Hi all,
I'd just like to update you on my diet and give a few health tips.
First of all my diet:
I haven't used added salt in my diet for the past year and I'm thriving despite it sometimes topping 40°C during summer in Brisbane (Australia).
(Rock/sea) salt is a protoplasmic poison and only necessary for herbivores.
A diet with an adequate amount of animal products e.g. the milk in my diet, should provide an ample supply of electrolytes including sodium.
No wild carnivore licks salt!
My current daily diet is 3L of raw unhomogenised grass-fed milk and 500g of raw grass-fed diced beef (any raw grass-fed red meat should do; I eat the diced beef immersed in milk twice per day for easy palatability).
This is all one needs.
It is especially essential though that the milk isn't heat-treated as otherwise one risks being deficient in vitamin C as it is destroyed by pasteurisation etc.
The beef also has (low) amounts of vitamin C though if one is also consuming a significant quantity of milk this may not be enough as the milk contains some quantity of carbohydrate (lactose being second only to water in it's constituents) which depletes vitamin C so it's essential that the milk's own vitamin C isn't destroyed.
Humans are facultative carnivores. It is inadvisable to eat plants because they are all (except for the fruit and nectar which have evolved to be eaten so that the plants can successfully reproduce) toxic, even for herbivores. This is why plants aren't extinct (they rely on toxicants (natural pesticides) because unlike animals they can't flee or fight to avoid predation). This is one of the things that causes ageing (another being cooking, which denatures food making it toxic).
It is a popular fallacy that ageing is inherited but this is obviously not the case (as sexual selection would weed it out as the longer lived would be able to produce more offspring and/or spend longer looking after said offspring thus favouring the proliferation of their genes relative to those that aged; thus ageing must be due to environmental factors the most likely being chemical warfare by the plants that they consume).
Health tips:
There are three pillars to good health: diet (already covered), sleep and abstinence.
I try to get as much sleep each night as physically possible as it helps recovery from the day's stresses and strains by allowing the blood vessels to recover by temporarily narrowing and/or shortening (hence why the normal position to sleep in is curled up on one's side) allowing maintenance for structural integrity.
Hence why the very sleep deprived can die from strokes.
Abstinence: to maintain good health one should only be sexually active when one is trying to reproduce as sexual activity is inflammatory (and thus also risks vascular integrity) involving the release of prostaglandins which the body uses to mitigate the cancer risk from the gametes (sperm or ova) which contain pluripotent stem cells which can differentiate into any cell type and are thus potentially carcinogenic if anything should go awry.
Also one should obviously not consume alcohol or drugs as these are obviously harmful (even pharmaceuticals as one is disrupting their body's biochemistry potentially causing harm).
As a bonus if one is completely sexually abstinent one can make rapid progress in yoga.
That is all.
HTH.
Best regards,
Roger