hi,

those are excellent questions and i share your concerns. i eat meat and i do worry about the parasite thing. you might also want to consider that many parasites get into the system from people's pets and animals not from what they eat.

on the paleo forum i posted an idea i had about an anti parasite marinade. read that thread for ideas if you want to. but the basic notion is marinading the meat in anti parasite herbs and veggies like pau d arco, clove, garlic etc and then eating the meat either paleo style (raw) or cooking it. your question is making me want to give this a try.

let me know if you try an anti parasite marinade and i will do the same.

ff

Hummmm . . . I must have missed some source or another . . . I have never been concerned about parasites from cooked meat, except undercooked pork.

Anyway, I have read about raw meat parasites in connection with my dog's diet, where they say, if the meat is frozen for 14 days, there will be no parasites in it. I don't see any reason why that would not apply here!

Most people with type O blood (myself included) produce much larger quantities of stomach acid than other blood types. If this is you, you will know that if you try to eat a high carb meal(especially a high carb, high fat meal) without an adequate portion of meat protein to balance it out you will get terrible heartburn and/or indegestion. Anyway, this high acid content is what enables you to digest red meat well and it also destroys many parasites. If you are eating cooked meat, it should not be an issue anyway. If you are eating it raw, or almost raw, then be sure to chew you food well (giving you stomach acid access to a greater surface area of meat) and do periodic parasite cleanses. Our paleo selves were much more aware of herbs and roots that healed and removed parasites, and would have consumed these on a regular basis.