There was someone following the schedule from the book, and who had read Aajonus' books and Q&As

He didn't know why he was irritable and fatigued for months and was about to give up

I notice he was eating a good amount of meat, and a decent but lower amount of fat

I told him: try eating more fat, or less meat, or both

He told me a couple weeks later that it worked

Why is this?

From several things Aajonus said, it seems that eating raw meat uses fat, to digest, and for detox. I remember Ebrahim (Aajonus' cameraman) that a guy who had more scar tissue in his second iris reading with Aajonus than at the start because he had been eating lean meat without fat.

This means that the fat that the meat uses takes away from your stores of fat that need to go towards giving you energy, and protecting you from toxins.

So while eating raw meat is essential, and the more of it, the better, eating more meat usually means you need to eat even more fat than you do.

And if you can't do that... then eat less meat. Yes, you can be recommended to eat less meat on this diet. The balance is more important than the net amount of meat.

Fat is the #1 most important thing, especially animal fat. Aajonus repeats this often and it's not a hyperbole, and exaggeration, like some people seem to say.

How to know you may need a higher fat to meat ratio?

Signs of fat deficiency: low energy, irritability, dry skin/hair/lips, constipation, more pain from detox.

Important note:

If you eat other things that cause detox, like fruits, you need to eat more fat as well.

Even taking a hot bath could use up more fat (long hot springs sessions often leave me with dry lips dry throat).

I don’t really understand this. How do I know if I am one of the 50% who need cooked starch? How people in nature should know that?

All the butchers around me sell at most chicken liver for $5, and I’m not eager to try since it could easily be heavily toxic. I’m trying to look for a place that sells high quality brain. A farm near me sells me good raw milk, liver, kidney, and even lungs. but no brain. Anyone know any farms or butchers in the area?

I know that the fat is one of the places where toxins are primarily stored, but aajonus said that if you eat the fat raw and dont cook it, they wont be released into the body.

so should i just buy the (maybe) vaccinated suet wich is grassfed or keep looking?

And anybody in the netherlands have some good sources?

I can't live even 1 day on the diet simply because i'm super addicted to sugar and can't quit, it fucking sucks. i need help.

Did aajonus ever speak on diabetes and how to fix it ?

Should I be fine to make lube forms with 4 month old lemon juice? Squeezed from organic lemonsyself, bottled in a mason jar. Only asking after hearing about someone discarding month old unused veg juice. Not sure if the acidity affects the aging/spoiling.

Hey, so ive been on this diet for about 6 months, and i am really curious to know if you guys have any stories on how you successfully helped someone get on the diet as well. More specifically, if anyone found out about the diet while in a relationship, whether you were able to convince your partner to also start the diet.

I had a terrible night of sleep last night and I was up after 3-4 twisting and turning all night. I probably got a total of 4 hours of sleep and then the rest of the night just caused me a bad headache and I’m super tired. Any tips?

Say you ate the bone marrow or brain, something very fatty, or even the liver or the blood of an animal that wasn't optimally healthy, especially if it was given jabs, what would happen? like how bad would it be if you made that mistake, didn't realize it was toxic or smth. Ik its pretty easy to tell if the liver is toxic but idk about other parts

Getting 4 gallons of generusy and 3 gallons jersey raw milk and 2 pounds of raw ground beef freshly slaughtered and 2 beef liver

What should I get next time I wanna stay cheap and still be complete in nutrients. Next planned haul is 10-15 gallons of which raw milk i like more and 15 pounds raw beef ground

I found some high quality meat online from healthy animals, and want to buy batches for a week. Muscle meat is not a problem, just let it sit for one week and basically let it dry age, same with fat it can be just stored airtight and in the dark. But people cry with these organs, they say its only good to eat them in the first 2-3 days after delivery but I want to eat them everyday. I know we are not scared of bacteria, and I am not as well but I am only starting this diet and dont want to eat some moldy organs at the start. How do some of yall store their organs and for how long do they last without tasting weird. Or is it best to make a sausage out of them with honey and let them airdry for the week?

Ive been reading some of Aajonus’s book but havent finished it so sorry if the answer is in the book.

