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Live Small Raw Squid for Lunch

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I was lucky to find some live small raw squid in the Malabon City wet market. I was on my usual trip to buy horse meat then checked out their sea food section. The lady said they had these live and fresh items due to boat men parking on their dock. You can identify if the squid is still alive if the colors on its skin are still changing / rippling. In fishing towns, people have the notion that they should only buy live shellfish, live crabs, live squid… they are not fresh when dead.

The live squid was an enticing offer. I popped one in my mouth and it tasted great. So I bought what was there, just 1.1 kilos left. Got it for 280 pesos. Not cheap.

At home, preparation was:

  • Wash with water.
  • Get a dipping bowl for real natural vinegar.
  • Dip squid a few seconds just to “clean” it due to handling in the market.
  • Eat.
  • Show your nice black tongue.
  • My 5 year old girl found this delicious and fun with me.

I must have eaten around 400 grams of squid until I was full.  Just like the other meats I have.  Pretty good.  If I chance upon live squid again, I will buy it.  This method of eating by dipping in vinegar is what the market lady suggested.

Sharp Shooting Neck Pain Beside Lymph Nodes on my 8 year old boy last night

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Last night an inexplicable neck pain hit my 8 year old boy. Around 7pm and again 9pm. He felt sharp shooting neck pain, both left and right sides of his neck. I ask if it is in the lymph node area. He has slightly swollen lymph node problems since he was small. He says yes right there. His reaction to relieve the pain was to push his hands on both sides of his neck.

The 7pm pain lasted for around 5 – 10 minutes. I got water on his neck and virgin coconut oil. I thought there were sharp objects or mosquito bites.

The 9pm pain occurred and this time I was alarmed since this is a repeat performance. This is no mosquito bite, this was an internal matter. I was thinking blocked blood flow. So I gave him some 1/2 teaspoon of home made cayenne tincture for circulation. He felt instant relief. But took some 4 consecutive ice cubes to quench the heat in his mouth.

Which lets me think again about those swollen lymph nodes he’s had for a long time. Maybe they are blockages of some kind. I remember the past few days putting some ghee on them. Maybe the ghee caused it? Maybe this is a job for a detoxifier like Quantum Minerals Plus. I will have to consult with this newly found lymph expert Efren. I’ll call him up tomorrow.

Last night my boy and I agreed on 3 cayenne tincture doses every day to eradicate the problem. Whatever it is. Wait and see.

Low Carb High Fat Rawish Paleo Diet against tooth infection for my 5 year old girl

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Last Friday my girl got a cavity capped with a tooth filling. The abscess was popped and the dentist recommended pain killers and anti-biotics. Well, you know me, I’d like to avoid drugs as much as possible. In fact drug taking is our scare tactic for our kids for them to follow a strict diet cure regimen. So I told my 5 year old girl that she was either going to do it strictly my way or she was taking drugs. Of course she doesn’t want any drugs.

So she’s eating raw liver, raw oysters, seared fatty grass fed beef sirloin and t-bone, raw tuna, kinilaw na tangigue fish, boiled zucchini and coconut juice with coconut meat. I was in the wet market again this morning but there again was no blue marlin. Hmmm… 3 days of no blue marlin, something’s up.

Oh yes, more sleep. Sleep at night, sleep mid morning, sleep after lunch, sleep at night. And since there is no rice + meat combo to stifle digestion, more frequent eating times.

So my daughter declares that she has zero pain this morning. Good. Much better, much faster results than drugs. The dentist said it would take 3 days for the drugs to take effect and remove the pain, but with strict paleo diet compliance and low carb compliance, my daughter is better already.

I have to admit it, my daughter is sensitive to fruit carbohydrates and probably rice carbohydrates. So all fruits and rice are banned for her right now. Save coconut juice with coconut meat for fat to balance.

My little girl will be on meat, fat, vegetables and coconuts. No tooth brushing, it will be replaced by oil pulling with virgin coconut oil. She’s good at it, it’s easy, non-abrasive.

That should heal her tooth decay. This is just the first among many decays plainly visible. It is summer vacation, the time is now. The disease tooth decay is unacceptable. My little girl is malnourished. She needs more meat and fat, not empty carbs.

