Flex Rx Clinical Fitness

After 3 years on a 100% raw PRIMAL DIET, I can now begin to discuss the details of my dietary evolution, and hopefully assist others in their quest for supreme nutrition. I was once an advocate of dietary protocols such as the regular macronutrient juggling low carb(Atkins), and high protein ‘phase shift’ (Metabolic diet) diet types, before becoming frustrated with the lack of objective results. Research and experimentation lead me away from these highly processed and supplement reliant diets and towards the slightly more practical and natural Paleolithic or caveman diets such as The Paleo Diet (Loren Cordain). Still not convinced, I attempted to consume as natural and unprocessed a diet as possible, finding that the less I intervened into a food’s naturally raw state, the better it could be digested, assimilated and utilized. Was raw vegan the answer? This seemed to make sense since to eat food raw must mean the elimination of foods that “cannot” be eaten raw such as meat. The cleasnsing and detoxification which was expected on such a diet was encouraging, but the loss of lean mass and the apparent lack of regenerative properties was not. I lost 20 kilos of bodyweight but unfortunately that was not my objective, as an ELG analysis of my bodyfat percentage revealed that 2/3rds of this loss was lean mass ( fluid, muscle, connective tissue and bone). I quickly realised that to properly regenerate during the cotinued cleansing process of detoxification, I needed to eat meat. Enzyme Nutrition (Edward Howell) and the works of Weston A Price became my next focus. According to these guys, raw foods including those from animal sources were not only often consumed by traditional cultures (and animals) but were vital to their survival and evolutionary progression. My physical status instantly improved upon the inclusion of raw animal foods into my diet, but the social phobia of the ‘dangers’ of microbes and parasites remained (especially when it’s advocates such as Sally Fallon in NT were still unsure) until Aajous Vonderplanitz came along. The works of Aajonus completely dispelled the danger, and with safety assured I went about taking the raw food issue very seriously. As a Fitness Clinician (I.A.R.T) my basic philosophy of exercise is to perform as little as possible in order to achive the greatest possible adaptive response. In other words exercise efficacy and efficiency is my primary objective, to find an ideal dose/response ratio in exercise presciption. In order to limit general fatigue I have to avoid superfluous exercise or work. The Primal Diet diet satisfies this same principal in a nutritional capacity. In effect, it creates a positive net energy load by allowing me to properly digest, assimilate and utilize, all of my required macro and micro nutrients, with minimal effort ie. with the use of natural food enzymes, rather than to burden my own bodily resources with the manufacture of exogenous enzymes. I will elabrate on this in future articles on this blog, as well as to explain the additional benefits of a diet high in microbial activity. I know have a wife and two young children who enjoy the benefits of raw food nutrition and would like to see many more do the same.