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Try eating raw shellfish. Raw oysters might be a little dangerous, although I indulge in them whenever I like. I like a lot of raw shrimp, wild-caught, not farm-raised. I also really enjoy raw goat and cow dairy. I promise you, a raw diet that includes a lot of raw animal fat will not leave you emaciated unless you choose to undereat. I was a raw vegan/vegetarian for a while, and have known plenty of people who have done that diet. It only works if the food you eat is of absolutely superior quality, better than anything in the grocery stores these day, or at the farmer's markets. I don't necessarily eat 100% raw, but I am pretty close, most of the time. Social reasons are most of the reason I eat cooked. Again, I don't think cooking is awful, in and of itself, but overcooking is just as bad as slowly starving yourself to death. The quality of the food you eat is at least 99% of the issue, anyway. And if you'll take the opinion of a bunch of Chinese doctors over a Chinese Immortal, then I have a bridge to sell you. Also, some oceanfront property in Arizona.

Here's a poem by a female Taoist Immortal. It's about an all-raw diet. ABSTENTION FROM GRAIN By Sun Bu-er Once you can feed on the living energy, Your lungs will be in an extroardinary state of clear coolness. Forget the spirit, and there are no appearances to cling to; Merge with the ultimate, and the existent emptiness is gone. For breakfast look for wild taro roots; When hungry at night, pick wetland mushrooms. If you mix in smoke and fire, Your body will not walk on the jewel pond. Here's the link. www.healingtaousa.com/bigu.html I am not advising you. I'm arguing a point of fact. You can do what you want to do with your food. You're not going to be able to convince me that cooking food will give you more aerobic stamina, though. Sun Bu-er mentions specifically that the lungs benefit from eating raw, and I have personally experienced and heard from others the benefit to aerobic stamina from eating raw, or very lightly cooked. Not only from raw fooders, but others as well. Any board that is this directly connected to the Healing Tao isn't the best place to knock a raw food diet. Plato, Max, I, and others have been doing the raw thing on and off for years, at least since 2000. Again, not telling you what to do. I'm merely sharing my experience, if you are curious.

Do you want good circulation, or do you want to win the argument? Sungazing will warm you up pretty fast, in my experience, although it doesn't always provide consistent results. Yoga will too, especially inverted postures. I don't really know what would fix your circulation problems from a dietary point of view. Compared to the mineral availability concept, though, Chinese medicine is 85% bullshit. Everything Chinese has a high crap quotient. The truth can be hidden from Chinese folks pretty easily, but I'm a little too white and a little too angry to spend more time fiddling with a half-broken system.

I don't really know what your definition of cooked is. Wet heat above 118 degrees F is cooked. Some foods do about as well cooked as raw. My personal experience has been that I have much more physical stamina on raw/very lightly cooked versus more thoroughly cooked. Warming food to 118 makes it taste cooked, without changing the chemical structure. Experiment all you want with this, but don't make a religion out of Chinese medicine. Your innate constitution can change over time. Chinese medicine does not address nutrient density of food, nor does it make clear the worthlessness of refined grains or refined sweeteners. It's all about absorbable/absorbed nutrients versus absorbable/absorbed calories. I do agree everyone has a constitution, but I don't agree that flesh foods should be cooked over 118 wet heat F degrees, unless the person eating it is very weak, or the flesh is from a sick animal, etc. I'm just saying, there's a reason that every wild animal that eats its natural wild diet has straight teeth, whereas many humans and Dr. Pottenger's cats don't/didn't.

Might want to try looking at Dr. Weston Price's work before you make dietary choices. Every group he studied said that shellfish and fish eggs were the single best foods available. You can get fish eggs dried, or salted. I eat raw oysters and shrimp. I don't mind lightly steaming them, but most other people have a different definition of "cooked" than I do. Raw meat and fish, etc. still have vitamin C intact in them. Through the eating of lots of raw meat and fish, the Inuit managed to avoid scurvy, whereas many British sailors died of scurvy because of lack of Vitamin C. I'm not saying eat 100% raw, I'm just saying don't over cook your food.

All the evidence I have seen from making my own supplements is that totally drying it at any point during the process makes it MUCH less effective. The precipitate from seawater is much better than from dried celtic sea salt, and dried precipitate of any kind seems to have no effectiveness at all. Joe Lello at Atlantis Alchemy makes this product.

yoda, my experience has been that it is best to use both the straight sea salt andthe precipitate, plus some kind of calcium supplement like Tamahi Calcium. I am making my own version of Tamahi with oyster shells, fish bones, and chicken eggshells. Tamahi is made the same way as the sea salt precipitate, with lye. Plants don't tolerate sodium as well as humans and animals. Some people use sea salt solutions hydroponically, though. The Lye (wet method, as we call it) method removes most/all of the sodium, while leaving you with all the more useful minerals in more or less the same ratios. There are several people who make the sea salt precipitate for sale, including Joe Lello at www.atlantisalchemy.com. I have bought from Joe in the past and find his products of high quality. I currently make all my own these days, though.

If you want a good Mg supplement, you can check out Barry Carter's Ormus site at www.subtleenergies.com. I learned to make a magnesium supplement from seawater and/or sea salt. It gives me an incredible kick. You can learn to make your own, or buy it from a couple of different makers. It was used by Solomon to make gold from Dead Sea water. Don't let the fact that msot people use drain cleaner to make it. You can buy FOOD-grade lye from www.snowdriftfarms.com, I believe. I just use regular Red Devil lye. Seawater has about 3:1 magnesium to calcium. I've been making my own for about 9 months now, I've made and consumed probably 4-5 gallons of this stuff. It works great on plants as well. It really helps to make this stuff from seawater. I made it from Celtic sea salt for months before making it from seawater. It makes a big difference in the energy level, in my experience.

moved to another thread.--Magnesium 101.

Leavened bread is not as healthy as unleavened/naturally leavened. I have noticed a difference in my health when eating leavened vs. unleavened.

chi rollers rock. I got mine today. I have used a softball in the past instead of a chi roller, and I thought that my softball training would make the chi roller redundant. No way. The chi roller goes way deeper than a softball. I will be using this thing daily for months if not years.

My eyes are not quite so deep set as the used to be. My cheekbones are a bit more prominent. My jaw hangs closere to centerline. My hearing is also a lot better.

Perhaps the 5 elements are simply the Platonic solids and their associated colors. The hindus say the root chakra is represented by a yellow cube and corresponds to EArth. The 2nd chakra is represented by a blue icosahedron and corresponds to water. The 3rd (solar plexus) is represented by a red tetrahedron and corresponds to fire. the 4th (heart) is represented by an octahedron and corresponds to air, and the throat (5th) chakra is represented by a dodecahedron and corresponds to ether or akasha.

Just to clarify about NCR--Plato got the idea to do NCR on himself from ME. I've done about 200 inflations on myself, and still do them every once in a while.

Well, you start out by putting your fingertip on the very tip of your sacrum. Then start gently contracting muscles in the sacrum area untl you feel it start to move forward/tuck under.

Has anyone tried contracting and moving their sacrum back and forth? I am getting a pretty large range of motion with my sacrum. Eventually I won't need my Aneros to stimulate my prostate.