Barefoot, good for you. I read of a doctor claiming that if we all got our magnesium, hospitals would be emptied.
I make ionized magnesium water- instructions easily found on the net. If consists of club soda and Milk of Magnesium. I have read that Magnesium Chloride is the best form for taking internally and externally, as a body rub that is absorbed. Magnesium is the great regulator of the electrolyte family (sodium, potassium, Magnesium, calcium and phosphorous). However, one can only store so much and the excess is evacuated via the bowels,  though it might also be reabsorbed if the BM is not stupendous. (The other electrolytes are then best regulated when magnesium is readily available.)
Vitamin C is stored in the linings of the stomach and intestines but an excess (in double digit grams) has the same effect loosening the bowls; so I wonder if magnesium isn't to a degree also stored in those linings.

Magnesium needs to be taken throughout the day so a pocketful of weaker tablets might be advised, a bottle of the MoM Club Soda water always on hand or Magnesium Chloride rub from a small bottle.
Recipe for ionized MoM concentrate. Chill MoM & 2L quality Soda Water. Add 90ml MoM. Cap and shake 30 seconds. Refrigerate half hour+. Re-shake. Bottle should collapse as magnesium ionizes.
MoM drink. Add 100ml concentrate to 1L/1quart water. Sip throughout day. If bowel evacuation becomes a prob, add less concentrate. I also add 100g (3.5 oz) cranberry concentrate or black cherry juice, lemon juice, stevia or Xylitol and 1/2 tsp baking soda which also helps the body with CO2, though I don't drink within two and a half hour after a meal so as not to compete with acids needed for digestion. We don't think of CO2 as being important (some governments have declared it a toxic poison) but our stomachs work hard to make it and all life is dependant upon it. It also helps alkalizing the body.
You are protecting your heart with the regulatory magic of magnesium, preventing and clearing out calcification, calming your nervous system and I suspect your heavy perspiration might improve. Test your handwriting before and after taking magnesium. Some are so attuned to their need for magnesium they sense when they are deficient. Sensing is an acquired skill, especially in these times of highly commercialized processing of foods.

Are you constantly thirsty?
When I was around your age I lived in the tropics and I was often thirsty and sweated profusely. I couldn't get enough water. Then one day a local shop keeper must have recognized my dilemma and added salt to my lime drink. I was too thirsty to send it back and upon drinking it, my thirst was quenched. You might also be an O blood type and a higher fat, low carb regime might be in line. Experiment on your own personal laboratory (your body). Continue to listen wisely to the signals your body sends, Barefoot, and you will do well.

My mum was rushed by ambulance to emergency in 1972. She had a severe potassium deficiency and made three more emergency trips before I learned about magnesium's regulatory importance. She lived twenty-two years hospital emergency free using magnesium until she was being assessed in a hospital setting for independent living. She was not allowed to bring her magnesium with her and died three days later from heart stress. The importance of the great regulator cannot be over stressed.

Another possibility, Joe, is to make liver pâté. My first adventure was quite runny. I have some very dry beef gelatine I make from beef bones but I don't' want to eat anything cooked just yet so I don't' have a tested recipe yet.

Crazy comes in all forms. What I get when I eat raw is a sense of the spiritual and I take a moment to appreciate the sacrifice and thank the animal's spirit. I never felt that over chomping on a peach. But there I am, off topic as usual.

So here's my thoughts on arguing with one of your nutty commenters.

Really, every animal kind, herbivores as well, eat primal raw. The difference is that herbivores farm their little critters called bacteria, billions of them, in one of their stomach compartments and then digest them as amino and fatty acids much as we do; at least that is how I have come to understand it. Cellulose is bacteria grub.

So, if eating primal is a criminal act I'm just trying to imagine what a bovine scaffold would look like—the slope of the rise, the hole? How large would it have to be? You wouldn't want Bessy knocking her head on the down. The strength of the rope? Pretty thick to make a flexible noose. Would the beast be blindfolded. That's what is traditional to the murderer.

And these vegan are no better killing all those plants to eat. The screaming of plants when they are cut is awful! There were studies in the sixties or seventies. And their neighbours joined in chorus, probably in fear they they might be next.