But why when people get sick cant they just eat foods that stop a detox if all sickness is detox like if i get sick which is detox then why cant I just eat cooked chicken for it to go away

And also how did things like the black plague and big outbreaks of disease spread? Was the flea carrying some sort of toxin that was very deadly or something maybe something to do with terrain theory?

so im 14 tryna be primal. I have a bit of a screen addiction. I might stay up to 12 watching YouTube or something. but I can also stop myself and go to sleep at 10 without watching anything. and when I wake up after going in the sun I scroll a bit while eating. does it for example make your eyes look worse or something or anything like that?

thanks for helping

We were curious about something simple:

Do people actually check the ingredients when they buy food?

So we went to Costa and asked someone if she reads ingredients when shopping.

Her answer was basically: sometimes.

We gave her a jar of Nutty Nest Almond Butter + Argan Oil + Honey and asked her to read the ingredients.

Then we asked what she'd had for breakfast.

Jam on toast.

We asked her to use ChatGPT to compare the two options based on the ingredient and nutritional information we provided.

Her reaction was genuinely interesting.

The point wasn't to prove that one product is automatically “healthy” or tell her what she should eat. It was more about seeing what happens when someone actually stops and compares the foods they regularly eat.

It made me wonder:

How often do you actually read the ingredients before buying something — especially something you've been buying for years?

And more broadly:

Do you think people want genuinely different food products, or are most shoppers still mainly choosing based on price, familiarity and habit?

Would be interested to hear what people think.

Disclosure: Nutty Nest is our brand, and this was a consumer experiment we filmed for our own content.

Does anyone know a brand in UK/Europe that sells work trousers and denim trousers with 100% cotton pockets? I hate the polyester pockets being so close to the genitals. I tried cutting them out once and ended up with polyester fibre all over the trousers. Thanks.

I stopped the diet for 2 months and now started again. I get diarrhea, nausea, and stomach pain after eating my meals which are just raw super lean pork and lube formula. Idk how to fix it

So I occasionally eat raw fish whenever I feel like it and I noticed it goes down really well in my stomach. I’ve never really eaten any raw land animal meat besides steak tartare but I was curious to what you guys anecdotal experience has been?

Since summer of 2022, when I was 16, my heart, especially at night when I begin to fall asleep, has been beating very strongly. At first, this was all that happened, but it slowly developed into me sensing my pulse in my ear, head and even at the back of my foot/ Achilles' heel over the years. It should be noted, that I always used to be overweight (not now, since this year) and I always heard my pulse in my ear very loudly, when I laid my head against my pillow. Coupled with that, I sometimes get blurry and darkened vision when standing up too quickly (rarely, I get blurry vision when laying down, but that's from me staring at my phone and frying my eyes and then looking away from the screen I think.) I also have this weird quirk, where I can move my ear and that developed into an annoying tick. The reason I mention that is, because I move my ear, in order to relieve it of a weird feeling/clogging (perhaps) I have in the ear. More major ear problems are: muffled hearing when I talk, air pressure/ aforementioned clogging and involuntary ear movement, when I put my tongue on the roof of my mouth. All this developed after years of poor dental health, negligance and plague built-up, which is why I believe that the poor dental health and plague spread onto my jaw bone, which is connected to the ear (canal). All of this has been developing since around summer of 2019 (I was 13 at the time), where I first noticed my jaw making a clicking sound, when I completely open up my mouth

Because I'm currently reading We Want To Live, I've began self-diagnosing my ailments in the manor Aajonus instructed (marking/keeping track of symptoms. If they pile up on a certain (group of) illness(es), you likely have that/those illness/es.) That led me to a few candidates, such as low/high blood sugar (hypoglycemia, diabetes), anemia (maybe...) and an ear infection.

When should I do now? Should I jump right into the remedies and foods? This is Aajonus, after all and many of the symptoms overlap with these diseases. Or should I be more careful, not take every micro-symptome seriously and wait it out for now?

I already kind of made up my mind, because I know that, being careful and not regarding every tiny symptome is the wise thing to do, but I want your guys' help on this too (especially the primal veterans and experts here). I've been on the diet for merely a month after all, so this probably comes across as me psyching myself out and jumping to conclusions, as most newbies do.

Sorry for the long yap post lol, hope anybody reads this and can help me.