* How we prepare raw beef liver for children: Cut into small cubes, squeeze some calamansi juice, sprinkle pepper to taste. Let it sit for a couple of hours in the refrigerator. Delicious.

Painful Cavity Takes my 5 year old girl to the dentist

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Yesterday Thursday my 5 year old girl was complaining she had a toothache. Some molar on the left upper quadrant. Why for some reason last Wednesday I went to the Indian grocery and bought some clove oil… must be my little girl’s luck. So I used a cotton bud and put clove oil on her tooth. She felt some relief, but there was still pain. Before bed Thursday I added another application of clove oil. She slept through the night.

Come this morning Friday I put clove oil on her tooth again. She still had pain. Hmmm…. that’s not right, something needs a dentist’s attention. First aid doesn’t seem to be working. But where to get a dentist today, it’s a holiday. Lunch time I asked my mother in law which dentist in the neighborhood they patronize, she said Dr. Niverba.

After lunch my 5 year old girl wanted to go to the neighborhood toy store to get a bubbling bottle. On the way there was Dr. Niverba’s office, it said open, knock on the door. Were we lucky, it was Dr. Niverba himself, no patient, we walked just right in and my daughter got attended to immediately.

So Dr. Niverba took care of the problem. He noticed the cavity in the middle of the molar. But what was painful was an abscess on the gums at the root of the tooth just beneath her left cheek. It had to be popped and drained. Dr. Niverba drilled as needed and mixed his non-amalgam tooth filling. He said he had a cotton bud with some medication underneath the filling material, plus he left a small hole so that the abscess could breath.

The the good dentist suggested the usual antibiotics and painkillers for my daughter. Painkillers, what for? It didn’t bother her that much, she doesn’t say so anyway. As for antibiotics, I have other ideas:

– Gargle with fresh oregano 5 times a day
– Do oil pulling with virgin coconut oil 3x per day
– Add some fresh garlic juice to the coconut oil and see if she can take it.
– Sleep early, sleep in the afternoon.
– Feed with raw tuna / blue marlin for high fat omega 3s, feed grass fed beef fat also high in omega 3s.
– stop all fruit. stop all rice. Only coconuts with coconut meat is now allowed. The rest will be raw / rare meat and fish and their raw / rare fats. Plus explore juiced or blendered cooked vegetables. I bought a zucchini. Feed her a lot of raw fat for inflammation relief.
– buy special nutritious foods: raw live oysters, raw beef liver, crab tomale? Duck eggs.
– No toothbrushing for now. I want no abrasion, no chemicals in her mouth.

So this shows the failure of the paradigm of tooth brushing. If there was a contest on the most fanatic tooth brushers, my wife would be champ.

So this shows my daughter is sensitive to fruit and carbs and it shows on her teeth. There are lots of cavities. Just like Rami Nagel’s daughter, the author of the book Cure Tooth Decay, fruit and carbs do not work for her.

I also noticed that on her rice based diet, her intake of cooked meat is very small, and her fat intake even smaller. I will have to invert that pyramid and let her get used to eating more raw fat. This late afternoon I fed her raw tuna, then some yellow raw beef fat, then in dinner evening some raw oysters. She got filled up. Fresh oysters are filling.

Tomorrow I’ll get coconuts then feed her some raw liver in calamansi and some pepper for taste. Of course more raw / rare meat, I got wonderful T-bone. I will accept searing for now for taste so she can eat a lot. How she’s going to chew? Just cut the beef and fat with scissors until it’s very small. I tell her to chew a little on her right side of her mouth then swallow.

Must remember to boil some zucchini and have her taste that as well. More oil pulling and more oregano oil gargling. We will do this the natural way.

Curing tooth decay is som 95% raw animal fatty food choosing special nutritious ones with the rest being green vegetables raw and juiced or cooked and blendered? Whatever my daughter finds palatable.

Expensive Shrimp in Chili-Butter Sauce Replaced with Raw Beef to Save Money and for Better Health

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Summer vacation time! My 8 year old boy was with me Monday in my office. He had a great time with me. I had a great time. Lunch time and he said he wanted shrimp in chilli-butter sauce. Okay, we went downstairs to Farmers Market Dampa and asked how much: 100 pesos for 3 shrimps! Steeeeeeppppp!!!

