see if you can find a grass-fed calves liver, the flavor is less intense. Also thin slices method worked well for me. Having  a salty side dish to alternate bites is nice to cleanse the palate. Prosciutto counts as raw, I think. I find that stomaching the new foods is very much mental. Its as if when you approach your food with hesitation, your brain tries to super-taste every detail of it and resist swallowing to ensure you are not eating poison. But once you approach the meal with confidence, you will interpret every incoming flavor as good.

Chronic wasting disease and encephalopathy from eating brains with prions? This disease is not a big deal or necessarily fatal. It has been around since ancient times and is where the idea of zombies originated. You can still live a full life, but you will need a continuous supply of meat which must include more brains to keep the encephalopathy at bay. The prion infection makes you become completely intolerant of all plant-source foods, they will kill you faster. Eating the flesh of living animals or freshly killed will buy you more time before you start wasting between meals, you could live an apparently normal life. Something about the glycogen in the muscles before rigormortis sets in. Otherwise you must eat huge amounts of dead meat constantly to keep from deteriorating. No joke. I didn't just make that up, but don't ask me for a reference.

I notice a huge difference between grass fed and grain fed kidney. The grain fed ones have a clearly toxic taste and smell of foul urine. But the grass fed ones taste clean and have no odor.

Are you sure the old injury is the primary factor here? I used to have terrible pain and stiffness in my back which I thought was an injury from when I had lyme and was only helped by accupuncture, and temporarily at that. I later figured out that keeping my cellphone on and in my pocket all day was disrupting the flow of my external electromagnetic energy along my proper meridians, leading to muscular problems as the minor meridians flow along your muscle fibers. The accupuncture was just redirecting the flow along a clean channel so it is not blocked. When I started keeping my phone off the problem disappeared on its own.

But in general, for building and repairing the most muscle, you need to eat enough protein to trigger an insulin response when the excess begins turning into blood sugar. Mostly muscle meats. Include liver, adrenal, and oysters if you are doing organs to support muscle growth. For fat calories I like to stick to animal fat and grass-fed raw butter clarified at body temperature.

There is no need to over-complicate matters with books and other people's ideas, but as far as books go, the closest thing to the complete unbiased truth about diet I've ever seen has been good calories bad calories by gary taubes.

I would start by looking at this diet from a different perspective. Forget everything you've ever heard about food and health and safety for a moment. Imagine looking to nature with a clean slate. What diets do you see being followed in the animal kingdom? Out of these options, which of these animals do you want to be more like? Or where would you like to be on the food chain, and what kind of diet is followed by those animals in the position you seek.

Presumably, you'd want to be highly intelligent, social, incredibly strong, and full of limitless energy. Enough energy to chase down an animal twice your size and wrestle it to its death. In that case you want to follow in the footsteps of a hunting carnivore and the feeding pattern you should strive to emulate involves eating large amounts of fresh raw meat, with preference for the organs, then fat and fatty muscle, and having a day or three of rest and fasting between meals or feeding days. - The hunt yourself or farm direct raw carnivorous full keto paleo diet with intermittent fasting. = ultimate health.

Maybe you're not so ambitious and the very top of the food chain is not for you, but you still want to be near the top and not be considered prey. You will need lots of energy to track down food and compete with others for leftovers. Then you might follow the ways of a hunting scavenger. You are left with the lean muscle meats and some fat and skin. Maybe some fermented plant matter or fresh greens in the leftover stomach contents. Sometimes your food is fresh, sometimes it has aged a bit in the open air. You would eat this whenever possible and if not available, maybe some extra berries or whatever you find. - The raw, sometimes keto, paleo diet. = excellent health.

Or maybe you don't want too much out of life, but still want to be strong and able to defend yourself and your family when needed. The ways of a grazing animal will suit you. Eat plenty of greens and other plant foods that may have fallen to the ground. Maybe even some small game that is easily caught. The raw near-vegan paleo diet with meats on occasion = Pretty good health.

Perhaps you want no more health than a captive slave or farm animal. Then you should follow the human diet. Cook the living hell out of your stale or spoiled food, microwave it if you can, eat plenty of grains, dairy, sugars, lean cuts of factory farmed beef, pork, and chicken, chemicals, and do whatever else your masters tell you to and provide for you easily. If you can't even recognize what plant or part of the animal your food came from, even better. The Standard american diet. = not being dead is all the health you can hope for, if you are young or lucky.
 

