Sick/Detox transitioning?

[joej627]

Hey guys,

Slowly transitioning over to more and more raw.  Having weird reactions right now probably detox/healing lately.  Have been eating a lot more raw eggs, rare beef/salmon, raw bone marrow, liver, etc.  Only cooked stuff is vegetables.  This was switching over from a "cooked paleo" diet that included heavily cooked proteins/roasted nut butters, etc.  Anyways, i feel pretty good lately but i am noticing my body seems to be rebelling against cooked food more and more.  It's like its saying why would you eat that when we are trying to cleanse your system?  Definitely in detox mode, just wondering if anybody else had similar symptoms.  I remember reading in i think Henry Bielers book awhile back about some guys who went to live with the Inuit maybe?  At first the raw food made them sick as they were not used to it but in time the cooked food lost most of its appeal.

[Rawr]

i am noticing my body seems to be rebelling against cooked food more and more... ...wondering if anybody else had similar symptoms.

If you want to call it "symptoms"... Yes. Or maybe. After about 2 weeks on fully raw (PD/RPD), I always noticed some of these after I've eaten a cooked meal: heavy stomach, slower digestion, more tiredness, overall feeling worse.

I think that the reason I noticed these "symptoms" after 2 weeks "on raw" is simply that I "got used to" feeling better/easier digestion and therefore I had a new "reference point"/"baseline" from which I could notice/compare/realize how eating cooked food affects me.

[TylerDurden]

Most of us go through this. Once the body gets a sizeable amount of raw foods, it seems to start diverting fewer resources towards digestion as so much effort isn't needed on a raw diet. The trouble with that is that when one eats cooked foods, the body suddenly has to make an extra effort to digest the cooked food(producing more stomach acid etc.) plus it is able to detox the cooked food far more quickly from the body as it isn't getting swamped by the huge amounts of cooked foods that people normally eat on a cooked diet, and that causes negative symptms. Of course, one can cut down the detox reaction by eating lots of cooked foods so as to overburden the body, but when one wants to heal, that is rather pointless.

[joej627]

Yea, for me it has been a give and take.  There was no way i could have transitioned cold turkey i was just too sick.  I'm getting close though.  Stronger by the day as they say.

[goodsamaritan]

Keep us posted with details of your experience day by day.
So let's not forget it.
I think most of us do tend to forget as the years go by.

[CitrusHigh]

Yeah, the raw food isn't 'making' you sick, it's flushing shit out of your system, which your system has to deal with all over again, ie toxins that were directed to other parts of your body so as not to kill you from overload of your vitals.

But take heart, not matter how raunchy the detox is, it's soooo worth it. As long as you are doing it right, eating clean, pastured or wild foods on their natural diets and not polluted with toxins, you'll be fine. And very quickly your detoxes will become fewer and longer in between, and less intense, and you'll be through the thick of it. Then after that, it's just once in a good while, in between which you'll probably be feeling more and more like a million bucks.

Good luck! You're on the right track!

[raw-al]

I found the same reactions that everyone talks about here, in varying degrees.

[joej627]

It's so cool to see how supportive the forum is.  I feel its more tight knit than most other online communities.   A year ago i was so sick and now i'm about to push the weight off my chest.  I know i have a lot of detox and gunk to get out of my system, bugs to kill, etc.  But personally am stronger, more nutrition on board, etc.  I think the thing i try to always remember that it is not a race and that good health will come with the right program.  I have had trouble putting on weight the last few years.  Came off gluten/crap food a year ago.  I can tell high raw paleo style is going to help me put on weight.  I have been debating doing before/after photos.  What you all think?

-Joe

[CitrusHigh]

I wish I'd taken some before and after photos specifically for the transformation, but if you look at family photos of me back in the day, and what I look like now, you can literally see the difference like night and day. Before I was pale, scrawny, huge infections all over my face and just looked ill. Now my skin is clear and resilient, I've put on plenty of muscle and I just 'look' healthy, like many others on this board!