I think silly talk deserves reciprocity in kind. I would expect to be invited  to the debate. I'll bring my cow bell.

DBoss, raw beef liver (not calf)  was the raw food I started with. I figured if I could get that down, anything else  would be a song. I slivered it and did the water drink. That was wretched as the water carried the smell and flavour to every molecule of my body.

Then I tried the following: The liver was slightly frozen and easy to cut so I cut it into double match stick widths, single wide, about an inch in length. I patted off the blood and moisture. I then gave it a splash of Vietnamese fish sauce, Bragg's Apple Cider Vinegar (or try Japanese vinegar), garlic chilli (or pepper). I now prefer the Japanese vinegar over the sweetness of Bragg's concoction. I now seem to be liking my food less sweet and far less salty. I'm working towards salt free in most of my meals.

Do not look at it before you eat it. This is the only food I now eat with a fork. Think pickles because that was the texture to me, so slight in crunch. This is now my favourite way of eating raw liver. Also, lamb's liver seems to be milder but I have been told that it is not as nutritious. Don't know about that.

(I loved cooked liver all my life so I didn't come to this with as much prejudice as liver haters might.) If you like sesame oil, the dark flavoured kind used in Chinese cooking, a drop of that might also be worth a try.

Thoth, Aajonus walked into an ambush, however it was to go. We have no idea what went on before the show but I wouldn't be surprised if some shenanigans and motive or agenda didn't happen to set him off his guard. We both would agree, I suspect, that those Treaters of Symptoms would have no regard for whatever he had to say.  Notice the condescending comments from the tall blond MD to him at the end.

I would hope in future that Aajonus picks his forums more carefully or at least goes with support. I suspect he is an man of emotion (I don't mean that as a disparagement) and he became nervous.

But Aajonus is a worthy warrior and towers over snivelling Ornish - no offence meant to snivellers.

When I saw Mr Vonderplanitz on The Doctors I did not at first catch his name. My impression was that he came across as a bit of a nut, for he seemed to lack common sense and seemed, at times, to be out of control. What went on before the show in consultation with the Doctors or their representative, may have affected his behaviour. But surely he must have been aware of what he was walking into and of the very real possibility of a planned agenda that was not in his best interests.

His actions and his statements surprised me, and I was familiar with the idea of raw eating. To choose chicken as the meat to eat in front of an audience who would be repulsed by the thought much less at the sight of the act, was a blatant challenge to those conventional doctors, their agenda aside, who would have no choice but to take him to task. Such could be seen as insanity. He practically asked for and definitely dared the responses he got and he should have been aware that reality shows have to impact their audiences to keep up their ratings. Such purport to be in the interest of information, but showmanship for audience reaction always trumps good reporting.

To come out to that audience, that most likely supports heroic medicine, with the statement about bacteria theory was the final nail to his coffin. Not having a quick response to the concerns over a newborn's health was the final shove into burial with an audience made up of mothers.  In an audience that size, and to a huge home and YouTube audience as well, there must be some who gravitate towards cooked meat and fat. Those were the ones who might be interested to search out the raw diet. Now possibly many will be less inclined to do so. For all those who got turned on to this life style by Aajonus, what multiplier might it be that are turned off by the appearance of fanaticism.

Poor judgement is where his crime sits. The movement is bigger than Aajonus. There are many in every movement that are left for dead along the journey to acceptance, many not by their own accord; and should Aajonus be such a casualty, then some of the blame rests on his poor judgement.

However, it is our duty to learn the truth and share the facts with naysayers as best we can. But we are not without resources. Fortunately, we have the mouth (and that face, the hair, those eyes) of Dean Ornish on our side in any debate with the fanatic vegan. It has been reported that his studies cannot be duplicated, which is a little tricky in the field of science.

No many how many decades I'm at it, the more I learn, the more I realize how vast the horizon.   

So true, Dorothy. When I was younger there where times when I thought there wasn't much more to learn, but such silly presumptions passed pretty quickly.

