Thanks eveheart for the response. I am going to be doing lots of experimenting in the future trying different combinations to find out what works and will try all of the fats you listed.

My dad had not eaten for about a week (which could be a good thing as starvation is actually quite beneficial) as he had lost his ability to swallow and the medical team was determining how to correctly feed him. They move incredibly slow but that is another story. My dad finally was given a formula yesterday which consisted of the following garbage. (Image from my cell phone)



If you can't read that - the first two ingredients after water are corn syrup and canola oil. They actually have healthier organic blends but of course we were not even made aware of them until much later. I had the nurses setup an appointment for me to meet with the nutritionist to talk about administering a ketogenic diet. I am normally a fairly passive person but my encounter with the nutritionist was anything but that. I made my own keto blend (consisting of broth, coconut and olive oil, animal and plant protein powders and juiced fruit and veg) and desired the extremely simple task of filling their feeding bag up with my blend. It would perhaps take me all of 30 seconds to open the bag and empty my blend into the bag.

The nutritionist at first offered me the organic blends which I of course rejected as they are non-ketogenic blends and said that was the best they could do because of their 'policy'. I then told her that she needs to do whatever it takes for me to sign consent legally to administer my formula to my dying father. I am not sure why this is such a big deal to them. I am the paying customer paying 10k per day to stay in this overpriced hotel. I pay you. You help me out. Its simple. She finally escalated my demands to the head nutritionist who attempted to debate some of the science on cancer metabolism and ketogenic diets. He lost but I wanted to steer the situation away from a debate and towards administration as at this point the science is meaningless. I just want to try this approach. Perhaps a turning point was when I shifted the talk from cancer to epilepsy in children which ketogenic diets show almost complete remission of symptoms if followed properly. I then talked about how this diet is not a cure at all and how I am merely attempting to shift the probabilities slightly in my dad's favor. I think this started to click with him as he was less likely to debate the specifics any more.

We finally settled on agreeing to administer Ketocal to him beginning on Monday. Ketocal is a commercial product (made of terrible ingredients) that induces ketosis due to its ratio of fat to carbs. This was a small victory I suppose. Throughout the whole process I had to be extremely aggressive and forceful and stepped way out of my comfort zone to advocate for my father. Seems like individualized care is just not in their playbook. They just check boxes and move on. I will spending lots more time at the hospital and will attempt to advocate much more for anything possible.

Hey all,

My dad has been very recently diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer (T-cell lymphoma) and has very quickly degenerated from normal human functioning to ECOG performance status 4 (the most he can do is open his eyes) in only the span of one month. Chemo starts tonight.

My biggest contribution for my dad at this point would be to prepare a liquid ketogenic diet that could be easily administered through a feeding tube. Ketogenic diets have done wonders for epileptic children but have only now just begun to be studied more seriously for cancer with some early promising results. There is this awful formula called Ketocal for epileptic children which would be very easy to administer but is based on soy and other vegetable oils as its fats.  I'd like to think it would be easy to make a superior formula for my dad.

I am assuming the physical properties of the formula I am going to create must adhere to certain restrictions as so it can pass through the tube. I will be talking to a nutritionist soon about this. So far A simple formula will contain the following:

Bone broth
Some mix of Coconut/Palm/Olive oil
Protein powder (Great lakes gelatin and a beef/whey based powder)
Some greens and berries

It needs to contain at least 70% of calories from fat and at most 5% from carbs. Any other suggestions are appreciated.

Theres also this other troubling idea I have with concealed carrying in that there could be a so called 'vaigra' effect where those carrying or more likely to find something to f*** up than those not carrying. I think there's a good chance that having a gun makes one more likely to find a reason to use it and then go back and justify those means. The killing of Trayvon Martin is perhaps a perfect example. I'm unclear of the details but the killer could have likely taken a different path to confront the teenager if he wasn't carrying. I cannot see how having a gun does not consciously or subconsciously change a person's actions when it comes to confrontations.

This story illustrates my point well - http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2012/12/after_shooting_a_whiney_costum.php

I found this article that goes into some detail of what I was looking for. Apparently there was one incident in 1982 that a civilian killed an assailant but this was after the assailant had already fled on his bicycle(lol). Another incident in 2002 with fuzzy details - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_School_of_Law_shooting

Here is the article

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/mass-shootings-investigation

Also in this article, a couple of really bad incidents for civilians who tried to play hero.

Also, with that rambo gramps in the internet cafe. It looked like he missed the assailant from around 10 feet(just read he did hit them. Apparently one bullet wasn't enough). Also the assailant, with his gun, did not even return fire. I think I read somewhere that the assailant might not have had a real gun or bullets. Makes sense since his buddy had a bat, and he didn't even think to return fire. This could have easily ended very badly for gramps and the other patrons.

