Why We Both Abandoned 100% Raw Vegan Dogma after 29 Years
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- John from www.okraw.com/ interviews Kaelash about how his views on cooked foods have changed after being a long-term raw vegan.
In this episode, John and Kaelash delve into their transformative journey from strict raw veganism to a more inclusive and balanced approach to diet. With nearly three decades of experience, they reflect on how their initial zeal for raw foods sometimes led to rigid beliefs and social isolation. Kaelash shares his current projects, including the Vital Influence Portal, which focuses on holistic wellness through somatics and yoga therapy, highlighting the importance of gentle, mindful movement for pain relief and overall well-being.
As the discussion unfolds, viewers will learn about the nuanced perspectives both John and Kaelash have developed over the years regarding cooked foods. They candidly discuss their initial resistance to anything cooked and how life circumstances and deeper understanding have led them to appreciate the benefits of incorporating minimally processed cooked foods into their diets. This shift is not just about diet but also about fostering a more inclusive and less dogmatic approach to health and wellness, emphasizing balance and individual needs over strict adherence to raw food ideologies.
Ultimately, this episode offers valuable insights into the evolution of personal beliefs and practices around diet. Viewers will gain a deeper understanding of the potential pitfalls of rigid dietary dogmas and the importance of flexibility and open-mindedness in maintaining long-term health. By sharing their journey, John and Kaelash encourage viewers to find their balanced path, free from the pressures of dietary labels, and to prioritize kindness and inclusivity within the health and wellness community.
Jump to the following topics:
00:00 Episode Starts
00:36 What has Kaelash been up to?
01:42 What is somatics?
03:01 Why we got into eating Raw Vegan
05:10 Is Cooked Food Poison?
06:18 What we originally learned about Raw Vegan
09:15 Our definition of being Raw Vegan
11:19 Why Kaelash Started Eating Cooked Food
12:21 What reaction from Cooked food did you get?
12:53 Did you just start eating lots of cooked food?
15:05 The hypocrisy of raw veganism
17:05 Breaking free from the Raw Vegan Dogma
20:15 John's Style of Eating Raw Vegan
21:30 What is your identity?
23:20 Why Kaelash Started Eating Cooked Foods
25:35 Thoughts on Microbiome and Cooked Foods
27:10 Importance of Resistance Starch
28:00 How much cooked food does Kaelash eat?
30:40 I am particular about the heat processed foods I eat
31:31 Kaelash still makes all Raw food for himself
33:08 What cooked foods have you eaten in the last month
34:20 Did eating small amounts of cooked food cause any health problems?
36:02 Why John started eating heat processed foods
36:45 How much fruit is best to eat?
41:35 What does John eat that is heat-processed?
43:55 Kaelash Sharing His Words of Wisdom
48:00 Learn more about Kaelash and his current project
After watching this episode, you will learn John and Kaelash's views on cooked foods has changed over the years.
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Jump to the following parts of this episode:
00:36 What has Kaelash been up to?
01:42 What is somatics?
03:01 Why we got into eating Raw Vegan
05:10 Is Cooked Food Poison?
06:18 What we originally learned about Raw Vegan
09:15 Our definition of being Raw Vegan
11:19 Why Kaelash Started Eating Cooked Food
12:21 What reaction from Cooked food did you get?
12:53 Did you just start eating lots of cooked food?
15:05 The hypocrisy of raw veganism
17:05 Breaking free from the Raw Vegan Dogma
20:15 John's Style of Eating Raw Vegan
21:30 What is your identity?
23:20 Why Kaelash Started Eating Cooked Foods
25:35 Thoughts on Microbiome and Cooked Foods
27:10 Importance of Resistance Starch
28:00 How much cooked food does Kaelash eat?
30:40 I am particular about the heat processed foods I eat
31:31 Kaelash still makes all Raw food for himself
33:08 What cooked foods have you eaten in the last month
34:20 Did eating small amounts of cooked food cause any health problems?
36:02 Why John started eating heat processed foods
36:45 How much fruit is best to eat?
41:35 What does John eat that is heat-processed?
43:55 Kaelash Sharing His Words of Wisdom
48:00 Learn more about Kaelash and his current project
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Importance of resistant starch czcams.com/video/AbyAdedx2Iw/video.html
He ate No Fruit for one year czcams.com/video/PWQQhZLjl2o/video.html
How much Cooked vs Raw Food czcams.com/video/UYumWr2bptY/video.html
26 Year Raw Vegan now eats cooked foods czcams.com/video/WXLmvGeKRo8/video.html
Avoid Cooked food toxins czcams.com/video/NxHZGqJjG9U/video.html
Get enough calories on raw foods czcams.com/video/sCQWxyYpLDk/video.html
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Eat these 9 Living Foods for Better Health czcams.com/video/QiexacsaAkk/video.html
Don't Just Eat Raw Foods, Eat this instead czcams.com/video/Ubx4kBfBKDA/video.html
Next Level Vacuum Blended Energy Soup czcams.com/video/UIME7ZTnIy8/video.html
fruits, fats, or sprouted grains czcams.com/video/N-97jKP9nS8/video.html
Traveling Raw on the Plane with John and Kaelash czcams.com/video/pTMiDADH0vg/video.html
Learn more about Kaelash at www.bit.ly/kaelash
I think you meant semantics at 1:42, didn't you? Somatic has a different meaning.
