God made Adam, whose name means "Earth", from "the dust" of the Earth. The minerals of the Earth form our bodies, i.e. natural substances. It's not any special dust either. Rather, it's a general dust. All of the elements on the Earth are present in that primordial dust that formed us. The implication is that we need all the minerals from the Earth, and in the correct ratios, to fortify our Physical Body. The Physical Body is the foundation for the fourfold man, and subtly suggested in this Bible passage.

God made for us a body, with all of the requisite bones, organs, and tissue, using the minerals of the Earth. That's our Physical Body. Then, He brought all of those organs and tissues to life with the life-force, in the Ether of the Earth, through breath. That's our Etheric Body. Then, He animated all that with a soul, which gives us the ability to move and experience emotions. That's our Soul Body. The Spirit Body is not explicitly evident in this quote, which is the spark of divine, the fire, or holy spirit. That's in us too. It's why we were made in the first place. And while it may be so that we were more like plant creatures at this stage in our evolution with the Earth, and hadn't taken on our animal form quite yet, which is how the elites, who have guided the evolution of our consciousness throughout history, are taught to interpret Genesis in their mystery schools and secret societies; regardless, the point is that the Physical Body came first. It's the foundation. If we have deficiencies and/or toxicities in our Physical Body, then we will not only experience disease, but likely the imbalance will permeate into, and cause problems in, the other three bodies. This will make our holistic healing efforts more challenging.

If you don't know what I mean by the fourfold man, what the hell these "other" bodies are, or why I'm basing my understanding of our physiology on Creationism, then read the Alchemy of Male Pattern Baldness Page first to get the context of this website. If you don't care to do so, to summarize it, basically we have the choice of believing in either the creation story of Atom or Adam. Science is based on a theoretical Atomic view of existence, and Alchemy is based on a factual observable Adamistic view of existence. If we believe in Atom, our disease is a random defect, and we'll always be 5 years away from Science having the cure. At least, that's my experience; because I tried Science for 13 years, and it didn't work. If we believe in Adam, though, then our existence has a purpose, our disease has a purpose, and we can use the information from disease to heal ourselves at deeper levels and have a transformative experience in this lifetime. That appeals to me. So, I'm going with Alchemy.

In the Physical Body page, I'm going to describe particular minerals of interest as they relate to Male Pattern Baldness (MPB). I do NOT believe that MPB is a disease that is, in essence, caused by a mineral toxicity, deficiency, or even imbalance with other minerals. Even iron, which is encouraging the physical and emotional hardening bioenergetic negative feedback loop at the root of MPB, is NOT a matter of there being an excess of such in our body. Rather, the energy from the iron is just not being properly channeled. Iron is good for us, we just have to learn to control it. In the meantime, while we are figuring out how to do that, getting rid of some surplus iron, while emphasizing a few other nutrients that mitigate the deleterious effects of iron, and the imbalanced energetic influence thereof, could be temporarily therapeutic and complementary to the deeper emotional and energetic work that needs to be done.

Efforts to achieve mineral repletion and limit toxicity should make our holistic efforts more effective. At the very least, they will make us more impervious to surface level acute disease. On this webpage, I'm going to discuss the role of nutritional choices and gut health in the prevention of deficiency and toxicity. If all of the nutrition that we are getting is from whole foods, consistent direct sunlight exposure to a near fully naked body during peak solar hours, thermal Earth waters and mineral bath salts, and perhaps some transdermal iodine solution, then we can only be deficient depending on our efforts in these regards, and depending on whether our choice in whole foods does not regularly incorporate at least one of the following food groups: (1) seafood with organs (2) shellfish (3) ruminant animal fat and organs (4) high quality dairy from ruminant animals grazed on lush pristine pastures.

This claim is based on the little known, and controversial amongst the known, research of Weston A. Price, who studied indigenous populations of the 1930's and documented their habits and superior health. According to his research, when humans are raised eating the foods mentioned above, then their teeth, invariably, look like this without ever having gone to, or heard of, a dentist:

The rest of the bodies of these indigenous people were just as healthy as the teeth. They were especially immune to the prevailing diseases of the time, and demonstrated exceptional fertility and overall reproductive success compared to the the problems in this respect that were just beginning in Western countries.

However, even if we implement as nutritious of a diet as our ancestors, then we can still be deficient or toxic based on the integrity of our digestive tract. Not being able to extract and assimilate nutrients from our food can still cause deficiency, as well as contribute to toxicity. The gut is where we absorb nutrients from our food, as well as the primary channel through which we excrete toxic substances, which can range from undigested organic food matter to harmful man-made chemicals. Deficiency will occur if we cannot absorb nutrients from our food, and toxicity will result when natural or unnatural unincorporable foreign substances cannot be effectively processed and excreted through the digestive tract. Both are caused by a poorly constituted gut flora, damaged intestinal walls, and an overloaded liver with plugged up bile ducts.

On this page, I'm going to focus on gut health and what we can do to restore the detoxification pathway through the digestive tract. On the Etheric Body page, I'll go into great detail about liver detoxification, a complementary therapy. The gut and liver need a hard reset, most likely. For the gut, in particular, such can be achieved with extreme, but delicious, carnivore elimination dieting. This therapy, in my experience, has yielded consistent positive effect on hair density.

The photo on the left is me before 2.5 months of pure carnivore dieting. My assessment is that my hairline regrew ZERO new hairs during that time, but my hair did get a lot fuller and thicker looking. That's been my experience every time. It's a hair quality boost, due to a significant reduction in shedding and, maybe, overall vitality of the follicles. I'm still trying to figure out a way to eat some plant foods combined with other hair interventions, but nothing has been nearly as effective as just eating meat. Just eating meat can be tricky though. So, I'll describe various "hacks" in the "Gut Health" section that I have learned in order to avoid the common insomnia and fatigue symptoms that can develop while attempting this diet.

The first section on this page, however, will focus on skull re-contouring. The primary reason why we can no longer grow hair on parts of our skull, that used to be fertile ground for hair growth, is because the contours of our skulls have changed. To restore the original contours of our skulls that we had in youth, would, theoretically, have the most potent hair "loss" reversal effect. Therefore, this is probably the most important, and challenging, intervention. Flattening out our bulging skulls in the crown and forehead areas, perhaps complemented by massage techniques, will serve to deliver these nutrients, that we are ingesting and assimilating properly through our dietary and lifestyle efforts, to our hair follicles. In this manner, they can actually help to grow our hair. The way our skulls are currently shaped, that's not happening, even with the most optimal diet consisting of the most nutritious food.

Skull Re-Contouring

The contours of the skull are the borders that distinguish between its different parts. There is a natural contour that distinguishes the forehead from the top of the head, which is where our hairline grows, one that distinguishes the sides of the head from the top of the head, and one that distinguishes the forehead from the sides of the head. On a skull with good hair growth, these contours mark sharp changes in direction in the shape of the skull. The skull of the boy below shows an example of very strong skull contours:

Notice how there is a sharp directional change at all of the contours of his skull. His forehead is flat, broad, vertical, and changes direction sharply at his hairline. The sides of his head are flat and vertical too, which creates a sharp contour at the border between his forehead and the side of the head, as well as a sharp directional change at the border between the side and the top of his skull.

Hair likes to grow on a skull with sharp contours. All children have sharp contours to their skull, although maybe not as sharp as the boy pictured above. And men who maintain their sharp skull contours into adulthood have just as full of a head of hair as they did in youth, as shown below.

Men with MPB, on the other hand, suffer from severe erosion to the contours of their skull. On an MPB skull, the forehead rounds gradually to the sides of the head, and both the forehead and the sides round gradually to the crown of the head. The result is a very round, and spherical, or conical, skull shape with indistinguishable borders between the sides, top, and forehead of the skull, as shown below:

The overall rounding effect is due to a bulging thats occurs in a few different areas of the skull. The most prominent bulge that we can see from the front angle is at the crown. As the crown bulges up, the curvature from the sides of the head to the top of the head becomes more gradual, and the angle of the contour between the sides and top of the skull becomes less sharp. In some extreme examples, a conehead will form, as shown below:

This what I call a "torpedo head". The sides of the head already start curving towards the crown down at the ears, which creates very gradual rounding and an indistinguishable border between the sides and crown of the head. It's what my daughter's head looked like right after she came out of her mom. If you had to push your way through a gigantic vaginal canal, to give an unnecessarily crude example, then this is a good skull shape to have. If you want hair, then not so much.

The bulging at the crown, in this extreme example, can also impact the contour at the hairline, which separates the forehead from the top of the skull. The reason being is that the more that crown bulges up, the less sharply the change in direction is going to be at the hairline, as shown below:

In this manner, an expanding crown can negatively impact both hair growth at the hairline as well as all over the top of the head. It creates the most severe hair loss cases, as a prominent bulge at the crown is apparent on nearly all men with fully advanced MPB.

Bulging in the forehead creates an acute curvature in the shape of the forehead, which erodes the sharpness of the contours that distinguish the forehead from the sides and the top of the head. This will impact the shape and placement of the hairline. In extreme cases, the forehead bulge is so prominent that it completely obliterates the existence of the hairline, as shown below:

Notice how there is no visible contour that distinguishes the forehead from the top of the skull, due to the massive skull bubble on the forehead. The result of a contourless skull at the hairline is no hairline at all.

In cases where a hairline is still present, but receded, then the bulge in the forehead is more subtle. Nevertheless, it is possible to identify the bulging, from side and below angles, which is creating the lateral roundness, which causes the m-shape pattern, and the longitudinal roundness, which recedes the hairline back towards the crown.

The guy on the left has a more subtle bulge in a profile view compared to that of the men pictured earlier. Nevertheless, it is creating enough curvature to impact his hair. The lateral roundness erodes the contours at the temples, which become steeply sloped and no longer identifiable as part of the flat top of the skull, and the longitudinal curvature is thinning out the front forelock area and pushing the hairline back. The guy on the right is me. I have a similar receding hairline, and so we probably have a similar degree of bulging in the forehead. From this angle, the bulge in the forehead that is creating the acute curvature is more pronounced.

From a front view, the sloping in the temple region is more apparent. All men with a receding hairline have, to some degree, a temple region that is no longer sits as flat on the top of the skull as the area of the forelock, but rather slopes steeply down the face, like forehead. All of the men below demonstrate this skull feature:

Notice how steeply the skull slopes down just beyond the edge of the hairlines. The temples are basically becoming part of the forehead. That's a problem because we don't grow hair on our foreheads. This occurs as a result of bulging in the forehead and even possibly bulging in the forelock region, which is quite evident in extreme examples, as shown below:

The final area where bulging can occur is at the sides of the head. This occurs, usually, in conjunction with balding in the crown an forehead regions, the most common areas of expansion.

This expansion affects the contours that border the sides and the forehead, as well as the ones that border the sides and top of the head. The result is not much hair on the top of the head, and a severely thinned and receded hairline.