I suggested we just buy some 1 kilo of fresh raw shrimp and have it cooked for 150 pesos. While choosing shrimp, the prices were from 350 pesos to 450 pesos per kilo! Steeeppppeeerrr!!!

My son was getting hungry from all the walking and asking in the market. It finally sinked into him that shrimp was really very very expensive. Even if we picked the 350 per kilo shrimp + 150 peso fee cooking equals 500 pesos total expense.

So back to my hungry son, he suggested out of his own internal thoughts that we should have RAW BEEF instead! He said raw beef was much cheaper and raw beef is becoming a more appealing deal now that he was VERY HUNGRY.

So we happily went to the beef side of the wet market and we chose the most tender cut of sirloin. 290 pesos per kilo. We got more than 4 kilos for taking home as our stock for the coming holy week vacation. We got 450 grams for our combined lunch… which came out only 130 pesos… for the two of us! And we were stuffed!

So the butchers there who weren’t familiar with us saw a small boy eating raw beef plain with nothing in it. We picked the best looking best tasting one so it didn’t need any flavoring, this beef had its own flavor with it.

We went back to my office, got some chopsticks and got filled up fast. Super cheap, superior cleanliness, best nutrition… raw beef is so much better than cooked chilli-butter shrimp. Seems the shrimp were fresh water farmed anyway compared to the pasture / grass fed beef.

Yes, I’m succeeding, my son picked raw beef out of his own free will!

Swimming Pool Asthma, Chlorine Allergy on my kids

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There is a reason my wife never joins us in swimming in the swimming pool of the condominium. She believes the chlorine in the pool is very bad. In fact she noticed that it seems our children get colds after swimming in the pool, but not when swimming in the beach. Especially our 5 year old girl.

I decided to test this theory once and for all. Last Wednesday the 3 children were asking for a swim in the midst of the heat of the summer afternoon. Sure I said. Just 20 minutes. So they swam around 5:40 pm to 6pm.

Sure enough the following day Thursday, our 7 year old boy and our 5 year old girl had the beginnings of a cold. On Friday morning, their colds were terrible. Still terrible Saturday and Sunday. Monday the 2 children were not allowed to go to school. Just the eldest, the 8 year old boy went to school.

We are doing the usual thing. Cayenne tincture, fresh oregano juicing, mercurius vivus, raw paleo diet, cough elixir. Starting to subside Monday afternoon. All of them will probably be able to go to school Tuesday.

Lesson learned. Swimming pool asthma is real. Chlorine allergy leading to asthma, terrible colds, total feeling of unwellness is real. Now I’m convinced my wife was right all along. Now the kids are convinced that the swimming pool is no longer enticing. Now we know 100% sure that swimming pools ARE HARMFUL to our health. And if you see these kids suffer when in a terrible cold, crying, finding it hard to breath… you will be convinced, it’s not for them, swimming pools are not for us.

So our next best bet are the beaches. The clean ones. Already I can identify the Pacific ocean side of the Philippines as the cleanest beaches. No industries and no shipping there at all. Natural pools. The beach in Laiya Batangas seemed very clean. We should go to the beach this April while on summer break.

Cures for Multiple Sclerosis: Raw Paleo Diet works really well

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Listen closely to Loren Howe on the effectivity of the Raw Paleolithic Diet in inflammatory and auto-immune diseases including Multiple Sclerosis: “For the majority of people, it’s relatively unknown what causes autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. But for tens of thousands of people, it’s just common knowledge. The causes of these diseases is unnatural substances in your diet… it’s just very obvious… the best diet… Paleo Diet… doctor in France conducted a study… Multiple Sclerosis 33 cases… 97% Success Rate”

“Paleo Diet does it best in my opinion because it’s the most extreme NATURAL diet out there and you will see an improvement more rapidly than in any other way and the best thing is its for free.”

Oh I believe it. I am on a raw paleo diet and have been for more than 2 years now. I could cry learning how healthy I had become in this short amount of time. I wish I had known this a long time ago. Now my kids are being steered in this direction. My 3 kids have felt the healing power of raw paleo diet. Raw meat, raw fat, raw fruits and some raw vegs all organic or wild.

Paleo diet is easy when you know how and why.