Mucoid Plaque!!!

Ok, I am just about done recovering from the cacao blast I had a few days ago. Geesh! I won't be doing that again.

I always sleep with the windows open. In the bedroom we have been sleeping in, there is a HUGE window RIGHT next to the bed. It is as if the entire wall was taken out and was replaced with a window. It is practically like sleeping outside! So... In addition to being in a very clean aired environment, we are getting FRESH AIR ALL NIGHT LONG. This is a big thing. This is another one of the reasons why I am cleaning out so quickly. When we are surrounded by walls, there isn't that much FRESH air flow coming in. I notice a big difference with this situation compared to having just a standard window open. I am going to miss this situation when I am gone from here. Ignorance was bliss before experiencing it. I am definitely going to be knocking the walls out of the bedroom in the house we settle down in. AMAZING!

Kyle wrote:

I have actually done a good amount of detoxing in the past. My longest juice fast was 42 days. It was a modified master cleanse. my question is this. What is the best way to get rid of the mucoid plaque in your opinion? See while on my 42 day cleanse which was about a 2 years ago, i used a LOT of psyllium husk because whenever i used a lot of it and then did an enema the next day it would come out with what appeared to be mucoid plaque..? I mean it smelled like death so i figured i was doing the right thing. Is that good or is there a better way? It just seemed like i was getting more garbage out of me that way and it was a lot cheaper that hydrotherapy. but from your article it seems i should be doing both. I have never done the arise and shine cleanse but i do want to.

My book Raw Spirit talks about how my "Third Eye" opened after cleaning out the mucoid plaque. The BEST Way to do this is to do colon hydrotherapy with an extreme psyllium and bentonite cleanse. The most powerful psyllium and bentonite cleanse that you can do is the Bernard Jensen one HERE. For 7 days you eat no solid food while taking psyllium and bentonite 5 times a days and doing the supplements in between each one. Additionally, you cleanse the colon with a colema board or 6 quart enema bag EVERY DAY in the morning AND Evening. This is a MUST for the MOST effective cleanse as it will keep all the psyllium moving through you "scraping" this waste out of your small intestines. If you do something like this, you won't be the same person. You'll become more sensitive. Your body will demand a better diet. The Jensen book that explains how to do the cleanse, is HERE:

When I did this cleanse I replaced ALL the supplements he uses in between psyllium drinks, with green juices, which will work fine. I did do the cleansing psyllium bentonite drinks EXACTLY how he suggests. On day 4, you may want to take a small bit of hemp or flax oil to get some essential fatty acids. The psyllium and bentonite you use, HAS to be one of these three HIGH QUALITY brands, which are available at every health food store, Yerba Prema, Sonne, or Vitratrox. The psyllium should NOT be in capsule form and the bentonite should be liquid in a talk dark bottle. People get scared of the bentonite because it has some sort of aluminum ingredient in it. It is not being absorbed so that is truly not a problem. Call the company if you like and they will verify that for you.

When I did this cleanse I was already on the 100% Raw Food Diet for 6 months while periodically cleansing my colon, so my body was already in a cleansing state and ready for this. If you do all that, then you will most likely get all the mucoid plaque out!

You can get away with doing this cleanse without the frequent colon cleansing IF YOU ARE ELIMINATING REGULARLY, However, you won't evolve as far. I had a close friend do this cleanse and she asked to borrow my colema board at the time. I knew how she LOVES refined sugar and I warned her that it may not be a good idea in using the colema board every day like this as she will become very sensitive and that all those old foods may have a bad effect on her. After she finished the cleanse she went on a silent meditation retreat. She ate refined sugar and developed MASSIVE DEEP RED HORRIFYING RASHES ALL OVER HER BODY. Her body couldn't handle the refined sugar. She intuitively put patches of spirulina all over her body to help the healing.

This is a mighty Powerful Cleanse.

Here is an excerpt of my experience from my book Raw Spirit:

It's been said that once you are 100% Raw and your body becomes cleaner and lighter, reality takes on a more spiritual dimension. One is pushed to consider a more spiritual element to life when they drop the social mainstream ways to travel a path on their own. This was certainly true for me.

My physical body was the first to experience spiritual doors opening. After about six months on raw foods I did the seven day deep tissue cleanse by Bernard Jenson. Since then, I've had an orgasmic like vibration in the center of my forehead. When it first happened, I felt like a wild tiger in the high mountains looking over a cliff into the distance; I felt clear, awake, and alive. What was happening to me? I had no idea, and so, my search began.

I inquired everywhere about the sensation in my forehead. To my dismay, I didn't get many answers. Some people thought that maybe it was marijuana from my college days, detoxifying out of my body. I thought that this might be possible because marijuana stimulates the pineal gland, which is positioned near the front center of the brain. Two years went by, however, and the vibration just got stronger. The marijuana was surely out of my system by then. My search for an answer continued.

Many different cultures talk about energy fields in the body. Chinese tradition calls them meridians or energetic pathways and pressure points. Indian culture identifies with these energy collections in the body as chakras. The chakra located at the forehead is called the Third Eye. Western cultures haven't coined a term for these energy fields, though many scientific studies have definitely proven their existence. Intuitively, I felt that the vibration had something to do with these subtle energies, but couldn’t find an answer that made perfect sense to me. Finally, while researching the Raw Food pioneers Dr. Norman Walker and Hilton Hotema, I found what I was looking for.

According to Dr. Norman Walker, in his book The Natural Way to Vibrant Health,

The pineal gland is undoubtedly the spiritual receptacle for life force emanating from the Cosmic Energy of the Universe. The pineal is such a small gland that scientists failed to assign any importance to it until the last 40 years, and even today the strict materialist does not appreciate its mental and spiritual significance.

The mental and spiritual influence of the pineal surpasses that of any other gland. It would almost seem as if this influence is directly connected to the relationship of the physical body of the individual and that mysterious and intangible part known as the soul.

The pineal gland is analogous to a radio antenna, receiving from the atmospheric environment the vital flow of cosmic energy acting like an electric current when it enters the body. Cosmic Energy is that infinite Unfathomable power which permeates the entire universe holding the planets in their course and operating right into the very core of every atom in your body.

Like the current from one of the huge electric generating stations sending hundreds of thousands of volts through the wires to the 115 volt transformer near your home, so the universal cosmic energy enters the pineal gland with inexpressibly high voltage which would virtually burn up the body if the body were not equipped with a transformer to lower that cosmic energy to the voltage consistent with the needs of the individual.

This cosmic energy transformer in the midbrain is known as the thalamus, a structure of a mass of gray cells and tissues in the midbrain which collects the energy from the pineal gland and lowers it and controls it to conform to the physical, mental and spiritual development and needs of the individual. Many people who understand this procedure classify the pineal gland as the spiritual gland in man.

Curiosity took over and I wanted to know more. My ongoing search led me Hilton Hotema who discussed Breatharianism and gifted me with valuable information on the vibrating sensation in my forehead. Hilton Hotema tells that back in ancient times, man was originally Breatharian and had spiritual powers no longer easily accessible in our present state of health. He writes,

The Ancient Masters taught that there is a spiritual realm in man. "The kingdom of God is within you"(Lu. 17:21).

The spiritual realm of god in man is located in the spiritual chambers of the skull, called the golden bowl by the masters (Eccl. 12:6).

These chambers, the function of which is unknown to modern scientists, are five in number. The masters called them the five stars of the microcosm, and they are symbolized in ancient scriptures by certain fives, as the Five Golden Emerods (1 S. 6:4); the Five Loaves (Mat. 14:17), and are known to western science as the five sinus cavities.

The Sankhys Doctrine states that the five physical senses of the conscious man are the exteriorized products of the five corresponding spiritual centers, which are as follows:

Frontal Sinus – A cavity in the frontal bone of the skull.
Sphenoidal Sinus – A cavity in the sphenoid bone of the skull.
Maxillary Sinus – Largest of the five, and resembles a pyramid in shape
Palatine Sinus – A cavity in the orbital process of the palatine bone and opening into either the sphenoidal or a posterior ethmoidal sinus.
Ethmoidal Sinus – This chamber consists of numerous small cavities occupying the labyrinth of the ethmoid bone, and in these cavities are situated the small, mysterious glands known in Occult Science as the Intellectual Organs.