The negative impact of skull contour erosion is further confirmed by the similar skull shape features, and subsequent hair growth patterns, in infants.

The common bulge in infant skull shapes is likely there to accommodate rapid cerebral growth. Often, that bulge creates a similar rounding in the forehead region to that of men with MPB, which, likewise, prevents the sharp contours at the hairline from forming. The result is identical hair "loss" growth patterns.

BLOOD-FLOW HYPOTHESIS

One theory as to why the rounded and bulging skull shape causes hair loss is that it obstructs the arterial network flow to the hair follicles. Here are some illustrations of the arterial network that deliver blood to the hair on the skull. Notice that the arteries are more robust at the sides of the head, where hair loss does not occur, and thin out as they reach the top of the skull, where hair loss does occur.

It could be that a conehead bulge, for example, puts strain on the thin blood vessels in that area. That is, they are stretched and compressed to the extent that blood flow to the area is severely reduced. Likewise, a giant bubble that can form on the front of a heads, as with Jason Statham, may be impacting the supraorbital arteries ability to deliver blood to the hairline, as it has to stretch over that skull bubble to push blood up there.

LIFE-FORCE HYPOTHESIS

Poor blood-flow seems like a likely culprit, although it may be such that the lack of contour, itself, is the unique cause of hair loss. Consider the photo of the girl below:

This girl has the common forehead bulge characteristic, yet she does not have a male hair loss growth pattern. That is, the bulge does not appear to be negatively impacting the growth of her hair at the hairline. However, the girth of that bulge is no less severe than any man, or toddler, pictured with the most advanced hair loss patterns. Therefore, I would expect that her bulge would be stretching and compressing the supraorbital arteries in a way that inhibits blood flow to the hairline and, thus, impacting it's ability to grow. However, such is not the case.

The only difference seems to be that her forehead bulge is not obscuring the contours of the skull that border the forehead. Despite the bulge, there is not much lateral curvature or gradual rounding from the forehead to the top of her head. Rather, her skull contours are sharp. There are distinct borders, with sharp angles, that separate the various parts of her head. This leads me to suspect that it is not so much blood-flow that is the problem, as much as the body's ability to distinguish between the forehead, where hair does not grow, and the top of the skull, where the hair does grow. Which body? Probably the Etheric Body, as it's probably a lack of life-force flow issue.

I suspect that when the skull contours are eroded from the bulging, that the body reclassifies parts of the scalp as forehead and stops sending life-force energy to the hairs in that newly classified area. For example, the sloped temples on a guy with a receding hairline become indistinguishable from forehead, and, thus, gets reclassified as such. They even look like forehead. And on a man with a completely spherical or conical skull, the whole top of the skull becomes indistinguishable from the forehead, and thus becomes one giant forehead.

No matter what the actual cause is, the fact of the matter is that the lack of skull contours demonstrably negatively impact hair growth. Infants suffer from a lack of skull contours, adult men can suffer from a lack of skull contours, but no children beyond infancy have such skull features. So it must be so, that no man with MPB had such skull shapes as children. Rather, the expansion and contour erosion has been occurring gradually since puberty, and is 100% correlated with the progression of their hair loss since then. As for why this occurs, read the Alchemy of Male Pattern Baldness home page for a detailed explanation. The remainder of this section will be dedicated to skull remodelling techniques that apply forces in a way to flatten the skull back out.

BONE REMODELLING BASICS

Skull remodelling is a derivative of bone remodelling, which is how bone is continuously breaking itself down and building itself back up. In fact, we get a whole new skeleton every seven years, which aligns with teeth events in childhood; we get new teeth at 7 yrs, 14 yrs, and 21 yrs old. Anyway, while the skeleton is breaking down and building up, it is can also respond to external stimuli. This is what organisms do. New pressures will cause the body to build bone in a way to relieve or deal with that pressure. That is how our skulls have bulged out in adulthood, well after normal bone growth has ceased.

Hitherto now, there has been a small but constant force pushing out on our skulls at the forehead, crown, forelock, and/or sides. The bone in the area has remodelled itself in response to those forces, in the form of outward expansion. Figuring out what that force is and how to stop it is also important (I have some ideas on the other pages); but, the focus in this section will be on methods of applying a force in the OTHER direction in order to contour the skull back into its somewhat original shape. The underlying rationale is that if internal forces can remodel the skull outward, then external forces, theoretically, could remodel the skull back inward. The artistry of it is how much force to apply and for what duration. That aside for now, these are some ideas for how to apply a force to each of the four areas of the skull that are vulnerable to expansion.

HEADSTANDS - THE CROWN

If you have a bulge forming on the top of your head, just do a headstand. It's not a genius idea. But I don't think it has to be. Simple works too - sometimes better. I made a YouTube video on headstands if you need some tips. There's not much to it, though. You just stand on your head.

Lately, I have been doing 2 headstands per day, for about 2 mins each, on a towel over a relatively firm surface, while trying to balance on highest point of the skull. The towel helps distribute the force over the entire bulge and prevents the area from getting too sore, allowing for more frequency. Usually, I would say that the more frequent the better, but this a lot of weight on an area that isn't meant to support your full body weight. Therefore, I don't go to crazy with headstands. Furthermore, the force that pushed our skull out was not that strong. Rather, it was small but constant. More frequent with less force may be the best approach. Nevertheless, a few headstands per day probably can help do some flattening.

The added benefit of a headstand, if you're into Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), is that when you stand on your head, your jing, or most yin form of qi, flows down from the dan tian to nourish your organs. Maybe it will even trickle all the way down to your skull. If you don't know what the hell I'm talking about, I'll go into more of the energy stuff on the other pages. On this page I'm sticking with the physical. We're talking eating meat and cramming skulls - man stuff. One additional note, unrelated to "man stuff", do not attempt a head stand within 3 hours after eating, as it is disruptive to digestion.

WALL PRESS - FORELOCK

I can feel a ridge along my hairline area in the forelock region, which gives me the impression that there's some upward push there. Even if you don't have a ridge, and you have a receding hairline, then you still have sloping temples and acute curvature across that region. Applying an inward force to the forelock area (middle top front of the hairline) could broaden that flat part of the hairline, where we still grow hair, and reduce the overall curvature. Otherwise, the more the forelock is pushed up, then the more the temples will slope, reclassifying more of that area as forehead, narrowing the hair growth area, and exacerbating the "receding" pattern.

To do a wall press, I like to lean against wooden window or door frames for optimal firmness. Dry wall and doors have a little too much give, and brick or concrete walls do not have enough. Too firm of a surface will make the area unnecessarily sore. I like to place a towel in between my head and the wall, which, again, prevents soreness and might even distribute the force in a beneficial way. In addition, I like to avoid wall areas that have strong electrical fields due to nearby light switches, outlets, and electrical wires. I don't trust EMF. Electrical field interference confuses the body, because the body is supposed to operate in it's own undisturbed electrical and magnetic field.

I do wall presses for longer than I hold a headstand. The force is smaller, requires less muscular endurance, and so I can hold the position longer. In general, I go until I start to feel a significant amount of discomfort, which occurs after a few minutes (3-5). I'll do this three times per day, but more could be optimal. This press can be also be applied to the crown area:

The Rock is another prime example of the torpedo head. This is a skull much in need of a downward compression in the crown area. If you can't stand on your head, because you are this beefcake 265 lb sort of build, and that's way too much weight to support a headstand, then a wall press is an adequate modification. The advantages of a wall press are that you can be more precise with where the force is applied, you can adjust the magnitude of the force by changing your angle relative to the wall, and it is not as disruptive to digestion as flipping upside down. For that last reason, I do them before bed, which is not quite 3 hrs after I have eaten dinner.

WALL PRESS and MANUAL COMPRESSION - FOREHEAD

The two aspects of re-contouring the forehead that need to be addressed is the lateral roundness to the forehead that is caused by the bulging and the protrusion of that bulge, overall. Men and infants with significant lateral curvature in their foreheads have difficulty growing hair in the hairline region, creating the receding effect as pictured below:

The cutie pie on the right is my daughter. I don't know who thin mustache guy is on the left. But, they both have the same very laterally round foreheads, and very similar growth patterns.

In addition to rounding, the protrusion forward of the forehead seems to have a negative impact on hair growth as well. The photos below show a grown man and a 1 year old girl with near identical head shapes and growth patterns:

Notice how long the skulls are from back to front. The face looks as though it is getting pushed forwards. The tapering in the roundness of the front of the head gives me that impression. This elongation in the front of the skull negatively impacts the contours that distinguish the forehead from the sides of the head. Notice how the maximum width of the skull is not reached until the back third of the skull, in both cases. This will affect the shape of the hairline. In addition, the outward protrusion erodes the sharp contour at the hairline, which pushes the hairline back towards the crown, and thins it out.

In less extreme examples, the elongation and protrusion are eroding the contours of our skull in the hairline and temple region. The end result is sloping temples that you can see from a straight on angle like this:

The temples can't just start sloping on their own. There has to be a 3-dimensional push forward, as well, in order to accommodate that downward slope, and perhaps along with an upward push in the frontal forelock area, as referred to in the wall press section.

So, the goal in forehead re-contouring is to flatten out the roundness of the bulge and to push the whole forehead back in. This will serve to re-establish the sharp contours that are supposed to distinguish the forehead from the sides of the head, and forehead from the top of the head. There are two types of compressions that may be effective in this regard.

The first compression is another wall press. It's the same as in the previous section. I get out a towel and I just lean my forehead into the wall against the peak of the forehead curve. In addition, I support my neck by placing one or two hands behind my head. This will increase the force applied as well as prevent straining the neck. Again, adjustment to the application force can be made by increasing or decreasing the angle with which you are leaning against the wall. I generally do this 3 times per day, as well, for as long as I have time for, or can tolerate.

The other option is to do a manual compression. A wall press is probably best for flattening out a round surface, which may be the more important aspect based on that toddler with the flat bulging forehead and full hairline, as shown earlier; but, we probably need to help compress more of the forehead back into the the skull. To accomplish this, we can use our brute man strength (more "man stuff") to push against the forward protrusion. Our advantage as men is a strong upper body. This technique puts that to use. It's actually a good isometric exercise, if you are concerned about limited exercise time in the day, as I am.

I use the palm of the hand to push against the rounded and protruding area of the forehead. Lately, I've doing this on longer car rides. It's not the safest driving practice, but I haven't killed myself yet. Other things that I have done in the past are lay down and use two hands to press, switch off hands while reading a book, and, if no head support is available, use the free hand fingers to create a counter-force pressed down on the peak in the crown area. There has to be some counter force. Either your neck muscles will absorb the forehead force or you get something to rest your neck and back of the head on. The crown counterforce defrays some of the front force from being entirely absorbed by straining the neck muscles.

