Interesting reading my last post. That clicking in my jaw continued. I'm wondering if the problem with my jaw came from extreme carbohydrate sensitivity, or plant sensitivity. It began last year Spring. I was using cocnut cream, fermented veggies raw meat and grassfed cultured butter. I started to get bleeding in my gums. Later in the year, December?, I was drinking raw milk and eating raw meat and butter. Through until this year, where I was drinking green juices, alternated with raw meat and butter.
When I went away to vacation, camping with my husband and his family in Maine, I decided to not bring my juicer. I decided to try being ZC for the trip, which consisted of amish beef, I had shipped to RI, plus the GF raw butter. I also decided to use puerh tea after meals with GF butter, and spring water between meals. When I came home I decided to switch from the raw butter to using GF tallow, to get off butter, which I think may cause inflammation in me.
Since then, I have been trying to do just meat and water. I've given up the tea, coffee which was just occassional BP coffee with butter. I tried GF organic beef from belcampo. Their's comes from the Shasta area. I could only afford the ground and marrow bones when they have them. I could not get enough fat in my diet by GF meat alone, without adding GF butter or tallow. So in the last two weeks I've been trying Costco ribeye raw mostly, with a little Celtic salt and water. Since going in this direction of being ZC, I have no pain in my jaw and it actually clicks a lot less. I've been learning a lot from zerocarbzen.com. and some of the facebook groups linked with the old ZC forum. But I do still prefer my meat raw so need the insight of you all here.
Oh, one thing I forgot. My jaw got its worst when I started to include unheated honey in my diet. This idea to try this, was a bit left over from when I did AV's diet. I thought prior I didn't do well on honey, but thought I'd give it a shot again. Afterall, bears eat honey in the wild right? At first I thought my body liked it, and people said I looked really good. But my dental problems started to intensify. Carbohydrates are the one thread I can identify, whether plant or animal, from when I started to have dental issues. Just trying ZC for now. Two things have influenced this decision. 1) years ago reading Lex's posts in the raw paleo forum of when he went to his dentist to find since being ZC raw his jaw bone was recalcifying, 2) reading the results of the Bellevue 1 year experiment with Steffanson. In the beginning he had gingivitis, at the end he no longer had signs of gingivitis.
