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Health / Lower Blood Pressure?

« on: November 27, 2009, 12:23:14 pm »

Hi guys,
I'm now on my fifth day of all raw and my blood pressure has dropped 10 points from 125-65 to 115-65. Is this normal? I'm guessing this is from less work involved in digestion?

Also, is there any risk of bacterial infection in the blood leading to sepsis from eating raw meat? My guess is this is anatomically impossible.

Sorry if my questions seem really basic but the changes have come quickly and I've not adapted that well yet.

Health / Food Sensitivities

« on: November 19, 2009, 04:51:39 am »

I'm wondering if any of you have any problems with food sensitivities and how you work around this. In my case I took the LEAP MRT food sensitivity test which screens for 120 different foods and chemicals http://www.forresthealth.com/store/LEAP-MRT-Food-Allergy-Test.html.

My results came back that I was Highly sensitive to watermelon, all foods with capsaicin, and tuna, and moderately to beef, pork, eggs, and crab.

I'd really like to know what your thoughts are on food sensitivities when the raw factor is taken into account? Do you think I will tolerate these foods much better eaten raw or is the food sensitivity still going to take hold? Today for example I made the mistake of cooking an egg for breakfast and the outcome was pretty much hell. I felt extremely weak, bloated, anxious and disorientated.

I also know that my inflamed, leaky gut is likely making the tolerance to these foods much less than what it could be, but I still think there are certain foods that I would be sensitive to if my gut was fine.

Any thoughts?

Hot Topics / In vitro meat - what hell awaits.

« on: November 18, 2009, 11:03:29 am »

This article literally made my blood boil. Not just the article itself, but the response it's getting, the fact that people still think, after a century of degeneration largely thanks to food laboratories, that you can still discover health in a laboratory. Horrendous:

http://hplusmagazine.com/articles/bio/eight-ways-vitro-meat-will-change-our-lives

Incidentally, isn't the whole cow's producing excess methane pollution just a farcical claim misleadingly based on the fact they're fed grains? Doesn't a grass fed cow not release toxic gases?

Exercise / Bodybuilding / MovNat

« on: November 18, 2009, 03:06:34 am »

Hey guys,

Just wanted to share this fantastic wildlife based fitness movement I recently discovered called MovNat (short of Movement Naturelle) that was refined by Erwan Lecorre off of the Method Naturelle philosophy of Georges Hebert in the early 1900s. The guy does some incredible stuff and you can see some of his methods and videos on his site: http://movnat.com/. He's also close friends with the author of Born to Run, Christopher McDougall and he himself follows at least a Paleo diet (not sure if he eats raw). He also has monthly seminars all over the United States and often times in Itacare, Brazil (paradise). Once I get my health in better order I am definitely going to be attending some of his seminars.

Welcoming Committee / Advice on how to heal the gut

« on: November 16, 2009, 08:08:44 am »

Hi everyone,

I've been lurking for a while on these forums and wanted to go ahead and take advantage of your expertise if you would be so kind. Over the last two years I've been suffering on and off from stomach cramps and indigestion, bloating, fatigue, itchiness and sporadic rashes, and heavy anxiety and nervousness when my gut is inflamed. Since early this year I have gradually been taking action to heal myself and try to break out of this vicious cycle my stomach is in. I've even consulted a Chek practitioner from the Chek institute to help me try to pinpoint the internal problems. Ironically enough I'm writing this, not because I'm concerned about getting parasites from eating raw, but rather because I believe I have a parasitic infection (almost everything else has been ruled out) and I need advise on how to approach a raw paleo diet with this in mind. In any case I have a lab coming back in a week or 2 that will confirm this with 100% certainty at which point the guy I am working with is writing me a protocol to cleanse out the gut.

I'm not entirely inclined to go 100% raw paleo until I've killed whatever is living inside of me, but I'm wondering if anyone has any advice on healing parasites through RPD or any other recommendations for what I can do to heal myself. Maybe try adding some raw organ meats in combination with my cooked regimen for the time being?

Also, I recently ate some sashimi with seaweed this week and it came out nearly undigested on the way out, is it common for raw meat and seafood to come out like this in the early stages or is this more than likely the bugs inside of me eating my food first?

I'm also curious to know if you think a Metabolic type diet as developed by Dr. William Walcott is compatible with RPD? I for one am a bit skeptical of ZC even though I believe the human diet should be largely protein based.

Any help you guys can give would be awesome.