According to a few sources, oyster often contain bacteria that are quite dangerous, since most oyster are farm raised, do you think it would be safe to consume them still? I want to try them really bad since they are the best source of zinc and selenium with the extra benefits of being low in protein so not too taking on the liver but my liver is also very weak so i know that any bacteria would probably send me to the hospital.

Source: http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/foodborne_illness/Raw_Oysters.php

http://www.fda.gov/food/resourcesforyou/healtheducators/ucm085385.htm

I always read how we shouldn't have a big meal before bed and especially a high protein meal, My understanding of how we evolved would be different. It makes more sense that we would have waken up in the morning and stack on whatever we can find, usually fruits and vegetables, perhaps a few nuts while looking for the big hunt and by the time we would get a kill it would probably be around night and then we would rest and sleep after a high satisfactory high protein meat. Eating a high protein meal makes me sleepy and this is how I like to sleep. I cannot sleep if I'm hungry and its way worse if I don't eat right before bed.

There were times where I ate lots of fat before sleeping and all I could think was how bad I was craving red meat. Eating fat never leave me satisfied, I always crave red meat and the more fat I eat the more red meat I crave. I don't mind eating vegetables in between meal or as a little snack while holding on for the next big meal during the day, but anything like eating a light meal of fruits or vegetable would keep me awake all night being hungry. so to me it makes sense that we would like want to sleep with a high protein meat, despite what people say that we need a digestive rest and that protein meal are long to digest and that our stomach acid is lower at night.

So I'm looking into copper toxicity and it just seem so much like me, I seem to have most of the symptoms.
I've been eating organ meet 3 liver and 3 beef heart so far, not sure if that's enough for copper toxicity but regardless, it is clear that living of beef heart will not be a possible thing to do as it contain twice as much copper for zinc and will in the end lead to copper toxicity.

I can't seem to digest lean meat very well and lean meat is what contain the most zinc to copper ratio, it's the perfect ratio its about 8:1 at the least. I'm guessing I'll just have to eat lean meat that I cannot digest. I've been buying zinc supplement that I'm waiting to receive but clearly that's not enough to out balance the copper, FFS.

Beef heart where SO cheap, lean meat is so expensive, it's about 4 times the price and I much prefer beef heart, god dammit living of beef heart was too good to be true.

You think beef tongue could do it? It has 2:1 zinc/copper not as good as 8:1 from lean meat but at least you get much more zinc then copper.

I'm considering doing a hair analysis to have a clear idea.

I always had a severe sweet tooth, I LOVE sugar and I know that I can't have honey raw or even fermented because it cause me stomach burn. I don't know why but it does so that's a clear sign that it's doing me more arm then good. Then fruits makes me bloated like hell so then I have coconut sugar and I had blueberry and black cherry juice left from months ago when I was still not intolerant to everything and couldn't eat to drink some black cherry juice (of course now I feel discomfort and I had fat 2hours prior)

I feel every time I have carbs of any kind that I am setting myself back significantly.

Now I hear so many bad things about sugar but I also hear many bad things about going ZC so what to do?

I'm afraid that sugar will cause inflammation, pancreas problem, and liver stress and overall digestive stress but then some people say that ZC can actually cause stress, so should I avoid it? Atm the ONLY plant food I seem to do well with are papayas(yes they actually allowed me to have a bowel movement without the use of magnesium). So my only source of safe carb for me would be papaya.

I'll be honest, I keep finding reasons to cheat on sugar, I do it all the time and I hate myself for it, I see it as a quick cheap source for energy but then it always cause me digestive discomfort of some kind should I just go ZC except for occasional papayas?

I personally LOVE everything about raw paleo, high meat taste incredibly good to me, I love raw beef heart and I would NEVER wanna go back to my old habits(I still love the taste of the old food but I just prefer the new one). Eating suet is absolutely fun, breaking down all that fat with my saliva, and eating takes me a whole 20-30mins now. Ground beef although it taste good is something I never wanna eat ever again, it would take me 2-3mins to chunk down on pile of ground beef and would leave me totally unsatisfied, having no pleasure from eating it as it would be too quick.

My parents especially my dad is crazy about my new eating habits, he can't stand the smell he keep wondering why the hell I don't cook it even though I explained times and times again. He is so grossed out that he cannot look at me eating, I love the feeling of instincto that comes with eating raw paleo. I only ever use a fork when I eat raw liver since I spice it with turmeric(love the texture but not the taste) but everything else I eat is with my bare hands and my hands get VERY messy, greasy and gross and I LOVE IT. I used to ate using my hands and freak out about dirt, now I have rotten meat and stuff that has touch the ground like it's candy.

I have to hide when eating my food as visitors would go crazy seeing me eat and I take so much pride in eating this way. The irony is that it is also much cheaper, beef heart cost nothing compared to muscle meat, I don't need to waste time cooking and beef fat is so tasty and VERY FREAKING CHEAP. I also absolutely go addicted for beef blood, drinking the blood out of beef heart is just SO good, I wish I could replace water with beef blood, makes me feel like a vampire!

