Congratulations on being cured. Any chance you could share some info on what your diet is like on low carb-zc?

My rule is animal and seasoning. So I do mainly beef, game (deer, elk, moose, umm had cougar once or twice) some pork (because I"m not made of money) and less and less chicken as time goes on. I don't find I want it and when I eat it anyway it's unpleasant to me. I can't really describe it. I have an aversion to it. Seeing as there is no law about whether I can eat chicken or not, I choose not. I use whipping cream for yummy sauces, not raw, but often over raw things. I try to eat liver once a month. I hate it. I eat heart and kidney. It's pretty simple. I'm not making fancy ..I don't know, ... marsupial kiev with raw wild honey & cheese fermented in tibet before the war or anything. The offal I try to get into me once a month. I figure that's fine. It seems to be.

The change in mood happened very quickly. It was 3 months  before I decided to try going off the meds because going off of them was scary for me. But when I did, by that time I felt SO much better I was pretty confident. If it was just placebo I would have cycled down by now. I know my depression.

In a conversation on another board we're talking about whether a lot of the mood, behavioural symptoms we see in the courts, downtowns and schools are more about deficiencies than kids not being spanked early enough or something.

Sabertooth, I too believe that we are not a kind culture to the people around us, or often our children and that plays a part in our depression. I think it can't be ignored though that women while they're pregnant (and before) and men when they're in their fertile years have been exposed to lots of horrid toxic chemicals that we're only guessing at the results from. I remember reading a study on girls born to moms who smoke cigarettes. A huge number of them (70+%?) developed depression at puberty. Nicotine fixed that depression. There is a piece of depression I think that is not all psychological.

Maybe one day we'll learn to be nicer to each other and kinder to the world we live in.

Someone on another board tried this not long ago trying to replicate rabbit starvation. It didn't happen.

There shouldn't be a problem with them eating solely rabbit. Specially if they're wild animals like miles says.

if one does not eat liver/eggs, where do they get their vitamins/minerals?

Now I just barely started eating organs lately. Mostly because I believe it's a good idea. I really don't like liver. I gag. I'm not a picky eater, but there is something about the texture when raw, and the smell when cooked that either way I can barely tolerate. I find if I slice it thin, then barely sear it, it takes care of hte texture enough without creating that horrible taste.

But I did most of a year on mainly muscle meat, cream, and occasional eggs. I didn't use eggs much because they just don't keep me full like meat does.

That being said, I'm eating it because I believe the theory that it is good for me. Not because I was showing signs of deficiencies, or I was feeling unwell.

though I look for as many excuses to eat them as I can find.

Which is just on this side of where it becomes a problem. I think that there is a slippery slope (I'm totally not implying that you are sliding btw) where we come up with reasons to eat what we usually know is just pure "because I wanna". Those reasons then become "no, I need to do this" because we've given ourselves "reasons". The mild vigilance it takes to not start believing anything other than "because I wanna" stops that issue. I see it in a lot of places. Rationalization. It's a pet peeve. 

-Name
megan

-Location
Southern BC, Canada. The tropics of the Great White North

-Type of RAFer you are 
Dirty Carnivore. Animal products only with the exception of spices/herbs

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I've just started to eat organs after 1.5 years on muscle meat and dairy. I'm trying to eat liver once a month (it's taking a bit for me to like it) and hearts, I enjoy and they're cheap, so whenever I have a hankerin'. Kidney, I'll have to work up to. I figure if I'm eating some kind of organ a few times a month, then I'll get everything I need. I don't know what numbers we're "supposed" to eat. I just figure some is better than others. Liver I can't eat cooked. I sear it quickly (really quickly) just because I don't like it cold.