>    More generally speaking, is it possible to eat a balanced, healthy
>    (paleo) diet without taking supplements?  It's discouraging to hear
>    the Troy Gilchrist say that he takes a dried liver supplement _and_
>    a DHA supplement.  I would like to get all my nutrition from whole
>    natural foods if possible.

I used the wrong word. I consider the dried liver powder to be a food--not a
supplement. It's just a dried, lightly-cooked form of what I could get by
going to a meat market, buying liver, and cooking it (eating it raw would be
out of the question because of potential food poisoning). It's not that much
different (conceptually speaking) from eating beef jerky powdered in a food
processor.

Regarding the DHA supplement, I have a severe allergy to just about any kind
of fish. So my choices for acquiring adequate amounts of omega-3 fatty acids
are limited to flaxseed oil, cod liver and other fish body oils (which,
strangely, don't bother me at all), and the algal DHA.

One interesting note: I don't require any vitamin supplements.

Troy Gilchrist