I like to pretend I'm eating a very rich and extremely well marbled steak. Sometimes i find bits of meat or mystery organs in the fat, which makes it fun. Like the prize in the cereal box. I've gotten some very different textures of fat, I guess depending on what part they cut it from. It ranges from tallow-like to forget about chewing it just swallow.

I've never heard of escolar, but wax esters are produced by human skin cells as well. I can't imagine they would cause so much upset for a healthy person.

I drink about 2 gallons a day, which is actually less then I used to.  Any less and I feel thirsty, like my blood is thick, and get dehydrated pretty fast.  I try to drink all spring water but when I cant make it to fill up my containers I will do half well water or Reverse Osmosis, I try to avoid RO water as much as possible as I think it pulls minerals from the body and probably does something weird to the ionization of cells in the body, so highly unnatural but still better then drinking chlorine, fluoride (and aluminum as they put in the city water here) inundated water.  Most of the well water here is very high in calcium so I try to avoid that as well.

I get glass tanks of distilled spring water and regular spring water. I keep two coolers and just have whatever I feel like at the moment. I don't worry about the water being deionized because rainwater is naturally distilled. I'd be more concerned about particulates passing through the reverse osmosis or even pieces of the filter material itself coming off or dissolving in the water. I'd even take distilled tap water over RO but I'd run it through a plain carbon filter to polish it because VOC's will volatilize and condense back into the still with the water. But not a brita or other store-bought pitcher because those are all treated with triclosan to make them antimicrobial.

Lots of water every day.  I always add ionic minerals to my filtered water cause I feel we are all mineral deficient even on a healthy diet.  I do not force myself to drink lots of water but I am thirsty a lot.  Drinking to much water with a meal does give me the bloated feeling.  I do pee a lot and some times it gets on my nerves.
P.S. I just had to do a math problem to post. WTF

The amount of minerals in spring water does not even come close to approaching recommended intake. Raw food will contain all the minerals one needs and in a form that gets assimilated. I've heard the minerals in spring water don't even absorb properly and form deposits in the body over the years. Apparently it leads to a condition called "brain sand" when high concentrations are maintained for a long time. I don't recall a scientific study about this, and I may have seen this from a company selling distillers, but it sounds plausible.

I wasn't aware you were underweight, in that case fasting is not an option. But the salt/c protocol has  nothing to do with fasting, it works on its own. Consider looking into it if your chosen therapies are not satisfactory. I don't know of any worm parasites that will not dessicate and dislodge on exposure to high ionic concentrations of salt.

Have you tried juicing your meat to get a bit more nutrition out of it. This would give your digestive system a bit of a break. Just throw the raw meat and fat in the blender with some water until smooth. Maybe add in some raw honey to encourage fat storage. Milk is natures original weight gainer so I would suggest raw butterfat as your fat source.

Sorry, I overlooked the part about hookworms, if you have hookworms, your body is probably just trying to flush them out and its not much to do with your food choices at all. I'm not an expert on worms, but I have a way of solving problems. From a quick scan of wikipedia, they tell you three important things. They feed off of the blood supply of your intestines, they die immedietely from exposure to sunlight or dessication, and their life cycle is about 6 weeks. So if I were in your shoes I would first prepare for battle by weakening them. You weaken them by removing their blood supply. If you starve yourself your body will move blood away from the intestines as they empty out and have stopped digesting. If you have a healthy amount of bodyfat you can water fast safely for up to 4-6 weeks. I don't think any more than two weeks will be necessary, were not trying to starve them to death. So for two weeks eat nothing, take nothing, and drink only fresh spring or distilled water or both. The next step is to stun them. If sunlight will kill them, then a small LED lightbulb will at least stun them, especially in a weakened state. So, after the fast, but before you resume eating go to your doctor and have a colonoscopy but make sure they don't use any staining, it is toxic regardless of how safe they say it is.  The two weeks should be enough time to secure an appointment. We're just doing this to have the doc run the flashlight up and down your digestive system, but as a bonus your system will be clean and empty and he will have a good view to be able to tell you what he or she sees in there such as other worms you were not aware of. I've never had this procedure, its possible they ask you to fast or be on a liquid diet anyway so find out. The final solution is to wipe them out by continued dessication for 2 weeks to make sure all hatched eggs have been eliminated. To do this, you will use the salt/c flush. This is where you megadose with salt and vitamin c twice a day. Take your first two flush drinks before you start eating, work your way up to the full dose in one week then continue it for the second week. It is safe, I have done this for weeks. When you find the right dose for you, there will be diarrhea, so be ready. I think buffered vitamin c will prevent the diarrhea, but they say you are supposed to use pure ascorbic acid crystals. The vitamin c will boost your immune system and help repair the tissue damage from the worms. What dessicates the worms is the salt. Go to lymephotos.com for the original precedure and exact dosing for your weight and some gross pictures of parasites that came out when people did this. I was doing something like 15g of each twice a day, but I was a big dude then. If you cannot stand the taste of saltwater, there are salt tablets available somewhere and the buffered C will eliminate the taste of the acidity in the C. The procedure was originally intended to treat lyme disease so disregard the part about doing it for months on end. The author thought that lyme could not be treated when parasites were present and interestingly, he believes some worms are actually mutant forms of the lyme bacteria itself. The salt/C will likely work on its own if you want to skip the whole fasting and doctor bit, but in that case you should do it for longer, maybe 4 weeks because they will be hiding behind your intestinal contents and may not be exposed to dessicating concentrations of salt. Good luck, let me know if you decide to give this a shot, or if you have tried this already and I just wasted 30 minutes typing.

I think you can figure this out, no need to go vegan just yet. ZC is worth it once you get it dialed in. One thing I noticed that causes abnormal digestion for me is switching from raw to cooked and vice versa. I think the body just wants to get rid of everything it was working on when the other form comes in so it can switch over to different enzymes or whatever it has to do. How strictly have you been doing all raw? Do you mix in the same day or same meal with cooked food? Do you go for a few days and then have something cooked for a meal or more? Is everything in your diet raw? You mentioned some supplements. I would be highly suspicious of those if you don't see anything obviously wrong with the diet. Try researching all the ingredients of those or just do a process of elimination to figure out which one is causing your issues.

That's interesting. What do you mean by "the standard test"? Do you mean the presence of a bulls-eye rash or the blood test that doctors usually use? My doctor already tested me for lime and it came back negative - are you suggesting that lime patients usually show a false negative and it requires a lime specialist to pinpoint?

The standard test is outdated and checks only for a few most common antibodies and all antibody tests may miss the case if you are tested too soon after exposure before your body had a chance to develop an immune response. Some people with weak immune systems may not show up on the test until they have taken antibiotics. Specialists will at least send for a lab called igenex which tests for a much wider variety of antibodies that have recently been associated with lyme. They will also check for the common coinfections such as babesia, bartonella, mycoplasma, etc. If you have the money, they can do more advanced testing, such as polymerase chain reaction which will prove by dna what infections are present

2) My symptoms are very complicated and seem to rotate from one set of symptoms for a period of time to a new set of symptoms or things stay the same and some new symptom gradually creeps in. I wouldn't really say they get better and then worse - more like it stays constantly about the same and then changes to something new that's equally annoying/debilitating. For example maybe one month the main symptoms are throbbing headache, sharp shooting pains in my armpits, constipation (although this symptom is always there), insomnia, drilling pain in my joints, etc. and then the next month the main symptoms are tingling pain in my feet, dull migrating pain in my ears, sharp chest pains, radiating jaw pains, itching all over, constipation, etc.

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Yes, that is exactly what I meant. Now I'm nearly 100% sure its lyme. When my dog had it the vet knew it because he would be limping on a different paw every couple weeks, then his skin would break out or he would start acting sick or throwing up for no apparent reason. You just described the effects of chronic lyme. The infection will sequester itself in your joints, brain, nervous system, and intestines to hide from the immune system. Basically as far away from your circulatory system as it can get. It also steals the "skin" of your cells to mask itself which sensitizes your immune system to your own tissues, causing various autoimmune reactions. Then it has a life cycle of 3-4 weeks where it is spreading and causing symptoms before it goes dormant into a cyst for a while before multiplying. Different locations may become activated at different times, or they may go dormant for a while and you think you are fine then bam something comes back maybe next month, maybe 2 years later, and its worse than last time. If you take antibiotics, but they weren't strong enough or you didn't take it long enough to nearly wipe it out it will go into "defense mode" and you will enter into a rapid decline in health. This happened to me, my primary gave me 2 weeks of pills and I was eating junk food the whole time with a cell phone in my pocket 24/7 and didn't take a probiotic after. When I told him the symptoms came back as soon as I ran out of pills he told me to take some tylenol because he wasn't prescribing any more. When I started getting worse than I was before I sought out a specialist.

