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Arthritis Lower Back Pain in 75 Year Old Gone, Disappeared, Resolved, Cured?

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My 75 year old father in law (FIL) had been suffering from arthritic lower back pain for a good many months. The nature of this lower back pain is it only becomes painful when he changes his position. Say he is seated down for some 15 minutes and he decides to stand up or twist and turn, that is when the pain comes. The same pain when FIL wakes up in the morning after lying down asleep for so long. This had been going on for 10 straight years!

His western medical doctor had no answer to his condition and said it was old age. His chiropractor could give him some minor relief but also said it was just old age. Well, we in the family believe there is no such pain or disease due to old age. Especially pain. That is a cop out and just plain unacceptable. So we kept trying, kept throwing ideas at FIL until he accepted one of them, this time, he accepted the help of acupuncture master Sifu Jem Sam.

Sifu Jem Sam gave his masterful acupuncture with burning herbs on the needles and proceeded to hand out traditional chinese medicine supplements. He has treated FIL with his acupuncture for 3 Sundays now. He also suggested oysters for FIL’s prostate health. A ha, there is the a ha moment there with oysters. I had been badgering FIL regarding eating raw oysters but he would always decline saying his western medical doctor had warned him oysters had too much uric acid in them. Bogus I kept crying out, these are raw oysters and raw oysters do no such thing but provide you with healthy bio-available zinc in the largest quantities. The aha moment is FIL believes Sifu enough to begin eating raw oysters.

I finally got raw oysters for FIL last weekend and this weekend. This lunch I asked FIL what miracles raw oysters have done to him and he says that raw oysters have stopped his arthritis, stopped the inflammation in his lower back arthritis.

How can oysters stop inflammation? First of all, inflammation is a healing process. Given all the materials it needs to complete the inflammation process of healing a part of our body, the inflammation is complete and that body part gets well. Chronic inflammation like this lower back pain may be caused by malnutrition in certain minerals such as the all important zinc. With healthy raw oysters providing the much needed zinc in voluminous quantities, the inflammation process, the healing process is given the minerals it needs to complete its job of repairing the body and the inflammation stops. So remember, inflammation is a healing process, give that body what it needs to complete the repairs.

The whole family chimed in that it was most probably a convergence of oysters plus the acupuncture, plus the other chinese supplements he was taking. Ha ha ha, FIL feels great now, pain free, “good for 120 years old” I said.

So it was a congratulations lunch for FIL while we feasted on yesterday’s party left overs: raw tuna, raw blue marlin, raw ripe mango, raw cucumber, sushi wrapper, some fish roe and some roast duck.

The lesson here is to never give up on your loved ones, your senior loved ones. Healthy, pain free living is for everyone. Let’s observe and hope this pain free experience lasts for a long, long time.

Irritable Bowel or Crohn’s Disease Cure Attempts with Beam Ray, Salt, then Probiotics

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A few months ago I had this crisis with that intense tummy pain after eating non-paleo food when I socialized in a PTA meeting. I had diarrhea for a week or more. Then I pooped out what seemed like wood or sharp stone. Injured my lower colon, bled. So I fasted for 3 days to stop the bleeding.

It’s been a few weeks and my stools are never fully formed. I’d get them half formed at times. And sometimes it’s loose. Seems like I can’t hold it “naturally”. It’s like I have to poop in the morning, which is fine, but I also have to poop after every single meal. It’s annoying. I’ve heard about this thing about the optimal human pooping thing, but this sucks. I feel like I’m fruitarian again.

Around 2 weeks ago I went and had beam ray treatment. Had some hook worms from a new wormy puppy and was diagnosed with salmonella. I was beam rayed for both hook worms and salmonella and that helped relieve me of annoying tummy pain. But it did not really solve the problem of not forming fully formed stools yet.

Looking at the history of how this loose stool debacle began, it was during the violent detox of that bad cooked PTA food. One thing wrong with my usual diet is I do not add salt to my food. It may just be a case of salt deficiency. So I had some salt lunch and dinner. Found my mother in law has some Himalayan salt.

I tried: Mix little salt and lemon juice in a slight warm water and drink it to stop loose stools and dysentery.

As found in http://www.panjokutch.com/health/general/loose%20stool%20-%20dysentery.htm

I think this salt cure will work. I must have been severely salt depleted from that incident.

This salt thing helped a bit, I can only stand so much salt. But this salt thing is not the cure as well.

The above trials were helpful, but didn’t really cure me yet.

