Since in my last blog I railed at all the over the counter drugs at all the corner pharmacies our society is deluged with, I thought I'd offer one example of how easy (and beneficial) it is to avoid them almost completely.
This video is from Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram, 14 years raw vegan, and a former student of Doug Graham. Yes, it really is possible to thrive on a completely raw vegan diet, if you know what you are doing. And Doug does know, he's been a 100% raw vegan for 30 some years now, and he teaches it in his yearly retreats in Washington state. These principles are so good to know whether you're vegan or not.
In my previous blog post "How old is too old? (to get healthy)" I said "people just don't know how powerful the whole food plant based diet is in reversing most of the common health disorders of our time. Once you really get that? It is exciting, and you want to share the good news."
These days we have the idea we probably need some man made substances to get healthy, and stay healthy. You know them, the pharmaceutical drugs and supplements, and all the over the counter pills, potions, and tinctures every pharmacy is filled with. That's not to say there's no place for modern medicine at all, but wouldn't it be nice to know how much of that stuff is an ineffective attempt to compensate for something we're doing wrong to begin with?
Doug Graham shows us the elegant logic of "The Cause of Health". All you have to remember is the body heals itself if you simply get out of it's way.
Well apparently as long as you're still breathing there is no upper age limit where "it just doesn't matter anymore".
Here's a story of what happened to a 96 year old woman in ill health and on all the standard meds when she moved in with her daughter and son-in-law...who both just happened to be whole food plant based.
Our announcer here gets pretty excited. I think that's because people just don't know how powerful the whole food plant based diet is in reversing most of the common health disorders of our time. Once you really get that? It is exciting, and you want to share the good news.
It's hard to wrap our head around the power of this for several reasons. One is the disinformation campaign waged by the powerful meat and dairy industries. Two it's what we are already used to eating. Three, we have never seen someone go through this transformation day by day, up close and in person. Four, we haven't experienced it in our own body. Five, our physicians are not telling us about it.
Most physicians haven't seen it for themselves, or experienced it in their own lives, and they just don't believe it. Many probably still think it's quackery. An increasing number of physicians have been exposed to this however, but they're not talking about it to their patients either for the most part. That would make a big difference wouldn't it?
Why is it even the physicians who do know about this aren't talking about it? I'll make a few guesses. One, they really don't want to believe it. Two, it goes against their entire (expensive and grueling) medical education that something this effective is completely free (we have to buy groceries anyway), fast, and painless. Three, there is some fear that if this really caught on their income would drop by a lot. And four, it just isn't done, we humans are social animals and we feel better when we join with our peers as opposed to going against.
Change takes time. But signs of a tipping point are all over the place and increasing. It's likely we'll be seeing more and more of these stories of rapid health transformation going forward.
