Friday, February 19, 2010

Experiment, Day 1

Back with a new idea and a new philosophy. I'll skip right to my endeavor for right now though.
So i'm going to be experiementing with a new diet based on new theories of health. I'm still a raw foodist as no matter what i believe that cooking de-natures all food and causes digestive troubles due to the destruction of natural digestive enzymes present in raw food. Previously I had been aspiring to be Raw Vegan, fruitarian style which is basically most of your calories come from fruits and the other 20% or so come from nuts, seeds, oils or greens. I had tried this previously for awhile and found incredible energy from it. I went from hardly active to jogging 5 miles a day in a day and had the energy to keep it up with only about 2-4 pieces of fruit a day, along with sum oil in the morning. along with fruitarianism I also began staring at the sun at random intervals during the day. At that time i had sucessfully felt the difference between "full" and "satisfied". When on cooked food you have to eat so much MORE food to get the nutrition your body requires that you associate the "full" feeling with being satisfied. However on raw food your body needs less so you must be able to know when your nutritional needs are met, not when there's so much mass in your stomach that your digestive system drains all of your energy leaving you tired and weak.
Anyway, as much energy as that gave me my skin wasn't clearing up, my eyes weren't becoming brighter, my mind wasn't becoming clearer, i wasn't losing the fat pockets on my chest and lower abdomin, i was losing strength (but not endurance), and my bones were becoming brittle. This was and still isn't the body i want to have. After visiting "Beyondveg.com" and researching other raw food sites i found i wasn't the only one having some diffuculty. After the inevitable failure that followed i began a cooked vegetarian diet consisting of alot of soy, chinese food, junk food, etc. I only noticed my problems getting worse (or rather just not getting better). My mental fog devolped rather high, my body was still weak and unable to gain weight, my nervous system was agitated.
Upon further study into diet I was forced to accept certain truths and drop certain idealogies. I discovered the healing effects (or claimed healing effects) of raw animal foods like milk, eggs, fish and meat and how certain plant foods had some MAJOR flaws. I won't get into those here, but i have developed a new diet system based soley on science and the experiences of a multitude of others like me. This diet was actually based more around money and i consider it superior in theory to any other regime (to be a raw vegan is VERY costly because of all the plant foods you have to ingest to get enough calories). Basically it consists of Raw Milk, Raw Eggs, and i'm toying with the idea of raw chia seed milk (explained later).
Through the study and personal experience of Ayurveda and TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) I have lerned more about my body. I have a problem gaining weight, i have a hard time with circulation and dealing with the cold, i have poor digestion, I worry alot, i think too much, my nervous system is overactive, etc. This is classic "Vata" type in ayurveda. With vata i observed the best way to balance that type was to include lots of fats like butter, whole milk, meats, etc. Likewise alot of people who failed at the raw vegan diet were in similar boats and found adding raw animal fats were the key. Aajonus Vonderplanitz was another heavy influence on me as he dispelled the "meat-a-phobia" that plagues the ritualistic recitations of vegetarians. Though i do agree that raw meat can be very healing and has peculiar abilities I still choose to leave it out of my diet because the texture and taste grosses me out and it's WAYYYY too expensive. So I studied what foods were the most "complete". Raw milk is def. #1 as people have been known to live off JUST that for very long durations. Chia is another that seems to have a very complete nutritional profile. The raw eggs are more for thier known effect to aid in the detoxification of the liver (responsible for blood detox and digestion), aid to the skin, and boost in Testosterone.
I will be consuming 2 quarts of raw milk and 3 eggs yolks daily for the first week or two. After that i will be experimenting with chia(1/4 cup daily). I have ordered a water ionizer and plan to make a distiller to use for drinking but more for making a chia smoothie. The problem with chia(and most plant foods actually) is that it's harder to absorb due to antinutrients and phytates with inhibit absorbtion. Sprouting can deactivate these but sprouting chia is rather diffucult and time consuming. BUT when you add water to chia it creates a type of gel that contains it's nutrients. So what i plan to do is get a mortar and pestle (tool for grinding) and make a chia "powder", then mix it with water/milk in a blender. After that i will filter it through a cheese cloth to get rid of any indigestable "chunks". By doing this i can process it in a way that will make everything easier to digest and assimilate. Also everything in my diet will be in liquid form, making everything that much more digestable, which is a goal of this diet.
I will be keeping tabs of anything i feel i should record, this will be based on events so i will not record daily. As of right now i have eaten some blueberries last night(all i had) and worked very hard shoveling and dishwashing. When i woke up this morning i had no energy and was very VERY sore. I noticed my stomach was quite acidic which gave me nasty waves of nausia, probably from the blueberries. In order to get to the bus to get downtown i had to buy some more blueberries for energy, even though they gave me more acid. When i got downtown i purchased 4 2quart bottles of raw milk and a small cup of raw goats milk, and my organic, free range, patuer-fed eggs. I had some leftover blueberries and consumed them with the raw goat milk with no negetive feelings. Later tonight i have drank about one quart of the raw cows milk and already feel strong as an ox :) The taste is incredible, they have raw cream on the top, which is SOOO tasty, but more importantly there's no indigestion, or weak feelings or food cravings when i drink the milk. Usually when i eat chinese food or actually anything cooked, i keep craving food well after i'm full. With the milk, i don't crave junk or sugar or fried foods or anything, i could eaily just live off this stuff.
So thats all for now, my soreness doesn't even bother me, and my energy and mood are as good as ever. more to come.