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@herenow said in Has anyone managed a liquid diet long term?:

I started today off with a liquefied meal but I always crack pretty quick.

Is there a trick to sticking with it?

Having a solid food such as a chunk of cheese with it?

I went long periods on liquid only (raw milk and fruit juice) purely out of necessity, and the majority of my calories have come from liquids since 2014 because of how good I feel without much fiber in my diet, the number one benefit for me of the carnivore diet (I followed it back in 2010/2011) and Ray’s advice (he told me back in 2015 that he thought all fibers were risky when I asked him if he thought my following a fiber-free diet was safe). The only fiber in my diet comes from fresh pressed juice, all fruit jam (St. Dalfour), nice cream, young coconut meat and fresh figs when in season, totaling no more than 15 g of fiber on the days I have the nice cream, coconut and figs, and no more than a gram or two on the days I have only the juice and jam. I drink at least 1 liter of fresh pressed fruit juice and/or raw milk in a sitting and I always have a solid, salted food (eggs, meat, cheese and/or strained yogurt/quark) with it because it takes at least 20 minutes for me to feel satiated and I tend to chug down the juice and milk within minutes if that’s all I’m having.

@gg12, some potential gut irritants include:

• Fiber
• Raw starch and any other poorly digested food, including eating and drinking too quickly
• Unripe fruit and even ripe fruit grown under harsh conditions as they produce defense chemicals/allergens
• Unrefined/unpurified salt and sugars, including honey, contain potential allergens
• Additives such as cultures, enzymes, gums, citric acid, ascorbic acid, propylene glycol and polysorbate 80
• Supplements may contain potentially allergenic byproducts from the manufacturing process
•Stress, including stressful thoughts, can affect gut permeability per Ray

@Cezar said in Protocol for improved facial collagen synthesis:

My acne has cleared up a ton through peaty dietary tweaks but I still haven't nailed down that youthful,thick skin collagenous look.

I still feel like my face is relatively dry and rough.

What foods/supplements would you consume to reach peak collagen ?

Anything that improves thyroid and parathyroid function, the main glands involved in the health of skin and all other connective tissues, should, in theory, improve skin hydration. Dry skin is a common symptom of hypothyroidism. I find sugar from milk and fruit, particularly melon and ripe bananas, to be the most effective foods for softening skin. On a diet abundant in fruit and raw milk, my skin is buttery soft, even typically rougher areas of the body like the elbows and feet, and even during the winter.

@Turk said in Why Does Wine Help with preventing Nighttime urination?:

@ThinPicking My Macros had been around 60C/25P/15F, carbs were about 380g avg, mostly from skim milk and coke, some potatoes and sourdough. I take cynoplus, about 110mg of a 160mg tablet, per day.

Turk, have you tried switching your protein and fat percentages so a macro ratio of 60C/15P/25F? Even with Cynoplus, you may be getting too much protein for what your thyroid can handle, causing some suppression of it, and hypoglycemia during the night. Due to chronic gastritis at one point, fruit was all I could digest and it was the first time in my life that I slept through the night without needing to pee, and the most interesting thing was that I woke each morning thinking that I had just gone to bed, I had so much energy, no dreaming that I could recall that usually had me exhausted the next morning because the dreams were so vivid. It’s like my brain finally got to rest with the rest of my body. Not getting enough protein wasn’t sustainable, but fruitarianism showed me how poor my thyroid function was. Unless I’m taking quite a bit of thyroid, I have to prioritize simple carbs, saturated fats and salt too, basically, the things mainstream tells us to limit.

You’re welcome, @GRay.

@Luke said in What's up with all the spam posts?:

All the spam-bots seem to have female names. As a precautionary measure, we should therefore block all users with female names, except for @Jennifer of course. Just kidding.

Amazoniac says I’m sponsored by Applegate so I don’t know if that makes me just as spammy as the barbie-bots, but I think I can fly under the radar if I change my handle to ChiseledJawChadDrivesBigTruck.