Okraw I have watched you for years and absolutely love your videos. I just want to say one thing about the change of heart when it comes to the raw food diet. I see many people who have been raw for years and healed their diseases with the lifestyle come back later on after they have enjoyed good health to say that the lifestyle is not all that. I totally disagree because if someone is currently sick and hear these testimonies of long timers they are not going to be encouraged to follow the lifestyle to get well. John, if you have not been 99% raw when you got sick, will you have healed your disease with half raw half cooked?. The raw food lifestyle is not easy to follow but when you are fighting something it can be lifesaving. So these sick people need all the encouragement they can get to stay the course. When longtimers who have healed themselves come back years later to say that the lifestyle was not all that we make it to be is totally UNFAIR. Would you have healed if you follow the diet that you are following right now? If yes, why did you continue to follow such a restricted way of eating? You must have reaped benefits from it. The raw food lifestyle is not an easy path to follow. The SAD cavrings do not play and will trip you anyhere and anyhow they can. So messages like that are not fair. Do not forget how you were healed. Someone is currently on the path that you were 29 years ago and your healing testimony is what they need, the praise on what healed you is what they need, not some disparaging funny comments about a lifestyle that you have enjoyed and flourished in for 29 years and that made you robust to now come and make fun of it. Still love you John but I resent this message. NO I am not a raw foodist, but I know and see the power of it in disease people.
Thank you
The "Drs" who say raw is "necessary 100% of the time" are simply psychologists or chiropractors who have never had a clinical patient in their life🤔 On the contrary, we have heart surgeons, cardiologists, and MD's like Ornish, Barnard, Klaper, McDougall and Esselstyn who've had thousand of patients sustain a starch based diet for decades without question🍚🌾🥔
Hippocrates have had hundreds of thousands of people recover their health with a fully raw diet. Not only that but T Colin Campbell said that the only diet that is better than the WFPB diet would be what they feed patients at Hippocrates. 🤷♂️
Can you share the name of the cardiologists or psychologists who recommend 100% raw? I haven't met any
@@PetterPanZ Sorry I meant to say chiropractors LOL Yes, I haven't heard of any cardiologists recommending 100% raw either. I think of a few chiropractors who do and sway people with the "Dr" title they hold, hence the point I was trying to make.
@@andrewsmith4057 no prob!
Dr Montgomery believes Fasting & Raw as much as possible.... The important thing is to do at least 75% RAW.... In the winter time...
Fun video, John and Kaelash. It is mature to outgrow being fanatic about anything. You both eat as well as anybody I know. Factoring in a little cooked food, prepared in the most healthful way, shows balance. I ate raw foods for a year long ago, felt great, light, clear in my dreams, super sensitive and so on and so forth. I added cooked vegetarian foods for a few years, then went vegan and have enjoyed that for decades. I eat the best of raw and cooked and am happy with it. I make juices and smoothies, take lots of herbs and all plant-based supplements. I don't preach about it. I accept others as they are and if an opportunity to be a good influence arises, I share. I do have big plans for how to share this way of living on a wide scale, offering world's best meals worldwide. Keep on doing what you guys are doing- you are both super inspirations. Thanks, John and Kaelash.
I like your balanced approach! Do you have a website or more info somewhere? Thank you
@@petermaier3725 Hi and thanks, Peter. My time is not just yet to share my program, but is is coming and when it is ready for presentation I hope all find it fun and beneficial. Stay tuned, my friend.
@@healthfullivingify Thanks for letting me know and wishing you much fun and success with educating people!
John Kohler a great wealth of knowledge not afraid to speak the truth!
Thanks so much, John and Kaelash, for sharing your valuable experience. I was also eating "100% raw vegan" for 11 years and in that dogmatic view for 13 yrs. Yet, I realised very early on (within 3 yrs into the rawfood journey) that majority of packaged nuts are not raw living food . Only the seeds, grains and legumes that can be sprouted are truly raw living food. Too many "rawfoods" eaters, especially newbies, couldn't understand the concept of "non-roasted" nuts and seeds are not "raw" and less healthy than steamed veggies. Many of them even prefer to stuck in the "raw" dogma (so they feel fine to binge on nut and dried fruits), not seeing the difference of raw v.s. living food. Totally resonate with 100% Health Wholistically.
Love the energy between the two of you! Keep them coming please! 🙏🙏🙏
Hanna Somatics is KING! It saved my climbing arborist husband years ago. He’s been doing Somatics everyday for over 15 years. 65 and still doing full on tree work including climbing. Thanks John, for introducing Kaelash! Beautiful discussion!
All tropical fruits at the equator like bananas, avocados, tomatoes, jungle sop, custard apple, Sapotes, have been hybridized over and over, since the original versions of them were not good. In fact, the Jackfruit genome and population genomics show it was highly domesticated in the 15th century, because anthropology reports that the original Jackfruit has never been found naturally occurring in the wild, only the hybridized versions we have today. 🔥
More-so, it's that the original species were practically inedible! Like the avocado, the seed was practically the size of the entire fruit.