The Sinuses communicate directly or indirectly with the nasal cavity; and it is highly significant to observe that they receive the breath of life directly and unmodified as it flows from the universe to them through the nose, and before any of the other air organs have a chance to select and absorb any substance from the spiritual essence of the cosmos, charged with every known and unknown element.

Due to the degeneration, the Five Spiritual Faculties of civilized man [from eating and breathing polluted air], are dormant, closed, inactive, shut off from receiving the vibratory currents conveying to him the cosmic intelligence of the spiritual world.

The human body was perfectly constituted and designed in the beginning to meet and master all conditions to which it would be subjected in the physical existence on earth.

When man was a breatharian, his body was equipped, in a rudimentary degree, with all parts that would later be needed [digestive tract], in a functional degree, to prevent him from becoming extinct as a species, regardless of what habits he might adopt or the condition of the environment by which he might be surrounded.

If you read Hilton Hotema further, you would soon understand that when man was a Breatharian, his digestive tract was dormant and his spiritual organs were in full use. As man started to eat, his dormant digestive tract was called into action, taking energy from his spiritual organs, which soon became dormant. He also says that the closer one becomes to a Breatharian, the more their spiritual organs can reawaken.

Eating Raw is a step closer to the ancient divine man. The digestive track isn't taxed nearly as much, allowing for partial rebirth of the spiritual organs. One thing that most raw food eaters experience is a higher life vibration than before.

I love it!!!

I also LOVE this video I just watched. You have GOT to watch this video entitled, "My Stroke of Insight", by Jill Bolte Taylor. I LOVE this sort of thing!!! It is right up the Spiritual Transformation Alley. I have had glimpses through meditation of what this woman experienced. It gave me such a good feeling inside and it served as a reminder and validation of my experiences. Make it through the first half of this 18 minute video and someone will have to hold your jaw shut.

View the video HERE!

Casey Wrote:

I completely agree colonics are essential to the detoxification process and getting truly well, however I have also heard a lot about the need to remove mucoid plaque from the colon to really get healed. Is a raw food diet heavy on juices and raw veg and colonics enough to do this if it is necessary? I have already been going through severe healing crises for months now so I am a bit scared to try anything which could produce more extreme detox symptoms right now. I'd appreciate your opinion. Loving the blog!!
Thanks
Casey

You don't have to do anything. It's not necessary to remove the Mucoid Plaque. However, if I knew this stuff was hidden inside of me, then I would definately want it OUT.

When I first went 100% Raw, I kind of cheated the detoxification process. I did detox but I had it very easy because I did a colonic three times a month. As soon as I started to detox, get zits all over my face and a runny nose, I would just do a colonic and it would pull it right out. This would transport me back to SPIRITUAL BLISS. I actually did a colonic three times a month for the first SIX MONTHS of going 100% Raw.

You would think a young skinny guy like me (age 25), doing colonics three times a month for SIX MONTHS, would be completely cleaned out! Well, well, well. This is when I did this psyllium and bentonite cleanse while doing a colonic in the morning and in the evening of each day of this cleanse. My colon therapist could't believe what was coming out of me. The mucoid plaque didn't come out for me in my first 6 months of being raw and I was young and healthy. It wasn't until I finished this cleanse that I noticed my third eye started vibrating.

Adaptation Abilities of the Body, and Logo Contest

As expected, I didn't sleep much the night after the Cracao Experiment. I have never in my entire life grated a cucumber or brushed my teeth so fast. I felt like I was on speed.

I don't want you to get the wrong idea abt what I am going to tell you now. Cacao wasn't necessarily 'the' culprit of this following experience; it was primarily the big jump away from my consistent diet. I generally eat the same kinds and quantities of food each day, which includes a certain amount of fat. I have been eating these amounts for MANY months now. When I had the cacao, it was in addition to the quantities of fat I have been eating each day.

The cacao products that I ate were composed of heavy concentrated fats, such as coconut butter and cacao butter... and... I did a good amount of it (2 truffles, 1 teapsoon of Amazon Bliss Coconut Butter, and 2 tablespoons of this goddess and god butters which were very concentrated in cacao butter.) This was in addition to my daily fat intake. Depending on your perspective, this may not seem like a lot. My body definitely wasn't used to these amounts. The next day, my nose POURED MUCUS. It was as if I were sick with a cold. I used an entire box of tissues. It went away within 24 hours, but my nose was POURING mucus. I have adapted into needing very little food, over the last 8 years of being raw. I am still feeling the effects of the cracao stimulation on some level, which has its ups and downs.

Ok... Let's keep it real. I woke up yesterday morning with a !!!!GRRRRRRRRrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!! Attitude. You wouldn't have wanted to be within three feet of me. I did a lot of cleansing in the evening and it was all coming out in the morning.

Jennifer wrote a question that really impressed me:

You were talking about how your body asks you to eat cleaner and cleaner. Does that mean that if I eat all raw and cure depression that way, that eventually, after say, several years, or more, the depression will come back because my body will be used to my diet and will want me to eat even cleaner?
Does my question make sense? just wondering.
Thanks,
Jennifer

I love it! I think you're understanding me.

Although depression is certainly multifaceted, we do reach new plateaus as we stabilize out into our new diets. The overall goal is to consistently eat less and less, as the years go by. When we reach these new levels of eating less, issues can arise if you then eat more than your consistent amount. An example would be my recent cacao experiment I just discussed here. If someone decides to go backwards by eating more foods, it has to be done slowly, with much care, as you adapt your body into accepting more and more foods. Here is an excerpt from Raw Success that will be very helpful in this instance:

It is crucial to understand the adaptation ability of our bodies. As many of us know from personal experience, the cleaner our diet, the more sensitive we become. For example, if someone completely eliminates processed starches and greasy foods from their diet, but three years later eats a slice of pizza, they will inevitably feel ill. The body adapts to what we do or do not do. When we improve our diet, we can no longer tolerate certain lower quality foods.

If you were to ingest an entire tablespoon of arsenic, chances are high that you would die. However, if you were to take a drop of arsenic once every three days and very gradually over many months increase the dosage, after three years you could likely survive that same tablespoon of arsenic. Building up your arsenic tolerance is not the healthiest thing to do for long-term health, but the example illustrates the amazing adaptive response of our bodies.

Not far removed from the arsenic example, is what most of us have been doing all our lives. Imagine feeding a newborn baby a Quarter Pounder with cheese. Your insides may shout in protest to the idea - "No, don't you dare!" The results could be devastating, similar perhaps to us suddenly consuming an entire tablespoon of arsenic.

We clearly see the mistake it would be to feed greasy fast food to an infant. What we may not be so quick to realize is that many children are given a version of fast food, being fed processed baby food three times a day. The constant runny nose warning is eventually silenced by repetition. Years pass, a variety of cooked/processed foods are added little by little, until eventually they can tackle that juicy hamburger. Building up your tolerance to "plastic food" is not the healthiest thing to do for long-term health, but you can do it - you did it.

As a 100% Raw Food Eater, you become pure and clean again, like a newborn. The longer you are Raw, the more sensitive you become. Processed foods you ate before are no longer tolerated. I have been on a Raw Diet for almost seven years. I am convinced that half a hamburger would put me in the hospital. If you were to give Dr. Fred Bisci, 40-year Raw Foodist, the same half hamburger, it could end in disaster. Yet most people on the planet can eat two hamburgers, slap their knee and say “Mmmmm”.