When doing a manual compression, I apply as strong of a force for as long as my arm can go without tiring. Then, I switch hands. If I am doing the crown and forehead, then I press for as long as I can go, and then switch arms. I keep doing this until I feel like I've done enough, or the car ride is over. I don't do this as often as the wall press, and I think that a better result can be achieved, in both regards, by developing a weighted sleep apparatus to push the whole area in with a small force over the course of 8-10 hours, when we are not thinking at all, which is more similar to the force that is pushing the whole area out.

Currently, I have a pair of cotton shorts that I cut up, stuffed with sand, tied closed with a rubber band, and then tie it to my head with another strip of fabric cut from the shorts. I try to sleep on my back for as long as I can go, without disturbing the placement of the sandbag. It's a work in progress. I may have something more sophisticated developed in the near future. If so, I will add that to the interventions in this section.

VICE GRIP COMPRESSION - SIDES of HEAD

The purpose of this exercise is to reduce the maximum width of the skull at the sides of the head in a way that restores the contours that distinguish the sides of the head from the top of the head, as it helps to sharpen the directional change in that area. It may also help sharpen the forehead contour at the sides of the head, depending on the skull shape.

Not everyone needs side compressions, however. In fact, in some instances this exercise would be counterproductive. For example, guys with the "torpedo head" would exacerbate their problem because their heads slope inward at the sides already. Therefore, pushing the head sides inward would further blur the distinction between the sides and top of their skulls. But, if your head is bulging out on the sides, like the guys in the photos, then you should probably press that back in, because that is contributing to the gradual curvature that has eroded the skull contour there. The goal is to get vertical sides. Guys with hair have vertical sides of their heads.

To do this exercise, very simply, press the sides of your head inwards with both palms with whatever force you can tolerate, and for how ever long you can tolerate. It may be beneficial to push kind of upward and more against the ridge line that serves as the contour between the top and side of your head. Also, pressing against the widest part of the head is best. Whatever you sense is correct, though. I don't do this exercise, and so I don't have much advice.

MASSAGES

I've been massaging for about 5 years, I went pretty hard for at least 3 of those years, and I never got any results - no regrowth and no stopping of the progression of the loss. Nevertheless, I still massage on occasion. Theoretically, they should help get blood to the hair once it's able to actually get there through skull re-contouring, if the blood-flow hypothesis is even correct. However, if it's not, then massages aimed at stimulating blood-flow, which most are, are sort a waste of effort, which has been my overall experience. There is life-force in the blood, which could explain some success.

Massages that are aimed at stimulating blood-flow would be circular presses on the scalp perimeter muscles, which relieve tension in the galea that may be compressing the arterial network, pinching the tight areas of the top of the scalp with the fingers to further relieve that tension in the galea, massaging the neck and trapezius muscles to relieve the tension further down the kinetic chain that may be contributing to tension, and just pressing in and moving the skin on the top of the skull vigorously to stimulate blood-flow with either your hands or a massage tool. I don't know which of these is most effect, if any. I've done all of them, for varying amounts of time (5-30 mins). At this time I can't recommend a routine, and would just say do them if you have time and do what you are in the mood for, or sense is correct.

On the Etheric Body page, I describe several massages that have more of an energetic component. Lately, I have been focusing more on these, as I am leaning towards "life-force flow and energetic confusion in the Etheric Body due to the erosion in the contours" as being the main mechanism through which hairs miniaturize and "fall out."

Minerals of Interest

Several minerals are directly involved in the pathology of MPB, such as Iron and Calcium. Other nutritional factors may have an influence on the expression of, or aid in the recovery from, our disease as well. I have included the most noteworthy of such in this section, as well as a brief description of how they uniquely influence MPB. Most of the following can be obtained, and should be obtained, naturally.

Note that I am no longer convinced that a chemical compound as referred to as a "vitamin" represents a nutritional factor that is in food or that we get from food. If I had to guess, it's probably just a way to rebrand synthetic chemicals as "nutritious" in order to encourage health conscious people to buy and consume them. All this is to say, if I refer to a "vitamin" or an "omega" type fatty acid, consider it a placeholder for the actual nutritional factor in that food that has the beneficial effect, whatever that is, be it of energetic or physical form.

IRON

MPB has never occurred in a male before going through puberty, which is when our iron levels increase to our adult levels. Again, the only exception being infants, such as my 1.5 year old daughter, who have more rounded and bulging foreheads to accommodate brain growth. This has nothing to do with iron, and everything to do with having cute little squishy cheeks.

For adult men, rather, iron can be a source of imbalance. It gives us our hard masculine male bodies, and fierce warrior dispositions, which is why the metal corresponds to Mars/Ares, the warrior god in Greek non-mythology, in Alchemy. It can also excessively harden us and get us trapped in our heads, which makes them expand, and causes hair to die. Women, by contrast, experience an iron decrease. As a result, they get much softer physically, as their the body fat increases, and softer emotionally too, as they tend to lose interest in competitive play in favor of social bonding activities. This is good because softness is better than hardness for birthing children, and you don't want Ares for a mom.

We men get that iron spike for a reason, to help fulfill our role in the community as protectors; but, more spiritually, it gives us the courage to face our fears and realize our true identities. It is our necessary advantage in this life-long quest; but, if the warrior energy is not properly harnessed, which occurs so easily in modern society, without spirituality and grueling rites of passage for young boys, then this energy will harden us in excess. MPB is one such form of sclerosis that we can suffer from as a result of our misguided progressive child-rearing system.

While the ultimate solution to manage iron energy in the body is to properly channel our aggression into overcoming our fears, which will serve to prevent the energetic hardening and skull expansionary effects due to decades of underlying and unaddressed grief and disappointment from practical life choices which favored security over true self-expression, reducing physical iron levels in the body may help to take the emotional edge off. Iron does carry an emotional edge. Think of women who have gone through menopause. They're a little edgier, and not as nurturing as they used to be. One of them even started a "We do not care" club on YouTube about how unsympathetic she is to everyone else, and their problems, now that she is post-menopausal. Menstruation keeps women soft. Through blood-letting, I think we cultivate a little of that energetic softness that women enjoy so long as they are on the rag, to put it as chauvinistically as possible, which will mitigate the excess hardening effects of unbound and untamed iron as we are learning to harness the energy thereof properly.

I have tried both blood donations and acupuncture point suction cup blood-letting. Blood donations have the cost advantage - it's free. It is also effective as a general health intervention, in my experience. Years ago I was having heart palpitations while lying in bed, and that went away the day I donated blood. It hasn't been back since. The downside of blood banks is that you have to wait 8 weeks to do it again because they really drain you. I never felt energized after donating. Rather, I felt like I lost a lot of nutrients along with the iron. By contrast, after doing acupunctural blood-let cupping, I feel lighter and cleansed; but not drained. This sort of therapy targets "bad blood" and in specific organs of your body, which can have positive energetic effects in addition to the iron regulation. That is because, in addition to their perfunctory physical body operations, organs each carry a unique emotional charge. The health of our organs influences our emotions, and vice versa. The other advantages to blood-letting are that you retain most or all of the nutritious blood in your body, and you can do it more frequently. Better yet, schedule treatments for every new moon to mimic a proper menstruation schedule, thus strengthening the yin energy. The only downside, of course, is the cost of the treatment.

I've never experienced and miraculous hair benefits from either blood-letting strategy. I've been doing the acupunctural one for about 8 months now. Even though it has not grown any hair back, due to the overall positive impact I feel on my disposition, which is integral to overcoming MPB, I still like to do it.

Blood-letting is the only iron decreasing intervention that I endorse. The other way to do it is to avoid eating red meat and organs, especially liver, which would be counterproductive due to the malnutrition and potential anemia that would result. However, I do believe it is best to avoid unnatural sources of iron such as in fortified or enriched processed grain-based foods, and iron supplements. Even though we have a lot of iron, we still need iron in our diet and we need to get it from natural sources. Iron is a tricky metal. The balance can easily swing to anemic or overload; but, neither will occur if you blood-let and eat red meat.

COPPER

Copper helps to balance out iron, both energetically and chemically. Chemically, iron has a natural affinity to bind to oxygen, which is why it is so useful in our circulatory system. However, when iron is combined with O₂, it rusts. Too much iron binding to O₂ will rust us from the inside out, and accelerate aging. Copper also binds to unbound iron, which can help reduce this natural oxidative stress in the body if our copper levels are adequate. Energetically, and perhaps more accurately, copper carries a feminine energy. In Alchemy, copper is associated with Venus, the Roman goddess of love and harmony. Copper/Venus represents the fourth stage in the alchemical process, when we successfully balance the polarities (male and female forces). That's a good energy to have in us for our problem.

The best source of dietary copper comes from shellfish, as implied by the Botticelli painting, "The Birth of Venus".

The painting illustrates the connection between feminine energy of Venus, shellfish (an animal rich in copper), and the Island of Crete, which is a famous Bronze Age location where they made a lot of stuff out of copper. Shellfish is rich in copper because it is the metal that carries O₂ through their blood, via hemocyanin, as opposed to iron for us, hemoglobin. This is all supposing this hemoglobin and hemocyanin oxygen transportation stuff is actually true, because there is the account of dog who had his blood replaced with seawater and was totally fine. So, who knows.

Dog blood draining aside, I still believe there is an energetic benefit to consuming copper. For example, in TCM, most shellfish are said to be yin foods, since they provide cooling energy to the body, which counters the warm masculine yang. I prefer to eat oysters. I got the impression that they are the most mineral dense and least toxic, but others are good too. In the Weston A. Price studies, for example, a certain crab in the Pacific Islands, and it's genitalia in particular, were prized by the natives and fed to women for fertility and general reproductive success.

Organ meats from land animals, especially ruminants, are rich in copper too. The color of organs is more coppery than muscle meat, which is one indication of that. Kidneys are a particularly coppery organ. In fact, in Alchemy, copper and Venus both relate to the kidneys, as each stage, metal, and planet is associated with a specific organ. Furthermore, according to TCM, kidneys store our jing, which is the most yin form of qi, or life-force. It suffices to say that the kidneys are an important organ for cultivating feminine energy, which, again, is the energy that can balance out the one that is causing our skull expand.

If years of eating shellfish and massive amounts of organ meats, especially kidney, made your hair grow back, though, then I'd have the thickest head of hair on Earth. But, I don't. So, while I think that, like blood-letting, copper consumption is a good health practice, and has a supportive role in holistic treatment for MPB, it's not going to solve the problem entirely. As a testament to the overall health benefits to consuming copper, though, I have had success in this regard in recovering from a debilitating back injury (everything is easy to heal compared to MPB).

