Evolving Beyond Raw Vegan Dogma: My Journey to Enhanced Health

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  • John from www.okraw.com/ who has been living on a raw vegan diet since 1995 shares his views on traditional/old school raw vegan teachings that raw fruits and vegetables are the best foods for the human body, which he would agree with but...
    In this episode, John will share his health journey with you and how the Raw Vegan diet didn't bring him "optimal" health in his view. You will learn John's new belief on being raw vegan and health, and how our microbiome should be taken into consideration if "optimal health" is your true goal while living on a raw vegan diet.
    You will discover the importance of the microbiome and why you should care about the microbes that live on and within you. You will learn how they can help prevent and reverse disease and take your health to the next level.
    You will learn the most important elements to consider when trying to improve your microbiome: diversity and keystone species.
    You will learn how to modulate your microbiome to make it better and in turn, improve your health.
    Jump to the following parts of this episode:
    00:00 Episode Starts
    00:39 Does raw vegan give optimal health?
    01:46 How Raw Vegan Can Sabotage Your Health
    02:20 What is Your Level of Your Health?
    04:35 Most Cooked Foods are Addictive; Some are not.
    05:32 How I am moving towards Optimal Health
    06:43 Traditional Raw Vegan Paradym
    07:05 My Updated Raw Vegan Paradym
    08:45 Why Should You Eat for Your Microbiome
    09:35 Genes load the Gun and Lifestyle Pulls Trigger - how that work?
    10:40 Microbiome Improves Your Internal Terrain- More Reslient to Infections
    12:30 Microbiome Can Boost Your Immune System
    13:05 Microbiome Helps us digest foods our body can't
    14:20 Microbiome can help prevent disease
    16:17 What are the goals of improving the microbiome?
    18:35 How to Improve Your Microbiome
    23:45 How Intermittent Fasting Can Improve Your Microbiome
    25:45 Eat a Variety of Fermented Foods
    26:40 Get out to Nature
    27:50 Minimize Harmful Exposures
    29:10 Supplement with Prebiotic Fibers & Probiotics & Sport Probiotics
    After watching this episode, you will learn John's new beliefs about living on a raw vegan diet and how Raw foods can feed our human body, but may not optimally feed our microbiome, and his thoughts on how to best feed your microbiome.
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    pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33136...
    A healthy gastrointestinal microbiome is dependent on dietary diversity
    www.sciencedirect.com/science...
    Next Generation Microbiome Research: Identification of Keystone Species in the Metabolic Regulation of Host-Gut Microbiota Interplay
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    Metagenomic assessment of gut microbial communities and risk of severe COVID-19
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  • @okraw
    @okraw  หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Jump to the following parts of this episode:
    00:39 Does raw vegan give optimal health?
    01:46 How Raw Vegan Can Sabotage Your Health
    02:20 What is Your Level of Your Health?
    04:35 Most Cooked Foods are Addictive; Some are not.
    05:32 How I am moving towards Optimal Health
    06:43 Traditional Raw Vegan Paradym
    07:05 My Updated Raw Vegan Paradym
    08:45 Why Should You Eat for Your Microbiome
    09:35 Genes load the Gun and Lifestyle Pulls Trigger - how that work?
    10:40 Microbiome Improves Your Internal Terrain- More Reslient to Infections
    12:30 Microbiome Can Boost Your Immune System
    13:05 Microbiome Helps us digest foods our body can't
    14:20 Microbiome can help prevent disease
    16:17 What are the goals of improving the microbiome?
    18:35 How to Improve Your Microbiome
    23:45 How Intermittent Fasting Can Improve Your Microbiome
    25:45 Eat a Variety of Fermented Foods
    26:40 Get out to Nature
    27:50 Minimize Harmful Exposures
    29:10 Supplement with Prebiotic Fibers & Probiotics & Sport Probiotics
    Referenced Videos
    Is all Cooked Food Addictive? th-cam.com/video/lAlsg5XpO40/w-d-xo.html
    20 Ways to Improve Your Microbiome th-cam.com/video/O21JQ5oAnYY/w-d-xo.html
    Fermented Juice in 1 day th-cam.com/video/zo4sgh7iyao/w-d-xo.html
    The microbiome is Hidden Key to Health th-cam.com/video/sEihiVdJoF0/w-d-xo.html
    Why I started eating cooked foods th-cam.com/video/WXLmvGeKRo8/w-d-xo.html
    Not all Cooked Foods are created Equal th-cam.com/video/NxHZGqJjG9U/w-d-xo.html
    My episode on Raw Resistant Starch th-cam.com/video/AbyAdedx2Iw/w-d-xo.html
    Raw Vegan Microbiome Testing th-cam.com/video/8Ak4Y2a-MNg/w-d-xo.html
    How Much Cooked and Raw Food Should You Eat? th-cam.com/video/UYumWr2bptY/w-d-xo.html
    How to Unrestrict your raw vegan diet th-cam.com/video/FVZXyRXei9c/w-d-xo.html
    Are All Cooked Food Toxic? th-cam.com/video/W_d3ogfhCws/w-d-xo.html
    Cooking Can Increase Nutrients in Food th-cam.com/video/xWllPwL7-44/w-d-xo.html
    Raw Vegan Now Eating Heat Processed Foods th-cam.com/video/WXLmvGeKRo8/w-d-xo.html
    How to Eat the correct balance of fruits and vegetables th-cam.com/video/sCQWxyYpLDk/w-d-xo.html
    Referenced Studies:
    Human gut microbiota/microbiome in health and diseases: a review pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33136284/
    A healthy gastrointestinal microbiome is dependent on dietary diversity www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212877816000387
    Next Generation Microbiome Research: Identification of Keystone Species in the Metabolic Regulation of Host-Gut Microbiota Interplay
    www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2021.719072/full
    Metagenomic assessment of gut microbial communities and risk of severe COVID-19
    genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13073-023-01202-6