{The "Blood Gas Theory" article, explains exactly what happens on a cellular level as the body "adapts" and why we become more sensitive.}

Let's say you were eating the Standard American (Fast Food) Diet and you had a chronic degenerative disease. Then let's say you healed it by adhering to a 100% Raw Food diet and you stayed on this diet for 5 years. There is no doubt that you would reach a new plateau, become much cleaner, and need less food to maintain high energy levels. If you decided to go back to eating cooked foods, there is a great chance that this degenerative disease will come back, even if you aren't eating as poorly as you used to on the Standard American Diet. For five years you have been detoxing and your cells have been contracting (shrinking), removing waste from within their structures. There isn't as much space anymore inside the cells to accommodate the waste (fermentative gas) produced from poorer food choices. Disease commences on a cellular level and too much gas pressure can cause inflammation and cellular damage. Since your cells are smaller and you have reached this new plateau, less gas pressure can cause inflammation and cellular damage and disease can easily come back. To move backwards you would need to introduce poorer food choices slowly enough that your cells could slowly enlarge, to accommodate this extra waste.

As long as you continue to move forwards, by eating fewer kinds and quantities of foods AND if you are keeping up with the endogenous waste that is being excreted on a cellular level (i.e. COLON CLEANSING), then physically you should be ok. However, if you are 100% Raw and eating three avocadoes a day, at some point you'll become 'clean' enough that your body begs you to eat less and depression may indeed occur if you do not adhere.

You may also want to read Depression Free For Life, By Gabriel Cousens, which I am sure has other scientific information on how cooked foods chemically can relate to depression. In my opinion, depression has much more to do with other things than foods. I sometimes feel down and I am 100% Raw. This spiritual journey of ours' is a life-long process and we do the best we can. It is true that the more toxins that are present in our systems, the easier they could bring us down into depression. Cleansing the colon can help immensely with cleaning these toxins out.
Have you ever seen a movie where a religious body or similar organisation has the power and has 'tricked' Mankind into enslavement, in the name of 'the word of God' or something of that kind? Those kind of days have happened throughout Mankind's history.

Today we are experiencing the same thing. We are blinded to the truth of what is really going on in our societies, in terms of control and manipulation. As long as this is happening, there will be some sort of misery embedded deep down in the collective consciousness. I personally have been introduced to the light very slowly since becoming 100% Raw and honestly I still don't see it all. I am beginning to understand more and more each day. I feel that if any one of us were shown the way that it could be right now (i.e. true freedom and bliss for all), that we would literally go into absolute shock and overwhelming depression, when we compare that existence to the state most humans live in right now. I don't want to get into details about this because I will be preaching here for hours. Let's keep it to Raw Foods.

Lastly! We are re-designing and revving up www.TheRawFoodWorld.com. We would LOVE to have a beautiful new logo for the website and we are having a contest, to find our striking new emblem. Whoever sends in the logo that most resonates for us as the essence of 'The Raw Food World', will be our winner; they can choose one of three wonderful raw food-related prizes (see below) and the new logo will be used throughout our site, for all to enjoy :) You are free to send in as many designs as you like, with whichever themes excite you. I will say though that currently I see an image of our planet in this logo. We're definitely open to all concepts though ;)
To enter this contest, send your logo to me at Matt@RawSpirit.org. The winner of this contest will get to choose from one of the following 3 exciting prizes:

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You have until midnight (Pacific Time), March 26th to send entries in and the winner will be chosen and announced shortly after that. We look forward to seeing your entries :)

The !!!!!!!!!!!C!A!C!A!O! !E!X!P!E!R!I!M!E!N!T!!!!!!!!!!!!

OW! OW! OWWWWOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH!!!... I am absolutely ~!!!WAASTED!!!~ on Cacao right now!!!

I made Angela a 'Raw Celebration' cake for finishing her Super Stupendous SUPERCALIFRAGULISTICEXPIALIDOUCIOUS Book, Raw Emotions, and we decided to PaRtAkE iN cAcAo also...

In January, when I first started this blog, I told everyone that this blog signifies the end of spices, cacao, Nama Shoyu and all the other "gourmet" ingredients. However, thing shifted and I knew that I was going to be partaking in Cacao a few days ago, as I wanted to document the effects of it in my blog. In truth though, the day before this experiment, I wasn't excited like "I GET TO EAT CACAO"...I honestly felt like I actually didn't really want to eat the cacao. I was feeling quite repelled by it in fact.

Today came along though and we were eating Raw cake and then I went through with it and ate the cacao. The first thing I ate was a standard cacao truffle that I used to partake in during my short-lived 'cacao eating adventures'. I used to LOVE the taste of these Raw Chocolate truffles. When I took my first bite, it was so bitter that I didn't even want any more. I felt practically the same thing for each and every cacao sample that I tasted in this experiment. Surprisingly, there was definitely a lack of enjoyment here. I have no desire to eat it again.

Although, I do have to say that I am WaStEdDDDD! right now.

I feeeeeelllll…. AMAZING!.... I FEEEEELLLL GREAT! IIIIIII... am soooooo stimulated right now!!! I feel like I can lift a truck. I know that I could go running miles and miles not needing to stop.

The thing is, I felt NATURALLY amazing before the cacao. It takes a lot of work to get balanced into a space of getting NATURALLY high on NO stimulation. It is like the less 'indulging' you partake in, the better you feel naturally... and let me tell you... I partake in very little, and this type of 'Natural High' is PHENOMENAL. It feels C L E A N.

All of this is explained in the FAMOUS Raw Food Pioneer, Arnold Ehret's, Formula:

"V" = "P" - "O"

("V" equals "P" minus "O") is the formula of life -- and yet at the same time you may call it the formula of death...

"V" stands for VITALITY.
"P," or call it "X," the unknown quantity in this question, is the POWER that drives the human machinery which keeps you alive, which gives you strength and efficiency, endurance for as yet an unknown length of time without food!
"O" means OBSTRUCTION, encumbrance, foreign matters, toxemias, mucus; in short, all internal impurities which obstruct the circulation, the function of internal organs especially, and the human engine in its entire functioning system.

Food, poor air, stress, etc. create the "O"bstruction bringing down our Natural "V"itality. As I said earlier, the less you indulge, then the less of "O" is created, and the more NATURALLY high you get yourself on "P".

SO... Right now... I AM STIMULATED off my little TUSH on CACAO RIGHT NoW. One of the rules of this formula is:

Removing "O" by artificially increasing "P" thru artificial stimulants (CrACkAO), shaking and vibrating tissues thru physical treatments is always done at the expense of "V," Vitality.

This is what I JUST DID with the Cacao! I will pay for it later at the expense of my "V"itality. In other words, it is going to take me some time to get back to that NATURAL HIGH, as I come down off the cacao. My body will beg for more stimulation. Kind of like a drug addict, or a 'Processed Starches' or 'Refined Sugar' addict. From past experience, I will go through withdrawals and crave it as I come DOWWWWN and detox it. My body will beg for more.

For those of you who want to see the other rules of this formula by Arnold Ehret, here they are:

First -- Vitality does not depend primarily and directly upon food, but rather from the facts of how far and how much the function of the human engine is obstructed -- "clogged up" by the obstructions of mucus and toxemias.
Second -- Removing "O" by artificially increasing "P" thru artificial stimulants, shaking and vibrating tissues thru physical treatments is always done at the expense of "V," Vitality.
Third -- Vital energy, physical and mental efficiency, endurance, superior health by "P," air and water alone, is tremendous, beyond imagination, as soon as "P" works and can work without "O" -- without obstruction and friction in a perfectly clean body.
Fourth -- The limit of going without food and before solid food becomes necessary under such ideal conditions, is yet unknown.
Fifth -- The composition of "P," besides air, oxygen and a certain quantity of water-steam, increases -- but only in a clean body -- thru the following other agents from the infinite:
ELECTRICITY; OZONE; LIGHT (especially sunlight); ODOR (good smells of fruit and flowers).
Further, it is not impossible that under such clean, natural conditions, nitrogen of the air may be assimilated.

I will continue to document to you the rest of this experiment over the next few days. That is probably about how long I will have NOTICEABLE effects from this. I have a feeling that I won't be sleeping much tonight. Whenever I detox cacao, stuff coming out of my pores smells like DIRTY SOCKS.

Some readers have been calling me a 'purist', and... the effects may not be as impactful on other people as they are to me. Additionally, if someone replaces something like coffee for Raw Cacao, that is an improvement and can be very beneficial as a step in the right direction. One sip of coffee would make this curreent 'high' I'm experiencing look miniscule.