Lol how do you know?.. Were you there?. @@pineappleextress7814
How do you know the original version of fruits were not good?.. Were you around?.
@@markaguilera493 Ugh, science? We literally have genomes of past species of many wild cultivars. You can easily look at images of what the original bananas and avocados looked like. Nobody would survive on that
@@markaguilera493 Hard to know if you're joking or not. But in case you're serious, we have loads of data on previous versions back from 1600's and 1700's. The avocado and banana particularly went through a lot of changes to make them edible
Thank you for being open and down to earth and keeping the healthy diet real ❤.
John and Kaelash Peace be with You!
Looking forward to seeing you guys again Kalash and Jon ❤❤😊
Yes! My aim is to be high raw, but cooked food is not evil. Love this!
Once anyone finds out what the original Banana, Melon, Cucumber, Avocado, or Strawberry looked like before hybridization, it would totally discredit any raw vegan "dogma" . All spinach, kale, tomatoes, carrots, etc have been modified over and over for thousands of years until they became what we have today. 🔥
Humans advance more and more as time goes by. They make their lives easier through years of their inventions and with their myriad of advanced technologies they've come up with. It's not long ago until the early 20th century when money and surplus became more relevant than making lives much easier. Yes, there's no non-gmos produce anymore like there used to be. But there are many places where they sell organic. Even though it has been modified to become more nutrient dense or hybridized the original plant foods, they still serve a proper way to get easier and faster nutrients. Man and nature don't exist without one nor the other. They both have coexist to form an alliance and have balance. Man is destined to advance mentally, "change is inevitable". The error in mankind is that due to their imperfection through lack they tend to misuse their God given free wills to destroy good. Nature is harmless itself. But with nature it all brings back the man to "survival of the fittest" when flawed man having dominion over the life of the whole planet, plants, land, waters, air, animals, etc. They wield the whole earth. But one thing for sure that we have to keep in mind is that good beings still exist. And in fact extraterrestrials exist in other galaxies or nearby solar systems, maybe even in our own solar systems. But someday for sure is that we don't have to rely on corrupt powers and governments anymore. We rely on advanced cities, really advanced that we become connected back to our creators, the aliens, having intermingled connections going from earth to space. Maybe we might still require to consume plant food, but all a human needs is sunlight and exercise. We can thrive anywhere on earth through getting sunlight. But not every is prepared to do so. It takes time. Also, ETs will transform our bodies into "heavenly bodies" and be equal to them.
Are you saying even in indigenous lands, like the bahamas, panama, mexico etc the food in places that are not big cities are you saying that food has also been modified or just saying the food in the us has been modified for thousands of years? And by food i mean actual food, fruits, vegetables, herbs, that grow naturally.
So have the cows, pigs … etc.
@@Jonathanperezvlogz Yes. The Mexican Incas and Mayans spent hundreds of years improving their banana, potatoes, corn and various other crops to become more edible. We have a lot of research on the evolution of our banana. Also, Most fruit in the Bahamas was also introduced in the 16th or 17th century through trading of seeds, no fruit is really native there. All introduced later.
@@CaroAbebe Very true, especially chickens too. Older versions of humanity lived off wild birds, game, insects and seafood, basically anything they could find.
Really enjoyed this conversion with you and Kaelash. Such good information. :)
What a gentle man Kaelash is. I need to see more of his peaceful nature
Great video- looking forward to the next with Kaelash and his smoothie recipes. Thank you. Will also check out Kaelash’s courses.
Living 100% raw and live foods is not dogma although there are many challenges we face today that make it seem so and I will do my best to explain why. See naturally humans are forest dwellers, we thrive in a fresh and pristine forest-like environment full of tropical fruits, this is where our brains and bodies evolved mostly contrary to popular belief... However these days we live in very sick and denatured/unnatural environments completely different from how we lived many thousands of years ago in perfect health. This history is mostly lost but few of us have managed to recover it. Now when we consume 100% live foods, especially fruit, our entire cellular biology changes gradually back to its original blueprint, our cells literally vibrate with cosmic light or energy, they become fully charged and activated, which makes us hyper-aware, super-psychic and hypersensitive to the environment around us. When we start to purify from inside out, our cells literally Rebel and Protest to leave or move away from any environment that is not supporting of the vibration the cells are radiating at. This is why many great sages and yogis go and live far away from society in the mountains in ideal environments to support their vibration. They literally radiate with light/truth and cannot stand to be around a disordered environment full of people living in concrete prisons and mental institutions living a sheep-like rat race, stuck in never ending cycles. At the same time you feel and pick-up everything, every toxin, every frequency, every artificial noise and machine, it drives you mad, I know from experience... so what tends to happen is, if we choose to stay in a sicker / less-ideal environment, we need (denser) food choices to compensate to live in a more balanced and harmonious way with the environment around us or we are driven mad. We tend to go for the cooked and potatoes/nuts ect... to help numb our senses from feeling so much and sensing so much because there is so much sadness, darkness, pain and suffering in city environments let alone toxins, electronics and radiation, if we aren't somewhat NUMB to it, it can drive us insane. This stuff was also expressed in-depth by the great metaphysician Hilton Hotema in his book: Mans Higher Consciousness. I suggest to give it a read. These days I live and eat (intuitively) in touch with my soul, depending on my state of being and the environment I am living in. When I am living in a forest or tropics, I eat nothing but fruits and raw living foods and I actuaally need to eat way less because most of my energy comes from the environment/air around me, on the otherhand when I am in a denser environment, I will eat mostly raw, and have the occasional warmed meal from time to time when it "feels" right. Being in touch with our Soul is crucial for living and thriving in life. This was the Buddhas representation of (The Middle Way). Hope this helps. Namaste ~
I can not imagine better advocates for this kind of lifestyle/diet than the two of you. Great show, thank you for that.❤👍👌
It's all about the choice of lifestyle. People don't become raw "vegetarian" for no reason. They choose the raw plant lifestyle for better health through pure health. Also, for bettering their spirituality. If you have a choice in life, you live up to it for as long as you live, if the meaning and purpose behind them is strong and genuine throughout the experience, then it will very well work out in the end. But pure raw vegetarian diet is healthy. It's all self control discipline that'll get you far in your path to healthy living. But to be honest, it all depends on the person.