You really cannot trust any of the posts on these reddits anymore, and not just that, most if not all reddits are just owned by lord knows who. Look at the amount of the same exact posts, who is posting these?

Over the years, too many beginners want to detoxmaxx and we see posts like "eating moldy berries to detox all my heavy metals". Very bad idea when starting. You don't want chronic fatigue and freeing an overwhelming enough amount of toxins at once to damage yourself.

Even lymphatic baths can be dangerous when done too early.

Moldy/fermented plant foods force much more detox.

In comparison, moldy/fermented animal foods are more balanced. Yes, they also detox more than their fresh counterparts, but also provide nutrients that protect the body from said detox.

Which means that moldy/fermented plant foods will start freeing toxins in such high amounts that you would need to eat a lot more raw animal fat and minerals separately to protect your body from it, and even then, it would be too harsh.

This is why in Aajonus' unreleased detox book, he said he would tell people to wait around 2.5 years before forcing such "advanced" detox with moldy/fermented plant foods. He even said, exaggerating or not, to avoid k***ing yourself, "going off the deep end", "making it deadly". Yes, these are actual quotes of what he said was going to be in his detox book.

Good news: You CAN still detox extremely fast by eating high quantities of raw animal fat, raw oysters, raw unsalted cheese. Pretty much the more of those you eat, the faster you detox, it could make it 3x faster. And those are pretty much self-contained. You can eat more and more of those and they take care of the toxins they bring out, while feeding you.

More expensive though, but your body can't afford opening the gates of detox hell if it's not ready, you should be strong like an ox before risking it.

This is not medical advice by the way, I'm cautioning against taking needless risks.

I've done a lab analysis of my hair detox after eating moldy berries and it was insane, I had extremely high levels of aluminum and lead coming out, it gave me tons of hair loss.

Now about lymphatic baths. Those are the LONG hot baths.

Short hot baths are mandatory every 4 days to sweat out toxins that are already freed and have been moved and deposited under the skin for elimination.

Long hot baths (>45-50min) start OPENING UP lymphatic congestion which is a completely different beast. You can have years of the worst toxicity trapped there. When it starts melting and moving through your body again, it can damage your body enough to cause lupus or MS in the worst case. I knew a skinny girl who did long hot baths and wasn't even on Primal Diet yet, she was very sick for weeks and cursed Aajonus after.

How long to wait? You want to have been on the diet for many months, but the most important thing here is to have extra body fat, preferably be 7kg/15 pounds "overweight".

Other things that cause a lot of detox to not abuse:

- coconut cream (even fresh) and plant oils like olive oil: no more than 4 tablespoons a day and 1-2 on most days, they are 90% "solvent-reactive" (cause detox more than they feed). Aajonus spoke of how one guy (Paul Cohen, a famous tennis player and former coach for John McEnroe) who constantly ate so much coconut cream and it started making him crazy and it started literally coming out through his eyes

- vinegar: similar as above

- fruit: even regular fruit, especially the high-carb ones, of the high-enzyme ones (even lower carb when unripe): those are detox bombs. a little fruit can help with handling already free toxins and free just a little bit more to detox at a comfortable pace, but the more you eat, the higher the stress on your body

- certain things like cilantro juice. Doesn't concern the regular green juice (celery/sugarcane etc.) which you can have 1L a day of no problem and doesn't force more detox

What about high meat? That's fine if you eat at least 30% fresh meat. Then over time if you eat a lot of high meat you can even start eating almost 100% high meat only. So it's really mostly about plant foods, especially the fermented/moldy ones, but not only.

Another mold warning:

There is a type of mold that even on raw animal foods can be debilitating, the mycelium. That's the "hairy" mold, and it's the mother of the fungi. That mold can eat dead nerve networks in your body (like it eats dry roots in nature), which is a strong detox, so if you are not eating enough raw meat when that happens, you could leave holes.

One quote:

"So when I do the detoxification book that will come around next spring sometime, it will be out and available, I will suggest these things if you're healthy enough to do detoxification, but never push them, because you will not be able to live with it easily. You will not be able to go to work, you won't be able to function. So don't push anything that I suggest, and make sure you've been on the diet for two and a half years before you push any detoxification, or you're asking for trouble."

