her 2nd letter to me,
Hi Yes, I have heard of this
as for the cold.. well if you live in the cold your circulatory system and fat deposits definitely need to be in balance.. and fat can be a great insulator...
interestingly enough i do remember when i first started the raw vegan diet, living in New York, and going to the institute up in Boston, I did suffer from the cold the first year or two.
However, i am not sure when that changed.. but eventually it did.. and i could really enjoy the outdoor cold weather, skiiing, walking, whatever.
I can't give you the physiological reason for the change and can't remember exactly when it happened.
as for my bone strength..
i had been raised in a canday store from birth... and had mulitple caveties in each tooth.
when i was in my early twenties I was in a bad car accident that claimed an ankle and my front teeth
Because I didn't have good teeth to start with, i had all the top removed and went with a plate...
I also needed bridges on the bottom both sides... ( this all happened BEFORE i became raw )
in 1990 i came here to florida to do a seventh month stay at the institute, and at that time i had a LOT of money, and went to have my teeth done over by a local dentist who was reported to do really good cosmetic work. I didn't need to get them done over, as i had never even needed them relined ... i just wanted to look more like a movie star LOL
When he took the usual xrays, he came back into the office and said something happened and he had to take them again...
So he did.
Then he came back and proceeded to tell me and show me that he took them over, because the first ones showed that there were teeth forming under my gums...
But the second set showed the same.
From then on, they called me the 'shark lady ' lol
He said, in all his practice, he had never seen that.
I said, in all of your practice, you never had a raw vegan come to you, i bet...
He gave me one of those sets of pictures.. i do remember seeing them during many of my moves.. I am not sure where they are now, or if i still have them...
but i should find them and do something to make this more well known, now that i am a senior.
In the old days, i would have been too embarrassed for people to even know i had false teeth LOL
I do know that most raw vegans tend not to eat enough protein or fail to do what helps it to be assimilated.
i start my day every day with a bowl of a yogurt ferment and all kinds of berries.
I used to make out of almonds, until they screwed us out of good almonds...
but now i make it with macademia... costly, but a lot easier than peeling almonds
I also make really good carob mouse or pudding out of nuts, and also ice cream. ( using stevia and organic non alcohol spices .. and i usually have some of that in spoonfuls through out my day...when i feel some hunger.
I also make things like walnut-pecan meat balls that taste like real meatballs and have psyllium in them to help move through the bowel... and things like walnut pecan pate, that tastes just like chopped liver, or like turky stuffing, depending on what i put in it...
or i might have made a raw spinach quiche or even a raw apple pie ( lots of anti inflammatory cinnamon in it ) with walnut pecan crust... ir a raw carrot cake with nut icing and chopped walnuts throughout ( both made with psyllium) or i will have a bunch of nori rolls made for a few days, that have nut and seed butters in them. and this is where i put LOTS of sprouts ( mung, aduki, pea, fenugreek, green and red lentil is my stock mix ) .. etc etc etc..
so, If i have a green juice, which i usually drink one to two quarts during the day... i usually take a few bites of one of these items, with 8 ounces of geen juice.. and i snack like this all day...
i add to this one to two very large green salads with lots of good stuff in them of lunch and dinner
and one blended green soup with probiotics, seaweed, green powder etc in it..
seems to work for hubby and me , we both are seniors now...both look younger, feel younger, and can do things that younger people do... especially when you compare us to our neighbors ( i live in a senior village )
as for friends who eat wrong for their type, i can only offer you this on the other side of the coin...
i lived with a lady who inherited the position of running the Price Pottinger Nutrition Foundation from her husband who had a stroke and died..
we got along famously... until i had come back from a consult i did in London, that kept me away for almost a year...
when i got back, she was so convinced by this guy ajinous? sp?
that she had to really bulk up on raw meat and fats etc..
that that is what she did...
she was wealthy and had all her meat, raw butter, flown in from new zeland...
and had her own chickens... as well as had a sister that had goats and provided raw goat milk
plus this was san diego.. and you could always buy raw millk in the stores...
well my hubby and i were both staying with her, on that return leg of my journey
she was trying to get him to eat meat.. and i was humbling asking her to stop it
she kept telling me raw vegans went mad... LOL...
meanwhile.. hubby and i were walking up and down the hills and mountains of san diego.. and she would never come
she had constant migranes.. and bloating in her abd.. and constipation on and off etc etc etc...
we had a falling out over a visit from Bernard Jesen's son, when I told him the reason that butter probably helped the natives, is that it came from GRASS FED animals and the grass had acidphilus on it... anyhow.. we finally had strong words over the fact that i was NOT going to become a meat eater in her house.. and i left, never to see her again....
however a mutual friend wrote me last year, that this woman had had a stroke...
All this to say... check the mercola site out, he stresses nutrional typing...
I have never run across a protein type in my practice.. but i don't take you for a liar and i do believe what you have told me.. and it certainly fits with the nutritional typing theory..
I am wondering if it is genetics, missing enzymes ( on either part, vegans or meat eaters ) ? hormones balance? or something similar that accounts for this?
I am from Russian ( Polish )... and French-Spanish ( from Spain ) descent..
what nationality are you?
I do have a friend from Romania that eats meat and a lot of raw food...
but then again she is in BP meds...