The theory behind Raw Paleolithic Diet is that the optimum human diet is that which humans evolved in, which is a vast amount of time prior to agriculture, prior to commercially processed food… the human diet in paleolithic times which is mostly meat / animal food, fruit and vegetables. Pre-pending with the word RAW means going even further back to paleolithic times BEFORE cooking.
We are not trying to imitate the lives of cavemen, we are cherry picking what evolutionarily makes sense and optimally applicable that will bring about the best health possible. We are health nuts to the max. I think of raw paleo diet as raw paleo curative diet. Raw paleo lifestyle is the cleanest possible lifestyle devoid of chemicals with an environment that his health giving… fresh clean air, pure clean water, stress free living.
Raw is what separates us in the raw paleo diet camp from most of the (cooked) paleo diet camp. While the (cooked) paleo diet camp claims that all meat should be fully cooked for sanitation and against parasites, we in the raw paleo diet believe that herbivorous meat like grass fed beef, lamb and goat — are optimally eaten raw. That sea food is optimally eaten raw. We are looking for nutrition to the maximum from sources such as raw blood, raw oysters, raw liver, raw bone marrow, raw muscle and raw fat etc.
Raw paleo diet is not backed up by any well funded studies. Raw paleo diet and its variants is backed up by testimonials of healers and cured people. I view raw paleo diet as representing the broadest and the best of the raw food movement.
Raw paleo diet is curative. I would not be practicing raw paleo diet if it were any less. As the family healer, raw paleo diet and lifestyle forms the foundation of curing all diseases. Raw animal meat and raw animal fat are a different class of food from its cooked cousins. Raw fat with raw protein has “magical” properties where it is easily digestible, alkalizing, lubricating and hydrating… everything good and nothing bad.
Raw paleo diet and lifestyle can lay claim as the foundation for curing the incurable diseases such as all diseases of toxemia and tooth decay where a cooked meat paleo diet is simply ineffective.
I’ll have to go in depth and improve on this article where the final version will be posted in my cure manual. I will ask the raw paleo forum community to chime in on this.