  • @abarnes8718
    @abarnes8718 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Eating fermented foods daily caused my stomach to stay bloated. Once I stopped eating fermented vegetables the bloat immediately went away.

    • @Michelle-fe3vw
      @Michelle-fe3vw หลายเดือนก่อน

      Me too🤔

    • @monicaha827
      @monicaha827 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      go at it slowly, you have to train your gut to tolerate fermented foods again. Fermented foods also has a lot of histamines, so it might be a histamine intolerance. Eating green pea sprouts and legume sprouts can help with histamines as it's highest in DAO that blocks histamines.

    • @patrickdonegan9559
      @patrickdonegan9559 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      that means it is working hard to make it better!

    • @nexusoflife
      @nexusoflife หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I experienced the exact opposite.

  • @cryforthemoon
    @cryforthemoon หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I feel like food is a tool, and ways we use food can be the tool we need at the time. Raw vegan may be the tool that some people need at a time. I don't believe that anyone should try to force themselves to be raw vegan their entire life. It becomes a purity spiral for some people.

  • @notdisclosed4597
    @notdisclosed4597 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Hi John, great vid. I was purely raw whole foods plant based though recently i've added home made veg soups back into the diet. I'm fighting some prostate cancer with the diet. psa tests are encouraging. i find the cooked foods give the heat i seem to require and allows me to carry on eating mostly raw and further i find the cooked foods help with cravings. i think people may get a little too caught up with wanting to be a raw this or that thinking more about idealism and labels than health...

    • @liannramirez-cq3lr
      @liannramirez-cq3lr หลายเดือนก่อน

      My girlfriend had stage 4 brain & lung Cancer .. 🙏🙏Please include baking soda a teaspoon w a teaspoon honey in a glass of water to your diet OR molasses... 2-3 glasses a day in devided doses... 6 months later she has No cancer at all... She did high Raw. ..
      Check your pH by peeing on a pH tape... Once you turn your pH blue the cancer stops... She stayed blue for months💙 Cancer Cannot thrive in Alkaline PH✅
      God Bless You🙏

  • @getmorecontent.
    @getmorecontent. หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    When I eat dates I can think faster and my memory gets better.😊

  • @kencarey3477
    @kencarey3477 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    10 years raw, I now include. Seeds, nuts, cooked mushrooms, and beans. Dr Furman style of high raw.

