I eat a low-carb diet, but never a zero-carb diet.

For vegetables, I enjoy them fermented most of the time. I eat carrots, beets, and sweet potatoes this way. I don't get much in the way of carbs this way because the amounts are more like "condiments" for variety, not "servings" for quantity.

I also enjoy carbs in nuts. Still not a super-starch like potatoes, nuts have a good amount of carbs compared to lettuce.

How are you with honey? Fermented or not, honey is the epitome of high carbs!

And for a great snack food, try sprouted corn kernels (get the kind for sprouting, not popcorn) or even sprouted peas. Despite the controversies over corn, the sprouted kernel has a good amount of starch left. For flavor, sprouted corn is delicious. You can find out how to sprout corn and other things at https://sproutpeople.org/.

Aromatherapy is incorporated in DBT as a suggestion for finding pleasurable activities for each of the 5 senses. I'm really into it myself, using oils that you can buy plus whole spices that smell good. I don't connect it to specific healing as much, they way some do, but I think that it is a valid healing modality, if you get into it.

I realize that you were asking originally about raw paleo as a healing option. I'd say yes because it takes such a burden off the body. But the burden can be lifted too slowly to rely on RPD solely. Think in terms of near-sightedness - you'd still wear glasses until the raw healing took place. Same with needing therapy right now.

A good long-term solution for compulsive behaviors is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). In DBT, the patient learns to become mindful of the goal of the ineffective behavior and is then able to select a different behavior to achieve the goal. As in the Greek philosophical style called dialectics, DBT teaches a person to spend more time weighing the options before acting. I've seen it work wonders for people who act on impulses that are destructive. There are good DIY workbooks, but I'd find a DBT therapist and probably DBT classes or group therapy for someone who is so out-of-control.

An example of a "goal" for compulsive hoarding might be to "feel calmer," yet hoarding will not lead to calmness. The patient needs to find alternate behaviors that will lead to the goal of calmness, such as listening to music or doing a hobby. It is a fairly simple process, but it takes a few months (or more) to master.

There are many psych-meds that can alleviate compulsive behaviors, but the side-effects can be debilitating. Sometimes side effects are tolerable at first until the patient learns other ways of dealing with the behavior. If someone is wrecking their family's life, the quick results of medication might be justified.

The family might need therapy and support, too. Good luck.

Can sheep be fed on grains? It is just that halal has all sorts of religious restrictions which are no use to an RPDer, such as removing all the blood etc., but, afaik, there are no halal commands for certain animals to be grassfed or antibiotic-free etc. I once went around London asking for grassfed halal meat, they looked at me like I was a moron.

Yes, sheep can be fed on grains.

Muslims, at least in California, are not robots of their scriptures. They are regular people with customs and habits, like all people in all cultures.

The typical consumer at the ranch I go to expects grassfed because he knows that the meat is no good from a grain fed lamb. There's a taste difference, plus he is close enough to the slaughter process to have seen grass vs grain innards. At the ranch, being it's the dry summer season, they expect to see mountains of hay and no bags of grain. Anyway, that's what I get told when I ask, even though I probably look like a moron.

Really knowing your meat is pretty typical of a nose-to-tail consumer. I've read that the religious custom of offering the blood to a god was practiced in the Middle East by the early tribal religions, long before it became incorporated in the Hebrew law, then the Islamic law. Oftentimes, a food sacrifice was eaten by the priest, so maybe the custom started when some blood-loving priest demanded all the fresh blood be offered on his god's altar. Sluuurp!

Yummy maggots! Half protein, one-third fat. I doubt she stopped complaining long enough to taste one.

Right now, I have the following:

beef, lamb heart, crab, scallops, hamachi, dried small anchovies, larvae
kimchi, fermented radish, and fermented cauliflower
butter and lamb fat
arugula and mustard greens
olives (locally produced), pine nuts
(semi)local-harvest dried seaweeds

I've arranged for a whole lamb in about a month, but I'm moving in two weeks and don't want it until after I am in the new house.

I stick to seasonal eating for the most part, so I get variety throughout the year. I have access to figs, peaches, nectarines, lemons, and oranges from trees in the backyard. I'm not a big fruit eater, so I make do with my share of what grows here. The new house has lemons and tunas rojas. I'll plant a mini-orchard and kitchen garden there. I'm the only raw-food eater in my family of five, and I have my own kitchen in the "mother-in-law unit". Everybody else cooks their mostly-paleolithic foods.

We're not the paleo police, but the whole idea of a paleolithic diet is to pre-date the processing of food that went along with the invention of pottery, pots, agriculture, etc. Some eat high meat, but that's really not the point of paleo. Also, as you know, the term "paleo diet" can mean many things, including coconut ice cream and coconut flour pancakes. Of course, paleolithic man didn't eat like that.

