Welcome to my site.

Hi, I'm Paul Randall and I am a creative professional from sunny Nottingham in the heart of England's green and pleasant land.

Since the early 90s I've been working on Apple Macs knocking out things to make you go ooh! Starting with Graphic design at art college I set up a company Called Bentley Graphics, that eventually became Aztec Internet when I quickly realised "new media" was rapidly becoming the in-thing. After hooking up with a TV presenter, customer and friend Shaun Esden we created Aztec Films and four hundred films later I came back to website authoring.

Wow, can't believe I just reduced my career to a paragraph!

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Dr Berry and Dr Saladino have been invaluable in explaining scientifically in not so scientific terms the benefits of fat adaptation and a proper human diet.

After chatting with one of my friends debating nuclear power down the pub on a Wednesday after juggling club (as you do!), with me taking the side that nuclear power is a clean, abundant carbon neutral energy and him saying “I don’t like nuclear, what about all that waste?“ I decided to look into modern nuclear power with the question in mind of; are we anywhere nearer toward nuclear fusion or is there a new fission design that we could look into that minimises dangerous bi-products and produces radioactive waste with a much shorter half-life?

Well, I found my answer. But let’s look at what we currently use first.

The basic design of the nuclear power stations used today hasn’t really changed much. We split Uranium 235 atoms to create a chain reaction that needs to be supercooled with water under very high pressures. If the system breaks down there are backup generators aiding the cooling system to pump the water around, however in the case of Fukushima the generators were all taken out by the Tsunami which caused the core to superheat, steam accelerated the rise in temperature and a hydrogen explosion was created as a result.

These Uranium water cooled reactors are incredibly inefficient when it comes to nuclear as they only process maybe ten percent of the Uranium fed to them. Yet they provide many times more electricity than coal fired power stations and there is really no point comparing them to the square mileage required to home wind turbines or solar farms that would be needed to create anywhere near the amount of electricity that a Uranium reactor can put out.

One big issue is safety based on the reliance on water cooling, however another is the controversial bi-product of these reactors. They produce weapons grade plutonium. Some would say that’s a valuable resource and therefore a useful feature during the arms race to keep the balance of power against the Soviets enabling the threat of mutually assured destruction. Nothing worse than one superpower having nukes unilaterally! Sadly, now we have an abundance of this arguably terrible bi-product a system that could utilise this plutonium for power efficiently as well as other nuclear materials would be not only a good idea it would be a great one.

Enter the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor. This baby has never been mainstreamed possibly due to the fact it doesn’t produce weapons grade Plutonium as a bi-product but what it does do is utilise its fuel efficiently. These reactors utilise molten salt as a coolant which means that there is no need to keep an eye on the reactor as its design prevents meltdown and therefore it’s far safer than a traditional uranium reactor.

Another fact to take into consideration is the abundance of Thorium. There is something like ten times the amount of Thorium in the Earth’s crust than there is Uranium and as it’s many times more efficient then the latter, the amount of energy it could generate compared to Uranium is probably thousands of times more based on just that proliferation of raw resource. And the best bit is there is very little waste. And the waste has a half life of around 200 - 300 years as opposed to the hundreds of thousands of years Uranium 235 waste products take to become inert.

What’s not to love?

I've been on a carnivore diet now for a couple of years on and off.

It's been a long and interesting journey and I haven't been completely disciplined all the way through but on the whole I've managed to keep away from eating too many carbs.

So I thought I would tell you of my experience and the positive benefits I have enjoyed.

Firstly as a real ale lover I made the mistake of thinking that Alcohol is an ok carb-ration however it not only knocked me out of ketosis it also gave me gout. So as a result I have taken to having gin and soda with lime and only one per week. Besides that and the occasional KFC without the fries or sides and the odd shawarma (doner kebab) I'm pretty good.

When I first started on carnivore diet I was suffering from the following (some of these may sound a bit icky):

From about two weeks in after a bout of diarrhoea and constipation (my biome having to adjust to a high fat based diet) everything settled down and the joint pain and brain fog went away. I also slept through the night. My focus is better than it's ever been and I seem to remember things better too.

A few more months into the new way of eating and every one of the symptoms has disappeared.

I was initially doing this diet as a one month trial but a few months in I decided to turn it into an elimination diet. My intention was to go from Carnivore to Ketogenic. I added small amounts of carbs from above ground vegetables. After the first few days I felt a little sluggish and didn’t sleep as well waking in the middle of the night to visit the loo.

After about a week I experiences some joint pain again and a little Britain fog. I don’t think I suffer from any auto-immune syndrome however I understand that vegetables have various toxins to protect them from being eaten and that some people are more sensitive to these plant toxins. So maybe I’m one of them, maybe I’m not but I definitely feel a lot better eating only food from animal sources.

So I’m back on carnivore. I’ve practically given up alcohol and am experimenting with Bulletproof coffee and intermittent fasting. I eat one to two two meals a day and don’t snack. I have a five hour window where I eat (excluding the coffee in the morning when I get up) and I drink two to three litres of water, sometimes sparkling using my Sodastream and sometimes still.

The next stage is to find a reasonably priced supplier of grass finished beef. Not an easy task as most of the websites that I find are very expensive.

I’ll update you when I find a source.

I’m also going to find some interesting articles talking about the nutritional aspects of a carnivore diet and explaining the science behind the health benefits I and others are experiencing.

Watch this space!

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