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General Discussion / Re: New approach
« on: October 08, 2012, 09:31:01 pm »
 
I have many pine-trees in my garden, but I only got pine-cones falling. Where are those pine-nuts?

Inside?  8)

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Journals / Re: A day in the life of TylerDurden
« on: October 08, 2012, 02:23:33 am »
I am definitely going to complain.

LOL! I hope that you haven't eaten too much plastic on this wonderful Hunter Gatherer Traditional Food Festival..

Löwenherz

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Journals / Re: Lex's Journal
« on: October 08, 2012, 02:13:10 am »
Whatever it's efficacy, a recent study claimed that meat-heavy diets raise CRP levels, which has been used (even in Paleo circles) to criticize animal-food-heavy diets and promote instead a "low-glycemic" plant-based diet.

Did they use grain-fed or grass-fed meats in this study? It makes a huge difference, regarding w6:w3 ratios and related inflammatory processes.

In 2005 I made an experiment and ate exclusively the cheapest of the cheapest grain-fed meats every day on a very low carb very high animal fat diet, including a lot of conventional pork. At that time I didn't know much about the massive negative consequences for our health from grain fed meats. Still influenced by Aajonus Vonderplanitz and Wolfgang Lutz, who both obviously never fully understood the enormous importance of w3:w6-ratios, I wanted to find out if grass-feeding is just new age gossip or not. After only six months I got GOUT, diagnosed by a doctor. I experienced gradually increasing pain in my joints, especially in the morning hours. Gout is an inflammatory condition. I couldn't believe it. So fast!? During my zero-carb experiments based on 100% grass-fed meats in the following years I noticed the EXACT opposite reaction in my body! Even with much higher amounts of protein. The pain disappeared and my joints completely healed. They felt better than ever before, even better than in childhood.

Just one thought on "healthy" grains..

Löwenherz

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General Discussion / Re: New approach
« on: October 07, 2012, 07:32:17 pm »
Well hazelnuts and almonds from my garden are good for a year and more. Not sure why are you involving ovens now.

Iguana was talking about nut consumption in paleolithic times. Nontoxic almonds didn't exist in that era.

And for hazelnuts you need ovens or warm dry air in heated homes to properly dry them. Otherwise they will be quickly full of aflatoxins which is a very potent carcinogen. That's the reason why raw nuts are not available in any foodstore.

And yes, an amount of 100 grams of nuts daily indeed causes imbalances no matter if you are already paranoid or not.

Löwenherz

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General Discussion / Re: New approach
« on: October 07, 2012, 05:11:13 pm »
Nuts in their shell will keep for a long time as long as they are in a dry place. I have hazelnuts that stay fine for a year and more, and they are not in a fridge..
Please, you can never eat so much nuts that it will cause you w3/w6 imbalance.. oils and fats is a different thing, but I just can't imagine such imbalances from whole foods.

The nuts from the trees in my garden always go rancid quickly, even in the shell. Our paleolithic ancestors had no ovens.

Of course, you can easily eat so much bad whole foods that you get an imbalance in your body. Our brains are affected immediately as studies with depressive patients show.

Löwenherz



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Journals / Re: Lex's Journal
« on: October 07, 2012, 04:51:13 pm »
From what I've read, it takes a 50mg-100mg dose of iodine over a period of several months to get the effects that I hope to achieve.  Some doctors that are on the iodine bandwagon are using doses as high as 300mg/a day to treat cancer.

To my surprise, today I found an old package of japanese Aonori seaweeds in a hidden corner of my kitchen.

The warning sign reads (translated):
"An excessive iodine supply can cause thyroid dysfunction. Therefore the German Society for nutrition (DGE) recommends not to exceed an average daily iodine intake of 0,2 mg. Therefore MAXIMUM daily dose of Aonori should be ca. 1 gram = 1 teaspoon."

LOL!

I have no clue which amounts of iodine could be problematic for us, low or high. But after reading your posts here I think that the above recommendation is far away from reality. Nevertheless the argumentation of the DGE somehow makes sense to me. They say that after eating very low levels of iodine for decades and generations as in some parts of the world our bodies have adapted to such low levels and that a sudden and very drastic increase causes problems.

Hmm... Saturated fats are devil, whole grains are health food and nuts are good for our brains!

Löwenherz

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Journals / Re: Lex's Journal
« on: October 07, 2012, 04:27:18 pm »
i can only speak for myself but after a year of iodine supplementation like that there are absolutely no negative effects at all, quite the opposite.