  • @wadjeturaeus
    @wadjeturaeus หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    you are amazing.. you learn..you experiment..you grow by diving deep..

  • @ShannonE1821
    @ShannonE1821 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    John what about the Arsenic issue in rice? I hope you will address this in a video soon thank you

  • @Blueskies1180
    @Blueskies1180 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This helped me tremendously to understand how we need to increase our microbiome with various foods, heat processed and raw…. Thanks for clearing up my confusion.

  • @Blueskies1180
    @Blueskies1180 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I say, do what makes YOUR body feel it’s best! Simple. If that means, eating an all-dirt eating diet, hey no problem! You do you.

  • @cookinmom35
    @cookinmom35 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One of my favorite topics to geek out on is Eco-systems in nature and how important it is to understand them, understand each ecosystems job and support it so it remains vital! I've often described my gut as an ecosystem which my family thought was pretty humorous but thinking of it this was reminds me to treat it well so it can function optimally and create better health for me. Still got some work to do but I'm high raw and happy! Thanks for such a useful and honest video!!

  • @patricsteele
    @patricsteele หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Very informative ! If you're buying rice Lundberg organic brand has the lowest arsenic levels.Arsenic levels can be lowered the most by boiling rice in a pot of water as you do with pasta. It cooks a lot quicker this way too. I remember reading a Mercola article about 15 years back about 3 different microbiome colony types . It also mentioned that finding a location to get tested on which type you have was hard to find.I did a search for the testing at the time, was unable too find. Has anyone heard of this?

  • @polymathematics5837
    @polymathematics5837 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My mom lived to 103 and ate very healthy but rarely ate any raw foods with the exception of an occasional Greek salad with olive oil and vinegar. She stayed away from processed foods, seed oils, butter, breads, pasteries and sugar. She ate plenty of steamed cabbage and broccoli almost daily as well as lentil and bean soups. She also ate homemade yogurt made from organic non-fat milk on a regular basis. She stayed away from beef but ate salmon and chicken. She had her full faculties, was disease free, had perfect cholesterol levels, never had cancer and never suffered any major or minor disease. She walked six miles a day and was climbing mountains at age 95. If mom hadn't fell and broke her hip she would still be alive and healthy today at 106. There is no perfect one fits all diet, those who believe so are simply close-minded and misled.

  • @joyofgrowing
    @joyofgrowing หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    ❤ Good morning John ❤ Been watching you since 2013 off and on your great! Keep up the amazing health!

  • @paranjothiYog
    @paranjothiYog หลายเดือนก่อน

    @okraw
    Thanks as always for this very informative nd supportive video for my health journey.
    You said blending banana and blueberries decreases the amount of polyphenols.
    Is oxidation the cause or the combination of the two items?
    If former a vacuum blender could save some polyphenols, right?

  • @rlmint
    @rlmint หลายเดือนก่อน

    What microbiome test do you recommend?

  • @eileenkenney
    @eileenkenney หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is there a link to the microbiome test you recommend?

  • @sherylsankey1793
    @sherylsankey1793 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I’m very grateful for all you share. So appreciate it John. 👍😎🥰

  • @davidbowen6284
    @davidbowen6284 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Like Nathan Pritikin explained... vitamins and minerals are catalytic agents in the body. I think that's a critical point.

  • @eduardoworkplace
    @eduardoworkplace หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellente. I have been doing the same, adding some steamed foods and legumes,and i feel much vitality. One question: how is it named the test to check the microbiome diversity, and how much it costs? Thanks! Very useful your videos, go on in this way. I follow you from Argentina!

