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My high zinc diet begins with oysters and beef

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I’m going on a high zinc diet because I have observed that cuts and inflammation in my body do not seem to heal fast… not fast enough for me. My theory is that zinc is a trace mineral that is very important because it is a precursor to many other biochemical reactions. So if I get a high enough zinc in my body, I should get multiple benefits.

The past days I’ve been following my instincts and my instincts pointed me to raisins. There is an indian grocery near our place so I can get to buy a different tasting raisin. To balance the sweetness of raisins, yesterday I bought cashews as well. The literature says raisins have boron… another trace mineral that is a precursor to many things. Cashew has fat, zinc, copper, magnesium. I think I’ve had enough raisins for 2 days.

Getting good raw beef is easy. Farmers market in cubao has always been a good source of yummy freshly killed beef. This morning I even got some strip loin that sells P 320 / kilo so much more expensive than the regular sirloin of P 270 per kilo, yes, it did taste great, I had this for dinner.

Getting the best source of zinc meant getting clean sources of oysters. Oysters are the best sources of zinc I know. And I know it works. in 2002 I got into a 2-3 oysters per week diet and it increased my sperm count from 100 million / ml to 300 million / ml. At that time I got my oyster fix at restaurants. I investigated those same restaurants and they didn’t have oysters this time.

I discovered Oyster Boy restaurant last night in Cubao in front of the Araneta Coloseum, beside Shopwise supermarket. Oyster Boy claims that it has oysters flown in from Iloilo province daily! Yeah, that’s for me. Me and 2 visiting cousins had dinner at Oyster Boy last night and the oysters were good, not that great, but at least they were clean. I know clean, I can feel my body.

This morning I asked around Farmer’s Market I asked around the stalls who sold oysters and found they either came from Pangasinan, Bulacan, Cavite. Pangasinan oysters were dumped in Bulacan for wholesale. I have tried Cavite oysters in the past and I experienced violent poop and puking… never again. So this time I bought some Pangasinan-Bulacan oysters.

Additionally, I got some soft shell clams from the seas of Sorsogon province. Very yummy. Had these for dinner.

I will take pains to get 3 to 4 meals of oysters per week this month plus more beef and cashews. Let’s see what this high zinc diet will do.

Thinking about experimenting with a high zinc diet

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I noticed I’m not completely happy with the progress in my health.  I’m thinking of going on a high zinc diet.  Maybe execute this as soon as possible.  I’m looking at consuming oysters, clams, beef, goat, liver.  Try this initially for a week and see what happens.  There are minor complaints I think I need to address.  It’s just a hunch.  I remember going on a high zinc diet a few years ago to increase my sperm count.  It worked wonders and I measured my sperm count before and after then.  Allowed me to make http://www.fertilityhelp.net . The challenge is to identify sources of clean oysters.  It may be safer to just eat at restaurants.  I’ll just bring my own organic vinegar.

We visit the fish port at 4am to buy fresh fish without formalin preservative poisons

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My cook and I visited the Paranaque fish port at 4am yesterday Saturday with the goal of getting big discounts, buying fresher fish than the wet market, and buying un-poisoned fish – fish without formalin and food coloring which is allegedly popular when dead ocean fish is transported from the fish ports to the wet markets.

My principle in choosing sea food, is it should be sea food – not farmed in fish ponds – I mean ocean wild food.  I believe that our oceans are one of the last bastions of superior nutrition left on this planet.  The oceans are certainly more nutritious than the overly farmed lands of the planet.  Land animals will only be as healthy as the soil they live on.  But how many wild forest animals are available in our markets?  None really.  But ocean animals… we have them in abundance.

