And on with it!

What a busy week we’re having!

Franky and I are moving out of our New Hampshire home tomorrow! We’re moving to a little town in Southern Maine to an old farmhouse on 60 acres.

We’re completely excited about this move, this is the first place we are moving to together. The house we’re in currently, Franky was living there first.

Anywho, this place is awesome! I’ll post pictures soon, in the photo gallery. It is a semi-established farm – all organic garden beds, chicken coop (with chickens already), apple trees, strawberries, and more. We have huge beds ready for us to get planting, so we will be growing lots of food this year. We have been growing seedlings inside for about a month.

At this point, we just have the usual veggies growing, but will be planting lots more, including culinary and medicinal herbs. Hopefully, I’ll be able to have my own dried herbs this year for teas, instead of importing and ordering them. Ordering my herbs is always a nice and convenient option, but just imagine the energy that my own herbs that I’ve grown will have, as opposed to the ones in the bag.

What other updates?

I’ve been attempting to eat low carb. I know, that term is like a blast from the past, right? I remember the days of eating low carb, years ago.

Well, it’s sort of come around again full circle. I’ve come to realize, due to my research, that my body is designed to operate on fat and protein and a small amount of carbohydrates. Along my journey, I had a few years of being completely hooked on sugar, perhaps addicted might be a better word. Not the classic “sugar”, but just sweets and more. Meaning, I would source out a local raw honey from wherever I was, but then I would eat the jar in a day or two. I wasn’t a huge fan of fruit, because I could feel the hybridization vibration and it was too much. Nowadays, any piece of fruit that looks “normal” – organic or not, is pretty much always hybridized fruit. I just read recently, that you cannot take the seeds from an apple and plant them to get an apple tree. Fruit trees are grafted. That was a surprise to me. Still to this day, I rarely eat fruit (except for occasionally when we make Strawberry Gelatos (frozen strawberries w/ raw cream – it’s completely over the top). From there, I would bounce from grains to seeds to powdered superfoods to sweeteners, just taking in carbs, carbs, carbs. Never quite getting enough protein and fat. In fact, I’m not sure I ever got enough of either one for most of my life. Especially in the vegan years. I’m sorry if it offends you, but we need fat for our brain to work properly. By properly, I don’t mean fast or slow, I mean sane. Our brains need fats from animals. Our bodies need fats from animals. Veganism is a reaction to factory farming and cruelty to animals. Which I happen to completely agree with. I think factory farming is horrible and should be outlawed. Seriously. If you think about it, was anyone really vegan or vegetarian before factory farming came around? Maybe a sparse person here and there, but it was not a popular thing to do, or even an ethical thing to do.

Honestly, there is a lot of recovery that I’m personally dealing with from lacking animal fat and protein for so long. It’s still going. It’s been about 1 year and bit more gradually choosing these real foods, but who knows how long it will take to heal all of the damage. I’ve heard of a few people that because of their long-term “ethical” choices, they now have health problems that are irreversible. I certainly hope that is not my case, and I am choosing to heal.

Countless people say that if they ate as much butter as I do, they would be fat. Well, you know what? You should try it! Because fat doesn’t make you fat, crappy rancid oils, sugars, and carbs make you fat.

We are creatures of the Ice Age. I love that. It’s one of the greatest things I’ve ever read. During the ice age, do you think anyone was out foraging for seeds, berries, and wild greens? Well no, because everything was frozen over, but besides that fact, they needed more to keep them alive. Humans would go out and specifically hunt the animals that they knew had the most fat. They lived on fat and protein, pretty much exclusively. They ate foods that were extremely high in cholesterol, yet none of them died at a young age. Because cholesterol is good thing. Having high cholesterol is an indicator, not a condition. It indicates that there is something going on somewhere in our body that needs attention. Cholesterol is like the spackle on the internal walls of our body. “High cholesterol” usually means that there is a lot of damage going on, so your body is trying to correct it by producing extra cholesterol to help heal you.

A lot of people bring up the question – Our bodies already make cholesterol, isn’t that enough?

I could tell pretty much immediately that my body appreciated ample amounts of good cholesterol and things started shifting, but I still wondered how to explain this to people? I think it is/will be a different experience for every person, depending on what food background they are coming from, what their bodies need, etc.

I asked Nora Gedgaudas, the author of Primal Body Primal Mind, this question. Why do we need more cholesterol from our diets?

She actually wrote me back and said:

“Dear Camille–