This journal is about my adventures transitioning to a living raw paleo diet and is seeking your guidance by providing a good oversight : )

My family have banned high meat experiments to the shed. The raw meat can stay in the fridge ("what do you mean it gets better with age and I can't put it in the freezer?")

Yesterdays diet:
RP - Greens + sprout smoothie, apples, mandarins, soaked almonds, fermented greens & whitebait, raw beef
semi-RP - raw bacon
CP - stir fry of bacon, mince, cabbage in coconut milk; lightly roasted pickled pork
Traditional - butter; cheese; marmalade; coffee; pinot noir

The US has a huge problem how you can really only vote for one of two parties and then its a first past the post result where the winner takes too much power, and the two parties are too similar anyway (two parties vs one party = twice as good as communism ?).

It would be much better to have proportional representation, where a diverse range of representatives would be elected, rather than the two party mono-culture the US has now. Then hopefully it would be harder for so much stupidity - like starting wars, having raw milk agents, fighting medicinal cannabis, and closing down paleo blogs - to be initiated.

I guess they could continue to be just as hypocritical though, continuing cannabis being illegal due to it having no medicinal value, while at the same time they are patenting some of the cannabinoids for their medicinal properties!

In NZ we have Multi-Member Proportional representation (MMP), which has allowed the Green party to get 14 seats out of 120. We just need to get rid of the National Party (on the right like the Republicans) as they are a bunch of dicks who have given $2B in tax cuts to the rich, increased tax for everyone else, introduced standardised school testing ('National Standards' - our reply is that you don't fatten the pig by weighing it), internet copyrights, anti-raw food standards etc....

Egg, kidney, purple cabbage, garden greens, stinging nettle, carrots, sprouted linseeds, kiwi fruit to finish...



Hand over to the electric slave / food processor for the hard labour


Yum, tastes good and solid enough to enjoy a giving it a good chewing !

The methodology used by the EPA to approve pesticides has been proven to be flawed.

Their assumption has always been that if an organism can cope with an amount of a substance, then smaller amounts will also be fine. It's just common sense - if you can survive a gram of a toxin then a microgram will be even easier to survive - right?

Well if the substance is a hormone imitator then the answer is no - a large amount triggers the organisms defence system and is neutralised, while a smaller amount can sneak past the defences and cause havoc.

Tyrone Hayes has found that 0.1 parts per billion of herbicide atrazinean causes tadpoles' sexual development to go awry. Tyrone used to work for the EPA, but they didn't like his research so he is now at the  University of California.

Other hormone imitators (some such as BPA are used in plastics) have similar results, where tiny amounts are far more harmful than moderate amounts!

http://www.pesticide.org/the-buzz/mixture-of-corn-pesticides-harms-frogs-1

Whole flounder with creamed banana, warm coconut oil & avocado on the side (this was delicious and would make a great desert on its own). Ate skin, flesh, roe, and eyes using a sharp knife, didn't venture into the skull or gills:

I have had a lifelong problem with secret compulsive overeating of sugar & starch. I never got fat but instead got brain fog, headaches, insomnia, depression, chronic fatigue, constipation, diarrhea, bloating, muscle pains... really bad stuff. Doctors have never been any help and dismissed my issues as having a psychological cause and offered anti-depressants. As a teenager I read the book Raw Energy and found that eating raw fruit and veges made me feel much better, but I often overate fruit and quickly returned to junk food over eating.

Recently I have realized that I have had a candida type intestinal infestation and that this was releasing chemicals encouraging me to overeat starches and sugars, and poisoning me with its byproducts.

I have been a follower of the raw vegan movement for a long time but always felt uncomfortable with their rejection of raw animal products, especially after seeing videos of chimps and orangutans eating insects, monkeys, and fish. Then there are the science reports that our paleo ancestors ate large quantities of raw meat for hundreds of thousands of years before fire was controlled.

So I feel really at home on this site - thank you to the creators, contributors & readers : )

The local herb center recently gave me a supplement to repair my microbe caused intestinal damage, and I was intrigued to investigate the active ingredients - one was present in raw meat but destroyed by cooking, and the other was derived from crustacean shells. So I figure why buy expensive extracts when I can go straight to the source and get thousands of other nutrients that haven't been discovered yet. Also research on the net points out how important it is to eat organs, brains, bones, skin, etc as each component has its own nutritional benefits.

Hence my mostly raw green whole crustacean smoothie that is now my main food:
1 x Can of coconut cream (OK this is cooked, but I hear that it is a powerful anti-candida agent)
2 x Large handfuls of fresh dark green leaves / celery / edible weeds (stinging nettle, thistle, cleavers...)
1 x Handful of whole raw prawns or shrimps (defrosted for convenience as freezing does little damage)
1/3 Cup fresh garlic / ginger / horseradish for candida / parasite control
1 x Tablespoon mixed dried herbs oregano / pau d'arco bark / basil... for candida control
1 x Tablespoon diatomaceous earth for parasite control (not important if the animal has been frozen)

Using the blender makes the prawns and greens very digestible, any small lumps are fun to chew up.
I also have frozen raw whole sardines, and fresh free range eggs for other paleo smoothies.
Due to my microbe condition I am mostly avoiding even fresh fruit, and definitely avoiding any starches (anything that can make an alcoholic beverage is suspect for me (all grains, potatoes & other starchy vegetables, sugar etc).

So far my weight has dropped ~10kg, my energy levels are up and my food compulsion for sugar and starch have vanished. My wife is suffering from my crankiness, but I understand that this is to be expected as the candida die-off temporarily creates more toxins.

 : )