Is It Worth It To Eat A Raw Food Diet?

the first thing I want to ask is it takes takes effort to do anything it takes effort to lift weights it takes effort to do things so tip to follow the type of lifestyle that some of you recommends a lot of people are saying yeah I’m sure it would be good for me but it takes a lot of effort so what is that what is the promise of all this you know in other words a lot of people are saying I got a you know a father who’s 86 I got an aunt who’s 88 what so why would someone want to go through the trouble of eating a whole food plant-based diet and ideally a raw food plant-based I’d what what are you what are you offering them what’s what’s the great offer here compared to the regular life that people are living what’s what’s so special about or off you don’t what do you get out of it what’s the benefit to make this all this effort we’ll start by putting the foundation down that we share this extraordinary planet with about nine million known species now as I suggested yesterday I don’t know this to be a fact but I’ve read many times that we think we’re destroying or killing about 35 species a day we’ve not yet identified but one thing that I can tell you about 100% of the 9 million species we’ve identified is they all completely survive and thrive on a raw food diet the only species on the planet earth that choose choose to eat a cooked food diet is a human species now I know anthropology which I debunked yesterday with the latest in anthropology tell you that our brains evolved when we began to cook food it’s not biologically possible for that to happen as an example when you cook something how is it going to make something grow that I debunked today in my lecture so the premise of what you are doing you were plugging in to the energy source that was meant to allow the biochemistry of your body the anatomy your body to flourish to thrive to work at the highest level and the second little caveat I want to put with this is that I think it’s it’s at a point now we’ve so lowered the bar if we’re live at 80 years old or 90 years old we think well that’s great but how are we alive or are we functioning are we happy are we productive are we healthy are we contributing and just to be alive and taking up space and breathing at least to me is not that interesting and I’ve watched so many thousands and thousands of people over the decades I’ve done this not only heal catastrophic disease and prevent and prevent aging as anna marie and i have but in fact become incredibly important members of their family their culture their society and that’s what we should be looking for today not just to be happy we’re not dying

yeah in many ways you know we if you look at the births death at the birth in all days a lot of times we lost children because of the hygiene in hospitals but we we have better hygiene now although a lot of people get sick in hospitals too the thing is we are sicker than ever so we’re looking at it takes three generations to recover our human species it really is going to take so what we’re looking at is people like Steve says my aunt is 80 my grandma is 90 yeah and and probably they came from generations that had not been eating as much processed food as our young generation has so we’re going to pay a huge price and it will take probably one more generation before we see it as extreme and we will have to all of us go holistic B and not only because our natural resources are doing the wind rain dwindling and you know water is extreme think that you know I was brought up on on a peninsula outside stockelman and just realize that water you so precious and we had to in my home we had to use water like it was gold and most people think that water it comes out of a tap and there’s tons of it all it is is dirty water it’s very very you know dirty water it’s not pure water that has been cleaned through the underwater veins you have underground veins that cleans water and it takes years and years for it to be pure and come into a well for example and most people just realize don’t realize that I can use it as much as I want and it’s going somewhere and then my sewer will be mixed probably with the water we purify sewer water and it will come back how much do you think of amoebas and bacteria will come back into your system so we have to start slow down how we use water we will have to preserve it and of course there’s places in the world where they don’t have it at all and they could teach us a lot about them precious water but it takes generations to see what we have done so what we see today we might look around and say well you know these people are so much older and they’ve done well but we are sicker than ever and this is the time that we have to realize that everything that you do matters if you can be an example to your family by changing they’re going to remember that they’re going to remember that you took that step and chose to take care of yourself and chose to not just waste the nature natural resources that we have and so that makes a big sense for us now to talk about today too I think because we’re we’re thinking of our own body very much but we have to take care of all of nature to have a healthy body you know the the question you asked Eve was really what is the promise of all of this to two people that are thinking of making this kind of change and to me the promises as I think of myself I’ve been doing this about thirty years and and in all honesty and not to brag or anything but I I still weigh the same as I did when I got married 40 years ago I still run as fast I can still do a handstand I can still do the splits I I’m not on any medications I feel like I’m still 25 physically that’s the promise you know my relatives that are living the standard Western Way there are 12 medications already at my age they they can’t walk up the mountain I’m running up the mountain you know and this is really the promise is is that is that we live every day to the fullest until we’re you know what very advanced age and you look at the Blue Zones I am so in awe of I can remember being in at loma linda doing a few lectures there the last conference I was at and and I can still remember a friend of mine dr. Scharff Amburg you may know dr. Scharffen Berger he walked out of church on sabbath and and i somebody said dr. Scharffen Berger is that you and I hadn’t seen him for years I think at that point he was either 89 or 90 he was walking like a 25 year old so briskly out of that church and when he came over to me to talk to me he said have you seen the latest debates on sodium and and you know there’s one camp that’s saying this and one camp and I and and he started you know talking about all this research and then I said you know what are you doing these days oh he said I’m still speaking all over Europe and I’m too and and to me that’s the promise is is you reach these ages and you’re still functioning you’re still contributing you’re still enjoying life and I mean that’s what we all want it’s it’s incredible what do you hi everyone um I just recently realized I’m not taking any like I thought like by having chia seeds and hemp seeds that that would cover the omega-3 and I have a 40 year