PP: I assume he meant in person. I could probably be a good enough actor with anything under 4 mo
he's probably more adjusted to it, but its gotta sting sometimes no matter how acclimated.
in regards to detox:
While I can understand the
suspicions around the word detox (particularity for those who have been in an around the vegan or hygiene 'excuse' models for such things) I don't understand how people can reject the likelihood of almost all symptoms being some attempt of the body to expell waste or repairing damage resulting in discomfort, pain, or inflammation. The idea that health (for contemporary people) is being free of symptoms can be a dangerous mindset equaled to obsessions or excuse making of detox. Plenty of people in their 60's claim of never 'getting sick' and clearly don't have completely healthy tissue at the cellular level. Plenty of fruitarian minded folks (refraining from all modern foods and as much toxins as possible) claim to have many years (post what THEY define as detox) in an extreme sense of euphoria, only to develop all kinds of weird 'disease' like rubella or some other oddity. These are more than just deficiency in diet or over-sufficiency of some macro-nutrient and this is the same for people on a healthy raw diet.
The truth of it - in my experience - is that these toxins and mutations are very present, very stubborn, entrenched, and best handled slowly over time through periodic release. I don't believe fasting is a great tool to reverse this process or eliminate wastes, but its certainly a good litmus test to tell if one can develop symptoms purely based on the ingestion of nothing. Rarely would anyone last a week without some sense of flu like symptoms, headaches etc...
I find non-acute symptoms to be totally welcome, in unison with obvious productive physical improvements (particularly those like skin, hair, nails etc..) which are largely cosmetic and low on a hierarchy of importance. I try not to locate these symptoms in any cause as its very unlikely today's cause could be any worse than what I did daily for 20-25+ years of my life. (Unless we are talking about short symptoms from cooked foods or something)
Even if one wants to entertain the so called 'cause' by a person place or thing ingested's bacterium or virus, the experience of symptoms is still that of detox, the expelation of matter still being largely old and not newly regenerated by viruses etc..
particularly for those who see the logic of raw eating, even if their main goal would be to use the raw materials from unheated foods to rebuild tissues, this would inheritly point to older tissue being built on largely toxic materials.
it seems to me that the only possible explanation for symptoms at all other than this which are common would be psychological-hypochondriac behavior, or stress which in itself are merely ignition for the bodies normal detoxification by becoming overwhelmed or overtaxed by environment, poor foods or combinations etc... Even the ingestion of toxic or allergenic foodstuffs, would result in symptoms of detoxification. The only problem really is confusing symptoms in all cases as being evidence of something productive, but its always some kind of evidence of at least attempted removal of wastes.
