Raw Vegan Secrets To Long Term Success

Welcome to episode 3 of The Raw Intuition Health Show!
Today I am joined by the one-and-only Chris Kendall from @therawadvantage to talk about our secrets to long-term success on a raw vegan diet and lifestyle.
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[@bradstell2146]

Good discussion guys. It is tough at times to stay the course. Thanks.

[@sherylsankey1793]

Coolness - Chris is into all things yoga. Me too. For me it was a spiritual inner calling to go Vegan to practice doing no harm. 👍💕

[@TheRawAdvantage]

Awww that’s so awesome, I made that connection after getting into yoga and it only sunk in more and more! Love it🥰🙏🏼

[@bearwithgirl]

Finally watching this over watermelon breakfast!!! Love youuuuu!!! Thank you so much for everything you do~ 💖 Fruity love from Honky-kong! 🙏🏼🍉

[@TheRawAdvantage]

❤❤❤

[@r.mcd2921]

Matt and Chris - two of the best reasons to be vegan and/or raw. Lovely human beings.

[@rawintuition]

Thank you! I really appreciate that! ❤️🙏

[@sherylsankey1793]

“Focus on getting in the greens” is more important than thinking that some greens like micro greens are more nutrient. Such wonderful points Chris. And I too am thrilled to see Raw Vegans who live and thrive on this lifestyle in colder or more temperate climates. We live in PA.

[@TheRawAdvantage]

Blessed it resonates and really hope what we went over makes all much easier!🤗🤗

[@rawintuition]

🙌❤

[@Zin.rosie.lovesfruit]

OMG my cat loves avocado 😟 I didn’t know 🙅🏻‍♀️

[@julesmbc]

One of my favorite duos, thank you both for sharing! Aways love hearing (and seeing) how you've both continued to grow over the years.🤗 Sending love

[@rawintuition]

Thank you Julie! 🤗❤️

[@TheRawAdvantage]

Aww bliss you Jules, honoured by the love, much back!

[@mallorymaymay]

😂 a delicious nut 🥜 how enjoyable to listen to two raw vegan guys with calm and easy-going demeanors! Thank you both!

[@rawintuition]

😂😂😂 thank you Mallory! 🙏❤️ so glad you enjoyed it!

[@TheRawAdvantage]

awwww blessed you enjoyed!

[@bearwithgirl]

Lol re: durians! They used to make me gag, I still find it hilarious how much they used to gross me out...

[@TheRawAdvantage]

haha its so wild how tastebuds n preferences can really change hey!!

[@carolkonyha1586]

thank you for sharing your wisdom. Love your gentle & positive natures.

[@rawintuition]

Thank you very much!

[@TheRawAdvantage]

aww thanks much!

[@bearwithgirl]

This was very enjoyable! Thank you Matt & Chris! 🙏🏼

[@TheRawAdvantage]

aww stoked you enjoyed Jung Soo, thanks for the love!!

[@sherylsankey1793]

Love Chris’ many pillars of health. I, too, am a Vegan married to an Omnivore. It is often challenging to make separate meals for every meal.

[@TheRawAdvantage]

Thanks much for all the feedback! Fully appreciate how tough that can be, I know some in similar spots that chose to have a open and vulnerable talk about it, passing that duty on to their significant other, or, who just make a portion in batches, such as rice or stews that last longer to make it easier and ask their partner to prepare or purchase their own animal foods.

[@extropiantranshuman]

when will they go vegan?

[@TheRawAdvantage]

@@extropiantranshuman I’m not sure I understand your question, if your referring to significant others, that’s individual of course and on can’t make another go vegan.

[@extropiantranshuman]

right - it was a rhetorical, wishful thinking one lol@@TheRawAdvantage

[@fruitascension5089]

Wow "dietary declarations" I like that idea

[@rawintuition]

Thanks! Yeah I find it very effective :)

[@sherylsankey1793]

Thank you Chris. I have an old Vitamix 4500 and a Breville Sous Chef food processor and sprouting jars. So I need to embrace where I am. What endeared me to Matt is that he loves and promotes simplicity and is so practical and authentic. I will have to down the road figure out “rigging” the Vitamix. Lol 😆 Yes but Chris, you mentioned that you use the dehydrator to prevent loss of over ripe produce. We have 2 cats as well. Thank you both so so much for all you are and have shared with us. 🥰👍💕

[@TheRawAdvantage]

Aww such a pleasure! Ohh your set up, that’s awesome!! I love that about Matt too! What kind of vitamix do you have? I have a video up about converting the older vitamix’s and am coming out with one soon for the new Acent series! For the dehydrator, I usually use it to partly dry mushrooms, sometimes to dry tomatoes fully and otherwise to dry bananas and other fruit and some fancy dishes. They for sure aren’t necessary but can be fun. To the cat life❤❤ Thanks for the great questions and all the love🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@rawintuition]

Thank YOU Sheryl!! 🙏❤

[@belladonna1083]

Cherry stems onions garlic alot of other things are toxic to cats as well I Google it before I give anything to my cats

[@rawintuition]

💯

[@cryptoconsciousness2543]

absolute legends!!

