I love raw meat. I am reading Deep Nutrition right now with a wonderful group of maniacs. This is what the author has to say about cooking meat:

"Overcooked meat is tough because its fat, protein, and sugar molecules have gotten tangled and fused together during a wild, heat-crazed chemical orgy. The result is a kind of tissue polymer that requires more work to cut with a knife and more chewing, as well as more time to digest. The worst part is that so many of the nutrients we need are ruined. Ruined nutrients don’t just politely disappear. Once ingested, your body won’t be able to simply flush them down some metabolic drainpipe. When heat kills nutrients, it does so by causing reactions between nutrients, forming new chemical compounds including known carcinogens (such as aromatic hydrocarbons and cyclic amines), as well as other molecular fusions that damage your kidneys and blood vessels.141 When meat is cooked properly, fewer harmful reactions occur.142

So how much heat is too much heat? If, when you slice it, there’s not even a trickle of juice, it’s way overdone. Steak should be juicy and red. I recommend you work your way down to medium rare, and once you get used to that, go for rare. "

Shanahan MD, Catherine (2011). Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food (Kindle Locations 2004-2006). Big Box Books.

My BF and I have taken to eating beef that still moos... delicious!

Scientifically speaking, heat reduces B6 content in meat and eggs. From what I understand we only get rich sources of B6 from meat, eggs and raw milk... Heat denatures the natural enzymes and probably other nutrients as well. Cooking may render it more digestible in other ways but will make it less nutritious overall.

It also stands to reason that heating would destroy some of the valuable omega-3s in that tasty grass-fed bliss? Is this so?

I'm not quite at the WAPF's recommendation of eating 50% of my meat raw yet, but do make an effort to cook good quality meat rare, eat some raw egg yolks, and make a raw meat dish on occasion.

No.

Raw beef is more difficult to digest than cooked beef. So, even though cooking destroys some nutrients, the nutrients that are left are easier to absorb. Thus, you end up absorbing more nutrients--as a total, absolute number--from a pound of cooked beef than from a pound of raw beef.

Cooking destroys harmful bacteria in beef. Can your body handle a certain types and amounts of harmful bacteria? Sure, but is there any benefit to having harmful bacteria in your beef? Nope, no benefit at all.

Sear it really briefly. Very hot pan, very short time. Seconds each side. Pretend to cook it!

Always done this with steak. Now working up, using same method, to eating liver really red!

I try to eat 100% raw meat. There's actually a raw version of the paleo diet, called the 'raw paleo diet.'

There's a web site and a forum, just google search the raw paleo diet.

We eat raw eggs, beef, pork, buffalo. Everything pretty much.

Feel free to check it out. There's a lot of benefits to eating all raw.

Most people who go to raw paleo are battling some kind of health issue that vegan or vegetarian, or even regular cooked paleo didn't resolve.

With raw paleo they've all noticed huge improvements.

Most of us eat a really high fat diet.

For example I eat about 378 cals fat 336 cals protein and 120 cals carbs per meal.

Any way check it out. Its a huge step forward from regular paleo.

http://www.keeperofthehome.org/2008/07/the-health-benefits-of-eating-raw-meat.html

http://www.keeperofthehome.org/2008/07/the-health-benefits-of-eating-raw-meat-part-2.html

I found these for you..

I eat ground, beef, lamb and/or goat raw. 8-12 ounces/day with mustard, mashed sweet potato and sauerkraut. SO DELICIOUS

I actually find it more pleasant on the stomach. If it's from the right source, it's fantastic!

perhaps raw meat has much more nutrition and less cooking-induced carcinogenic stuff but what about PARASITES? i don't mind some bacteria or whatever but WORMS!!!

i'd better have a cancer than 10-meter long creatures devouring me from inside

I really don't see how eating raw meat can be beneficial, it takes a long time to digest eaten cooked

Raw beef is easier to digest. The proteins undergo a process of "denaturing" where they are more difficult to digest. I am and MD and know this to be scientifically true.

Number #1 Reason not to eat Raw Meat: Parasites! Watch this video: http://www.markusrothkranz.com/parasitefree/parasite_free.html

In response to worms with raw meat, as long as it's a tapeworm that lets me eat whatever I want, I'm in ...lol.

It may boast health benefits, but contains some risk such as parasites. Plus if you are Christian, Messianic, or Jewish, just forwarn you that it's against Scripture to eat raw meats. Other religions forbid it as well. If you're not religious then... It depends if you want to risk the parasites that could be present, although if it comes from healthy grass fed animals it probably not really a concern. Just my 2 cents.