Now a miracle has happened that just shows how much there is to learn and experience. I have had a banjaxed hip for half my life. The pain has, at times been excruciating, almost to tears as how I would suffer trying to get it out of that old Beretta, so low slung, I suffered with at the turn of the century. Then I went on Dr D'Adamo's blood type diet and  gave up any scent of wheat. Shortly I was able to walk without pain and my mobility improved continuously over a nine month period.

But I was never completely free of pain. That was in 2000ish. Now I have been on a mostly raw diet for about three weeks, and the past week or so I have been so free of pain for the first times since I did the damage in or around 1981, that I have been morosely waiting for it to return. Then yesterday, my brother & cousin were in from Edmonton and came to sport me to a meal. I acquiesced at the mention of sushi. We got Bento boxed lunches which were not raw, though we added (Japanese fancy name for) raw farmed salmon.

Within the hour my pain was back as I was hobbling along in a huge mall to the Apple Store — no joy. And gas, if I could have bagged that stuff we could have motored home on it. First time since early January when I first started my quest with a ketogenic diet (after seeing "First Do No Harm" avec the great Meryl Steep).
By evening time the pain was gone and today I wasn't quite able to add jogging to my walks but the pain was again made myth.

I don't think it is an exaggeration to say that over the past three weeks I have shucked five years of perpetual tiredness. What lies ahead brings a broad grin to my being. I am going to read again, "My Side of the Mountain" my all time favourite childhood book just to revel in the joys of youth I feel in my bones.

Have done some great reads on Paleo in the news. It's really taking off. Here's an interesting one from the Vancouver Sun—look for blather from a nut called Jenkins. Naysayers brought Galileo down and they're raging amongst us still. Time to get out the stake and kindling.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/12/30/caveman-diet-is-it-healthy-option/?test=faces

you should try martial arts

also maybe some of these exercises taht i do will help

Awesome video's Sully. The perfect way to work out. Have you checked out Doug McGuff's The 21 Convention for men
http://www.the21convention.com/2011/03/05/doug-mcguff-t21c-2010/

Shows the science behind what you do in your videos is a better way to exercise for health, endurance, muscle and skill building.

Healthy fresh organic beef or better yet calf liver is one of those ultra high nutrition foods out there.  We are talking B12 vitamin content to the max over and above any muscle meat.  We are talking about anemia cure, cancer cure, malnutrition cures, you name it, raw calf liver is the tops.

When I asked a butcher for calve's liver he claimed it wasn't used anymore and suggested lamb's liver instead. Said it was milder and I found that to be true.

goodsamaritan, your bit on this subject has inspired me.

I have a blood disorder of sorts that no one has quite figured out. Since childhood cuts have always taken a long time to clot and stop bleeding. My red blood cells are immature and malformed. I am always borderline anaemic but not so much that any doctor has volunteered the fact- or some did and it didn't make an impression. I only found out when I was moving back to Alberta and an old time doctor printed out all my specs to give to my new doctor at which point he then mentioned the borderline anaemia. I think I had heard about the malformed cells years ago but being young I didn't think anything more about it. I have always eaten a good portion of red meat so iron shouldn't be a factor though my iron is low, as far as I can remember. I will have to check with my doctor next visit.

I suspect I have always been slightly lethargic or at least have low stamina but I believe I have always pushed myself to compensate. I always blamed it on smoking and my weight or lack of exercise. Changing all three has not improved my stamina. Now that I am classified as elderly, 61, I find it harder to make do on such low energy.

I wonder if my poor memory could be due to this problem, too.

I am gong to try to eat an ounce or two of raw liver a day for the next few weeks and then visit my doctor to see about blood tests again. At this point, half my daily calories are from raw beef tallow and meat  and I have just started to add raw celery juice and pulp and more greens will follow. By the end of the month I am hoping to be eating 100% raw. I do so enjoy it.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I just noticed this is under culinary creations so it might not get the traction and support I may need.

Namaste,
mhikl

Hey goodsamaritan,

I'm in the process of watching the documentary. A friend's father was found to have Pancreatic cancer in December 2011. He is just finishing his radiation & chemo treatments and his liver has just been discovered to have growths. Once in the liver it sounds like that will lead the it entering the blood. It was for this reason I searched and came upon the documentary.

