Raw Meat, Spirituality and Paleo

hey guys it's Adam Ferrara from practical Paleolithic and strong is the new skinny on Facebook have a really big question here from Derek today and it's interesting it's interesting to me on a couple of levels so I'll read you Derek's question and we'll go from there with a lot of my recent interests I've learned about paleo and I found my way to your site perhaps your site as a few levels up for me since I have barely started out but my interest is becoming more pure and spiritual and eating all the crap our stores and restaurants give us is obviously a big source of the taint one of the posters on a forum who seemed pretty hardcore into this stuff suggested the Paleo diet because it is how people were meant to eat before civilization got in its current state but its thing that just couldn't jump eat raw meat mainly because the natural oils are useful in preventing a lot of diseases and such he was actually into the whole killing your own animals so you can appreciate life and such which is more the spiritual part which has nothing to do with your website anyway I wanted to know your opinion on the raw meat okay so this is interesting on a bunch of levels I definitely you know I probably talk more about spirituality in the yoga you know yoga meditations and Eckhart Tolle type stuff but you know I I do believe that that eating processed food that's you know made in a factory and and has a bunch of you know crazy you know environmentally destructive stuff and and you know eating animals that were abused and live difficult lives and I mean that there's got to be something on the spirituality side is there's got to be something you know damaging to us on a sort of spiritual or energetic level by eating that kind of food putting that kind of food in our body putting the the negativity that comes along with all that food into our body I mean this is a very sort of esoteric or out-there idea but you know but I mean it it makes sense so definitely Derek you know I don't talk about this a ton but but I do think that you know I do think that there's there's a lot to what you're saying and I think paleo because paleo honors our evolution in honors the way we evolved and honors you know our ancestors and our physiology it sort of honors this stuff and then if you are doing organic and sustainable local farming and you get into all this stuff I do think we're honoring the planet a little bit better you know and I think it's it's just more nourishing and and and better for us so so yeah on those in that way I mean I think paleo is very important it's it's it's meshed very well with me as far as you know the spiritual stuff I've gotten into and I also some of you know I had ulcerative colitis for about five or six years and you know I've healed from that paleo had a ton to do with it but a lot of spiritual stuff and a lot of lifestyle stuff getting clear with who I was and and and looking at my life as a whole and not just you know not just being in that corporate grind and and working in a cubicle farm and eating processed stuff cuz it was faster and I could get back to work faster and all this other crazy stuff I definitely slowed my life down and aligned it with a lot of spiritual principles and paleo is one of those and I mean paleo has fit into that so definitely you know I think paleo is it can be a spiritual pursuit in some ways and incidentally if you guys are interested in this kind of stuff leave a comment let me know certainly stuff I could talk more about and actually Derek thanks for the question because I it's stuff I think about but it's not stuff that I've ever really you know gotten deeply into on the blog and so it's it's nice that you kind of gave me this question and got me thinking about it so thanks for that so as far as your actual question about the raw meat you know it's an interesting topic it sounds like this guy that posted on your forum you know is very hardcore and I think sometimes you have to look you know you have to look at sort of you know cost to benefit and you know are we becoming extremists are we coming hugely idealistic about what we're doing or are we doing stuff that's that's important to health and that's a good idea so you know I know if people that eat raw meat there's a lot of a lot you know relatively speaking there are a lot of people that that are into paleo and are into raw meat and it's it's definitely something that you know I can see the reasoning of certainly our ancestors ate stuff raw or very you know lightly cooked there's evidence that certain oils and certain you know fats and nutrients can get destroyed by too much heat so you know the raw thing kind of makes sense from there if you're eating you know healthy well raised clean you know not industrial sources of meat you're probably very healthy you're in a very healthy place that you know you're not you don't have to worry about the bacteria and all the you know Salmonella and e-coli and that kind of thing and this is not in any way a recommendation that anybody start eating raw meat but you know it's kind of like the raw milk argument it's like yeah if you had industrial raw milk you'd probably kill you if you have raw milk from healthy animals that are grass fed and raised on a family farm and everything's done properly then you know the raw milk is not a big deal it doesn't need to be pasteurized so you know these are sort of basic basic things you know are there advantages to eating raw meat I don't know Randy Roach who I've mentioned before he wrote the book muscle smoke and mirrors I've talked to him a couple times and he actually does he's raw he eats raw milky I'm sorry raw meat he eats raw chicken actually I mean I think he pretty much lives at least the last time I talked to him he pretty much lives on raw meat you know and speaking of I mean Eskimo cultures are you know they Ross Fishman you've got sushi from Japan I mean you know raw meat is not completely unheard of you know whether or not it's imperative and I mean you even mentioned that that you're just kind of getting started with paleo you know I think there's so much stuff you can get into with paleo you know the raw meat thing becomes really small so I mean if you've dumped your grains all the grains you've dumped you know dairy and you you know you're just eating meat fruit vegetables you've got that dialed in you've got local organic sources for everything that takes a long time you know so the question of eating the raw meat I do eat my steaks and my beef rare I mean I like it that way I eat raw eggs in my shakes so I'll do like goat yogurt goat yogurt