@GRay, I didn’t avoid high fructose fruit or limit sugar, but I did avoid complex carbs/polysaccharides, fiber, fermented and cultured foods because they exacerbated the overgrowth. My SIBO elimination diet was basically gelatinous proteins (mainly scallops and broth), eggs, fresh pressed fruit juice (mainly melon), coconut water and coconut fat, then about 8 weeks later, I reintroduced dairy (goat cheese and goat’s milk).

@potato said in Best tropical fruit?:

@pswany Forget where I found this RP quote but he once had this to say about the safest fruits:

"Soursop (corossol), lychee, longan, guava, papaya, pawpaw, sapota, guanabana. Some frozen and canned fruits are good; applesauce, soursop, guanabana, longans, and lychees for example. "

Asian grocery stores have canned lychees and they are absolutely delicious. Protip if you go to a Hispanic grocery store, the frozen fruit section should have "Goya Fruta" frozen fruit pulp packs where you can find many of the above tropical fruits. Some of them have ascorbic acid or whatever though. Ive made guava Jello out of the Goya pulp and it slaps

They sell the Goya Fruta at large chain supermarkets where I live. I’ve been getting them for close to 20 years—they have the best frozen graded coconut for making fresh coconut milk and cream—and just last month, I bought the guava and papaya and was bummed when I turned the packages around and saw that they now have preservatives. They used to be 100% fruit.

As per the thread title, my favorite tropical fruit is hands down coconut. My other favorites include:

• Banana, especially the mysore variety
• Cherimoya
• Jackfruit
• Lychee
• Mango, especially the ataulfo variety
• Mangosteen
• Passion fruit, especially the more floral, sweeter varieties

@dapose said in Who's still doing a PUFA depletion detox diet? (long terms results, hopes dreams, future plans):

@heretoday I am Pufa avoidant! Best noticeable change is I don’t sunburn. I work outside and don’t use sunscreen. I’ve been low ish Pufa for along time before I found rays work. WAPF paleo ish, vegetarian ish for 20 years but ate tons of nuts. Lots of avocados etc. I would get sunburns if I wasn’t mindful about building my tan and sun tolerance…. Now 4 years into Rays work. It took me and probably others that came from meaty carnivore ish way of eating along time to rap my Pufa filled brain around the idea of lowering pufa. I just thought well I’m not cooking or adding seed oil to my food 3 meals a day so I’m good right? Idk I think it pays off to make the extra effort to lower animal fat as well and those lowering more Pufa. Some of those yummy cheeses and ice cream I just don’t have the metabolism yet to utilize that much fat.

Same here but for me, it was getting my vitamin D level up. I used to burn easily and chalked it up to having very fair skin, but now that I maintain a minimum vitamin D level of 50, I don’t burn, however, I do use a natural zinc sunblock when I’m climbing because my skin looks and feels much healthier, i.e., smoother and softer without a tan.

@heretoday said in Who's still doing a PUFA depletion detox diet? (long terms results, hopes dreams, future plans):

Is Jennifer a Wolverine in her spare-time?

super powers where always the best case scenario

after over 4 years I have much better appetite control which always seemed like a superpower

Nope, not a Wolverine, a mountain climber:

It’s all about the altitude…and living on the edge …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Rv4y28ZAM

@heretoday said in Who's still doing a PUFA depletion detox diet? (long terms results, hopes dreams, future plans):

@Jennifer You are incredibly saturated eating this way like donate your body to science level saturation. I'm really careful and eat 6-7x more pufa

Please keep us informed of anything interesting results and thank you for sharing.

You’re welcome, and I will.

Hilarious…a queen with a coconut. I’m made up of 60% coconut water, I drink so much of it.

@GRay, figuring out the dose and timing is challenging, for sure. It took me a year to optimize my dose and then something tragic happened that suppressed my thyroid and no amount of NDT was working because my world had changed in an instant. It took a lot of self-care and release work to get my gland to respond.

