Here is another amusing April fools joke on Stephan's whole health source:

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-direction.html

Do you have to disinfect the oysters to eat them raw?

Take a look at wild animals in nature. Do they disinfect anything before they eat it?

I've eaten raw oysters that have been dead for ~1 week. Full of bacteria. Smell is quite strong, but they're still nutritious.

Just met with what will probably be my faculty adviser. He just decided last week he wants to write a grant proposal to test this diet called "nutritarian" vs. the traditional care for very sick cardiac patients at UMDNJ.

My goal as I see it now is to do a good job with that and slowly introduce to him paleolithic and maybe raw diet ideas so that I can steer his next project, or my thesis project, towards something closer to what I believe in. Any ideas?

In particular he seems convinced studies like this haven't really been done yet, clinical at least, there have been statistical studies done on populations like the China thing.

If you guys could help me find old studies or anything that I could learn about to help steer this lab towards my ideas that would be much appreciated.

Here are some good recent studies.

http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/3/1/39

In this one, pigs fed conventional grain-based feed were compared to pigs fed a paleo diet (fruits, vegetables, beef, fish meal). Nothing was explicitly stated about cooking, so everything was probably fed raw, except for the fish meal, which is obviously processed.

That group also did a paleo diet study with humans:

http://staffanlindeberg.com/DiabetesStudy.html

And what about biotion deficiency?
Tyler once showed a study where it says you can get biotion deficiency only if you eat more than 24 raw whole eggs per day.

In that study, did they actually feed people raw eggs, and find negative symptoms if more than 24 were consumed in a day? I doubt it. It's probably just a speculative statement based on the quantities of biotin and avidin in an egg, and the "daily requirement" for biotin in humans.

    I started with only yolks, as the smell of whites was just too very repulsive to me.  When it stopped smelling bad to me; when eating eggs I eat the whole. 

My experience was similar. I started with yolks only (Wai diet), but now I eat whole eggs. I make holes in the 2 ends of the egg, and suck it out.

When I have a bad cough/cold/flu, or when I have no appetite for solid food, I eat lots of eggs. I've eaten as many as ~20 per day. But on a regular basis, I usually eat about 6 a day.

It would be an interesting experiment to give an egg to a dog or cat (either whole or cracked in a bowl), and see if they eat the whole thing or just the yolk.

He's definitely the most inspiring "Diet Guru" I know of right now.  Maybe he'll write the first Raw Omnivore book?

There are several raw omnivore books out there already: Aajonus Vonderplanitz, Guy-Claude Burger, and Thijs Klompmaker aka "Wai Genriiu".

Certain plants are excellent air cleaners. NASA did a study to determine which particular species of plants are best for removing certain toxins from the air:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Clean_Air_Study

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_air-filtering_plants

Some of these are exotic, but others are quite common and easily found. I bought a Gerbera Daisy about a month ago. But it doesn't like the cold temperature in my apartment. I usually keep plenty of windows open, even if it's -20 deg C outside. That's another way to get better-quality air.

Actually, it may not be obvious whether it's better to open all the windows, or close the windows and get lots of plants. It probably depends on the quality of air in your neighbourhood.

I think that before you invest in an air purifier, you should first remove all sources of toxins that are in your home, to the extent that is practically possible. To learn what is toxic, take a look at:

www.toxicnation.ca

www.hundredyearlie.com (I can't access this web site right now. Try google cache. It's for Randall Fitzgerald's book "Hundred Year Lie")

http://slowdeathbyrubberduck.com/

Warning: reading the above will probably make you depressed. You will learn that toxins are EVERYWHERE in your home. Clothes, coats, carpets, furniture, personal care products, computer equipment, plywood, paint, etc, etc. If you try to change everything at once, you will go crazy. Take it one step at a time. Getting some plants is a good first step.

