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This is really a messy meandering note where I’m incorporating stuff I scribbled on a piece of paper taped to the wall and putting those back into my electronic notes so I can look them up later after I’ve forgotten. And so I can throw that and the other scraps of paper away.

Trigger warning: diet topics – I’ve seen seemingly normal people just absolutely lose their shit over topics relating to diet. If anyone wants to discuss the science, ethics, or any aspect of the topic at all, I would love to have a rational discussion on any of these topics. If you feel so strongly that you have trouble controlling yourself on the topic, I’d also love to hear your thoughts on what your hangups are or what you think I’m missing. But if you just send me an angry email and walk away from the conversation, that’s a lot less helpful.

Meat isn’t magic, it’s likely all the things that I’m not eating that are responsible for my weirdly excellent health over the course of the last one plus years. Ever since one of my previous notes from so long ago, I’ve been adding non-meat items back into my diet very slowly to find stuff that’s safe for me to eat without any symptoms recurring.

I get debilitating headaches from coconut oil, even after doing pure carnivore for a month before deviating, just a tiny amount will give me a headache for hours or even days.

Soy sauce causes my skin to get very red and splotchy, but it takes weeks to build up to that point. So after being pure carnivore for a month and then having a meal that uses soy sauce every few days for about a week, my skin starts to get splotchy. Even worse though, is that my PVPS starts to come back. So soy sauce is absolutely out. This is too bad because there are a lot of Chinese dishes from a lot of different regions that I really like, and they all make use of soy sauce.

I suspect this was the major driving factor in my PVPS coming back after keto had so significantly reduced the symptoms before starting carnivore.

Strawberries will make my face get splotchy and start oozing, I’m simply allergic. Despite the allergy test saying I have zero allergies.

Sardines lead to gout. It’s too bad, because they’re a great source of omega 3 and it would be nice to have an anti-oxidant that doesn’t contain sugar and fiber (blueberries) or prevent the absorption of other nutrients (looking at you, phytic acid).

I ate four tiny, cooked shrimp, the following week, despite an absence of other inflammatory foods, my face became red and splotchy.

The only side effects I’ve noticed from caffeine are becoming more emotional, either really happy when I’m happy, or oddly sad when seeing something sad, not even dangerously moody in leading to bad choices due to rationalizing some bad behavior based on how I’m feeling. If I do not consume any caffeine what-so-ever, then I’m also absolutely unflappable. It’s like I unlocked an achievement or super power. I’ve a steady supply of some tasty decaf coffee, and I don’t drink sodas, and I’ve cut out flavored waters because of the sugar cravings they incite, so I guess this has become a non issue.

I’m not entirely sure if onions are good or bad. After having just one onion in a dish that I cook, again, after a month of consuming only meats, a single meal with onion will make my body smell weird the following day. This is enough motivation to avoid them because I don’t even own deodorant anymore. This is also why I still only use salt in cooking most foods. Pepper might be okay, but I honestly haven’t used it enough to know.

Chocolate. Oh, how I love chocolate. I can’t tell if it’s a combination of chocolate plus cream or if it’s just chocolate that does it, but something gives me some redness in my face after I consume it. Invariably I fail to consume only one or the other. I will occasionally make ice cream and it’s just really tasty to have chocolate and cream with my ice cream. Especially given the ice cream recipe I’ve been toying with lately. I’m going to have to abstain from chocolate and cream again for the next month and introduce just one of them next month to see what happens. Like with the soy sauce experiment, I suspect it’s not a problem in small doses, but starts to add up with repeated exposure. Of course, I don’t know what’s happening inside my body when this happens.

Most of my culinary experiments with chocolate have been to find healthier alternative snacks for family members. Speaking of another culinary experiment involving chocolate is linked below.

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