In the recent past, I suppose, because I doubt our distant pre-fire ancestors would have thought something like “I’m fed of eating this raw meat alone without any mixing with a sweet food… let’s go and an get some honey on that tree top over there to poor it onto the meat...
They didn't have to think about that, since honey often comes naturally with bee grub (larvae) meat, as you acknowledged, which contains animal protein and fat. The ancient ancestors of humans included insectivores and omnivores that ate insects, honey and tree saps, and sometimes at the same time. Bee grubs were a good choice by GCB to add to his diet. Bee grubs are also reportedly the favorite part of the hive for bears. It makes no sense to assume that we can't eat any raw animal protein or fat at all with honey in spite of that just because of some dietary theories of modern gurus, except maybe as a weight loss strategy (though one study found little benefit for this from food combining - "Similar weight loss with low-energy food combining or balanced diets,"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10805507) or for people with extremely poor carb tolerance (though mine is very poor and even I can handle some RF honey with meat).
Honey ants, a favorite food of Australian aborigines, even contain sugary honeydew from tree saps within their bodies!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwzzbjYHC3wThe notion that one should artificially restrict one's diet so as to never eat sweet or carby at the same meal with protein is a modern reductionist one. Even within freshly killed or fermented raw whole animal carcasses there are plenty of carbs (estimated at around 15-20% or more in the case of wild Arctic animal sources -
http://freetheanimal.com/2014/03/disrupting-carbs-prebiotics.html). It's actually one of the benefits of eating meats raw (though the animal carbs and prebiotics unfortunately deplete over time if not frozen or traditionally fermented, so that supermarket meat contains much less than wild sources). Heck, you'd probably need a laboratory or to at least thoroughly cook the meat to eat a truly ZC purist meal, if it's even possible. Breastmilk, nuts, seeds and underground storage organs also contain both carbs and proteins and sometimes fats, in varying proportions. Our species wouldn't have survived long in the wild if we could only eat macronutrients separately.
I have been eating raw meat for two years now. After much experimentation I feel I digest meat better with raw honey than with out.
It seems that way for me too and there is a plausible explanation. Raw honey contains enzymes and acids that help can improve general digestion and it seems to improve mine some.
While I'm quite skeptical of some of Aajonus' claims, he seemed to have a lot of experience with honey and was quite a connoisseur, and he specifically claimed that raw honey helps digest meat, which fits with my and Paperclip's experience:
"Unheated honey contains an insulin-like substance that is produced by bees when collecting nectar. That insulin-like substance converts 90% of the carbohydrate in nectar into enzymes that help digest, assimilate and utilize protein. Unheated honey is a wonderful sweet food that helps digest all types of meat."
The Recipe for Living Without Disease, 2nd edition, p. 31
When I looked into that claim, I found that insulin-like substances were indeed found in honey, that are called insulin-like polypeptides. (For example, see Kramer K.J., Childs C.N., Spiers R.D., Jacobs R.M. (1982) Purification of insulinlike peptides from insects haemolymph and royal jelly. Insect Biochemistry 12(1):91-98.)
Raw honey is one of the most acidic (not to be confused with acidifying) natural foods (
http://www.honeybeesuite.com/how-acid-is-honey).
I find that eating some other food with the honey also helps avoid a burning sensation in the stomach when I eat a bit too much of such a highly acidic food alone, without benefit of meat, such as would come from the grubs that often accompany it in nature, or other food. Plus, as honey improved my digestion some over time, I became less prone to stomach burning.
Fermented honey also contains bacteria that can assist, though they likely prefer carby foods.
Plus, meat is reportedly an especially good trigger for stomach acid, which aids in digesting most foods, including carby foods.
As has been discussed by you and me and others many times before, the dose makes the poison when it comes to various plant and animal toxins. It's not possible to avoid them 100%. Small amounts may even be hormetically beneficial, giving our maintenance, repair and defense systems a workout and thus robustifying us, instead of letting our systems atrophy.
Plus, the enzymes and other elements of raw honey actually help in breaking down and detoxifying AGEs:
http://www.denvernaturopathic.com/HoneyandAGEs.htm and honeys high in methylglyoxal are actually considered
more medicinal (via knowledge learned largely from actual experience), rather than less, despite the theoretical concerns about AGEs.
