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Just watched the first episode. Really enjoyed it.

WoW, great video!

I cite: "...sugar is so scarce in these forrests..."

It's a tropical forrest! But where are all the natural watermelons, papayas and pineapples?? :-)

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Check this guy out.109 years old! He has a series of videos on longevity if you search on youtube.   

I have read an article about this centenarian a while ago, but forgot his name. Recently I was searching and searching the internet but couldn't find him.

Thank you very much!

Bernando Lapallo is very inspiring...

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...Usually those do the best with high sugar or fruit diets are also those who are very very active, and are able to burn off excess sugar in the blood before it can cause hormonal problems or feed things like candida. 

This is a very important point, IMO. Nearly all people who eat large amounts of fruit are running everyday, some of them even marathons. Running, running, running like crazy.

When I was eating high amounts of high sugar fruits, I had always the feeling that I HAVE to run. Somehow this "motivation" to run wasn't very pleasant, it felt unnatural. Because I believed all the natural hygiene nonsense (I started my raw food journey 1999 after reading books from Arnold Ehret and Helmut Wandmaker) I never had the idea that all the fructose acts like a poison in my body. Running seems to be a good way to get rid of the excess sugar. Look at this durianriders - fruitarian. He needs 12 hours sleep (due to sugar overload) and 6-8 hours of bicycling (due to sugar overload).

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Look in the supermarkeds for Irish red meat. If I am uncertain I go for the Irish stuff since the large majority of their producers grassfeed (grasing+silage) their animals. You can also see it on the creaemy yellow color the fat has compared to the shiny white stuff in the supermarked cooler. Usually you can have them to yourself too because people think since it has yellow fat it must be of a poor quality so its really cheap too. Whats not to like? If Denmark imports it, Ill bet you that so does France.

Thanks for your advice!
Unfortunately irish beef from the big exporters is not really grass-fed anymore. Portugal imports tons of beef from Ireland. I have testet it several times (while living in Portugal), the quality was always very poor. I think Ireland produces still the best beef in Europe, but you can only get it from small producers directly. AIBP and other meat export giants in Ireland told me that today even imported soy is used for feeding the cattle in Ireland...

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Hi,

I'm looking for good suppliers of 100% grass fed meat in southern France, in the departments Aude and Pyrénées-Orientales. All farmers I contacted so far use concentrates to finish their cattle...

Is anybody from France here who could give me some recommendations?

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Humans acquire 2-5% of there total dietary energy from the bacterial fermentation of fiber into Short chain fatty acids.  Explain to us what resources are wasted?  The ones doing all the work are your gut bacteria.

Very interesting. That would confirm my own experience.

Could you show us some reports/studies about these 2-5% and benefical short chain fatty acids?

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I don't have "issues" with frozen meat, but somehow I find fresh meat more filling. 

More filling?? Anyway, fresh is always best.

Do you have good sources for high quality 100% grass fed meat in Germany?

My suppliers are all located in Schleswig-Holstein and Holland.
I'm still looking for some good farmers in Hessen and Baden-Würtemberg. 100% grass fed + grass finished is still relatively rare.

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I am happy about it that is for sure. Now I am speaking to someone who will be supplying bison, deer, and wild boar from southern Az. The trip is about 100 miles, one way. I will probably buy a lot and end up eating high meat and jerky for a while!

For me, Bison ist the best of the best! It could be one reason to emigrate to USA. hehe. In Germany it's nearly impossible to get grass fed bison meat... They all fatten them up with grains and are proud of it. Unfortunately in most cases "grass fed" is still a foreign word for our few bison farmers.

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The trouble with your argument is that many, many RVAFers eat raw wild game most of the time yet do not get parasites at all. I have eaten raw wild game much of the time for 9 years and only had 1 minor incident once, that was it. So, parasites are clearly a non-issue.

?? This could be a misunderstanding.

I wrote:
"I tend to believe that the parasite issue is primarily linked to DOMESTICATION of animals. "

Wild animals are NOT living like cows on very small grasslands. Their risk of infection is much lower.

It is one other reason to prefer wild game meat.

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  Compared to countless numbers of rawpalaeos who never get tapeworms on a RVAF diet. In short, the parasite scares are bogus.

I hope you are right. I tend to believe that the parasite issue is primarily linked to domestication of animals. Parasitic infections in ruminants explode as long as these animals have to graze on the same grasslands again and again...

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I have been on this site for about 2 years now and the only one to get an infection was tyler and that was from some low grade meat. Also a side note, no harm was done to tyler in anyway. I myself have no troubles with it. I know yuli would eat salmon even after finding parasites in it and had no problems either.

Tyler + GoodSamaritain + Löwenherz

= 3 x tapeworm

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Cavities while eating zero carb? Interesting. How many cavities did you get? Did you eat any starch/sugar as "exception" or the like?  Did you have many cavities before? Did you get any cavities since you eat low carb? Did you eat any greens or vegetables when you ate zero carb?

Why don´t you eat tropical fruit?

Hallo Hanna,

yes, cavitis while on zero carb. I always thought that this is completely impossible due to the absence of sugars. But there are more factors involved. I didn't eat any plant food, no honey and no other sugary food at all. The reason for tooth decay was that my mouth was extremely dry, salivation was strongly impaired. I know from hospitals that people without proper salivation (due to chemotherapy for example) can loose their formerly perfect teeth completely within a few weeks. Strong saliva is very important for healthy teeth.

I had some cavities before my zero carb diet, since age 16 or 18 or so. I don't get any cavities on raw paleo low carb.

The meat that I had eaten was extremely toxic. There is no other explanation for most of the symptoms I got. Later I found out that one of my so called grass fed beef supplier buys tons of pellets made of waste from sugar production plants every month to speed up his beef production processes. As already mentionend I'm very careful today. I never ever touch any raw meat from supermarkets or butcher shops anymore...

Viele Grüße

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