OK… After the last blog I got a mass amount of questions on "Blending vs. Juicing". As a result, I've decided that in my April Newsletter, the article will be Juicing vs. Blending. Stay tuned. If you haven't signed up for my monthly newsletter yet, you can do so on the right hand side at http://www.rawspirit.org/.

Valerie Wrote:

I could not leave this question without adding my comment. I too have to watch my blood work as I have 3 types of anemia. The health concerns your reader describes such as loss of hair gets worse, as the anemia exacerbates. Since I have been doing Green smoothies and being VERY precise that I am getting a lot of nutrient rich greens, my anemia's have improved.
I would also like the stress the IMPORTANCE of taking Vitamin C in a higher dose. Vitamin C is what helps the body assimilate the iron. You reader mentioned Ferratin levels which I am quite familiar with. My Ferratin levels were as low as 4 and the norm should be at least in the low hundreds! I also found that making sure I got my folic acid and B Vitamins were as crucial as the Vitamin C. Although I am nurse, this is not intended as medical advice. It is only my story and how I managed to improve my iron levels. The best to your reader!
Valerie from Virginia

Yes, thank you Valerie. The B12 supplement that I recommended has folic acid in it and it is available HERE. As far as I know, Camu Powder is the highest source of vitamin C. Weight for weight, it is reported to have 500 times the amount of vitamin C as oranges. Camu Powder is available HERE.

Keep in mind, Dr. Norman Walker lived to be 99 years old and deficiency free. He drank lots of DIFFERENT veggie juices, ate a WIDE VARIETY of Raw Foods, cleansed the colon periodically, and drank a small glass of orange juice every day to get his vitamin c, and did some other things for minerals. If these basic rules are followed CONSISTENTLY, while adhering to a healthy diet, then, in my opinion, it is inevitable that marginal deficiencies will be avoided. If you already have deficiencies, change your lifestyle to this method, add extra nutrients for that deficiency and in my opinion, they will inevitably disappear.

In Raw Success, I suggest Dr. Norman Walker's Diet as the "optimal diet". I suggest that you don't want to eat less than what he did, as you may become so sensitive that your longevity may be affected by the polluted environment. I mapped out in my book Raw Success what Dr. Norman Walker ate, to the best of my knowledge after extensively reading each and every one of his books. Additionally, I go into all the 'supplement' types of foods he ate.

!!!AND!!!… My HEART is beating at like 1025 mph and my head is ABOUT TO EXPLODE!!!!! WHAAA ha ha haaaaaaa!!!!!! My hands are practically shaking!! AaaaaaaaaAHHHH!~!!!!! Hah HAAHH.

Les wrote:

Hey Matt, Just wondering if you could give me a little advice..... Ive been vegan for a long time, on and off raw, but now have been raw for 6 days straight. The only thing that is discouraging me is my bloated tummy!! i feel great other wise. I take a probiotic about 2 times a day. I would live to buy those enzymes you suggest but I am a student and am on a budget. Any other suggestions? thanx Les

LES!!! This is what I am talking about! One question that I generally ask to people at my lectures is, "How many have experienced more gas since improving their diet?" Almost everyone raises their hands. I feel that Detoxification is the most misunderstood concept in the raw foods movement! Read "The Missing Link on the 100% Raw Food Diet" article HERE for more on this subject.

Les, Dr. Fred Bisci's Therapeutic Enzymes are MIRACULOUS, but they are going to do very little for your gas. You are cleansing and you are going to continue cleansing for as long as you stay 100% RAW. Cleansing the colon is, in my opinion, THE way to get rid of the gas. Go get a colonic and WATCH how you are transported to absolute BLISS. You are in the perfect space for this right now. Dr. Norman Walker says that if you get copious gas, enemas will help with that. That is what I do.

And when you are raw, it is quite amazing the aromas that can come out of us. The mixture of these powerful RAW foods with this ongoing detoxification can present a bloated stomach with other quite interesting gifts to strangers. Going on the 100% Raw Food Diet is like going on a Life-Long Fast (read the Missing Link Article). Some Natural Hygenists will tell you to fast to get rid of the gas. You will be fasting a great amount of time during your life-time to succeed at that. I feel that if they were truly 100% Raw, they would perhaps understand this ongoing detoxification process more.

And... Keep this in mind... someone who partakes in cooked food, even every once in a while, will stop the detoxification and they will likely not understand the dynamics of this ongoing detoxification process. There is a big difference between someone who is truly 100% raw and someone who is 95% raw... and we will consider raw cacao, spices, nama shoyu and other gourmet ingredient 100% Raw in this instance.

For me, I can sense after eating this Cacao, that it temporarily stopped the detox, due to the obstruction I put into my clean body. What goes up through stimulation, must detox and come down.

The other day, an acquaintance of mine bought the Dr. Fred Bisci’s Therapeutic enzymes and in the notes section of the order she wrote, "I hope these enzymes do what you say they do as I am going through a healing crisis."

The enzymes will be GREAT in helping to move along a healing crisis. However, remember, all disease is the same, it is this waste just trying to get out the body. More helpful than the enzymes, do a colonic. You will pull out all the waste through a colonic, allowing even more waste to deposit in there. That, along with the enzymes will get you over this crisis in no time. Many people just do a colonic and INSTANTANEOUSLY, their healing crisis is over. They just pulled the waste right out!

Les, one of the downsides of the raw diet is dealing with this ongoing detox. However, it is sooooo worth it. Look at Dr. Fred Bisci at 80 years old. I was trying to keep up with him on the beach on a fast 3 mile trot and we were looking at people his age with walkers and canes. A few years back we went on a hike together and I couldn't keep up with the man. I know people 20 years younger than him who have a rough time just walking around the block.

Here is a quick excerpt from Raw Success about someone who went from Vegan to Raw Vegan, just like you, Les:

I am of the strong opinion that the majority of people who are not successful on the 100% Raw Diet could experience a dramatic turn around with Colon Cleansing. There is a documentary about a man who switched from being Vegan to Raw Vegan. The first week he felt like he had won the lottery! After week two, his energy plummeted, he felt depressed, suffered intense cravings for coffee and food that he hadn’t consumed in years, and was about to quit. Desperate, he decided to do a Colonic Irrigation. Immediately following this Colonic, he reached a level of well-being he had never before experienced. The Colonic eliminated the accumulating waste, which relieved his cravings and gave him unsurpassed energy. If Colonics had not saved the day, it’s very likely he would have abandoned the Raw Diet and returned to a lifelong struggle with dietary bankruptcy.

I am in the process of getting this documentary available for sale on our website. It is sooo funny and INSPIRING!

Woah!!! I just got UP and did this TRIBAL CHANGA ABABABOUOOOLUGI DANCE around Angela six times!!!! HarRrrRRRRRRRRRRRR! HAR HAARRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! OH my GOD, I can't CALM MYSELF DOWN!

Chris wrote:

Enjoy your blog, but worry about your advice for colonics. just read "over thousands of patients and no problems, completely safe", sure its paraphrased but gets to the point. what about other raw practitioners with longterm success (ANONYMOUS over 20 years on the same raw diet, held as a major raw authority) whome have seen all sorts of troubles resulting from enemas and colonics?, some even who cronicly need enemas for a regular bowel movement? the raw diet and a healthy lifestyle naturally cleans the colon in the safest way possible. do you ever see any animals in nature shoot water or anything else up their bum? (sure a play, but think on it)sorry to give negative, i love your site, and as a succesful raw foodest even picked up some great facts. I just like you like to offer help when i feel i can and if your set on colonics id recomend at the least some research on failed colonics, research ANONYMOUS findings. in the end maybe there is a middleground but based on the information i have obtained colonics are a dangerous recomindation. hope this meets you with nothing but genuine care for you n yours. peacelovenseasonalfruits ck

CHRIIIIIISSSSS... oh Chris oh Chris oh Chris. OHHHHHHH CHRIS! I love you!

Colon Hydrotherapy IIIIIISSSSS my speciality. Ladies and Gentlemen, YES... my passion in life is telling people to, as Chris said it, "shoot water up their bums". This is not an ego thing, by any means... I get no personal benefit from 'preaching' this.

