Testimony of 2 years on the Raw Paleo diet
Raw Paleo Diet is the original human diet before agriculture. Raw Paleo Diet is raw fruit, raw vegetables and raw organic/wild fatty animal foods. The theory is that the human body is one of nature’s greatest creations. We are self-healing and always healthy given the original human diet. As a basis for curing most diseases, following a raw paleo diet every day will bring dramatic and sustainable results.
My adventure with the raw paleo diet arose from my desperate search for the cure for everything that ailed me. The challenges of my life always needed a solution. Being trained as an engineer, a computer geek, a problem solver, led me to find definitive solutions or else.
Born in 1969, I grew up like all urban kids on baby formula, drugs, some fast food, lots of cooked food, and following the debunked food pyramid of high and low fat cooked carbs.
As a child I was diagnosed with asthma and doctors prescribed antihistamine medication. When I got cystic acne at age 16, dermatologists bombarded me with steroid injections and creams. Finally, one decided that he should take an experimental drug called Ro-Accutane. We had to go to the pharmaceutical company’s main office and sign a waiver because their drug was experimental and likely to have serious side effects.
In 2004, while visiting the beaches of Boracay, I was bitten by sandflies and suffered for 2 full years from itchy arms and legs. After months of steroid injections and steroid creams, I gave up and let it go and in 2006 the suspected leishmaniasis was gone.
Throughout my life I had folliculitis, I got red spots on my body when I took a shower, I tired easily and passed out with strenuous activity, I had heart burns, left rotation shoulder pain, I was hospitalized for several unknown viral illnesses and had a heart murmur called mitral valve prolapse and became obese at 170 pounds and wore 38″ waist pants.
Beginning with my husband and I’s secondary infertility adventure in 2002, it led us to clean up our diet by cutting out junk food and eliminating anything inedible that got on our skin and throwing out the microwave. And use raw oysters to increase sperm count.
In the same 2002, while trying to conceive, I contracted an unknown viral illness, was hospitalized for 3 days, and then suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome for 1 month. The cardiologist who ordered a series of tests said nothing came of the tests so he wanted to mold my heart by prescribing a heart molding drug called beta blockers but it can kill my erections! This was so unacceptable to my core personality as I only had one child and my life goal was at least 4+. I severely refused drugs and found that simply eliminating all sources of caffeine could cure me in 3 weeks. .
When my second son was born in September 2003, he weighed 170 pounds and weighed 170 pounds. She desperately wanted to lose weight so she could look sexy enough to have more children. I blindly tried to follow a cooked Atkins diet. I then sought out the teachings of a conventional Western medicine nutritionist and she taught me that the way to lose weight was to reduce starches and increase vegetables. I lost weight and maintained about 140 pounds for some time. But he still wasn’t healthy.
In 2003 I developed a small eczema on the lower part of my right leg, it was really itchy, I ignored it. It became fully developed in the middle of 2005. I had a full blown eczema the size of a steak on my right leg, all over my face, ears and left arm. I was a mess, I couldn’t work, I couldn’t go out, the 5 doctors I saw told me I was INCURABLE and that I was going to be like this for the rest of my life.
The incurable diagnosis was unacceptable to me. I was always the open-minded type. No DOGMA was my motto in life. I am an engineer, a problem solver, if these so called “doctors” said that I was incurable, it only meant that they DID NOT KNOW the cure and that their common educational base was wrong. I had to find people who DID KNOW about the cure…NOT DOCTORS, so I drove to a faraway town where there were NO Western doctors, and my real journey of learning about health began with a third generation herbalist named Manang Lorna.
I learned about electromedicine, herbs, and detoxification: kidney cleanses, liver flushes, colon cleanses, and many other cleanses that eliminated my eczema symptoms. Free from eczema symptoms. But I wanted more. I wanted vibrant health. I knew there was more and I wanted to be so healthy that I had to learn more. All the detoxing and no change in diet meant there was no real cure.
In 2007 I came across raw veganism through Dr. Tam Mateo. I tried 2 months of raw veganism in his way, his recipes, his consultation, but I lost too much weight and finally gave up raw veganism. I added cooked meat and rice back to my diet and to gain weight.
