Thats great, its not getting sour nearly fast enough for my liking at this point. I havent had anything id call to sour yet so im looking forward to experiencing that.

You use kefir grains? if not than its just sour milk. Nothing wrong with that. But it is not the same as kefir.

I'm currently experimenting with the pd. I tried doing the diet without juices and honey for a few Weeks. I suffered. Low energy hard to get out of bed lots of cravings for thing I didn't eat for years (like grains). I recently reintroduced juices and felt good again after a few days. I think I need the enzymes and possibly the magnesium. green juice is the best way to start your day IMO. I didn't had access to raw honey for a wile which is why I didn't east that. I noticed that honey and milk 100% control cravings for bad stuff. Possible its the energy and nutrient density of those foods that I really need. I'm very physically active so need lots of nutrients. The green juices may serve a similar thing

@Adora
Dairy is always highest in minerals and vitamins in spring due to cows eating fresh fast growing grasses. Weston price also specially praised this dairy. I also find myself drinking lots of milk and eating tons of butter this spring.some days I don't feel like eating meat and I live on just milk kefir eggs cheese and green juices. Feel perfectly fine doing that.

Really makes me wonder though about that "ginger plant" they talk about though and what it is. They say most of them died in WW2 - kinda brings up images of scobies or plants carrying guns and going off to war doesn't it? I guess keeping things like starters alive wasn't exactly a priority in Europe at the time. I'm wondering if real ginger beer isn't a whole different animal like the difference between kefir and plain old fermented milk would be. It probably had its very own distinct set of bacteria and yeast combo and hence it's very own flavor.

I might try to hunt one down --- as if I need any more "pets" in my kitchen. 

I didn't knew about ginger "plants" now I got to have one :-) I had a few organic peers starting to rot so instead of throwing them on the compost pile I used them to make a kind of peer cider. cut them in small pieces added water kefir grains and a pinch of sugar. Fermented 48hrs then sieved and fermented another 48 hrs in a closed glass bottle. very nice sparkling cider. Felt like it had a high percentage of alcohol. Not my healthiest brew but certainly one of the most enjoyable.

Except when someone truly gets all their liquids from milk and juices and includes other sodium-veg/fruits, they would probably need salts.

Not true. I drink plenty of plain water along with raw milk kefir and some juices(less and less these days) never felt the need the supplement with salt. I still have high quality celtic sea salt and pink himalayan salt from before i started rpd. They used to help me quite a bit. since going raw i don't need them anymore. Recently i experimented with sole (saturated himalaya salt solution) taking half a teaspoon in a large glass of water before breakfast. I got headaches from it so discontinued that practice. In fact i noticed AV being right about the connection between salt and headaches. whenever i eat out in restaurants i get headaches afterward due to the huge amounts of salt they put on everything.

The above points have already been raised before on this forum many times. The only thing re the above that I object to is the issue of salt. Actually, salt-intake was nonexistent in palaeo times as salt-mines are needed, and those require a settled civilisation.

except at the coast where salt deposits are readily available

^How is your cats health?  I would think an all meat diet would totally change their demeanor, appearance, and energy.  My cat is at least eating "grain-free" catfood which isn't great, but I feed her meat and raw ground turkey whenever possible.  The other person who takes care of her, can't really be taught about the raw food world, and instead follows the vet's protocol.  My cat won't eat high meat, and will only eat ground turkey.  But eating more meat, and less catfood, I notice there's a big difference.

He's healthy. Its a bengal F3 meaning his grandfather was a  Asian Leopard Cat so he's a bit closer to a natural race than most cats. When i got him he was 8 months old and used to eating dry cat food. it took a few days for him to get used to an all meat diet. In the beginning when i gave him some dry cat food that i got free with the cat he would attack it as if craving it. Now when i give it to him he just ignores it(even when hungry) doesn't see it as food anymore.

He's very active, dominant(towards other cats) and strong. Hunts/jumps anything that moves outside.

I agree that animal fats seem to be the most important factor. Personally i find raw dairy is especially good when being exposed to extreme amount of sunrays. Like being out on or near the water whole days wearing just swimming shorts.

”Life is not, as they say, just one damned thing after another, instead, it is the same damned things over and over.”  W.C. Fields

@PP
George Carlin is awesome!

I'm curious, is there anyone on here who knows from experience the effects of taking HGH, or some kind of anabolic steroid, and compared it to RPD?  Despite it being synthetic, you'd still probably see better results from steroids than just RPD. 

Yeah sure real great results; shrinking testikels, ruined kidness/liver, extreme agression, spontanious growth of tissue where it doesn't belong.

I have no personal experience with any of them and would avoid them like the plague. I think in general the results are over estimated and the side effects severely underestimated. Tons of people are taking steriods, some of them are genetic freaks that would have been huge, if they exercised heavy, anyway. There are however plenty of great physiques from the past when far fewer people exercised with weights and steroid and other such crap had yet to be invented. Bob Hoffman and Bill Pearl being only two of them. And then there are much older examples to be admired carved from stone by ancient sculptors. Thousands of years ago such man existed because otherwise those sculptors would not have known how to carve such statue, it not being possible to predict how a very large men would look like without having ever seen one. Muscular shapes change when they get bigger.

If you are considering taking any such synthetic aids consider the above. Train hard, very hard and you will get as big as your genetics allow for without destroying your body/mind in the process.

...more often I hear nutrition authors pointing out that most people are mg. deficient and rarely hear them mention ca. deficiency, and mainly due to the ease of finding ca. in the foods we eat.

And because it is known that most soils nowadays are Mg deficient.

very interesting. They only studied 2 core samples so i don't think its very definitive.

Kidney problems linked with excess protein intake may be linked to not being hydrated enough, with protein digestion requiring water.

Raw meat has quite a lot of water in it. Eating cooked meat makes me crave lots of water whereas raw meat makes me feel hydrated.