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I have been 'raw vegan' for two years or so now, and have noticed my skin improve and my stools become frequent. However, as time has passed I have noticed that I feel weak almost all of the time, sometimes so weak and tired that I have no real will to do anything, and I am now so very thin that almost everyone comments upon, or worries about it. I know within myself that I am way too thin, and this obviously cannot be deemed healthy.
Also, my strength has decreased, and I have problems lifting things that not so long ago could be lifted with ease. Then there is the fact that my teeth appear to be collapsing in front of my very eyes - enamel vanishing from my front teeth, and two molars have developed holes and all but broken away.
Now, I am well aware of 'detox' etc, but this is becoming ridiculous. My physical problems are now coupled with emotional problems; for instance, I cannot help but feel totally disassociated with the rest of the world. I cannot connect with anyone on any level, and again have no will to do so. This is affecting my job (which I view as pointless and pathetic) and my family/friend interaction. I simply no longer wish to be around people, and this, no doubt, is due to my physical and emotional state.
Furthermore, only a few days ago did my sister contract some form of 'bug' which made her feel nauseas and weak for a day, before feeling better the next. The very next morning, I woke shivering and sweating, have experienced loads of diarrhoea, and last night woke and vomitted uncontrollable all over my bed. Today I feel so weak and pathetic that I cannot stand up even to brush my teeth as I am in danger of blacking out.
It seems odd to me that the 'raw vegan' diet is supposedly the most healthy way to live, but alas recently it seems to be slowly destroying me. I feel utterly deficient in so many ways, and have been craving like crazy eggs and salmon, even though all that I have read says NO, NO, NO!
I have never felt so weak, tired, and miserable in all my days, and I do not believe a 28 year old, intelligent, passionate (at least once passionate) individual should feel this way for even a second of his or her existence.
So, I come to the good people of CureZone looking for advice. I would truly love to hear from you, as I am only a few moments a way from devouring a huge omelette, something I know I will regret!
My thanks in advance.- Re: Raw Vegan Problems #48688
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MoreThis is a reply to # 1,203,982Are their any soy products in your diet? Soy milk, tofu, etc. If so that could be a culprit.
There is an acid in unfermented soy that prevents the uptake of minerals through the intestines. The body only absorbs nutrients to the degree that minerals are present.
Are you buying organic foods or are you getting them from the usual grocery store?
I've found there to be very little nutrition in grocery store foods.
To be completely vegetarian I would recommend growing and juicing your own wheatgrass.
That should ensure a healthy diet.- Re: Raw Vegan Problems Set
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This is a reply to # 1,203,999No soy products at all. I only eat fruit, leafy vegetables, nuts and seeds, all of which are organic.
At this stage I simply do not feel as if I am digesting/assimilating the foods adequately. I have bowel cleansed numerous times and done many Liver Flushes as well as liver herbs.
I just cannot fathom what is up right now. All that I have read concerning the issues I have are low stomach acid and/or an overgrowth of candida; but since my diet is so pure, I am not so sure that either of these could be the cause.- Re: Raw Vegan Problems #48688
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MoreThis is a reply to # 1,204,072I'm thinking maybe parasites.
If they're there, they'll be having your lunch.
I know they're in the vegetables just naturally and wouldn't be a problem except for the amount of chemicals in our environment which gets into our bodies and causes the parasites to make a home and multiply.
Or maybe you are in need of more potent vegetable sources like the wheatgrass juice and also home grown sprouts.
These were two foods which Ann Wigmore popularized and are superfoods.
The woman was amazingly healthy when she was in her eighties and animal products were not in her diet. - Deficiency in quality fats Larryb
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This is a reply to # 1,204,072It sounds like you're suffering from a lack of good fats in your diet. Essential fats are absolutely critical and have everything to do with proper brain function. You might even try the Budwig flax oil, cottage cheese mixture to get fats into your system as soon as possible and make up for the deficiency.
Budwig believed cancer patients all had a depletion of good fats in their systems and came up with the blended cottage cheese/ flax seed oil recipe to remedy the depletion as quickly as possible. You might want to google Budwig or check the flax seed forum.
Of course oil pulling wouldn't hurt either - I do both.
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- Re: Raw Vegan Problems Quinta_Essentia
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This is a reply to # 1,203,982why do you stick to a diet that is killing you? if i were you i would eat some meat, pronto.
at the very least i would get some B12 injections, along with a total spectrum B vitamin injection.- Re: Raw Vegan Problems Set
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This is a reply to # 1,204,073Genesis 9:1-3 says: "Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. The fear and dread of you will fall upon all of the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands. Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, now I give you everything."
But let's not forget God's Pharmacy !!!
A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye.
And YES,
science now shows that carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.
A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart is red and has four chambers. All of the research shows tomatoes are indeed pure heart and blood food.
Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows that grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.
A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds are on the nut just like the neo-cortex.
We now know that walnuts help develop over 3 dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.
Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.
Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium.
If you don't have enough sodium in your diet the body pulls it from the bones, making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.
Eggplant, Avocados and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs.
Today's research shows that when a woman eats 1 avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight and prevents cervical cancers.
And how profound is this? .... It takes exactly 9 months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit.
There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern Science has only studied and named about 141 of them).
Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.
Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries.
Grapefruits, Oranges , and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the
breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.
Onions look like body cells. Today's research shows that onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells.
They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes.
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This is a reply to # 1,204,120beautiful post!
btw SET... I would see a chinese herbalist if I were you. I have been doing some reading of it, and it sounds like your ilness is cold in nature. The more cold or cooling foods you eat, the more problems you will have because the cold foods will just add to the problem.
It might be necessary to eat some warming foods or even cooked foods for a bit. Which ones those are, I cant say. You will have to see what you react with :)
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- Re: Raw Vegan Problems Quinta_Essentia
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This is a reply to # 1,204,073yes, i am trying to assist you. i guess i dont understand why you think eating that way is healthy if its actually destroying your health. some people do quite well on a vega diet, others dont. you seem to be one who doesn't. why not just admit the diet may not be working for you and try something else?- Re: Raw Vegan Problems HealingWaters
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This is a reply to # 1,204,147Quinta,
With all due respects we are sure that your intentions in this matter are good. However, you do not have enough knowledge in reference to the Raw Food lifestyle to comment. Meat is not a cure for anything...period. As you said you don't understand. So I suggest you either do not comment on this topic or better yet read a book or three or four. May I suggest a couple of starters for you: The China Syndrome or Green for Life.
One Perfect Love- With all due respect, it is hard to ... dquixote1217
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With all due respect, this question originated in Ask CureZone, thus precluding any arguments that Quinta Essentia's questions are not supportive of the originating forum, and besides, imho, what QE posted is quite valid. The original poster here appears to need some protein and other nutrition that is not found in their current diet.
No matter how admirable the idea of not eating animals is (though plants too are living entities), that is exactly how our ancestors have lived and adapted (evolved if you wish) for hundreds of thousands of years. Our teeth are the teeth of ominivores and our bodies and organs are most healthily supported by an omnivore diet.
To be sure, a diet consisting MOSTLY of raw vegetables, fruits, nuts, seed, root, tubers, etc. is very healthy and to a great extent it mimics those of our ancestors dating back hundreds of thousands of years or more. However, our ancestors did eat at least some free ranging non processed meat too and the healthiest and longest lived peoples on earth today do the very same.
It is very hard to be a healthy strict vegetarian, raw or otherwise, and you have to know what you are doing and plan your meals well. Even then, given our mineral depleted soils, it is difficult to get all the nutrition our bodies and organs need - bodies and organs that have adapted to be best supported by a diet that contains at least some meat.
Too many vegetarians appear to be more concerned with the moral ideals of the vegan diet and lifestyle without taking the time and care to learn about what an ideal healthy vegan lifestyle encompasses. In particular, special care and likely supplementation may be necessary to get adequate calcium, iron, zinc, vitamin D, vitamin B-6, vitamin B-12, and omega-3 fatty acids.That is why many strict vegetarians are among the most unhealthy people to be found and it is likely no coincidence that very old strict vegetarians are second in rarity only to very old obese people.
While you may be an expert in vegetarianism and you may be healthy, I get the idea that the original poster is neither of the two and I would suggest that that member would be better served with suggestions and questions regarding their problems rather than telling another member to butt out. Savagegrace's post is a good example.
Just my two cents.
DQ
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This is a reply to # 1,204,861Give Thanks for your heartfelt post and your personal point of view. As you well know we all have person point of views let me once again express mine so that you will fully understand my position. My concern as a Raw Food Consultant is not how One feels about saving animals from death in order to eat Raw Food as a way of life. My concern is individual personal Raw Food Journeys.
First of all if this forum is not for those who want or need support for THEIR diet choice of eating Raw Food...what is it for? For those who sit back and await for a poor Set to come along so they can say "Ah-ha, I told you so you need meat and dairy or you will die!" I am sorry but that is not the spirit from which I come. I believe that we all are FREE to make our choices as we see fit and that IN THIS CASE IN PARTICULAR...I will say it again for those who are hard of reading and complete comprehension...NONE OF US HAS ENOUGH INFORMATION ON SET'S DIET TO JUMP ON ANY BANDWAGON AND HOOP AND HOLLER ABOUT WHAT SET NEEDS TO EAT TO REMEDY SET'S PROBLEM...period. I think I have said this throughout this thread several times and maybe one person got it. If only one may there be more.
So what you are telling me is that this forum is not really to support those of us who want to LEARN more and get and give SUPPORT from one another...but it is a forum that is vunerable to attack from all well meaning meateaters who feel that meat eating is the only way to eat and they have a right to do the I told you so's. Eventhough there are knowlegeable Raw Fooders who do have the ability to guide and refer when someone needs help. Power and Control at it's finest.
With respects to all those meateaters who want to dissway Raw Fooders from THEIR OWN PERSONAL RAW FOOD JOURNEY, I will become a regular member of this forum and I offer my services for questions and concerns to those who in fact want optimum health. Optimum health regardless of whether they want to save the animals while doing it or just because they no longer want meat and dairy in their diets.
Raw Fooders if you have any questions regarding your diet I will be more then grateful to assist you in anyway that I can. Contact me through this forum. Send me a private message. I know that we all start from many different directions when start or even maintain this journey. I have had my own ups and downs and have been indeed grateful for the support I have recieved along the way. Most of all I am willing to give back to the Raw Food community every chance I can.
I am not an expert in vegetarianism. In fact I was the fattest most unhealthest vegetarian I know. I do have a few years experience as a VEGAN Raw Food Chef and Private Consultant and very health now thank you. I do know enough to know that their are meat eaters are always houvering over Raw Fooders like buzzards waiting to smell decomp so they can stuff the idea or actual meat and dairy down their throats without the first clue as to what that would do to the Raw Fooder. Suggesting that tidbit to a Raw Fooder who does not have enough information about their journey...IS DEADLY. I warn you and at the same time ask you to please take caution on what you say going on not having enough information about the person you call yourselves helping. You WILL cause more harm then good because of your lack of information.
DQ respectfully your lack of knowledge comes in the fact that you are refering Raw Fooders as vegetarians...we are VEGANS. You do not know who you are addressing. Each One teach One. Raw Fooders eat vegetables, fruits, sprouted grains and nuts. We are Vegans.
Raw Fooders never give up. Unite and Support!!!
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This is a reply to # 1,205,108
Your points are well taken and the purpose of my post was about the Set's health. Your are right in saying that I do not have enough experience to advise vegans or vegetarians or any other label which precludes eating any meat at all on what they need to do when they have health problems that may be related to the diet - other than to point out the common deficiencies they need to be aware of and address if need be.
May you have continued good health and peace in your journey and may the experience and knowledge you have gained from walking your walk be passed on to others so that they too may have success.
DQ
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This is a reply to # 1,205,265DQ
Give thanks for your reply. When One comes humble with information for the masses it is well received. So therefore when you humbly point out deficencies come with a spirit of giving and it will truly be accepted.
The most wonderful thing about the Cure Zone is that it affords each and everyOne of us an opportunity to give as well as receive.
One Perfect Love
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This is a reply to # 1,204,073Are you type O blood? If yes, you may need meat or the closest thing to it. If you are no O type you should be ok, but you might need more protein either way.
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- Luke...feel the force...eat the omle... Savagegrace
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This is a reply to # 1,203,982...something I know I will regret!
More likely something you'll regret if you don't.
First, 48688 has relevant concerns that should be addressed.
Second, only about 7% of the people, if that, can thrive off a pure raw veg diet.
For most, a raw veggie diet is a cleansing, not a "building" diet.
Some veggies do need to be cooked to get full (or different) nutritional value from them.
That being said are you a real veggie?
Or are you eating a large percentage of your diet in fruits?
A big no no by the way for most people.
Some vegans conveniently do not make this distinction.
Are you eating a lot of unsprouted grains?
Depending on which type, this can be another big no no.
It sounds like you're highly acidic with major blood Sugar drops.
You do know protein regulates blood sugar?
If you really want to continue against your internal warning system.
Try eating a single soft poached egg a day, for a week, then go to two.
Range free of course.
Split it with one in the morning and one with dinner.
This will regulate the blood Sugar and build up your strength.
And no, it will not increase your cholesterol.
Mercola has an excellent story about a veggie couple who began going downhill, I think it was after 4 years, being on the veg diet.
High quality protein and healthy fats are what you need.
So? Did you hear about the Dali Lama being forced to eat "meat" by the concerns of his Doctor's for his health?
Savagegrace
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This is a reply to # 1,204,093i dont think protein necessarily regulates blood sugar.. less glucose (by eating less carbyhydrates because you are eating proteins instead) is causing the regulation of blood sugar..
thats something quite different - Re: Luke...feel the force...eat the ... HealingWaters
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This is a reply to # 1,204,093Savagegrace,
Very well put. I think that you are correct in drawing the attention to what Set is eating as oppose to what to what Set is not eating. Yet and still, however Set has not stated specifically what his/her diet consist of. So therefore none of us can give accurate advice be it eat meat, eat an egg or more nuts.
All advice given at this point is based on assumption. Set needs to first speak to a Raw Food consultant while under a doctors care. But the Raw Food consultant must know specifically what Set is eating to assist.
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