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Originally Posted by slink
HI everyone, greenbunny i think you may have some info here
I have been eating a diet that is 100 % raw vegetables
PLUS the addition of cooked meat for protein and flax oil for fat
today at work i knew i was really calorie deficient and ran downstairs to our health food store for a snack
i found some cultured raw milk goat cheese AND THEN i had this awesome raw experience
i immediately came back into my body in a deeper way than i have been in quite sometime, i know that some of this is grounding from eating such a calorie/fat/protein rich food and some of it is the good vibration of the food itself
AND THEN i had another great raw experience....i pooped....i felt all sorts of good digestive action right afer eating it and within a half hour i eliminated....it has been kind of slow the last couple of weeks
anyway all sorts of subtle things fell into place and my question is......because i have been eating COOKED meat are there SPECIFIC/DIFFERENT enzymes that would have been in the dairy that i needed to properly digest the meat i have been eating but have not been getting from my greens etc
thanks, slinky
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I haven't had such a good laugh sink Double Helix talked about her ogre in the mayonnaise factory!
"AND THEN i had another great raw experience....i pooped"
How fabulous is that line?!!!!!
Here's my hit on your experience Slink:
To answer your question: It is my understanding that each raw food has exactly the enzymes within it necessary to digest that particular food. The enzymes can be subtlely different say between brocolli and cabbage but which both include some version of amylase (the enzyme necessary to digest carbohydrates). The main enzyme necessary to digest the large amount of protein in meat is protease and the main enzyme in milk products is lactase. That is why many people supplement their cooked food intake with a general enzyme supplement that has all these general kinds of enzymes in them to cover most foods, but it will never be exact to the particular food like eating that food raw. So...... I highly doubt that the fabulous effects that you felt from eating your cheese was from the shot of lactase you got in that cheese as it most raw foods have just enough enzymes as are necessary to digest them within them and there usually isn't much leftover for other foods as far as I know and besides, most of the enzymes in cheese would not be the enzymes necessary to digest meat.
What I think happened based on my experience is that you got some nutrients that you needed along with some dense food! I had to give up raw once not too long ago before adding enough cheese, fish and egg to my diet because my husband was sure that I just wasn't getting enough calories or protein to keep me in my body and I think that he was right.
Are you aware of Macrobiotics. It's a whole diet based upon the Oriental principle of Yin and Yang. Yang foods are heavier and more solid. My husband who had been into this form of eating years ago said to me recently that it made sense that I would be drawn to eating meat and fish and eggs (all of which are so yang) when my diet became much more yin when I ate so much salad and fruit. There is something to be said for this for me I believe and perhaps is for you too.
I must say though, that digesting cooked fish and cheese is very hard on my digestion. These substances take a long time to go through the digestive tract compared to vegetables and especially fruit as it is, but to eat them without their enzymes intact is a real chore. They are easy to digest and necessary for me raw and a hardship on me cooked.
It sounds to me like your body was getting up and giving you every kind of communication that it could how happy it was at your discovery. That is so very cool it makes me smile.
Now, here is another aspect of what you chose to eat. Raw goat yogurt is not only a raw dairy product but a live food in even more ways. It is filled with live bacteria that your digestive tracts needs to function correctly. If this was out of balance (which it is in most Americans I believe) you going and giving your body those good bacteria might have aided tremendously in your intestinal tract's ability to process is contents. Raw goat yogurt is in my opinion a raw food on steroids - super alive!
One more thing - someone here at one point was talking about amazing research on the combination of raw goat yogurt and flax oil and how it allowed the cell walls to become pliable again. I believe it is in our thread on raw dairy. Check it out. Since you eat raw flax oil and it might have been just circling around your blood stream whaiting for the substance it needed to be useful, that might have also been a factor in your feeling so good from it. Could be!
But the important thing is that you found something that was so good for you.
Congratulatoins, happy day, hurrah!
Greenbunny
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