I used to think that it was unnecessary to worry about toxins in everyday items, until I read the report on toxicnation.ca a few months ago. Now I'm gradually eliminating toxins from my home. It's a long process. I recently bought a mask from icanbreathe.com. (Recommended by Aajonus). I use it when bicycling in street traffic. Eventually, I'll research air purifiers, but it's quite far down on my to-do list.

Can you give us and example michael of comments Aajonus has made? I've had very little direct experience with Aajonus' work, I have only read and own TRFLWD. And I hopped on PD before I even read that, when I read about Aajonus' position the second time everything clicked and I went it alone after that except for more searching around the web. So, I'm just curious about a guy that helped change my life.

Here's one example that comes to my mind:

In one of his newsletters, he wrote an article about the effect of electromagnetic fields on health. He stated that electromagnetic fields emit waves of neutrons and protons. No matter how you try to interpret that, it is false, and it makes no sense. At the fundamental level, electromagnetic fields are made up of photons. They can behave as particles or as waves, depending on the type of observation/experiment being performed.



Regarding the discussion about education and academia:

While there are certainly some bad professors/lecturers out there, there are also plenty of very good ones. In my 1st year of undergrad, a very good prof inspired me and changed my life. I'm currently finishing up graduate school, and I've had my share of both good and bad profs. But the net experience was definitely a positive one.

Also, not all fields of study are corrupted by corporate interests (pharmaceutical, agricultural, etc).

Why wouldn't the ants crawl around inside your mouth/oesophagus, and back out? If you're just eating them with the honey you're not going to be killing them. Or are you sure that they'll stay with the honey?

You will kill the ants when you crush them with your teeth. But even if you don't chew them, you have muscles in your esophagus which will dump the ants right into your stomach, where an HCL bath will kill them.

I've seen eggs specifically labelled as double-yolk for sale at farmers markets, they're more expensive than single-yolk eggs. These were from free-range hens, not fed any chemicals or funny things.

When they sort the eggs into large,med,small, they probably also have a way to separate out the double-yolk ones.

Aajonus mentioned at a recent talk that carbs shouldn't be eaten until 6 hours after getting up, at which point all the glycogen has been made for the day from pyruvate.

Such a broad and general statement cannot possibly be always true. The body's production and utilization of glycogen will depend very much on the amount and type of physical activity that you do.

For example, suppose you do some hard exercise 7 hours after you wake up. You deplete all your glycogen stores in the process. Then after the next meal, your body is going to start replenishing that glycogen!

I'm not sure why this is important - and why glycogen made from glucose isn't ok - does anyone have an answer for that?

The reason probably is that meat->pyruvate->glucose->glycogen is a much slower and steadier process than fruit->glucose->glycogen. A zero-carber would certainly agree with this.

Also, he recommends a coffee substitute in his book made with hot water, 2-5tbs honey, and 1/2 lemon +/- vanilla extract, and since most people drink coffee in the a.m., I'm wondering how this squares with the first recommendation and would be interested in any thoughts about this.

As for unheated honey, Aajonus says that only 10% of it acts like a carbohydrate. I don't know what to make of this. I wonder how he came up with it. Maybe he did blood glucose tests and found that the height of an "unheated honey sugar spike" was only 10% of the height of a "heated honey sugar spike"?

And how long these whites should be kept on the eyes?

Put your head back, apply the egg white, roll your head/eyes around a bit (maybe 30 sec) to get the egg white all over the eyes, then bring your head upright. Don't rinse your eyes. Just gently wipe under your eyes so you don't get egg white all over your face.

I occasionally do this, but not on a regular basis. I don't have any vision problems (in fact, I'm literally the only one in my entire extended family without glasses), but I would like to improve my tolerance to bright sunlight.

In a recent workshop, Aajonus also recommended applying melted butter to the eyes. One day egg white, next day butter, next day egg white again, etc. I haven't tried this.

When will your book be available?

I get the impression that sabertooth's statement "...in my book" was meant metaphorically, i.e. ("...from my point of view")