Expert: RawPalaeoGuy - 9/5/2008

Question
Hello there.  I have a few questions, I will list them in order below:

1).  What can the raw paleo diet offer in terms of increasing height?  I'm
wondering if a person can actually grow a little taller...
2.)  Is there anything I can do to reduce scar tissue both internally and
externally?
3).  In regards to iris color change, my eyes are dark brown and have been all
my life.  I'm curious about the notion that dark eyes are a sign of toxicity...
especially since the majority of the world's population has brown eyes.  What
color eyes should I expect to have if my eyes are very dark brown now and I
begin a raw diet?
4).  I think I have a sluggish thyroid.  Which food do you recommend to
remedy this?  Is it possible to completely change the chemistry and DNA of
my body with food alone?

Thank you for your time.  I greatly appreciate it!  

Regards,

Robyn F.

Answer
I've been told by another poster that I made a serious mistake, in my previous answer re scar-tissue. What I really meant was that you should get hold of raw animal fats from GRASSFED, ORGANIC-RAISED animals, NOT from grainfed animals!

HTHm
RPG.

--------------------------------------------------------------------If you're below the age where one's height stops increasing, then just by avoiding foods to which you're allergic to, etc., you'll be able to become taller, due to less disruption of growth-hormone etc. However, once past 30, as I understand it, one's bones tend to "set" so that further growth is impossible,short of surgery. I remember my father stating that he grew an extra half an inch between 20 and 25(he was on a cooked-diet), so it is possible to grow a little past the main spurt of growth at around 16.

Re scar-tissue:- All I can suggest is using raw animal fats from grainfed animals such as raw suet, marrow, tongue, hide- and muscle-fat. You might also consider using raw code liver oil. The only good one I know of is the blue ice cod liver oil product.

Re iris-colour-change:- There are conflicting reports re this. Some like me report only a partial change in iris-colour over a great deal of time(outer-half is now greenish, inner half light brown, formerly pre-raw I had dark brown, almost black irises), others report a full change of iris-colour, while others report no change at all.

I've been told by others more knowledgeable in this field that Caucasians tend to develop lighter-coloured irises after going for raw animal foods(either green, grey or blue), while non-Caucasians develop amber-coloured eyes(this from the primal diet yahoo group). I think that makes sense - last I checked, Caucasians all have greyish-blue eyes at birth.

Re thyroid/DNA:- I would strongly suspect that eating raw animal foods would change to some extent the way your digestive system works, allowing less energy to be focused on digestion, due to extra enzymes in the raw food etc. I'm also sure that DNA/cells etc. would likely be less damaged in old-age, due to RAF foods. However, we'll need another 200 years before we get reliable scientific studies proving this point.

Thyroid-friendly foods include:-

Go in for lots of raw fish/shellfish and perhaps a little seaweed for the iodine. You'll get copper from raw meats and especially raw organ-meats.

HTH,
RPG.