@bio3nergetic said in Who's still doing a PUFA depletion detox diet? (long terms results, hopes dreams, future plans):

However, as an optimized "peatarian" specimen, one can afford the occasional pufa exposure. Again, NOT to engage in a full pufa meal, but some amounts that would come with the occasional chicken meal, and that is a good quality, whole food chicken meal at that, shouldn't be fret about.

Agreed. I don’t worry about PUFA. My focus is on eating real food that I enjoy and my protein intake because they have had the greatest impact on my health.

@heretoday said in Who's still doing a PUFA depletion detox diet? (long terms results, hopes dreams, future plans):

@Jennifer said in Am I the last PUFA depleter detoxer left in this world?:

I’ve averaged under 2 g of PUFA a day for the last 20+ years and most of that being under 1 g a day

You shall be our Queen We'll call it the pufa depletion society.

Would love to see a day of eating. My tracking app only had me that low a couple times a year.

Haha! Will I be dethroned if I have the occasional avocado?

I tried copying my cronometer log for today, but had no luck so hopefully this is readable…

ENERGY SUMMERY
• Consumed—2,414 kcal
• Protein—59.8 g
• Carbs—328.2 g
• Fat—40.0 g
• MUFA—1.3 g
• PUFA—0.7 g

BREAKFAST (907 kcal • 23 g protein • 128 g carbs • 16 g fat)
• Alexandre Family Farm, 100% Grass-Fed A2/A2 Low-fat Yogurt • 12 oz • 140.08 kcal
• St Dalfour, Fruit Spread, Mango & Passion Fruit • 2 tbsp (15ml) • 80 kcal
• Melon, Galia, Flesh Only • 32 oz • 221.01 kcal
• Bananas, Raw • 1 medium - 7" to 7 7/8" long • 103.84 kcal
• Jackfruit, Raw • 8 oz • 215.46 kcal
• Instant Coffee Dry Mix, Decaf, Unprepared • 5 g • 17.55 kcal
• Coconut Cream, Liquid from Grated Meat • 1 tbsp • 49.5 kcal
• Dolcedi Low Glycemic Sweetener From Apples • 3 × 1/2 tsp • 30 kcal

LUNCH (979 kcal • 19 g protein • 121 g carbs • 15 g fat)
• Mollusks, scallop, mixed species, raw • 113 g • 77.97 kcal
• Honey • 1 tbsp • 64.41 kcal
• Exotic Superfoods, Young Thai Coconut Meat • 8 oz • 204.12 kcal
• Guava Nectar • 32 fl oz • 632.51 kcal

DINNER (528 kcal • 18 g protein • 79 g carbs • 9 g fat)
• Alexandre Family Farm, 100% Grass-Fed A2/A2 Low-fat Yogurt • 12 oz • 140.08 kcal
• St. Dalfour, Fruit Spread, Pineapple & Mango • 2 tbsp • 70 kcal
• Melon, Galia, Flesh Only • 32 oz • 221.01 kcal
• Instant Coffee Dry Mix, Decaf, Unprepared • 5 g • 17.55 kcal
• Coconut Cream, Liquid from Grated Meat • 1 tbsp • 49.5 kcal
• Dolcedi Low Glycemic Sweetener From Apples • 3 × 1/2 tsp • 30 kcal

I’ve averaged under 2 g of PUFA a day for the last 20+ years and most of that being under 1 g a day because my favorite fat source (coconut) is highly saturated and I’ve mostly followed low-fat diets during that time (80/10/10, low-fat WFPB, low-fat dairy-based, fruitarian). I’ve had periods where I ate higher fat while following an ancestral/WAPF diet and the carnivore diet, but it came from saturated sources (dairy, coconut and to a lesser extent beef) so I rarely got more than 2 g of PUFA a day. The only benefit I’ve noticed was when I had gallbladder disease—coconut fat was the only fat that didn’t trigger gallbladder attacks—however, I don’t have much to compare it to, since I was raised by a French mum who cooked with butter and from scratch so I didn’t have much PUFA to deplete.

