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Exercise / Bodybuilding / Any powerlifters or strongmen in the house?
« on: June 03, 2012, 11:49:45 am »
I haven't lifted in ages and ages, and now I am getting into the whole raw food thing I think I want to go back to my powerlifting!
I will be doing Sheiko, as I got some pretty solid, continuous gains by doing that last time.

Any powerlifters or strongmen in the house?

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Apparently everyman is 3.5h and 3 naps, because the body's second SWS phase ends AT 3h, and it is really hard to wake up straight from SWS. If you make your core regular you end up sneaking in another REM phase within the half hour after, too. I always meant to do 3h cores, but usually ended up sleeping 3.5h anyways, so these days I just sleep 3.5h normally.

Hmm now that it has come around, I am thinking I will try the sour cream with the duck fat. I have had my morning coffee+mctbutter, I will wait an hour or so then eat.

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Ok, so my first meal is prepared for tomorrow morning. I bought a fillet of kangaroo, and some duck fat. I am going to leave both out overnight so they are room temperature, and spread the fat on to the kangaroo (because kangaroo has no fat). I also have some pig lard to try, and some coconut fat, and maybe even egg yolk. I will be seeing what they all taste like, slicing the kangaroo fillet into small pieces and putting a bit of lime juice on it.

Kangaroo should be fine, despite being in the normal supermarket, as it is a game meat, so must be grass-fed etc.

Everyman actually gives you two good slow-wave sleep (SWS) cycles, not just one, along with a short REM cycle in the last half hour!

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In my pork and potato days I was also eating barley soup. I never liked bread, since high school when I was eating half a loaf every day in sandwiches, when I slowly stopped producing saliva. Has anyone heard of curing salivation problems? I produce saliva, but not any more than 'base' levels, even when chewing and eating, so when I eat bready or dry foods I have trouble when they soak up all my base saliva.

I have also been interested in eating clay (after hearing it from Daniel Vitalis). What is the general consensus here about that? I could get some quality clay just an hours drive from my home where I will be getting spring water.

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Not really, but I did read somewhere that some tribes that don't get much sunlight tend to be polyphasic and only ever have naps and short sleeps. I certainly wouldn't presume they then sleep like uberman like some people do! If anything I would assume they have 2-3 1.5h naps and 2-3 20 minute naps a day. It would be a leisurely lifestyle! I don't take things too scientifically, I just go by what feels good, and what I do feels good!

I am not really addicted to carbs, I just eat them socially, and also because my wife cooks dinners sometimes.

Eating just roast pork and white potato for 2 years straight really took a toll on me - I became more and more brain dead over time! My anarobic exercise was fine, but aerobically I went down hill a lot! I also started getting a bit of asthma-like symptoms, which still haven't entirely cleared up.
Even just starting to take a multivitamin helped me a lot at the time. I probably was deficient in omega 3s, lots of different vitamins and I was getting no other non-vitamin micronutrients!

Is sour cream a raw food? And what about pasteurized cultured foods?

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Years now. I used to sleep somewhat polyphasically in high school before I knew what it was, but then when uni started, I also started sleeping 9-10 hours a night as I had no real schedule, and felt pretty bad for it (waste of time, sluggishness, etc). So after some research I found out everyman and uberman, and I tried and failed uberman, but then I went to everyman after the failure and now I feel great. 3.5h and 3-4 naps throughout the day.

The uberman adaptation had quite a few similarities to 'detoxing' doing raw vegetarian, when I was eating whole foods and not blending. I think this is because unblended/uncooked vegetables simply don't digest, and so I got a starvation euphoria, which is a type of deprivation euphoria (like sleep deprivation euphoria).  Now I blend all my uncooked vegetables and haven't had anything like it since.

I am basically eating a large smoothie (spinach, banana, carrot, berries, coconut oil) an hour pre-workout. I drink a casein hydrolysate mid-workout. Then I eat cooked meat in butter, raw nuts/seeds, for the next few hours.
Every few days I have a cheat day including sticky rice, sweet potato, cheeses, chocolate, yummy stuff etc.
The first step I will be taking is eating raw salmon, then raw grass fed beef, then I will try a few other things depending on how I go.

I have a question: I can't buy raw butter or raw milk where I am, can I eat lots of cultured pasturized butter if it is from grass fed cows? I think I can get raw milk, I used to drink a lot of normal milk and be fine, but I might cut down on milk (just for teas and coffees) until I can find a good source for raw cosmetic milk.

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Welcoming Committee / Drifting toward a better, more natural me
« on: May 31, 2012, 11:57:21 pm »
I am an ex weightlifter, after having sustained injuries snowboarding I stopped to rehabilitate myself. After I left home, I attended uni for 4 years, ate rubbish, lost strength, size, mental capacity/clarity and turned into a total slob. I mostly ate roast pork + potatoes, and oreos, normal milk and soft drink the entire time.
I have been slowly tidying and diversifying my diet, and I started eating more vegetables, then leaner meats, then went raw vegetarian for a while but never got through the initial gut-adaptation and so was dealing with massive amounts of gas, irregularity and all sorts of weird things. To be honest I felt great whilst I was on it, in terms of mental energy levels, and I felt healthy for the first time since high school. Even high school I didn't feel top notch.

Eventually I drifted toward a paleo style diet, which has worked for me best so far. Cutting out bread/pasta, eating more seeds and fruits (which restored my diminishing apetite and lost bodyweight). Started eating meat again, but decided to not eat any factory farmed meats, so now I stick to mostly lamb, free range pigs and free range chicken. I plan on moving on to grass-fed beef but I need to find a good supplier.

I have also been experimenting with my sleeping patterns since university started a long while ago. If you have heard of polyphasic sleep I have been doing a variant of everyman for a long while now, and I am feeling good.

Recently I have been taking fish oil, nootropics, and coconut/mct oil, and I am feeling better than ever! I am now going to be dabbling in raw meats... which brought me here!

Hi!

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