I really appreciate your video...thank you for bringing some kindness and love to this topic. We all need more of this viewpoint. Much LOVE!
I would argue that no raw foodist is ever actually 100% raw; there is always something not 100% but not hurting anyone- I mean raw VEGAN of course😅 There is no dogma btw, sorry if anyone feels or felt that way. I feel sluggish after cooked food, and I don’t get any benefits from potatoes, only feeling stuffed and tired, and that was always the case-so not for me- but if you feel benefits than yay! 🥳 cheers from Berlin.
Same, im curious what's your blood type?
I love potatoes cause they add alot of calories ans satisfaction at the end of the day☺️ Since I work a job, I simply don't have enough time on my breaks to even eat enough raw food to sustain me. So adding some cooked foods definitely helps. But I love the raw food for starting my day, cause it gives me more energy.
So
Thank you for all the info, you both are great role models and teachers.
But you are talking about cooked foods from a specific angle - after being cleansed by raw and clean for 30 years. But what about majority of people who come into this lifestyle to heal - will they benefit from little bit of cooked?
I'm still a newb, experimenting with raw for a few years, but my experience, based on my body's reaction, is that fruit is the highest, followed by leafy greens. Anything else (and I'm still talking about raw foods, just heavier) slows me more, creates mucus, digestion slows down, poo starts to smell, armpits start to smell, etc. However, I have noticed that as my body gets cleaner with time, it handles short escapades into heavier foods better, even cooked stuff, with less noticeable side-effects mentioned above.
So, my question is, do you think expanding/enriching micro-biome with some cooked stuff is favourable for unclean newbs like most of us?
Thank you!🍀🌈🥭
I commend you for your honesty. It’s difficult, when your brand is based on one philosophy and your subscribers support that, to change, grow and evolve. I have grown and changed also and really appreciate you sharing your journey:)
Thank you both for this wonderful video. 🧡🧡
Great video, I love the message of coming together, creating nutritional clarity, and not demonizing simple cooked whole plant foods. I also agree in the 75%+ raw foods definition rather than the black and white view. As an aside, I love something Ive hear Dr Graham say, we are all raw foodists, its just that some people choose to eat cooked foods. Much love to you both🙏
Thank you John and Kaelash I learn so much when you guys do these videos. 🙏 I am no longer 100% raw I am 100% healthier which was my initial goal 20 years ago. I am grateful for the balance I now have.
Totally relate!! Thank you for speaking on this, gentlemen
What’s the microbiome course you guys referred to?
Much respect to you!!
I’m Whole Foods plant-based but I still love your channel because it gives excellent ideas about raw food eating. It’s a unique subculture of healthy eating community.
I end up spending a lot of time on the vegan videos because there’s not a great deal about whole plant based out there, but there’s more vegan channels and videos.
I’m trying to channel myself away from standard media similar to way TV has been over the years.
Also, I avoid advertising wherever possible, and I’ve been successful. Something that helps is CZcams premium, but there are still embedded commercials on some channels thankfully, there are upfront messages that there is a sponsor segment, usually I don’t mind or dislike channels for having that content, but I not skip it or , fast-forward through them usually.
I’m a little bit concerned that at some point you to premium might get pretty expensive, but I don’t see that happening right away. For my taste has by far the most amount and diversity of videos.
CZcams does have a lot of radical ideas: for example, carnivore keto low-carb and that’s just the diet area of CZcams.
I’m pretty happy
there is no escape from media on line just ignore it - eat some meat - vegan is propaganda pacification program did Raw food my self is beneficial only for 3 years
There is certainly a time for eating raw foods... salads, fruits, smoothies, juices... but not necessarily all the time (unless you are focusing on a particular health issue perhaps). I personally began a vegetarian diet in 1987, then quickly progressed to a vegan diet. I tried the raw food diet around 2004 and quickly abandoned it because those who I listened to and watched were making it complicated with dehydrating, etc. I now eat whole food plant based and keep it very simple... salads, beans, rice, potatoes, oatmeal, fruit, etc. Inexpensive and very healthy. I have also observed that there is a lot of prideful attitudes when someone follows a particular path, and why would anyone want to be "labeled" by the way they eat rather than their character! Thank you, but not me!
