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 What are the benefits to eating these(raw clams and oysters) on the raw paleo / primal diet? If I remember A.V. said they do something beneficial like chelating heavy metals off the brain or something to that effect
Answer According to one AV interview, he claims the following:-
"I recommend only ocean wild-caught raw fish, not farmed, except oysters, clams and scallops. I suggest all varieties including Swordfish, which has the highest mercury content. When digested and made bioactive by plankton and eaten by fish, traces of mercury are great detoxifiers of toxic mercury in the body. Bioactive and non-cauterized mercury in raw fish helps buoyancy of fish. When fish are cooked, mercury and other metallic minerals become free-radicals and toxic.
I have noted in my clients, a continual rise in nausea and vomit from eating freshwater fish, especially freshwater-caught salmon, catfish and sturgeon. Freshwater fish have a greater number of toxins because our fresh waters are approximately 30% polluted. Our oceans are approximately 4% polluted. I do not eat freshwater fish unless I catch it in a non-polluted lake. There are very few non-polluted lakes left in the USA because of the pollution created by water-sport vehicles, agricultural chemicals, and agricultural and mining waste."
So AV seems to not mind farmed oysters/clams/scallops(though I'm sure he would concede that wildcaught versions thereof would be more nutritious etc.)
Re chelation/heavy-metals:- What worries me is that AV, like many in the alternative-health field, seems to be overly obsessed with the notion of heavy-metals in the body, and, judging from audio-tapes I've heard, he diagnoses an excess of heavy-metals for most of his clients - this is highly unrealistic, and is one of the many reasons why I just don't buy into the whole hysteria re heavy metals like mercury etc.
Re oysters:- I've noticed a particular benefit from eating raw oysters. I , nowadays, always have c. 20 extra-large raw oysters once a fortnight - I don't know what exactly in the raw oysters is helping me, (it could be the iodine or the omega-3s or the vitamin D etc.?) but it seems to give me a bit of a boost, in terms of energy-levels.
