What's your advice/experience for someone wanting to try out eating raw meat? I have done the ultra-rare thing, basically searing the thing both sides over about 1-2 minutes.

I mean, I love eating raw salmon and tuna. There's a lot of FUD around pathogenic bacteria on uncooked meat, but every time I watch a cat eating a mouse or a bird or whatever, I'm like, whatever. That cat just swallowed not only the raw meat, feathers, skin, hair, but usually most of the guts, colon included...

I'd be curious to know, especially, if I might thus be at risk of having missing microflora/fauna in my gut reintroduced and fixing some autoimmune problem. I mean, not to drag the subject too far down the GI tract, but some amazing stories about people transplanting such things clearing up chronic, life long illnesses. Seems to me like if there's one place I haven't been deliberately getting a little exposure it's to meat. I just don't want to end up with salmonella or some other nasty thing that attacks my nervous system like this.