So I was ready to fast and tried a 14-day orange juice fast under the tutelage of Barefoot Herbalist MH. It was a revelation. I got rid of addiction to cooked meat and rice. I was ready to try raw fruitarian. And I tried raw fruitarian that only lasted me 2 months. I was losing weight with raw vegan fruits than with raw vegans, plus I was cold and living in a tropical country, in hot Manila at a temperature of 25 to 30 degrees Celsius. What finally caught my attention in stopping fruit craze was when I asked for support as to when my cold feelings would stop. A long time fruit eater said he would take 5 years! That did it, he had to find something else.
I came across Wai Genriiu’s Wai Diet (a form of Raw Paleo diet). It was an easy step from fruitarian to Wai Diet, just add extra virgin olive oil and raw fish sashimi and raw egg yolks to my tropical fruits. bam! Instant feeling of good health! I gained enough weight to be 112 to 120 pounds on the Wai diet. The addition of raw meat to my meat less than 4 months ago was a breath of life for my health.
After 3 months on the Wai diet, I got bored with only seafood, why not try land animals? I ran into Aajonus Vonderplanitz, who talked over and over about the benefits of raw land animals, raw beef, raw chicken, and raw dairy.
I needed some hand holding, some support to get started and found Geoff Purcell (in the UK) at AllExperts.com very accessible. He and Craig Bates started the Raw Paleo Forum, which was very helpful for newbies like me.
I experimented with various raw terrestrial animals with duck, chicken, goat, lamb, frogs and liked organic grass fed raw beef better… the legendary grass fed Batangas beef with delicious yellow fat is true! I experimented with many types of raw goat, cow and carabao dairy and they all failed, I just couldn’t digest dairy, I realized I was lactose intolerant. My belly wasn’t okay with raw green juices either.
Curious about the Homo Optimus Diet involving cooked pork, I did my one month experiment and felt my health was inferior on cooked meat compared to raw meat.
I found that on the raw paleo diet of organic fruits and raw fatty organic animal foods, I never got sick for an entire year. I felt invincible. This was a first for me, and I go on and on every day hoping I don’t get sick. The only times I felt bad were the times I tried to eat a non-raw paleo diet. Also, for the first time I have bicep muscles in my arms and I am a sedentary computer fanatic. God, that thing about eating raw meat will make you gain muscle without doing gym exercises is true.
In 2009 I switched to a high fat, low carb raw paleo diet and found it to be even more comfortable. Gone are the shaky feelings of hunger characterized by hypoglycemia that I thought was normal throughout my life when it comes time for every meal.
The raw paleo diet is the easiest diet I’ve ever followed, although high-quality organic fruit and organic meat are expensive. Raw Paleo Diet is even easier than regular SAD or cooked paleo diet. Being free from the constraints of the kitchen is a dream that must be lived. I seem to have found “home” as the raw paleo diet is so easy even a caveman can do it.
To further increase my access to the best food possible, I moved my company office to Cubao, right next door to my favorite wet market “Farmers Market” for daily fresh produce merchandising.
My diet these days is high in raw fat and low in carbohydrates made up of:
*Low glycemic index organic raw local fruits in season – high vitamin C fruits (guava, papaya, Indian mangoes), moisturizing fruits (watermelon, melon), fatty fruits (durian, coconuts) we follow the seasons
* Raw, fertilized duck eggs flown in from Palawan
*raw grass-fed fatty Batangas beef and sometimes raw goat or raw lamb
* various raw sea foods such as oysters, clams, small and large fish, sea prawns, etc.
* Without supplements. No supplement can match the power of real food.
The paleo raw vegan diet and its variants is healing. My own young children have experienced eating raw paleo diet themselves. When the kids are sick I put them on a paleo raw diet just like mine, they know the cure for their illness is RAW because they experience immediate relief. Kids know who is the healthiest person in the house these days.
By the end of this year 2009 I will have been 2 years on the paleo raw diet and am now a respectable 128lbs with a short height of 5’5″ and a 31″ waist pant size. Always looking forward to reaching new heights of health in the years to come as I continually tweak and tweak. All my health problems have been resolved. It’s only been these 2 years that I’ve felt truly healthy.
Today, at age 40, I look younger, leaner, and stronger than when I was 30. It was with the raw paleo diet that I realized that humans were meant to be healthy, and stay healthy, effortlessly.