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).
Question I am about to start eating organic raw bison liver. What are your feeling's on it and could you please provide me with a link on it's nutritional analysis. I searched the internet but had no luck finding it. I have a damaged optic nerve due to an MS exacerbation and feel that eating the raw bison liver will help nourish my liver . I have read that chinese medicine correlates the liver with the eye and any eye problems must be addressed by healing the liver.Can you comment on this?
Answer Liver has a huge amount of very useful nutrients in it. And raw organic, grassfed bison liver is an excellent choice. However, finding an extensively detailed reliable link describing all the various nutrients in detail of raw (grassfed) organic bison liver is rather difficult - though there is some info re grassfed bison muscle-meats.
There are one or two useful Nutrient-Databases online, organised by country, which can provide some information - trouble is only the US one is likely to have any links re bison-meats. Also, these websites usually provide far more detailed information on meats from domesticated animals than they do for wild animals - and they don't seem to distinguish between grassfed and grainfed or between organic and nonorganic - a good idea would be to search under "liver" on any food-database, then, if you can't find "raw bison liver" you might look for/click on the entry for the liver of a not-too different wild/undomesticated ungulate such as "raw moose liver" or look at websites detailing the nutrients found in organic-raised/100% grassfed cattle etc. for a comparison.Here are a few sites which might help:-
(the above website has several entries for bison-meat but it's all different types of muscle-meat - the relevant entry for "raw moose liver" has some useful details re levels of vitamins/minerals and fats, which should provide a useful comparison to grassfed/organic bison liver )
Here's a more detailed than usual website-entry for "raw ox liver" from another food-nutrient-database(which doesn't state that the liver was grassfed or grainfed so one can probably assume it's the latter):-
Re Chinese medicine:- I'm not sure re some related Qi-oriented disciplines such as acupuncture, given that people I know have reported both positive and negative results with it. So, I'm not 100% convinced that different parts of the body are necessarily interlinked -
- however, a number of raw-food-advocates seem to believe in the idea that various parts of the body are interlinked in some way (especially Aajonus, given his use of irridology). I seem to recall that one member of my group even once mentioned that eating raw dairy clogged up her liver, for some reason, and one-side-effect was that her vision slightly worsened on a temporary basis, but that's all I've ever heard re this.
At any rate, I wouldn't advise eating huge amounts of liver all the time - best to combine it with other raw foods as well, in moderation.
