aLptHW4k4y, I have no interest in going back to eating any kind of raw food diet, I've flogged that experiment to death.

GS, I'm male aged 20. I was zero carb for ~6 months, for my start of RPD, but then afterwards I tried ZC again several times for shorter periods... I got grass-fed meats from the local butcher, and sometimes ordered from a farm. Aside from a few exceptions it was always fresh. When I ate frozen meat I ate it without thawing, so the damage to the meat would not matter.

Oh yes, I also tried hang aging, jar aging, raw honey/honey comb, raw milk and raw cheese. I tried everything.

I came to RPD with mild acne and getting inflammation too easily in my muscles/joints during sport, mild hyper-inflammatory reaction you could say. But, this was eating a very unhealthy version of cooked paleo diet(burnt 20% fat mince meat cooked in the oven, fruit, canned corned beef/spam etc - I basically had mild gout), and before that whole grains un-soaked, with fat-free canned tuna etc, no vegetables, maybe just tomato sauce or something, and wholegrain muesli with dried fruits/nuts(with which I had mild IBS and slightly worse inflammation elsewhere), I never tried regular healthy eating because I didn't know what it was. Eating RPD cured me of inflammation, but at the sake of giving me many more new problems that were much(infinitely) worse than the inflammation. I got on fine before RPD, just not optimally... If I'd just eaten a regular healthy diet/healthy paleo diet I could've cured my inflammation without getting the other problems...

Before RPD I was on a college boxing program, I did well in college, did well in boxing, did OK socially, but I wasn't performing the best I could because of the inflammation, so I just wanted to do something to improve that. After eating RPD I fell out of college and became a recluse because of my new maladies... I didn't just go back to eating how I did before when things started going wrong because I didn't want to go back to getting inflammation, I wanted to move forward, and I was sure RPD was the way so I stuck with it, and like a good captain I went down with my RPD ship. I really had to exhaust every possibility before I could accept RPD was no good for me.

Another thing that happened on RPD was that I stopped growing, and my facial/body hair stopped spreading. Both of these processes have now resumed since adopting a healthy cooked diet.

I also had very poor circulation on RPD, and I developed varicoceles... One of those had now healed/disappeared, but unfortunately the other has not yet - hopefully that will follow in time.

I tried eating RPD for a bit, and it eliminated the inflammation which I'd previously been suffering from immediately. However, I also experienced a lack of energy, slow digestion, muscle cramps, sleeplessness and bad odour. I stuck with the diet however(for 1-2 years), as it had stopped my inflammation after all, and I hoped the new problems would go away in time. However, they just got worse, and after a few months my digestion ground to a halt, my body stopped recovering from physical activity, and I started to get rashes and diarrhoea, as well as debilitating brain fog(the worst of all, as my intellect was my most cherished attribute), and that's probably leaving a few out. I tried everything within the scope of RPD to address these problems but nothing worked and eventually I quit, a wreck.

I'm now eating a healthy diet based on cooked food, along the lines of a paleo template/nourishing traditions diet. My inflammation has not returned, but I'm stuck slowly(at best) recovering from these maladies I picked up on RPD.

I think, if I'd learned to eat a healthy cooked paleo-template/nourishing traditions diet(proper, traditional preparation of foods), before going into RPD, I would've got rid of my inflammation without suffering from all these other problems I'm now plagued with. I never learned how to cook healthy food and was not fed healthy food(cooked or otherwise) by my parents. So, I went from eating absolute garbage, to eating just raw fruits, cheese, nuts and cooked meats, to eating RPD, without ever trying a regular healthy diet in between, as I didn't know what one was - I just went straight into eating a shoddy approximation of the paleo idea because it made sense to me, and I didn't have to know how to cook.

Anyway, I'm not here to complain as I did everything by my own choice, I'm just now interested to know if anyone else has had similar experiences with RPD and has just assumed that they're alone, or for other reasons been afraid to mention it.

Has anyone else tried RPD, stuck with it due to some positive results, and then ended up with a load of new problems? Perhaps you quit, or perhaps you're still struggling along hoping it will get better. Similarly, I'm interested to hear from anyone who has had absolutely no negative consequences from eating RPD whatsoever, or perhaps you have had a few problems but feel they are so vastly outweighed by the positives that you don't care, or you are happy to accept them.

Whatever your situation I look forward to hearing from you, and I hope that knowledge of my own experience may benefit some people too.

Regards,

Des.