My cook and I left home around 3:10 am.  We arrived at the Paranaque fish port at 4am.  still dark.  We immediately had a parking spot waiting for us.  We had a styrofoam container with us.  I had 2,500 pesos budget and we finished it all that day.  We were greeted at the entrance with a man selling fresh large whole tuna, tangigue, dorado and some normal sized squid.  Inside there was more, more, more… it was mayhem.  Informal sellers everywhere, barking, pushing pails, lifting wholesale amounts.  Most buyers were re-sellers in the markets, we were just buying for personal consumption, but we had a big house hold so we sort of qualify.  Maybe the budget of P 2,500 pesos will last us for 2 weeks?

What were we able to buy?  A 7 kilo yellow fin tuna never blast frozen, a whole tangigue, a whole dinorado, some squid, some small octopus, an eel, many different types of smaller sea fish.  I’m glad our cook was with me, she knew what was fresh and what was not.  It was a wet affair.  I think we need to wear boots next time.  My rubber shoes need washing.

We later explored the Bacoor Cavite wet market and found it bountiful with sea food as well.  It was just for exploration purposes, I didn’t have any money left.  I just bought 3 kilos of cauliflower.

We were home 6am.  Had to have the fish cleaned and prepared for storage.

At 9am I had the cook prepare a cooked coconut milk meal with the eel.  “Ginataang igat / palos”.   It was my first time to eat eel so forgive me if I have to cook it first time.  After that  I took a nap

At lunch we cooked the stew of the little octopus with its black ink.  Along with the cauliflower we made into “rice” for the children.  And the fresh raw tuna for sashimi.

Ah yes… tuna sashimi that was never blast frozen tastes bloody great.  I pigged out.

At dinner I just had a mango to socialize with the family.  I was still stuffed.

It was a rewarding but very tiring day.  I think I should only do that once a month.  We will see.  I have some pictures of our bounty!

My wife has gout? Uric acid deposits in her feet and knee? Her cure protocol.

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A few days ago I found out from my wife that her massage therapist told her she had uric acid deposits in the soles of her feet and on her left knee. Those were the bumps the massage therapist was feeling and that which caused my wife a lot of pain lately. But she wasn’t telling until now.

Ah well, action time. Very easy gout cure procedures just like what we did with our cook. It’s just a little different with my wife because she has her own personality.

I first gave my wife a bottle of EMC which I keep for emergencies. She puts drops of EMC on the painful uric acid deposits and rubs them morning and evening. EMC will meet up with the uric acid deposits an neutralize them on the spot.

Then she needs to take 3 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar every morning to alkalize her body and neutralize more uric acid circulating her blood, also alkalizes her body.

Then she needs to kidney cleanse. Avocado leaves tea every evening. This is tough for her and I have to continuously remind her otherwise she’ll forget. Drink 1.5 liters each night. That’s a lot for her but it has to be done.

Food intake, stop all cooked nuts intake. Stop eating cooked meat for a while. If you can’t stop eating cooked meat, at least eat rare. She says she doesn’t like rare beef, so she would rather have fish, but her fish needs to be raw, cooked fish is overcooked all the time and will putrefy and add to her uric acid deposits.

I’d like her to fast 1 day at a time but it seems she can’t mentally swallow fasting. Even if she could drink and eat unlimited coconuts and coconut meat and watermelons, all will cleanse her kidneys… she won’t even try it. But I know those remedies will be super fast. Hey, I would do that for 3 days just to cure myself if I had gout, which I do not because I’m on raw paleolithic diet.

My wife is calling up the massage experts on a daily basis, the community massage. Each night they would massage the EMC to begin with.

Results so far after some 4 days… each application of EMC lessens the uric acid deposits and lessens the pain. There is daily progress in the lessening of pain and deposits, my wife can feel it. She is sputtering on the kidney cleansing, needs more reminding, and she has not bought plain apple cider vinegar yet. I just texted her to buy some while at lunch at her work. One evening I got her to eat raw bone marrow while dipping the raw marrow in her soup. She needs a lot of raw fat to cleanse her.

Will report my wife’s progress and hopefully eventual cure. Wish us luck.

