Anyone on a raw food diet?

Hello Raw Runner, I think a raw food diet is a great way to go with lyme or any other disease.  Raw foods have all their enzymes intact and they probably can help break down the biofilms that Lyme bacteria uses to hide in. This type of diet seemed very helpful with our son dealing with lyme disease.

Wow Namaste, You are really making me think years back to our journey in trying to find the foods that humans should eat.  We know what all the animals diets should be but we really are confused about the type of diet we humans should eat.  We are the only known beings that cook their food which destroys the so needed enzymes and so the confusion begins. Some say that a low carb is best and some say a high carb diet is best.  Some say to cook your food and some say not to cook your food. When our sons both came down with lyme disease, 20 years ago and nothing our younger son did seemed to helped permanently, it was recommended we try the raw foods diet for him.

Prior to this we tried a vegetarian diet (cooked) and we just seemed to feel tired and gained weight.  Then we tried an all raw foods diet and it was so much roughage that we didn’t feel that good on that diet either (I do have to say that we lost weight and my husbands BP dropped way down on that diet). Then we tried the Blood Type diet.  I was blood type O that was supposed to eat high protein and low carb diet.  While I loved an excuse to eat meat I began having problems.  I was in my late 50’s and I noticed my skin drying out and hair thinning.  When I went in for an eye exam the Doctor wanted to know if I had high cholesterol as he could see cholesterol crystals in the back of my eyes that had not been there before. That evening, with tears in my eyes I asked my husband what in the world we should do regarding diet?  I was very discouraged at that time as we had tried just about every type of diet and nothing seemed to work.  Some years before this I had run across a book on the Hunzas and how they ate and lived a long healthy life without health issues.  The book ended up in the shed and I immediately ran out and dusted the book off and we began reading it.  The Hunzas lived high up in the Himalayan mountains where they drank pure mineralized water, ate organic fruits and vegetables and whole grains and very small amounts of animal products.  They grew their own grain and when they traveled they took with them a small grain grinder and grain and when hungry they mixed the flour with water and cooked their bread over a campfire. This happened about 10 years ago and we have been eating this way ever since.

Today we eat about 50 percent of our foods raw.  We take pure liquid minerals, we eat many different whole grains (not modern day wheat). Lots of veggies cooked in waterless cookware on low heat. We also eat brown rice pasta. We never eat processed foods and cook our own whole grain fermented spelt bread. We use animal meats in very small amounts only. We eat small amounts of low salt feta cheese. None of the family have insulin resistance issues as a result of eating this way and we are in our 70’s. Because you are concerned about your insulin resistance problem I think if you eat raw foods that you should stay away from most fruits and you probably won’t have any negative issues.

I remember several years back when we were at the zoo watching the lions eating their raw meat,  I asked the caretaker what else the lions ate besides their meat diet.  He said that they had to feed the lions a whole rabbit, deer or some animal that fed on grains and grasses at least once a week.  In the stomach of these animals was pre digested grains and grasses.  The lions do not contain in their systems the enzymes to break down the grains but will get sick without these foods. I think this shows how complicated this food/diet issue is for all of us.

Hope this helps.