You can go back to the skinny raw vegan guy you interviewed who had a stroke. His cardiologist (I think Esselstyn) said he had to eat several LARGE servings of COOKED arugula for the omega 3 since it's virtually impossible othewise.
I grow purslane for the omega 3. It grows very easily.
Flax, chia, hemp, walnuts, and greens all have omega 3s
I have cut way back on smoothies which explains a lot of my digestion issues. Thanks for speaking on it & saying do do. Always makes me giggle
TYSM❤
what about raw dairy whats your opinion on that
I feel that whilst raw food is awesome for detoxing & healing it doesn’t need to be a long-term thing, just long enough to really give the body a good clear out. After all, some of the longest lived & healthiest people do eat some cooked foods. Some may need to be raw for a few weeks, some for a few months & others may need a year or more depending on the degree of toxicity, but it doesn’t need to be for life as long as one doesn’t go back to eating garbage.
3 years is enough to raise frequency doing fruit / meat diet no carbs - the vegan propaganda is program, they both look too fem
Its so good to see you two , such good advice , i also make soup from scratch lightly heated ❤some times for dinner with salad 🥗😊
What issues were fruit giving you?
You both mentioned a microbione course or book by jason? What is his full name? Also, where is the information on raw resistant starch? Lovely chat..lovely souls.
Sorry didn’t get the name of the other movement the German guy started doing along with natural hygiene … can someone kindly tell me?
Ann Wigmore Lifestyle.
and Arnold Ehret?
I ate raw a couple years of my life, but now I eat both raw and cooked.
Not sure why this even needs to be said. It's very old information. In 2004, Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham and his colleagues announce that potatoes--and the ability to cook them--prompted the evolution of large brains.
So what is there in cooked potatoes that grows our brains?
@@michaelk1589 The potatoes had direct hit of glucose. At the time of evolution, any fruits were hard to find, very tiny, had basically no sugar, and millions of seeds. The original banana was the size of our pinky with about 5 calories. Animals were also hard to hunt down. It was tubers that we could dig out with our hands that changed course of humanity.
@@vegananimalequality5625 Your statement about fruits being tiny, sugarless and full of seeds is false. Therefore your whole evolutionary argument is flawed. There is a good article on that called "Wild and Ancient Fruit: Is it Really Small, Bitter, and Low in Sugar". Sweetness is an inherent property of some native fruits and homonids had access to them for a long time and they were as sweet as today's fruits. Just because we evolved some fruits by selecting the best and sweetest ones with each generation, doesn't mean that there were no sweet as original ones.
@@michaelk1589 That article you share is a blogspot written by a hobbyist with zero formal education or certification in the field. After skimming briefly I could already find multiple half-truths and misnomers. It's important to consider the anthropology records we have to date. All opinions are welcome, but all opinions aren't equal.
Anyways, the questions posed in this video isn't "can" one survive okay eating raw (modernized) fruits and veggies, the question posed is, "is it necessary or natural" to eat only raw foods, as pushed by the current vegan dogma.
Wouldn't our brains have to grow first in order to have the ability to cook?
I really enjoyed this. You two are awesome!! When I went to the link for Kaelash, it didn't work....
For macros, it's true that some foods "unlock" more by cooking. But the micros is where all the real fun is, and an entire world of biological activity is snuffed out in the process of cooking, or processing in any way really. But a diet should always be a means to an end, in my opinion. Different people have different goals. There's truly no one-size-fits-all, and it's all good as long as we're not unduly harming the biosphere and its inhabitants.
Raw diets really fascinate me though, for these three mysterious elements only now beginning to be explored:
1) Biophotons
2) Structured water
3) Electric potential (possibly just an indicator)
The only one size fits all is extended fasting haha
Upgrade DNA is what important when we raise frequency we will not eat as much
Oh my gosh it’s Kaelash! I could not put my finger why I felt I knew him. Of course it’s AW Institute. I spent 4 weeks there and he was awesome; a great, talented, accomplished person. I was so motivated by his example.
they both look like have no testosterone
At IIN we were taught steam cooking killed more nutrients than pan sautéing and baking.
Great video ❤!
Love the inclusiveness message in this talk. This is so much more constructive than setting ourselves apart because of differences. What can bring us together rather than divide us is always the best way to look at the world in my opinion.
You might find it interesting to look at what Bryan Johnson (the billionaire in search of eternal youth + health) and his team of health and longevity researchers have designed as the best diet for humans. It is mostly cooked vegan: lentils and vegetables and berries, nuts, and seeds and sweet potatoes and olive oil and such. Very close to Dr. Fuhrman’s recommendations. Very interesting.🤓
Great message guys 👍
Thanks so much
Great stuff bros
Thank you ❤
Do you cook in a metal insta pot? Good but stove top glass is better, no lead, no nothing. Corning Vision, vintage is found at ebay or in USA in second hand stores incredibly cheap.
hello can you please share your green papaya bean recipe
What’s your feeling on steamed greens in the microwave.
Greger will tell you it actually is better than on the stove
All nutrients in the food is killed in the microwave...
Thank you for helping me to live my best life and become the best version of myself.
