The Primal Diet

Here is an article written by Aajonus — consider it for its purity of logic and common sense.

Let us consider a rational analogy. We build a city (our body) from poor and poisonous materials. The city-dwellers, animals and plants (our cells and microbes) are variously affected. They overproduce waste because they are too weak and lack the resources to maintain a self-sustainable environment. Waste accumulates in the homes, buildings, streets, fields, forests and skies, deteriorating structures and life. We become aware that we built a polluted and rapidly deteriorating, diseased city. How much time does it take to reorganize, renovate, demolish structures, load, transport and bury waste, neutralize poisonous matter, search for and gather nutrients, negotiate, design and restructure or completely rebuild just one building? Consider the Twin Towers; how long will it have taken people to disassemble those buildings, load and haul the debris and waste, redesign and restructure? How long would roads be blocked and/or over-congested? Ten to fifteen years? What degree of inconvenience, pollution and pain will people have to suffer? If people had to completely rebuild New York City, how long would it take? Two hundred years? Our bodies don’t normally sustain a complete instant collapse of its organs, glands or systems as New York City did with the Twin Towers. The body has to take itself apart bit by bit. Bacteria, virus, molds and parasites can help speed the process by consuming the weak or dead cells and degenerative tissue, reducing them to lesser wastes but still the detoxification process is slow with many ill symptoms. As far as my observation of the progression of at least 5,000 people on mainly a raw diet, and according the work of Pottenger and Howell, the human body takes at least 40 years to rebuild itself 5 times to reach optimal health.

When ill symptoms result, it is an indication of detoxification that is beneficial to the cleansing and healing processes. Some symptoms are nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, swelling (bloating), failed appetite, sleeplessness, aches and pains, lethargy, impotence, weight-loss, colds, flu, fever, and even immobility. Swelling occurs during periods when massive toxins inundate the blood, or toxins are discharged from the lymph through skin, and/or increased circulation to increase solvents and nutrients to a toxic or accident-injured area.

Parasites afford us the quickest process of organic detoxification. Parasites can only be a problem if an individual does not readily regenerate cells and replace the tissue consumed by parasites. In such a problem situation, ulcers could result and fester. However, consumption of raw meats prevents ulceration by providing the nutrients necessary for quick regeneration, resulting in the fact that parasites are tremendously beneficial. If an individual eats foods or chemicals that cause destruction and decay, that is degenerative tissue, she or he is susceptible to parasites and bacterial detoxifications. If he or she eliminates destructive foods, such as cooked food, chemicals and pollution, he or she will prevent adding to the problems that make parasites and microbial detoxifications necessary.

We must acknowledge that some people who eat cooked food appear and feel healthy because they utilize cooked food better than most people. Many people, especially our youth, who eat cooked food progressively deteriorate but do not realize it because they have great energy produced by overactive glands. This means they have an over-abundance of hormones. Those hormones are often utilized to replace destroyed nutrients in cooked food, to stimulate their energy levels, and stop ill-symptoms but without eliminating disease. Many of those people’s glands become too toxic and/or hardened later in life, and/or become fatigued. Most often they do not realize their diseased states until it is too late to reverse ill-conditions easily. At that late stage, their glands don’t produce enough hormones to carry on normal bodily functions much less utilize hormones as replacements for destroyed nutrients.

The fact that symptoms often stop for periods when eating partially cooked diets does not indicate that the person is moving toward optimal health. It often simply means that the body uses its available nutrients and energy leeching and replacing nutrients and detoxifying the toxins created by the cooked portion of the diet in the digestive tract and blood. It is often true that there are not enough nutrients and energy left to detoxify toxins stored in the tissues from early ill life-styles.

We must measure which is the greater risk. Is it riskier to eat raw food, get healthier and chance detoxification-symptoms? Or is it riskier to eat cooked and processed food, develop deficiencies, collect toxicity including chemicals, and develop disease and still experience some or a lot of detoxification and disease?

Because we are constantly in accelerated detoxification, due to our toxic life-styles, resulting in our ill-conditions, our blood tends to be too acidic in waste compounds. This acidic condition of the blood often causes compulsive cravings, sometimes for too much fruit and cooked starches, lethargy, irritability, repulsion toward acidic foods such as meats, and anorexia. Drinking green vegetable juices 2-4 times a day, but not in combination with other food, helps to neutralize the acid compounds in the blood without alkalinizing the intestines, and most often eliminates the over-acidic symptoms. Drinking green vegetable juice daily ensures that enzymes, vitamins and minerals lost because of deficient soils, lost from field to dinner-plate, and leeched from our bodies from years of eating cooked foods are replaced.

I experienced that neurological detoxifications usually interfere with sleep between 12:30 – 5:30 a.m. If a person experiencing insomnia expects to acquire restful sleep, especially during those hours, she or he will be disappointed, frustrated and experience more fatigue and many other symptoms. Often neurological detoxifications involve concentrations of free-radicals, including mercury.