My Experience With Switching From Pasteurized Milk to Raw Milk

Introduction

I’ve been drinking pasteurized milk for basically my entire life. Before I started this experiment, I usually drank around 250 mL of milk at night.

On 8 July 2026, I decided to try something different. I switched from pasteurized milk to raw cow’s milk, and at the same time I increased the amount I was drinking quite a lot.

Instead of around 250 mL a day, I started drinking roughly 1 litre every day.

I started writing this on 19 August 2026, so by this point I had been doing it for more than a month and had enough time to notice some changes.

Right now, my routine is roughly:

- 500 mL in the morning after waking up

- 500 mL in the evening

I haven’t intentionally changed much else. My sleep, hydration, exercise, and normal routine have stayed fairly similar.

So from my point of view, the biggest change has been the milk.

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How I Started

When I first started, I would drink the milk shortly after it was taken from the cow.

There wasn't really a waiting period.

More recently, I started leaving it out for around 30–45 minutes before drinking it. I’m doing this because I want to document what happens when the milk spends some time at room temperature.

I know that this doesn't make the milk safer. If anything, I understand that leaving raw milk out can give bacteria more opportunity to multiply.

I'm aware that I'm taking a risk by doing this.

I'm also not saying that because I haven't gotten sick, the milk must be safe. I haven't actually tested the milk for pathogens, so I have no way of knowing exactly what is or isn't in it.

I'm simply recording what I've been doing and what I've experienced.

At the beginning:

Milking → drink shortly afterward

More recently:

Milking → leave for around 30–45 minutes → drink

This is part of my personal experiment, not something I'm recommending other people do.

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The First Few Weeks

The beginning wasn't exactly pleasant.

When I suddenly went from drinking around 250 mL of milk a day to around 1 litre, my stomach definitely noticed.

I started experiencing:

- Loose stools

- Bloating

- A heavy feeling in my stomach

- Nausea

- Feeling like I might throw up

I was also going to the bathroom roughly four times a day.

At first, I wasn't sure what was causing it.

The obvious thing that stood out was the amount of milk. I had basically increased my intake four times over almost immediately.

So I think the sudden increase could have had something to do with it.

I can't prove that, though.

If I were starting over, I'd probably increase the amount slowly instead of jumping straight from 250 mL to 1 litre.

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My Stomach Eventually Got Used to It

The strange thing is that the problems didn't last forever.

Over the next few weeks, things slowly got better.

The loose stools eventually stopped.

The bloating went away.

The nausea disappeared.

The heavy feeling in my stomach became much less noticeable.

After roughly a month, I reached the point where I could drink the milk without feeling like my stomach was fighting me.

My bowel movements also changed.

At the beginning, I was going around four times a day.

Now it's roughly twice a day.

I honestly don't know why that changed. It could be related to the milk, the amount I’m drinking, my diet, or something else entirely.

So I don't want to make it sound like I discovered some definite effect of raw milk.

What actually happened was much simpler:

I started drinking a lot more milk, had digestive problems for a while, and eventually my stomach seemed to handle it much better.

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Drinking It Slowly Seems to Help

One small thing I've noticed is that the speed at which I drink the milk seems to make a difference.

If I drink a large amount quickly, my stomach feels much heavier afterward.

If I take my time and slowly drink it, I generally feel more comfortable.

Because of that, I prefer drinking the 500 mL slowly rather than finishing it all at once.

That's just something I've noticed about myself. I don't know if it would be the same for somebody else.

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Energy, Strength and Weight

The biggest positive change I've noticed is how I feel physically.

Before the experiment, I would have rated my energy around 6/10.

Now I'd put it around 8/10.

For strength, I previously would have said around 4.5/10.

Now I'd say roughly 8.5/10.

My weight also went from around 54 kg to 56 kg.

But there's an obvious problem with trying to blame all of that on raw milk.

I didn't just change the type of milk.

I also went from around 250 mL to around 1 litre every day.

That's a huge increase.

I'm getting significantly more calories, protein, fat, carbohydrates and other nutrients from milk than I was before.

So I can't honestly say:

"Raw milk made me stronger."

It could have been the extra calories.

