I have gallbladder and liver issues as well...FERMENTED FOODS ARE THE KEY as well. I make them myself and they have done wonders for my digestion, as has iodine, but the good bacteria that it provides PUSHES OUT THE BAD BACTERIA!

Regarding ACV, put it in 1/2 cup of water to dilute it more...straight is too strong, or add raw honey! I hope you're also taking your magnesium because that should help move things out...I take it before each meal.

I almost forgot, for the Gallstones I use Chanca Piedra Tea. I get mine from Amazon.com.

Chicken- yes, that was the first thing I ate, WITH the skin. yums:)

>>>Now and again I go vegetarian for a few days...

Me too, or a few weeks, or months. I tend to eat seasonally. Heading into a predominantly raw food phase and I can't wait! Spring! Summer! :)

We've been making jell-o. With fruit juice, cut up fruits, grated cabbage and carrots. I don't know that it is doing anything in particular, I do like it though.


Time to revisit that Ray Peat link:

http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/gelatin.shtml


"The main bulk of an animal's body consists of water, protein, fat and bones. Fat tissue and bone are metabolically more quiescent than the protein-water systems. During stress or starvation, or even hibernation, animals lose lean mass faster than fat.

The amino acids that constitute protein have many hormone-like functions in their free state. When our glucose (glycogen) stores have been depleted, we convert our own tissue into free amino acids, some of which are used to produce new glucose. The amino acids cysteine and tryptophan, released in large quantities during stress, have antimetabolic (thyroid-suppressing) and, eventually, toxic effects. Hypothyroidism itself increases the catabolic turnover of protein, even though general metabolism is slowed.

Other amino acids act as nerve-modifiers (“transmitters”), causing, for example, excitation or inhibition.

Some of these amino acids, such as glycine, have a very broad range of cell-protective actions.

Their physical properties, rather than their use for production of energy or other metabolic function, are responsible for their important cytoprotective actions.

Gelatin (the cooked form of collagen) makes up about 50% of the protein in an animal, but a much smaller percentage in the more active tissues, such as brain, muscle, and liver. 35% of the amino acids in gelatin are glycine, 11% alanine, and 21% proline and hydroxyproline.

In the industrialized societies, the consumption of gelatin has decreased, relative to the foods that contain an inappropriately high proportion of the antimetabolic amino acids, especially tryptophan and cysteine.

The degenerative and inflammatory diseases can often be corrected by the use of gelatin-rich foods."

Cooked meat paleo diet or regular "paleo diet" will do you well.

And homo optimus diet / optimal diet is all cooked.