Not a forum but a website that ventures into some areas that I have found to be essential for good health. If it turns you off that they sell products, ignore that and focus on the topics addressed. I am finding that they have dramatic effects on health. I'm scientifically oriented and for so many years have been trying to get a good understanding of what the body needs for good health and why I have not been able to attain it. And I have tried every dietary approach that made sense in any way. For me, it hasn't been as simple as food. I haven't been able to get to excellent health and vitality with food alone so far, although it has brought me a long way. This site has interesting and relevant topics on what contributes to health and disease. The orientation of this site is vegan, but what I consider the good information involves quantum physics, cellular biology, commensal cells, understanding the value of fermented foods and probiotics, etc. I don't want to give any sales pitches, but I will say that I have had amazing results since I have been using a stress shield, a scalar device based on the work of Tesla. This tells me that it may be necessary to consider the issue of electromagnetic pollution in our efforts to get healthy (among other things). The site is be beyondrawfood.com. 

Sorry, that comment posted itself while I was in the middle of writing it. To continue, she now makes other sounds. One of the first was "sshh". Her mother said she used to make that sound but hadn't in years. Then she started to make word-like sounds. Not clear words that we can understand, but they definitely sound like speaking. The last time I was with her she said "da da da da da da". This may not sound like much, but for her mother, it was a very emotional moment. She hadn't made that kind of babbling sound since she was 2 years old. She also began giving hugs, a behavior that had disappeared years ago. Because she has 6 different caregivers (she needs someone attending to her from the moment she wakes up until she goes to sleep) the program has not been strict because some of the caregivers give her "illegal things" or microwave her food (not allowed). We are trying to get everyone to follow the program. This is my first experience with an autistic child and it will be interesting to see where this goes, but we are already seeing some changes in autistic symptoms. These are not symptoms of digestion or mood. 

#3 - She contributed zapper plans for the world.  Open source.  Many have improved it.  It works.  Yes really.  This has saved my then 3 year old girl from some kind of encephalitis on her nape / neck where she was in pain for 3 days and no chiropractor ever healed her neck.  But just 1 hour of zapping cured her.

goodsamaritan, what kind of zapper did you use? There are a couple of different versions from Hulda Clark as well as some others. I have 2 different kinds. Did the one you used have copper bars?

I haven't tried ground lamb. I have tried sushi. I did get it down but it wasn't pleasing. Have tried steak tartare and the taste wasn't so bad - it was the texture and the amount of chewing it took to get it down. I was actually doing ceviche successfully (didn't really like it but thought it would work) for a few weeks and then just couldn't stand the sight of it. Drinking it has been the easy way for me because it's over so quickly. Maybe I'll get to a point where it's appealing. Just don't know yet. Thanks for the tips. I do have the Nourishing Traditions Cookbook. I haven't tried any of the raw meat recipes yet, but I'll look them over. Maybe something will look good. I know there are several factors involved. It's partly psychological, partly not what I'm used to, but also it just doesn't taste good. What really tastes good to me are cherimoyas, watermelons, cherries, nectarines. When I eat those foods I'm experiencing "this is the food of the gods". But the next morning I wake up feeling like I have the worst hangover. With raw flesh and fat, I wake up feeling good. I really hope I'll enjoy them some day.

My son doesn't eat his salmon raw. I cook it on very low heat until it's just barely cooked. The rest of his diet is very healthy for a teenager. Grassfed beef, farm fresh eggs (from chickens that actually run wild on the farm), everything else is organic and made from scratch. A little fruit but not a lot. No grains. He occasionally eats junk food at friends' houses (all their food is junk), but as long as he eats mostly at home he's okay. Thanks for the tip on the clay. I'll check into it. I do eat (actually drink) the salmon raw. I can't chew and swallow animal products (too repulsive) so I get them down this way: Blend them in the Vitamix with water and lemon juice just to the point where there are no chunks (it needs it be watery, not thick). Drink it down quickly while I hold my nose and repeat in my mind "tropical shake, tropical shake". Then, still holding my nose, I swish my mouth out and put a piece of lemon in and chew. Only then do I let go of my nose. At first I was also concerned about mercury, PCB, other pollutants in fish. Check out what the guy on The Daily Seafood Diet has to say about that issue. I agree with him. At this point, all our food is polluted. I would rather be consuming the fish and feeling good, than avoiding fish and suffering. I am very wary of heavy metal chelation products, as I was using them when I had the psychotic episode. I've never had any kind of problem with any raw flesh that I've consumed, but I choose my sources carefully. No grocery store flesh. If you're trying to help your brother or someone who won't eat fish or healthy food, you could try soups made with fish broth, or try a natural trace mineral supplement such as the clay. I have used a similar product called ConcenTrace. The SCD diet is also worth looking into (similar to GAPS). Unfortunaley, it takes so much dedication to recover (and I mean restore good health) from a serious psychiatric illness, it's probably not possible to help someone who isn't cooperative. I didn't do well on the fruit. Consuming the flesh foods raw without salt and eating lots of raw butter without salt keeps me from craving fruit. One more thought if trying to help a family member. The Homo Optimus Diet may be helpful and may be more acceptable to the average person.