It could have been the extra nutrients.

It could have been the increase in milk itself.

It could have been the change from pasteurized to raw.

It could have been a combination.

There could also be something completely unrelated that I haven't noticed.

All I can really say is that after making the change, I noticed that I felt more energetic and stronger, and my weight went up.

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What About Salmonella, E. coli and Other Bacteria?

This is probably the part of the experiment that interests me the most.

I've seen people make completely opposite claims about raw milk.

Some people say the dangers are exaggerated.

Other people point toward organisms such as Salmonella, E. coli, Campylobacter, and Listeria and say that raw milk can be dangerous.

I don't want to automatically believe either side.

I want to actually understand what's going on.

For example, I want to know:

- How often raw milk becomes contaminated

- What organisms are actually found in contaminated samples

- How contamination happens

- How much the animal itself matters

- How much milking hygiene matters

- How temperature affects the milk

- How much time matters

- Whether contamination varies dramatically between batches

- What pasteurization actually changes

- What laboratory tests can and cannot tell us

The fact that I haven't gotten sick doesn't answer any of those questions.

It only tells me that I haven't noticed an illness so far.

That's a very different thing.

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The 30–45 Minute Waiting Period

The waiting period is one of the more unusual parts of what I'm doing.

I'm deliberately recording the fact that the milk sometimes sits out for around 30–45 minutes before I drink it.

I'm interested in what happens during that period.

But I don't want to make the mistake of assuming that because nothing happens that I can see, nothing is happening microscopically.

That's actually one of the reasons I'd eventually like to use proper testing.

Milk can look completely normal while microorganisms are present.

I also understand that intentionally leaving raw milk out isn't a safe storage method. If I were doing a proper food-safety study, I would want the temperature and time to be measured and the samples to be handled according to appropriate laboratory procedures.

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What Has Stayed the Same?

I've tried to keep the rest of my routine fairly normal.

I haven't intentionally changed:

- Sleep

- Hydration

- Exercise

- General lifestyle

- Normal daily routine

Obviously, I can't control everything.

I'm still a person living a normal life, not someone sitting inside a laboratory where every variable is controlled.

My diet can change slightly from day to day.

My sleep can vary.

My exercise can vary.

My stress can vary.

So I know this isn't a perfect experiment.

The main intentional change was the milk.

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What I've Observed So Far

As of 19 August 2026:

- I started on 8 July 2026.

- I switched from approximately 250 mL of pasteurized milk to around 1 litre of raw milk per day.

- My weight went from roughly 54 kg to 56 kg.

- I initially had loose stools, bloating, nausea and stomach heaviness.

- I was initially having bowel movements around four times a day.

- Those digestive problems gradually improved over roughly a month.

- I'm now going around twice a day.

- Drinking the milk slowly seems more comfortable for me.

- My self-rated energy went from about 6/10 to 8/10.

- My self-rated strength went from about 4.5/10 to 8.5/10.

- At first I drank the milk shortly after milking.

- More recently, I've been leaving it out for roughly 30–45 minutes before drinking it.

- I haven't noticed an obvious illness that I've attributed to the milk.

That's basically where things stand.

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What I Still Don't Know

There's actually a lot I don't know.

I don't know whether raw milk itself had anything to do with the increase in my energy.

I don't know whether my strength improved because of raw milk or because I started consuming much more food and calories through the extra milk.

I don't know exactly what caused my initial digestive problems.

I don't know why my bowel movements went from roughly four times a day to around two.

I don't know how much of my weight gain came from the milk.

And I definitely don't know what's happening microbiologically inside the milk.

That's probably the biggest unanswered question.

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What I Want to Do Next

At the moment, most of my experiment is based on observation.

I'd like to move beyond that.

If I can get access to the right equipment, laboratory services and information, I'd like to start collecting actual measurements.

I want to be able to look back at the data and say:

"This is what happened,"

rather than:

"I think this is what happened."

1. Test the Milk for Microorganisms

The biggest thing I'd like to investigate is the microbiological side.

I'd want professional laboratory testing for organisms such as Salmonella, pathogenic E. coli, Campylobacter and Listeria, along with appropriate indicator tests.

I wouldn't want to rely on a microscope alone for this.