[@rawintuition]

🙏☺

[@JC-jr9hw]

Great video guys. Very helpful. One thing I’d like to hear addressed or maybe try to get your advice on is this…I am high raw but struggling to go 100% raw. I’ve been struggling with it for several years now. For me, the problem is that when I am fully raw for a week or two, I begin, however irrationally, to feel like I am missing out or being cheated somehow on the fun and enjoyment of life. I then usually end up going to a restaurant. I stay vegan of course but I eat cooked vegan and maybe have a little bit of alcohol. This behavior of course makes me feel mentally and physically worse, so I resolve to go fully raw and the whole maddening cycle starts all over again. Any advice on how I can somehow escape or transcend this feeling that I’m missing out by being 100% raw? I might add that I know this feeling isn’t true. I know I will be much happier and healthier long term if I stick to the raw lifestyle , but I still have these irrational FOMO feelings. Help!!

[@rawintuition]

Hey my friend - I’ll make a video on this for you! 🙏

[@JC-jr9hw]

@@rawintuition Wow, thanks so much. Your channel has been a big inspiration for me over the past few years, so I’m really excited to hear what you have to say.

[@elephantintheroom5678]

Spinach is very high (per calorie) in protein, and bok choy is high in calcium. Our primate cousins eat a diet of predominantly green leaves and fruit. Eat all the colours of vegetables and fruits to get all the healthy phytonutrients!

[@rawintuition]

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[@extropiantranshuman]

barley grass is the highest I found for calcium. Basil's actually pretty high too - 80g protein per cup (I think that's for dried, not sure).

[@extropiantranshuman]

where else do cows get their calcium from - it's from the grass.

[@elephantintheroom5678]

@@extropiantranshuman I just looked up fresh basil. It looks like it would be an excellent source of calcium and vitamin K to add to salads. I think I will start chopping in a large bunch of basil with my large bunch of flat parsley in one of my daily salads.

[@extropiantranshuman]

outside of barley grass - the next ones on the list are I believe other grasses like wheat and oat. Then basil's after (I think there was one more but I couldn't remember). Well at least you found out. I used to eat only basil for 1 to 2 meals/day - it takes so little water to grow - you can practically grow it on your countertop. If you ever get low on iron from the calcium - eat some thyme with it. It's the highest in iron of any food by a lot!@@elephantintheroom5678

[@extropiantranshuman]

I'm so sorry Matt and Chris - but I'm always are going to have more questions than answers like: - should we buy produce from the grocery store? - is cultivated crops (hybridized over 1000s of years through domestication of plants) healthy for us - or should we eat uncultivated crops? - what if we don't feel well being raw - like we have allergies or something? - what's the ethics of eating plants - in terms of raw veganism? The symbiosis, etc. - how come indoor air pollution and safety isn't discussed as a talking point for raw veganism? - should we be concerned about environmental impact of high-water intensive raw vegan foods vs low water intensive cooked foods (that're shelf-stable)? What's the environmental sustainability of raw veganism compared to eating cooked? - what makes something 'raw'? How come the living foods diet isn't the default for what's considered 'raw'? Why are we basing it off enzymes when it can be any basis? If we use enzymes, are people who live where it's always over 120F never able to be vegan because of the temperature? What happens when climate change makes everywhere over 120F? Can no one be "raw" then?

[@extropiantranshuman]

million more questions where that came from. I don't get raw veganism enough to do it.

