I love it, and my kids love it, too. I think more of butter then of ice-cream when I eat it, though. This is something that I recommend to friends who have never tried raw meats, because the taste is really pleasant. I mostly eat mutton marrow but I enjoy beef too.

Yes, I have smelled it too. Not only cancers. I can smell other diseases too. When somebody has a couple of days left to live, they have a perticular smell. I used to work at a hospital, so I have noticed cancer and before-death-smell a lot.

 My family used to use my "dog-nose" to smell if food where rancid or moldy, I could always smell it long before anyone else could. I can sometimes smell where women are in their menstrual cycle. For what I need that talent, I do not know. It is sometimes a blessing, and sometimes a curse.

Polio is a detox of the spine, usually due to heavy metal poisoning from vaccines, canned food or food cocked in metal utensils.
If you get polio (if you are in to RAF, you will not); eat a raw paleo diet, high in fat and organic bonemarrow and let the detox have it´s course and you will be fine.

I have noticed since I moved to India and sleep on the floor that my muscles relaxes much better. When I used to sleep in a soft bed the tension in the muscles from moving/working during the day, would still be there when I woke up, but I was so used to it that I didn´t notice. Not until I slept on a hard floor and the resistance made it nessecary for me to consciously let go of muscle tension. It is absolutetly impossible to sleep on hard surface if your body is tense, it hurts. It is like someone massages your muscles a bit hard, it hurts as long as you can´t relax them. I think that´s one of the reason why the people here has very flexible bodies even in old age in spite of malnutrition, they squat, they sleep on the ground/ floor and their body´s don´t get spoiled using to much furniture.

I was thinking about starting a thread on clay, since I have some questions on the subject, when I found this one. Very interesting to read, Jessica. Sounds like a nice place to live! I have been thinking of collecting clay and eat it for some time. I love the smell of clay (it get´s my saliva running!) and whenever I taste it I really like it and I would like to eat more of it, but I get worried that it can contain things that are easy to overdose, like too much iron or something. The area I have tasted clay from is relatively unpolluted in the Himalayas, but some minerals can be toxic for humans in too big quanteties. Do you just follow your intuition on wich clay to eat, Jessica, and how much? I know you can order clay from companies that tests that it´s safe, but the whole thought of that puts me off. I just want to lay down on the ground and lick it! I got inspired now from you, Jessica, I think I will try it.

Five days ago, I went hiking with my two kids, the youngest on my back in a carrier, and I slipped and fractured the fibula bone near the wrist. I heard it snap like a twig, when my foot bended sideways ( I instinctively tried not to fall on my back, where my son where sitting). I used flip flops (not the best shoes for hiking, but it was a spontaneous hike!) and the hillside was full of round shaped gravel. Bad combination. I have had a fracture once before in my life, 18 years ago, and it´s the same bone in the same place as this time. Can it bee that I didn´t heal properly that time (it was in my vegetarian days) and the bone was already weaker there then the rest? Or maybe I just used the same way of bending my right foot when I lost my balance, and thats why I fractured it in the same manner. I don´t think I have brittle bones in general.
It is healing remarkably quick, though. I started putting weight on it two days ago, and I am walking without crutches. I refused casting (is it called that in engl?), I want full blood circulation for optimal healing and I need to be able to move the foot as much as I can.
I just eat the same as usual but I drink more milk, I crave it at the moment. I love bonemarrow, but I can´t get organic meat here, in Goa where I am at the moment, and I dare not eat marrow full of toxins so I stay off it.
Does anybody have any input on what might be good food for me for healing this? I still have a bit of swelling and bruising around the ankle.

I used to be able to eat nuts when I started with RAF, I could even handle some veggies back then. But now when I eat almost exclusively meat and animal fat I get stomach cramps that leaves me on the floor in featus position if I taste nuts! Nuts does not go well with a diet high in RAF in my experience. Haven´t tried fresh almonds though, they look tasty!