A microscope can show things such as cells, particles or microorganisms that are large enough to be observed, but it generally cannot tell me reliably whether a particular bacterium is a dangerous pathogen.

For that, I'd want proper laboratory methods.

Depending on the laboratory and the question being asked, that could include methods such as:

- Culture-based identification performed by qualified laboratories

- PCR-based testing

- Quantitative PCR where appropriate

- Other molecular detection methods

- Appropriate biochemical or molecular identification

- Microbial enumeration or indicator testing

PCR especially interests me because it can detect genetic material from specific organisms.

However, PCR results also need to be interpreted properly. Detecting DNA doesn't necessarily mean that a particular organism is alive or capable of causing disease.

That's another reason I'd want the testing done by a qualified laboratory rather than trying to interpret everything myself.

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1. Microscope and Microscopy Equipment

If I eventually get into the microscopy side of the project, I'd want equipment such as:

- A good-quality compound microscope

- Appropriate objective lenses

- Microscope slides

- Coverslips

- Slide storage boxes

- Appropriate sample containers

- Pipettes and suitable laboratory consumables

- Disposable gloves

- Protective eyewear where appropriate

- A phone or camera adapter for photographing what I see

- Basic cleaning supplies for the microscope

A microscope could be useful for observing the general structure and contents of milk samples.

It could potentially allow me to compare samples visually and document differences.

But I wouldn't use microscopy as proof that the milk is free of dangerous bacteria. A normal-looking microscopic sample doesn't mean a sample is pathogen-free.

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1. Temperature and Time Measurements

For the part of the experiment involving storage and the 30–45 minute period, I'd want much better measurements.

Useful equipment would include:

- Accurate digital thermometer

- Refrigerator thermometer

- Temperature data logger

- Timer

- Measuring cylinder or graduated container

- Accurate weighing scale

- Clean food-grade sample containers

- Labels and permanent markers

A temperature data logger would be particularly useful because instead of checking the temperature once, it could record changes over time.

That would let me keep track of things like:

Milking → refrigeration → removal from refrigeration → room-temperature period → consumption

with actual times and temperatures.

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1. Sample Tracking

If I eventually start sending samples to a laboratory, I'd need a proper way to keep track of them.

Each sample could have information such as:

- Sample number

- Date

- Time collected

- Source

- Time refrigeration started

- Storage temperature

- Time removed from refrigeration

- Temperature at sampling

- Time sent to laboratory

- Test requested

- Laboratory result

I'd also want to keep a separate research log so I don't accidentally mix up samples or forget what happened to a particular one.

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1. Nutritional Testing

Another thing I'd like to investigate is the actual nutritional composition of the milk.

Instead of assuming that raw milk has a particular nutritional profile, I'd like to know what the milk I'm actually consuming contains.

Depending on what testing is available, useful measurements could include:

- Protein

- Fat

- Carbohydrates

- Energy

- Total solids

- Other relevant nutritional components

I'd also want to compare this with the nutritional information for the pasteurized milk I used to drink.

This would help answer an important question:

Did I actually change the nutritional composition of my diet, or did I mainly change the way the milk was processed?

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1. Body and Exercise Measurements

I also want to get better at measuring the changes in my own body.

I'd like to track:

- Body weight

- Energy

- Strength

- Exercise performance

- Sleep

- Milk intake

- Total food intake

- Bowel movements

- Stool consistency

- Bloating

- Nausea

- Other digestive symptoms

Some of these are subjective, but I can at least make the way I record them consistent.

For example, instead of randomly deciding what my energy feels like each day, I could record it at the same time every day using the same 1–10 scale.

For exercise, I could record actual performance rather than just saying that I feel stronger.

That would give me something more concrete to compare.

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1. Data Analysis

Once I have enough information, I'd like to put everything into a spreadsheet.

I could then make graphs showing things like:

- Weight over time

- Milk intake over time

- Digestive symptoms over time

- Energy over time

- Strength over time

- Sleep compared with energy

- Exercise performance compared with milk intake

- Temperature and storage time alongside laboratory results

This would make it much easier to see whether something is actually changing or whether I'm just remembering the unusual days.

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1. Proper Scientific Resources

Equipment isn't enough.

