People new to the concept of raw animal foods as a staple in their diets such as in a raw paleo diet are paranoid about parasites. I say the only raw meat staple I avoid are pigs / pork because they are known to have dangerous parasites. While beef tapeworms are mostly benign. And the benefits like cure all diseases in raw paleo diet are by far way up there than the perceived threat of parasites. The discussion goes like this:
i believe raw eggs are safe from parasites – correct ? the same would be true for something like milk ( i don’t drink milk ) right ?
is there anything else ? maybe some sort of oysters or shrimp or some nonsense like that ?
My answer below:
Lots of sea food should have no dangerous to human parasites.
It is fresh water food that has more parasites that stick to humans.
Weston price followers say you freeze your meat for 14 days and parasites are all dead.
But parasites are everywhere, when you breath, shake someones hand, eat salad, eat fruit, eat meat… and you can try cooking them all to death, which may include your death as well. See hulda clark’s early demise, she degenerated fast because of her paranoia.
Parasites are easy to get rid of. Through foods, through herbs, through electricity, through drugs.
Keep parasites in check by not polluting yourself with chemicals so they stay where they should stay.
Being undernourished or polluted nourished is more of a threat.
All humans host parasites because we are the top predator of this world.
I live in the tropics and we grow up knowing parasites are normal and we can get rid of them easily.
I detected / saw in my poop liver fluke tomato peels parasites in 2005 to 2006, and I was on the regular Filipino SAD cooked diet. And I was sick being consumed of eczema then.
I went raw paleo diet Jan 2008.
I detected / saw tapeworms in my poop Jan 2011. My gut feels solid, I feel great. But I now proceeded to get rid of them because I want to control their numbers.
I’m at the top of my health game today. Do the worms scare me? Nyet.
Am I going to give up a raw paleo diet because I saw tapeworms? Not on anybody’s vegan anti-meat fantasy!
My health is still going up up and away I’m enjoying myself… all because of a raw paleo diet.