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 Hi Tyler..Can you please post this question on the raw paleo forum as I am yet to become a member and cannot post. You do not have to post it on this site or e-mail me back. I will check for your posting on the "Raw Paleo Forum" as I have been following your posts daily. Is it safe or beneficial to eat dirt to repopulate a severely damaged leaky gut with living fresh dirt? Has anyone done this? Wouldn't this be far better than store bought probiotics? Can others please give thier opinions on this?
Answer If you don't mind, I'd also like to answer this question here, so others who don't frequent the raw forums can read this too:-
Dirt-eating has been a key aspect of some tribes:-
However, it should be noted that it's not "dirt" as such that they look for but edible clay-rich soil. It would be better for you to just buy any edible clay on the market as long as it's guaranteed not to be heated, in any way at all("sun-dried" edible french green clay is what I buy). I think(?) Aajonus recommmends against bentonite clay or is that azomite clay? Anyway, french-green clay is fine. I used to have 1 teasponnful a day(mixed with alkaline mineral-water), now I only have a table-spoonful of clay once a month, or so.
The clay is more useful re killing bad bacteria than repopulating the gut with bacteria, as such. Certainly, store-bought antibiotics are largely useless as they invariably contain far too few bacteria and generally of the wrong kind(lactobacillus? etc.). You'd be better off getting hold of "EM"/Effective Microorganisms products,
if you're new to raw diets. "High-meat" is also an option, but really only once you've done 1 or 2 years on a raw animal food diet and are fuly used to the whole raw diet.
When I first started the diet, I did things slowly, starting with meats slightly aged for a couple of days (this wasn't just for the slight increase in bacterial-content, but also to soften them and save my teeth as they had become extremely weakened due to past dairy-consumption. The myth that dairy builds strong bones and teeth is one of the biggest urban legends of the past century).
Re leaky gut:- Obviously, don't touch raw dairy or fermented grains or foods with chemicals, alcohol etc..
HTH,
RPG.