I believe in being accepting and loving. I also believe we should all do the best we can to love ourselves the most and nourish our bodies. It’s our own responsibility to understand the importance of our physical health, and also our mental health. Being 90% raw vs 100% raw will probably both reap near the same rewards in terms of health and longevity if one is eating less unhealthy cooked foods. For me I confidently believe that consuming cooked foods if one has access to enough healthy raw foods is not beneficial at all. There is a new movement in the world and it’s called low accountability. It is often disguised as saying we shouldn’t be so hard on ourselves and strict. Yet the goal should be to be 100% accountable of the effects we cause, and also 100% self compassionate. People blurring the two is nothing short of a catastrophic mistake at this point in time. Being able to mentally and emotionally be fully satisfied with the healthiest diet is also a goal. Breaking old habits is tough. I do believe being 100% raw vegan if one has good access to healthy raw foods is optimal. I also know that eating one thing cooked will lead to more almost all of the time. Nearly nobody after eating cooked foods their whole life is prepared to go 100% raw for life as it is extremely difficult. In this video some cooked foods are clearly encouraged in a form or fashion. I would be really careful before promoting these foods to the world. As soon as some research says that certain foods are good for micro biome that are cooked, be very hesitant before adding in cooked foods. Have an all encompassing thought on it based on everything learned. Fully cutting out self harm is not being too strict or restrictive in any case. Full accountability and full self compassion and full aelf acceptance are key.
Humans historically never had access to all this hybridized, seedless fruit we created to be 10x sweeter. It's been suggested many times that cooking things like roots and animals (yes, protein turns to glucose via gluconeogenesisis) is what gave us more glucose and ability to grow our brains and evolve. Many animals that evolve into something else comes after having access to a lot more food/calories. We would have never had that from the original low sugar, low calorie, sparely available fruit in the jungle.
Please stop spreading disinformation. There is abundance of super sweet oldschool fruits that are not touched by human hand near the equator and they are just as sweet as what we have today. There is a lenghty article that covers it, I cant find it atm and i have the link on other computer that is in the repair now.
Thanks for the sanity. Let’s stop the food wars. Such craziness.
Evolutionarily, fruit and potatoes is the most likely way that the human brain evolved in the last hundred thousand years, baked potatoes can give you the energy that you need to fill your highest level self, Carbs FTW!! 💪💪💪
Meat. Cooked meat, to be exact.
I'm a vegan but the evidence is very clear : humans ate whatever they could. It's clear we ate fruit, starches AND meat (not cows of course, but fish, birds, insects, even predators we fended off). There is no denying meat played an important role, too. Now, that doesn't mean we shouldn't find innovative ways to be meat-free in our modernized world, but we also shouldn't discredit our past
@@vegananimalequality5625 they werent eating it anywhere near as much though
@@bee2453 It really depends on who "they" is. Paleontologists studying the fossils of our ancestors and anthropologists documenting the diets of current indigenous people today all point to a very complicated answer. The Hadza of Tanzania are the world's last full-time hunter gatherers in the jungle. They eat game, honey, tubers, berries and baobab fruit. The Bajau of Malaysian Forrests have very little fruit to find, surprisingly, and live off fish and dive into waters for more than 50% of their diet. They live in boats that are handmade. The Kyrgyz of the Pamir Mountains live where very few crops can grow, they survive on milk, butcher and barter yet live to very old ages with little to no signs of atherosclerosis or heart disease. The Crete people of the greek islands eat veggies, a little fruit, and sea creatures.
I love potatoes, but I worry about the high oxalate content.
I like the meals from fully raw Kristina they are so colorful and look so very fresh and lots of variety
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Thank you. Loved this. On Day 40 juice fast. Need/want to heal my body… long time “autoimmune disease”…
But I like the sound of this… and maybe ultimately this is how it will be for me. 🤷♀️ I’ll see when I get there… back to re-feeding… not there yet. Thanks again to you both. ☮️
i love this video!
Thank you for sharing. I believe raw/sprouted foods are the healthiest versus
cooked foods. However, I was raw vegan for several years, dropped off, and then
went back to it for several years. I started to get concerned to get enough protein
as I am very active and athletic. Nuts and seeds are delicious but you can
only eat so much of them!. I also wanted more calories as you can only
eat so much raw food to keep your weight on. So, I started with cooked
sweet potatoes and then added beans, tempeh, and more. I tried sprouting lentils
but that was not enough protein or food. I do admire 100% raw foodists such as
Christina, but I needed more variety as I described. Peace to you.
you should look into fusobacterium do a video on it maybe, i really think you are on point with whats important for health
Raw food rejuvenated my body 20 years - it took 3 years - would be faster with 2 days fasting ( chlorophyll binds heavy metals out of body / structured water via juicing - faster nutritional delivery - high vitamin intake - high hydration )
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Thank God, Hallelujah, Praise the lord. God bless you Kaelash. You will get stronger and bigger eating denser foods
I also think this video should include more explanation on how cooked foods ARE addicting for nearly everyone. And all it does take is one time for someone to eat cooked to often get right back on cooked foods and a very unhealthy diet. I feel a disclaimer would be very good to say in this video or type like it in future. And clearly it should have been stated if you both feel one can get optimal health while eating fully raw. It seems you are both wishy washy and sharing your experiences while not giving much insights on true basis.
just because you feel addicted, doesn't mean it is. There are people who enjoy social drinking (1-2 glasses of wine once a month or so), would you say they have an addiction?