I had developed nerve pain in my leg after years of a frequently recurring back issue. The back had healed, in that the pain and stiffness were gone, but there was still a weird nerve pain in my hamstring that lingered for many months without improvement. It went away within 2 months of consistently wearing blue light glasses and eating significant daily portions of beef or lamb kidney and sweetbreads, both copper rich organs. Why does copper help? Copper is very conductive, which makes it ideal for electrical circuits. I was having an electrical circuit issue. My brain was fried from blue light, which prevented it from addressing the repairs needed in the leg, and I needed some raw conductive copper materials to help with the repairs themselves. The blue light blockers calmed my nervous system and my brain, and the copper provided the materials to reestablish electrical flow. That's my analysis, anyway.

Overall, copper is found in very mineral dense foods that we should be eating anyway. It's very easy to develop iron overload in modern living. So, actively seeking natural sources of dietary copper is likely a worthwhile health practice.

VITAMIN E (LIQUID FATS)

Vitamin E also helps with oxidative stress from unbound iron. The antioxidant compound in vitamin E is called "tocopherol", which is Greek for "carry away". This is likely a reference to what it does to iron, which is why it would have an anti-aging effect in the body. I'm not sure if vitamin E is the active chemical that does all this, but there is something about certain plant and fish oils that have this effect in the body.

Vitamin E, supposedly, is a fat soluble vitamin that is more concentrated in polyunsaturated fats. The best dietary sources of this alleged vitamin E are fatty fish, such as wild salmon, and plant oils like olive oil, avocado oil/avocados, wheat germ oil, and seeds and nuts. I tend to go with wild salmon that I salt cure into gravlax, because animal and fermented foods are best for healing the gut. If you want to drop a vitamin E bomb inside you, but risk a grain-based food reaction, wheat germ oil contains, by far, the most significant amounts.

WULZEN FACTOR

Raw animal fats, raw dairy in particular, contains something that is commonly referred to as the Wulzen Factor, or "anti-stiffness" factor. Supposedly, the chemical compound name is stigmasterol, if that legitimizes it for you (it doesn't for me). Whatever it is, there is something about raw saturated animal fat that has an anti-stiffness, or decalcification, effect in the body. For example, raw fat has been demonstrated to prevent and even reverse calcification in the arteries, joints, and the pineal gland in simple experiments. Energetically, it is theorized to have a warming effect in the body, which would serve to help dissolve calcium, and, thus, explain it's anti-sclerotic effect. This nutrient is of interest to us because if all of the warming and calcium dissolving properties can get applied to the calcified skull foramen that are pinching off the diploic venous network, then this compound could really help us out with our recovery from MPB.

The best source of the Wulzen Factor is, supposedly, raw dairy. Since the anti-stiffness factor is in the fat, then raw butter and cream would be the best foods in this regard. However, if you want to avoid a common allergic reaction to cow dairy, then you have to eat raw saturated animal fat. I react to raw butter in large amounts, and so I regularly eat raw beef fat instead. One advantage of beef fat is that it's much cheaper than butter. I can get it for $0.99/lb. I'll also indulge in raw steaks and raw bone marrow too. Marrow fat is more nutrient dense than body fat, but more expensive. Still, sometimes you can get bone marrow bones for fairly cheap, $6.99/lb or so, and then use the bones for broth, another important nutrient supplying food (collagen).

The other option is to ferment raw dairy and/or use non-cow alternatives. If you can find, and afford, raw sheep's cream to ferment, then that would be a gut friendly alternative. The proteins in goat and sheep milk are easier on the gut. Goat products are more common than sheep, and less expensive, but leaner. I ferment goat milk into kefir to avoid consuming the lactose, which is hard on the gut. It's not very fatty. Still there is some fat, and if you drink a quart a day, then that might be plenty of Wulzen Factor.

MAGNESIUM

Magnesium is another anti-stiffness mineral. It is what the body uses to bind to calcium and remove it from wherever it is that needs to be decalcified, which is exactly what we need to occur in our skull foramen and to resorb and reshape our bulging skulls.

In general, magnesium has a softening effect on the body. It's commonly used as muscle relaxer, as in epsom salts. It's also a potent sleep aid, in my experience. It helps calm my mind when I am experiencing insomnia so that I can fall back asleep, which has occurred many nights on the carnivore diet, fasting, and otherwise.

Magnesium is a rare mineral that is difficult to get entirely from food. It is only found in significant amounts in plant foods, which makes supplementation very important when attempting a carnivore diet. However, even when eating plant foods, in my experience, it's not quite enough. The soil is depleted of magnesium, as well as other minerals, due to poor stewardship of the Earth by us. In addition, stress will also burn through our magnesium stores, which is generally at elevated levels with modern living. Finally, since magnesium is an important mineral for detoxification, then exposure to toxic EMF and man-made chemicals will deplete our stores as well, which we are exposed to regularly and in unsafe amounts.

For all of the reasons above, I supplement magnesium. I do not do it orally, though. Rather, I think we are supposed to get most of our magnesium from Earth waters. Cold spring waters do have a fair amount of magnesium, as well as structured molecules with natural Earth energy, which make it the best water drinking option. Still, the best source of magnesium, in my opinion and experience, is a hot spring. Soaking in the thermal radium heated waters of the Earth is like bathing in the fountain of youth. God gave us these springs for healing, and the John D. Rockefeller started plugging them up in 1930's to take that away from us in order to sell us poison instead. If you don't have access to an unchlorinated hot spring in your city, I don't, then footbaths with ancient seabed magnesium salts is a very good option. I do them 4-6 times per week and rarely have insomnia, having had difficulty on a nightly basis falling asleep since my teenage years. I buy these magnesium chlorid flakes (affiliate link) at a local grocery store. But there is no need to order online because they are widely available in adequate quality.

SUNLIGHT

There is some nutrition the we can only get from the sun. We are told that this nutritional factor is something called vitamin D, or a hormone that is misclassified as vitamin if you subscribe to a more alternative health science. I think that whatever we get from the sun is more than vitamin D, and perhaps not even that.

According to alternative science sources that I have referenced throughout my years of dabbling in this field, sunlight generates vitamin D in the skin, which pairs with cholesterol in order to make use of that important fat. Supposedly, sunlight "sulfates" the vitamin D and cholesterol which makes it water soluble so that it can be used in the blood. Furthermore, supposedly, getting a sunlight on the testicles is very good for testosterone levels, which, allegedly, measure extremely low in western countries compared to traditional peoples.

I don't know if testosterone exists or not. But, sunlight exposure to the testicles is a probably a good idea. In fact, the word "gymnastics" comes from the Greek word gymnos, meaning "naked". The reason being is that, in order to sculpt herculean male physiques, the ancient Greeks would exercise on the beaches naked. That's because, whatever it does, sun exposure to the testicles combined with vigorous exercise is a manliness health boost. And I don't know if vitamin D really sulfates cholesterol, but it doesn't hurt cholesterol usage, and it's probably really good for the skin in addition to all of the organs, and the gut microbiome.

Supposedly, we can consume a fair amount of vitamin D by eating organ meats and cod liver oil, which I do eat a lot of. However, this assertion also makes me doubt that the sun provides the same vitamin. How could it be the same? Supposedly, the sun stimulates the production of that chemical in the animal and then we get that chemical from eating the animal that has the same effect in our bodies. Maybe it's so, but I'm going to be safe and try to get that thing, whatever it is, directly from the source. I assume that I can only get adequate amounts of a sunlight vitamin from sunlight, and that it's unique. It's a safe bet. And I'm not sure that it's a hormone either, or has a hormonal influence on us. The only thing that I know for certain is that we are a lot healthier when we get plenty of outdoors sunlight exposure throughout the day, and that there is both a nutrient and energetic benefit to doing so.

One of the energetic benefits to sun exposure is how it restores rhythm to our body. All day sun exposure, from dusk 'til dawn, is FUNDAMENTAL to maintaining synchronicity with the rhythms of the Earth. We feel disease pretty much immediately when we diverge from this rhythm. There are many examples of people curing health issues merely by making an effort to watch the sun rise and sun set every day. Synchronizing with the sun is a powerful healing intervention.

Specifically for hair, anecdotally, my hair looked pretty good two summers ago when I had a backyard that allowed me to work out naked more or less out of the view of neighbors' windows. Furthermore, I will always remember a remark that my Uncle Bill made years ago to my dad when my dad complimented my uncle about his relatively stronger head of hair (my dad is bald, but Uncle Bill just has a very slow receding hairline). My Uncle Bill said something to the effect that "it hangs in there during the summer. But, in the winter it goes fast." If that's not convincing, and I don't think it is, then there's an old qigong master quote: "everything grows under the sun". That one is definitely true.

OMEGA 3 FATTY ACIDS (FISH FATS)

Omega 3 fats, supposedly, are a chain of polyunsaturated fats that have all these health benefits, among them is that they are good for managing inflammation in the body. I don't know if there is an omega 3 fatty acid, or if that is the active compound that triggers all of these health benefits. However, based on the Weston A. Price studies, there is something about fish fat that provides unique health benefits. As mentioned, omega 3's are purported to reduce inflammation. Inflammation is the body trying to heal itself. So, from that perspective, if there is something in fish fat that has "anti-inflammatory" effect in the body, then it is probably providing the body with some nutritional or or nutrient flow benefit to reduce the need for inflammation, which is the body's attempt to get additional resources to an area of need. Since dying hair is an area of need, then perhaps such "anti-inflammatory" foods would be good to incorporate in the diet.

The best source of omega 3 is actually in flax seed oil, which I've never taken, nor did anyone studied by Weston A. Price. The next best sources are fish eggs, salmon, sardines and cod liver oil. Lots of people in the Weston A. Price study ate these foods. Fish eggs in particular are a nutritional and fertility powerhouse. Tradition peoples reserved this food for women who were going to conceive in the near future, pregnant women, nursing women, and children. If it's good for fertility, then it's probably got some of that female energy that we need. Impotency is another symptom of male imbalance. So, any traditional aphrodisiac would, theoretically, be an energetic counter to that imbalance, such as fish eggs. Land animal eggs and butter may be a good source of this nutrition as well.

MSM (SULFUR)

MSM, or methylsulfonylmethane, is naturally occurring form of sulfur, and it is a potent detoxification aid. Supposedly, we used to get a lot of sulfur from exposure to rain; but, since we are not outdoors much anymore in inclement weather, then we don't get as much natural sulfur anymore.

MSM is touted amongst natural hair loss gurus to be really good for hair and nail growth. I've never had much success with it for hair growth; but, it's detoxification support for the liver could help us on an etheric level. Supposedly, it helps nutrients get into cells as well as essential for removing toxins out of the cells. I think our understanding of cell biology is flawed, but we do have cells, with mitochondria and nuclei at least, which must have an important function in the body generating proteins in a more energetically conscious way that we are lead to believe, and it could be that sulfur helps facilitate their function in regards to energy usage and bio-trash excretion. Therefore, I supplement with MSM.

