Hi Francois,
I read Burgers book years ago and still have it.
I voted (I had not before.. sorry..) that I partly agree.
Partly, because I guess wild foods are much more important than Burger seems to realize. To domesticate anything is a loss.. and I guess messes with our instinct too. I never forget what a huge difference it was eating wild durian in comaprison to domesticated. The difference was unbelieveable.
Also seasonality, he does not write anything about these.. light cycles and so on. That is a huge part missing from the book.. the part that made my instinctive-eating years not so successful. I ordered all my food from Orkos, I ate meat and fish too but very minor as the delicious tropical fruits tasted sooo god to me.. living in a heated apartment in the winter with lots of artificial lights late in the nights.. having no clue I was about destroying my health.
Lots of wild, local, ripe, seasonal fruits living in the tropics getting lots of sun would be no problem! But I was not. And no one from the instinctos ever mentioned it was a mismatch. You see me now Francois?
Burger is onto something huge but some pieces are missing.. it needs to be seasonal and local too, to be perfect.
I guess, if we live in a mismatched environment, it affects our unconscious mind more than we think.. makes it not work right... and so the instincts get wrong too.
That is when we need to use our brain and willpower to "force things" (like stopping eating fruits in winter if not in season where we live, to have it colder, to have it darker when season is too..) to get it right because we lived wrong for so long, or say, we need to live after the seasons again, to get the unconscious mind working properly again.
And then it is the thing about what we are used to tastewise. That plays a bigger role than many thinks. The yuck-factor..that makes us made different decisions than if we had no yuck-factor. Who eat fish-eyes and guts? Even if they are so good for us? The yuck-factor is playing a huge role believe me. It decides what we like tastewise too. We like tastewise what we are used too.. Many fruits and nuts and such have similar tastes to what we are used too from childhood (SAD). It is easy to eat/choose.
I also disagree a bit about that the "toxins from cooking" are that dramatic as he thinks, and therein (to avoid these "toxins") lays the secret of raw.
I rather believe it is the beneficial bacterias and viruses that are in raw that is so very good for us. Gently cooked foods are not poison IMHO but very suboptimal.
I am not talking about real crap like burned / fried meat, french fries, manipulated foods like margarine, any junk.. these are real poison for sure - no, I mean pure whole good quality foods gently heated. They are just not optimal to me but not in any way poisonous like Burger tells us. Or lets say, that is what I believe and what my own body tells me after experimenting a lot.
But yes, Burger also is aware of the benefits of bacterias and viruses, that is actually where I read about it first time.
So I do think he is on to something big Francois!
And Francois.. one more thing..
After starting to eat mostly wild and saisonal, paying attention to the light cycluses too.. there do start to happend something with the unconscious.. like it starts working better..? I feel and see things now, that are very minor improvements but still so huge I get overwhelmed. Like I SEE more, and feel more in my abdominal area too, what things are about. Quite painful too at times I can tell, as the truth hurts sometimes.
But worth it, as it feels very alive too and.. it feels like freedom.
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