I am wondering if that at a crucial human apex  between the neolithic and Paleolithic ages were the tribes of big game hunters who were low carbers and lived of of fat and meat began to lose the availability of their megafauna, and were far less adapted to plant foods than were the more omnivorous breeds of man who had just begun to experiment with cooked foods. The fact that cooking took off may have More to to do with the ability of those hungry people to survive off of cooked foods, while the pure bred paleo people couldn't adapt to the low fat plant carb diets of the neolithic dawning. Cooking isn't healthy but neither is starving so people learned to adapt to cooked foods, those who didn't adapt, like the Neanderthals and other human subspecies simply starved out throughout the ICE famines. Also the carb adapted Neolithic people could live off of fewer calories and had smaller bodies so they didn't have to rely on the big game that their larger, smarter carnivorous cousins were absolutely dependant on for survival..

The assumption of Gay peoples' health superiority is an illusion caused by the fact that healthy gays are more likely to come out of the closet because of their attractive nature (thus standing out), and sickly gay people are likely to hide behind a Vail of in the closet lies and drugs. The gays that don't do drugs do seem to glow with better health than the average bear, but perhaps its just assumption.

 Anyone have statistical data on healthy gays?

sorry that there hasn't been such good results on this diet, Maybe you were too damaged to go cold turkey into ketosis, during the adaption process there is a little extra kidney strain. Have you tried to do intermittent fasting in order to allow your blood to clean out from time to time? Not making a medical recommendation that you should fast. But just consider when the kidneys are having protein?ketone? overload I assume that a series of short fast could help.

I had great grandfather who's last name was Alexander, he was a woodsmen and a naturalist, so I was debating on wither or not to name my Son Alexander in honor of him as well as in honor of Alexander the great, but I did feel that there might be some negative stigma behind naming my son after a gay man, so I made Alexander his middle name. The Macedonians were a wild bunch of horsemen that probably liked bareback riding, but I don't care, I still think they were awesome. I have a don't ask don't care policy in regards to moralizing over homosexuality.

Though It does suck to be labled as a gay wad just because you are well read , well spoken, didn't have any girl friends, play soccer , pratice yoga, ware tight pants. I love some aspects of gay culture and live in Lexington which is right up there with sanfran as a homosexual Mecca, There is no rivalry between me and gay people, I don't worry about them taking my woman or trying to play alfa male so I always got along with them and find them non threatening for the most part. (When in Rome, put up with the debauchery)

My granny was a hillbilly and when she moved into the city she fell in love with all the people at the gay bars and all the men call her Granny and treat her with more respect than any of her straight men ever did.(sometimes she calls me to pick her up because she is too drunk to drive home, and all the bar flys there are fabulous and the drag queens treat my Granny like family, its kind of sad that she feels more at home there than anywhere else, but if it makes her happy then who am I to judge.    

If the whole upright apes evolved in the savannas and river valleys under direct sunlight is correct then it makes evolutonary logic for us to have hair on the top of the head to protect the part of the body most exposed to the intense rays of the sun. Long hair keeps me from getting a red neck. My father cant go out into the sun without SPF40 on his shiny bald crown. He has age spots from sun damage on top of his head, he would cook his brain out on the savana without a hat. So far I have a little thinning, but no signs of balding.

Kd I think we have much more in common than I originally thought my friend from the north

We both share past health issues and have experimented with other radical diets before finding raw paleo
I was never completely vegan but I did do a few stints of vegetarian and wasted away to 140 pounds.
I also started to practise yoga, even when I was young I was a pull upping fool who ruled the school yard on the monkey bars.

I trained in mixed marital arts and spared with amateur ultimate fighters. I am not particularly devoted to any one particular discipline, but I love to test myself in games of skill and dexterity. Before I got sick I had what the instructor called freaky strength and could hold my own and squirm out of any corner(I am still working on getting my glory days back)Testing you straights against others in simulated combat is 100% in harmony with the paleo spirit. I long to get back into it
http://www.truthincombat.com/
go to this site and you will see me the top picture sparing with my instructor( I was younger and had a buzz cut, check out all the fun stuff I used to do. The spirit of real combat without the deadly wounds.

He teaches all forms of combat and in the picture you will see him reaching for a gun,while defending against my attack. Its very fun and you should try this exercise. Say you have a gun, do you think you could drawl and fire it before a crazy man can beat you to floor, its not easy. If you are on the ground with an attacker on you ,can you get your gun before he beats you unconscious. Real fun, or try to fend of an man swinging a tazer. We also learned stick fighting, knife fighting, and defence against knife attack.

Kd looks just like this guy Roy I used to spar with. He was badass, way to strong and fast for me to equal.

I am low/Z carb for 10 months and seem to take to it like a fish to water, I certainly hope there isn't any down side I may experience long term. From where I was healthywise ; those who experience some of those bad effects are still much better off than I was pre paleo.