Good quality grocery stores typically have MSM in bulk for pretty cheap. I used to get MSM from a local store, but now I get it online. Andreas Moritz, a liver detoxification guru, recommends getting MSM in its "lignin form". It's a bigger crystal than what I got in the grocery stores, which leads me to suspect that the MSM in the store is more processed, and perhaps contains less MSM. I bought a few pounds of this MSM brand(affiliate link). It seems to fit the description that Andreas Moritz gave. At the very least, it's fairly cheap and no worse than any other MSM that I have used.

COLLAGEN

Many of the natural hair restoration gurus recommend collagen supplementation because it is the protein that significantly structures our hair and skin. I am all for collagen, but the lack thereof is not a reason for pattern loss. If anything, a collagen deficiency would cause unhealthy existing hair and maybe even low density. Nevertheless, collagen is an important nutrient that we get from one of the most nutritious foods, broth. I will go into more detail about broth in the next section, as it is the food that is critical for restoring proper gut function, which can have indirect effects on hair growth.

I've been eating very cleanly for the past nearly 7 years. I bring my own food to dinner parties, the times I have eaten restaurant food I can count with my fingers, I nixtamalize my corn, I ferment my grains and raw dairy, I consume only non-cow dairy, I de-seed and peel the skin off of all of my fruits and vegetables, and I cook only in beef tallow. In addition, I buy grass-fed meat, wild caught fish, organic produce, and I ferment my own vegetables. I've done paleo, AIP paleo, GAPS introductory phases, low-carb, high-carb, no cruciferous, yes cruciferous, and just about any type of elimination dieting there is. Of all the dietary interventions that I have tried, nothing has gotten any hair or gut results other than all meat, no plants, no dairy, carnivore dieting.

Interestingly, I developed eczema during the cleanest eating period of my adult life. I get these yellow scabs and red rashes all around my nose, in my eyebrows, beard, and mustache. And I had this skin disorder consistently for over a year while eating a variety of foods, all of which prepared and sourced in the most nutritionally optimal and least gut disruptive manner. It cleared up completely within two weeks of not eating plants or dairy.

Eczema is likely the cause of the body trying to push toxins out through the skin when it's overloaded and/or can't get them out by normal means, which is through the digestive tract. Plant has fiber, which is rough on the intestinal walls. If you have an underpopulated gut-wall lining protecting bacterial population, then plant fiber will scrape up the walls. This will allow undigested food matter, and other things which we would prefer to be excreted out of our body, to get reabsorbed back into our body. That is, unless it can alternatively be pushed it out through the skin, another detoxification pathway, resulting what we experience seemingly cosmetically as eczema.

Eliminating plant matter from the diet, temporarily, will give the intestinal lining a chance to heal from the abrasions, and repopulate the walls with the beneficial gut-protecting bacteria. Furthermore, the types of overgrown bacteria that populate such a poorly constituted gut, in favor of the gut-protecting strains, like to feed off of starches. Therefore, cutting out starchy plant matter will starve these starch-feeding strains into decline so that the more beneficial type can repopulate the lining. All this will facilitate excretion of toxins through the digestive tract, instead of having to go through the skin.

The hair improvement side of this intervention doesn't make as much sense. But, it just works. Maybe it helps by reducing total body inflammation, which could impacts hair follicle health through more focused efforts by the body on its basic functions and other distressed areas, like hair. In addition, there is, admittedly, some descent scientific support for the connection between gut bacteria and the biological functions, which would include hair growth. I usually don't put much weight on scientific studies, as we know, but there's probably something there. Anyway, all I know for certain is that every time I go carnivore, my hair gets better. I took those photos at the top of the page to make sure that I wasn't just crazy. I still might be, but at least not in this respect.

I don't continue to carnivore diet because I am convinced that it's not going to grow my hairline back, nor is diet the source of my MPB. Although, I still eat very little plant matter. Furthermore, I like to cook meals from scratch and ferment plant foods, which feeds my soul, which may be getting more towards the root of a deeper issue. Nevertheless, I still intend to occasionally carnivore diet as a cleanse. It makes most sense to me to do it seasonally, such as in the winter when plant matter should be difficult to obtain outside of the artificial existence in which we live. The additional benefit to seasonal carnivore is getting in the energetic flow with the rhythms of the Earth. Winter is a time for austerity, and its when our digestive energy is naturally weak. Being strict during this time will help nourish our souls and our body. Whereas, being strict during the Summer and Fall would be contrary to the energy to the season, and may have a negative energetic effect on us.

In terms of what to expect, I notice an improvement in my hair within a couple of weeks. However, the gut healing process could still take a couple of months or more. Furthermore, it comes with some biological disturbances, such as diarrhea. This is unavoidable. I've pooped my pants several times in the middle of the night. It's not fun. But it's going to happen. Adjusting to no fiber takes a while. Furthermore, the body is getting a chance to detoxify. Diarrhea is one of the alternative detoxification pathways for the body. Be prepared to have diarrhea after each meal for a week, or more, if you have not made significant detoxification efforts recently. The other problems are fatigue and insomnia, which are manageable. Most of that is mitigated by eating raw meat and doing magnesium footbaths. In addition, there are other tips that I have to speed up the healing process as far as what types of animal foods to include and emphasize. The following is a list of foods, and a few supplements that I believe help to maximize the benefits and minimize the uncomfortable side effects when doing a carnivore diet:

RUMINANT ANIMAL MEAT

I've gotten good hair results when eating pork, chicken and fish. However, they don't digest as well; and, frankly, they don't taste as good. Red meat, from purely grass-eating animals, is the most nutrient dense food and has the best fat profile for us humans (i.e. mostly saturated). The gut will heal quicker, your meals will be tastier, and you will have fewer digestive issues when you only eat red meat.

RAW MEAT

One reason to eat raw meat is to avoid fatigue. Vitamin B12 is an important energy vitamin in meat, and it gets denatured in the cooking process. I don't know if it's specifically a compound known as B12 that has this effect in the body; but, in my experience, there is something in raw meat that prevents me from developing fatigue on this diet.

Red meat is delicious raw and I have never gotten sick, despite eating it every day of my life for the last 3 years. I don't eat pork or chicken raw, although I am not opposed to eating something salt cured in this respect, like prosciutto. I will eat fish and shellfish raw too. However, I cut seafood out initially to detoxify from over-consuming polyunsaturated fat in my youth and young adulthood, and the possible common allergic reaction to shellfish. If your not concerned about that, raw seafood is a good source of B12 too, or whatever the energy providing thing in raw meat is. All I know for certain is that my energy fades fast subsisting on only cooked meat. My first couple of times doing carnivore, I suffered from severe fatigue. When I got smarter and ate copious amounts of raw and very undercooked meat (organs especially), I had no problems.

In addition, raw is the easiest form of meat to digest. It is more gentle on the gut than grilled or roasted meat. Furthermore, it requires more chewing than cooked meat, which strengthens the jaw muscles and improves facial form. Rib eyes are delicious raw, and other tender fatty steaks. However, I even like some of the roasts like london broil, rump roast, and basic stew meat to chew on at the beginning of a meal. It makes sense to me to do a lot of chewing at the beginning of the meal in order to stimulate the digestive juices.

ORGAN MEAT

There is unique nutrition that you can only get from organ meats. All traditional peoples ate the whole animal, every part, including the organs. All of the traditional peoples studied in the Weston A. Price book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration (affiliate link), ate organ meats. They were often reserved for pregnant or nursing woman and children in order to ensure that everyone developed well-formed bodies with strong immunity to disease.

Muscle meat alone provides inadequate nutrition. For example, when the traditional Gaelics stopped eating fish livers with their fish, and supplemented with refined grains and canned vegetables instead, then their health deteriorated significantly. Some of the Canadian Indians didn't even eat the muscle meat. Rather, they fed it to the dogs. Even every apex predator is smart enough to eat the organs and fat first. They engorge themselves with the most nutritious part of the animals, and then leave the rest of the carcass for the scavengers. We have first access to the carcass too. We need to be a little smarter with what we eat and what we feed to the dogs. Pet food stores are loaded with organ meats. Our dogs are eating better than us in this backwards bizzaro world.

According to vitamin science, the best source of B12 is raw liver and kidney. Again, I don't know if B12 is a real thing, but I feel a lot of energy throughout the day when I eat this food. Furthermore, organs even have vitamin C (uncooked), which is not in the muscle meat. Whether or not vitamin C is the actual nutrient, in the Weston A. Price studies, Dr. Price was told by an old American Indian fellow that the reason his people don't get scurvy, like the white man, is because they eat the adrenal gland of the moose. The adrenal gland is the organ that is supposedly most rich in vitamin C. I don't know much about scurvy, but it could be a disease of adrenal cortex insufficiency and by eating adrenal glands it nourishes this disturbed organ in some way in our body. In TCM, it is said that eating the organ of the animal sends qi to the same organ in us. I buy that more than the vitamin stuff right now. In any case, the point is that eating the more of a variety organ meats the more nutritionally replete we will be.

Eating organ meat raw better preserves the nutrition too. Traditional peoples typically ate the organs raw after a fresh kill. But, sometimes they were cooked too. I eat most organs raw mostly because it tastes better. I hate the taste of liver. I can tolerate the taste raw liver much more so than cooked. Liver, heart, and kidneys are good organs to eat raw in my experience. I cut them into chunks, freeze them, and then eat them slightly defrosted. The flavor is not as strong. In addition, they chew better because they're not so spongy when a little frozen. Sweetbreads and tripe are too chewy to eat raw, so I boil and fry them. Both taste good when cooked too. Brain and eyeballs are most accessible after you boil the head. So, I'll eat those cooked as well.

Raw organs are not that gross. My 1.5 year old eats raw liver, heart, and kidney like candy. Those organs are the easiest to find. Farmer's market meat vendors usually have plenty. No one else buys them, except me and foreigners. If you are not daring enough to eat raw organ meats, then freeze-dried organ powders are an option. While I eat raw liver, kidney, and heart chunks, other organs are difficult to find. I used to go to a pet food store in San Francisco to buy odd parts like lamb head, pancreas, sweetbreads, lungs, and other "goodies" from farms that I bought grass-fed meat muscle meat from at the grocery stores. Unfortunately, I moved. Now I buy the powders.

Powders are not difficult to find on the internet. I don't get capsules because that's an added manufacturing cost that is built into the cost of the product, and it might not be so easy on the gut. I also don't like to bypass any part of the digestive process. Food is supposed to be mixed with saliva before it's swallowed. If not, it adds digestive stress down the chain. You can mix powders with water, soup, or yogurt. But, I just scoop some out and rock it back. Sometimes I breath in some organ dust and cough it up. It's not that bad. Anyway, if you want to do minimal research and are willing to order from Amazon, then I have these affiliate links to a brand called CurEase that I buy. It has decent powdered organ prices on high quality Australian grass-fed beef. The prices are really good when you order a whole pound, but here are the links to the 4 oz size. These will last a few months.