That's very interesting. Please tell us more about the positive outcome of your iodine supplementation. What have been the benefits?

Löwenherz

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General Discussion / "Omega Six - The Devil's Fat"
« on: October 07, 2012, 04:07:36 pm »
http://www.amazon.com/Omega-Six-Devils-Message-Dietary/dp/0955707404/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1349597157&sr=8-3&keywords=omega+six+the+devil

Interesting read. The author, Robert Brown, has collected a huge mass of scientific evidence how "healthy" plant fats make us sick.

Löwenherz

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General Discussion / Re: New approach
« on: October 07, 2012, 04:00:28 pm »
Could you expand and explain such a statement? There was nuts in the paleolithic, hunthers-gatherers and chimps eat nuts (see PaleoPhil's post just above). We have no problems at all with those foods as long as we eat them in the proper amount, the amount regulated by our instinct. 

Iguana,

the VARIETY of plant fats you mentionend was never present in any paleolithic diet of any paleolithic man at any time.

Coconuts came from tropical Asia, safus from Africa, macadamias from Australia, avocadoes from South America etc. "Primitive" men were able to thrive on locally available foods, modern people following absurd "instincto" rules are not.

Olives, avocadoes, almonds and many other so called "healthy fat" sources are nothing else than overbred neolithic products like durians etc. Wild almonds and avocadoes are inedible and toxic. Nuts are full of antinutrients and enzyme inhibitors. It's a fact that humans are not able to digest nuts properly even if they taste wonderful. I love the taste of hazelnuts - always - but dog shit may be better for my body.

Our ancestors in Europe may have eaten some walnuts and hazelnuts ONCE in a year in times of scarcity. These nuts go rancid very quickly due to their high pufa content. Todays preserving technologies have not been available. Our ancestors have eaten a huge variety of fats from wild animals. Olive oil and other over-hyped neolithic plant products evolved out of scarcity. It's no coincidence that some of the greatest ancient fat sources like wisent and aurochs are extinct.

For my part, I can tell you that I know for sure that all commonly available plant fats with the exception of coconuts are not only completely unnecessary for my health but indeed harmful IF I use them as a substantial source of calories. I was so brainwashed about healthy plant fats and evil animal fats that I needed years to realize it. The healthy plant fats idea has exactly the same origin as the healthy whole grain madness. But I'm not saying that a handful of well preserved mold-free nuts will kill anyone. They are just as important for us as french fries.

There is overwhelming scientific evidence (see my next post) that an imbalance of w3 and w6 fatty acids causes a HUGE variety of human illnesses. Nuts and other unhealthy plant fats cause such imbalances. We are definteley no apes or squirrels for whom nuts are good food.

Löwenherz

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Welcoming Committee / Re: Aura
« on: October 07, 2012, 02:54:44 am »
100% raw paleo (instincto) since January 1987, so that’ll be soon 26 years! Never ate anything cooked nor any dairy ever since except once a cubic cm of raw goat cheese. :D

Congratulations! I think you are our Nr. 1 long-term raw paleo dieter, right?

Who comes next?

Löwenherz

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General Discussion / Re: New approach
« on: October 07, 2012, 01:55:33 am »
Yes, avocados, olives, safus, various nuts, whole coconuts, etc.

NO, it's all SHIT!  -d Absolute dog shit, with the exception of coconuts.

Löwenherz



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Welcoming Committee / Re: Aura
« on: October 07, 2012, 01:40:23 am »
Wow, another fruitarian horror story! Thanks for sharing, Aura.

When I read your words I'm glad that I abandoned my fruitarian lifestyle "dream" in Asia relatively quickly (10 years ago). However, in the first months I was very successful in ignoring all warning signs, like teeth problems, receding gums, joint destruction, thinning hair, insomnia, emaciation etc. etc.

It's sad that it doesn't work, isn't it? I mean living from sweet fruits in a warm tropical garden with sunshine and "spiritual" happiness is somehow a more beautiful thought than brutally slaughtering nice elephants with speers and stones plus eating bloody bone marrow, for example.

The fruitarian dream, a temptation of the devil. And it's even more devious that many young people can look AND feel so fantastic in the first weeks of fruitarianism that most of them become completely unable to reconsider their dogmas. The first arising problems are just "detoxes".

In my case all the fruit sugar completely destroyed my ability to digest fats, especially long-chain animal fats. I needed many months to understand this and rebuild my gi tract.

