Primal Diet / Raw Meat - ask me anything

[Arete]

In this thread I would like to introduce the Primal Diet by Aajonus Vonderplanitz.

This diet is nothing for the faint of heart and can be considered the final boss of nutrition.

In short, it's about eating everything raw, including raw meat, raw fish, raw eggs, and raw dairy.

I have been on this diet consistently for 3 months now with the original intent of debunking it. But instead

• physique gains and strength gains that are almost as rapid as roids.
• Life-long health issues vanishing like miracles are everyday occurrences.
• better appearance and skin, like using makeup (even as a man)
• a youthful appearance, I can pass as 20 while being 28 at the time of writing
• a jawline that makes me marvel at my own mirror image

Note I'm having experience with most famous diets, including veganism, vegetarianism, fruitarianism, paleo, and keto.

Also note, if you are on a very bad diet, this diet will give you (at the start) severe side effects. Absolutely don't jump in 100% if you regularly eat McDonald's and drink cola, or you might actually even die.

To give you a baseline. I was eating garbage regularly till age 20. After that I was eating relatively clean till 25. And after that I locked in. Meaning I was eating VERY clean for 3 years before starting this. I had zero side effects whatsoever.

The reason why I'm still mentioning the risk is for safety reasons, because some people tend to overdo it if something works.

I encourage you to do your own experiments and see for yourself. For starters this could be something as simple as eating 5 raw eggs in the morning, like in that Rocky movie.

Now, of course, everyone will be saying this is utterly insane nonsense. "But science says XYZ!"

I can relate; no hard feelings. I don't have "scientific" proof that doesn't already have a hundred "counter proofs" in place. What I will do is simply answer questions if anyone is genuinely interested.

However, I won't reply to people insisting I'm insane, because it's not like I'm getting payed for this.

 

[Bible_Belt]

There is evidence to indicate early humans used decomposition and not fire to prepare meat. They would bury a kill as they travelled and then come back and dig it up later to eat. Cooking food as a concept may have been invented in order to make carbohydrates more digestible.

With eggs and dairy, the contamination comes from the outside. Wash the egg shell carefully before you crack it. And with raw milk, you just have to trust the farmer to be clean. When cows sh1t, some splashes on their udders. That's what makes people sick from raw milk, not the milk itself. But if you clean off the cow before milking it, like people did for all of human agricultural history before everything was done by machines, raw milk isn't dangerous.

And with meat, a lot can be done with acidity. I saw locals in the Caribbean use lime juice as a sterilizer. They wouldn't wash a knife or chopping board when going from raw meat to fresh vegetables. I think your biggest challenge would be wild meat that is likely contaminated with parasites. They can be killed, but some are very hard to get rid of without cooking.

 

[Arete]

There is evidence to indicate early humans used decomposition and not fire to prepare meat. They would bury a kill as they travelled and then come back and dig it up later to eat. Cooking food as a concept may have been invented in order to make carbohydrates more digestible.

Carbohydrates are fully avoided on this diet. The exceptions are mainly raw unheated honey. If carbohydrates such as potatoes, wheat or rice are prepared, they have to be heated thoroughly. That's the only exception to eating everything raw. Fruits should be strongly limited. In mainstream science terms, because of AGEs (Advanced Glycation End Products). Does exactly what it sounds like.

With eggs and dairy, the contamination comes from the outside. Wash the egg shell carefully before you crack it. And with raw milk, you just have to trust the farmer to be clean. When cows sh1t, some splashes on their udders. That's what makes people sick from raw milk, not the milk itself. But if you clean off the cow before milking it, like people did for all of human agricultural history before everything was done by machines, raw milk isn't dangerous.

That's where it gets controversial. In this diet, it is believed bacteria are not the cause of disease but the cure. They are the janitor in the human body. Humans get sick because of toxins from our modern environment. For example, if you manually wash your car you might get a light "cold" 2-3 days afterwards.

And yes, raw milk isn't dangerous. I've had lactose intolerance since about age 20. It actually started to revert slowly on raw milk. The assumption in this diet is that boiled dairy causes intolerances. It's yet too early for me to tell for sure. But I'm starting to see indications of it.

Germ theory vs Terrain theory

And with meat, a lot can be done with acidity. I saw locals in the Caribbean use lime juice as a sterilizer. They wouldn't wash a knife or chopping board when going from raw meat to fresh vegetables. I think your biggest challenge would be wild meat that is likely contaminated with parasites. They can be killed, but some are very hard to get rid of without cooking.

What I can say is, I ate wild meat fully raw. Including raw boar, which in my country is believed to be a death sentence. I have been doing this regularly for a few weeks. As I was saying, I truly tried to debunk this. I actively tried to get diarrhea or stomachache ... anything.

But nothing happened. Instead, I continued to feel better than ever by the week. My health baseline continuously increasing.

To me, this is absolutely mind-blowing, because apparently, bacteria indeed doesn't make you sick. And as far as I can tell, parasites also seem to be either fearmongering and don't exist or are simply digested by stomach fluids.