smoothie with goat yogurt about three raw eggs and you know some other stuff some fruit and some coconut oil it's raw ground flax seeds there are some people that actually I'll try to post his website there was a guy I ran into a while back who does a smoothie with sardines in it to get the oil and I think those the canned sardines are are raw you know so there is definitely some raw meat stuff going on and I think it can be healthy the the enzymes don't get denatured after about a hundred and ten or so degrees protein starts to get denatured and broken down so you get these sort of raw live enzymes and that's one of the one of the benefits of raw food you know especially like if you look at the Ravi and websites and stuff they're really into like the enzyme thing so there's a lot of talk about enzymes and and having live foods and this is what we're talking about it there's definitely protein and enzymes in you know raw meat as well as far as you know some of the oils are delicate and destroyed by heat but you know how much benefit you're gonna get from eating raw raw meat or raw meat exclusively I have no idea there might be some but I don't know some place you can look is there's a website called beyond veg comm and it's r
eally good it's they definitely believe he's at least one of the guys that writes the site was formerly a raw vegan and there's a lot of a lot of blasting that lifestyle and a lot of talk where they you know recognize a lot it's kind of like I do in my book they recognize a lot of the good principles within raw vegan but then you know acknowledge that like you have to add you have to add animal protein to it and you have that there's all these other things and they sort of talk about the cover ups in the raw be and community and how they you know sort of distort distort things to make this argument for this pure vegan thing and and and they lose in my opinion they lose the the benefit of the the benefit of you know raw foods and like raw fruits raw vegetables green smoothies these sort of raw vegan deals they lose a lot of that because they get so extreme and they say you don't need any protein and all you need to do is eat vegetables and fruits and you know it turns into this kind of wacky tangent thing but the you know raw fruits and vegetables are great and then on beyond veg comm they do talk about eating raw meat and sort of a more raw like a raw paleo or a raw diet kind of thing that includes meat so you might want to check that out but yeah I mean I think you know I really other than the I guess the eggs at times some raw raw dairy lots of raw fruit and vegetables and rare meat that's about that's about the extent of the raw stuff I eat and I think it's something I think it's something good to think about I think it's good something good to look into I think it's a small part of paleo and I think if you get into local organic food and you just get your diet you know paleo the raw things not terribly important might be something you want to look into in six months or a year when you've got everything else lined up and you say alright am I gonna feel better or worse on Raw but you know it's not something that a lot of people are doing in the community to a large extent you know and this is another there's there's this idea was this idealist thing it sounds like the the guy posting here might have had you know where there's like it's just very idealistic it's it's you know we're not actually by the way this reminds me cuz it came out of this magazine there's a new magazine out called paleo magazine it's really excellent and my friend Kane credit cod is writing at he's the editor there's a lot of good articles in here they recently gave away a copy of my book as a as a contest prize one of the things they were doing but great magazine and it was actually a was actually an interview with someone from the primal grind which is a paleo cafe that's inside a CrossFit in Canada and what did she say here she said it was interesting I'm sorry you guys will have to forgive me her yeah I can't find the quote but basically what she was saying is that you know that where were modern humans and we're trying to you know live more more up here as she says we aren't trying to recapture a cave man's lifestyle we are revolved urban live who want to be as healthy strong and happy as possible and believe that these real unprocessed foods are the best fuel for our busy lifestyles we're located in a gym with no machines just ropes kettlebells pull-up bars tractor tires and barbells we don't believe in fitness or boring workouts we want people to sleep more work less play more and eat more and feel and look better as a consequence we're definitely not claiming to be recreating a caveman's lifestyle as I'm sure cavemen didn't have espresso machines bake muffins or drink lattes what we are doing is making real simple satisfying foods available and easy to access so just you know maybe that applies I think a little bit to what what's going on here I mean we're not necessarily recreating a caveman lifestyle we're just looking to you know live in a in the modern world and as healthy and pure as a way possible and in a way that benefits us and benefits the environment and you know we get into all these spiritual things so I hope that's some stuff for you to think about Derek definitely post some follow-up comments or questions if you have them and for everybody watching this if this sort of more spiritual side of paleo is something you're interested in there's a lot I can say about it so if you're interested in oh and I'll love them I'll get to work on putting some content out relating to that if you're on youtube be sure to like this and you can leave a comment on youtube and if you're watching it on my blog you can also leave a comment you can get your questions to me any way you'd like and be sure and get the free downloads I've got up here some paleo stuff and a free free chapter from my book the Paleo diet is missing link so thanks a lot for watching guys and we'll talk to you soon .

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Adam Farrah from Practical Paleolithic and Strong is the New Skinny on Facebook answering a question about eating raw meat on the Paleo diet and looking at some of the deeper spiritual aspects of the Paleo diet and lifestyle.
IMPORTANT! Adam Farrah is not a doctor or medical professional. This information is based on my own opinion and is not meant to be medical advice or to treat, diagnose, cure or prescribe in any way.

August 06, 2020 Tags : Paleo Diet , Raw Meat , Video

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