Raw animal foods, high fat, enzyme-rich. Cream, eggs, meat, honey, juiced veg.
Instinctive Raw is a raw, animal-based way of eating built entirely on uncooked foods: raw meat, raw dairy, raw eggs, raw fat, and honey. The framework's claim is that heat destroys enzymes and damages nutrients, so eating these foods raw, and well-sourced, is what lets the body fully use and rebuild from them.
This approach treats cooking as fractionating nutrients and killing enzymes. The whole framework centers on eating animal foods uncooked so the body can fully use and rebuild from them.
Raw butter, cream, raw cheese, coconut cream, marrow, avocado, and egg yolk are foundational, eaten generously alongside meat. Fat can range from a large minority up to the majority of intake.
Eat to satisfaction in cycles through the day, with at least every few hours covered. Fasting is avoided, especially because the approach is seen as cleansing and going too long without food is considered harmful during that process.
Raw fat with meat. Fruit always with fat. Nuts only with honey and eggs. Raw meat and raw vegetable juice separated by about an hour. Eggs often eaten alone, one at a time. No water with meals.
Grass-fed, pasture-raised, known and trusted suppliers. Treated as essential, not optional, because of the risks involved with raw animal foods.
No salt, no cooked food, no seed or vegetable oils, no grains, no supplements, no frozen food. The food shows up as close to its living state as possible.
Fermented raw foods and aged raw meat (high meat) are emphasized for beneficial bacteria, a deliberate part of the rhythm rather than a curiosity.
Fruit is kept minimal and always paired with fat. Small amounts of raw vegetable juice (celery-forward) come in for minerals, separated from meat.
Nothing is salted, nothing is heated, nothing is from a bag. The whole staple list reads like a working farm rather than a grocery aisle.
The rhythm isn't breakfast, lunch, dinner. It's a steady cycle of small raw intakes, with the milkshake and a portion of fatty meat anchoring the day.
A few ounces of raw milk, sipped slowly. Some start instead with a little fruit eaten with cream.
The signature milkshake: raw eggs, raw milk, raw cream, a spoon of unheated honey. Not a one-off; this recurs through the day.
A portion of raw fatty meat, a few ounces, eaten with raw fat like raw butter or marrow. Eaten to satisfaction rather than a fixed amount.
Raw vegetable juice, celery-forward, taken about an hour away from the meat. More raw milk sipped. Raw cheese with honey, called the best mineral pairing in this view.
Another portion of raw meat with fat, or raw eggs. A little fruit with cream if you want something sweet.
About a cup of raw milk to calm the body before bed.
Eating every few hours, never fasting; raw fat present at meals; combinations followed; no water with food.
Instinctive Raw, as taught here, is the raw, animal-based approach developed by Aajonus Vonderplanitz (1947 to 2013). He laid it out in his books and on his site; the people who follow it today still work from those texts. BasedCal credits him factually as the originator and is not affiliated with him or his estate.
Aajonus Vonderplanitz's own site and the central reference for the approach.
Archive of his work, talks, and correspondence.
Book by Aajonus Vonderplanitz laying out the framework.
Follow-up book with recipes, combinations, and practical detail.
BasedCal presents this as a framework, not medical advice. Claims here are attributed to Aajonus Vonderplanitz and the raw-animal-food community, not the app. Choosing this approach in BasedCal requires confirming you're 18 or older and acknowledging the food-safety risks.