Thanks, that reminds me that I'm back to drinking tea again too. I take breaks from tea and coffee and watch for any signs of withdrawal, to make sure I don't overload or build up plant toxins or any such thing. I don't drink a lot anyway. My main tea/coffee beverage is actually spruce tips tea either lightly heated or just allowed to soak in water. Yummy stuff. The tea itself is dried, of course, and therefore possibly heated, but I'm not currently a purist anyway.

I do the same with coffee and tea, and they don't seem to affect me negatively like the used to, and I never get addicted. :-)

Inger!!  You are beautiful!  I too would love to hear what you are saying in English--the only other language I understand a little is Spanish...no German, unfortunately.
How do you make the fish broth?  What kind of fish do you use?
Do you get your meat and organs fresh, or frozen?
I can't believe that old picture is you!  Although...now that I think about it...I bet some old pictures of me would have just as big of a difference...I should dig up some old pictures and compare!

Wow...that is horrible!!  But, good to know.  Good thing I'm not a huge fan of bananas...;-)
What types of fruits are typically cultivated in a more eco-friendly manner?  A huge problem I've been having lately is finding ripe fruit that is organic.  There just isn't any around here!  What do you think of eating conventional fruit that is ripe, and maybe peeling the skin off?  Fruits are a large part of my diet now, so i I just worry about pesticide contamination...

Thanks for the reply, joej.
After lots of experimenting and reading, I've decided to do a raw paleo + GAPS + Ray Peat style diet.  This combination just makes the most sense to me. 
So, bone broth soups, juiced oranges, tropical fruits, shellfish, raw meat and marrow, coconut oil, raw honey, raw or cooked eggs, cooked squash, raw milk, raw cheese....
Plus thyroid supplement, progesterone and pregnenolone. 
We'll see how it goes!

Thanks for digging up this old topic, guys!  I kinda forgot about haha...
Yeah, lately I haven't been eating any veggies at all, except for the "fruit-veggies" like cucumbers, and a carrot or two. 
I have also started straining my kefir too!  Glad to hear it helps you as well!
I'll have to give the diatamaceous earth thing a try--where do you get the edible stuff from?

So you'd ask a lab scientist why something he says is bad happens to work in the real world?  That sounds like a waste of time to me.  If eating fish didn't work then the Eskimos, Samoans, Japanese, etc., would be having health problems from it.  They don't, though.  Also, none of those groups mentions avoiding fatty fish.  In fact, all the groups Dr. Price studied PRIZED animal fats, including fatty fish. 

Well, I just mean I'd be curious to hear what he has to say about that; I'm not questioning the fact that those cultures all obviously thrived on eating lots of fatty fish. 

I have read Dr. Price's book, and actually own it--I should really re-read it; I haven't for awhile!  Traditional foods diets are where I originally started, when I got interested in researching healing through diet about 4-5 years ago. 
It just seems to me that sometimes modern people with messed up health need more than just a healthy traditional diet to totally heal, which is why I am interested in Dr. Peat's work.  For instance, some of the people that Dr. Price studied ate grains as a good portion of their diets and were still healthy, but that obviously won't work for a lot of people nowadays.  Dr. Peat's research is very interesting to me because based on what I have learned from him, I am almost 100% sure I'm hypothyroid, and that that is the underlying cause of my MS diagnosis. 

Also, his dietary suggestions, with a raw=paleo slant added, are very very close to what I ended up leaning towards instinctively on my own...sweet fruits, raw dairy, raw honey, raw meat/organs, saturated fats, bone broth.  And supplementing thyroid hormone by eating raw bison thyroid makes me feel A LOT better!

I supposed suet might not agree with some people, and at first it DID taste kind of blah and waxy-textured to me.  However, now I absolutely LOVE it...especially chopped up and mixed with meat.  I recently got some bison suet, and it is so dark yellow its practically orange!! YUMMM!

Oh yes, good suggestions!  I do follow all those other people that you mentioned as well!

Yeah, PP, I love those TV shows where those chef guys journey to different countries and eat crazy stuff...like I'm sure they expect the viewers to be like "ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww!" when they're eating brains and fermented meat and bugs, but I'm all like "Oh, YUM, I wanna try some tooooo!!" haha :-P  Speaking of brains, I have my first lamb brain coming in the mail!  It costs $10 for a whole one--is that a decent deal?

Dorothy~
WOW thanks for that info about processed stuff!  Just one more reason I'm glad I never buy that kind of crap/food anymore!!!  I can't believe the things that pass as "food" these days...:-S

I will definitely be making my own OJ with my Champion juicer.  I've heard that the GreenStar ones are even better and get more juice out, but I think they're kinda pricey.  I just catch the pulp that comes out with my hand and put it through a couple more times LOL!