Now I just wish that my body doesn't screw me up and allow me to keep on eating that food, I have so much pleasure eating!

I received my 60% fat 40% protein trim today and since I don't have enough glass containers, I had to put some in the refrigerator and just shut the temperature off so that it age faster but I'm concerned if it will work? I also put it under wax paper so that it doesn't touch the plastic and grid, is this ok or should I really get some containers? I would need like 10 and they are like 20$ each. And what about the fat, fat doesn't go high meat right?

There's a website I use that state oxalate and Salicylate content of food and it shows that honey contain some oxalate and very high Salicylate. Some people cannot tolerate Salicylate and so my guess is cannot tolerate honey even raw. I was under the impression that honey was free of anti-nutriment, guess not? So is meat the only food truly anti nutriment free and what about purines?

source: http://www.lowoxalate.info/recipes.html

I started developing chronic headache that got more and more frequent as time went by, now barely a day goes by without having an headache. I been using melatonin for years now to help me sleep as I have a very hard time sleeping but it give me an headache most of the time when I take it now, even as low as 0.1 mg. So I decided to cut melatonin for good and see if it help headaches.

As anyone else struggled with this? CFS/Chronic Headache started after my digestive issue and I find CFS/Headache much more impairing now then all those digestive problem, today I'm doing very good digestion wise but my headache feels like a migraine. For some reason whenever my digestion is at bay, my headaches go crazy, it's like I can't be free of headache and without digestive upset at the same time, it's one or the other or both. Any thoughts on what could be done or why it's happening?

Some might find this disturbing but I am a newbie and wonder how far some might have went.

Hi I just joined and been on RZ for 4 days now, I figured that if I wanted to give the best chance to heal i should put on a journal.

Bit of background: I used to workout 3 times a week and was healthy at 160pounds then 9 months ago I started becoming really sick, bloated,constipation, with lots of food intolerance. Then within a month I became really fatigued and just wanted to crash all day until I was too tired to work out anymore and now I am bed-ridden. I was told to cut out gluten by my MD who has since passed out. Eventually it helped but then it got worse and then i tried all kinds of diet SCD/GAPS/4-Day rotation/Elemental diet/Elimination diet. some gave relief but it never lasted. Things just went severely down hill leading me into CFS and all sort of problem that no medical doctor and hospitalization helped for. So now I am trying Raw paleo as a last chance, if this doesn't work I don't see anything that will.

The diet so far: I am eating frozen grass-fed bed consisting of grounded beef/pork/lamb. I been on it for 4 days, I had about 1pound the first day and and became very bloated. Then I kept on it for 2 days, grounded beef/pork/lamb. The problem is I feet extremely worse then I ever had, congested from all over my body, liver, stomach, intestines.  the only thing that surprise me is that despite feeling so bloated, I didn't look pregnant. Usually I would feel all my intestine's veins and my belly would look all inflamed like it's about to explode but despite feeling congested, my belly was extremely flat.

After 2 days in, I had to do a colon cleanse with magnesium as it got too bad.
Yesterday,I decided to fast from 2:30pm till 1:00pm today, I had some duck eggs with honey, not sure if pasture-fed  though. I usually do very bad with chicken eggs but I figured maybe raw and from duck I wouldn't get a reaction. But I started to look pregnant again, not sure if it's my body adjusting as I didn't get the same reaction then chicken egg, just that I looked pregnant and it worried me(Here is what it looks like http://oi58.tinypic.com/2v2zfck.jpg). I followed with lamb with honey at 3:30pm I mix it with honey because I get constipated and clogged ever since on the diet, so I figure honey will ease things through (digestion,clogged and constipation).

I will keep on posting as I go through, I also got myself some organic fermented green cabbage and carrot, haven't eat them yet. I tried fermenting them myself but since I never ate it before, I had no way to know if mine were good.For now I'm waiting for my belly to reestablish itself. I'll stick to meat and honey till it's fine again. I have some fresh never frozen grass-fed meat in cubes that I will go to high meat for as long as possible. I am hoping to get as much beneficial bacteria as I can to help my immune system and gut.

So I am new to this raw food diet and just started to eat all raw meat yesterday. I bought all pastured fed meat, beef,pork and lamb, ate all 3 in once setting andthey all tasted amazing but I wasn't too keen on the lamb.

Now I really love raw pork but I see so much concern about it's safety and parasites and stuff, do you guys just stick to beef mostly? I was thinking of eating all 3 to get good variety but they all seem to be about the same (mineral,vitamin wise).

My question is, since the nutrition value is about the same, I take I could just stick to ground beef?

And one more thing, I have SEVERE digestive issues and food intolerances which is my reason for going raw, I found I couldn't eat cooked beef as it would make me feel seriously inflamed, so now I don't feel inflamed but my intestines and stomach feel heavy, I take there need to be an adaptation period?