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We Boil Tawa Tawa Tea for Possible Dengue Fever for Me and My Son

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Awesome, I’m sick. For some 2 nights now my left neck shoulder has been inflamed, too tired? Bad sleeping pillow? Not enough sleep? I feel like an “energizer bunny” the past weeks, maybe I just need rest? I put Oleia oil on my left neck, consciously tried yawning and stretching to make some lymph flow. I also drank some kidney cleansing avocado leaves tea. Last night I sweated and shivered. Alright, the usual body wisdom fighting and clearing itself. Around 7pm I did some pyroenergen. I didn’t feel a difference afterwards. Shucks… I had hoped to feel the pyroenergen magic. Maybe next time.

This morning I woke up and saw my 2nd son and he said he felt terrible and said he had a slight fever. That settles it. If both of us are sick at the same time, there should be some external factor because we do not eat the same diet. Dengue fever is the in thing these days so let’s do the dengue fever cure protocol as described in www.denguecure.com. The garden grass is long these days and we have some Tawa Tawa in them so I and my 2nd son took a pair of scissors and gathered some Tawa Tawa. Careful to no uproot them just snip at the base. Hopefully they will grow back up fast.

I gave the snipped tawa tawa to our maid to boil. Then I saw her snipping away…. duhhh,,, she has a different notion. no no, just clean it and boil it plain. Only the roots are not included. Everything else is included. The whole plant except the roots are included.

While the Tawa Tawa boiled away, me and my children walked in the village and had some much needed sunlight.

We got back and are now drinking Tawa Tawa for the whole day. Some raw fruit are game like papaya and guavas.

I have a meeting at 3pm and a party at 6pm. Hmm… gotta get well.

Compassion for Animals as a reason to go vegetarian / vegan is a path towards malnutrition

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I agreed to disagree with a fellow parent in school about why I don’t practice vegetarianism or raw veganism as a way of life even though I call myself a healer. The reason is precisely as a healer I am interested in achieving the BEST HUMAN HEALTH possible. I am interested in healing people with ALL THE TOOLS possible. In terms of healing with nutrition, there is a time for fruit, there is a time for vegetables, there is a time for meat, there is a time for fat, there is a time for internal organs, etc… I wish to be well armed to the MAX and not constrained by such lofty unrealistic ideas such as not feeding people animals because you are “compassionate” ? aka you value the animal more than the life of your friend, of your family, of your patient. My philosophy is HUMANS FIRST!

I went through and experimented with various diets, including raw veganism and raw fruitarianism and cooked vegetarianism … all of them resulted in malnutrition. As a responsible parent, I know those vegan fantasies do not work for me so I’m not doing those to my kids. I do use temporary raw veganism as tools for healing. Three days, a week, 2 weeks, depends on the case, as long as it works.

For example, my wife’s uncle who had kidney cancer had to endure some 2 months of raw vegan. But a morbidly obese person may need a fully high raw fat carnivorous diet, maybe some juice vegs too. As a healer, you use whatever works. NO DOGMA. I will never be constrained by dogma. Not even raw paleo diet dogma. There are cooked food tools that may be useful in healing people and I resort to those. No icky dogma factor either, if you are B12 deficient then you eat raw clams, raw oysters, raw liver, raw small whole fish, it works. It is a fairy tale that merely eating meat gives you enough B12. You need specific kinds of meat to give you lots of B12.

Our doctor Divina says said so herself, her vegan, vegetarian friends come on over to her for their B12 shots because their diet is simply malnourishing. So what if they want to live their lives depending on B12 shots? It is THEIR LIVES. But hell no I will never recommend such a thing to my family because I want the best. And real food IS the BEST.

It’s not like me and my family have so much abundant health we can afford to sacrifice our health to the compassion for animals vegan fantasy… no we definitely cannot afford it.

I was thinking of dinuguan this afternoon, a meal of cooked pork’s blood, I knew this was a signal I needed some raw liver. So I ate a good amount of 1 week old Batangas beef raw liver from the refrigerator. Yummy good and met my cravings.

Authentic Tawilis Fish from Taal Lake in Talisay Town

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Last Sunday my raw paleo diet friend E and I drove 9 km down to the town of Talisay. Talisay is one of the towns beside the Taal volcano lake. Here we saw authentic Tawilis fish – a species found only in Taal Lake.

It has been said that many years ago of I don’t know how long, this volcano had exploded to create this lake and be sealed off from the rest of the ocean. This allowed taal lake to develop its own unique ecology powered by freshwater and nutrients from Taal volcano.

I asked the wet market vendors about their authentic tawilis fish. Why the tawilis fish in Cubao and Marikina wet markets looked different… they said that was some other species being sold off as “tawilis”… fake tawilis… not from Taal lake. Obviously, these Talisay wet market vendors are the authority because they live here by Taal lake!

Of course I tasted one raw Tawilis fish plus the head. Very very good. Back at home, they were lightly grilled and everyone agreed that these authentic Tawilis fish tasted really good, much better than the fake tawilis of which I had stopped buying for some time because those didn’t taste good at all.

