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Note: this doesn't include all remedies and possible individual diets.
Always look the first 4 items for the most solid basis.
Order of the pyramid:
Different profiles:
Regular
Specific to leaky gut / Crohn's
Specific to other severe digestion issues
For extreme brain detoxification
'Natural' prime health state
Currently viewing: Regular
This is the regular food pyramid for the average person, that was raised with societal exposure to toxins. The first 3 foods constitute the most important, mandatory tier, they are the most set in stone. Almost anything below, could be swapped around depending on the individual.
Choose the food item for which you wish to see the quality criteria:
Raw
Meat
Raw
Egg
Unheated
Honey
Raw
Fish
Raw
Oyster
Raw
Salmon
Raw
Water
Raw
Vegetable Juice
Raw
Nut
Raw
Papaya
Raw
Pineapple
Raw
Cucumber
Raw
Fruit
Raw
Clay
Raw
Milk
Raw
Butter
Raw
Unsalted
Cheese
Raw
Date
Raw
Vinegar
Raw
Olive Oil
Raw
Coconut Cream
Raw
Wine
Meat
Mandatory
Raw
Undesirable but not unacceptable
Freezing
Frozen meat is quite damaged
Freezing destroys 80 of nutrients in meat according to Aajonus, and generates some toxins. It is best to avoid it.
Beneficial but not mandatory
Organic label
Organic meat is better, but non-organic lean cuts of meat can be fine
Toxins store in the fat, so lean cut from non-organic animals (except pig, which should be truly organic) could be of acceptable quality.
Beneficial but not mandatory
100% grass-fed grass-finished meat is better
An animal fed too much grain will make less nutritious meat.
Beneficial but not mandatory
Freshly-slaughtered meat is ideal
The meat is more vibrant with nutrition if the animal was alive just a few moments prior. Over the days the meat can lose enzymes and overall nutrition. Freshly-killed meat is about 2x better.
Undesirable but not unacceptable
Beware of cheap meat
Depending on where you live, some unscrupulous sellers might inject water or add coloring on the meat.
Undesirable but not unacceptable
Beware of conventional, and all meat
In the USA, by law, the meat has to be sprayed with citric acid (GMO) or frozen. Few places manage to provide fresh non-treated meat.
TIP
Private food clubs should be able to circumvent that, but do make sure sƟll. Amos Miller for example won a court case against that.
Beneficial but not mandatory
Organic label
Non-organic lean meat could be fine
Toxins store in the fat, so lean cut from non-organic animals (except pig, which should be truly organic) could be of acceptable quality.
Undesirable but not unacceptable
Organic label
Organs must be top quality
Avoid organs from non-organic sources, as toxins tend to store there as well, and on top of organic, the animal should be completely unvaccinated.
Undesirable but not unacceptable
Ground meat is of lesser quality
It is better to take whole cuts:
WARNING
Meat grinders can leech metals into the meat.
WARNING
Meat that is grinded only once can be fine, but twice grounded “homogenizes” it too much and makes it harder to digest.
TIP
Prefer using a food processor to make chopped meat or pâté, superior in every way, and can be made to have a chunky texture as well (see the guides for pâté and deli pâté / marinated pâté towards the end of this guide).
Undesirable but not unacceptable
Drying
Dried meat is much less digestible
Drying, the removal of moisture, kills bacteria which disables the enzymes and prevents digestion of most of the meat. Prefer raw unsalted cheese for dry food cravings.
Very undesirable
Storage
Avoid saran wrap
Unlike regular plastic, saran wrap has chemicals that go deep into the item and cannot be scraped off.
Ratios
Overall: The recommended amount of bio-available calories is above the basal needs for maintenance.
Even without any kind of exercise, eating raw foods, while supplying many bio-available nutrients, expands a lot of them through extra detoxification.
Food combining
Certain food are better had with other foods, in certain proportions, and other foods may have improper digestion or negative effects when had together.
It is recommended to eat 3 tablespoons of extra fat along with meat, so that the meat isn't converted to energy and kept as building blocks to regenerate tissue instead.
At least 2/3 of the meat eaten must be fresh meat, to avoid detoxifying without rebuilding properly. Later down the years, a diet of only high meat may be considered.
It is better to spread out over the day consumption of cooked starch if having it (mostly as a specific remedy but also if "cheating"), a few tablespoon at a time.
Overall daily quantities
Note: those vary based on your size, condition, etc.
An average maximum of 1 tablespoon a day, 2 for athletes
Health Domains
The Primal Diet is primarily a diet, however, Aajonus went over many, if not all, aspects, or domains, of health.
Hot baths or some degree of physical activity are very important, as is exposure to EMF.
Diet
The diet is the cornerstone of Aajonus' protocols.
Hot Baths
Short hot baths (45min, 39-40°C), or at least a form of sweating, are almost mandatory to expel toxins that the body dumps under the skin, to prevent continuous degeneration. Longer hot baths (1h+) act deeper and start decongesting the lymphatic system from hardened seed oils.
Sleeping
Sleeping is extremely important: a lot of detoxification and healing happen during sleep. 90% of the nervous system detoxifies at night. Aajonus recommends sleeping as much as necessary, taking naps, and waking up to eat then going back to sleep.