After several months on the GAPS program (with the seafood), I was down to 3 medications and my mood felt normal most of the time, but there were times during the day when mild depression symptoms set in. The GAPS diet allows fruit and some honey, but in time I could see that these foods were a problem for me. I started researching low carb diets. I had tried a high protein diet in the past and didn't feel well on it. I did some research on high fat diets and ordered the Homo Optimus book. The reported results were certainly impressive. I take the approach that I won't know how successful a diet will be until I try it. The Homo Optimus diet is based on a specific ratio of protein to fats to carbs. I don't embrace the entire approach as the doctor thinks all foods are best eaten fried and pork is the best food for humans. He does use milk products, but I see the main point to the diet as being the ratio of the macronutrients. This is a high animal fat, adequate animal protein, low carb diet. Within 2 weeks on this diet (a seafood, GAPs, Homo Optimus combination), a severe skin problem that I have battled since I was 12 was completely healed. I was eating about 80% - 90% raw, but this week started 100% raw. I'll see how that goes. Grassfed beef bone marrow and suet (as well as fatty pork products) are available by mail order. You can eat high animal fat without milk products. Another aspect of the Homo Optimus Diet that I have found to be excellent is its emphasis on organ meats. I have experienced immediate changes in my feelings of well being after eating liver. As I do myself, I would encourage you to try approaches that make sense or look promising to you. Also, if they have worked for others, they might work for you. If not, make adjustments or try something else. The theory is only useful if it brings results.

The first thing I tried with my children and myself was the Daily Seafood Diet. I came upon the site when I was desperately searching for something to help with my depression during a very bad time. Every day was torture. I've had problems with depression for 20 years (3 episodes of severe postpartum, and then a chronic depression which came and went and was mild to moderate). Then, at the age of 48, I had an episode of psychosis. I was told it was very rare for someone of that age with no history. That changed my diagnosis to bipolar, but the psychotic episode lasted only a few weeks. It was then followed by a very severe depression which I was battling for over a year. I was hospitalized 3 times. Searching under "natural cure for bipolar disorder" I came upon a site with the story of a man who was bipolar, started the Daily Seafood Diet, and within 5 months was off meds and had been doing well for a year. The theory behind that diet is that there are 72+ trace minerals that are necessary for our cells to function properly and which are no longer in our soils. Foods from the ocean are the only sure source of them. At that time my son was unable to attend school because of a severe episode of depression/anxiety, and all 3 of my daughters were experiencing some level of chronic depression. The trace mineral theory sounded plausible so we started that day. We all felt a definite improvement within a few months, and after 5 months or so my son was feeling completely normal. I quickly tapered him off the meds (3 different meds) and he was fine. He started the next school year a happy, healthy kid. (At that time, the rest of our diet was whole organic foods including grains and grassfed beef). For him, the seafood is the key. Going into the 2nd semester of school, he stopped eating the fish after a month of fighting me about it. He was convinced the fish had nothing to do with how he was feeling. I stopped battling him and decided to see what would happen. Within 5 weeks or so weeks his symptoms were coming back, he was missing a lot of school, and his grades had dropped to mostly Fs. He decided to accept the seafood diet, and within another 4 to 5 weeks he was attending school regularly and was bringing up his grades. He now eats wild salmon every day and is healthy and happy. I've removed grains from our diet, but he does drink raw goat's milk and eats butter. He eats fish, meat, and eggs lightly cooked and sometimes raw. Also fruits and vegetables keeping his carbs under 100 grams. 