Dr. Fred Bisci has seen over 25,000 clients in his 50 years of experience. Thousands and thousands of people have had tremendous results and not one of them has run into a SINGLE problem. We have both seen people just SLIGHTLY improve their diet and do masses of colon cleansing, and heal from degenerative diseases. In my opinion, it is the number one thing that anyone can do for their health and THE MOST IMPORTANT thing to do to heal from degenerative disease. If you can get a chance, study the blood gas theory HERE. AND YES... In my ~!!!!!!!!!PASSIONATE!!!!!!!!!~ HEART-FELT opinion, it is COMPLETELY SAFE.

I can give you emails from hundreds of people who will state that enemas and colonics saved their life.

You wrote, "ANONYMOUS said, some even who cronicly need enemas for a regular bowel movement?"

Enema dependency is, in my opinion, an absolute falsehood. Dr. Norman Walker and Ann Wigmore both state that enemas and colonics strengthen, rather than weaken, the peristalsis. I personally have been experimenting with this sort of thing for 8 years and I don't have any problem having a bowel movement. There could be confusion around this sort of thing because people don't understand what is happening to them.

Sometimes after someone gets a colonic, they don't need to go to the bathroom for 48 hours, which is completely normal and ok. You just cleaned out this 6 foot receptacle of waste. Very soon, you will be going normally again. Angela, the founders of Juice Feasting, and many other Juice Feasters ate no solid food for extended periods of time (e.g. 92 days), while doing enemas many days a week. It was reported that many of them had solid waste coming out of their system for this ENTIRE time period. The founders stated that the mass majority of people AT LEAST have OLD solid waste coming out for at least the first 30 days while eating no solid food and doing many enemas. Where is all this solid waste coming from???

The issue doesn't lay in becoming dependent on enemas. When someone does enemas often, they can get addicted to that blissed clean feeling... AND... they cleanse much more rapidly than others. It is quite complicated and at some point I am going to write an entire article about this matter... the cells are much more contracted in a 'cleaner' person, especially someone who practices cleansing the colon frequently; they have less margin for error in their consistent food choices. Their hundreds of trillions of thousands of cells are in a small, contracted state with less internal obstruction than the majority of people. Therefore, they are affected by fermentative gas produced by certain foods more, because there is less space for this gas inside their structure, while someone with bigger cells won't notice a thing with the same amount of gas. Read the Blood Gas Theory for a deeper understanding HERE...

This Cacao will get me to write an entire book if I don't stop myself here! Stay tuned for the next blog post as I will document the day by day effects of this Roller Coaster CACAO RIDE... ;)

Is the 100% Raw Food Diet for Everyone?

I am giving a lot advice in this particular post and the information contained in this message is for education only and is not meant to diagnose, prescribe, or treat illness. It is valuable to seek the advice of an alternative health care professional before making any changes.

When mainstream people who are unaware of the 100% Raw Food Diet comes to me to seek healing, I generally recommend they do an intermediate diet. I had an old friend from college - Rosalie - who had a severe case of PCOS (Poly-Cystic Ovary Syndrome). She had 2 miscarriages; one single birth and then more recently she lost twins. As she was in the midst of this condition she gained about 83 lbs as a side effect. She desperately wanted a successful pregnancy. The doctor said that the next step would be to have surgery, as there were no other options and that there was a great risk that she could not get pregnant in the future. She discovered a picture of me on MySpace while taking a trip down memory lane. She had never heard of Raw Foodism before. She began doing tireless research and every way she turned, I kept appearing. She knew it was a sign.

I told her to go on Fred's Intermediate diet, while explaining that if she truly wants to heal, she is advised to ONLY eat the foods on that plan and NEVER deviate. I also recommended that she cleanse her colon a few times during her first month of doing this, plus also drink a couple of vegetable juices every day. When people come to me, it isn't very often that they follow all my suggestions verbatim and that alone sometimes makes the difference in healing completely or not. Lastly, I made sure she took masses of Dr. Fred Bisci’s Therapeutic Enzymes, many times a day on an empty stomach. I KNEW that would be the icing on the cake. Those little enzymes have the potential to provide miraculous wonders in healing people's conditions. Read the Therapeutic Enzyme Article I wrote HERE if you want more info on them.

I was talking to her daily for a week or so and then I didn't hear from her for months. I totally thought she fell off the wagon, which commonly happens. HOWEVER, three months later, Rosalie Wrote:

Hi Matt
I have great news!!! I had an ultrasound today to check on my PCOS and it is almost all gone!!!!!!! Before I began on my journey I had so many cysts that my ovaries looked like a galaxy of stars. Today the Doctor counted only ten on my left ovary and eleven on my right. I was so excited I could not believe what a difference changing my eating lifestyle would bring me. I tell my husband and anyone else that will listen that I feel alive again and most importantly I feel like a beautiful woman again. I will never be able to express to you in words how grateful I am to have you back in my life as a mentor and friend. Please share the news with others that there is hope and also with your mom and let her know again I appreciated her kind words a few months back. Next stop, a healthy pregnancy. I'll keep you posted
Rosalie

Rosalie is now pregnant again and HEALTHY. Yes, the diet played a HUGE role. The addition of the enzymes and colon hydrotherapy also sped this process up probably 20-fold. Those little powdered enzyme catalysts, when taken on an empty stomach go to work in the metabolic processes of the body. They speed up chemical reactions and create other beneficial chemical reactions in the body that would not have happened without their presence. They are MIRACULOUS! You may also want to read the Q & A HERE, where I talk a bit more about enzymes.

Teresa Wrote:

Hi Matt, Quick Question. Do you generally peel and or core your apples? I heard reasons both for and against. I'm curious about the opinion of a "purest", if you have the time. Thanks, Teresa

It's so funny to me that everyone is considering me a purest. I never really thought of myself like that but, hey, I guess I am, from some perspectives. The reason I don't eat typical "raw food condiments", such as nama shoyu and spices is because they mess me up and give me a runny nose. I would if I comfortably could. I would even eat Raw Goats' cheese/milk in moderate quantities, if I comfortably could. A few years back I tried a little raw cheese and I got lots of mucus. It's only because of how 'clean' I am now, at a cellular level.

It's funny, I go to some people's houses and they are absolutely DILIGENT about not having ANY household chemicals in the house. However, they eat refined sugars and processed starches. They are literally internally ingesting very harmful substances. Although it could still be a bit of concern, I'd rather see someone take care of what they put INSIDE themselves than the outside factors. As crazy as this may sound, I like to use those Chemical DOVE Soap bars and put it ALL over my body. I love how it just SUDS up everywhere! It's one of my remaining 'vices' ;)

OK... Now to the question. I'll throw the entire apple in a blender when I make food; the core, seeds, skin, and stem. I don't care! It doesn't bother me! ;)

Courtney wrote:

I've been reading your blog with great interest! I looked very carefully at your food blog, and you detailed everything very carefully...everything except your juice intake. It seemed though that you think though that vegetable juices are among the most important part of a rawfoodist's diet though, no? Could you give us readers a sense of how many ounces of juice you drink a day and/or how many pounds of green leafy vegetables and other vegetables you juice a day? Thanks so much! Keep up the great work--really enjoying the blog :)
Best,
Courtney

Yes, I believe that eating/drinking some kind of 'broken-down', assimilable nutrients daily is a necessity to succeed on the 100% Raw Food Diet in the long-run. I just got an email the other day from a woman asking me to take her off my email list because the Raw Food Diet did damage to her health and she didn't want anything to do with it. She said it's just not for everyone. Additionally, she wrote:

I'm following eastern philosophies (Chinese and Ayurveda) and eating only warming foods as I tend to be a very cold person. I guess the cooling nature of raw foods helped to put me out of balance. In that was, I see that it is not for everyone.

