Eric..
Love the series to cook or not to cook!

I tested my AGE levels and they were crazy low (5 yo level).
I have avoided carbs pretty much for close to 6 years. I eat mainly raw animal food.

I feel great. Love this WOE. I sure feel a different level of energy with raw and so fun to read more about why 
Thank you for doing the work!

As I said above, it is no option to quit eating seafood. We need DHA badly for our brains.
Instead we need to focus on how to better be able to detox the stuff - a healthy body should be able to do that. So we need to increase our overall health - not stop eating seafood. That would be a bad mistake.

I do not think chelating is clever at all. In fact, it can be pretty dangerous, as your experience shows too.

Thanks for the calming information Inger, and of course the best thing is to try things out yourself to se results But the question still remains..  I just want to say that i am absolutely not an expert in this field but the question as far as i have read aromatase is an enzyme that you can find in estrogen producing cells like in the fat tissue among others? Maybe it doesn't affect you the same way when you consume it as appose to when your own body produces it ?


Here is a link to a thread where the subject is discussed, this might explain the question better than what i do?

------------http://www.hairlosstalk.com/interact/showthread.php/46432-Men-stop-eating-aromatase-----------

Maybe they just got it wrong?

IMHO too... all bullshit.

Rawswede, do you have an estrogen dominance problem? How are you eating / living? How are you feeling?
Why don't you go and test by a doc instead of reading and believing in all sort of stuff on the internet?

Think naturally. Then you will get your answers. Eat what is natural and seasonal, (as wild as it gets) to where you live, and you will have no doubts anymore - and you will feel great!

Love it ^^^ 

I just bought the book "Orthomolecular Treatment for Schizophrenia" and going to send it to my brother, because of you

Well, I might not understand the theory too well, but i for sure know fat does NOT increase your estrogen, if you eat good quality food stuff.
I have been eating unreal amounts of fat last years and my estrogen is at very good/normal levels, not high. I have tested. Could actually be a little higer, i have about mid levels and i would like to be in the upper 25 % range.
I know many male persons that eat a ketogenic diet and are just very muscular and not one bit looking like they have too much estrogen...lol
i think it is also the balance of the hormones that matters a lot.

If you eat lots of dairy, IDK if that could do something like that, but i do not count regular use of dairy to a healthy diet anyways.

You need to go and test your hormones in a lab, and then go from there, eat lots of fat, test again in some months and see where it takes you.
We very much need cholesterol because that is what our body makes hormones of. It is a big lie that it should need to be low. I have a high cholesterol level, mine was last time i tested (more than a year ago.. i need to test again soon)

Total 8,2 mmol/l (317,1)  range 0-5.0
HDL 2,8 mmol/l (108,3)    range 1,0-99999.0
LDL 4,7 mmol/l (181,7)     range 0,0-3,0
Triglycerides 0,8 mmol/l (70) range 0,0-2,0

well, i would like it even higher, that is the truth, my doc thinks the opposite...lol

If you want to raise your testosteron, do nude tanning as much as you can, on the ground.
And limit your non native EMF exposure (fake light, computer... wifi..etc) as it destroys hormones very effectively, sad but true.

This was amazing stuff what you posted there Eric! Have you tried to do this yourself? How did that taste, is it sour, like sauerkraut?
I want to try this.....

I am with Van on this 

Inger.  Are you actually eating wild?   WIld foods would be food native to where you live.  So food that grows in the wild by you may not actually be "wild".   It may be a random tree or bush planted there buy man 100's or thousand of years ago... WId would mean food that is actually native to the region you are from...You would have to alot of research to eat "wild"... and then it still might not be right because of your ancestry.. If a person is European living in South America eating local foods... how would the jive with your body?

The most important thing to do is to eat the stuff seasonal to where you live. No matter if you are not native to there. Because it has to do with the sun. Where is lots of sun and carbs grow naturally, we can eat them, because our body needs sunshine to process carbs without them hurting us (this will not work if you live around the equator and a unnatural life with lots of non native EMF)
Just go to the Nature, she will give you the answers. Merciless. 

My main staple food these days are wild oysters picked by myself along the shore.. and wild caught herring and mackerel.. and wild herbs and berries from my surroundings.
I am not 100% wild tho, I do eat some grassfed heart and fat too and sometimes local organic veggies like cucumber, and I even eat raw Nuts, i prefer Hazelnuts - they grow here too, wild.
But my main food sources are wild. And i could practically live very well from them only if I just was a hunter, because I crave saturated fat too at times and that is why I always have grassfed beef fat in my fridge, I just eat it plain like a pastry..yum But I eat it only occasionally.

A buddy of mine is convinced that eating wild food that grows naturally around the area you live in is healthier for you.  Is this true?

He also talks of local foods being better and being in tune with the season but....


things like kale, and broccoli , and bannanas are not even really real... They are artificially selected foods made better by humans.  Is this bad or is this just mumbo jumbo.  because I pretty much eat all the organic fruit and vegetables regardless of "artificial selection"

Well, to me it is clear your friend is right. If you look at the Nature, everything has its seasons, and animals eat what is in season where they live. This is a basic rule.. and it all has their reasons. If yo dig deeper you can find all the answers WHY. I have, after just instinctively getting closer to eat more and more wild and local because it just made me feel better, learned so much about it why that is what we should be doing if we want optimal health. Mind blowing stuff!

This neurosurgeon has helped me a lot to understand it scientifically. It is tough reading, but so worth it

http://jackkruse.com/

It is not going to be convenient and easy maybe... but no regrets  .

Just need to add one thing to this, our human brains evolved through seafood.. so you will have to live close to water too - very important. We need DHA for our special human brains.
Hard to get enough DHA from land animals only, if you maybe do not get lots of raw brains to eat.....

I do not care one bit either. I do not read websites that i think is only trash. My time is way too valuable....

On neurosurgeon Jack Kruse's website you read the opposite - he is a big fan of raw, and explains it scientifically why it is good for us
he also have said, no other animal cook their food, only human, and we should better not.

Nice     

Francois please tell me how do you open up oysters, i might do it all wrong? I need help with the big ones, I one morning fought for at least 5 minutes to get that 20 cm long bastard open! 
 
The small ones are easy.. but the big ones.. no 

I ate dehydrated meat pretty often.. for years.. i made it myself tho. Now i practically do not eat it anymore, i am sure fresh or aged is better for health.
Still i had an AGE level of a 5 year old as i measured it last fall.

Another rawfooder i know of measured hers too, she is just a tad bit older than me but had pretty much higher AGE level even if hers was good too for her age. Bush she eats omnivore raw food and only a small amount of fish and meat, so quite some fruits. I believe sugar is worse for AGE formation... and sugar from fruit is almost as bad as white sugar for the body i guess

I drink anytime I want, to meals, in between meals.... my belly is happy