old vegan daughter who one of my Christmas presents was this liquid but it has like coconut it’s got like sweeteners in it and I don’t really like that I don’t do well with it so I was wondering if Hippocrates the vitamins that you sell life give because I them if you have any form of a real or you could recommend a really good omega-3 that has DHA and EPA thank you well number one you have to look at where DHA comes from so the whole industry that has convinced the public about the benefit of fish oil and completely fabricated stories that fish oil were the only ones broken down to a usable form for humans it’s completely bonkers fish get the DHA DHA from sea vegetables so there are forms that you can get on the internet and purchase the sea algae DHA the same place the fish gets it from just no difference from eating a cow or eating the grass that the cow gets a protein from it’s the same exact it’s an aquatic version of the same thing now we’ve been using for three years and doing in-house observations of an extraordinary land-based product called nature sage oil it’s a form it’s a Clary sage unique form a desert form from the Mediterranean and grows of course in the Middle East that is phenomenal the profiles phenomenal and what I like about that the most the perishability is very very low so we can sit around on a shelf without refrigeration for a minimum of two years they think three four years they’ve only done the tests up to two this point and we see that to be fulfilling so of course the yes so the diet itself living food diet provides lots of omega oils the difficulty is you can get too many six if you want don’t watch it you can eat nuts etc that I have too many sick but what you have to understand it’s the algae oil is the number one thing to do for other if you’re not eating a raw food diet if you’re not eating a living food if you’re not taking sprouts that have it in it my strong advice is to take both take the nature sage oil take the algae oil and what’s the name of the company that we talked to true and you TR you they may code magazine which is a algae oil magazine nutria true and you TR you you true calm when you’re thinking about DHA and EPA and the the need for those things is just to remember that that in the human body so when you consume flax or chia are hemp or walnuts for that matter they contain what we call the parent omega-3 fatty acid alpha linolenic acid and your body has some capacity to convert that into epa and DHA which are the more biologically active long-chain omega-3 fatty acids and these fatty acids though the active forms are so important because epa for example goes to forming a variety of what we call like Xhosa noids like prostaglandins and prostacyclin and leukotrienes and thromboxanes and an epa and DHA also go to forming these things called resolve ins and protect ins that are highly anti-inflammatory and so these long-chain omega-3s are actually really important for the sort of the flexibility and functioning of her cell membranes and our brains and uh you know we we need this stuff and and what we know is that conversion is fairly slow and certain things can slow it down so for example Brian mentioned the sort of the omega-6 is getting too many it can actually reduce conversion because the omega-6s and omega-3s compete for the same desaturate enzyme so there’s a process of d saturation and elongation and so when you get too many omega sixes it it depresses the omega-3 conversion but even malnutrition if you’re not getting enough nutrients if you drink alcohol if you eat trans fatty acids these all depressed depressed conversion enzymes and so one of the things we want to do is to maximize conversion but even if we’re doing everything right there are things that can make conversion difficult if you you know if you come from a fish eating culture sometimes you don’t make as many of the enzymes so it’s a you know it’s a it’s not a bad idea to get some of these the direct sources that we’re talking about the epa and DHA directly and and one of the things to know is is you know fish this is the this is the point I wanted to make fish when you consume fish oil you can imagine how much fish has to be harvested or killed to produce a bottle of fish oil and so we’re we’re literally raping the oceans to produce these massive quantities of fish oil and one of the things that we’re you know we don’t have a lot of research on but there’s some suggestions starting in about 2010 we started to see what we call the fish oil failures and there were several studies that showed for example the Jessie trial that showed a fish oil helped to reduce sudden cardiac death by whatever percent it was way back when taking a gram of fish oil a day well following these people for another five years they found absolutely no advantage taking fish oil there was a whole bunch of other studies as well now one of the possible reasons and just to think about this when you take fish oil you’re often taking about a gram or a thousand milligrams or two and and one of the problems with that is these are the most highly unsaturated fats in the human diet so they’re they’re highly unstable and so they can be oxidized easily and if you flood your system with massive amounts that are physiologically unnatural that you aren’t gonna get just from eating fish so you take these concentrated fish oils you may end up with more oxidation happening of these particular Voyles whereas when you’re taking the LG you’re probably eating two or three hundred milligrams when you when you have them which is a more physiologically amount that we can actually deal with in our bodies and so that’s just another point to consider when people are saying well fish oil versus microalgae the fish oil is going to be fish is only as clean as the water it’s swimming in right and and fish oil same thing and so you’re looking at some of these environmental contaminants that move up the food chain whereas if you’re growing your culturing eldery you’re not raping the oceans there’s no environmental contaminants so there are a lot of reasons to be choosing these over the fish oil supplements a little addition you may want to read my book killer fish Brenda said a lot of incredibly important things I think the most important was right at the end where she said the oxidation what we do know from good science and common sense that fish oil when it’s extracted from the fish even if you took a fish out of the water squeeze the oil out of it within 20 to 30 minutes the oils become lipid peroxides write that down and look up with a lipid peroxide it’s a known carcinogen so all fish oil are known carcinogens as you see in the finished studies there’s higher incidence of cancer in populations that consume more fish and the oil from fish and the oceans are gonna be fished out by the year 2050 2048 is what all the scientists basically telling so that point is to me the most important point because it’s not that we’ve you say well I don’t care I’m a vegan you better care because when the fish are not in the ocean as Einstein said fairly smart guy he said five years after the fish are gone the ecosystem is destroyed the oxygen goes away and guess what we go away