Raw Meat for Healing, Raw Meat in Raw Paleo Diet – A Video Documentary with Derek aka Sabertooth
It has finally happened, a very nicely produced short documentary, USA sensationalist mass media style documentary featuring Derek, also known as member “Sabertooth” in www.rawpaleodietforum.com. Derek has been talking about first some possible dangers about shooting a film like this in his country where it seems anyone who is different gets phoned in to their “authorities” and children are in danger of being taken away because a parent practices EXTREMELY HEALTHY diets that will make his entire family TOO HEALTHY for the neighbours to stand.
I mean, look at Derek, he used to look like some loser sickly tramp who suffered from some inexplicable illness for 7 years. Was not helped by any of their western medical doctors. His personal research led him to raw paleolithic diets and he discovered our forum. Derek began with a mostly raw animal food diet then moved on to a more omnivorous diet. And the best part is SUCCESS! Derek gained energy, said goodbye to illness, said hello to good paying work. Said hello to a new body, a new vitality, a new awareness of reality.
In the video available on Vimeo under the title “Extreme Animal Obsessions” uploaded by user Yali Sharon, Derek is first shown eating road kill. Roadkill isn’t all that bad in his area, in Kentucky, this road kill was a RABBIT! In case you come from a culture that does not eat rabbits, well rabbits are normal supermarket food in France and in Arab cultures.
Derek posted first signs of his progress 9 months into raw paleo diet:
“I was going to wait a year, as I’ve only been doing this for 9 months since the birth of my preemie. But I feel I’ve made a great transformation. I don’t have many good before pictures but I found this one from almost exactly 2 years ago. I am about 141 pounds here, thirteen pounds more than my 5’1″ wife. I wish you could see how my clothes hung off my frame. I am obviously pale and glassy-eyed, with a thin face. Had no energy whatsoever. I was just coming into yet another illness when this photo was taken in November 2008. It seems I was sick with something at all times, and my depression was at an all time high.
And I began this diet in January of this year following the unexpected early arrival of my youngest baby. While my wife and 7 weeks premature baby were in the hospital recovering, I made a promise to myself to do whatever it took to get healthy so I could raise my three babies to adulthood and help my wife more. She had been under so much strain raising our babies while dealing with all my sickness and periods where I could not work to provide for them. I was looking through web sites about Weston Price and found some links by Good Samaritan which lead me to the raw paleo site. If it weren’t for that I probably would have never thought about this diet at all, it doesn’t ever seem to cross the mind of many folks to eat raw meat…… But anyway here I am just within 9 months, back up to 170 pounds, able to work 8 to 9 hour days every day again, play with my kids like I should when I get home, and even happily expecting my 4th baby next spring.”
Click to read Sabertooth’s Before and After Miracle Testimony on Raw Paleo Diet Forum (Posted October 30, 2010)
Derek shows off his meat shack. Then shows off his animal heads. Then shows off his high meat. The publicly gross thing about his high meat is that it had maggots and he likes eating the high meat with the maggots. I eat high meat myself but without the maggots.
Then the family conflict. At this stage of his raw paleo diet, Derek’s family had not done their research about why Derek was on a raw paleo diet. So the show producer brings in a therapist to help solve the family conflict. Derek also gets a blood test (while no one else does) and is shown to have dormant parasites. FYI, all humans have parasites. We are the king of the food chain. FYI, parasites are easy to be gotten rid off in this 21st century… and only if they are causing problems. The last part of the show shows a compromise struck with Derek’s family for Derek to stop eating road kill and the maggot infested high meat.
The masses who watch this show may seem to get the impression that Derek was a lone crazy nut. They are not aware of the hundreds of members of the raw paleo diet community in the forums, in the mailing lists, on Facebook, the books and dvds out there.
So what did the fellow members of www.rawpaleodietforum.com have to say about Derek’s “Extreme Animal Obsessions” documentary? Here is a sample of responses:
Jessica said:
“ha dude seriously……..this is amazing, they totally tried to make a very weird tale out of your diet. hey guess what, you can die from eating SAD too, hey guess what, theres a chance you can die from life…..
gotta admit that was pretty weird to watch though, producers are so good at eliciting emotions
you look really healthy here, did you get other results besides cholesterol and parasites?
really sorry to see how your family reacts to you though saber, i would be so disheartened if my family werent 100% behind ANYTHING that they though would make me healthy and happy, i hope you find a place filled with more open minded people who value your authentic self, gotta find your tribe brother”
GoodSamaritan said:
“Awesome! A new hero is born!
Congratulations!Do they know about this raw paleo diet forum?
Do they know you are not alone?