My children prefer raw beef liver versus half cooked liver

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Yesterday I had our cook prepare half cooked beef liver steaks for my children as part of my push for the tooth decay cure for my 7 year old boy.  I had the cook set aside a hand sized slice for myself but it was too late, she had already marinated it in some raw calamansi juice and fermented soy sauce. I said that was acceptable and had that for my lunch.

I handed out the half-cooked beef liver to my 7 year old boy.  He said he didn’t like the taste.  Uh oh, that bitter cooked liver taste.  I remember that when I was young.  He rejected the half-cooked liver.  So I asked him to try my raw liver.  My boy liked the raw liver.  He said that raw liver tasted much better and the cooked liver tasted bad.  Same opinion with my 5 year old and my 4 year old… or they just copy whatever their eldest sibling says.  Whatever the reason, at least they get to eat raw liver… and in front of my wife and the grand parents at that.  It’s part of the cure for tooth decay I said, that’s what Rami Nagel, Weston Price and the raw paleo diet community has recommended.  Besides, I’ve been eating raw liver myself so I have the authority and experience to recommend it to my children. And I chose and bought that fresh raw liver at the wet market, personally.

My 7 year old boy is diagnosed with Primary complex, bronchitis, and tooth decay

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My wife thinks our 7 year old boy has had a cold and a cough for 3 months.  2 days ago she went to Dr. Divina Hey-Gonzales the anthroposophic doctor to have our boy checked.  Dr. Hey’s diagnosis is primary complex, bronchitis, and tooth decay.  Now my wife wants a witch hunt for possible tuberculosis carriers in our staff.  I noted that our in laws’ driver Benny is well known to have tuberculosis.  And that my analysis is that driver Benny has one missing kidney.  So his lungs are being tasked to do what a missing kidney cannot.

Back to our son, Dr. Hey prescribed her anthroposophic solution.

For primary complex: to be taken for 6 to 12 months

Ferrum Rosatum / Graphites – 10 drops – 4 times a day

Phosphorus D12 – 10 drops – 2x a day AM only

Archangelica Ointment – apply on the neck and massage downward for lymph flow – 2 times a day

For cough:

Pertudoron 1 – 10 drops – 4x per day

Pertudoron 2 – 10 drops – 4x per day

Vitamin C:

Acerola – 1 tablet – 3x per day

Other strategies fall on my lap, finally, I get a free hand.  So I’m putting my boy on a more paleolithic schedule and more alkaline diet.  First adjustment is for him to only eat 1 animal meal per day at lunch, just 1 animal food purely whether raw or cooked, but preferrably raw.  Breakfast is fruit and fatty fruit, and if hungry raw or soft boiled fertilized eggs, eat until stuffed.  For lunch 1 animal meal say for example yesterday was seared fatty sirloin beef steak and today he ate 4 cups of goto – beef innards with liver with little rice in a soup – dinner are just some light fruits or cucumbers.  I figure, this eating schedule, will result in better sleep, and the first night’s experiment is he did sleep better, he said no bad dreams and he was hungry in the morning.  This is a good sign.

This Sunday my boy chose to stay home with me so he says I could attend to him personally.

Lately he plays the recorder, a wind instrument being taught at school.  See and hear Cush play Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.  He’s learning to speak some English.

My solution for tooth decay is already on the way. I had ordered the book Healing Our Children by Rami Nagel and it will arrive soon. It’s not for me, it’s for my wife to agree to the changes I need to implement in our diet. It’s time I killed this rice based diet lunacy. No amount of brushing or flossing will beat tooth decay as long as you stay in a rice based diet. I cured my rice addiction last year, it’s time the kids did the same while it is still early.

What is wrong with a rice based diet?

Rice is an original junk food, white rice is just empty carbohydrates.
Rice displaces more nutritious items like fruits, vegs and animal food.
The combination rice plus animal food is hard to digest and is highly acid forming.
Eliminating rice, we can switch to a high fat diet which allows to absorption of more vitamins and minerals.

Our family vacation in Natural, Pristine, Primitive, Isolated, Last Frontier Palawan

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The whole family went on vacation in Palawan for 5 days.  We stayed in the town of Aborlan in an educational organic farm.  Although we had visited this place once last year in December, we did not sleep over in the farm then.  This time we spent 4 nights there.  We went to 2 beaches.  We went to fresh water falls.  And the best part was the eating.  Being the last frontier of the Philippines, Palawan is a haven for us raw paleolithic diet practitioners.

My first stop was to visit the big wet market in Puerto Princesa city.  I chanced upon live ocean shrimp, sea weed and sea urchin already cleaned up in easy to eat plastic bags… I wanted some vinegar and most vinegars sold were organic natural tuba vinegar… from coconuts… just 6 pesos for a small bottle. (In my Marikina city market, there are ZERO organic vinegars available… just factory made chemical vinegar.)  We arrived at a restaurant my wife fancies and on our arrival I had my fresh from the market stuff.  The waiter instinctively knew what to do.  He did not ask me at all how I wanted my shrimps to be cooked… he merely asked me if I wanted my shrimps to be shelled… and the kitchen did, making a nice raw presentation of the raw shrimps with some slices of cucumber for beauty.  So the restaurant people appreciate fresh raw animal foods… because it is natural for them to eat fresh raw ocean catches.

In the organic farm, they had abundant organic, sweet and healthy papaya boosted by a sack full of cow dung upon planting.  And Palawan has its own fruits which are all organic by default, organic by neglect, because this is the last frontier.  There were guyabanos, bananas, balimbings, singkamas, etc.

In the Aborlan town Saturday and Sunday market were more freshly caught ocean food that we raw foodists will absolutely adore.  The people here are of the mindset that fresh sea food means no ice, if you have to put ice in it, it is no longer fresh.  I got live clams, live freshwater crabs (alimango), live ocean crabs (alimasag), fresh ocean tiger prawns / shrimps, never frozen blue fin tuna and many others I couldn’t stuff myself any more. All so fresh… all so good raw… tummy is happy.  In the sunday market I even got a chance to buy freshly slaughtered Palawan grown beef… good bone marrow… good sirloin… tasted like ham.

The more exotic things I tried there was the raw sea cucumber and the tamiluk.  Sea cucumber needed better cleaning, we didn’t know much how to do it.  But the tamiluk, our driver was an avid fan.  He had been eating tamiluk since 5 years old.  His wife is a fan too.  Tamiluk can be found in the market or in the highway.  Tamiluk are BIG WORMS that grow in the big dead mangrove trees.  Our driver says the dead mangrove trunks are chopped open, revealing the tamiluk inside.  The tamiluk is a foot long and less than an inch in diameter and has a hard shell for the head.  Our driver says the best part is the dark part… like the innards.  Contrary to the common city folk perception that the tamiluk worm may look slimy and may taste like intestines, it is not.  It is truly tasty, one of the best tastes around.  The dark part reminds of eating chocnut.  Tamiluk was so good we were looking for more after the first batch… and we were rewarded the morning before our flight.  You eat tamiluk either plain or with some vinegar.

Of course there is the clean air, the peace of mind, the relaxing environment.  The sights where there are lots of mangrove forests… which gives the supply of tamiluk.  The smell of a Philippine skunk… pantut… not bad, just unique smell.  There were gigantic bats that flew high up, slow flapping wings, reminds me of the movie Jurassic park.

At the corporate Christmas party there were the fantastic dancing talents from Palawan state university.  Awesome.  They danced different styles, you have to see the videos.

Now that I’m on raw paleo diet I have a better appreciation of nature.  Living, eating in the last frontier… in the natural setting… in Palawan is so cheap, easy and nutritious.  The coastal people I met had almost no need for money… they eat off the land.  I met a guy by the sea shore and he was picking shells for food.  He handed me one, I broke it open and ate the live creature inside… yummy.

Here are some pictures of food in Palawan.