Yeah, the one thing that bothered me was Ray Peat's lack of emphasis on food quality, but on the other hand, he doesn't specifically reccomend low-quality food either.  It might be just a lack of knowledge on his part in that area of nutrition...you know how sometimes people are very either left brained or right brained?  He seems SUPER focused and knowledgeable about how the body works and hormones etc, but not so much about the spiritual, nourishing, traditional aspects of food.  So I use his research for the more technical side of things, you know?

That is also interesting about turbinado sugar.  I wasn't sure if it was actually raw or not, but that makes sense if its processed by a turbine...duh...turbinado LOL just made that connection! ;-)  I think I might actually have some in the cupboard from when I used to make kombucha (I just kept forgetting it and letting my scoby die...bad me!!!). 
I totally share your view on how the way your food was produced/where it came from has an effect on your body--if the animals were happy, and other things sustainable harvested etc, by people who acutally care about what they're doing, that good karma is going to be passed on!

Well, I do use electric tools haha (how very un-paleo of me, tsk tsk!!! LOL) ;-)   ...a flex shaft rotary tool (like a dremel), a scroll saw and a bench grinder. 

I do also want to learn more with non-electric tools.  I'm pretty sure all kinds of files, scrapers, chisels, jewelrs saw, sand paper etc. would work for hand tools.  The only thing that is holding me back from switching is the electric tool is quicker and I already have it, and I don't have the money right now to get all the hand tools I'd need.  But someday!!  Because I find carving with hand tools much more relaxing, and less dusty and noisy. :-)

I carve mine into earrings ~ ~ http://www.etsy.com/listing/91109363/4g-organic-bone-silver-and-stone-gauged
So far I've only done a couple from my marrow bones, as they are a bit of a pain in the butt to clean.  Apparently, an enzymatic cloth diaper cleaner is the best...or just letting them sit out in the garden for the ants to do it (which unfortuently won't work now because its winter here).  I've just been heating them in water and dish soap, which works fairly well but doesn't get them 100% clean. 

...thanks, this reminds me to go searching for enzymatic diaper cleaner...haha ;-)

Ah HA--here it is!  From Danny Roddy's "Hair like a Fox" (<---tee hee, I love that title!) blog:

"Some may reply that bone broth is optimal for those with compromised digestion. I would agree, but bone broth is annoying to make and does not contain the same spectrum of nutrients that muscle meats do. A temporary solution at best.

After some more snooping around on Stepan Stastny's Facebook page, there may be a solution. Pottinger suggested that gelatinous protein is not needed when you do not cook meat:

?"If man did not cook his food, there would be no need for hydrophillic colloid foods such as GELATIN to his dietary regime" F.M. Pottenger Jr., MD"

So, apparently gelatin is good becasue it is a "hydrophillic colloid" food, which must mean raw meat is as well I guess.
Hm...soooo...to make bone broth or not?!?  I do still eat most of my meat raw or like 99.9% raw.  I do love warm broth tho, and do have a couple of jars in my fridge and freezer...
I wish that Pottenger quote explained a little more of the WHY.

After listening to some podcasts, I think he reccomends the white sugar VS honey because he says honey can be allergenic for some people, and white sugar is more "pure".  But then he says something about very highly refined things having contaminants and toxins from the refining process, which is also bad, so I dunno exactly what kind of sugar he's talking about!  Is there naturally "filtered" white sugar?? LOL... whatev...  I'm certinely only going to use raw honey! ;-)
So if you're fine with raw honey, I don't think it should be a problem.
 I think the coca-cola he says he drinks only if he can't get any good, ripe oranges to make juice.  He said already-made OJ has some crap in it now thats not good I think.  But still, I DEF don't agree with him on the coke...soda is nasty stuff!!  But i don't think its like hes pushing it as a healthy every-day thing or anything.  Myself, I prefer just eating whole or blended fruit.

Also, I think the very high carb part of his diet is more a short-term thing, for recovering thyroid function...IMO, the whole point is to rev up your thyroid and metabolism to normal, so you CAN eat a fairly broad range of macronutrients, in a healthy paleo diet.
And if his only criticism of paleo is we "don't know what they actually ate", like you said PaleoPhil, its actually not much of a criticism, because we don't really base it on that anyways!
Oh!  and he has a couple of FASCINATING articles on multiple sclerosis, that REALLY make sense!!!!