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Expert: RawPalaeoGuy - 7/7/2008


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I have a family member who cannot swallow due to a disease but is willing to go raw paleo and try and reverse her disease. Will blending up the food in a vitamix  produce a different outcome than eating it as is? I am going to use coconut water as a base to all the blends. I am going to start with blending up raw liver and marrow with the coconut water. What do you think? I might add some raw honey to taste

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I honestly can't say without knowing what the disease is - apparently, people can have problems re swallowing either solid food, liquid or even saliva, depending on the condition. To be honest, you're better off asking a doctor(but without mentioning the Raw-Animal-Food diet directly). Certainly, if the main difficulty is that the person can't chew, then a thorough use of the vitamix(or Juicer for fruit) would be the best option. For juicers, most people recommend a GreenStar Juicer as it's the most efficient at juicing and actualy reduces your costs over time as you need to buy less fruit/veg in order to fill each glass(I don't recommend juicing raw veg as some people have complained re antinutrients within it).

As regards your particular suggestion, it seems the least harmful as liver and marrow are already quite soft.

HTH,

RPG.

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I can answer most questions on Raw Animal and Vegetable 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, it's a good idea to browse through GoodSamaritan's website, http://www.rawpaleodiet.com/ , and also to join the following two forums and read their message-archives :- rawpaleoforum.com and http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/rawpaleodiet/

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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.

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No nutritional qualification(I don't believe in standard(misguided) nutritionist doctrine, so I don't feel the need). I simply rely on mine and many others' long-term experiences of raw, palaeolithic diets and I've read most of the books that are vaguely relevant to a raw-meat diet.

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