If it will help you communicate with your family, we should all shoot our personal videos about why we are doing raw paleo diets.
You looked handsome on video. The most beautiful glowing family member hands down.
The follow up video should be you doing your pole dancing!”
Raw Al said:
“You stood up well. Like the rest of us, you are in a battle that really all you can do is hold off the naysayers. You’ll not convert them. You stayed patient and pleasant. Excellent.
Too bad the others in the family didn’t get a blood test. That would probably be an eye opener. Unless they are being looked for, parasites etc, don’t show up in blood tests.
All of us are full of bacteria and parasites. The difference between a healthy and sick person is that they don’t get a chance to take over. But you know that.
I was hoping you would mention your illness and how the Doctor’s medicines did nothing, but the diet brought you out of it.
Good job.
I don’t tell my family. Too much trouble.”
Intriged said:
“Pretty good. I’ve been following this thread and was really hoping I would see an at least semi-finished product at some point. I agree with what the others have said, if nothing else you look far healthier than everyone around you who is advocating other diets. There’s certainly a lot of agenda pushing, but your case is stated pretty clear and simple, and it’s plain to see that you are on this diet and not having problems (in fact, solving a bunch that you had). If there is a finished product that is give or take the same as this, I’d call this a definite success.
Splaying out the high meat at the dinner with everyone else was a little much for me, with all the shock factor/gagging, but it seemed obviously staged, and I think that will come across to anyone who is willing to challenge their beliefs on this kind of stuff anyway.
I thought it was interesting seeing the woman (sister? I didn’t catch it) that didn’t seem as concerned about the raw piece, and just wanted you to pull fruits/vegetables into the situation. I didn’t expect to hear that view on it.”
TylerDurden said:
“I’ve just watched a bit of the video and was impressed. I suppose, like with that wifeswap episode, you will get morons phoning the police to complain, but still. I love the gnawing on that large carcass! It’s so offensive to prudish, limited people.”
Löwenherz said:
“Very professional! They produced a nice TV drama about your lifestyle. It’s very smart to start the show with a roadkill shocker.
Little to nothing is said about the possible health benefits we can get from raw animal foods. But who expected this?”
Eric did not take this too well and in his opinion said:
“If this piece airs as presented, then I think Derek has done a great disservice to the raw food community. You sold out man, you accepted whatever pittance they offered in return for letting them butcher and sensationalize your story. They made you out to look like a sullen nutcase who’s slipping off the deep end. Which, admittedly, you might be.
I don’t understand how anyone can watch this piece and see anything positive in it for the raw food community. ”
TylerDurden said:
“If we are to gain any presence in the media, we will have to endure this sort of thing at first. As someone once said re truth:-“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.””
Eveheart said:
“I like that concept of the stages of truth, but I also feel that the perspective of the film was sensationalism because there was no discussion of the benefits of eating uncooked food. I saw a portrait of a family torn apart by the delusions of one member who believes he is a wild animal. I have a family who eats cooked food, and I never parade my raw food in front of them, nor do I find that I am separated from family because of what I eat.
There’s another saying: “You can either be a shining example or a dire warning.” This film is a dire warning of how not to talk about eating raw meat. There are excellent movies about paleo-style eating, and I would prefer to see a documentary about eating raw food that was informative and sensationalism-free.”
Van said:
“hey Derek. I felt compelled to write to you. When I first started watching the video, I said to myself, “oh no”. But then that all changed, and I was there supporting you. I found you to be most genuine, and amazingly centered without judgment or anxiety; two traits that healthy people have. I cringed for you when I saw the manipulation set upon you by the therapist. They should have simply called her a mediator, at best. I could see the love your father has for you, and your mom too. Brother and sister appear to be lost in their beliefs and fears, but also it’s clear they love and care for you also. I do think, that it would be showing compassion for them to follow through as mentioned and eat ‘safer’ foods in front of them. And or if you bring foods to their houses to eat, bring the most acceptable and presentable foods you can, maybe something of a sushi presentation, maybe a few carrot strips, or sliced tomato, avocado on your plate all nicely arranged with maybe thinly sliced layed out meat. I would have loved if somehow you could have found out the doctor’s chlorestorol, and even better to have looked at the ‘good and bad’ levels she had. And again, I thank you for your honesty throughout the presentation. And the complete lack of any aggressive rebuttals towards the nay-sayers. I hope your family as time goes on can accept your way.”
And you might be interested in Derek’s new found hobby. With his new found animal strength, Derek can now do POLE DANCING! Wouldn’t you like to be able to transform yourself into something like HEALTHY DEREK? See his pole dancing video: