I've noticed several changes since I went rawpalaeo:- after a couple of experiments I found it much more difficult to eat grains, especially pastry, as I needed to drink lots of water to wash such down(in prerawpalaeo days, I never needed water to wash down croissants). My suspicion is that my body was forced to produce more mucus in the throat to handle the lack of water-content of cooked foods in prerawpalaeo days.
I also noticed that I became more sensitive to preservatives/chemicals. For example, I now rarely consume alcohol, but, even so,have to make sure that any alcohol containing sulphites(almost all wines and ciders) is to be avoided like the plague, leaving me only with cleaner alcohol such as real ale or clear spirits. I suspect this is because instead of the preservatives being dumped in the fat-cells as toxic waste, the body on a raw animal food diet, instead, dumps it out of the body thus eliciting a detox reaction. If I broke this rule, I'd get a bigger hangover than otherwise.
Heavily processed things like Christmas Pudding, however organic in origin, are now a NO-No for me. I risked eating an organic Christmas Pudding this year to celebrate Christmas(other than raw turkey, it just doesn't seem possible to celebrate Christmas in raw fashion), and vomited all my food, whether raw or cooked, for the next 5 days, and felt very ill.
I've also, over the years, developed a food-intolerance to raw eggs. I can eat them in small amounts, but in large amounts, the waste leaves the body rather fast in terms of loose stools, not too well absorbed. No doubt a reaction resulting from all those grains consumed by the chickens. No wonder I prefer goose and quail eggs(I know that the geese are allowed to feed on more than just grains).
I get a nasty reaction to very greasy, fatty cooked foods, which is why, on the few social occasions where I have to eat some cooked food, I just eat lean muscle-meats. Worst cooked foods seem to be those high in saturated fats given a nasty experience I had with cooked suet.
My reaction to raw dairy is the usual, judging from my last experiment, a year or two ago. First few days I get constant urination(or constipation if I eat raw cheese), then I quickly get fatigue, and never go beyond that stage as things just get steadily worse and worse. Dairy is death to me, fouling up my glands, and, ultimately, the whole of my body, given past experience, pre-rawpalaeo.
I find it increasingly difficult to mix raw foods together. This was already the case early on in the diet, but the effect is now more extreme. This may be just because I'm more used to mono-eating(eating only 1 food at a time). Anyway, I have noticed I can't combine raw honeycomb with raw meats at the same meal without feeling an urge to vomit. Mind you, that may just be due to an increasing dislike of honey:- at the start of the diet, I would get a nasty reaction to raw liquid honey, but raw honeycomb was OK - now, I have to struggle with eating raw honeycomb as I get a nasty reaction to all that sugar coming into my body.
Anyone else care to share their experiences?