@@PetterPanZ you’re right just because something is addicting to me doesn’t inherently mean it’s addicting. But because literally 90%+ are extremely addicted it does mean they are addicting. Really think about what you’re saying.
@@PetterPanZ comparing alcohol to cooked foods in this way holds no weight. Total different mechanisms in the brain. Most people eat cooked foods multiple times a day made to taste as good and pleasurable as possible from infancy into adulthood. Indoctrination. So much I could say to your reply but frankly I feel I am wasting my energy, no disrespect meant by that, although it is a very foolish argument. Alcohol addiction and cooked food addiction are not at all the same. People go to raw foods often from healing after being addicted to lesser healthy cooked foods their whole lives. And a majority of brains work in a certain way where if they give in to a craving/addiction they are immediately more likely to give in again. It’s really simple undebatable psychology at this point. Think about a desire a lot doing it or not doing it and you are more likely to give in to it also. I’m not at all disagreeing with everything they say in the video but I do feel they articulate some points in ways that are not the most conscious of the vast audience. Very confident in this. Also love what they both have and are doing with sharing their own personal journey, and sharing their vast knowledge. I commend both of them.
It's highly addicting. Whole world is on it and that's why no one's believes it.
How old is Kaelash? He looks very young!
Yeah, that's what I'm wondering about. Also, the age of John.
I’m high raw. Because I include things like tofu and tempeh in my diet. But I don’t cook them. Broccoli must be lightly steamed for me to eat it. My diet is mostly sprouted beans and lentils and home grown micro greens with these tofu and tempeh chunks. Green smoothies which are raw but I sometimes will drink a protein shake that isn’t raw. I love tomato paste which isn’t raw. I love Ezekiel bread which isn’t raw.
I agree that there’s a lot of needle-threading in raw. I see people cooking “raw bread” in a dehydrator and I’m like: 🤔 but this doesn’t exist in nature. Like, so much loopholing just to stick with the label.
My priority is to eat most foods in living state and raw but it doesn’t have to be raw by definition. I am finding that lots of the good whole foods vegan cooked foods I see online and in restaurants look lifeless and unappealing to me.
What you eat is only part of the equation. The body needs to be exercised, both strength and cardio training.
When you eat healthy its easy to get exercised,you have a natural "call" to do it without pushing hard.
Eating healthy is a huge part of "equetion"
This is so true. Diet is only one part of health, often over focused on. But other pillars of health can be affected by diet.
Why heat-process your oats? Can't they just be eaten soak-sprouted?
I try to get my friends to go vegan to escape the Kali Yuga. You guys are so awesome! Keep skating!
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Hi Bonnie!
Thank you for this video! I struggle with being raw, unfortunately, I have autoimmune disease and the only time I can walk without pain and use my hands without pain is when I’m 100% vegan. I will still dive into a bowl of cooked beans, rice, etc. and then have to pay for it for weeks. It’s obviously an addiction, but I absolutely need to be vegan for my auto immune disease. Cooked food addictive unfortunately. I will eat it even if it means weeks and weeks of pain.
From me, I think the cook food feeds a bad bacteria, but I have present in my colon contributes to inflammation. I starve that bad bacteria when I’m eating simply raw. I tried to address SIBO (small intestinal, bacterial overgrowth) It worked just temporarily and then flared up immediately. The only thing that works for me, unfortunately is a very simple vegan diet.
I don't think beans are comparable to rice when it comes to inflammation. Beans are much worse.
@@jamesjonnes that’s some strong pseudoscience and completely false
Dr, Brooke Goldner is who you should focus on for autoimmune
@@jaminwaite3867 I have a lot of flatulence and inflammation when I eat beans, but not when I eat rice. How is my personal experience "strong pseudoscience and completely false"?
Not wishing to be rude but surely he should quit Ann Wigmore then as she vastly disagreed with cooked food in any quantity.
Kaelash is no longer working for Ann Wigmore and has instead moved on to greener food forests :) He is creating his own online community where he will be sharing his knowledge, teachings and experience at www.bit.ly/kaelash
@@okraw I worded the first message poorly. What I was trying to say is AW institute is still doing her methods as she prescribed them basically. And it just would mortify me if they started to be changed and lost to history. Hippocrates has kept the core of her teaching but have also changed and lost quite a bit of it too. I hope he does well, it’s just a shame to see so many long term fall away from raw. That’s all.
It is about eating as healthy as you can even if you think some meat is OK. Avoid all vinegar for your health and teeth, says Medical Medium.
Cooked food is why we are Human.🥔🥘 Or else we'd still be living up in the trees fending off mosquitos, jaguars and poisonous snakes 24/7, with a fraction of the brain capabilities we have today. We evolved away from that for very good reasons. I think people can heal on Raw but there's no sound argument to eat that way for life.
Then why did John and the other guy thrive for 20 years on raw vegan diet? Why didn't their brains and thinking capacity diminish?
That's basically my takeaway. I did raw 801010 for a few years to heal but eventually my iron got way too low even when eating tons of greens. Absorption is an issue for many. Cooking makes foods bioavailable and that's just a fact.
