Re: I know a better whole food vitamin source

I'm glad you're feeling much better. I'm not saying supps can't be helpful to anyone. More directing my message to those I see that have spent months or years trying every supplement on the shelf with little to no improvement like what I went through.

Don't get me wrong about what I say about diet advice. When I say "plant-based," I don't necessarily mean vegan or even full raw. I still eat some cooked food and small amounts of eggs and fish. If I said "animal-based," I'm sure people wouldn't think I meant a 100% all meat diet. I just recommend people go in the direction of eating plant-based (because it healed my worse health problem) and then it's up to them to find their perfect balance as you seem to have found.

I do have adrenal fatigue, along with insomnia problems and gallbladder disease. It's all slowly improving with the plant-based diet from over a decade of eating an animal-based diet.

I do listen a lot to the high-fruit raw vegans who run 30bananasaday.com and also Dr. Doug Graham because that high-fruit lifestyle is relatively new to me and fascinating and I like to here all sides. The 30bad couple seem to be exceptionally healthy and have healed themselves with that lifestyle, along with a lot of members there, from a lot of illnesses people have been struggling with here. Not saying that lifestyle will work for everyone, but if it seems to have worked exceptionally well for some, might not be a bad idea to at least look into it. Even though you guys see me recommending their site and for people to look into what they have to say, I always try to be careful in saying that I don't necessarily recommend go full raw or vegan, but go towards that direction from a heavy meat and fat diet because it worked from me.

Would like to ask you more about with you were raw vegan. The 30bad couple and Dr. Graham always stress the importance of eating enough and remind people the #1 mistake of a raw vegan lifestyle is not getting enough calories. The guy Durianrider from 30bad said that was his biggest mistake at first and he and his girlfriend mention in every one of their videos the importance of eating enough and not calorie-restricting.

When you look back to when you were eating that way, do you know if you were eating enough calories? They recommend at least 2,500 cal for women and at least 3,000 cal for men, which the average person might think is too high and even some raw vegans complain is too high. I still have some difficulty reaching that minimum sometimes, partly due to my digesting still being weak from my previous toxic animal-based lifestyle.

When I researched the people who complained about the high-fruit raw vegan lifestyle failing them, almost always I see signs that they simple didn't eat enough. Not saying that's what happened in your case, I would still be conservative in saying vegan is not sustainable for everyone, but I just have to ask since the evidence as I see it does seem to point that calorie insufficiency is why most people fail with raw vegan.

Also do you and have you monitored your glucose readings when you feel hypoglycemic? What are you levels?

Don't mean to get into the debate, just trying to figure all this out and can't do that unless I start asking questions! Tweet