I specifically bought their pancreas, which is good for digestive enzymes, adrenal glands, which are good for when you are run down from stress, and the thyroid gland, which gets negatively impacted by off-gassing furniture and other halogen sources, among other toxic exposures. My daughter tore into that one and spilled it all over the carpet, unfortunately. That's one downside of the powders. I would have gotten the thymus gland (sweetbreads) which is good source of copper and "vitamin C", but I can get these at a local butcher shop fairly consistently. Sweetbreads are the only organ that I take time to cook because they are fatty and delicious. If you can get the whole organ (fresh or frozen), it's worth it. Here are the links to the liver, kidney, and heart. Even though they are easy to get, you may want to get some for traveling, which prevent getting sick from all the toxic exposure that comes with doing such nowadays.

BROTH

Broth, along with raw meat, is the easiest food to digest. Furthermore, the gut bacteria that line and protect the intestinal walls thrive on a broth-based diet. They love the collagen, as do your joints and hair. As I alluded to earlier, some holistic hair regrowth dip-shits on the internet will tell you that you can grow your hair back by eating more collagen, specifically their collagen supplement. If that were true, then I'd have a full head of hair by now because I have eaten gelatinous beef or lamb broth with every meal for nearly the past 4 years, which I do not. Furthermore, it's not necessary to supplement. Butcher bones are cheap and they usually contain the joints and other parts that have the collagen that we need to extract and consume.

To make broth, get 4-5 lbs of lamb or beef bones, cover them with water, add a few tablespoons of salt, and boil them for 3-4 hours. Don't use tap water, because the chemicals in that water will damage the gut. Spring water is preferred over filtered water due to the mineral and energetic benefits. The difference between meat and bone broths is for how long they are cooked. Meat broth is cooked for 3-4 hours and is easier on the gut. When you boil for 24+ hours, then it's bone broth. Some of the bone gets demineralized and seeps into the broth. This adds to the mineral content, but the bone particles can put too much strain on a weak digestive system. So, it is recommended to start with shorter boils, and then work up to 24+ hour bone broths as your digestive system strengthens. And, definitely, I wouldn't buy a collagen supplement. Like the song says, "there ain't nothin' like the real thing". Furthermore, I don't trust them. I don't like food that undergoes an industrial process, and I've never gotten good energy from them.

BOILED MEAT

The boiled meat that falls off of the bone when making broth is also very easy to digest. However, some of the sinewy connective tissue and cartilage may not be at first. My skin would flare up when I ate too much of that. If you get lucky, there will be fat chunks in the boil discard. That is delicious and easy to digest. No problems there. Mix it in with bites of the boiled muscle meat, because the boiled meat will be too lean, otherwise, to eat much of.

A good way to add calories to a broth meal is to put raw hamburger meat into the piping hot broth. This makes the broth more potable, which can be difficult to stomach in large amounts. Plain broth is not very tasty or refreshing. Spiking it with raw hamburger meat adds texture, fat, and rawness. Raw meat freshens up a meal, which probably is because there are digestive enzymes in raw meat. However, in cooked meat there are none. I drop hamburger meat in the broth in the form of meat wads so that the outside is cooked, but the inside remains pretty raw. The cooked meat mixed with the raw meat and broth gives a nice texture to the meal. The more that we enjoy the meals, the more of the beneficial effect that we get. Food is not all minerals, proteins, and fats. Rather, it's non-caloric energy too.

FAT

The problem I ran into when I first did a carnivore diet is that I found lean meat hard to stomach. It caused nausea on a few occasions, and it was simply not appetizing. Eating bites of beef tallow with steak, burger, or boiled lean meats makes it easier and more enjoyable to eat the meat. Fat adds calories, flavor, and nutrients. In addition, the cholesterol in saturated animal Fat is needed for cellular repair and brain function.

I aim to eat mix of raw and rendered beef or lamb fat every meal. Bone marrow is the most nutritious fat, but the most expensive. Beef fat is pretty cheap, but rendering it takes some work. It's worth it though. And having a meat grinder helps. Tallow in stores is very expensive. Some Costcos used to have Fatworks beef tallow for around $10 per jar. That was a good deal while it lasted. But, they no longer have a deal with Fatworks. So, rendering raw is the best option overall right now. Furthermore, you probably want to get some cheap raw fat anyway, so that you can eat it unrendered for the "anti-stiffness" factor.

SALT

The only seasoning that is allowed on a carnivore diet is a quality mineral salt like RealSalt, Baja Gold, or Celtic Sea Salt. I've found that salt and fat is all that is needed to make anything taste delicious. Furthermore, salt is needed for nutrient assimilation. It must be consumed liberally with meals. There's a reason that our word "salary" derives from the word "salt". Our ancestors considered it to be as important as money, since it provides vital nutrition.

MAGNESIUM FOOT BATHS

I have gotten bouts of insomnia when carnivore dieting, where I can't fall asleep and/or I wake up in the middle of night or too early in the morning and can't fall back asleep. When this insomnia occurs, only a magnesium foot bath will knock me back out. The magnesium choices are either epsom salts or magnesium bath salts, the latter derived from naturally occurring ancient sea beds. Both get magnesium into your foot when dissolved in hot water. Epsom salts are magnesium sulfate and ancient seabed salts contain the compound magnesium chloride. I have found the sea bed salts to be more potent, albeit more expensive. Either works, but I now prefer the magnesium chloride. And I don't supplement orally. I am hesitant to ingest isolated chemical compounds. But, it could be that there's nothing wrong with it.

As I mentioned before, I have gotten these NOW brand magnesium flakes at the local grocery store. They are not difficult to find. It's not worth it to order online. But, there's the link if you want to go that route.

IODINE

This is another rare supplement that I use, still not orally. The reason being is that there is not that much iodine in red meat. It's in other carnivore foods though. For example, it's in milk, eggs, and fish. Cod, in particular, has a very high amount.

Seaweed is the best dietary source by a huge margin. In fact, some of the meat eaters in the Weston A. Price studies ate only sea vegetation along with their meat, probably for the iodine. Even Peruvian omnivores who lived in the mountains would make journeys to the coast just for the kelp. So, even if you are eating a variety of plant foods, it's important to supplement iodine, unless those plant foods include a lot of kelp. But, if you want to avoid fiber in order to heal the gut, then transdermal iodine is the way to go. That's what I use.

Iodine is critical for proper thyroid function. The thyroid takes a beating from modern living. A lot of people have run down thyroids. Thyroids are also closely connected with hair loss too, probably in a diffuse way though. I mainly do it for health maintenance. Although, for my daughter, I want to make sure that she gets enough because iodine repletion is a strong determinant of intelligence. Mom's milk has a fair amount, as long as she is getting enough. But, now that she is weened, I have her eat a good amount of seafood, and put the transdermal iodine on her.

Here's another affiliate link to the lugol's iodine that I have been using for the past few years, if you don't want to do much research and don't care if I get 1% of whatever that vendor's profits are. It's just iodine and water. You paint it on the skin once or twice a day. It will leave a bronze stain on your skin and how long it takes to fade is an indication of how iodine deficient you are. It should last a day, supposedly. I've never gotten it to last a day, so maybe it's necessary to eat a fair amount of kelp, regardless of supplementation.

DOWSING PENDULUM

Testing for food insensitivities and knowing when to introduce foods can be difficult, overwhelming, frustrating, and costly. I struggled with this when I first attempted the GAPS diet. I had no clue what the timeline was or what foods to introduce first. As a result, all my symptoms came back immediately after going off of a no plant matter diet. Then, I was introduced to a dowsing pendulum.

Dowsing pendulums are these bevelled conical shaped wooden pendants that hang from a chain. They are particularly sensitive to the energy of the objects below it, and will spin clockwise, counter-clockwise, or not at all, based on how that energy is interacting with the energy of whoever is holding it. The way it was explained to me is that everything is fundamentally energy, and that energy radiates in a vortex form with a pattern that matches the fibonacci sequence, which is probably why many phenomena in nature follow this pattern. The shape of the pendulum makes it especially sensitive to these energy vortices; hence, it's propensity to spin one direction or the other.

The natural energy of the earth is clockwise, and so that spin direction is an indication that whatever you are holding the pendulum over, or even just focusing on with your thoughts, is a positive indication of energetic compatibility. For example, if you hold the pendulum over a particular food and it spins clockwise, then that means that the food item is probably something that will benefit you by eating. When it spins counter-clockwise, or not at all, then it's best not to eat it. This is how I determined what to add into my diet, and when, in order to transition off of the carnivore diet. It resulted in no symptom flare ups. It's actually best to ask a question like "am I ready to eat this" or "is it optimal to eat this" while holding the pendulum over the food, because it may be a good food for you, just not quite yet.

Dowsing pendulums are very cheap, and not too difficult to find. Simple internet searches will lead you to some decent options. I like the ones made from rosewood. It's supposedly good at clearing negative energy, which can interfere with the communication between you and the object, or thought, when using the pendulum. But, some people like to use specific metals or crystals. This is an example of a rosewood pendulum (affiliate link) that I would buy, if I ordered stuff on amazon.

Gut Strengthening Diet

Continue to eat all the foods from the Gut Reset Diet when transitioning to the next phase. In my opinion, the foods from the previous section are the nutritional foundation for any healthy diet, which should only vary in such supplemental foods listed in this section in quantity and proportion from person to person. Also, replacing red meat entirely with wild fish and shellfish can be an option.

Ultimately, the type of meat does not matter much. For example, carnivore indigenous populations in the Weston Price studies were cattle herders, or were hunters and fishers. Eskimos ate a lot of sea mammals and fish, although they were careful to balance the polyunsaturated fat with caribou meat because too much "omega 3" fats can cause neurological problems. Also of note, Eskimos ate their meat raw. Eskimo actually translates to "eaters of raw meat", and the word for "food" in their language is the same as the word for "meat". In addition, African and some Canadian Indian populations ate only ruminant meat, and some African peoples drank a fair amount of milk (raw) with it. The point is that eating animal foods, in raw form and the whole animal, is how traditional peoples build healthy bodies.

This section contains the first wave of supplemental foods that are gentle enough to introduce when transitioning off of a purely red meat carnivore diet, based on my experience. This diet is strongly based on Stage 1 of the GAPS diet. The GAPS diet is an incremental gut healing diet that progresses in 6 stages based on a hierarchy of most digestible foods. As you progress, you introduce more and more difficult to digest foods in order to strengthen your gut.