If you think you're doing fine, that's a good thing. I'll bow out of this conversation because I feel bad with cooked food and particularly grains, so I have no advice to offer.

FWIW, I spent YEARS eating "healthy" food like ezekiel bread and trying to detox as I kept poisoning my body with good grains. I came to this forum in my late 50s, unable to walk for more than a few feet at a time. It took me TWO DAYS of raw paleo eating to make a big transformation. Literally, I showed up at work on a Monday morning after eating raw paleo over the weekend and everybody noticed that I looked great!

Raw eating is not a "supplemental" thing for me now. If I stick to ancestral eating, I don't need to do extra "detox" protocols. My blood sugar and hemoglobin A1C are in the normal range, not diabetic as before. Severe arthritis in my shoulders, hands, feet still "shows up" on x-rays but I have no pain, even when I walk for over a mile. Various other blood tests are normal now. Periodontal disease is gone. My mood is stable. I haven't experienced binge-eating disorder symptoms for years. I never get gall-bladder pain, despite eating a ton of raw animal fat. No more heartburn and hiccups after meals.

I'm sorry if you didn't get the impression that this forum is about raw, unprocessed paleolithic foods. By referring to the paleolithic period, we are talking about a hunter-gatherer diet, what mankind ate before the dawn of agriculture (which brought grains and legumes into prominence).

I made a two-week commitment to raw paleo eating at first, and that was enough to convince me that I had found the solution to my ailments. I would suggest you give that a try, instead of trying to neutralize the poisons that you are eating.

how much high meat are you eating?

She stated how much she is eating. This might help: http://www.ehow.com/info_8075419_different-marble-sizes.html

Most of the raw dairy producers in this country are amish....

What do you mean by "most" and "in this country"? I live in it, too, and I visit all sorts of farms and ranches, and I've never seen an Amish-owned dairy farm.

Go read a book on organic farming. None of that crap is in the instructions.

The many organic ranches and farms in this area are as mechanized as they can afford to be. Even back when I was growing up in the 1950s, when all diary was locally produced, the cow-side of dairy farming was highly mechanized, (however, the processing side still involved a lot of carrying buckets of milk around and pouring it by hand into the separator and pasteurizer).

Have you ever tried going without raw dairy? Perhaps your daily intake of milk is causing your troll-like thoughts and posts. I'd consider that a significant problem that might be helped with a change in diet, particularly a change that lowers inflammation, which can trigger irritating behavior. One clue that diet is the culprit may be that you have reported ongoing "detox" symptoms. What can be left to detox if your intake is not irritating you? After all, even in the most pristine ancestral scene, the quantity of milk that you drink on a year-round basis would be unheard of.  Also, your choice of cow's milk over smaller animal varieties is a totally neolithic concept. It would be a challenge at first, but I'm sure there's a mellow-er you somewhere, waiting to be liberated.

E300 is labeled in the US as ascorbic acid, and it is used to prevent food from oxidizing. E350 is some other acid, probably used for the same purpose.

Here in the US, a lot of cut fish are delivered wet packed, meaning that the cut surfaces of the fillets have been coated with sodium tripolyphosphate. The reasoning is that they are "fresh" this way. STPP is a salt that keeps things moist, even to the point of adding water weight. That's another good reason to buy the whole fish and a use your own knife.

I have a long history of orthopedic inflammation. While eating correctly eliminates daily pain, there are adhesions, what they call adhesive capsulitis and things like that, that have constrained the correct movement of some of my joints. Where the movement is constrained, injury gets repeated.

Magnesium supplementation is a must for me, as are sunbathing plus vitamin D supplementation, but I use movement exercises as the basis for healing. Years ago, I used to think that chiropractic was going to help, but I was disappointed in the results and developed my own hybrid routines based on yoga and pilates plus Feldenkrais, Yamuna, Egoscue, and Gokhale methods. (Of all these, Feldenkrais has given me the awareness of movement that guides me. Feldenkrais seemed weird at first - I went to one class and left disappointed, then I started watching Youtube Feldenkrais practitioners and learned its value.) I also use cupping, which decongests and feels great, and soaking in all sorts of delicious herbs, minerals, and clays.

Perhaps you can explore the movements in your affected joints. You'd be looking for ways in which your wrists are "limping" or compensating to avoid pain, but causing pain in other ways. Sometimes you find that the imbalance is muscular, which happens when you compensate for pain with an opposing muscle. Other times, you need to balance the stretchiness of the joint. Whatever you chose to do, you'll be moving fluids in and around the joints, and that is important.