I'd postulate that one would get the same benefit by consistently eating raw and moderate.   That means not overeating even one meal.   But eating just to satisfy the body's needs at that time.  Another way of describing this, is the saying,,  leave the table a bit hungry.    My experience is that any overeating is toxic.   And the notion of the yoyo, overeating, and undereating the next day is another method the mind will adopt to try to stay in 'control'.    We like methods.   We like fixes.  We like thinking. 

I think possibly you are underestimating the physical processes which take place when you fast The body does things when you fast which it does not do when you eat regularly and do not experience hunger.

David Brownstein's book "Salt your way to health" might be of interest with regard to this. In his book on "Iodine" 4th edition he says,"...unrefined salt helps to rid the body of the toxic halide bromine. .... I suggest taking approximately 1-1 and a half teaspoons per day of unrefined salt."

 I have just checked Brownstein's book on iodine and he does not mention FBG or anything related.

I have taken Lugol's iodine for about two years now, beginning after taking an iodine loading test which showed that I was  deficient. What was, and is important to me is iodine's recognized protection value against prostate and breast cancers. I think that it is a bit misguided to take a high dose of iodine and expect it to do anything much about your FBG  and then abandon iodine supplementation when it fails to improve your FBG.

That is a very helpful set of pictures.  It is an example I will try to emulate.

Many thanks.

Johan

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When my dad had prostate problems he chose to be castrated, as reducing testosterone production helps slow the disease.

The opposite view is now held; testosterone protects against prostate cancer. Low testosterone is the danger. See "Testosterone for life" by Abraham Morgentaler, associate professor of urology at Harvard Medical School. McGraw Hill 2009. At the age of almost 70 I don't personally have a prostate problem or any significant enlargement but I do take extra testosterone after suffering a severe decline in testosterone after suffering from fibromyalgia. So please be careful before going down the road of deliberately lowering your testosterone levels. There are several good reasons to maintain a normal testosterone level apart from the obvious one.

Cramps are rarely a calcium shortage.  If anything, it's the opposite, you need to reduce calcium, and get more magnesium.

This is not my  personal experience. At the moment my consumption of calcium is minimal while I have been supplementing magnesium and potassium for years. My average intake of magnesium per day is between 200 and 300% RDA, my average intake of calcium is below 50% a day, and my intake of potassium is about 80% RDA a day. I avoid dairy.  I find it difficult to get more magnesium and potassium from food sources than I actually do, about 50% RDA in each case. I over supplement magnesium because it helps control my atrial fibrillation.I do not place all that much importance on RDA as the values established were based on populations eating refined carbohydrates which cause the wasting of magnesium and potassium and the retention of sodium. The leg cramps appeared after I switched to eating below 50g of carbohydrates a day. If the leg cramps do not improve I think I will have to increase my carbs and potassium rich carbohydrates in particular.

Swiss chard and spinach are both good for potassium and they won't send you blood sugar up; they also supply a lot of magnesium as well which works very well.  Spinach is also a good non dairy provider of calcium. Popeye knew a thing or two.

I don't take calcium. It is not good for atrial fibrillation, I'm afraid I don't really understand why. Apparently it increases the aldosterone which makes an AF sufferer more prone to have an episode. I'm hoping that a  high fat ketogenic  diet which is also dairy free will still protect me from real calcium deficiency. Lex Rooker managed it when he had a  satisfactory DEXA scan after several years of a meat only diet.  I was a bit surprised when he began to include butter in his diet three years after the scan.

Try to build up your magnesium store first, if you have low magnesium your body will lose its potassium and in a causal chain the body then reduces sodium to keep the sodium/potassium balance therefore working against any attempt to increase either. I have been supplementing with magnesium because it is too difficult for me to do it by diet alone. In my case it was years of SAD which finally had serious consequences for me.

 I  take magnesium citrate powder, 1.1g 5 times a day (giving me a total of 0.9g of magnesium) together with potassium and salt, but it might be  quicker for you to initially to just start with the magnesium for a month.  Start low and increase slowly till you get a bit loose and cut back a bit from that to establish your dose.

Some people recommend slow release magnesium pills which I myself have not used.

 If you then concentrate on getting enough sodium and potassium and continue the magnesium you should get rid of the cramps. But do not increase your sodium unless you are low carb.

What you call "sugar sensitivity issues" may well be that the potassium, salt and magnesium imbalance has gradually got worse over the years and finally got to the point of breakdown. I stay away from sugar and that includes honey of any kind. I regard it as a cause of my problem.

I feed my two medium sized dogs a raw vlc ketogenic diet, brisket ( which is cheap and high fat), 30 g each per day of raw beef liver, kidney and heart. They each get one brisket bone per week. Occasionally they get a rib bone as a greater challenge. They get dark green salad leaves of a many kinds as I can think of, sometimes a piece of raw carrot. During the summer months we grow the salad leaves ourselves.
I would not give them bone meal, chewing and gnawing are desirable (perhaps necessary).
They are both 9, very slim and healthy with excellent teeth.
Our main differences then are you favour chicken bones, bonemeal, sea vegetables but not land salads.
I favour harder bones. Dogs are descended from wolves who hunted larger game than chickens. They got a lot of land vegetation partially digested from their prey. So I would not feel sea vegetables to be very paleo for dogs. It is true that wolves have been observed hunting mice and picking blueberries but they are not major diet items.
Carrots are not terribly paleo but my dogs enjoy crunching them occasionally. I limit the size of carrot I give them to about three inches.
I think your dogs would do very well on the things you are giving them as long as you limit the amount of carbs to ketogenic levels which you probably are. Their teeth would be my only concern, but I am sure you must have already satisfied yourself about that.
Other bits of the animal are desirable if you can get them.

I feel this deserves a post of its own. Who here mega doses iodine? What other things do they do to increase its effectiveness? What kind do you use? Etc.

My wife and I take Lugol's 15%, she has 2 drops and I have 1 every morning with breakfast.

We have been doing that for a year or so. I have not noticed any effect on me, I was only marginally short. My wife was much more depleted than me and had an enlarged thyroid. This has improved but has not entirely receded to normal. The main reason for taking it in both our cases is that we see it as a cancer protection against breast and prostate cancer. The rates of these cancers in Japan are very low, but when the Japanese go to live in a Western country their rates of these cancers rise to match ours.
We took an expensive test for our iodine status but it is much better just to try it and bear in mind the protection it can bring. We were warned by scaremongers about the dangers of iodine, as far as we are concerned we did not experience anything remotely negative. I did buy recommended cofactors but did not notice any difference so dropped it. Lugols is cheap and as your body gets rid of what it does not need a more concentrated form is probably a better bet initially at least.

When I sprouted lentils I would soak them overnight then drain them and rinse them thoroughly. I would then put them in a dark cupboard and subsequently rinse and drain them twice a day. I found them very easy and quick to sprout. In a hot climate it would perhaps be best to rinse the sprouts  more often until they are ready. They become tough if allowed to sprout too long; the tails should not be allowed to grow longer than the sprout itself. Rinsing not only assists growth with irrigation but helps to remove some of the harmful phytate.

However I have stopped using any legumes. The amount of academic papers, forty or more, that Professor Cordain lists in his book "The Paleo Answer"  and his evidence for the harmful nature of legumes, including peanuts, fully persuaded me to stop eating them sprouted or cooked. I can't understand Iguana writing that there is no evidence against them without explaining his reasons for treating the evidence that is out there as non-existent.