If Americans have by far the most guns then why hasn't one mass killer been killed by a civilian? Has any mass shooter even been shot at? Gun nuts keep insisting that more guns would have stopped these massacres or at least reduced the number of killings. What the gun nuts never point out are all the times that concealed carriers have been at the scene and simply fled or hid like everyone else and waited for the cops and never reported to anyone that they had a gun. This silent evidence will never be recorded.

lol curlz... I can confirm KD has some pretty sweet gunz. z

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Could a moderator PM me and let me know why this post was deleted?

Post deleted in agreement between global moderators because it was an insult to people practicing instinctive raw paleo nutrition. 

Well done, though the fullness, heaviness and darkness of your beard is more impressive. Danny Roddy would be impressed.

Do you have the link to the durianrider deadlift?

It might be more impressive that a fruitarian can deadlift his bodyweight than a raw paleo deadlifting 3x.

For example, last night I felt that I ate a bit too much fruits (much latter after my dinner including mutton). So today for lunch I was somewhat repealed by all sweet fruits and I ate a lot of scallops instead, plus two avocados.
Of course you got to use your intellect too, if only to avoid as much as possible the most artificially selected fruits – and above all to understand the theory! Instinctive nutrition doesn’t mean that you have to behave idiotically  ! Quite on the opposite, you need all your intelligence to practice it correctly in this so called civilized world. Instinct and intelligence are not antagonists!

Have you ever considered the fact that when you get 'tired' of a particular food you are simply listening to your internal hedonic system crying out for a different experience - something new, different, exciting to the pleasurable senses and absolutely nothing to do with whether or not a particular food is the most 'optimally nutrient dense'.

Its as though your survival systems have been kicked into high gear by the fact that their are a multitude of different options for nutrition.  Your hedonic system gets an overload of sensory imputs from the selections and simply chooses that new food that gives it the most pleasure.

This is very similar to having sex with a very healthy breasted women for a few weeks at a time before tiring of her and subsequently going to a bar and picking out another woman for another few weeks or months (whichever time period is working at the moment). It will always appear that the new woman is more satisfying than the last but it doesn't mean that she offers any real advantage to your happiness - she is simply appealing to your deeply hardened survival mechanisms and seed spreading that is inherent in all of us.

Going from food to food instincto style could be no different than going from woman to woman. Our attachment to food is similar to that of sex and we will get messages from the brain through taste/smell that will alert us that a particular food will keep us alive longer just like a new woman will help spread our genes further and further.

Unfortunately I think that neither strategy (changing from woman to woman or from food to food) will provide further happiness or health than simply sticking to more or less similar food and woman combinations for a lifetime.

Essentially instinctos chasing after different more appealing fruits are not very different than sex addicts going from one woman to the next once tiring of the current woman. No different than drug addicts going from one drug to another. Well perhaps different in the fact that this addiction is not going to lead to overdose but it does lead to denial, defensiveness, guruness and expertness and unwillingness to change.

  You are a fool, you know.

You spend all your time with dieting and your most deleterious health issue is right here.

Does anyone have an estimate of the total amount of paleolithic humanoid bones that been discovered? Say, at least 10-12k years old back to our supposed separation from the apes at 5-7 million years of age.

This could be by weight

Or by space taken up - for instance, would the total amount fit on a kitchen table, in a bedroom, a basement, etc...

Are there more dinosaur bones than early-man bones? To what degree?

How do the amount of bones compare to other animals of the same time period?

Your story has some similarities with mine. After quitting raw-paleo (around a year ago myself) my cravings for sweets were super-duper intense. Insanely bad - eating an 8oz jar of honey with one hand on the wheel and one hand in the jar on the way home from the store. Entire cakes and quarts of ice cream at a time. Stuffing donuts down until I felt sick,etc.............. I gained 20 pounds or so very fast and felt like I was in a giant whirlpool with nowhere to hold on to. Nothing seemed to make me feel full. I realized that much of the cravings were protective mechanisms to cover up depression and anxiety.

But, I have worked relatively hard on my depression and anxiety with the help of cognitive behavioral strategies and the like and over time the cravings have subsided quite a bit. They were pretty bad for about 9 months and then somehow I regained some ability to feel full again, which seemed like a lost skill.

I don't follow any diet whatsoever as of now and have done well disconnecting myself from the constant "oh noes" that would infiltrate my perfectionist mind if I were to slip diet wise during my raw adventure. Even when I was strictly raw I was still worrying all the time about whether or not I was doing it right. What really works for me is sitting down and going through the coping strategies and then acting on them. I have actually noticed my intense cravings go down just by working on them for a few minutes. Acknowledging the cravings and accepting them are my first priority and something as simple as lying down and doing some deep breathing for a few minutes will do wonders.

I have not lost nor gained weight the past few months but I don't have one eye on jack in the box milkshakes while driving anymore.