I grew up on a dairy farm in Arkansas running naked through the woods and drinking raw milk.

At the age of 12, I witnessed my father and grandfather kill and butcher a pig who's piglets I'd played with.  I became a lacto-ovo vegetarian for 22 years.

At the end of my admittedly not very healthy vegetarian phase, I developed a bad case of sciatica.  I'd wake up in the morning feeling like someone had beat my butt with a baseball bat.  I could hardly walk.  I went to see an alternative kind of chiropractor and he said, "You're full of shit."  He suggested I do "Fit for Life".

This natural hygiene way of eating immediately flushed out my intestines (I lost 8 pounds in one day) and cured my sciatica.

But this got me to rethinking human diet, so I toyed around with Instinctive Nutrition for a while and eventually came across paleo.  I read Neanderthin, Paleo Diet, etc. and became a convert.  I noticed two distinct changes when I reintroduced meat into my diet.  My short term memory greatly increased and my ability to drive without falling asleep greatly increased.

So I've been sort of a junk-food paleo, much like I was a junk-food vegetarian.  Last week, I met some decade long raw people and thought maybe I should step up my commitment to healthy paleo eating and go raw!