I think we have parasites in many organs and it´s the same thing, they are janitors. Parasites and larger animals have co-existed for hundreds of thousands of years because we all benefit from it. All animal tissue have inactive "parasites" in them that becomes active when needed, for example when we die. That has been scientifically proven. We don´t always get them from food, we are suppose to have them. They clean up messes, if you have them.
Whenever we slaughter sheeps, for example, they ALWAYS have two short, fat, white worms in there brains, that crawl away when you break the scull open. Isn´t that funny? Always two. I have asked my husband and his family (from Kashmir) who has seen hundreds of sheep beeing slaughtered over the years, and they confirm that they always have two worms in the brain. I am supercurious to ask a brain surgeon or people who do autopsys if humans have large worms in the brain too. I have heard from people who promotes anti-parasite cures that we can have parasites in the brain, but I don´t know how they know that or if there information is correct.

Might be useful to try honey with meats and fat, too. It´s loaded with enzymes to help digest proteins and fats. It has to be unheated.

Don´t know about the K vitamins but a have seen some research done on the D-vitamin in animals, I think it was through the weston a price website. In short, they make vitamin D from sunlight, obviously, and meat or eggs from pasture fed animals contains a lot of it, especially liver and yolk. Indoor kept animals have very low vitamin D levels in their meat and organs. The levels of vitamin D have drastically gone down in meats since industrial meat production started. I have noticed that for example chickens that are running free outside have dark yellow fat compared to cage chickens white fat. I think that vitamin D makes the fat more yellow, but this is just my own idea. Fishliver is another booster of all the fatsoluble vitamins, if you can get wildcaught, skate liver is high in K.
I would stay away from the supplements, they are too far from it´s natural state to do you any good.

Sorry for the delay, my internet connection is not working since the last two days.

My sons school has some good qualities, obviously, otherwise we wouldn't have choosen it. But the vegetarian mindset of the staff and parents are a problem for us (and for all the other kids, they are very emotional, being high on starches all day). I am more and more leaning towards making my own home school situation working, and keep it open to other children too, if other families in the area would be interested. And just do our thing. I am nervous at the thought of other people educating my kids, especially if their way of life is too, different from ours ("killing animals is bad karma" etc). We bought some land up in Kashmir, where my husband is from, earlier this year, and we will set up a small animal farm there and some tourist cottages, and I will probably try to get some school thing going on there as well. If you want good things I guess you have to do it yourself. Would be nice to send the kids to a nice outdoor oriented RAF school where they could explore nature and be creative! Maybe in the future such places will exist
Let's hope and work towards that!

Kids and RAF is a tough one when it comes to social life. For some familys it seams to work very well, I am so happy for them. This is my experinces, in short;
I have two sons, 5 and 1 year old, and I let them eat cooked foods when they see other people eat it, although I always try to explain what is healthy and what is not and what long term effects different foods have when you eat them (at least to my 5-year old, the youngest is too young for reasoning). I follow the Primal Diet, and my husband does too, for the most part. We live in a joined household, all in all about 15 people, and we are the only two eating raw, so the kids do eat cooked foods everyday with rest of the family (cooked meats, and some rice and bread, no veggies - they don´t like them). I feed them raw, fatty meats everyday and raw dairy (milk and butter) and they both take Blue Ice fermented codliver oil every day, I can´t get them to eat raw fish, unfortunately. I am not a fan of any supplements, but I must say that the fish oil saved my oldest sons teeth, or what little was left of them. I was a vegetarian for ten years before having him and nursed him for years, thinking I was doing him a favour, only the milk was of so poor quality, and he didn´t eat much else, so his milkteeth just rottened. Since I started giving him cod liver oil the tooth decay has completely stopped.
My oldest son goes to a pre school where he gets terrible lunches (only veg, mostly cooked starches like pasta or bread). I am not happy with the amount of cooked crap that my children encounters during the day, but I hope that the good stuff I give them will at least give their bodies usable nutrition for health and growth. I am all the time trying to find better solutions to these problems, I am not going to keep him in this school next year, for example. The family issue is a hard one to figure out though, I want them to have close relationships with rest of the family, their grandparents and cousins etc, but the stuff that this people eat sends shivers up my spine sometimes!
I think that as the children grow and experience the effects that different foods has on them, they will be able to choose wisely. I guess most of the people here never had anybody showing them how to eat RAF but they were intelligent enough to find this path themselves. I guess trying to be a good rolemodel is the stand I am taking on the parenting issue, rather than having a lot of rules. Strict rules often tend to get the opposite effect, if I remember my own childhood correctly:)