Mashed up ripe avocado with banana and cherries. The avocado makes it more filling/easier not to eat too much fruit.

I might also try adding cocoa powder sometime for an indulgence.

I think this is to do with trigger points. No fucker believes me, but I think one day everyone will catch up 

The pan method works well. It really brings it to life for me to have it a bit warm and brings out the flavour.

High will be fine eventually, but I don't know if I'm going to cook it a bit yet...and the idea of cooked high meat seems a bit nasty.

I'm getting closer to being raw yeah yeah yeah.

Yeh, but I don't always know what I'm going to eat the next day. Also, sometimes the weather's cold.

So acidic and highly sweet fruit and honey aggravate stress, which triggers knots in the jaw that aren't necessarily noticed, which triggers tooth pain--do I have that right?

Not necessarily stress. Anything that increases haptic tension - the overall level of tension in the muscles. But yes, sounds right. Knots are not made overnight, but they can be more or less active depending on different factors.

Sore teeth can be caused by trigger points ('knots') in some of the jaw muscles.

If this is the cause, then a food which changes the level of overall muscle tension, changes the body chemistry somehow etc could make these points a bit more active and bring on the soreness.

I've tried both. It didn't seem to make much difference, except the filler in the pill doesn't work well with raw meat. The filler in the one's I had wasn't the worst kind though.

This wouldn't be an issue with Dr Ron's.

I vote for concentrated opiates. I can't see dairy as being good, from the effects it has on me.

Salivary amylase cannot digest raw starches.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but one thing I've learned is just experiment experiment. It's too easy to get tied up in theory, and something else might come along and claim the opposite, so I'll just keep an open mind.

At the end of the day, if I do need to eat some cooked starch to keep going for now it's not the end of the world I suppose.

I'm just interested, which foods are these more concretely?

Well I cheated at the weekend and had a small amount of chips (fries) with kebab meat and some salad. Before anyone accuses me of being slack, I have been strict low carb for the last 4 months. I can survive on low carb at the moment, but don't feel on good form.

Anyway, after that it was like night and day, I've functioned all this week. I personally don't think it was opiates, I think it's brain fuel.

It's possible that I could adapt further to low carb and feel better, but 4 months is a fairly good trial. I feel like trying the carbs and seeing if it helps me function in my life for a while.

I appreciate the thoughts, but the thing is for me a bit of fruit or honey doesn't really give me the stability and brainpower, it's the starches that really help.

If I eat fruit and honey, I tend to crave a load of it and then I get crashes and don't feel much better. Or a small amount doesn't work. I'm not sure about the idea of instinct right now, as I had to force myself to adapt to fat for energy at all...so how do you know when to push and when to go with what you crave in the moment?

I'm not saying starches/heavy plant based are good, I know some of the problems, but I found this piece decently argued. Worth questioning our own ideas sometimes.

8/1/1 will slowly destroy your brain. Athlete or not, it's an incredibly dangerous choice.  I am very serious when I say this, I have done the diet, and it did harm that took years to undo. If you argue with this post, I will warn you, then ban you. You are saying positive things about a very dangerous dietary choice, and that 's not acceptable here. I'm letting you know now, in cause you're not just a vegan troll.

I think that's a bit strong. The poster said it's crap apart from for top athletes. I probably agree it's no good for athletes either, but the poster is clearly not a troll. I don't agree with instincto for example, but I don't agree with creating a climate on the board where people can't talk about the merits of these things. I think you're letting your personal feelings come in too much.

Have a good holiday