I always blend up raw flesh - fish, organ meats, muscle meats, etc. With raw egg yolks, I stir them in a glass with lemon and water and do the nose holding routine, or sometimes just swallow the egg yolks whole. A typical day includes a fish shake (I consume fish every day) followed by 1 tsp of raw, fermented cod liver oil. I drink one other shake that is often a combo of muscle and organ meat (rotating the organs), but sometimes just one or the other. Some days I have the egg yolks and some days not, depending on my hunger. I aim for a high fat/adequate protein/low carb diet, so I eat a lot of fat. It's difficult for me to eat raw animal fat plain, so I make a hearty, fatty bone/vegetable broth and then stir in raw bone marrow and/or raw butter when it's still warm enough to lightly melt it, but not (hopefully) cook it. I'm going to try suet, but haven't felt that motivated to order some yet. Most days I eat a salad of lettuce, cucumber, and celery (or some other low carb veggies) with olive oil, lemon and spices. Some days I just snack on plain raw veggies. I drink homemade beet kvaas (which I love), or eat homemade pickles or homemade sauerkraut (for probiotics). Most days, I lightly steam some vegetables and eat them with lots of raw butter (this makes it easier to eat a lot of fat). I find that eating a high fat (as opposed to high protein) is very satiating and eliminates my desire for sweet and/or starchy foods.

I have eaten raw kidneys. They have a bit of a smokey flavor. Actually though, I drink the raw kidneys, and the raw liver, the raw fish, the raw meat, and the raw eggs. Eating raw, highest quality fish and animal products has improved my health dramatically, completely eliminating some issues I've had for decades, so I know they are good for my body. But I could not possibly chew and swallow any of them. I'm aware of the idea that the body will tell us what it needs and that foods that are good for us will taste good. Well, all raw animal products taste bad to me. Repulsive. (Except milk products.) My solution: Put them in the Vitamix with water and the juice of a lemon. (I can't get the "shake" down if it's too thick, so I need to add enough water to make it easily drinkable.) I blend minimally, just long enough to get it to a drinkable state. I hold my nose with one hand and the glass with the other. I drink quickly. When it's down, still holding my nose, I rinse my mouth with water. Then I pop a slice of lemon in my mouth and chew. Only then do I let go of my nose. It's fast, it's easy, and it works for me. I thought I might not receive the health benefits if I blended the food up in a powerful blender, but that has not been the case. 

I have no experience with kidney disease, but do have experience with liver problems (Test results showed high liver function which an M.D. explained to me as liver cells were dying at a faster rate than my body was replacing them. I have no idea if that was an accurate explanation.) I had read and heard from many naturopathic type doctors that eating an organ provides specific nutrients needed by that organ. In other words, if you have liver disease, eat liver. If you have kidney disease, eat kidney. I did eat lots of raw grassfed beef liver, and immediately many of my health issues started to improve, little by little. The quality of the liver is key. I started eating liver I had shipped from a rancher in South Dakota who's steer eat nothing but native grasses and he puts up his own grasses for winter feeding. The liver looked so healthy and rich and from the first time I ate it I could feel a slight positive shift in my body. I had about 8 lbs of it and I kept eating it several times a week until it was gone. Amazing improvements in some health issues. Then I ran out and bought some from another supplier of "grassfed" beef. It was much more pale, didn't taste the same, and didn't give me the same results. The cost was less, but it wasn't worth it. Maybe some top quality kidney could help your kidney to heal.

I have had a skin condition on my hands and on my scalp for 35 years. Severe itching, breaking out in little or big bumps with lots of inflammation that would ooze and then scab over and peel off with the whole cycle going round and round. Different doctors gave it different names and prescribed different creams. It has basically been a never ending battle. Antifungal creams seemed to help a little, so it may have been a yeast. It was just about 6 weeks ago that it all miraculously cleared up within a week. That was when I cut fruit completely out of my diet. I had already eliminated grains, beans, starchy vegetables, and milk products (other than butter), but was still eating fruit. My diet is made up of these foods: wildcaught ocean fish, truly free range fertile chicken eggs from a local farm (I see them running all around when I go to the farm), grassfed beef with the fat, grassfed organ meats a few times a week, raw bone marrow, non-starchy vegetables, a few nuts once in awhile, raw butter from grassfed cows, and a little olive oil. I now eat a sufficient protein, high fat, low carb diet. The change I made that cleared up my skin was the elimination of fruit. On a few different occasions I have tried to sneak in a few plums off my tree or a handfull of berries. I paid the price immediately. Within 30 minutes - itching, bumps, the whole thing. I don't know if what I had was eczema, but cutting out fruit may be worth a try.

Very interesting observations and comments on the issue of physiology and how ancestry is connected to the proper diet. My daughter is strawberry blonde with very pale skin (doesn't tan at all, just gets pink), and blue eyes. Her dad is a redhead of Celtic ancestry with the same kind of skin. I have blonde hair and blue eyes, but I do tan. My ancestry is mostly German and we do have several redheads in the extended family.