Perhaps people do have different capacities? I was pre diabetic, so raw Zc seemed the only road for me. I could eat a low glycemic dinner with less than 30 carbs and go to bed with a BG of 110 and wake up 130, after fasting for 12 hours, So I assume my liver made excess glucose{possibly because of some type of  damage, it always felt conjested and bloated)

Now that I have been Zc my blood sugar rarely goes out of the 80s and I actually drop to the mid 70s , I try to drink lemon water and get some carbs from coconut butter, but am still afraid to experiment leaving the Zc ketogenic zone, because of my past pancreatic issues. I would like to give ZC at Least two years in order for my glands to rejuvenate more completely, before adding more carbs(unless I develop any issues of carb deficiency)

My main issue now is fat deficiency, If I don't get enough fat(about 70% of my total calories, my blood sugars will drop along with my energy(I begin to feel mild rabbit starvation)

I was so conjested pre paleo that when I would eat my baked vetgable dishes with olive oil, the olive oil would pass totally undigested, and if I were stupid enough to eat fried food I would have some type of gallbladder attack were my side would radiate pain, my pancreas was also a little damaged so it would not produce enough insulin or digestive enzymes. The liver and pancreatic problems I had seemed to be somehow related to the same condition, and both issues resolved soon after changing to the diet.

At my worst when all the oil was passing through undigested I tried to go on an ultra low fat diet,with liver Epsom salt flushes, but I was already malnourished  it just made things worse. The raw egg flush at least replaces the garbage being flushed out with healing nutrition.

I will say it again that I eat a couple of egg yolks and drink lemon water and eat coconut butter everyday along with the paleo diet and I believe its worked wonders.

CURE IS SUCH AN AMBIGUOUS TERM

Most the people I know who skipped chemo and refused all treatment for a so called malignant tumor are alive and well, long after the doctors said they would be dead.

My great grand mother had a tumor in her breast, for three years it didn't grow nor did it cause any issues and some young doctor decided to biopsy it, and guess what, it was cancer and the biopsy procedure made it metastasize, they killed the first wave cancer with surgery and radiation, but the radiation gave her a more aggressive form of lymphatic cancer and she was dead within 6 months.

Before conventional medicine got involved she was strong vibrant and could walk up the side of the mountain where she lived, the only thing wrong was a lump on the breast, and they turned it into a death sentence.(Some people are better off with a tumor)especially if they change their way of living and correct what ever in balance that caused the tumor to grow in the first place.

There is a friend of mine who at the age of 14 he started roofing with his brother. 20 years later both himself and his brother developed asbestos's related cancers. He told me his brother worked hard every day and walked into the clinic for treatment. 6 months later he was dead. The doctors told my friend that he had baseball sized tumors in his lungs and other tumors through his body and he would be dead within a couple of years if he didn't let them cut it out. He said no way, your not cutting on me, and his doctor told him he was crazy (to his face, he was called crazy by his doctor, for refusing to be butchered) This was 15 years ago and the man is still living and in fairly good condition, The only radiation treatment he receives is from the tanning bed which he claims makes the pain of the tumors better.

There are many others I know personally that don't need to be cured in order to feel better and live better than what the medical field has to offer(myself included) The cure is often worse than the sickness

Epsom salt flushes are harsh and not necessary for people on the raw paleo. I did a couple of them in my sad days. I got tons of stones out  and was relieved for a couple of weeks but as long as I was still eatting problem foods the congestion just came back. The egg yoke flush along with a raw paleo diet is about the best remedy for a clogged liver I have yet to discover.

Before this diet my sense of taste and smell were dull. I was eatting different foods,trying to find a more healthy diet and it was very hard for me to decide what was good or bad based on my taste.

 I tried to eat greens even though I didn't like them, I ate yogurt even though it was bland and neutral to taste. I never really had any powerful craving for the taste of a certain food on my old diet.

Now my sense of taste and smell has become more powerful and can be overwhelming, I was just curious if anyone else noticed the same thing. Things I once  tolerated now seem totally disgusting. Just a whiff of onion, cabage, or garlic can make me queasy with distaste. When I was carving the Halloween pumpkin the smell of the pumpkin guts was very repugnant. I crave pure taste now and even the littlest speck of spice can make a good cut of meat taste off.

I can now discern the differences between different meats and If I don't like something about a food I will avoid it completely. In my sad days I would keep eatting foods that didn't taste good out of nutritional principle, but now if I dint like the taste of it I wont buy it again, I don't care how pure and wholesome it is claimed to be.

My liver was very conjested before I went paleo and I had attempted to do flushes in the past and would clear out tons of stones,but the congestion would return because I was still eatting the wrong foods. Once I cleaned myself up on the raw Paleo diet, then the liver issues went away completely,

Once clean you may want to keep up a more mild cleansing protocol that I have made part of my diet. I drink 2 glasses of lemon water a day and usually try to drink a couple of egg yolks, and I eat three tablespoons of coconut butter daily(basically I incorporated the liver flushing recipe ingredients into my staple diet and have had good results. I believe the mild cleansing and nourishing properties of the liver flushing foods have been a key ingredient of my new found wellness.

I grew up around marijuana culture, Its a way of life for many people where I live. I remember smoking out with my friends before hitting the basketball court(like a ritual), and we would whip up on the other teams and everyone seemed to hit shots better stay more collected and preform at an overall higher level. (from my experience there are some positive enhancements that are caused by marijuana use.

We all knew about the Allen Iverson paradox
They told us in school; that one Joint was as damaging as one pack of cigarettes and yet people like Allen Iverson could smoke two or three blunts a day(the equivalent of 4 to 6 packs of cigarettes,according to the 'experts') and still compete with world class athletes and excel.

Its a mind altering herb that those who wish to view it as a negative vice are free to do so, that being said I think it wise to limit its use for special occasions ;for those who are predisposed to use it anyway. Its possible to use it occasionally without turning into a burnout . I wish to enjoy occasional peak experience under marijuana enhancement without becoming a lazy hippie so I must limit myself to a couple of tokes when the spirit arises. Snow boarding must be totally awesome on pot