Todd:
> Why did I eventually stop Neanderthin?  I don't really remember.  I'm 
> a ceaseless tinkerer, and so it was (and is) natural for me to 
> experiment.  I wasn't losing weight on Neanderthin, and I had doubts 
> about some of the ideas in the book, such as the foreign protein, 
> autoimmune stuff.

Well, the lack of weight loss and dramatic spike in LDL were certainly
understandable reasons for concern. I take it you didn't get any more test
results while on NeanderThin?

The more I look into that foreign protein stuff, the more I find it's a
common term in the scientific and medical fields, and the only places I see
where Ray differed from Cordain, Eaton et al on this is Ray expanded on the
recognized autoimmune diseases to include things like obesity, heart attack
and stroke and he wrote of the diseases of civilization as though molecular
mimicry was the only underlying cause instead of one among several. You
might want to check it out for yourself if you haven't already. For example,
using the following search terms brings up quite a few medical articles that
use the term "foreign proteins":

"foreign proteins" autoimmune "t cells