Question...I'm 41 year old male.I've been now for three full months in AV
diet.Lots of ups and downs, but having experience with different
diets I can feel that this one needs some time to really "kick in".
There are lots of questions to be made,but I think I'll get the
answers as time passes by.But if you can give some output on
couple of things,I would apreciate it.Gurgling of my stomach has
been unbearable.I thought it was from raw milk.So I stopped
drink it for a week. No changes. Last night I warmed(in a jar) a
big glass of raw milk,stired some honey,no gurgling night time and
slept somehow good.Don't know if this is normal or it'll pass.The
other thing is, in the first month I was eating beef and less
chicken(brest), and have no problem. Now I see that when I eat
beef or pork or chicken or salmon, I get imediate bad reaction,in
my face and in my mood and I get fatigue.All natural are meats,with no
hormones or
antibiotics treated.Now I eat only white flesh fish(such
cod,flounder,etc.,),clams,oysters and I have no problem with chicken
liver and
hearts(and they look red to me!).Any thoughts? Thanks for
taking your time and patience... sincerely k v
Answer(This is rather unusual. I've never heard of people suddenly not doing well with either white or red meats, but I'll do my best:-)
There's one possible reason for your negative reaction to those foods. When people have an allergy they can get cravings for the very food that's bad for them, and they often lose their taste for other foods. In my own case I unknowingly had a severe allergy towards all raw and pasteurised dairy which led to me consuming a lot of raw milk and raw cheese, leading to intestinal trouble, fatigue and constant yellow diarrhea along with a 100 other symptoms - I also quickly lost taste for the red muscle-meats I was eating at the time, such as raw beef muscle-meat, pork muscle-meat and chicken. At first I could only bear to eat fish like raw wild salmon and shellfish like oysters, scallops etc. Once I quit the raw dairy, I was gradually able to like the taste of red meats again. However, I found that the innards(ie tongue, bone-marrow[=osso bucco],liver, kidney, brain, heart) were a lot easier on the stomach and a lot tastier and softer than muscle-meats overall, especially if aged for a day or so. This is something to bear in mind at the start of the diet, as a lot of beginners to RPD diets like the Primal Diet have had their digestive system completely wrecked and find it difficult to deal with the tougher muscle-meats, even if raw.In this regard, it might be a good idea to select animal meats and innards rich in fat.
Anyway, I'd suggest you do an elimination diet to see which exact food might be causing any trouble. The problems may be simply be due to the 4 foods you mention, but I think that seems very unlikely, given your initial OK reaction to them. Dairy and eggs and carbs(ie fruit/veggie juice/veg/honey) are the main ones regularly reported as causing problems for some people re food-intolerance.
Other than that, you might simply be eating too much. I had occasional stomach-trouble like you describe when I ate too much muscle-meat at one sitting. I realised, after a while,
that one doesn't need to eat as much as with cooked food, as raw food has higher levels of nutrients per kilo.
The 3rd, less likely, possibility is that your sense of taste may simply be changing. It's quite common for one's sense of taste to change rapidly on this diet as the body's natural instincts/appetites take over. For example, at the start of this diet, I found that c.90% of the raw animal food I tasted seemed foul, but after several months of going 99% raw, I found that a lot of the foods which I'd previously disliked, started tasting much better. The only way for me to get around this, right at the start, was to buy tiny amounts of 100s of different raw animal foods, so that, even with an initial 10% success-rate, I still ended up with a high enough variety of raw animal food to live on.
Hope This Helps
Geoff
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/rawpaleodiet/
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