Sun
Daily exposure to 1h of sun could be enough on this diet. More sunbathing is beneficial (and can detoxify).
EMF
Artificial electromagnetic frequencies can be quite detrimental. Exposure for more than 3 minutes to EMF can start damaging animal cells.
Teeth
Aajonus recommends brushing at least every 3 days to prevent the formation of plaque (toxins bound to nutrients). For already hardened plaque, he has made a raw toothpaste.
Body Fat
Aajonus recommends being overweight, and to do cycles of gaining and losing bodyfat, every 3 months to every 3 years, as a way to pull out deep tissue toxins in the extra bodyfat, and expel them when renewing.
Sports
Aajonus recommands a minimum of around 2h of light physical activity daily (walking, moving around, etc.) daily. And for each activity ring (seen through iridology), 1h of sports or 20 minutes of heavy singing.
Stretching
Aajonus recommends the plow as the only daily yoga pose that you could need.
Stress
Stress can use up more of the body's resources. It is detrimental to be consumed by stress and depletes nutrients.
Sex
Sex (or masturbation according) is recommended based on individual needs. Toxins also store in sexual glands, and sexual discharge is required to expel those toxins, and prevent continuous degeneration. Some people also have more over-active sex glands than others.
Massaging
Light massages only (stronger massages cause damage to the skin, the lymph)
Psychological
Despite his protocols relying mostly on diet and other physical health practices, Aajonus recommends activities, such as creative, expressive activities, to help healing from certain conditions, such as asthma, or agoraphobia.
Temperatures
38 °F
3.3 °C
For Fat:
Should not be stored below that temperature.
For Meat:
Should not be stored below that temperature.
45 °F
7.2 °C
For Milk:
Should not be stored below that temperature
For Honey:
Should not be stored below that temperature
For all other foods:
Should not be stored below that temperature.
50 °F
10 °C
For Olive Oil:
Should not be stored below that temperature
68 °F
20 °C
For Egg:
Should not be stored below that temperature
93 °F
33.9 °C
For Honey:
Should not be stored above that temperature
96 °F
35.6 °C
For Fat:
Should not be stored above that temperature
98 °F
36.7 °C
Average body temperature
potassium, phosphorus, cauterized
For Milk:
Should not be stored above that temperature
For Meat:
Should not be stored above that temperature
For Egg:
Should not be stored above that temperature
101 °F
38.3 °C
Average herbivore body temperature
103 °F
39.4 °C
Hot Bath:
Minimum temperature
104 °F
40 °C
For all other foods:
Should not be stored above that temperature
105 °F
40.6 °C
Bacterial activity gets destroyed
Cooking starts
110 °F
43.3 °C
Hot Bath:
Maximum temperature
122 °F
50 °C
Most major vitamins are destroyed
132 °F
55.6 °C
All of natural vitamins, enzymes, are destroyed
141 °F
60.6 °C
Old pasteurization temperature
Half of the calcium gets cauterized (unable to exchange molecules
161 °F
71.7 °C
Flash pasteurization (30s)
250 °F
121.1 °C
Sterilization
Sorted foods
Sort foods by:
Most harshly detoxifying foods
The higher the food on this list, the less should be had.
Alcohol
never, or almost never have it, it is more damaging than it can be useful
Moldy Berry
beginners should avoid eating those for a while
Vinegar
maximum around 1 tbsp a day, 2 if athlete
Cilantro Juice
5% or so of whole vegetable juice, pulls out deep-rooted mercury, can cause damage and dementia if too much is had
Oil
in general 1tbsp per day
Fruit
high-carbs fruits only around once daily or less
Coconut Cream
around 3 tbsp max per day
High Meat
can be had often if enough fat, fresh meat, etc. are had
The official website for the Primal Diet. You can buy paperback and digital versions of Aajonus' books there.
Originally wewant2live.com, Aajonus created that website in collaboration with Jim Ellingson,
to enable people to search through all his texts with keywords.
A free version of primaldiet.net.
The debate of whether or not Aajonus' data should remain behind a paywall, under what kind of model,
has been going on ever since his death in 2013.
This website.
We focused on gathering and summarizing the information,
organizing it in categories and linking it together,
and presenting it in the most clear and aesthetic format possible as the core feature.
The goal was for the website to answer most questions we were frequently getting in Primal Diet groups,
to have a complete media that can be used to explain Aajonus' works to others,
and in general, to connect health knowledge.
A website that allows to search through Aajonus' texts in a different way than primaldiet.net/aajonus.online:
the whole Q&As were cut in smaller documents and given tags, along with their audio counter-parts, allowing to see the other mini-documents given the same tags.
Another channel featuring more footage from Ebrahim.
Places
The places which allow you to find good raw foods are USA, Southern Europe, some parts of Eastern Europe, South America, South East Asia.
In Northern Europe, celery has become rather expensive. In Norway, raw milk is difficult to obtain. The South of Europe also of course has a warmer climate.
Raw dairy is more difficult to find in Canada than in the USA.
All ingredients mentioned are implicitly qualified as raw, never frozen, nor radiated, without added salt or additives, and as natural and "organic" (or even "bio-dynamic") as possible, unless stated otherwise.
Certain ingredients here are not recommended, they are not included as recommendations, although you can use them in your recipes.
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