AboutRawPalaeoGuy Expertise I can answer most questions on Raw Animal Food Diets such as the Primal Diet, an organic, raw-meat-based diet and a number of similiar all-raw or partially raw Paleolithic diets, such as the Instincto, Weston-Price, Neanderthin, Paleo and Stefansson Diets. Can also offer advice on
how to resist social pressure to eat cooked foods etc. For further info on Raw-Animal-Food diets, feel free to browse through this website:-
http://www.rawpaleodiet.com/
Experience I have been 8 years on a 99%+ raw version of the Palaeolithic Diet and experienced numerous health benefits as a result, being fully recovered from my previous symptoms from my cooked-food days. My own individualised raw, paleolithic diet routine is mostly based on Aajonus Vonderplanitz's Primal Diet(ie 99% raw, usage of "high-meat",no processed supplements, using primarily naturally-reared, organic or wild sources of raw foods) but, for personal reasons, I have also been, to some extent, influenced by ideas from:- Instincto(ie:- taste/instinct,no raw dairy/no raw veggie juice), Weston-Price(eg: preferring grassfed meat to grainfed meat, incorporating a wide variety of raw organ-meats into my diet along with the usual muscle-meats, and Vilhjalmur Stefansson(high-fat diet, pretty high proportion of (raw) animal food), but also eating some raw carbohydrates such as raw organic/wild fruit/veg/honeycomb etc.). I'm also a firm believer in the feast-and-famine idea (ie Intermittent Fasting) as regards boosting one's energy levels, and giving my body a rest from constant digestion.
Organizations Rawpaleodiet Community(Comprising rawpaleoforum , rawpaleodiet yahoo group and the rawpaleodiet.com website among others).
Publications Allexperts and Rawpaleodiet.com
Education/Credentials BA(German) 3rd; No nutritional qualification(I don't believe in standard(misguided) nutritonist doctrine, so I don't feel the need).
Although we've never met, or otherwise contacted, I am deeply indebted to
you. I discovered your blog two months ago and have found your culinary
suggestions very helpful. I'm presently culturing my second batch of high
meat (from wild venison) and have decided wild duck fillet raw is just about as
good as rare. I grimaced at the thought of raw kidneys but now I love it. The
RPD seemed initially extremely weird and I felt quite embarrassed sneaking
off to consume my bloody flesh in dark corners - already the RPD has
become perfectly natural to me while the general fixation on cooking and
disinfecting every morsel we consume seems more and more bizarre.
Importantly my health has improved significantly since I began to experiment
with the RPD. I have had chronic digestive disturbances for around 15 years -
similar to many others on the site - diarrhoea, gas, cramps, bloating, reflux,
gurgling, bouts of fever, anemia... General ill health. Also lactose intolerance
though just cutting out lactose didn't solve the disturbances. I also tried
cutting out all grains, didn't work either. Fortunately eating fatty meat, fish
and a few raw or fermented vegetables and nuts has managed to nourish me
and somehow not stir up any foul behaviour down below. I'm extremely
grateful that you are so generous and candid about your courageous culinary
adventures; I've learnt to live!
But I have a question. Do you know of the parasites Dientamoeba fragilis and
Blastocystis hominis? My nephew fell in a pond in Java and spent the
subsequent 2 years (he is only 5!) with awful digestive problems similar to
mine, a saga of diagnostic probing and a plethora of medical restrictions put
on his diet... Poor chap! Eventually someone isolated Dientamoeba fragilis
from him. This parasite is not generally considered a pathogen which in my
understanding of what little literature there is about it is because it is quite
common!? But it was the only thing anyone could find that may have caused
his discomfort so a little more research turned up a Sydney based woman
with a website about it called badbugs. He took some advice from this site
and is now doing much better - fingers crossed...
I am interested in your knowledge of this subject? I am of course curious to
try the site's recommendations out as I still cannot touch a grain of rice
without gurgling and agony. I even have sweats over a ripe banana! I simply
had no way to acquire the nutrition I needed to live until I was encouraged by
your candid writings to try the RPD, so that I no longer require the bananas -
but gee they were good...
Please excuse my digressions, I hope my enquiry is clear enough. Many
thanks, Angus
Answer I'm not familiar withe these two parasites. Personally, I don't view parasites as a real problem for those on mostly-raw diets, provided they go in for high-quality(grassfed/organic etc.) raw animal food - at the start of doing this diet I'd go in for prefrozen meats, eat anti-worm remedies like pumpkin seeds etc. etc., but, in the end, I realised I didn't need them - and I haven't had a "parasitical episode" in all the years I've been rawpalaeo. Of course, living in the tropics might well complicate matters and increase the chance of exposure.
That said, it's always worth trying out a new treatment method provided it's not too harsh in the way that pharmaceutical drugs are - and it does seem as though your unusual symptoms are as the site described.You never know, it might work.