It takes time, will and effort to set up the scenarios to good health—exercise, sunlight, mental attitude and diet are the first four of the five efforts. The only concern I have, so far, is that the film seems to suggest, and the pdf on diet that came with the download presents a total vegan diet most of which seems to be raw. Raw I like but even low starch veg is sugar, though complex of course. I would think the better diet would be raw paleo, moderate on protein, heavy on healthy animal fats with some low carb veggies of all colours both raw and possibly pre-frozen or lightly cooked prior to eating . "Give the bugger cells as little sugar as possible", I would say, seems a better alternative.

I will post back once I have finished viewing it. But I am of the belief that cancer can be beaten, the body healed. I have read about spontaneous cancer remission and self-annihilation. I'm just a little queasy with the aspect of a carb diet.

This may sound out of the ball park but it's a worthy possibility.

I can't remember how I found out about Dr Sarno, a back surgeon, but I wore out his book, Healing Back Pain. He went on to write The Mindbody Prescription and authored with others The Divided Mind.

He postulates that some part of the ancient brain strives to protect us from dangers in our world, from the smallest and most insignificant stress of a regular chore to do, to major life catastrophes. The protector is like the child in us and we need to calm him/her, let the child protector know s/he is to go to sleep and you will take care of things from now on.

The first two books are the easiest to follow, I think. The second delves into more psychosomatic pains and tensions beyond muscle pains. Healing Back Pain, however, does strive beyond the matter of his training. He calls the syndrome TMS, tension myositis syndrome though he now refers to it as tension myoneural syndrome which includes all body parts that have blood flow, such as bones, muscles, nerves and tendons. He suspects that many modern disorders, such as fibromyalgia, carpal tunnel syndrome, IBS, disk hernias have TMS origins.

I have been able to extinguish IBS, the sense of a piano cord being pulled between two smaller toes, back pains in many shifting regions, headaches, crawly skin, tennis elbow to a name a few. The problem with clearing up such psychosomatic irritants is that another often arises to take its place. One must be vigilant and wary of every pain and problem that arises.

The trick to solving all this is to take regular time to talk to the protector, calming, assuring and putting the child to rest and by recognising that the irritant is not real though the pain is real and due to a reduced blood flow induced by the brain to the area of the pain. Attending to the pain may alleviate some of the simp tons but really serves to reinforce the powers in the mind.

Those who do not suffer such stresses may fail to understand this problem in others. Many with a problem or problems also disregard any psychosomatic possibilities and accept what the power holder say and so avoid the confrontation and effort needed to bring solace to their little protector. I believe Albert Ellis, noted psychologist came to much of the same conclusions. We are often the ruler of our own miseries.

If i eat cooked kale, i still get most of the minerals, some vitamins, and my body doesn't use much energy breaking down the fiber.  This is why juicing/blending seem like very good ways to get in the raw nutrition if your digestion is off.

joej627, I believe you may be correct when it comes to vegetables as that is what I remember reading about over the years—more nutrients come from cooked veg and the vitamins are more easily released. What one reads, however, isn't always scientific.

On the USDA site http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/, it seems to suggest that there is more vitamin K in frozen spinach than fresh. I wonder if freezing vegetables instead of heating them might do the same in regards to digestibility?

I lightly blanch my vegetables. Chinese broccolis I cut up and add salt to my water. The stems I quickly blanch first, and lastly I add the leaves. Then about the count of ten later I strain the water out of the vegetables, and plunge them into ice water to stop the cooking. I shake them dry, roll them in a towel. Then I heat up some home rendered lard and toss them round a bit (to seal in the moisture???). I air cool them  and then pack them in a Nestle's ice cream container and to the fridge. They are very crunchy still and easy to add to any dish. The quick searing seems to stop them from losing their moisture.

Now I'm thinking of maybe giving the veggies their salt soak, rinsing them off and then just freezing them. Then I could just pull out some frozen veggies to quickly stir fry to hot enough when I am eating cooked meats.

Meats, however, Joe, I honestly believe are more nutritious raw. A mix of raw and cooked veg might be a way of covering one's preverbal, eh?