Has anyone here ever had a defficiency?

[kurite]

Has anyone here ever had a defficiency while on a raw paleo diet? Just wondering...

[whatever]

Not that I know of (1.5 years+ now), I mainly eat raw-fat beef (grain or grass fed I don't know) some cooked fat pork meat and 1 or 2 pieces of fruit a day no veggies. It's winter around here not much sun, I think in December I got sick flu like maybe it's vitamine D linked, Now I eat a few herrings per week lot's of vit. D and raw. No problems since so coming winter I just eat some raw-fish when it's starting to get dark, if I don't get sick then there is an other mystery solved.

[PaleoPhil]

Do you mean a new deficiency or an unresolved one?

[Caveman]

I'm really thinking this might have been a big problem for me..

When it comes to fats and cholesterol, I think I was always eating the wrong sources. Since eating more raw animal fats, there's a huge difference in the way I feel. Even the minerals contained in the meat, I bet they play a role in my health returning.

Instead of trying to detox and cleanse my body, I think I may be able to come to the conclusion that I was just deficient in all of these pure nutrients. I was always thinking I needed to keep cleansing and cleansing and wondered why things were getting worse..

[kurite]

Do you mean a new deficiency or an unresolved one?

A new one, Im just wondering cause it seems like every raw food site has people constantly coming up with defficiencies except this one.

[PaleoPhil]

I don't have any new deficiencies. I have also noticed a lot of reported deficiency symptoms at raw vegan and 80-10-10 forums. It's usually written off by the diehards as "detox" or "you must be doing something wrong" or "you're not eating enough calories you anorexic swine"--that sort of thing. The prescription generally is "eat more sweet fruits" or "cut out the nuts and fatty fruits" or "eat more calories". Eventually the poor person's teeth start crumbling and falling out and his/her physician orders the vegan to take B12 shots and eat some sort of animal food. The vegan accepts the shots but not the diet advice, does a tiny bit better, but still feels lousy. Eventually the luckier ones cave in, try some animal food, and experience immediate and surprising (to them, but not to us) improvement. Some of them surprisingly quickly give up the PETA fanaticism, but others struggle with it but decide that their own health comes before the animals or eventually discover that veganism is a Neolithic phenomenon that is not the best thing for either animals in general or the human race.

[kurite]

Its not even the idea about having cals by 80% carb 10 protein and 10 fat, I love the idea of our species being able to thrive on a diet consisting of fruit, but we don't, we can't and if we try we get a defficiency. Theres a non stop group of people proving this but they just dont care.