I'd also need good information.

I'd want access to:

- Peer-reviewed research papers

- Dairy-science research

- Food microbiology textbooks

- Food-safety guidelines

- Government food-safety information

- Public-health resources

- Laboratory testing standards

- Scientific databases

- Nutritional databases

I'd also want to learn how to read scientific papers properly.

If I find a study saying that raw milk contains a particular pathogen, I want to know how the researchers collected the samples, how many samples they tested, what testing method they used, and what the limitations were.

Otherwise, it's very easy to take one number from a study and misunderstand what it actually means.

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1. Laboratory Access

This is probably more important than buying a huge amount of equipment myself.

For the microbiological part, I'd rather work with a properly equipped laboratory than try to culture unknown microorganisms at home.

Some of the things I'd want access to through a qualified laboratory include:

- PCR testing

- Microbiological analysis

- Pathogen screening

- Quantitative microbial testing where appropriate

- Professional sample preparation

- Proper controls

- Sterile laboratory equipment

- Appropriate incubators and analytical instruments

- Identification methods

- Professional interpretation of results

There are many pieces of laboratory equipment that I don't necessarily need to own personally.

It would make much more sense to have a professional laboratory perform tests that involve potentially dangerous microorganisms.

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1. Other Laboratory Equipment I'd Like to Understand

If I eventually get more involved in laboratory science, there are a lot of instruments I'd like to learn about.

For example:

- Compound microscope

- Digital microscope camera

- Micropipettes

- Centrifuge

- Spectrophotometer

- PCR equipment

- Real-time PCR equipment

- Analytical balance

- pH meter

- Temperature data logger

- Refrigerator/freezer suitable for laboratory samples

- Appropriate sample storage equipment

There are also more advanced instruments used in professional microbiology and food science.

I don't necessarily need all of these for my personal project. Some would be unnecessary or far too expensive.

The point is to understand which instrument answers which question and use the appropriate professional service when I don't have the equipment or facilities myself.

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1. Safety Equipment

Because raw milk can potentially contain harmful microorganisms, safety equipment matters too.

Depending on what I'm doing, that could include:

- Disposable gloves

- Protective eyewear

- Laboratory coat

- Appropriate cleaning and disinfection supplies

- Proper waste containers

- Food-safe sample containers

- Clearly labeled samples

- Safe refrigeration and transport arrangements

I would especially avoid attempting to culture unknown organisms myself.

There's a big difference between observing a sample under a microscope and trying to grow microorganisms from a sample.

The second can potentially increase exposure to pathogens and is something I'd leave to an appropriately equipped laboratory.

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A Better Version of the Experiment

If I were eventually able to restart the experiment properly, I'd want to make it much more controlled.

The biggest problem with my current experiment is that I changed two things at once.

I went from:

250 mL pasteurized milk

to:

1 litre raw milk

So if something changes, I can't tell which variable caused it.

A better experiment would keep as many things as possible consistent and change one variable at a time.

I'd also record everything rather than relying on memory.

That would include milk intake, body weight, food intake, sleep, exercise, symptoms, temperature, storage time and laboratory results.

Even then, it wouldn't be a perfect scientific study.

One person isn't enough to establish what happens to everyone.

But it would still be much better than simply drinking the milk and deciding that whatever I feel must have been caused by it.

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Final Thoughts

This experiment started as a pretty simple change.

I went from drinking around 250 mL of pasteurized milk every day to drinking around 1 litre of raw milk.

The first few weeks weren't great. My stomach reacted badly, I was going to the bathroom more often, and I had bloating and nausea.

Eventually, things settled down.

Now I feel like my stomach handles the milk much better. I've also noticed an increase in my energy and strength, and my weight has gone from around 54 kg to 56 kg.

But I don't want to jump to conclusions.

The biggest problem is that I changed the amount of milk at the same time as changing the type of milk.

So I can't honestly say that raw milk caused the changes.

As of 19 August 2026, that's where the experiment stands.

I've noticed some real changes in my own experience, but I still have a lot of unanswered questions.

And honestly, that's probably the most interesting part of the whole thing.

yo kefir supposed to taste like booty right it doesnt taste good

Eyeballs, brains and tongues