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? kzbin.info/www/bejne/onLPpJprjdWCapI 20 Ways to Improve Your Microbiome kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWOUe4RrpKahj7s Fermented Juice in 1 day kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKCXpJqebM6sl9E The microbiome is Hidden Key to Health kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXbMmZyMma-ifJI Why I started eating cooked foods kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYmvnql9mrCFpZo Not all Cooked Foods are created Equal kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKmri3qnf896b7c My episode on Raw Resistant Starch kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5Pccpebmd1lf9k Raw Vegan Microbiome Testing kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnLOZYxolpKAhMk How Much Cooked and Raw Food Should You Eat? kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4rYnoqoZ8ejqrs How to Unrestrict your raw vegan diet kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIe9iayIjcqcb8U Are All Cooked Food Toxic? kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZDHZKKdm812rdU Cooking Can Increase Nutrients in Food kzbin.info/www/bejne/rojPnYOtgZxgapY Raw Vegan Now Eating Heat Processed Foods kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYmvnql9mrCFpZo How to Eat the correct balance of fruits and vegetables kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXS0iKuvjtV_es0 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
@abarnes87184 ай бұрын
Eating fermented foods daily caused my stomach to stay bloated. Once I stopped eating fermented vegetables the bloat immediately went away.
@Michelle-fe3vw4 ай бұрын
Me too🤔
@monicaha8274 ай бұрын
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.
@patrickdonegan95594 ай бұрын
that means it is working hard to make it better!
@nexusoflife4 ай бұрын
I experienced the exact opposite.
@notdisclosed45974 ай бұрын
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-cq3lr4 ай бұрын
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🙏
@kencarey34774 ай бұрын
10 years raw, I now include. Seeds, nuts, cooked mushrooms, and beans. Dr Furman style of high raw.
@Blueskies11804 ай бұрын
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.
@ShannonE18214 ай бұрын
John what about the Arsenic issue in rice? I hope you will address this in a video soon thank you
@getmorecontent.4 ай бұрын
When I eat dates I can think faster and my memory gets better.😊
@wadjeturaeus4 ай бұрын
you are amazing.. you learn..you experiment..you grow by diving deep..
@cookinmom354 ай бұрын
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!!
@Blueskies11804 ай бұрын
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.
@cryforthemoon4 ай бұрын
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.
@patricsteele4 ай бұрын
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?
@polymathematics58373 ай бұрын
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.
@davidbowen62844 ай бұрын
Like Nathan Pritikin explained... vitamins and minerals are catalytic agents in the body. I think that's a critical point.
@joyofgrowing4 ай бұрын
❤ Good morning John ❤ Been watching you since 2013 off and on your great! Keep up the amazing health!
@sherylsankey17934 ай бұрын
I’m very grateful for all you share. So appreciate it John. 👍😎🥰
@polymathematics58373 ай бұрын
John, you're a voice of saniety in a sea of craziness. Thanks for providing great diet information. ❤
@liannramirez-cq3lr4 ай бұрын
Many people were curing cancer with macrobiotic way of eating which is predominantly brown rice 🙏
@Juice_Angel4 ай бұрын
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!🙏🙏🙏
@liannramirez-cq3lr4 ай бұрын
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
@blok30194 ай бұрын
That seems to me like overthinking. Thanks for the video, John.
@davidbowen62844 ай бұрын
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.
@eduardoworkplace4 ай бұрын
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!
@paranjothiYog4 ай бұрын
@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?
@lmclrain4 ай бұрын
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.
@sooooooooDark4 ай бұрын
🥰 john is such a wholesome guy and knows so much
@jessicacarroll30384 ай бұрын
You said your raw friends with kick ass biomes eat very differently than most raw vegans? WHAT DO THEY EAT??
@michaelmackey7544 ай бұрын
Great video! Thanks!
@eileenkenney4 ай бұрын
Is there a link to the microbiome test you recommend?
@COACH-CARBOHYDRATE4 ай бұрын
This is great!! Dietary fat if your over weight can cause so much damage from insulin resistance, more fruit the better, Carbs FTW!! 💪💪💪
@DanielleRozemarijn-pt5xk4 ай бұрын
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?
@happyvegan8884 ай бұрын
They actually admit they are high raw not 100% raw
@DanielleRozemarijn-pt5xk4 ай бұрын
@@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.
@saira.myhighpriestess4 ай бұрын
Are there benefits of extended fasting for your microbiome?
@okraw4 ай бұрын
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".
@cryforthemoon4 ай бұрын
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.
@bonniemullen49904 ай бұрын
Hello Jon ❤ evolution raw vegan diet ❤🎉🎉
@patrickdonegan95593 ай бұрын
did you get a coronary calcium scan yet?
@musicmonsterman83954 ай бұрын
By this logic we also “evolved” eating meat which you avoid