JL:
>A few days ago, I decided to experiment raw milk, to see what would
>happen after 5 months of dairy-free diet. I found a bottle of organic
>raw cow's milk. It was 12 a.m., and I hadn't had breakfast, so I was
>hungry. The milk tasted pleasant, I drank it quickly. The first signs
>of repletion came at 80% of the bottle, but the taste had barely
>changed (not very different from pasteurized milk). I decided to
>finish the bottle anyway (no waste "instinct"?). I stopped my lunch at
>that point, and waited to see what would happen

>At 1:30 p.m., I felt an urgent need to go to... the toilet. It was
>really liquid, almost as fluid as milk (but not really the same color).
>And I returned 4 or 5 times to the toilet during the next 3 hours.

>Possible hypothesis :

>1) Instinct is not efficient with raw milk: there was no (or minimal) taste
>change, whereas the milk was obviously undigested.

>2) My sense of taste was corrupted by many years of pasteurized milk
>drinking; my body incorrectly interpreted the taste as pasteurized milk,
>instead of raw milk which is less digestible.

>3) I drank too quickly.

>4) The milk was too cold.

>5) I drank too much, I should have listened to the early signs of
>repletion.

>6) Diarrhea is a "useful illness", my intestine needed some cleansing.

I would add...

7) One's responses to any particular food over time may vary and there may
be danger in generalizing from one experience

8) Perhaps predigested and/or extracted dairy (raw yogurt, kefer, butter,
etc) would be more digestable/useful.

Thanks for reporting, JL! I have experienced the same effects when drinking
freshly prepared juices and young coconuts which didn't taste great. Also I
find that food (especially high water content food) eaten too soon after
cassia leads to similar "ignoring" by the alimentary canal... FWIW, cassia
itself often seems not to be "digested" as indicated by the black color of
the fecal matter.

Melisa continues to enjoy the kefer several times a week. She eats it with
relish (spooning from a bowl) after some fruit. She eats very little butter
anymore (rare attraction) less than once a week. There continue to be no
objective or subjective ill effects in evidence so far. Indeed, I would say
she seems to be thriving on it.

I continue not to be attracted to any dairy (since my intitial several
ounces of butter several weeks ago).

BTW, JL, what is your blood type? Bruno pooh-poohed the blood type theory
in a post a while back but I am quite interested in any differences in
instinctive selection among the different blood types. If there is anything
to "Eat According to Your Blood Type" stuff then it should show up in
instincto's relative attractions (in the long run) to RAF in general and,
perhaps, dairy in particular.

Again, for the record, I am type O (the "old" hunter-gatherer blood type)
and Melisa is type B (a type supposedly more suited to agriculture). I
wonder: is there an (over) abundance of type 0 instinctos ? Do the A's and
B's find less success on an instincto regime?

Cheers,
Kirt