Does anyone else hate raw primal diet cultists?
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@BroJonas so aajonus was a fraud?
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@Sugar I think the man was very sure of himself. And he would lie for the sake of promoting what he thought was the truth. But the guy didn’t have a good grasp of physiology or biochemistry. And it sucks that his followers being so involved in health get put in a box with his paradigm when there’s soooo much more to learn
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@Sugar 100% though i think there's a possibility that he started it for shits and giggles and made stuffs up along the way.
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@fruitymilk I think he had theories and made up incredible stories to get people to listen to his theories
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@BroJonas Its a horrible place to be stuck in. I used to do that diet. The thing is that if you get bad symptoms, they will say its detox or youre not doing it well enough. If you feel better when you eat cooked food, then its cause you stopped the detox from happening. Getting energy from certain things like coffee or cooked food is attributed to "stress hormones". I had 3 kidney stones during the time i subscribed to that paradigm at 19 years old.
One of the The only good thing I can say about that diet is how good of a calcium intake you get. If you're following the advice about raw cheese and milk consumption, you can easily be getting 4-5g per day.
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@Kilgore You dont realize that its the logical conclusion of some of these paradigms. A lot of carnivores or keto people will harp on all day about "nature" "evolution" and "unrefined foods". Then theres the whole "you cant trust anyone in the government" thing that makes you really susceptible to this. Well if you really think about that hard enough you become very suseptible to ideas like this. And some people have a ton of discipline to the point they can supress cravings (like I did when I got kidney stones because I believed water was going to dissolve my nutrients) and other things so long as the paradigm in their mind is telling them that this is the logical thing to do.
That's not to say that the people, like myself, who get wrapped up in this arent responsible in many ways. The whole paradigm is the by product of a whole cocktail of particular vices, like slander, credulity, food obssesion, dishonoring parents, as well as a disturbed state of health (although those two things feed eachother).
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Vegans and carnivores become the same way. It's what happens if you don't balance yourself out with normal people.
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Almost certainly. I wouldn't be surprised, at the same time, if there were people who improved doing raw primal, before filtering out into more effective and normal diets; this is a hazardous mix.
The raw primal diet is a diet of atavism. This is certain from the perspective of nutritional science, history, and anthropology. Raw Primals rebut by saying cooked food is an addiction but this is a paper-thin defense.
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@JulofEnoch Yeah its utterly retarded to say that a seared steak and scrambled eggs cooked in butter is an addiction and you're essentially a drug addict for eating them. Watch Scott Primal on youtube if you want to see their logic.
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@dan-saintdominic
Omg I’m sorry u went through that. Somehow I made it out without any obvious issues. I did develop gyno during that diet. But I was also recovering from severe malnourishment and anorexia. The steady supply of protein helped me put on some good muscle but it took way too long. A peaty diet would have gotten me there in half a year. I was so tired on primal I quit skateboarding and even weightlifting stalled and I would take half a year off out of necessity.
I remember a guy from the forum said he’s been on the diet like 10 years and all his toe nails have fallen off and everyone was trying to pick apart his diet what he was doing wrong but no seemed like he did all the juices, cheese trains, milkshakes, cheese with honey for mineral etc all was by the book.
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@Sugar i believe he genuinely wanted to help but it's clear that he made stuffs up and was talking out of his ass just to support his hypothesis and to counter legitimate arguments against his diet like bacteria and parasites to the point where he justified and even recommended eating cow shit.
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@BroJonas Man thats crazy. The thing that sucks is that when I was doing it people had no idea that people had done the diet before and got really messed up. All I'd see is how Aajonus supposedly cured 97% of people with cancer and all these crazy anecdotes and stories that he'd talk about in his interview about his iridology, how he sleeps 3-4 hours a night and has energy, etc. Some of those people really need to hear about all the people that got screwed up on it.
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@dan-saintdominic
Yeah I talked to a lot of long term dieters and they all dealt with various issues still, wished they had a happier story to tell me. One that avoided water and just ate tomatoes instead vomited every morning -detox-. Another had weird neurological problems and couldn’t touch anything metal, no doorknobs, serious emf sensitivity, would sleep in the grass for relief. Another got painfully obese for the sake of detox.
Malcolm Gold had some primal diet videos and Aajonus said he developed a tumor in his eye on the diet and they cured it by putting grass fed cow shit in it….
The whole only needing 3-4 hours of sleep thing reminds me of people like Goggins or mark walberg. I think it’s a sign of possibly enlarged or over excited pituitary. Elderly get this too. Where stress hormones wake them up too early and just can’t back to sleep.