I’m pretty sure you can find some authentic Tawilis in your wet market sometimes. So as reference, here are some pictures for you to compare. There are also pictures of the view of Taal volcano and taal lake from the edge of Talisay market.

Tawilis are lake wild fish, fresh volcanic water fish. They are never caged.

Philippine SWAT needs training and equipment. Business opportunities!

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It was pretty obvious in the assault on the tourist bus with the hostage taker where 8 people died was a tragedy and due to lack of training and equipment of the Philippine SWAT team. There is always room for improvement. Check out the way these Serbian special forces blow windows and get in a bus and a train in a matter of SECONDS!

There will be lots of training, lots of new equipment and new and better SWAT members. So beware you future hostage takers. No mercy for you next time. Lessons learned.

See British expert tells how hostages should have been rescued

Sarsi with Egg: Root Beer with Raw Egg

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In the 1970s a commercial on television was popular: Sarsi with egg. Sarsi is a brand of root beer. And the “egg” meant raw egg. People were not so concerned about the ridiculous salmonella poisoning and fear of everything raw back then. I know lots of people were swayed by this advertisement.

My maternal grandmother shared to me that whenever she gave birth, her mother would encourage her to eat lots of raw eggs with rice to restore her nutrition.

This morning I was at the balut / duck egg buying station in Marikina market and I bought a full tray of duck eggs. I said I’d taste the egg first. Funny, the vendor and the owners were oggling me while I drank the raw duck egg. Duhhh… didn’t Rocky Balboa the fictional boxer drink lots of raw eggs to shape up?

People need to rediscover their raw food roots. Okay, so softdrinks aren’t good for you, but at least this guy improves on his drink by adding a raw egg.

Dengue Fever cases rise by 75%; now a ‘serious concern’

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GMA News reports on the rise on Dengue Fever in the Philippines. Why the rise? Here’s my opinion: More people, the same probability of getting sick, the more people get sick. More processed food and dangerous additives… Vander Gaditano says MSG may be a cause of the hemorrhaging. The use of drugs, people pop fever reducing pills on a regular basis when it is well known that these fever reducing pills are the worst cause of hemorrhaging in dengue fever victims.

Please visit the Dengue Fever Cure website for exact details on how to cure dengue fever. http://www.denguecure.com

Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Enrique Ona said dengue is now a “serious concern” after the number of cases rose by 75% from January to August this year, compared to the same period last year.

A total of 54,659 dengue cases were reported nationwide from January 1 to August 14, 2010, much higher than the recorded 31,248 cases in the same period in 2009.

There were 429 deaths recorded in the last seven months and almost 80% of the cases recorded belonged to the 1-20 year old age bracket.

Ona said he met with ASEAN ministers of health to discuss the worsening dengue situation in what he calls the “belt of dengue,” which includes other Southeast Asian countries like Burma, Laos, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia.

Full news report at http://www.gmanews.tv/story/199288/doh-dengue-cases-rise-by-75-now-a-serious-concern

B12 Vitamin Deficiency? Eat some raw organ meat daily and let the energy flow!

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It seems my wife has recovered somewhat from her B12 vitamin deficiency. She said she is 95% up, but at the same time she thought about it and she did go to the gym today, so that must be a good sign. I make sure she gets a daily dose of either raw liver or raw clams. This lunch she had some seared liver. But this dinner time I made raw beef liver pate by blending raw beef liver with red onions. I noticed she likes raw liver pate and she can eat a lot of it too. Noticed she likes raw beef liver than clams. But I’ll go ahead and buy clams tomorrow just so there’s no monotony.

The children were commenting at the dinner table while their mom was happily eating the raw liver pate that she has turned over to the raw side just like daddy… and rightly so, she’s well now isn’t she? And it’s not the B12 shot that will sustain her, it is a change to a better diet with raw organ meat. Today I fed the children quite a lot of liver. This morning some liver ceviche, this evening 1 cube each of raw liver and a teaspoon of raw beef liver pate.

Add to those raw organs my wife has been eating, I’ve been diligent in giving her raw bone marrow almost every day. My technique is to boil the beef bones in a large pot. That soup is served hot, then the raw bone marrow which has been saved in the refrigerator is defrosted in her hot soup which she likes eating. Well, it is probably a little cooked in the soup, but we healers need to compromise.

Yesterday Sunday I was in Tagaytay at the Mahogany market, home of the famous Batangas beef and I found the most gorgeous raw beef liver. Had that raw beef liver with the raw meat for breakfast yesterday with fellow raw paleo dieter E. Top quality liver. Thanks beef!

What I have noticed with my diligent serving of raw liver and clams is that I am energized as well. I just keep going and going and going. Seems that info in nutritiondata.self.com about B12 content is true. B12 vitamins are abundant in organs and whole animals. So eat small fish like dilis, or dulong, or clams, or oysters and liver and kidneys. My wife does not like kidneys so I’ve shelved that for now. She did eat dulong seared with scrambled egg one day. I had raw dulong with raw duck egg. Delicious.

My recent experience with B12 supplementing with real food is “eat some raw organ meat daily and let the energy flow!”