i've spent alot of time reading about many people experiences following raw animal food diets and one thing which always surprises me is the lack of exercise on the part of some people.

i really don't understand this. it has been shown time and time again that humans have evolved doing intense exercise and that it is awesome for health.

since online ordering and butcheries didn't exist back then, i wonder how many of these people feel that they would have obtained their meat in the wild by sitting on their asses?

i really don't think that you can fully experience all the benefits of whatever diet philosophy you follow if you do not exercise intensely at least once or twice a week.

does anyone have any advice for eating raw tongue? i have seen cooked recipes which say to blanch the tongue in boiling water in order to take off the skin. do you guys just eat everything like that?

probably why intermittent fasting seems to work so well. for me anyway i have to disagree that they would always be living from hand to mouth, i think that would only happen in certain seasons and also depends where you lived. for example in one or two episodes of bear grylls survival show it looked like he could have lived forever off the land just fine, but its probably true you wouldnt be able to follow it exactly as we do now, you'd have to go with whatever you could find or kill. probably a good thing for variety

i don't actually think bicep curls mimic anything no offense ;p they are the most useless exercise out there. at least do plate curls then and work your grip/wrists too the other exercises you do are more in alignment with your ideas about whats natural.

i agree with pelham32 if you study the body and see what the muscle or group of muscles is designed to do then you can determine the optimal ways to train it.

also depends what your goals are. if you want to become insanely strong then unfortunately you have to do the so called "unnatural" stuff

you could argue the same for martial arts then, who says we evolved to do them either? doing a few sets of pullups anyway is nowhere near the same as climbing trees all day

ive actually always managed to gain muscle just fine while intermittent fasting, i guess maybe im not a hard gainer, but i generally just have a huge meal at night and it seems to work fine. i mainly eat according to my appetite. the last 3 weeks especially ive noticed an increase in appetite and size ever since moving up to more difficult bodyweight exercises.

yeah. his style was a mish mash of arts. but he took what was good from each art like scully said. and tried to simplify as much as possible

lol lions? i think i'd stay away from eating carnivores and im a fan of cats. 

some unique foods... well we get ostrich here, but i think its hard to find really good quality ostrich, most is apparently free range but they inject them with antibiotics and i think they are grain fed to a degree. so i avoid it these days.

i have had crocodile (guess it would be similar to alligator? ;p)  before but not raw. was good. i have heard you can get some hectic parasites from them. like hookworm. i'm definitely not against parasites but i think there are limits? i could be wrong

all the wild game here is very delicious raw. i've had springbok, kudu, gemsbok etc.

my favorite was warthog ribs (although those were  cooked).

i have heard hippo bacon is divine i would love to get hold of some . that and water buffalo.

if you're into insects there's also mopane worms. they are a local african delicacy. cooked. but they can be eaten raw im sure. i still have to try that too.

just thought i'd say hi. finally joined the forums after reading various posts on topics which interest me for a while now.


ive mostly eaten the standard cooked unhealthy diet , but ever since i was 20 or so i have been researching health and diet. over time i do feel i am eating healthier and healthier except for relapses here and there. these days i probably eat about 50% cooked food. i plan to reduce that to 10-20% over the next few years.

i've never really had any health problems besides asthma as a child which thankfully i outgrew my motivation is purely to be as healthy as possible and the increased strength gains.

 i have alot of knowledge i have accumulated over the years i just need to develop more willpower to apply it

at the moment i follow a warrior diet approach of mostly water fasting during the day. i believe for me personally i do best on a high fat diet so that's what i try and eat in the evenings. i do have a weakness for sweet things though. so its mostly fat, meat and fruit in the evenings (when im eating properly). i do tend to eat alot of junk here and there. i am phasing that out though slowly. today me and a friend got 28kg of grassfed fat. so that should last a while

i am also really into strength training. mainly bodyweight stuff with some kettlebells mixed in.

thanks for the great forum guys i have learn't quite a bit just browsing around here