My readers, if you do this correctly, !!ANYONE!!, can flourish eating a 100% Raw Food Diet. Many people are unaware of the key details for success, or just don't want to do the extra necessary things to succeed with this type of lifestyle; THOSE could certainly be the reasons why it may seem this is not for everyone. As I stated in this blog HERE, the rules change when you become raw, and the body types/blood types/aryuveda types etc lose their potency. Now don't get me wrong, I think it is TOTALLY ok not to be 100% Raw and that you can still be extremely healthy that way. In fact, with over 50% of the people I consult with, I suggest that being 100% raw is not for them, for varying reasons.

Ok… Now to the question… I feel the optimal amount of vegetable juice for us to consume is two 16oz vegetable juices a day. All vegetables have different compositions of nutrients, so it is important to get a wide variety of them all (even beets and carrots). Greens have chlorophyll, which is the most beautifying element of food that a human can consume. Therefore, it would be in our best interest to make at least half of the juices we drink each day from greens. I personally don't usually mix fruit (the cleansers) with my vegetable juices. I love using carrots (veggies are the nourishers) to sweeten the juice because they are much more rich than fruit in vital elements needed by the body. I go into more depth about this in the blog post HERE.

I personally try to do two 16oz glasses of vegetable juices daily. Sometimes I will drink more than 16oz, if I make extra juice. I generally make about half the juice greens. Sometimes, I'll do a vegetable juice that is excellent for the liver and gall bladder that only has carrot/beet/cucumber in it. They all have different nutrients, just juice them all...

I quoted Norman Walker in my book Raw Success. He states that a 100% Raw Food Diet without vegetable juices is a deficient diet. I agree with him 100%. I keep seeing people running into marginal deficiencies in the long-run on the 100% raw diet. Even people who are balanced out and eating a couple of meals a day. Here is an excerpt from Raw Success:

A 100% Raw Food Diet without juicing vegetables is a deficient diet.

What I am about to share with you is very important and I want it said just right, so I will give a direct passage from Fresh Vegetable and Fruit Juices by Dr. Norman Walker:

An entirely Raw Food regimen, without the inclusion of a sufficient quantity and variety of fresh-Raw juices is equally deficient. The reason for this deficiency lies in the fact that a surprisingly large percentage of the atoms making up the nourishment in the Raw Foods is utilized as fuel for energy by the digestive organs in their processes of digesting and assimilating the food, which usually requires as long as 3, 4, or 5 hours after every meal. Such atoms, while furnishing some nourishment to the body, are mostly used up as fuel, leaving only the smaller percentage available for the regeneration of the cells and tissues.

However, when we drink Raw vegetable juices, the situation is entirely different, as these are digested and assimilated within 10 to 15 minutes after we drink them and they are used almost entirely in the nourishment and regeneration of the cells and tissues, glands and organs of the body. In this case the result is obvious, as the entire process of digestion and assimilation is completed with a maximum degree of speed and efficiency, and with a minimum of effort on the part of the digestive system.
(Norman Walker: Fresh Vegetable and Fruit Juices, Pg 9)

Juicing a wide variety of vegetables is the optimal way to supply the vitamins and minerals we need. Our bodies love veggie juice! The liquid flows straight into our small intestines, and is easily absorbed. Juicing is the best, most natural way to get vitamins and minerals in their most absorbable form ~ liquid, liquid, LIQUID! Try for a minimum of two 16oz vegetable juices every day.

Lena Wrote:

WOW MATT! That is TOO exciting that you are coming to Melbourne! But, I'm considering leaving the raw food diet :_( I've been having SO many problems with my iron, I don't know what to do? I just got my blood results on Monday and even though my ferritin levels have gone up, my serum iron levels have absolutely diminished. It is below its limits now. I have no idea what to do? I need the iron desperately (my hair has been falling out tonnes and I get very heavy periods, the next is due next week so I'm worried about that too!) but the only ways I actually want to consume the iron is a long, long process in terms of storage or something? Currently I'm taking Floradix and have been doing so for about three months. I guess that's what has bumped up my ferritin levels? Please help me? What do I do? Do I stay raw? (Note: I get minimal amount of ORGANIC fruit and veggies and greens). I went to see a naturopath yesterday, but they just gave me a new diet and said that this raw thing has left me seriously, seriously nutrient deficient. Then they prescribed a whole bunch of supplements. I wrote a plea of help on giveittomeraw. There have been some comments on taking something called Spatone and increasing my Vit C intake. I'm just getting worried, I don't want to be bald at 21! Desperately seeking iron,Lena

I am so glad that you got a blood test. If you are truly 100% raw, then it is normal that our levels are a bit lower than the normal range. If it was WAY Below, then it can be an issue. Molasses is really high in iron. I know it is not raw but if you take that with the raw diet, then that should cover and balance up your iron deficiency.

Additionally, it is important that you drink a wide range of vegetable juices. That is the "raw food eater's" multi vitamin. I would drink two 16oz green juices a day if I were you, for now. I would also cleanse the colon periodically to make sure that you are getting maximum absorption. Also, take a green food powder supplement every day. That will help you get nutrients too.
So, a break down of what to do is this:

2 green juices a day
Green food powder twice a day
Cleanse the colon fully AT LEAST once a month (maybe twice a month just for now)
b-12 supplement
And… The molasses for the Iron.

If you do all those things, you will inevitably succeed with flying colors. In the following post we give more advice on anemia.

I get emails like this all the time! If you do it correctly, then ANYONE can succeed. I personally get my blood test taken periodically and my levels are right where they should be. Drink the vegetable juices and cleanse the colon! I am going to continually preach those two things until I VOMIT! Generally when someone like Lena gets back to me in three months, they either flourish or regress and leave the Raw diet. In both cases they claim that they did these suggestions. However, as I question the ones who regress, I learn that this is not necessarily the case.

Today, January 29th I ate:

11 AM - 8oz of Grapefruit juice (for VITAMIN C - not produced by the body and we need it from outside sources. Crucial for the connective tissue of the body.)
1:00 PM - 16 oz vegetable juice (beets, carrots, cucumber, wild greens, green bell pepper, parsley)

2:30 PM - Meal 1:

3 apples blended into applesauce
1 cup of mulberries and 1 Teaspoon of Cinnamon soaked overnight in the applesauce
3 tablespoons of ground flax &
1 small handful of ground almonds
Swirled into the mixture

5:30 PM - 16 oz vegetable juice (beets, carrots, cucumber, wild greens, green bell pepper, parsley)

6:30 PM - Meal 2:

2 – 3 tablespoons of Sunflower Seed Pate’ (Sunflower seeds soaked overnight, strained, & blended with garlic and kelp powder)
1 cucumber PEELED and grated with cheese grater
1/4 of an avocado
MUSHED together really well
1 large handful of Karengo Seaweed (Similar to Dulse)
1 teaspoon of cut up green onions
This entire mixture put in lettuce leaves as sandwiches to eat

Lastly, Pumpkin seeds and various red foods are high in iron, such as: watermelon, goji berries, cherries, currants, strawberries, rasberries and other foods that are red. Avocado, dried figs spinach, parsley, dates, dried apricots, garbonzo beans, almonds, brazil nuts and sesame seeds have a pretty good iron content also.

Breatharianism?

My body keeps expelling and expelling waste, from being in this CLEAN AIR Environment. I feel like I am in this continuous healing mode. I feel myself becoming cleaner and cleaner, becoming naturally 'higher' and higher as the days pass. That UNIVERSAL COSMIC energy JUST DOWN POURS ON YOU! ;) Literally!

Do you notice how the body contracts when thrown into a cold environment? The Blood Gas Theory discusses how cells "contract" and give off endogenous poisons when someone improves their diet. Furthermore, the cells will contract when the body is put into a colder climate. Notice how you get a runny nose in the cold. This may be the reason why. Additionally, do you notice what time of the year the flu season comes around? It is generally the winter time. It is simply the cells contracting from the colder climate and everyone is detoxing waste on a cellular level. I wonder if this has anything to do with bears hibernating in the winter time. Hmmm?

Well... we've got CLEAN AIR and COLD CLIMATE jam packed into one! LOVE IT! I am not really a cold person but for now it is GREAT.

Raw diva wrote this to me on MySpace:

RawDiva wants to be your friend!
Wow, Matt, love your blog! Almost as good as Angela's (giggle). Looking for new friends here on myspace. Can I add ya?

Thanks Raw Diva!!! Yeah, I know... She is quite a gal!

Christine wrote:

So great that you are in my beloved New Zealand, and even in Golden Bay. I lived there at a friend's place halfway up a hill in the middle of nature just outside Takaka and in Nelson most of the time of my 2 years in this country. Hope I can return soon. Anyway, I wish you loads of fun and success in NZ. Oh, how are the blackflies treating you? Do they leave you alone? Curious how they react on a 100% rawfoodist. Enjoy the fresh air and the amazing landscape!Namaste!Christine

For any readers who are unfamiliar, 'black flies' are these little "Ant-Sized" flying insects that bite you. You can definitely feel the bite as it is a strong pinch. The real issue however comes after the bite. They leave the craziest itch on your skin.

The Raw Food Diet is not a panacea. Miraculous things can and do happen… However, I am getting bitten by these little critters. I have been bitten in the past by other flying creatures and the stinging itch lasted a lot longer in the past than now. Now, after one day it is gone.

Many people say that you become so clean on a 100% Raw Food diet that you will lose your allergies, insects won't bite you, you won't get sick and catch viruses, you can make any permanent STDs dormant such as herpes, etc.

Well... it can work both ways...

If you keep up with the endogenous material that is being excreted on a cellular level, caused from eliminating everything but 100% Raw Foods from your diet, then yes, there is a great chance that these things will happen.

However, many people don't seem to understand that if you go on a 100% Raw Food Die, you are going to detox at some level for the rest of your life (read, 'The Missing Link on the 100% Raw Food Diet' HERE for more information on this). If people are not keeping up with these endogenous poisons which are being released as a raw foodist, then they may be in worse shape than when they started. This can result in a very acidic condition to the body.

The most effective way to keep up with this endogenous waste is to thoroughly cleanse the colon. All disease is the same; it is this waste trying to leave the body. The poisons will leave via the weakest area of the body, which in the case of someone who is inflicted with Herpes, for example, can be the genitals. If you go on a raw diet and don't cleanse the colon, the body will look for every outlet to rid itself of this waste. People get out-breaks, pimples, hemorrhoids, mucus coming out of areas you wouldn't think is possible, diarrhea, rashes, etc. I have heard it all. This is the most confusing aspect and reason why people don't succeed on a 100% Raw Food Diet, whether they know it or not. In my opinion, if you don't practice colon hydrotherapy on a periodic basis, (a minimum of ONCE a MONTH if you are TRULY 100% Raw, or 2 - 5 times a year if you are on a whole food intermediate diet) then you are setting yourself up for CONFUSION and most likely a let-down in the long-run.

Rebecca wrote:

Thank you Matt! I am getting your emails now...they are awesome and inspiring. I plan to get your books soon and Angela's too very soon (congrats, by the way!).

I've been about 70 percent raw for a week now with lots of green juices, fruit smoothies and almond milk shakes. I'm scheduled for my first ever colon hydrotherapy session on Mar 4 at Clear Path Therapies. I'm a little nervous about that, but I know my body will thank me. It feels so natural and so right to get back into a raw/vegan lifestyle. My husband is even drinking some green juices with me. I was totally not expecting that!

I did want to ask you a question. In the blog about the girl who was ill after doing the Master Cleanse you said something about being wary of grade B organic maple syrup, but you didn't go into detail. I was curious what the pitfalls are because I love to use the syrup as a sweetener, especially in the almond milk shakes. Should I stop and if so what else can I use? I'm putting medjool dates into the shakes but they aren't quite sweet enough. Any suggestions? Thanks again for all that you are doing!

This blog post HERE, talks about how people who are nervous going to get colon hydrotherapy have the best sessions.

If the maple syrup is not bothering you, and you don't want to eliminate it, then that is ok for now. Selia was doing MASSIVE cleansing by doing a 40 day liquid diet. There is a great chance after doing that much fasting, that she may become so clean that her body may be bothered by the maple syrup. It's nothing to be alarmed by. Just like I became so clean that the popular raw food condiment Nama Shoyu now has an adverse effect on me. It gives me a massive runny nose every time I eat it, so I stopped.

The maple syrup is not raw, just like many of the foods I recommend to those who want to live on an intermediate diet. If you get to a point that you notice the maple syrup is having an adverse effect on you, you may choose to eliminate it at that time. If you can eliminate the maple syrup now by switching it with something Raw, then that could be GREAT. Dark Agave Nectar may be the PERFECT Replacement. Some extreme raw foodists say that it is not raw but I see it as an improvement to maple syrup. 100% Raw Honey would be an idea but be careful as it is really high in natural sugars and is very cleansing to the body.

The key is to stay consistent with ALL the TREMENDOUS improvements you made by going 70% Raw now. Becoming younger happens when you eat less harmful foods consistently, and that is what you are doing. It may take three years of detoxing and becoming younger before you stabilize out on your new diet. At that point, your body may ask you nicely to get rid of the next set of harmful foods in your current diet with signs of a runny nose, headache, or something else.

Almost 8 years of being 100% Raw and my 'addicted being' STILL salivates over pictures like the pancakes.

Juni wrote:

Matt - again, kudos to your great blogs. I must say you ARE a purist, setting a standard that few of us can live up to (yet) -- your comment that you "continue eating consistent amounts of food to hold myself back from being too pure" - your diet sounds pretty pure to me! How much purer can one eat? Please share your definition of a pure diet ---Thanks for leading the way in health,Juni in FL

Your questions always hit the SPOT! In the last post, I gave an excerpt from Raw Success that anyone can stabilize out on a diet much 'purer' than mine.

The cleaner you become, the more efficient your body becomes and the further and quicker it wants to push you to a cleaner state. Anyone can become even 'purer' than they are now if they eliminate more kinds and quantities of foods from their diet. For example, I can lower my average nut and avocado intake by half and I will become even purer. And yes... Because I left more kinds and/or quantities of foods out of my diet, I am going to detox even more. There is a direct correlation with how much one detoxes and how much they leave out of their diet completely. That is why water fasting creates the most detoxification.

Why would someone want to leave more and more foods out of their diet and become purer and purer? That UNIVERSAL Cosmic energy downpours on you more and more the less obstruction you have in your system - i.e. food to be digested. Raw Success goes into this deeply. Here is an excerpt from Raw Success:

Just as most people don't seem to identify with my spiritual life, I cannot accurately imagine the spiritual state of a successful long-term Liquidarian, who does appropriate internal cleansing. Through my journey, I have met Experimenters, those who have taken the leap to "extreme pure dieting" – taking in miniscule amounts of food for a considerable amount of time. Here is one story from an Experimenter: If a woman walked in the room without making a sound, he could sense they had entered and even knew if they were in their menses or not. The energetic sensory abilities these extreme dieters enjoy are way beyond what I can identify with. My own short fasts and juice fasting merely scratch the surface.

In your own process of exploration, please, please keep in mind the risk these extreme pure dieters have undertaken. In the long-run there is serious danger of shock from any inconsistencies in amount or quality of foods, and from the pollution in the environment. Most likely these individuals will suffer complications in the long-run. Yet, some people may make the choice for a more energetic vibratory life with a higher potential for spiritual experience, even at the expense of their lifespan.

Raw Success goes on to describe what I feel is the Optimal Diet. If you eat anything less than this optimal diet, then your longevity may be affected, due to our current polluted environment. If you eat any more than this optimal amount, then your longevity will be affected by the food. Of course, this is only considering basic factors. Clearly there are also elements to consider like the will to live, how polluted the environment is that we live in (the optimal diet shifts depending on how 'pure' it is where you reside), emotional & mental state, and much more.

Here is another quick Raw Success excerpt:

Many start the Raw Lifestyle to reach "ultimate health". Naturally there are some who wish to become as pure as possible in their Raw choices, excluding certain foods or combinations that feel too dense or not ideal. I personally do not recommend eliminating concentrated foods such as nuts and seeds. I want to comment further about this issue, as it is becoming quite popular with some Raw Foodists.

Some people think that eliminating concentrated foods such as nuts is a dietary improvement because the digestive system is less taxed, thereby bringing us closer to an optimal state. This is a half-truth. Many years ago, when the Earth’s environment was pure and pristine, eliminating concentrated foods would have been beneficial. If done correctly, the body becomes more vital, strong, and in tune to heightened spiritual experiences. However, in today’s compromised air quality, by cutting out nuts, one would ultimately shorten their lifespan because of their vulnerability to the current adverse conditions facing our planet.

In the long run, eliminating concentrated foods lowers our endurance for adverse conditions, and any inconsistent actions in the future will take a greater toll on our vitality. Why walk on a tight rope? Not only do I feel there are immense benefits from the nutrients nuts and seeds provide, but they also help to slow our body's evolution.

In my book Raw Spirit, I talk about how Hilton Hotema suggests that the less we use our digestive tract, the more our spiritual organs regenerate. I have to stop here though. I'll keep that in the back of my head to include in a future post...

And... Lastly... This 'becoming purer' process is never-ending and you can end up eating pretty much nothing, if you follow it through to its 'conclusion'. In my opinion, you can live on only air. However, you have to know what you are doing... and I have only met one that does know, besides which it is EXTREMELY dangerous. I keep toying about writing an entire article about Breatharianism for each of my newsletters, but I get reluctant for many reasons.

Quick Raw Whole Food Recipe:

Apple mulberry cinnamon recipe WOW!
Blend 6 apples
Throw an entire 16 oz bag of dried mulberries and 1 teaspoon of cinnamon and mix thoroughly.
Let it marinate overnight in the refrigerator
The next day Grind 6 tablespoons of flax and mix that thoroughly in the apple, cinnamon, mulberry mixture.

This is a 'Gourmet' tasting, 'Purist', whole food recipe, void of complex spices and other typical "gourmet" raw food restaurant condiments. I have a couple more to share soon too...

Ahww! Fresh Air!!!

Mark my words!!! One day when I settle down in ONE place, I will be SURE to live in a "pure air quality" location. The air quality that we are living in right now is SO CLEAN.

Clean air will PUSH you into healing. Remember, it is what you leave out of your diet that heals you... and air quality is another 'food' of sorts. We are taking it in constantly, every day. So... guess what happens if you eliminate poor air quality from your diet. You got it! Detoxification of the old pollution. Clean air is such a healing tool. Have you ever heard of people going to the "countryside" to heal? It may be confusing to some people why they get 'ill' when they go to the countryside, especially as this detox may last quite some time. I have no doubt that people would benefit from spending a great amount of time in bed when they go to the "country" to heal.

I quoted Dr. Fred Bisci in Raw Success, saying:

I know some people from the US that went to South America, became Fruitarians. Many lost their teeth and did not do well in the long run. They couldn’t handle the sudden transition from a toxic environment to a very clean location and lifestyle. The release of endogenous [waste inside a cell] material is what harmed them. There was nothing wrong with what they were doing. It was just too much of a change from one extreme to another. They went from a bad environment to a good environment, and a bad diet to a very good diet. Maybe if they would have eaten greens and did Colonics down there it wouldn't have happened to them.

In the evening time is when we mainly cleanse, so I have been waking up with a minor sore throat and runny nose every morning recently. Then after I flush it down with water, WATCH OUT!

Whenever the air around me is pure, my third eye BUZZES like MAD. The vibration is orgasmic. Additionally, my body doesn't want to eat as much. It doesn't need as much food. Generally, my body is always trying to push me forward into eating less food, but out here, in this clean air, it is extreme. Food just slows me down. The air just pumps me with energy! It is very easy to eat very little out here. I feel this is why it is reported that people in "off the grid", pristine territories often live to be way past the century mark. They have all that clean air, which keeps them healthy and living long. Additionally, their desire for food diminishes and they thrive eating small quantities.

I make sure to eat my consistent amounts of food to hold myself back from getting too clean at this point. I know that my living situation is temporary and I will be back in many "less purified" places soon. When I am settled in my own 'purified' location, I will probably start to move in a cleaner direction with my food intake.

When someone becomes as 'clean' at a cellular level as the space I currently find myself in, the body is always trying to get you to eat less food and take it to the next level. It does this by giving you digestive discomfort after eating certain amounts. If my body had its way with me, I would literally be eating once a day, or maybe even once every other day.

Here is a GREAT excerpt from Raw Success that will explain in further detail:

Stabilizing Out happens when the body gets accustomed to a habitual quantity and a certain quality of food. Biologically, we stabilize out, no matter what our diet is like – whether we are on a cooked diet eating three fast food meals a day, or a Raw Diet eating two small meals a day. If we are consistent, eventually, our body settles into a “normal” food day; this is called “stabilizing out”.

Once you stabilize out, eating more than your usual amount of food often results in a feeling of illness or fatigue. Furthermore, because the body loves progress, even if you are “perfect” and eat exact daily portions, at some point, your body will again try to raise the bar by encouraging you to eat less food. Often this nudge towards progress will be felt as sluggishness after eating your typical meal. This is the body encouraging a reduced appetite, so that you can reach higher levels of health and energy.

Unless your diet continues to improve, at some point you will suffer sluggishness and begin to age. The danger is that the cleaner your diet, the faster this progression occurs, and the more sensitive you become to adverse environmental conditions as the years go on.

Giving In
To avoid discomfort and regain vitality, many give in to the body's prodding and eat smaller meals. Can you see how this process is never ending? The body is always moving toward greater levels of optimal health, becoming cleaner and more efficient, needing less to thrive. This applies no matter where you are starting.

For example, a long-term Liquidarian who has stabilized out in a routine of 4 veggie and/or fruit juices a day, would experience lowered energy and physical discomfort if they were to drink a 5th or 6th glass of juice. JUICE! What's more, their body will eventually encourage them to drink 3½ glasses of juice rather than their typical 4. At some point they will feel discomfort and sluggishness unless they reduce their juice intake.

Before becoming Raw, I ate three processed food meals a day – mostly microwave chicken patties, Subway sandwiches, In-and-Out Burger – the diet of a college bachelor. My body tolerated the menu well; I exercised, rarely overate, and felt energized. As a Raw Foodist, I thrive on much less. For years now I have consistently eaten two simple Raw Meals a day. My body has stabilized out. If I consume larger portions or more than two meals, immediately my energy drops. Additionally, my body is now trying to push me further by creating occasional bouts of sluggishness after a typical sized meal. It’s saying, “Eat less fat and sugar”. What’s incredible is that 99% of the human population would feel extremely hungry and energized on my diet, yet my body wants to keep moving forward, into less and less food intake.

Great air quality is quite profound. I feel like an alien in my own environment a lot of the time. I CAN'T STAND IT when I am driving slowly behind a BIG FUMING TRUCK and there is nothing I can do about it. Just as my dogs bark at the big trucks driving by, I feel like I go through the SAME INSTINCT. The environment is one of the major things that we (our health movement) are fighting for. Oh people! Let's use our creativity, technology and science, and bring our environment back to the pristine space it once was in! I heard a statistic that if we all stopped polluting the environment RIGHT NOW, COMPLETELY, that it would take 30 years for the atomsphere to clean out this junk. I personally see that as a good thing. It would be an easy detoxification transition back to a purer state for all of us animals. If the atmosphere cleaned out completely immediately, everyone would be detoxing like crazy, all around the world!

Another Quick Whole Raw Food Recipe for 2 - 3 people.

Blend three apples with around 1/2 lb of fresh raspberries

Pour an entire 16oz bag of Dried mulberries in it to soak overnight

The next day the mulberries will have absorbed a great deal of the moisture, making them soft.

add 9 tablespoons of ground flax and mix it in thoroughly.

Let the rest of the moisture absorb in the flax, then serve and ENJOY!

OR...

Soak 16oz of dried mulberries overnight in enough pure water to JUST ALMOST cover them.

Blend 13oz of the soaked mulberries with around 1/2 lb of fresh raspberries

Swirl in 6 - 9 tablespoons of ground flax and the remainder of the soaked mulberries

WOW! Serve and Enjoy ;)