We Want to Live: The Primal Diet (2005 Expanded Edition)

Those who left skeptical reviews obviously didn’t heal from severe chronic illness with the Primal Diet. A few years ago, I was suffering from late stage neurological Lyme disease, which came with a sleuth of mystery illnesses including bradycardia, MS, neuropathy, severe chronic fatigue, severe brain fog, numerous neurological issues, gut issues IBS, severe periodontal disease and much more. I was also pre-diabetic and triglycerides were in the high 900’s. I fasted for 30 days and the diabetes and triglycerides returned to normal, but I had bone and muscle loss, nerves, electrical shocks and numbness and other symptoms still remained. I couldn’t write with a pen for two years because of the neuropathy and nerve damage. I was whole food plantbased and had tried everything, including Dr. Sebi’s regimen, Medical Medium’s diets, as well as Ayurveda and TCM. My body couldn’t assimilate cooked meat, especially cooked poultry. It gave me kidney infections; I had 12 in one year. At the time, I couldn’t afford seeing a functional medicine doctor or vitamin/gluthatione IV infusions that would’ve helped me greatly. I was at my wits end until I met a woman who healed her breast cancer and Lyme disease with Aadjonus’s raw meat diet and I was intrigued. So, I bought this book along with his recipe book and dove in. I followed his instructions of buying fresh, not previously frozen grassfed meat. Mixed it with raw minced garlic because I was paranoid of parasites. Also added minced fresh basil and mixed in a raw pastured egg yolk. That night I slept like a baby; I also had severe insomnia, but not that night. Then, the next day, I didn’t have any chronic fatigue and zero brain fog, which was bad at times. Sometimes I had forgotten how to spell simple words like ‘what’ or ‘school.’ Anyway, I started to heal. I cried tears of joy because I never thought I’d improve. Every allopathic doctor and specialist I saw told me they couldn’t help me. I started to incorporate raw fish, which I grew up eating, along with raw milk, eggs, butter and raw honey and I got my brain back. Gut issues, neuropathy, periodontal disease and everything else started to improve quickly. I also started eating more fruits and raw veggies since my gut was healing. Aadjonus said in his book, “raw meat heals better than any other food.” I thought that was a bold statement, but I can attest the truth of that. Three years later, I am feeling better than I did in my 20’s. I’m 46. My brain and memory is sharp, I have zero pain/numbness and my gums and teeth are in good shape. The Hygenist who cleans my teeth was impressed. I no longer feel like I’m surviving. I am thriving and loving life!If you’re trying to heal from chronic illness, including cancer, or if you’re interested in optimal wellness, read this book. There are many diets out there and I’ve tried most of them. We must discern and trust our intuition, which is not to be confused with fear. I am truly grateful for this book and Aadjonus’s contribution.

Great Book!

If you read the health magazines or go to health food stores, you can't help but see ads and articles all over the place touting the "raw" diet. There are two main reasons why I hate to see raw food diets being sold the way they are being sold today.One is that some people are capitalizing on the raw food movement and the ignorance of the public by selling raw dead food, dead from processing. It hasn't been cooked, but that's about all you can say for it. In my opinion, once people find out that raw dead foods are useless as far as making them healthier, they will reject the whole raw food movement as just another fad, and it will fade away along with all the other food fads.Number two, most if not all the raw food gurus you see are touting a strict raw vegan diet which includes no dairy, eggs or meat.This book was written to show you a different way. And I believe that anyone who is really interested in improving his or her health needs to read it to get the whole picture of not only how raw living foods can improve their health but how and what to eat in the way of raw foods in order to maximize their health giving qualities.If you look at the health magazines, you will see that all the advocates of the raw vegan diets are young, and that's not a bad thing, but how much experience can they have? The author of this book is over sixty years old and has had over thirty years of experience with all kinds of raw diets including vegetarian and fruitarian, not to mention sharing experiences of many many clients who used raw food to cure themselves of various diseases and health problems that wouldn't respond to any other kind of treatment.I believe a wise and judicious person should get the whole picture of what raw foods can and cannot do, and they can't get it unless they read this book because this author is the only one who knows enough or is willing to tell the whole truth about diet. People interested in diet should read it first, then they can read all the other raw diet books and magazine articles they want, if they still want to.There are consequences, Mr. Vonderplanitz points out, to being a strict fruitarian or vegetarian, especially when certain foods are emphasized, which include symptoms of over-emotionality to the point of becoming bi-polar or manic depressive, hyperactive, irritable, even getting tooth decay. It happened to him, and it can happen to you. He spends a lot of time in the book explaining the difference between raw and cooked foods and that you can eat foods raw, such as butter and cream, without suffering the same health ailments you would suffer if you ate them after pasteurization (cooking). Did you know that pasteurized (cooked) milk actually removes calcium from the body instead of putting it in?One of the things I like about the foods advocated to be used in this book is that they are mostly everyday foods that we are familiar with. I am the owner of a number of other raw food books which include all kinds of expensive and exotic foods in the recipes. You have to spend money on these things having no idea what they will taste like. One of the books, which I reviewed earlier, has nothing in it but pretty pictures and little else. You won't learn much from reading it, but it sold because it came out under the name of a young man who was the raw foods poster boy at the time. I have removed it from my library because I can't afford to give space to useless books.So, if you are interested in going raw or interested in optimal health through diet, be smart, save money and read a book written by someone who has been there and done it all.

Highly recommend reading this work. If nothing else, it will give you a better understanding of human health, and the role nutrition plays in our daily lives. Many major diseases are caused by decades of poisonous habits--most of which go completely unnoticed by the average person. If you care about your health and the health of your loved ones, you will benefit greatly by studying the works by Dr. Aajonus.

I will probably never eat out of this book, but as someone who uses homeopathy, herbs, and lots of "kitchen medicine", I find the concise descriptions (from the author's viewpoint) of the causes and remedies for various illnesses to be well worth the price of the book.

Read it. Follow it. Live it. It will change your life and the scales will fall from your eyes.

Easy read, lots of information to digest. Worthwhile and Thought-Provoking.It would seem that nature may actually be better at providing our bodies with the nutrients and tools they need than we are! Surprised?Short-term tests of this way of eating on my end so far. If this review gets old with no edits to discredit this book, then that means I'm doing just fine!

This book is a rare opportunity to reconsider how you view health, food, and your body. I have been eating similar to Aajonus's guidelines for about 9 years, and it has been a powerfully freeing experience for me. I don't suggest that this is a diet that will heal you; instead it is an opportunity to consider and then explore different food options, with the hope that you may experience new solutions for old problems. I certainly found powerful solutions by exploring Aajonus's ideas. And his story, however unbelievable, is worth reading!

Great read. Although quite pricey, definitely worth having this information at hand. One of the best books written

Received the book and the book condition is very good. Thanks,The author’s own life changing diet. It saved his own life and his son’s. I will enjoy this book and start self heal.Just read a few pages so cannot comment on it yet. But I am sure I will be amazed when finished in reading it,

Sehr guter Zustand. Sorgfältig verpackt. Wunderschönes Buch. Ein Buch das man haben muss!!

Super book with ultimate truths about food and health, tried and true on my family and several patients of mine

They should do Jeff's story on Mr. Schumacher