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Archives for February 2009

Is raw paleolithic diet better than cooked paleolithic diet?

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Question: I heard that going raw on Paleo is even healthier. I would never be able to follow that diet, but is that statement true?

My Answer: I get better results with raw paleo for myself.

My diet trajectory was:
– SAD
– raw vegan (2 months) – not enough, getting too skinny
– raw fruitarian (2 months) – not enough, cold, getting too skinny
– raw paleo, wai diet – raw fruits + raw egg yolks + raw ocean animals (January 1, 2008)
– raw paleo diet – raw fruits, raw vegs, raw animals (ocean + land) (March 1, 2008)
– cooked meat paleo diet – felt awful compared to raw paleo diet (May 1 to May 30, 2008)
– raw paleo diet , high raw fat, low carb (June 2008 to today Feb 2009)

I was always focusing on raw because I was recovering from what the MD’s said was an incurable eczema… which I cured spectacularly… my story is here… http://www.eczemacure.info

Maybe since my focus was always on curing diseases, all the gurus I read always recommend raw: the raw vegans, the raw fruitarians, Aajonus Vonderplanitz, Henry Bieler, and it was only with raw that I was getting best results. It must be my sickly background and as well has helping the more sickly like the cancer stricken where all teachers I stumble on say if your disease is truly terrible 100% raw is the way…

I do eat some cooked animal food for socials but I know it is less than ideal than raw, but I can take it nowadays because I’m now healthier than I’ve ever been in the past 20 years.

I think cooking introduces pollutants to the food as well as it transforms the fats and the protein. So when I cook my meat, I make stock broths (4 hours+) or pan fry in ghee (clarified butter) quickly. I have children to raise and feed so I need to learn clean paleo cooking for them.

There are times my kids get to eat raw animal food like: raw fish sashimi, raw liver, raw bone marrow – taken with soup, raw squid.

But this is just me.

See the ongoing discussion in the Caveman forum.

3 day Sinusites congestion cured instantly with Cayenne Tincture and Quantum Minerals Plus drops

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This afternoon my father in law complained he had been suffering from sinus congestion for 3 days, it was frustrating for him.  I said I had remedies that can cure him of his problem instantly.  It must have been pretty bad, he was receptive to both of my suggestions.

First suggestion was to use Quantum Minerals Plus drops.  It was in the kitchen counter ready and waiting for anyone to use.  I shared his own daughter’s discovery, my sister in law, that a few drops of Quantum spread on the forehead and nose bridge will immediately clear sinusitis.  So my father in law did so immediately, it only takes a few seconds to put it on.

Second suggestion, use the cayenne tincture I just recently made last January 27.  It was not mature yet, but it will have to do for now.  All you need is 1/2 teaspoon under your tongue and your entire body will heat up, blood will flow, and mucus will flow.  My father in law took to the cayenne tincture immediately without any hesitation, the sinusitis must have been that bad.

A few minutes later he was all smiles.  All that suffering for 3 days, now his sinusitis was gone instantly!

Cayenne tincture helped save my 98 year old grandfather from pneumonia, so what’s a little sinusitis?

The cause of his recent sinusitis, he recalls it must be his recent business trip and he stayed in a new hotel.  Maybe they sprayed the hotel room with one of those irritating disinfectants, or artificial odors.  Maybe.  The imporant thing is this sinusitis is history.

Cheese is constipating, address it with virgin coconut oil

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Last month a late Christmas gift arrived for my wife.  3 different types of round Dutch cheese and a big slice of another kind of Dutch cheese.  Hmmm… I have fond memories of european cheese.  I remember my trips to France and in a buffet I would rather stuff my face with the various French cheeses rather than the main course.  Now I remember, I became constipated in France too!

Anyway, curiosity and fond memories led to experiment with this dutch cheese.  Experimenting is easy for me.  My current diet is a raw paleolithic diet: raw organic fruits, raw organic animal food and at a high raw fat low carb ratio.  So I’m all well and fine and healthy.  In comes the dutch cheese, 1.5 table spoon size every evening , and to hopefully prevent suspected constipation, I eat my cheese with 1 tablespoon yellow grass fed butter.  I had a wonderful and happy flashbacks savoring the cheese.

Results came in fast.  After 3 days I felt the familiar signs of constipation.  This Friday morning upon waking up I took 1 tablespoon of virgin coconut oil.  Then drank lots of coconut juice and lots of coconut meat.  I felt the reflex of wanting to poop.  Uh oh… the 1 tablespoon of virgin coconut oil was inadequate.  I suffered in the toilet bowl for some 15 minutes.  Very bad.  I got back up and took another dose of 1 tablespoon of virgin coconut oil and more coconut juice and walked around.  The next round of poop came in and I found relief.

So lesson learned is it takes 2 tablespoons of virgin coconut oil for me to be relieved of constipation.  And cheese really is constipating.  I transferred the cheeses to the other refrigerator and gave it away to the maids.  I am certainly not giving any cheese to my children.  I can cope with constipation problems  easily.  I’m a big boy.  But the children?  Spare them, please.  When a new food arrives, parents should try it themselves first before giving it to their children.