One could always eat the occasional mollusk for B12 and iron and stay raw.
@@jamesjonnes I eat more than just mollusks now. I like shrimp, lobster, salmon, scallops and sardines as well. I'm more Mediterranean style now and my blood triglycerides came back down but I eat more plants and carbs and less oil than the "actual" Mediterranean diet. Seafood is the only animal I eat, I don't do land animals. I'd say 70/80% plants 20/30% seafood, so still plant-based, if the definition of "based" means anything greater than 50%. But I do recognize vegans have their own definition of plant "based" meaning 100% plants but with the intention of health not animals. Basically their own made-up definition
@@samsanchez8247 I think the only sound reason to not eat raw is money. There are ways to sterilize food without cooking, such as at high pressures or low temperatures, but cooked food is way cheaper. Consuming animal products is probably a necessity for many, whether they choose to ignore it or not. People with the genetics necessary to be vegan are probably in the minority. Maybe I could be more vegan if I had access to more quality vegetable protein. I don't thrive if I just eat a lot of beans, lentils, or soy for protein.
So happy.... To say it should not be a religion 👍
There is no universe where literally killing the life in your food before eating it is healthier than a fully raw diet. The energy that you receive from what you eat does not lie.
But yeah, if you can't handle being fully raw, be high raw. Eating a potato is better than eating an animal product. But yeah, there's no way that having cooked food with a raw diet is healthier than a completely raw diet.
You are a delusional cult member
Really like the content but hard to cope with the stereo shouting!😮😮😮😮
No soup in winter... nope. Warm climate all year round -- possible.
People are group thinkers and thats why you see everyone jumping on some sort of band wagon instead of tuning in to their own insights. Raw is good yeah, if you live in a tropical setting away from chem trails and growing your own. But eating low starch foods STEAM COOKED, is also good. Like wise eating the occasional eggs from chickens you have on your land away from the city is also good. Goat cheese from your own goats, etc etc. You see where I am going with this. If you live in a big city, good luck because most foods there are contaminated, even the local farmers get chem trail debris on their organic foods. Hydroponic is safer, but lacks a full spectrum of minerals. So what to do? Firstly, move away from the petri dish that is called a city (NOT FOR EVERYONE) if you can, and grow your own. Kristina Carrillo Bucaram did it and eats all her own home grown foods, she doesnt look unhealthy AT ALL.
I think what it really comes down to is whole food that is natural and not Franken food that the big corps want us to eat. Jesus ate meat and bread but it was natural (not messed with) there is a reason “they want us to go vegetarian “. No judgment here. It’s a journey and we are all looking for the same thing. Good health ❤
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Medical Medium is tantastic for healing. He also cooks vegetables and says potatoes is a healing food. I thought rice was better but it is not. I know everything he says is true.
there's always two sides of the story. There are people very close tot MM who have distanced themselves because they probably saw the other face that you are not aware of?
@@PetterPanZ Some people lie just for fun or even to remove others from what is good for them. Stupid people versus geniuses.
Go away.
When i first glanced at these two, i thought they were a an old lesbian couple.
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I love my vegan friends. Sadly I was not able to be one of them. All that plant matter made me sick, and mentally unstable. The raw vegan movement is the most destructive of all. I believe that for those of you who want to go plant based cooking and fermentation can be beneficial. I started my carnivore diet at age 15, Unlike many people I love plants and gardening, it really gives me an all around good feeling. Those online raw vegans really get me upset.
Noticing most fill raw plant bast people live in hot humid climate. Like totaly raw Christina she is in Hawaii, that us so fake. Not many can move an a plantatiin in Hawaii, or Puerto Rico. Many have to leave because of economics. Get real folks. In cold klimets yiu need hot stews, potatis, Quimua seemed veggies and hot soups. You all must think we are ignorant. Comming from Germany 🇩🇪 you can not be 100% raw. To cold 🥶. Yes Jackfruit Mangis, Pinaple, fresh coconut 🥥 is great. Your body needs more then that. The cost inland can not be sustained for the average person Quute selling lies and fake live. 😮
I don’t know if you’re still vegan or not but if you are than the title of this video is not a good title for the vegan cause. Having the words abandoned, vegan and dogma in the same title is definitely a turn off.
Raw food was a horrible diet for veganism.
Next important step : add animal products in your lifestyle!
Maybe if they don't wait 29 years, they could live to pension age still...
Unfortunately the biggest problem for the planet is overpopulation and what it's doing the planet.
No, even half the current world population would have a much larger impact if they all had western European or American life standards. So just talking about overpopulation is a very myopic way to look at the issue.
Overpopulation is an environmental conversation. It's inappropriate (and irrelevant) in a topic about health or dietary requirements. If there were tens of millions of more lions, their dietary requirements wouldn't suddenly change because sourcing their food put strain on the environment.
Yes! Let's all support each other on the journey to 100% HEALTHY!
It is nice to hear this subject from experience. Experience speaks. I too will never go only raw. I hope you will listen to MM Medical Medium and get rid of viruses and heavy metals. I did health foods and macrobiotic quality foods for 42 yrs and I know MM is truth, unadulterated and pure - everything is true.