  • @polymathematics5837
    @polymathematics5837 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    John, you're a voice of saniety in a sea of craziness. Thanks for providing great diet information. ❤

  • @blok3019
    @blok3019 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That seems to me like overthinking. Thanks for the video, John.

  • @liannramirez-cq3lr
    @liannramirez-cq3lr หลายเดือนก่อน

    Many people were curing cancer with macrobiotic way of eating which is predominantly brown rice 🙏

  • @saira.myhighpriestess
    @saira.myhighpriestess หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Are there benefits of extended fasting for your microbiome?

    • @okraw
      @okraw  หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      could be. Extended fasting will change your microbiome, which may be a good or bad thing. If you have a SAD microbiome then it would be good since it can act as a "reset".

    • @cryforthemoon
      @cryforthemoon หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      If you go long enough the bacteria that make you crave bad foods or feed off of bad foods will die off and your cravings for those foods will likely lessen or go away totally.

  • @Juice_Angel
    @Juice_Angel 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I appreciate your honesty and ability to think critically SO MUCH! Thank you for sharing your journey with us! You’re probably helping a lot of people STAY vegan!🙏🙏🙏

  • @sooooooooDark
    @sooooooooDark หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    🥰 john is such a wholesome guy and knows so much

  • @michaelmackey754
    @michaelmackey754 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video! Thanks!

  • @bonniemullen4990
    @bonniemullen4990 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Hello Jon ❤ evolution raw vegan diet ❤🎉🎉

  • @lmclrain
    @lmclrain หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think things even get a new whole turn if someone get s physically active.
    I am doing greater than ever because of diet plus a good diet (vegan/vegetarian). I even consume sugar, but at the same time I make sure I get exercise done, since otherwise I would know I would get to feel kind of sick.

  • @liannramirez-cq3lr
    @liannramirez-cq3lr หลายเดือนก่อน

    I believe in the seasons and the seasons have reasons... Watermelon doesn't grow in the winter... Cooling foods are hydrating for the Summer...
    When it's cold outside you want to eat something warm... To warm up your body... It's really common sense... GOD MADE SEASONS FOR A REASON

  • @davidbowen6284
    @davidbowen6284 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Interesting thought..why do People become so dogmatic? What's the psychology behind it?
    Regarding the diversity of the microbiome. I think it's too tempting to categorise food reactions/symptoms as intolerance. I think we have to be open to the possibility it may not be inherently bad for us. Tolerance may be based on the microbiome diversity that may need building.

  • @gissybatyah
    @gissybatyah หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    👋🏼

  • @EliasEvanS
    @EliasEvanS หลายเดือนก่อน

    🎉🎉🎉

  • @jessicacarroll3038
    @jessicacarroll3038 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You said your raw friends with kick ass biomes eat very differently than most raw vegans? WHAT DO THEY EAT??

  • @COACH-CARBOHYDRATE
    @COACH-CARBOHYDRATE หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is great!! Dietary fat if your over weight can cause so much damage from insulin resistance, more fruit the better, Carbs FTW!! 💪💪💪

  • @DanielleRozemarijn-pt5xk
    @DanielleRozemarijn-pt5xk หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lissa's Raw Food Romance has more different gut flora than you John, while she still eats 100% raw vegan. What are your thoughts about that?

    • @happyvegan888
      @happyvegan888 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They actually admit they are high raw not 100% raw

    • @DanielleRozemarijn-pt5xk
      @DanielleRozemarijn-pt5xk หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@happyvegan888 Thank you for your reply. Do you have a link of a video where they say this? Because a friend asked Lissa personally and told me she got this on 100% raw vegan.

  • @figtree393
    @figtree393 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Goodmorning

  • @aranyai3429
    @aranyai3429 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Enhanced health ❤

  • @aubreyvandyne5284
    @aubreyvandyne5284 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Glad to see that hickey is gone

  • @musicmonsterman8395
    @musicmonsterman8395 หลายเดือนก่อน

    By this logic we also “evolved” eating meat which you avoid