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 love the information on raw meat diets that have been provided. It makes perfect sense to me, but when I tried to eat a raw steak, I nearly threw it up. It tasted disgusting. Why is this? It looks appealing to me but the taste is awful. Can you elaborate on any transition period and how to overcome any obstacles when beginning a raw diet? (Bye the way the steak was organic and fresh)Thanks a lot. Any help would be awesome.
Answer The steak should also have been grassfed/grass-finished as well.
As for the transition period, that really varies considerably from person to person(a number of people quote 8-12 months if you're eating near-all-raw - the more cooked-food you eat the less easy it is to get used to the taste of raw meats, IMO) - plus you'll inevitably get used to some raw meats/organ-meats much quicker than other kinds. In my own case, I, like most people, had little trouble with the taste of raw beef muscle-meat, though I, initially, preferred sirloin to other kinds like rumpsteak.Did you cut it up into small chunks? It might be an idea to bolt down very small pieces at a time, not chewing more than a tiny bit, followed by a gulp of mineral water each time - that's what I, at first, did with raw (organic/grassfed) ox liver. You could also try eating some steak tartare(minced raw steak, with a raw egg on it, avoid any pasteurised butter that goes with it - best to eat the steak tartare dish in a local restaurant - after all, most of our tastes/instincts re food are actually derived from years of long-term habits, so eating such fare at a local restaurant can help. Certainly, eating raw fish dishes at local Japanese Sashimi restaurants or raw oysters at oyster bars made it much easier for me to get used to eating raw fish/shellfish bought from the local fishmongers'.
Of course, the usual recommendation if you're having real difficulties getting used to it all, is to start by lightly cooking your meats/organ-meats, adding any processed sauces you like, then gradually reducing the cooking-temperature by 1 degree Celsius/Fahrenheit every so often, and gradually removing the sauces, until you can eat the raw meat at room-temperature on its own - you an always substitute raw sauces for the processed sauces, but most people find, in the end, that they don't need the extra raw sauces and find it time-consuming to prepare them, so just eat the raw meats on their own.
