In the summer, I seem to test well for about 70% raw and in the colder months for 50%. It shifts as I shift. I don't eat much cold food- even smoothies I eat at room temp. Even room temp raw foods can still have a cool nature but spices or combini...
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Thanks Lady for the input. Your experiences are really valuable. Hope your health is top notch now.
This is all very interesting- I do hope people keep contributing to the discussion.
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I went to see a TCM naturopath in June, having been 811 since February. My results were quite startling; but I didn't take her words for gospel until about a month ago. She told me that my blood sugar was all over the place, hence my highs and low...
Thanks for your comments CheL,
That is really interesting. Have you seen the TCM practitioner since starting 811? Or know anyone else who has? I am really interested in the effects of 811 on the body.
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Hi Haley!
I was able to help my yin deficiency by eating a lot of yin foods (according to the book "Healing With Whole Foods" by Paul Pitchford) and by taking Dragon Herbs Sho Wu formulation for a number of months. I had to completely stay away from any warming spices or spicy foods during that time in order to protect the yin, so I couldn't work on my spleen during that because many spleen herbs can injure yin if yin is already low.
Now I am working on my spleen and blood, taking another formula (Dragon Herbs Ginseng Longan) which is a spleen-heart tonic that builds blood. It's too early for me to tell if it's working.
I did find that it was just impossible for me to be 100% raw and tonify my spleen (since the spleen needs energeticaly warm and temperature warm/dry foods) so I do a mix of raw and cooked. I also found it necesary to add more animal foods, though you may not need to do this. I was severly kidney depleted yin AND yang) and when you get to that state, you need the big guns, LOL!
So, I'm still "under construction" so to speak, but my TCM practitioner did warn me that it might take up to two years to get normal.
Hi Hayley! How's life? Have you been to a Russel James class over there? They look like great fun. I used to live in Ealing myself...love it over there!
hi hayley! is that room still available? I am very interested, moving to London from south africa in a week's time and it sounds like the sort of place I would love to lay my bags and guitar down:)
Please get back to me soon, as I'm arriving on 18 august:)
Hope all is well!
love and delight
Nathan
Let me know if you would be interested, I have some friends that I graduated with, extremely beautiful souled people, great actors that are in London now doing theater I could connect you with. Could be a great learning experience and a chance to make new life friendships.
Hayley, feel free to ask me anything anytime. It would be my pleasure.
Just to give you a little information about my training this is where I trained http://www.esperstudio.com/, my teacher is Bill Esper. Great site.
neither wins because the world isn't fair- and we are constantly having to deal with it. the more conscious you are the more you see how unethical people rule the world and you can't wish them away by feeding your happiness with cacao. it's a fun ...
How long did 50lbs last you? A week? I would recommend that a person get some greens to go along with their bananas.. did you forage for any greens that week?
Wow Id like to hear more on this from other people as well. I am not sure where to get info on things like this either- I just know my personal experience with a low carb diet. I still believe in low carb for the most part but plant based live foo...
That is a good point Angus. I have found that a lot of fundamentalist religions accuse everyone else of worshiping the devil and it like a blind hysteria- like all these other people have a black bible in their house and secretely worship a statue...
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Yeah really that was just my negative response to Arnold Ehret's book from an emotional standpoint. I just found it lacking in completion. There's good logic in it though.
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What other book can you recommend Angus?...staying with those kinda ideas, living in alignment with nature, natural hygiene, fruit diets, fasting (or anyone else :).
You know, I'm aware that we made some groundbreaking discoveries in recent years ...
I'm not going to comment on climate change. But i will comment on carbon trading. Because they can produce such a consciousness of fear out of global warming - they are able to manipulate markets much more severely - and they seem to get away with...
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