I've done that on myself several hundred times.  It definitely helps with postural and musculoskeletal issues.  Of course, I've only heard it called neurocranial restructuring, but it's the same thing.

Woah!! That is awesome. How did you teach yourself to perform it?

@ Van. I have heard about that place and look forward to going there soon. Have you ever been to Hana Maui?

YS is correct.  Some other messed up laws: By law restaurants can't cook with saturated fats. Raw milk is illegal.
They give you a pamphlet to fill out during the flight that asks you what your bringing to the island. I put a fake name and fake everything on it so don't worry about that.

Maui has a lot more fruit access than some of the other islands from what I hear and its still not entirely easy to get ripe fruit.

http://www.rawpaleodiet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/JerkyDrierInstructions.pdf
Thats a link to a homemade jerky maker. If you only want the food warmed you can just keep it in there for a few hours instead of 2-3 days.
I think using an oven might prove difficult to keep desired temperatures.

104 degrees seems to be the number to keep protein at or below to avoid risk of denaturing and creating toxins.

IMO a temp of 99 is not considered a fever. I think above 100.4 is.

Good to hear you are enjoying Papaya! It was my favorite fruit for the longest time until I had ripe cherimoyas
Interesting about your liquid diet making you thirsty. I find similar symptoms with too many liquids.
I have been air drying my meat lately to get rid of excess liquid and have been consuming more salt and I have to say I never feel thirsty anymore! Also I have a lot less intestinal rumbling.
I think milk and fruit juices have enough liquids for me.

Why do think you can't tolerate carbs?

You bring up a good topic that I have thought about for quite some time.

From my research and self experimentation on healthy eating I have come to find it is very important to keep an equal calcium to phosphorous ration.
Meat is high in phosphorus.
Milk just has an idea calcium ration and is easy to obtain.

Egg shell powder and oyster shell powder have gotten good reviews because it has the right kind of calcium.

Native Americans were known to eat bone powder and high calcium greens with all of there meat.

http://www.westonaprice.org/traditional-diets/guts-and-grease

I do pretty well on dairy although I prefer cheese and yogurt and small amounts of milk.

A part of me feels that milk is not the ideal food to consume it is almost out of convenience rather than optimal health.

I am considering experimenting with eating bone powder or egg shell powder or oyster shell powder with my meat at some point and giving up the majority of my dairy.

Yup!

I did it for about 3 weeks every day I ate raw collagen as my main protein source. I actually felt the best I had every felt although it took a lot of time and dedication to commit to it.

I got a cat skinning knife and would scrape of the collagen attached to lambs feet. This I found was the best way to consume it.

I tried soaking bones in lime water and making a raw broth although this method didn't really vibe well with me.

Yes, it is way more ingested by most people but has been proven to be one the most deficient minerals in ones' diet.
I've already provided a link of research that shows low carb diets slowing down the production of T3 (thyroid hormone) - which has a large influence on glucose metabolism. Let me break down my hypothesis:


• Carbohydrates Stimulate Thyroid Hormone (including RS as it is a carb)
  
• Low Carbohydrate Diets slow production of T3 (Thyroid Hormone)
  
  • Thyroid Hormone is a huge player in blood glucose regulation
    
  • Iodine Deficiency is extremely common
    
    • Iodine Sufficiency leads to normalization of thyroid hormone production
      
    • TSH Levels can come back 'normal' on those deficient in Iodine in their blood work
  
  Did you or Lex take it in high enough doses long enough to reach sufficiency? Tests results would most likely not improve considerably until sufficiency levels are reached. Doses of 50mg for 3 months can be used to reach sufficiency.
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  Of course this is all a hypothesis and I haven't gotten blood work since becoming Iodine sufficient and starting my RZC diet but I think one is in order.
  
  
  

How often do you eat Thyroid Gland?

Why is it surprising? Thanks I get to the gym often - it is part of my job.

That mole has been there forever. It hasn't changed much until I started going raw - it seems to be getting lighter over the years actually if that is what you meant by getting better.




Interesting.. it was in the same area?

Just because I lost all my muscle when I went low carb.

Yes it was in the exact same area and one above it connecting to the nose.

That line gets more noticeable when I have too much fat and not enough carbs.

Whens the last time you got your labs done? And would you consider posting them?

Okay then, so according to you I am not zero carb as I eat a little over an ounce of beef liver per day. That is 1.5 grams of carbs.
How about when they ran out of plant food or when it wasn't available? There will always be more questions to ask and I think this debate could continue on forever..

Like Van says, staying in ketosis is what we strive for. I know I could stay in ketosis even if I had started eating a few servings of greens or berries per day but I personally don't see a need to do so.

I'm done debating.

It looks like you have a great amount of muscle and weight 24isours! That is awesome and surprising to me since you are low carb. Also I noticed from your picture you have a mole on the right side of your face. Has that always been there? If so has it gotten better or worse since you started low carb?

The only reason I ask is because it is on your liver line.
When I started low carb I got a mole on my liver line as well and since I stopped eating low carb for about a year now I finally have seen it mostly disappear.

Everyone is different though...

That is interesting what you say. Last night after reading some on gut bacteria, I decided to add a little unheated honey to my meat and fermented veggies, butter I was eating. I prior have had very little appetite since the accident and had eaten VLC. I did sleep better. This morning I was looking up what AV had to say on brittle and broken bones. Besides the bone marrow (which I am doing) he had #1 drinking raw milk. I am strongly considering going back to it... maybe adding a little honey. I gain a lot of weight drinking milk, but think I'd be foolish to make weight loss my priority right now.

I still need to find out what this RS is. Thanks.

I feel better eating my meat with carbs as well. Usually in the form of honey or tropical fruit.

When I was raw paleo (no dairy) I ate resistant starch for about 5 months and felt like it was a wonderful addition to my diet at the time.
Then I decided I wanted raw dairy back in my diet and quickly found out that I could not handle both dairy and resistant starch in my diet. I have since then heard similar accounts from others experiences.
Some people, like PaleoPhil, are able to tolerate both resistant starch and raw dairy in the diet.
I am definitely not one of them though.

Here is where I learned pretty much everything on RS.
http://freetheanimal.com/

Believe me, this is the kind of feedback I need. I've done it before raw and cooked, and there was a point each time where my body said no. But thought maybe I was not doing it right. Maybe needed more minerals... etc.

What happened to you over the long run? Are those articles under health?

I definitely agree with Inger about getting your labs done.

When I did ZC I lost 25 pounds which means I went from 150 to 125 in two weeks. I had the feeling of not being able to breathe like a 50 pound weight was on my chest. I also started to get a raised bump of skin next to my nose which I have later found out is related to the liver.

I got a sinus infection from it that has lasted a year now and is just barely going away since I have started eating lots and lots of fruit and honey and raw milk. I average about 300-500 carbs a day and feel really well doing so. I am not advocating this for anyone just saying what I have found to work for me.

My temperatures were rather low like 94-96 F after my ZC experiment.

Now since I have been eating three months of lots and lots of raw carbs my temperature is 97-98 F and my skin and weight are much much better.

If you scroll to the bottom of the homepage you can see “recent posts” and there is a lot of activity going on with the ZC topics and gut bacteria mainly from PaleoPhil who advocates a resistant starch to help keep good bacteria up.

Here is an article explaining how a basically low carb animal protein based diet alters our gut bacteria in a negative way.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/10/250007042/chowing-down-on-meat-and-dairy-alters-gut-bacteria-a-lot-and-quickly