I don't agree with some of the foods placed in the stages beyond Stage 1 in the GAPS protocol, and so the foods here form the basis for a modified progression that I have had better experience with. For example, Dr. Natasha has you eating ground soaked walnut and squash pancakes before eating grilled meat and sauerkraut. Grilled meat is easier to digest than any plant food, let alone a seed or nut. Soaked nuts make my skin break out, and grilled meat does not. Furthermore, I'm all about the e, which will evident from my description in this section below. Nevertheless, I do agree with her general hierarchy, which is that the easiest foods to digest are raw and boiled meat, followed by grilled meat, fermented non-cow dairy, egg yolks, boiled non-starchy non-fibrous vegetables, liquid plant ferments, and plant ferments; probably in that order (it varies by individual). When I restrict my diet to such foods, then I have no eczema. I never get the carnivore hair boost, though. Nevertheless, the lack of eczema gives me impression that these foods are healing for the gut. Here's a more detailed list of these foods:

GRILLED MEAT

Grilled meat adds texture and flavor to a meal. I like to grill 80/20 hamburger or lamburger patties on a cast iron with some salt, and eat the plain patty. They are delicious. Steaks are great too, to the extent to which you can afford them. And I undercook everything. I cook until I get a nice sear on the outside, not charred, and eat it however raw it is inside. If the meat is particularly lean, even 80/20 varies a lot in fat content in my experience, then I cook the meat in a little tallow to get a caramelized sear. Otherwise, it will be black char. Not tasty, and probably not good for you. Taste is a strong indicator of how healthy a food is (junk food aside).

I have no problem digesting BBQ meat either. Therefore, I'll occasionally smoke a brisket. I only season it with salt, and it comes out delicious. The only problem with smoked meat is that it is fully cooked, which means no "B12". Furthermore, fully cooked is not refreshing, maybe because of the lack of "B12", and brisket is a big chunk of meat. So, it's best as an occasional treat with minimal leftovers. I usually wait to smoke a brisket when I have people coming over to help me eat it. Powering through lean fully cooked leftovers for a few days can be not so enjoyable. Side note: nothing freshens up a bite of lean meat better than a spoonful of tallow. I even add tallow to fatty meat. I doubt that I'll ever have a heart attack, at least not from eating red meat and fat.

Occasionally, I'll make bacon too. Pork is tricky, though. The Bible warns not to eat it for a reason. It does some nasty stuff to the blood. However, brining or salt curing pork mitigates those negative effects. I salt cure pork bellies for about a week in the fridge. I only use salt, with no sugar. Then, I'll gently low heat BBQ it to get some of that smokey wood flavor. It comes out tasting like delicious bacon. Still, I don't make it often. Pork is inferior to beef. Although the occasional bacon, goat cheese, grilled onion burger hits the spot when I feel rundown (like after Cassandra was born). The goat cheese I will ferment myself, as well.

For smoking, I have a Big Green Egg. It's not a great smoker, but it does a pretty good job. I like my smoked meats more than the BBQ that I have even had at some famous locations Texas. Nevertheless, off-set smokers are better for smoking. But, they can't grill or roast. The Big Green Egg can do all three, and so it is an economical option, considering you just have to buy one thing.

RAW GOAT MILK KEFIR

The two problems with dairy are the lactose, which is a disaccharide sugar, and the proteins in cow dairy. In the fermentation process, the micro-organisms metabolize the lactose into galactose, which is a monosaccharide - a more digestible form of sugar. As for the proteins, goat and sheep dairy don't have the same proteins as cow dairy, which are more of a problem for people. Nevertheless, the proteins can still be a problem, which is why we cut dairy out in the Reset diet.

However, fermentation makes milk a very easily digestible, which allows us to benefit from this nutritious food. Infants have an enzyme in their stomach that ferment mother's milk into cheese, basically. This fermentation makes the mother's milk easier to digest. Some clever humans hacked into this natural biological process by fermenting milk in the stomachs of a young ruminant animal. The young animal stomach's contain the enzyme rennet, which ferments the milk. The product is a delicious cheese that is being eaten in the particular form of dairy which nature intended it to be digested, which is fermented.

Raw milk is easier to digest than milk that has been pasteurized and homogenized, because pasteurization destroys the lactase enzyme that helps you digest the milk, while homogenization denatures the fat into something that your body does not recognize as food. Pasteurization, theoretically, is less of a problem if you ferment the milk because that puts all of the enzymes back into it. Yogurt typically has to be pasteurized to properly ferment into the right consistency and allow the mother culture to thrive and proliferate from batch to batch. Otherwise, the bacterial strain will die out in favor of the other strains in the raw milk that don't produce as delicious of a yogurt.

Yogurt is weak, but Kefir is strong. In fact, it's pretty die hard. Furthermore, it's easier to make. Once you have the starter grains, you just feed it raw milk every day or two after first straining out the cultured kefir milk. Kefir starter grains are very easy to find, especially if you are connected with holistic health community like the Weston A. Price Foundation. They have local chapters with people who make kefir regularly, like me.

In the grilled meat section I mentioned goat cheese. It is not economical to make your own goat cheese or cow cheese, unless you have a milking animal. But, it's a fun treat once in a while. I don't buy store cheese because it is fermented with vegetable rennet. I prefer the original method of fermenting cheese, which requires calf rennet. Animal > plant is one of my dietary tenets that I strictly adhere to. Making chevré (raw goat cheese), is not that complicated, but you do need to buy calf rennet, which I've only found online, like this. It takes about a day and a half to ferment, and you don't get much. Still, it's fun to do sometimes. Cheese, like any ferment, has different nutritional, and likely energetic, content than the original milk. For example, some of the "vitamins" get augmented and more bio-available in the fermentation process, and the whole food becomes more yin in TCM.. Nature beats a laboratory, every time.

RAW EGG YOLKS

When it comes to eggs, the yolk is much easier to digest than the whites, and raw is more digestible than cooked. In addition, the majority of the nutrients are in the yolk, because that's what becomes the chicken, duck, or whatever bird the egg came from. The white, rather, is a protective layer. Anything protective in nature, like the skin of a vegetable, has things in it that make you sick when you eat it.

The egg yolk can still trigger an allergic reaction for some people, though, especially after decades of eating poorly fed, no sunlight exposure, literally cooped-up, factory farmed chicken eggs. The low quality and pesticide laden grains and soy in the chicken feed is what people typically react to when eating the eggs. The body often needs a break from eggs entirely, because it's been conditioned to react them due to chemicals in the low quality grains. For that reason, I recommend cutting out eggs altogether when doing the Carnivore Reset Diet, and start introducing the yolks only here.

Egg yolks are good to add back in, when you are ready, because they are a good source of "vitamin K2" and cholesterol. Again, I don't know for sure if there is vitamin K2, but there seems to be some unique nutrition in egg yolks that is needed for good joint health and bone strength. Cholesterol is needed for tissue repair, which is why doctors, back when they used to actually be trained healers, would feed burn victims 30+ egg yolks a day to help them recover. In addition, egg yolks contain omega 3 fatty acids, or whatever the valuable liquid fat nutrition is, and the other fat soluble vitamins (A,D,E), or whatever the saturated fat nutrition is, in addition to the K2. This is as long as you are eating pasture raised eggs, of course.

BOILED VEGETABLES

One of the major problems with long-term carnivore dieting potentially (although there are many healthy populations that have been doing it for thousands of years), is the lack of fiber. Fiber helps keep things moving in the digestive tract, which helps get rid of toxic matter. When eating only meat, we can develop constipation, and that stops the outward flow of toxins. Frequent enemas will solve that problem. If you don't want to stick a tube up your butt, which I still recommend regardless, then eating some boiled non-fibrous and non-starchy plant matter when you are ready will help to relieve constipation, and flush the those toxins out in the fecal matter.

Plants are the opposite of meat. Cooked is more easy to digest than raw, especially boiled. The reason why babies don't eat salad, apart from the lack of teeth, is because their digestive system is too weak for raw plant matter. Their first solid foods, rather, are boiled vegetables in broth, the easiest form of plant food to digest. The boiling process breaks down most of the fiber in plants, which mitigates the damage done to the intestinal walls, and the little bit of fiber that does remain helps move fecal matter through the tract. Furthermore, the carbohydrates and magnesium in plants will help with carnivore insomnia.

I started with boiled onions when I came off of carnivore. Then I progressed to carrots, garlic, and cabbage. I boil these vegetables for about 25 mins in the broth that I make, and then I eat it as soup. If anything, it makes the broth much tastier. Plants are not a nutritional necessity. They add flavor and help the poop move. They are most beneficial as medicines and detoxification aids, which are both temporary in nature. Animal foods, on the other hand, are an every day food.

Roasting doesn't cook the vegetables as thoroughly as boiling. It still breaks down the a good amount of the fiber. Once you feel like you can tolerate it, roasting some root vegetables, squash, or brussels sprouts in beef tallow and salt will add some pleasant texture and sweetness to a meal. A roasted brussels sprout will taste sweet after a few months of eating only meat. I like to roast on a cast iron tray at 400 °F. It crisps up the veg up well. And beef fat and salt make anything taste good. Another option is cast iron grilled onions in beef fat. It pairs very well with plain beef patties. Cassandra loves them.

BEET KVASS

According to GAPS author, Natasha Campbell-McBride, drinking the liquid from plant ferments is better to start with than eating the fermented plant matter itself. The fermentation breaks down the fiber in plants, although not nearly as much as cooking. It's much better than raw, but the fiber could still do some damage on a weak gut. But, fermented food is needed to repopulate our gut with beneficial bacteria. Plants culture the types of bacteria that we need because they exist on the plant, and then proliferate in the acidic oxygenless environment that the lacto-fermentation process provides. In addition, fermented food provides enzymes to help break down our food, which reduces stress on our digestive system (if you were unaware of all this).

Beets, in particular, throw off a tasty and nutritious liquid. All it takes is slicing or chunking up fresh beets and keeping them submerged in lightly salted water at room temperature for about a week. Then, you strain out the beets and drink the fermented beet infused salt water. The best ones don't taste like beets or are even salty at all. Rather, they're like soda. Even if the Kvass doesn't come out that great, it's still a potent liver tonic and a digestive aid if you have been suffering from constipation throughout the fiberless diet.

SAUERKRAUT

I love e. It's the perfect pairing with meat; almost as perfect as the perfect pickle. The Germans had the right idea. Actually, from what I understand, fermented foods, e in particular, mitigates much of the harmfulness of the carcinogens that are in fire grilled and BBQ meat. That's a little sciency for me. I'm not totally convinced of this whole carcinogen thing anymore. It's very mainstream. If fire is what nature intended us to cook with, then it can't be that bad. Rather my overall approach on the subject is - if they taste good together, then that means they were intended to be eaten together. And grilled meat and e taste good together.

Cabbage cultures lactic acid bacteria very well because of all the surface area on it. There are lots of those micro-organisms ready to metabolize that sucker into delicious non-cabbagy tasting e when submerged in it's own salted juices. For that reason, it's a plant pro-biotic powerhouse. It might even rival kefir, or is at least a close second. Another benefit, is that e is good source of vitamin C, or whatever that anti-scurvy nutrient is, more so than the original cabbage. Fermentation has this odd effect of releasing more nutrients in the original substance that can be consumed from the original substance from which it was fermented. That's in addition to breaking down much of the harmful protective chemicals in the plant. I'll eat scoops of raw e, but I won't even put raw cabbage in my mouth. Furthermore, raw cabbage is gross. Again, tastiness is sign of nutrition and digestibility.