Best wishes

Löwenherz

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Journals / Re: Lex's Journal
« on: October 04, 2012, 12:31:35 am »
You almost certainly cannot get cancer.
You are doing what Otto Warburg recommended

Cancer has many causes. Sugar is only one parameter, an important one, though.

Don't forget that Stanley Owsley aka 'The Bear' - a long-term zero carber - got cancer and heart disease. He believed that his cancer was caused by a viral infection, if I remember correctly.

BTW: The Bear avoided organ meats and plant food. I guess that he was extremely deficient in folates..

Löwenherz

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Journals / Re: Lex's Journal
« on: October 04, 2012, 12:04:04 am »
2.   In the research info there was some good indication that once the body has absorbed as much iodine as it can, it will discard the excess through the kidneys and urinary tract.
Is it really safe to eat as much iodine from foods and supps as we want?

Here in Germany we have a huge debate about iodine enrichments and possible toxic side effects. You can find a lot of warnings against iodine overdosing. Even natural products like sea algaes must be labeled with big warning signs, prescribed by law. Some mineral supplements with iodine contents for cows that have been used for many years by beef stock farmers are now forbidden. Many scientist believe that too much iodine causes many severe health problems.

Iodine from natural sources is very different from artificial iodine that is used in supplements. Iodine in foods like fish is usually bound to sodium. But in supplements for humans and livestock feed they use potassium iodine which is much more reactive and potentially harmful.

Many websites, books and hundreds of articles are available about the so called iodine scam. Here is one example:

www.krank-durch-jod.ch

Löwenherz

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Journals / Re: Lex's Journal
« on: September 27, 2012, 04:43:08 pm »
Which HGs, for example? Or where do you have this information from? Link?

A friend of mine reported this. He goes hunting in Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia every year. Hunter gatherers and village people there eat some parts of the intestines of grazers, well cooked, however.

Löwenherz

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Journals / Re: Lex's Journal
« on: September 25, 2012, 10:48:56 pm »
PP,

definetely, folate seems to be a key factor in all meat based vlc diets. A folate deficiency could even cause heart problems via elevated homocystein levels. Thanks for the reports and links. According to nutritiondata.com you would have to eat at least 140 grams of beef liver daily to reach the RDA of folate.

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/beef-products/3468/2

Other organs like kidneys also contain folate but only relatively small amounts.

For me, this means that a meat, fat, organs plus greens VLC diet should be the 110% perfect nutritional approach. Hunter gatheres in Africa eat the fermented intestinal contents of ruminants, still today. Such wonderful compressed "salads" could be extremely high in folate.

Löwenherz

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Journals / Re: Lex's Journal
« on: September 25, 2012, 10:23:24 pm »
I think they did TSH and T3/T4 in previous labs and there was no problem.  Danny Roddy says they are the wrong tests but the only tests I can get are the ones my doctor approves.  With no symptoms the docs are reluctant to run expensive tests.  I looked at getting all the tests Danny Roddy recommeded and the full panel was over $1,000.
That's indeed expensive. Here is the summary of Ron Rosedales thoughts about VLC dieting and thyroid health:

"The lowering of free T3 is a sign of that adaptation, and, according to Paul Jaminet, when you follow his diet you prevent the lowering of free T3.  That is powerful indication that following a “safe starch” diet is preventing one from changing into a calorie restriction phenotype and preventing the genetic expression and adaptation to deeper maintenance and repair that equates to health and longevity that a very low carbohydrate, high-fat diet would otherwise allow the opportunity for."

Taken from his blog:

http://drrosedale.com/blog/2012/08/18/a-conclusion-to-the-safe-starch-debate-by-answering-four-questions/#more-1137

Löwenherz

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Journals / Re: A day in the life of TylerDurden
« on: September 24, 2012, 10:30:31 pm »
I've just had a blood test done though there was no real need for it. I have no idea what all the figures mean.

Would you like to post it?

Aeh, what is this new avatar picture? I can't recognize anything. Is it a laser show? A paleo monster?

Löwenherz

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Journals / Re: Lex's Journal
« on: September 24, 2012, 09:53:17 pm »
Finally got my annual labs completed.

Hi Lex,

thank you very much for posting your new lab results. Looks really good! That's great. I would say that this is the most interesting and most detailed zero carb (plus raw) lifestyle journal on this planet, far better than any book about ketogenic diets.

BTW: It might be useful or more practical to stick the pdf-document to your first post of this journal where all other laboratory values from earlier years are located!?