@Mallard6146 said in Ice Cold Hands, Feet, and Nose:

This started in the past couple of years. It can be summer, and only 80 in the house, and these extremities are still ice cold. Uncomfortably so.

My thyroid labs are good. Tsh around 1.3. Total T and free T is high, normal blood pressure, blood sugar regulation is good.

I’m reluctant to try thyroid again. I played with some T3 for a short period last summer, but it didn’t heat anything up.

Have any of you experienced this and cured it?

Have you experienced stress within the past couple of years that could have suppressed your thyroid? What you describe sounds like adrenaline due to poor thyroid function as the adrenals, the body’s backup power source, compensate for the thyroid, the body’s main power source, with adrenaline when thyroid function is suboptimal. Adrenaline cuts off circulation to the extremities to keep vital organs warm and it also raises the core temp and lowers TSH so TSH (and temp without pulse rate) is not the best diagnostic for thyroid function, IME. I just got blood work done on Monday and my TSH was 1.3, also. When my blood was drawn, my extremities (hands, nose and ears) were ice cold. When I had blood work done this past January, my extremities were warm and my TSH was 2.33.

The only time my extremities were warm without thyroid (standardized NDT) was when I was on a fruitarian diet supplemented with salt because starch and all protein-rich foods besides dairy triggered hypoglycemia, and I had developed an allergy (anaphylaxis) to dairy due to poor thyroid function so it wasn’t an option. Since I can’t maintain perfect health on a fruitarian diet, only greatly lessen symptoms, my only option was to supplement thyroid. It took about a year of trialing both natural and synthetic and optimizing my dose (giving my body at least 2 weeks on the same dose before adjusting it) before all my symptoms resolved and I was certain my thyroid function was good—my temp, pulse rate, achilles tendon reflex and evaporation rate (fluids evaporated vs peed out) were consistently optimal.

@sushi_is_cringe

@GRay said in Neomycin alternative for SIBO? concerned with Ototoxicity:

@Jennifer thank you for the info, as always.

how long did it take you to clear out SIBO with Thyroid? I assume it worked because your bowel movements became more frequent?

I have used NDT for a while, but never really understood fully thyroid until I got to Ray work. Hopefully optimizing thyroid will help my SIBO as well

My pleasure. It took about 8 weeks. I think it worked because every tissue/organ was able to function better thanks to finally getting the energy that the body’s power source (thyroid and our backup power source—adrenals) needs to produce in order to digest, absorb, assimilate and eliminate food properly, keeping the small intestine relatively sterile and the bacteria in the large intestine where it should be. Also, for retaining nutrients. Ray talked about how the body wastes minerals when thyroid function is poor so we can be supplementing high doses of them, but not retaining them if the body can’t metabolize and utilize them properly because its basic need—energy—isn’t being met.

Interesting, @Ecstatic_Hamster. I just did a quick search and will have to research it more but from what I’ve come across so far, it seems promising. Thank you for sharing.

@sushi_is_cringe said in Easy Breakfast Ideas:

the ham and egg mcmuffin️. only at mcdonald’s️. have it your way.️️

I make a batch of ham and egg mcmuffins for my dad every week. They’re easy to make with the right pan. I bought this set from Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Elesinsoz-Muffin-Non-Stick-Straight-Hamburger/dp/B0CDLHYXV5/ref=sr_1_6

I use 2 heirloom eggs, 2 slices of muenster cheese and 2 thick slices of Canadian bacon per muffin baked in the oven at 350° for 20–25 minutes, and brioche English muffins because my dad likes softer bread:

Another quick and easy breakfast sandwich is a croissant sandwich. I buy premade croissants (with clean ingredients) and cut a pocket in them, and on the stovetop scramble eggs with some cream, maple syrup, salt and pepper, line the croissants with cheese and Canadian bacon or regular bacon, fill them with the scrambled eggs, wrap them up, and freeze them. I don’t have any pics of them not already frozen, but to give an idea of what they look like: