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.
Is it because they do not consume animal products? Plausible, there are many (mostly unsung) studies showing many agents in animal products are one of the most potent carcinogens extant (see work of T. Colin Campbell for starters).
These studies are mostly unsung to this point IMHO because there is a great cultural resistance to the general assimilation of this point of view.
Or is it because fruit and vegetable consumption, independent of other factors, is extremely health promoting?
Or is it as simple as eating more cruciferous vegetables?
The debate continues, including a new variant most would consider the most extreme view, which is the so called carnivore diet where nothing is consumed but animal products, with the focus mostly on steak for most so called carnivores. There has been anecdotal successes with autoimmune conditions, most notably perhaps in the case of Mikhaila Peterson, blogger and daughter of the controversial Canadian psychologist and pop philosopher Jordan Peterson.
Obviously these anecdotals needs study. It will be interesting to see if that happens for at least two reasons: 1) it's a very charged topic from a cultural perspective, and 2) the powerful meat and dairy industries may balk at rolling the dice on this one, and they have huge political influence, which (unfortunately) holds sway over what nutritional health studies get funded.
Meanwhile I came across an interesting presentation you may find interesting on the power of cruciferous vegetables to prevent cancer, and diminish it's impact if contracted:
Again? When are these bleeping scientists finally going get it right and give us the immortality we came here for?
Right? Are we not the true believers in science, the miracle of modern medicine, the one true path to immortality?
If the sunscreen debacle weren't bad enough on it's own, now scientists also want us to believe that sun exposure is actually good for us! AND (wait for it)...supplements aren't really effective! What happened?! Did science just go crazy, or what?!
Our faith is shaken...but, as a responsible blogger I feel it's my duty to show you this blaspheme as well:
OK, kidding aside...just don't put stuff in your body that isn't whole fresh FOOD. And don't put a bunch of chemicals on your skin either! What you put on your skin ends up IN your body. What do we want on our skin? Air, sun, water, touch...the things that got us here to begin with :)
