Strip away the debates and the shock factor, and the Primal Diet — as Aajonus Vonderplanitz taught it — comes down to a small set of rules. Here's the breakdown we come back to whenever someone asks "wait, so what do you actually eat?"
1. Raw meat, not cooked
Beef, lamb, poultry, fish — eaten raw rather than cooked. The core argument: cooking changes the structure of proteins and fats and destroys enzymes the body would otherwise use directly.
2. Raw dairy over pasteurized
Raw milk, raw cream, and raw cheese instead of the pasteurized, homogenized versions on grocery shelves. Pasteurization, in this framework, is a processing step that does more harm than good.
3. Raw eggs
Whole raw eggs, often blended into smoothies or eaten straight — a dense, easy source of raw fat and protein.
4. Raw animal fat as fuel
Fat, not carbohydrate, is treated as the primary energy source — tallow, raw butter, and fat trimmed straight from raw meat.
5. Cut the processed and cooked staples
Grains, refined sugar, seed oils, and most cooked food are minimized or removed entirely. If it came out of a factory line or a hot pan, it's not part of this way of eating.
6. Sun, not sunscreen
Regular sun exposure is treated as part of the diet, not separate from it — a rejection of the "avoid the sun at all costs" messaging most people grew up with.
The through-line across all six rules: eat foods as close as possible to their raw, unprocessed state, and be skeptical of anything modern food science tells you to do instead.
This is the framework that shows up, in one form or another, across almost every raw-meat and anti-vegan creator working today — including the movement Goatis has built. Next issue, we're getting into that.