Really? So if you do eat raw salmon it's safer to get farmed? That's amazing... personally I don't like farmed salmon even cooked- the fat is mostly omega 6 vegetable oil that they fatten them with, and aren't they routinely fed antibios?

So, what happens when one eats raw salmon sushi? Does the curing of the fish kill the bugs? I do still eat this...

Thanks Michael,
I already feel as if I have stumbled on a really interesting and intelligent community here, with some very forward-thinking ideas about nutrition and its effects on the body. I have just recently qualified as a natural nutritionist, and I find the whole subject richly rewarding. However, I don't always agree with some of the course's principles, knowing from my own experience that dishes heavily-based on grains and pulses can be problematic for many people. As can fruit and dairy of course. I don't touch processed dairy, though luckily I have managed to enjoy organic butter up till now with no problems- I've not tried raw dairy but can imagine it is still going to cause problems with damp conditions such as Candida. I've had a look at Bee's website, and like you, will try and navigate a course between a programme along those lines and raw paleo. At the moment my liver is struggling to cope with the switch to a new regime, and blood sugar is suffering, but luckily my course has given me a whole set of tools to deal with that, including such things as coffee enemas, which really help when one is starting a detox programme and the cells are giving up enormous amounts of metabolic and acidic wastes....

The biggest surprise for me reading the stuff on this forum were the testimonials from people who'd had their saliva tested after months on raw paleo and registering v alkaline.... not what one might expect from a diet high in animal foods. But it just shows that if one is eating right for their metabolic type (I'm a fan also of William Wolcott's The Metabolic Typing Diet) and reducing the burden of toxins on our organs and cells, all the body's processes normalise... I'm hoping then that my body will simply stop producing the Candida, which as we know, produces toxic byproducts such as acetyldehyde and ammonia.

Good luck to you; I'd be really happy to hear about your progress. I've had candida since I was 8 (I'm now 34), and my whole family has it too. Have you also had it a long time?

Best
Elizabeth

Hi again,
this Candida site looks very helpful, thank you. I know quite a lot about candida, but it looks as if it could teach me some new things... especially interesting is what Bee says about the fungal form of yeast making cell membranes rigid... this also correlates to what happens in electrosensitivity, where EM signals force red blood cells to 'crenellate', literally fold on themselves, thereby reducing their ability to carry oxygen...

I know I have a long way to go with this, but I think raw paleo is going to offer me some new solutions, if only to decrease the stress on my body. I've already had a look at the London Farmers' network, and there are 3 near me, which I am planning to visit soon. The raw eggs from this morning went down ok- if it's good enough for Rocky!!

Elizabeth

Thanks very much to both of you for your comprehensive answers. I am familiar with Coconut oil, and have so far used it to cook in, since it doesn't degrade so much as polyunsat oils at high temps; I have actually done the coconut oil detox, and got a lot of die-off initially, but then symptoms came back. I think I will be incorporating more of it raw however, just as a way to add calories!

Fruit I don't do so well on, though low-carb fruit such as berries might be better. My system is so shot that even a little fruit can spark a massive rise in blood sugar and make me reach for the chocolate... I think one of the things I am struggling with a little on the raw paleo is the idea that so many of the things that make eating a pleasure (and here I'm even referring to raw veg) are sidelined... How exciting can it be to sit down to a meal of raw organ meat, fat and water? Or is it just a question of getting through that pain barrier and then these things becoming truly appealing??!!

Anyway, I had a totally raw breakfast this AM of avocado, slivers of squash and a raw egg. It was ok, but I can see myself getting hungry again soon :-)

Elizabeth