my problem with raw vegan diet

I answered that in a reply above just now. Basically I was mostly healthy when I started 100% raw. I did it because I read david wolfe and a few other people and thought it would improve my health to incredible levels. I didn't really have any major problems before. I probably wasn't in optimum health by any means, but I was far healthier than I am now.

I was 100% raw for 3 years. And I mean I was strict. STRICT. And now I can hardly digest anything. I probably need a Liver Flush really badly but I am only 27 years old and I always exercise every day. My liver got FAR FAR worse in the years that I ate raw vegan.

Think of what a raw vegan eats. Lots of vegetables and fruit.

NOW, do you think that a raw vegan eventually needs more in the way of protein? Some people will tell you no. But 99% of raw vegans will end up eating lots of nuts too.

What do you think happens in your colon when you are eating lots of fruit and vegetables and also nuts? You guessed it: gas and fermentation.

A perfect breeding ground for yeast. And so I have a case of candida. When you eat fruit and nuts you will insure that the Sugar from the fruit will be sitting around because nuts will constipate you like crazy if you eat them all the time. And you will be if they are your only source of protein. You might eat a little sprouted beans or something but that is hard on you as well.

So you are constipated from eating too much nuts and raw beans. And that fruit is just sitting in there too, fermenting.

Look, by all means be a raw vegan if you need to be. but if you find yourself craving too much Sugar and nuts, then you know that you are ruining your health for quite a few years to come if you keep doing it.

I just don't want people to make the mistakes I did.

Raw vegan sounds like a perfect cure but it isn't. Its too extreme. We are human, not apes. We don't eat wild greens 16 hours a day. If you want to do that, fine, the apes spend almost all their time eating leaves. Maybe in a few years you will adjust to that. But more likely you will get bored. I felt great when I ate just wild greens every day. only they, not store bought, have the nutrients to sustain you. Plus, some of them are easier to digest, like Mallow leaf. But it gets boring. Sure, you can feel really great, but your taste buds want excitement. So you start eating nuts and fruit and then you are in trouble.

Just really think about the big picture and realistically think about what you are doing to your body. The body is not as easy to fix as we want to think it is. It needs care.

I think raw vegan is great for a few days or even a week. IT is good to cleanse the body. But it is very hard to make it work for you for the long term.


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