RULE #16 OF THE PRIMAL DIET

Eat fermented raw foods in specific amounts.

Fermenting raw foods raises their bio-availability, as the bacteria or molds pre-digest them.

The proliferating micro-organisms will perform more detoxification, especially from plant foods, so limit fermented plant foods.

Each food, just like other living organisms, naturally contains bacteria, many specific to itself.
They are essential for a living organism's function, and when that organism dies, its own bacteria start recycling it.

Our digestive process is 90% a bacterial process, according to Aajonus, so the body relies in great part on bacteria to break down a food into nutrients.

Fermenting raw foods, that is, letting their own (or added) bacteria break them down, facilitates digestion, since that process is externalized.

For example, fresh raw milk can take 10h to digest, while fermented raw milk takes 6h (almost half).
This is a significant gain.

You do not just benefit from this pre-digestion, the bacteria that multiplied on the food are themselves beneficial as well: they will assist in detoxifying the body.

Just like it was mentioned in the Like Heals Like rule, eating a raw version of a food enables to detoxify the stored toxic residues of similar foods that were eaten cooked, fermenting multiplies this process significantly.

Since bacteria is what breaks down a food to recycle it, it will seek and remove those stored toxic residues from the body as well.

There are many stages of fermentation, with different bacteria taking over as time gies, so it is good to eat foods at those different stages to benefit from the wide range of those bacteria.

The amount of fermented foods that is recommended by Aajonus varies.

Fermented and moldy plant foods should be limited, because they bring out much more detoxification, which can be too fast. This can end up using all available resources, and causing some damage.

Fermented animal foods are much more balanced, they will trigger additional detoxification, but less, and less harshly, because they also feed, which balances it.
For example, almost all raw milk can be had fermented.
High meat can be had often.

Fermenting foods can also bring out more taste in them.
Cooking breaks down foods, which is in part what gives it a specific taste, and fermenting has a similar effect: it breaks down foods, without the problems of cooking (which are the destruction of nutrients, altering the structure of food, and generating significant quantities of toxins).

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RULE #15 OF THE PRIMAL DIET

Have equal amounts of raw fat when eating sugar.

When eating sugar (raw fruit, unheated honey, raw carrot juice, or even cooked starch ...), Aajonus recommends to eat about an equal amount of raw fat.

This will slow down the sugar's digestion and trickle release it into the bloodstream, preventing bigger sugar crashes.

Eating a source of raw protein can also help, but it is not sufficient on its own, raw fat is what is needed the most.

If the amount of sugar is very little, for example, a raw lemonade using a little bit of lemon juice and unheated honey, then adding some fat might not be as necessary.

Other example: if eating a tomato, which is low carb, or just one small blueberry, fat might not be needed either.

Anything more than this (such as: several strawberries, half an orange, ...), Aajonus strongly recommends to add raw fat along with it.

Raw fats could be raw animal fats like butter, cream, cheese, egg, etc.
Plant fats can also be a choice, such as avocado.

For a whole high-carb fruit, the amount of fat required should be of at least two raw eggs.

To be effective, the raw fat should be eaten before or with the sugar-containing food, not after, otherwise it might not help to slow down the sugar digestion and prevent sugar spikes.

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RULE #14 OF THE PRIMAL DIET

Eat raw unsalted cheese 10 minutes before meals.

You will benefit from an eating window of up to 30 minutes without toxins dumping into the gut.

Raw unsalted cheese very efficiently absorbs the many toxins that the body deposits in the gut, which enables painless detoxification, and to improve digestion significantly.

Aajonus discovered that raw unsalted cheese doesn't digest, but instead absorbs toxins very efficiently.

For almost everyone, many toxins store in the gut.

Since the stomach is very resilient and contains digestive acids, the body deposits toxins there, where the acids can neutralize them.

This also gives a chance for the toxins to get eliminated from the body by being carried away with the food going through.

However, most foods end up getting damaged and contaminated by the toxins that the body dumps in the gut, and many of those toxins end up being "recycled", stored back into the body.

When eating raw unsalted cheese, the cheese, if truly raw and with no added salt, draws the toxins to itself and neutralizes them with its concentrated minerals and fats.

