rawlife’s BodyBlog

Several weeks back, or maybe a month or so, I went off the diet a bit more than my body could handle, obviously, and now I am paying for it.  This is as close to a cold as I really come these days-still feel pretty much like myself but I’m hacking up all kinds of junk.  Anyway, I come prepared: about two months back a put a little leftover raw beef in the fridge to ferment.  I’ve been taking it out every week and exposing it to the air for a few brief moments before I put it back in the fridge.  Now it’s very old and very stinky: the perfect probiotic.  Anyone who knows me, knows I love my probiotics, as all creatures should.  The Native Americans used to make this ‘high meat’ for the feeling it gave them(from the bacterial content), hence the name.  I’m eating it to help clean me out a bit and assist in this detox I am already going through.  To be honest, I am at the very end of it anyway, but I thought I’d give this a go-I made this stuff for a reason, afterall.  I had some last night and I woke up very nauseous in the night, but didn’t actually throw up, so I had some more today.  It does not taste very good, but I feel very drawn towards eating it anyway.  I know that a lot of animals, maybe the vast majority, often instinctually eat putrid/fermented things when they are sick specifically for the additional bacteria.  My cat actually did this when he was towards the end of his life and very sick.  We had fed him regular cat food for the his whole life and at the very end, we switched him to raw.  He got dramatically better after barely having been able to move around.  Long story short though, he pretty much refused to eat the food until it had sat around and purtrified for a couple of days, then he would gobble it up.  Pretty neat how nature works.  He died in the end, but he really did get a whole lot better real quick when we switched him over.  I bet it didn’t take more than just a few days before he went from moving in literal slow motion and barely being able to sit down, to running and actually jumping around.

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