Do you know your thyroid levels? As far as I can see they are not included in your test. Against the background of the recent "safe starches" and thyroid health discussions in low carb circles around Jimmy Moore, Nora Gedgaudas, Ron Rosedale etc. it would be very interesting to see your TSH and fT3 - levels. There is a widespread opinion amongst low carb doctors that long-term zero carbing causes hypothyroidism. Because you feel good I guess that you are definetely not hypothyroid. Your levels could clarify the question if the standard interpretation used by hospitals is wrong in a low carb context, as Ron Rosedale claims.

Löwenherz

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General Discussion / Re: What do 'wild' chickens really eat?
« on: September 24, 2012, 09:21:27 pm »
It's so much fun to watch chickens. :-)

Chickens are usually intensively bred for egg production.

I wonder how many eggs such domesticated animals lay if they are free to roam in a big garden and get additional leftovers from slaughtered grass-fed ruminants plus some vegetable matter but ZERO grains to ensure a proper omega 3 / 6 ratio.

Does anybody know?

As far as I know egg production goes down significantly but how much? I love the taste of raw eggs but I stopped eating eggs many years ago due to adverse reactions. I'm pretty sure that grain feeding is the underlying cause.

Löwenherz

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General Discussion / Maggots in Christmas Dinner
« on: August 30, 2012, 11:52:18 pm »

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Carnivorous / Zero Carb Approach / Re: fat to protein ratio
« on: August 14, 2012, 08:17:06 pm »
I had trouble digesting suet when I first started the diet. It was coming out in my stool completely undigested, so I switched to fat trimmings and I seem to digest them very well.

That was my experience, too. Fat trimmings are so much better than suet. Sometimes suet really tasted like indigestible chalk. But there are huge differences. It all depends on the animal breed, sex and age. Fat from female grazing animals is almost always preferable, for example.

Löwenherz

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Health / Re: Post meal Ketogenic crash?
« on: August 14, 2012, 08:05:06 pm »
..but i can't be eating raw honey because it's too much energy that gets unnerving and anxious for me so it's a constant balancing act until i find some carbs that work.

That sounds like a blood sugar problem.

Löwenherz

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Health / Re: Post meal Ketogenic crash?
« on: August 14, 2012, 08:03:28 pm »
Its all new territory for me because I have never needed to add extra carbs before. Have  any other low carbers had similar experiences?

Hi Sabertooth,

if I use a lot of coconut fat (in any form) on a full blown ketogenic diet with a carb intake near zero grams I get really nasty symptoms during days with some exercise.

I think that my blood ketone levels get WAY TOO HIGH from coconut fats. As long as I don't exercise it's no problem. But IF I exercise it really gets brutal. Like Lex, I will buy a blood ketone meter to be sure about this issue. Jeff Volek and Stephen Phinney have written some interesting stuff about optimal blood ketone levels for athletes.

When I use coconut fat as my main fat source I always (have to) eat some fruits to avoid too deep ketosis. Then everything is ok, even with exercise.

When I use animal fats exclusively as my main fat source I don't get symptoms on a strict zero carb diet. And then it's even better for me to avoid ALL carbs because animal fats like beef and lamb fat make my body carb intolerant. During these days fruits would give me very undesireable blood sugar spikes and no benefits at all.

Robert K. Su, author of "Carbs can kill you" has recently confirmend my own experience. He believes that coconut fat can cause too high ketone levels if you don't eat carbs and now recommends to prefer animal fats on a zero carb diet. That makes sense, because human bodies can't store MCT, as far as I know.

In your situtation I would cut out coconut fat completely for one or two weeks to see if there is any difference, regarding your symptoms.

As long as you eat a lot of lamb fat it's not a good idea to add fruits, imo.

Löwenherz

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General Discussion / Re: What is Your Definitions of the RPD?
« on: August 10, 2012, 11:26:01 pm »
..Some people may think that the 6 or so tablespoons of Raw coconut butter I eat a day isn't raw paleo, but I have had such good results with it, that it doesn't matter.

Sabertooth,

would your diet without coconut fat (a Lex Rooker ZC style diet) also work for you?

I was just thinking about members of ZC forums who reported thyroid problems in the long-run on strict animal based ZC diets. Coconut fat is said to stimulate the thyroid gland. So I wondered if you just like the taste of coconut butter or if you feel a need for it, in addition to lamb meat, fat and organs.

Löwenherz

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