Hi all,
Big news, bad news. So for some reason, I’ve stopped being able to tolerate beef. It’s all I was eating and now I can’t stomach it, I guess the people who said I would sensitize to these foods were right. FORTUNATELY, I’ve found a solution. Insects. They’re basically meat and pretty crunchy. So far so good. I’ve only tried crickets but I’ve added links below to other insects. At least there’s more variety here, right? I highly doubt any insect would cause an IgG response, so they’re probably safe.
Crickets – I’ve actually had to buy these from pet stores… For some reason, they don’t make crickets without adding a whole bunch of additives to them. The only ones I could find online were BBQ flavored, and many had added milk and sugar. How is that healthier?
The ones from pet stores are organic and have nothing added so they’re safe to consume. I used to feed them to my bearded dragons so that’s pretty funny.
Facts:
- The UN states that 20 percent of the world eats insects. Perhaps those are the parts of the world where obesity isn’t’ a problem? A coincidence? I think not.
- A number of insects have a higher protein amount (per 100g) than beef!
- It’s good for the environment (fuck bugs, amirite?). They take less water to raise than normal sources of protein (beef) and contribute much less to greenhouse gases.
Articles promoting bug consumption:
The Telegraph (coincidentally recently featuring my dad)
Will keep everyone posted.
UPDATE:
April fools. Got my mom too! 🙂 Hope nobody got too concerned. I am not eating insects, meat is still a-okay and will be for a very long time.
Woah, gnarly. What pet stores do you go to, and how have you been preparing your crickets, I must know. I’m on the 100% carnivore diet, and I just recently stopped eating beef too -instead switching back to sardines, chicken, tuna, and mackerel with less than perfect results. Gosh, it’s so weird, your blog seems to have almost perfect timing. When the diet first stopped working for me, you made your candida post, then again, and you make your no carb post, then now with the insect post. What a world, huh?
Have you considered that it might be your gut microbiome that is making you intolerant to things?
I know you’ve mentioned before that you had trouble with probiotics but maybe you could try another kind. Or maybe you have such a serious issue that you would benefit from a “microbiome transplant” (if you haven’t heard of that yet, you’ll have to look it up – it’s too gross to describe but medically useful).
From various things I’ve read it seems a change in gut flora can have serious effects on a person’s health and might even trigger immune reactions.
See if you can find anything on the issue.
April fools?
What do they taste like? Don’t say chicken.
I had the same problem, but I went cannibal instead.
I no longer have to pay for meat and this diet has really lowered my stress level… Though, perhaps that’s just because I ate the people who annoyed me.
haaaaa
Just like Hannibal Lector: making the world more civil one meal at a time
I can’t help notice the posting date on this is April 1st.
Just saying.
Clint Paddison talks about leaky gut syndrome and molecular mimicry. Where undigested foods at a molecular level pass through the gut wall. The body tags it as a foreign antigen and attacks anything in your body that looks similar to this. In the case of Ra your synovial tissue. Healing the gut is the key elimiating inflammation causing foods and restoring the healthy bacteria in your gut.
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