What the infection is doing is it is corkscrewing itself through all of your tissues and dumping neurotoxins everywhere. Especially in your muscles, nervous system, and intestines. This will leave the sheathing of your nerves looking something like swiss cheese or a lamp cord that a mouse thought was lunch. You can probably feel this effect when you stretch or twist your arm or wrist the "wires" will get crossed and you will feel like you had an electroshock shooting up your arm as you lose your grip and drop things all the time. The cartilage in your joints will be eaten away. When its in your brain, you will have anxiety and depression, you will begin to wonder if you are not half autistic and why you have the short term memory of a goldfish. I used to walk out of a room and have no clue where I was going or what I wanted to do. I'd be driving and suddenly be lost and have no idea where I was or where I was going until I saw the next sign. Scary stuff, but god forbid it goes into your heart muscle, then your very life may be at risk. Let me not say what happens here but its only a short google away.

This is the fastest growing epidemic right now and that's with less than an estimated 10% of cases are being reported. There is a huge controversy surrounding chronic lyme. Some dare even say conspiracy to keep people sick and taking drugs they don't need.

The longer you go untreated, the harder it is to get rid of. Most people who progress to stage 2 or 3 have an extremely hard time getting better. I was in stage 2 and I don't think I would have made a full recovery were it not for committing myself to being healthy through ketosis, paleo style eating, and raw animal foods. You seem to be late in stage 2 which is lucky for someone who had it for 3 years, but you are still young. Another thing is that the lyme can make you sensitive to emfs when it eats away the myelin that shields your nerves. This is different than the skin rash I got from doxycycline. This is felt as muscle pain and stiffness, and tingling in your extremities, or severe sharp headaches when making cell phone calls. Also getting sleepy during the day and having insomnia at night.

I'd say the most important things to speed your recovery, after getting your diet in order, are getting rid of wifi, bluetooth, and cordless phones, and keeping all cell phones in the home forwarded to the house line and in airplane mode. This can be hard for a young person, just get a computer that can be hardwired to your modem and learn to talk to your friends over the internet instead of texting. Its especially important that all the phones are off overnight. When you are out try to keep the phone off and just check your messages periodically or better yet just let the home answering machine get it. If the phone must be on, never ever keep it in your pocket and try not to hold it in your hand. Wired headsets and speakerphones are key. Also be aware of your proximity to electrical wiring and cords, especially overnight. Try to stay away from walls in general. Switches and outlets are a good guideline, but if you are not in the basement, consider the lighting fixtures in the floor beneath you. Never use any lighting with a dimmer switch or fluorescent tube if you can help it. Replace them with standard switches and LED if possible. I just keep the circuit breakers for the lights and outlets in my bedroom shut off and open the shades and use an led lantern or flashlight at night. If I lived alone I would just shut off the whole panel at night.

About the organ meats, I can find most of them online in mail order or can have them delivered from a farm co-op. Whatever I can't find at all I supplement with raw dessicated capsules. Try northstarbison.com they have the widest consistent selection I've seen online. Or Eatwild.com to find a farm you can go to or get deliveries from.

I apologize if I am being too thorough in my recommendations and some of this stuff is over your head. But I think you have a unique opportunity to get better, having found this forum. Some of the wisest conversations on the internet happen right here. Before I joined here, for years it was like every smart and interesting health topic  I would type into google to research would pop up as a topic here or at least be mentioned.

mcdonalds puts synthetic polymers in their deep fry oil to "stop it from foaming" but the chemical is actually the active ingredient in an over the counter medication called gas-x to control flatulence and gas pains. At least they are looking out for the comfort of their patrons, but you are basically eating plastics and drugs when you go there.

When I was a broke college student I went on the McAtkins diet. They were having a 2 for $3 special on double cheese burgers so I knocked off the buns and ate nothing but these for a month and lost 30 pounds. Looking back, I was probably just wasting away from malnutrition because I could've lost as much had I eaten nothing at all. But I must say it was fun to eat junk food every day and lose weight for a change.