stay away from it.
i recently had ulcers, and according to ayurveda i should avoid it.
someone on the forum once posted that consuming carbs can make the skin oilier. i would tend to agree with this. IMO when i eat carbs my skin is oilier. there are also many claims from people who have done juice fasts (which i am not advocating) who describe oily skin when fasting. my skin definitely felt like it was glowing, completely different, actually normal, right after a waterfast i did for 9 days. but i felt the dryness during the actual fast.
i am now VLC and did notice that when i am ZC my mouth, eyes and skin felt drier. according to chinese medicine, my tongue would be considered to red, and dry when ZC. i do not believe it has to do with consumption of water but rather a glandular issue headed by the liver. perhaps ZC is too "dehydrating" for some.
at the moment, i believe cyclical or occasional consumption of fruits/veggies is probably of benefit to most people as paleo man resorted to eating them.
perhaps variability in diet gives us a lower margin of error since most of us do not know what our optimal diet is.
I've never had skin issues, and tend to have even smoother skin on this type of diet, but I DO feel especially dry/parched when eating RAF (I'm probably eating more from dairy, getting much of my fat from butter, some from animal fats, organs and whole egg)
I do tend to drink less/little water doing the diet this way but it seems even if I was to drink more that it makes little difference.
I bring this up only to mention that by logic, or from RPD/primal claims, this makes little sense, as I consume no cooked food, which is incredibly drying, and I consume tons of fat, which is supposedly lubricating. dust and other factors seem to dry me out much more than the average person, and I imagine humidity does the same IICR when I was doing the diet at the beginning of last summer. Before doing raw again this time around, I did basically cooked paleo/primal and didn't experience the same kind of dried out feeling, which leads me to believe there is something going on internally (either positive that requires more moisture/lubrication to facilitate such as getting rid of poisons, or possibly negative:undefined, requiring more water or other lubrication, than even a normal person who drinks coffee and eats crap) that is accelerated on an all-raw diet.
I live in New York. We're about the same latitude.
They've got ~475 acres with 300 head. They have enough fields that they can make hay all spring/summer/fall long and have food for the animals. They also have them outside in all but the worst storms.
You asking me, or someone else?
My typical meal is a pound of deer meat/tendon with some GF-GF cattle suet and a small dab of raw honey to make it palatable. I'd guess 60-80% of my calories come from the fat, the rest from muscle/tendon and other foods I eat during the day like a piece of fruit.
So, what do you do? Dehydrate them?
It depends on the individual, how long have you been paleo and raw paleo?