Therefore, eat a piece of cheese (around half a teaspoon to a teaspoon) 10 minutes before you eat any other foods (whether solid or liquid, even water).

When you first eat a piece of cheese, it will go and collect the toxins, clearing the way for the food that you want to eat next. This improves digestion significantly (making it around twice better), and appetite.

Wait at least 10 minutes after eating that piece of cheese, no more toxins will be dumped in the body for up to 30 minutes, so you can eat without your food encountering toxins, and get improved digestion.

If you eat before the 10 minutes have passed since eating the piece of cheese, the body will deposit more toxins in the gut, but it will still be less than if you didn't eat any cheese at all before.

The total duration of this "toxin-dumping" cycle that is reset by the cheese is of 40 minutes (similar to the duration of REM sleep cycles).

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RULE #12 OF THE PRIMAL DIET

Do not eat frozen foods.

Freezing foods, even if they are raw, destroys most of their nutritional value for most of them, and for some even generates toxins.

Exceptions include: fruits, fish that would survive thawing, raw ice cream for up to 24h.

In Aajonus' experiments, a group of dogs fed frozen raw butter developed diseases such as mange, while the group fed never-frozen raw butter remained healthy.
Then, the group that was eating frozen and was getting sick got placed on the never-frozen raw butter, and healed.

Aajonus concluded some foods could lose around 80% of their nutritional value from being frozen.

For certain foods, such as meat, freezing can also generate toxins from the proteins, in addition to destroying nutrients.

For these reasons, Aajonus preferred average quality fresh meat over frozen high quality meat.

Fruits are about the only foods that can be eaten frozen without issue.
Still, after they thaw, he recommends to eat them fast.

Fish that would survive freezing and thawing are another exception.
Since they would literally start moving again and resume their life after thawing, the kind of fish (such as Arctic Cod) that can endure this only loses a small amount of nutritional value, and can be eaten frozen without issue.

Finally, raw ice cream (recipes using raw cream, such as the ones Aajonus gives in his book The Recipe for Living Without Disease) can last up to 24h without losing substantial nutritional value.
It is recommended to flash freeze as that damages it the least.

If you consider using frozen meat to make high meat, thinking the nutritional value doesn't matter as much here, but only the presence of some bacteria, Aajonus also discourages this: the bacteria are changed from freezing, and they will induce more radical detoxifications.

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RULE #11 OF THE PRIMAL DIET

Like heals like.

Eating raw meat can repair the similar specific tissues in the body.

Eating raw foods detoxifies the toxic by-products of cooked foods that were eaten in the past.

For example, in case of liver damage, eating raw liver can speed up healing.

For anyone that ate cooked dairy products in the past, eating raw dairy will help pull out the toxins from those that ended up stored in bodily tissues.

Each food has specific bacteria, and when an organism dies, its own bacteria consumes it, which helps recycle it.

Therefore it will allow the same to happen in the body: debris from cooked foods will be removed efficiently by a similar or identical raw food. The bacteria will seek it out and has the proper design to process it.

The nutrients from raw foods give the body ammo to detoxify their processed, toxic counterparts.
Raw iron binds to toxic iron which allows the body to neutralize it and escort it out.
Raw calcium removes the cauterized calcium from pasteurized dairy, etc.

This works even with raw versions of foods that are not exactly the same, but more or less related.
For example, eating muscle meat will heal muscles faster even if the cut of meat being eaten isn't exactly the equivalent of the muscle that needs repair.
Drinking raw celery juice can detoxify past cooked greens (among other things), including cooked plants other than celery that were eaten.

This is a general rule, there can be other rules that are more important to heal a given body tissue:
Sometimes the best remedies are not just "to eat the same thing but raw".

Taking the liver damage example from before, Aajonus would recommend first and foremost to eat a lot of raw animal fat. Eating raw liver can also help, but in this case it is not the main thing.

Another example: If one ate plenty of cooked sugar, which is made in general from either sugar cane or from beets, then it is not necessarily raw sugar from those foods that are best to detoxify it: Aajonus would mainly recommend raw celery juice and unheated honey for those.

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