Primal Diet by Aajonus Vonderplanitz

Hello all, new here.

I came down with UC in Feb of 2007. I was defecating blood up to thirty times a day. My GI first put me on 3 different types of antibiotics, which made me worse. Then, he put me on 60 mg of prednisone, which worked for a while, but of course fizzled out. I kept researching diet and was determined that diet was the key. I knew this wasn't genetic. Animals don't get these auto-immune disorders.

Anyway, long story short, I discovered the Primal Diet by Aajonus Vonderplanitz. I got his book in the mail from Amazon. It actually took a while, and I had forgotten about ordering it. I laughed at the sight of it because I was at the end of my rope with diets. I tried raw vegan, fruitarian, specific carb, you name it.

Well, the raw meat, raw milk, and raw honey stuff worked. (There's more to it than that, but bear with me.) I had trouble changing my lifestyle completely. I wanted to keep my alcohol, coffee, and tobacco. Over time I knew that if I could just commit to the diet and change my lifestyle the UC would be gone. I eventually did.

I've been alcohol-free since November, 2009. tobacco-free since January, 2010, and on the primal diet since about then 100% I have not bled since about December 2009. My stools are the best in my life. The kind where you wouldn't really have to wipe if you didn't want to.

Anyway, it was hard to make the change because we are all so mentally-conditioned as to what food is and should be, but think about how animals don't have these sicknesses that we do.

Bacteria is GOOD for us. It does not cause disease.

Anyway, I encourage you all to read the books by Aajonus. I swear to God that I don't profit from Aajonus in any way.

I am a brand new member here and I hope I can people here with any questions. There's a lot more to my story but I just wanted to get it out in a nutshell first.

Thank you

I get grass-fed organic beef from Wholefoods.

If it's chicken or pork, you have to get it from a farm you can trust. Don't ever get chicken or pork from the grocery stores, even Whole Foods or so called "organic" friendly stores. They don't know what they're doing. Chicken and eggs should be soy-free. Animals should eat their natural diet. Wild game is actually the healthiest meat you can get usually.

If you get a good source of chicken, you can make it like ceviche. That is, let it marinate in lemon juice for a while and it will take on the texture and appearance of cooked chicken.

Anyway, I pretty much stick to beef and wild fish because it's easy to get. I can get chicken but I have to drive far to get it. I ghet it once in a while.

You can find raw milk here:

http://www.realmilk.com/where.html

So now we got one thread where i am supposed to be swinging from the trees eating my stomach full of bananas and this one where I am supposed to be crawling on all fours and stalking the deer, wild turkeys, or perhaps take a bite out of an otherwise unsuspecting cow.

Talking about the pendulum swinging from one side to the other!

kiolm said...
How about food aversions. Assuming you had them, how did you over come them? And what does your typical day look like food wise?

I thought it was pretty crazy eating raw ground beef for the first time, but I had nothing to lose with how sick I was. Plus, with the honey and butter mixed in, it was darn good.

I always ate pretty rare steaks anyway.

Raw eggs made sense because I had had eggnog before, and cookie dough. Also, old-school bodybuilders drank raw eggs and raw cream all the time.

Also, with the raw milk, My Dad grew up on a farm and said he didn't have pasteurized milk until he was in college.

kiolm said...
How about food aversions. Assuming you had them, how did you over come them? And what does your typical day look like food wise?

My typical day is a little kefir in the morning, then a little bowl (1/2 lb of beef) with a moisturizing shake. -5 tbsp of raw unsalted butter, 1 tbsp raw honey, 3 raw eggs, and the juice of a lemon. It's freakin' good.

I can make milk shakes with raw cream raw eggs and honey. They are very good.

I drink veggie juices to help eliminate heavy metals from my body. The veggie drinks are good too. V8's got nothing on my juice.

If you like cream butter and honey, the diet is awesome.

I like to buy wild tuna once in a while but it can be expensive.

I watched a show once where a man was addicted to eating raw meat. He would eat raw steaks and hamburger 3-4 times a week. He said he felt great but his brother was worried about him. Just to make his brother happy, he went in for testing and found that he had parasites in his body from eating raw meat.

Eating raw meat can be very dangerous.

Red_34 said...
Forgot to mention, I think they even found E.coli in his stool - I think it was E.coli - it's been a while since I watched it.

Every human has E. Coli in their stool.

I would be worried if they didn't find E. Coli in his stool.

It is part of our healthy gut flora.

Red_34 said...
I watched a show once where a man was addicted to eating raw meat. He would eat raw steaks and hamburger 3-4 times a week. He said he felt great but his brother was worried about him. Just to make his brother happy, he went in for testing and found that he had parasites in his body from eating raw meat.

Eating raw meat can be very dangerous.

The only thing I would be worried about is what the rest off his diet looked like and where he was getting his meat.

I don't worry at all about the meat I consume. I know where it comes from.

It is not dangerous what I do.

With all due respect, you should really read the books I am talking about.

There have been way more food-borne illnesses from produce and peanut butter than from meat, and way more from pasteurized dairy than from raw dairy. (believe it or not)

Also, bacteria and parasites have coexisted with humans for a long time. It's when they come into toxic substances and dead tissue where symptoms of sickness occur. When they do occur it is actually a symptom of detox.

The problem is that mainstream medical science took the wrong turn at a fork in the road when it came to following Louis Pasteur or Antoine Béchamp. Bechamp claimed that it was not the germ but the terrain.

Rumor has it that Pasteur admitted this on his deathbed.

In other words, bacteria and parasites only cause problems for us when our bodies have been bombarded with toxins that we need to get rid of, along with dead tissue.

I know it's very hard to accept because it goes against everything we have been taught.

Let me ask you all this though; Do we see any animals in the wild with blood and diarrhea constantly coming out of their butts?

Do wolves and other animals have tooth decay?

Are there animals with multiple sclerosis?

Are any of them suffering from food-borne illnesses? (As we refer to them)

Gavriel said...
Actually, animals DO get auto-immune illness, just like UC. Moreover, it was established a long time ago that there is a genetic component to this illness. So you're wrong on both of those counts. Although possible, we have not yet determined a link between food and this illness, although perhaps there are some relationships that just haven't yet been established.

Your recommendations are completely irresponsible - raw meat? Very dangerous, for reasons already mentioned.

People in third world countries die from diseases we haven't seen in almost a century because of their disgusting unhygienic atmospheres, so I'll pass on looking to the third-world for guidance on how to live. I rather like not suffering from dysentery, tuberculosis, e. coli, and malaria.

Despite all that, I hope you remain symptom-free for many years to come.

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. This principle is, contempt prior to examination." - William Paley (1743-1805)

I would just recommend that you read Aajonus's books. It might make more sense then, if you're open-minded enough.

Gavriel, please share some resources/evidence on auto-immune diseases in wild animals that are not domesticated or in human controlled environments.

Gavriel said...
Do your own homework. I didn't study this stuff in university in order to win arguments with people like you in an online forum. You want to learn? Then go forth and learn.

That's honestly the worst response on a forum I have ever seen.

A quick review of this man, Aajonus Vonderplanitz, reveals that he has absolutely no education or credentials. Even his website is poorly made, as a snake-oil salesman preying on the ignorant and desperate. This is another case of the blind leading the blind, and then challenging the challenger. I had more understanding of biochemistry, nutrition, and metabolism in my senior year of high-school than this man will ever have.