• tallow's working great. i'm using it on my skin twice a day, also used it to make french fries, also used it to grease my blind man's cane. i think i'm slowly growing to enjoy the taste more and more (i'm using it instead of butter / coconut oil for frying, when i do use oil for frying).

• trying coconut oil + lemon juice on my head for dandruff. i've had dandruff my whole life and was always told it was just a "runs in the family" or "is natural" kind of thing (which gets worse if i use shampoo), but then i read that it's usually caused by a certain fungus that's super common: this coconut-lemon thing seems to have worked after just 1 application. it stung a LOT, especially just above my forehead, and was impossible to wash out of my hair (it's mostly out now… after 3 showers; but keep in mind, i don't use shampoo or conditioner), and i just kept rubbing it into my scalp and throughout my hair until it didn't sting anymore. the next day i didn't seem to have ANY dandruff at ALL (even got my wife to check for me). i won't try it every day but i'll do it once a week for a few weeks just to make sure it's really dead. after that i'll try putting tallow in my hair and see what happens.

eating the tallow is also noticably good for my teeth; i've barely been eating any at all but my teeth are whiter and have no plaque at all (i've regularly achieved "no plaque" before, but it seems to be a lot easier with the tallow), and my tongue is a healthy pink/red (no hint of white). that's probably not ONLY the tallow, as in it's probably the overall combo of the coconut oil, kombucha and tallow together (it's not like i eat them all at once, i just have a bit of them all once a day) along with not eating processed foods/table sugar etc.

regarding the kombucha: it's definitely easier to get it to work properly when you use dates as opposed to honey. and dates are cheaper.

also i've found out that eating in japan is going to be extreeemely easy even with my diet. apparently you can order stuff like "salt-only grilled chicken" (= sauceless yakitori), "salt-broth soup" (= sugarless etc soup, just seaweed and salt), "only-toppings ramen" (= noodleless ramen) and no one cares, on top of that the convenience stores have stuff like plain boiled eggs. waaay easier than in sweden. we found the advice that "just plainly say that you're allergic to wheat, they won't really understand anything else" and "in everything except big chain restaurants you can ask what's in the food and since they've made it in the shop itself all the workers know; in fancier restaurants they might or might not be careful about your allergies, because either they get set meals from somewhere else or they have a reputation to uphold".

apparently the grilled sweet potato carts are often outside the grocery stores. i'm gonna be living the good life...