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Archives for April 2009

Do I eat salt with my meals on a raw paleolithic diet?

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This question was asked in the Raw Paleo Forum: Do you liberally use salt or do you follow Loren Cordain’s advice and stay away from it? Experienced any benefits from adding it to food (better digestion, etc)?

This was my answer.

For the past 1+ year I’ve been eating raw paleo with zero salt. I drink coconuts and get hydration from fruits. I actually don’t look for salt.

2 weeks ago when my son went for a checkup with a new doctor who is a raw weston price dieter, he recommended salt to my boy. My boy is a cooked food eater, he eats some raw meat with me.

So here I am the parent who needs to try out this salt thing because the doctor ordered it on my boy. I noticed the past 1 week I did a lot of salt on my meat, I didn’t enjoy it. It felt like work and I felt blah. I can handle “some” minute quantities of salt, but not a lot of it. I did try lemons + salt on my oysters and that combination tastes good. But when I dip my oysters in vinegar, I don’t like salt on it.

When I do partake in cooked meat, I think the salt helps somewhat. But when the meat is fully raw it seems really strange to put salt in it. I tried a salt rub on beef one time and I totally did not like it. My little girl likes dipping raw beef in the pools of blood that collect on the plate.

My theory is if you eat bloody meat and hydrating fruits, you get fully hydrated. If you must drink plain water, then you need salt with it because plain water is badly utilized. If I’m forced to drink water I squeeze lemon or calamansi and probably add raw honey to make juice.

See the Water Cure website to measure the amount of salt you need with the amount of plain water you drink. This is for water drinkers. http://www.watercure2.org/

For non-water drinkers like myself and barefoot and charlotte gerson, maybe we don’t need salt. But I’m open to adjust. Maybe there is a combination of eating that requires salt and a combination of eating that does not need salt.

I did not notice any improvement in digestion when I add salt. I did notice I can eat more raw meat when I add a little salt.

See the other answers of other raw paleo practitioners at http://www.rawpaleoforum.com/general-discussion/do-you-use-salt/

My son is doing a 5 day egg yolk liver flush and colon cleanse

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My first born son who has had a long cold is doing a 5 day egg yolk liver flush and colon cleanse. My objective is to finally arrest his mucus symptoms. We are using duck eggs imported from Aborlan, Palawan and using 7 calamansi citrus put out overnight under the night fog / hamog and 2 teaspoons of anchor butter…. all given individually at breakfast. After 2 hours we give 2 tablespoons of Dr. Tam’s Miracle Tea for his colon cleanse.

His diet, in the morning after the above liver flush he has fruits like guavas, avocado, papayas, green and yellow mangoes, saba bananas… anyone that’s ripe and catches his fancy. At lunch I’ve got lately raw oysters, raw and rare beef steak, raw and rare baboy damo / wild pig. Maybe next week I will go to the fishport and we will be on raw sea food.

Beginning tomorrow we will be doing a strict water cure recipe with 6 equal parts of water spread through the day with some rock salt.

Since it is school summer vacation time, it has been a week and he seems to be thriving. The school trip everyday makes him tired or the school load makes him tired. We’ve been strict at sleeping before 8pm everyday. I hope he gains weight. So far so good.

Yesterday he says he pooped one green stone. Just like my liver stones? It’s possible, you never know.

Pepito with liver cancer does coffee enema: best painkiller ever!

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Mr. Pepito had been in so much stomach pain for I don’t really know how long since his liver cancer diagnosis was made end of January 2009.  He has been taking drug cocktails of previously prescribed drugs as he was a stroke survivor, and then the painkiller drugs which give some pain relief… just some.

Last Thursday evening after I first met him, Mr. Pepito took 1/2 cup of Dr. Tam’s Miracle Tea… probably one of the best colon cleansers in town;  the following day, all he got were big fat farts!  This was a big clue.  This meant his liver was constipated.  We have to reach out directly to the liver and force it to unload its toxic contents.  It is the toxic contents stuck in the liver that is causing his pain.  I suggested he needs to do coffee enemas to open up his liver and escort the toxins out the anus in 15 minutes.

The struggle and badgering to do a coffee enema happens.  There were no enema kits available in the organic shops.  There were no coffee enema practitioners available to teach Mr. Pepito.  Dr. Dy Liacco’s nurse contact Alma’s cell phone number seems to be broken.  I suggested to Pepito’s wife that it seems they are on their own and must improvise on their own.  Buy their own enema kit from the regular drug stores.  Buy their own ground coffee… no time to wait for the organic shop in my side of town… it’s too far.  Pepito’s wife asks me if she can put CREAM on the COFFEE… Uh oh… seems like a whole lot of non-understanding going on.  I called up and said Pepito is not supposed to drink the coffee, he is to stick the coffee up his anus and fill his colon until it reaches the liver.  I emailed them links to instructions and videos on youtube so they can do coffee enemas themselves.

The couple dilly and dallied and went through their other “priorities”, whatever those were… I don’t know why in one day they decided to take a stroll and visit the La Mesa Dam Eco Park in far away Quezon City then drive to Tagaytay all on the same day to entertain Pepito who is suffering in pain fro liver cancer / liver constipation.  They went to far away Cardinal Santos hospital to make some senseless blood tests and pointless diagnostics to satisfy Pepito’s son that his father’s case is diagnosed as “terminal” liver cancer.  Plus he was prescribed Morphine… western medicine’s usual pain reliever for hard cases.

Finally Monday evening they had their materials; the enema kit, a bag of Lipa City Batangas barako coffee, and a big man of a nurse to administer the coffee enema.

Tuesday Morning Pepito called me up and said he had the best sleep ever in a long time… his pain had gone away that evening and he slept really well.  Pepito was frustrated and had a bit of anger in his tone, “HOW COME THE DOCTORS DON”T KNOW ABOUT THIS COFFEE ENEMA?  It is so simple and easy… chicken.”

The coffee enema is merely an enema that uses brewed coffee instead of water.  The coffee herb stimulates the liver to open up dump its poison toxins and when the patient releases his enema, the foul smelling, toxic canal waste is transported out of the body.  It is these poisons that cause the pain.  Escort the poisons out the body and the pain disappears.  Coffee enema for pain relief trumps all drug pain killers because you are removing the root cause of the pain.

Know more about coffee enemas at Coffee Enema – Step by Step

Here is an entertaining video of what a coffee enema is: