I have often asked in my head, 'why did God tell humankind to eat meat and animal products after the flood?'

I do feel better when sticking to raw fruits and vegetables. I wake up less often with high blood sugars and feeling achy.

... My theory though is this- before the flood, before the end of the last Ice age, we had very good growth conditions for foodstuffs. Fruits and vegetables would have had the chance to mature in soil with less runoff and mineral depletion, and to make healthier fats and protiens in them, as a more complete food.

Yes, my worldview isn't very evolutionist, sorry, I've looked a good deal into the geological, archaeological and historical proofs that stick a sharp pointy stick in the eye of Darwinism ;)

Anyways..
Fats are vital elements of cell membranes, hormone production... Factually a huge amount of biological processes in the body! By eating raw and vegan one supplies in higher amounts the choline and minerals needed for the production of stomach acid and bile to metabolize fats and proteins- there's no doubts that fruits and vegetables are needed, and plenty of them!

There are several sides to the equation though.
And oils do a much better job of lubricating than just water! There is usually an oily substance in tears, alongside salts and the cells shed by the lining of the eye.

Have you been oil pulling, using iodine, or typical/ingesting coconut oil, iandthou?
It can easily be that your body is telling you it craves fats.
It has been very interesting reading your story :-)


Ps, the ache around the heart- investigate the thymus gland, it rests just above the heart muscle, under the ribcage and is connected with the lymphatic system! The lymph system very much uses fats to neutralize the acids that are produced by normal cellular metabolism... The thymus is a storage dept for immune cells so your immune system can remember what infections you've fought over your lifetime. I believe there are several other functions to it too?
It loves choline, one of those nutrients so high in egg yolks...

A few years back, my eyes were so dry, I kept getting eye infections--the medicine drops the eye specialist gave me would stop the infection for a while, but not very long--it just getting reinfected. Man that hurt---couldn't stand to go outside even, cuz my eyes would hurt so badly from the bright light. And then my left Achilles tendon started to get really tight, feeling like it was going to tear itself.

I remember I looked up dry eyes here, even though it hurt to look at the screen. Fairly quickly, (thank goodness)I found a small little post that said a gal had gotten rid of her eye problems by putting a tiny bit of olive oil on the lower lid and blinking to spread it around. Not much else. I thought heck, what could it hurt--olive oil is pretty harmless right? I got some that afternoon, and put on a little bit, like she said--my eyes immediately felt better--not perfect, but enough that I could drive and I went right to the health food store, and asked what they might have for eye infections--she led me to this rue-fennel eye wash which I started using the minute I got home. In a couple of days my eye infection was just a bad memory.

Now, if my eyes start to feel even a little dry, a bit of olive oil and no more problem. It's actually been years since I felt the need to use it. I was later reading the label on the medication and was shocked to read one of the side effects was ruptured tendons. And the Achilles tendon was where it was settling in me! From an eye drop--sheesh.

That's one of the reasons I've come to distrust ANY pharmaceutical---they ALWAYS have some horrid side effect. I suppose I should be glad it didn't kill heart muscles or something! And it didn't even work in any real way--also another scam they run--you have to keep buying more. *ack*

So you might want to give olive oil a try yourself. It naturally restores the protective moisture barrier that tends to thin out as we grow older. All that time suffering (nearly a month) and all I needed was a touch of olive oil. Did the eye 'specialist' even say word one about olive oil? Nope, no profit in that. Of course he wanted to put those plug things in my tear ducts.