New theory and new approach:

Look at Crohn’s disease and learn from the Maker’s Diet experience Jordan Rubin. Maybe the PTA meeting food incident depleted my intestinal flora.

I’m digesting food completely because I’m on a raw paleo diet so I’m not losing weight. Maybe my large intestine needs populating with good bacteria to form solid stools.

I’m not patient enough to wait and make home made high meat for 30 days. It’s more expedient for me to try some commercial probiotics. So with a gift certificate that was given me, I went to an organic shop and bought the best probiotics they had there. Yesterday began taking overdose amounts.

Began last night with 10 capsules. And this morning 10 capsules. (instead of 1 capsule 3x a day). I’ll take 10 capsules 3x per day.

Pigged out last night in my child’s birthday party. So far this morning I have not pooped yet. Good sign. Let’s see.

If this is your first time reading my blog you will notice how everything is easy to cure nowadays. We stand on the shoulders of others who have been there and done that. With the power of searching the internet and a little experience and networking with peers in healing, every ailment should be easy. So what if I call this Crohn’s or irritable bowel? It will be fixed soon enough.

Almost Paleo Diet Healthy Birthday Dinner of Comfort Foods

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Our young little girl celebrated her 6th birthday last night with a dinner celebration with cousins and us grown ups of course. I had disapproved the commercial Japanese maki this time and said we can make our own maki individually, it’s so easy. So I bought all the ingredients all the guests needed:

– raw blue marlin sashimi
– raw yellow fin tuna sashimi
– raw salmon sashimi
– organic white rice + rice vinegar et al to make Japanese sushi rice
– several brands of sushi sea weed wrapper
– mangoes
– cucumbers
– a big box of fish roe
– fermented and brewed soy sauce, bought a different brand this time
– made our own home made mayonnaise with raw duck egg yolks + extra virgin olive oil + butter + sea salt
– got 3 rolling mats people could share

Aside from the sushi roll your owns, I tried an appetizer with dried dilis plus raw monggo bean sprouts.

And later on was served some peking duck my wife bought from Laguna at a place called “Itlog ni Kuya”, we just re-heated it in the oven.

Sifu Jem Sam was there doing his acupuncture thing and said that in his more than decade stay in the Philippines he had never seen such a healthy spread in a party. It’s usually spaghetti, pancit and soft drinks.

Oh I almost forgot my wife served a health drink juice she made from raw lemon and raw basil leaves. Oh so refreshing!

Uncle A Cancer Cure Diet Adjustments Due to Food Availability

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I called long distance to Uncle A last night and gave him new instructions for his cancer cure diet. He has a brain tumor and a lung tumor. I can’t supervise him from so far away but I can make phone calls. I’m trying to get him on skype video but for some reason it hasn’t happened yet.

Butuan City has some limitations in terms of food sourcing for this cure so we will have to make do with what we have:

  • There is no reliable source of grass fed beef with yellow fat. Uncle A tells me they do get some beef, but the fat has been stripped off. People are brainwashed to be afraid of fat in that area.
  • They have yet to find a reliable source of fertilized duck eggs, one possible source are salted egg makers, just pay for the fresh duck eggs at the same price as a salted egg.
  • Turn to virgin coconut oil as a secondary source of raw fat. Try 2 tablespoons in the morning and 2 tablespoons at night of virgin coconut oil. This means at least 4 tablespoons of raw fat in the form of virgin coconut oil. It’s better than no raw fat at all.
  • Make sure Uncle A measures his animal food consumption. In this case, raw fish, raw squid. He is allowed to soak his fish or squid in calamansi. Try to eat at minimum 500 grams or 1/2 kilo of raw fish / squid / eggs total a day.
  • Read and follow Aajonus Vonderplanitz on his book Recipe for Living without disease on page 40. See the guidelines there to understand how much and how often to eat. How much vegetable juice, how much fruit, how much animal food in what intervals. Pump yourself with great amounts of raw omnivorous nutritious food.