Sauerkraut is a little laborious for people. The more health conscious grocery stores will have naturally fermented e for a decent price. Sometimes it's almost worth just buying it. I still like to make it. I do a crude ferment - that's my style. I cut the cabbage in half, cut out the core, chop or rip it up, pour in a "guess" amount of salt, massage it until it drips, stuff it in a jar (usually way too full), put a full cabbage leaf over it, weigh it down with a pickle weight, add water to submerge, and let it go for 6 weeks.

The way cabbage ferments into e is the very aggressive compared to other ferment that I've done, it even rivals meads. I have to sponge up juice that seeps out of the jar for about a week. If too much water explodes out, then mold can grow fast on the exposed fermenting kraut. So, I have to monitor water levels and mold growth in addition to the sponging. I still like it. It gets me in the spirit of Alchemy, because there's no Alchemy without fermentation. Making e is a good opportunity to get familiar with fermentation.

SALMON

Salmon is a source of "omega 3 fats", or some nutritional factor in the fat that has an anti-inflammatory effect in the body. Usually, I am opposed to anti-inflammatories, because inflammation is part of the body's healing process. Thus, anti-inflammatories would interfere with the attempt to get resources to an area in need, which seems counterproductive to me. However, in this case, the nutrition provided in the fish fat is so potent that it reduces the overall need for inflammation in the body, because the body parts are getting all of the nutritional resources that they need. And hair may be such a body part in need. From that perspective, I think it is good to incorporate such "anti-inflammatory" foods in our diet.

Salmon is also a rich animal source of "vitamin E", or the nutritional factor that has either an anti-oxidative effect in the body and helps counteract the deleterious effects of excess iron in the blood. Red meat doesn't have much vitamin E, or maybe none at all. Organs and egg yolks have some. But, salmon has a hefty amount. Overall, salmon may not be the holy grail of health as touted by the mainstream health gurus, because it's all an echo chamber out there, but it's probably good to have a few times per month, especially if you're not eating copious amounts of organ meats.

Since salmon is a mainstream health food, I have to eat it in a weird way. I don't cook the filets. Rather, I salt cure them into gravlax. Gravlax is norse for "buried fish" (grav = grave). The old vikings used to bury salted fish in the ground over the Winter as a preservation method for their caught fish, which spoil fast. The salt curing is a form of fermentation, which means it has the pro-biotic, enzymatic, and nutrient augmentation benefits that come with it. I don't bury my salmon. I wish I were as rugged as the old vikes. Rather, I use the fridge. I layer the salmon filet with salt and leave it in the fridge for a week. Then, I drain out the liquid and slice it up for lunch every day for as long as it lasts. People traditionally use other seasonings like dill and lemon rind. That's a little "foo-foo", as my friend Cam would say, for an old weathered viking. They probably just used salt. Not that adding some additional spices wouldn't be fun and soul nourishing sometimes. But, it avoids the potentially gut disrupting effects of adding difficult to digest plant matter. The point is, it tastes plenty fine without sugar and spices. Furthermore, I've never used the "pink" curing salt for meat. I just use regular mineral salt, and I've never gotten sick.

The other excellent way to consume salmon is to bake, or boil, the heads. Wild-caught salmon filets are ridiculously expensive, but the carcass is cheap. You can get a carcass for a few dollars per pound. It's basically the head, the tail, and some scrap meat on the rib cage. The head is what I want, though. I roast that sucker and eat the eyeballs, the brain, and all that thick collagenous skin. I feed it to my 1.5 year old too. She eats it up. She eats all this stuff. She doesn't hesitate or spit it out, either. Anyway, eyes and brain are extra nutritious. They're difficult to get for steer and lamb. Fish carcasses are much more available. There is nothing better for a toddler's eye and brain development, nutrition-wise, than eating eyes and brain. It's good for us too. I eat the pinkish orange muscle meat scraps as well. It's not much, but I don't like salmon anyway. I can only tolerate a bit of cooked salmon meat. I find the cured muscle meat much more potable. Nevertheless, I don't feel compelled to eat it in mass quantities, as with beef.

COD LIVER OIL

Weston A. Price people go nuts for this stuff because Dr. Price used it therapeutically in his work with developmentally impaired children after he completed his studies of the supremely healthy indigenous populations of the era. It's a potent source of "vitamin A", a deficiency of which, or whatever that nutritional factor common in animals foods is, was plaguing the unhealthy populations of the time that were subsisting on the processed white man's foods (which were probably healthier than the junk that we have today). It hasn't done any miracles for me, but if you are pregnant (which you probably are not - but your wife may be), or have done or are regularly doing extremely physically laborious activity, then you are going to need a potent source of vitamin A.

In addition, the polyunsaturated fish fats found in cod liver oil are particularly important for the brain. It's some medium chain fatty acid called DHEA. I'm not going to bother to go into detail about the chemical formula or acronym because it might not even be a real nutrient. Supposedly, it has those omega 3's and some vitamin E things in it. Whatever it is, cod liver oil is going to help your brain work a little better. Overall, it's not going to grow your hair back, but it has a potent beneficial effect. And it's better than any non-food nutritional supplement, because it is food.

I don't trust cod liver oil at the grocery stores. I buy the Green Pastures Cod Liver Oil (affiliate link). I talk to them at the Wise Traditions Conference every year. They're good people. I think that they strive to make a good quality product. All of the children of the guy who started the brand grew up drinking it and they are extremely tall. Much taller than the parents. The two girls are even over 6 feet. It's good marketing for them. I don't get any of the flavored oils though. I don't trust natural flavoring. Another one that I've bought in the past that has a good reputation is the Rosita Cod Liver Oil. This one is more expensive. I'm not sure about the quality difference between the two brands. I think they are both descent quality. There are probably some other high quality cod liver oils out there that you can find too, if you do some research.

Seasonal Eating

Ultimately, we don't have a nutritional problem. We have an overall energy problem, which is manifesting as a physical body problem. While not being disciplined with diet can cause problems, so can being too disciplined. Remember that near the root of MPB is a male imbalance that is further fueled by routine and drudgery. So, be careful to not let diet suck the fun out of eating. We need "soul" food too.

Soul food is exactly what it is, food that nourishes our soul. Our soul cannot be nourished by vitamin B6 and manganese. It needs the warmth from nostalgia, passion, and enjoyment. This doesn't mean going to Taco Bell and getting a churro. Rather, we need to cook food that reminds us of good times in the past, or that we like to eat, with high quality ingredients, that we make from scratch. The intimacy with the preparation of the food adds to the soul nourishing effect, in addition to giving us control over the toxicity of the ingredients, which, preferably, is none.

How much soul food do we need? I don't know. It's a balance. My inclination is to do more strict dieting in the Winter, whe vegetation is naturally scarce. If the Earth doesn't want to produce certain fruits and vegetables during this time in northern latitudes, then we probably not good for us to grow them in artificially conditioned environments in order to eat them year round, no matter how much of a "super food" they are touted to be. That's misguided bio-hacking. Furthermore, as I mentioned, the energy of the Winter is austerity. It's sobering. There's nothing sobering about tacos, pizza, and birthday cake. Save that for the Summer, minus the birthday cake probably. Carnivore diet fits with the austerity of Winter. It's the best time to be strict and to focus on healing and rebuilding our strength. In this manner, it will nourish us an energetic level along with the cleansing effects.

Overall, seasonal eating is probably the best practice. It's good for our internal rhythm to synchronize with nature in this way, and the foods of the season contain natural energies that we need. In fact, violating seasonal eating could create energetic confusion. Winter squash has the energy that we need in Autumn, but not in the Spring. Fruit is great in the Summer, but peaches and pineapples in January is going to confuse the hell out of the body. It's going to throw off our bio-rhythms. In addition, digestion is weakest in the Winter. The gut can't handle much raw plant food then. Save that soul food for the Summer through Christmas. In doing so, we'll be more in touch with the rhythms of the Earth and we'll probably appreciate the foods even more when we finally get to eat them at seasonal appropriate times, perhaps adding to the soul warming effect.

Finally, as a guy who has been very strict with his diet for about the last 7 years, I often think about this quote from a Chinese poet Bo Ju-yi commenting on all of the Daoist masters who were very conscious of herbs and extending longevity in his time: "Only I, who never followed a diet, have succeeded in reaching a ripe old age... I drink the wine in my cup and trust all else to Heaven's care." The guy only lived to 74 (772-846), but I still think it's valid advice about having faith and a relaxed spirit. However, bear in mind that, in the days of Bo Ju-yi, there was no Dunkin' Donuts. A steady diet of industrial seed oils, refined and glyphosate soaked grains, and high fructose corn syrup is going to kill you no matter how relaxed your spirit is. According to the Weston A. Price study, the minimal nutrition that a human needs to develop properly comes from high quality animal foods; in particular, the blood, milk, fat, and especially the organs. So I'll eat those foods, and foods of that nature, and trust the details beyond that to "Heaven's care".

Conclusion

Diet and gut health are essential to the holistic approach to healing from any disease, but the most difficult obstacle in the Physical Body that we have to overcome is our grotesquely expanded skull shape. There are many adults with poor diets and torn up guts, but have a full thick head of hair. They probably suffer from other ailments, but the point is to not get too obsessed with gut health and diet, as I have in the past.

It's going to better serve our efforts to focus our ingenuity and time on re-contouring the skull. Skull shape strongly determines hair growth patterns. It's obvious even in humans who do not have MPB, such as the children pictured below. Neither has a male hair loss pattern, but the one with the flatter and more vertical forehead has the lower and stronger hairline.

Again, hair likes a flat skull with strong contours on which to grow. I do suspect that some head shapes are more prone to MPB in adulthood. For example, the boy on the left is much less likely to develop MPB. Steep foreheads are not conducive to rounding and protrusion in later years. The kid on the right, on the other hand, could go bald. That long gradually curving forehead could bulge out more, expanding the curvature, and pushing that hair line further and further back. However, there are females with the same rounded forehead that never get MPB. Rather, their heads retain the, albeit weak, juvenile contours into adulthood.

Something is expanding the skulls of men only, and it's manifesting as MPB in those of us with such head shapes as the boy on the right. It's looks to me, in the more extreme examples especially, that there is a force pushing out from the inside. The major force inside of our body, that I am aware of, is the life-force. It's a pretty strong force. It's basically our will to live, and it can move anywhere and concentrate anywhere in the body, such as the skull; especially, for men. Therefore, it will probably help to get a feel for it and learn how to direct it to our advantage.