General Daily Eating Schedule Recommendations #1
(This plan consists of three meat meals daily and is better for people with slower metabolism, lethargy and glycemic
problems, including diabetes.)
• After waking, drink 4-12 ounces green vegetable juices.
• 45-60 minutes later, eat 6-10 ounces (1-2 cups) raw meat with raw egg(s) and/or 2-5 tablespoons raw butter, raw cream, raw coconut cream, no-salt-added raw cheese with
equal amount of butter or avocado. One or a combination of several raw fats may be eaten at a meal, such as in a sauce.
• Next, 45-90 minutes later, drink a blended milkshake consisting of 1-4 raw eggs, 3-6 ounces raw milk, 1-4 ounces raw cream and 1-2 tablespoons unheated honey.
• At least 1 hour later, drink another 4-12 ounces green vegetable juices.
• At least 1 hour later, eat 6-10 ounces (1-2 cups) raw meat with raw egg(s) and/or 2-5 tablespoons raw butter, raw cream, raw coconut cream, no-salt-added raw cheese with
an equal amount of butter or avocado. One or a combination of several raw fats may be eaten at a meal, such as in a sauce.
• 60-90 minutes later, eat 4-6 ounces fruit with 3-6 ounces of either raw cream, raw coconut cream, raw butter or avocado. You may combine any or all of the above, or you
may drink another milkshake without fruit.
• At least 1 hour later, drink another 4-12 ounces green vegetable juices.
• At least 1 hour later, eat 6-10 ounces (1-2 cups) raw meat with raw egg(s) and/or 2-5 tablespoons raw butter, raw cream, raw coconut cream, no-salt-added raw cheese with
an equal amount of butter or avocado. One or a combination of several raw fats may be eaten at a meal, such as in a sauce.
• 45-90 minutes later, drink a blended Moisturizing / Lubrication Formula; page 146.
• At least 1 hour later, drink another 4-12 ounces green vegetable juices.

Uncle A needs more guidance in this department. Sigh, that Skype video needs to be working.

Aajonus’ books and DVD are available in Amazon. I recommend you buy BOTH books.

Invested in Paleo Diet Cook Books!

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Being on the ultimate diet, which is raw paleo diet is the easiest thing there is.  Buy raw meat, store raw meat, eat raw meat.  Eat raw fruit in season.  Eat some vegetables when I feel like it.  My meal plan is something like this: breakfast fruits, lunch lots of raw meat and fat, snack fruit, dinner some raw meat and fat.  Maybe once a week I have some salads or juiced vegetable.

But the family, wife and kids must have their cooked thing.  Warm, hot, with nice presentation.  Uggghhh, social blah, waste of time and effort and less nutritious.  So they are on a somewhat cooked meat paleo diet plus rice.  But now we are making a new upgrade.

The first change is to strike off soy sauce.  Sure we got fermented and brewed soy sauce, but it is still soy and not as nutritious as himalayan salt or sea salt.  So soy sauce is out starting today.  Gloom from the family, what dishes to prepare?  Solution, get a new cookbook.  New ideas.

We once had a big cookbook by Sally Fallon of the Weston A Price foundation, I think that was Nourishing Traditions cook book, but the big flood last year took it.

Last night I got Paleo Diet Cook Books by Nikki Young.  It’s an awesome paleo diet cook book collection.  2 volumes on the 2nd edition plus I also got to download their first edition.  Then it comes with a 30 day meal plan, in full color professionally photographed layout.

No excuses now from the family to go 100% paleo diet.  These dishes are not conducive to rice eating.  Grrr…. I’d like to see that malnourishing rice go away.  Rice is malnourishing because it slows down the digestion process by conflicting with meat digestion and taking up stomach space otherwise better used by more meat and more vegetables.

I’m excited.  Change is good.  Change for the better.  This is my next paleo diet shot for the family.  I bought my books at http://paleodiet.co

Is Himalayan Salt or Ocean Rock Salt Healthier Than Kikkoman Soy Sauce?

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Lately I’ve been putting together family symptoms and I’m theorizing we need the minerals in real rock salt or himalayan salt than just the sodium in Kikkoman soy sauce. My kids’ and my wife’s cooked meat food is usually seasoned with Kikkoman soy sauce then cooked. How about switching to real salt and pepper instead?

My almost 6 year old daughter still wets her bed sometimes, that’s a clue. My 9 year old boy is not gaining the desired weight we want him to have. And my wife still has her recurring rhinitis.

Me, I’m on raw paleo diet and hardly ever get sick. Except for the time I got victimized by PTA food cooked junk. I developed loose stools.

Looking at the history of how this loose stool debacle began, it was during the violent detox of that bad cooked PTA food.

One thing wrong with my usual raw diet is I do not add salt to my food.

It may just be a case of salt deficiency.

So I had some salt lunch and dinner. Found my mother in law has some Himalayan salt.

Then last night I mixed a little salt and lemon juice in a slight warm water and drink it to stop loose stools and dysentery.

As found in http://www.panjokutch.com/health/general/loose%20stool%20-%20dysentery.htm

I think this salt cure will work.

I must have been severely salt depleted from that incident. Problem is I don’t have any salty cravings.

Real salt is not just NaCl, it is a whole lot of other minerals in it.

More about the importance of real salt here http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/salt.htm

I may get well from loose stools pretty fast with this new break through. Maybe that salmonella analysis by the beam ray expert is true, but it only persisted because I was low in real salt body content due to the detox issue with the pta bad food.

If I think about it, real salt is more ancient and more paleolithic than soy sauce. It’s worth a shot and I already told the maid I’m not buying anymore kikkoman soy sauce for now and she has to revert to using himalayan salt because that’s what is available in the kitchen right now.

Lower Cholesterol Levels by 50 points in 2 Weeks – By Eating Lots and Lots of Raw Fat and Raw Meat

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I helped a 48 year old friend named J with some eye healing problem and he got more than he wished for.  He only wished that his eye would heal, but unknowingly, when you do some detox, raw juice, raw meats, raw fats, raw liver, everything just clicks, everything just works.

On the first day I arrived, I gave him a good amount of raw beef liver blendered with a red onion for taste.  Plus some raw bone marrow.  Then 4 straight days of egg yolk liver flushing using raw duck eggs.  I’ll let J tell the story:

I did want to write a bit more about the unusual diet that I started 16 days ago and some surprising results. When I started a raw food diet to help my body heal faster, I assumed that eating lots of raw beef, raw beef fat, raw fertilized duck egg yolks along with raw fish (mostly sashimi tuna) would dramatically raise my cholesterol. While I had read the book We Want To Live by Aajonus Vonderplanitz and had been guided by a friend in the Philippines and my sister in the US, I was still a bit skeptical about whether eating large amounts of raw food with plenty of raw fat would be good for me, I could not have been more impressed with the results both outside and inside my body in just two weeks. Within days of strictly following the diet, my skin, which had been dry and itchy from the medication I was taking, felt smooth and soft. The acne on my back cleared up, sores that had developed on my chest from lying face down for over two weeks healed and my hemorrhoids completely disappeared. The wrinkles on my brow also disappeared as if I had had botox. But the biggest surprise came when I got my blood work done. I was careful to test my blood chemistry levels on the first day I began the diet and then two weeks later. My cholesterol had always been a bit on the borderline (usual over 200) along with high triglycerides, high LDL and high VLDL levels. I had dieted in the past to keep these down but never got them to change too much, until this new raw diet.

Oct 29 – Nov 12

Cholesterol 219.30 – 167.57
Triglycerides 238.07 – 152.22
HDL 37.45 – 35.14
LDL 133.98 – 101.93
VLDL 47.69 – 30.38
Chol/HDL Ratio 5.66 – 4.77

In the book We Want To Live, by Aajonus Vonderplanitz, cholesterol problems are usually associated with “eating cooked fat” and that a diet with “plenty of raw fats, like unsalted raw butter, raw fertile eggs, stone-pressed olive oil, raw cream, no-salt-added raw cheeses, fresh coconuts, avocados, raw meat, and fresh pineapple quickly corrects blood cholesterol” by helping the body remove cooked (toxic cholesterol). According to research by Aajonus, raw fats “can and will clean, fuel, lubricate, and protect the body properly.” When I first read this, I could not believe that high raw fat consumption would actually bind with toxic fat in the body and bring down cholesterol levels but my blood cholesterol levels actually proves this along with tests from my sister which have demonstrated the significant benefits of a raw diet that includes raw meat, fish, eggs, and fat. Note that I also consume up to 5-6 glasses of fresh juiced vegetables and drank as many as 5 fresh coconuts a day during this diet along with other fresh fruit and nuts. I also cut out all salt, sugar, additives, sauces, and cooked oils. I did have cold pressed oil and apple cider vinegar (for salad dressing) and did eat some organic brown rice and quinoa in small amounts once a day.

https://vitrectomydiary.wordpress.com/2010/11/13/day-thirty-eight-on-the-road-to-recovery-the-surprising-results-of-my-raw-diet/

Note that my personal attitude about blood tests is to take them with a grain of salt and not jump to conclusions. What is more significant in my judgment is that everything was healing: hemorrhoids, acne, back pain, wrinkles, eyes.