[@TheRawAdvantage]

Blessings to you, I will do my best to give short answers for each from my perspective, each could be a whole video :) 1. I dont belive in "shoulds" we can should ourselves to death, but I have no qualms buying from grocerys stores and feel blessed to be in the proverbial garden almost anywhere we are 2. Everything including us are hybrids, hybrids are nothing to fear but good to be at least somewhat aware of quality, luckily this can for a large part be determined by taste. IMHO obsessing or worrying about this is more damaging to ones health than simply eating the fresh ripe raw whole foods we each enjoy the most. 3. No one needs to eat all raw, finding the raw foods we enjoy and work well with our body, increasing at the rate and amount we genuinely enjoy is key, note this changes with time. 4. Fruits are the only truely "freely given foods" being that the plant wants us to eat them, yet many greens and veggies can be conciously harvested in a way that actually strengthens the plant. That said, since fruits and veg are our species specific foods, or at least staples, are optimal for health and they dont have the same qualites of animal "foods" they make our best choice. 5. Some people talk about this and consider it as imporant as food, ie fresh air, not everyone makes it a large talking point and one cant hit every point every video, beyond that we all live making certain comprimises according to our families, livelyhoods, prefrences and points of view. Making fresh air, nose breathing and breath work a priority has great health benefits. 6. This is a great question and one I will do a video on in the future, ive done the math and considered resources used, co2 and other factors and its really hard to beat a fruit and veg based raw diet even with shipping. Is it possible, yes, but the difference in impact is marginal and the impact in health more than potentially larger in favour of raw fruit based. 7. The enzyme point of view is flawed as the majority of enzymes deal with the ripening of the food rather than how nutritious it is, the basic definition of raw food is whole unaltered foods, that said most also consider juiced, smoothies, and even low temp dehdrated foods raw, as do I, the further that goes into fractionized and dried the hazier it gets. A point to consider is that most consider getting 80+% of their calores from raw foods to be a raw food diet. The final question you pose, only some enzymes get deactivated or destroyed above 118 and others much higher, beyond that when foods are still on the plant they can have a higher heat tolerance due to multiple factors. To me this isnt something to stress or worry about instead focusing on the whole fresh ripe plant foods you enjoy and can get, making them the center of a well rounded vegan and raw or high raw approach and letting the rest go. Stress or over thinking diet takes us away from other aspects of holistic health that are just as imporant. Hope this helps, always open to connect and talk, both Matt and I offer coaching to help fine tune and answer one on one questions!

[@extropiantranshuman]

thanks for the answers. Looking forward to any videos you have that answers these questions. Well the reason why I say all this - is because grocery produce makes me ill - because they're unripe at the time of picking and is designed to be hard for shipments. Our diet millions of years ago was of soft fruit. Plus the shellac and other contamination makes it really hard and I feel that the nutrients are really there right off the plant. So I forage. Still, even with foraging - the food isn't ideal - because it's cultivated. They give me health issues where uncultivated food don't - uncultivated food hasn't had the nutrient uptake bred out of them. I feel there's a symbiosis with eating leaves - because many plants actually propagate via branches - so long you're not eating the branches themselves - as that's not really food - it's a propagation tool, like seeds. I actually created a diagram of the body parts of a plant to eat the most and least on my personal website. I do feel that fruit is beneficial to ecosystems for rewilding. I feel there's been some talks of rewilding, but not a full video on it for raw veganism. Still - for some reason - they also say fruit contributes to deforestation and monoculturing - whcih makes sense for foods like acai and probably why they don't want to make certain exotic fruit mass-publicized in case the same fate happens to them. Good to know about the coaching. I think I might've signed up on matt's website, but I don't think it went through. It's not a priority to me, as I'd rather see youtube videos and donate directly to each of them via the 'thanks' button. As long as the 'thanks' button's there - I'll use it when I can.@@TheRawAdvantage

[@TheRawAdvantage]

@@extropiantranshuman All a pleasure, sorry to hear you have had such troubles. I find it takes some time to learn how to pick fruit, both in nature as well as from grocery stores, with time it gets easier. Ive found quite good quality fruit in all of the countries I have traveled to, well over 20, often including wild and grocery store bought. For my personal experience I eat mostly from grocery stores and much, at times most, conventional, and yet have very high levels of health and great digestion by every measure. What our diet was millions of years ago is really hard to exactly pinpoint and is to me besides the point, we can really only do our best in the now with what we have available, for me living in a city is a strong preference and although I have lived in tropical jungles with mostly local tropical organic older soft fruits, I still prefer the city and the wider range of fruits available today. This all said, and again, it takes time to learn, desire and our thoughts and emotions around our choices also come into play. Having experienced and researched this in depth I am at peace with the above choices in the context of my whole lifestyle, preferences and needs, and that goes a long way.

[@dianaburton1215]

Do u use a juicer?

[@rawintuition]

I do here and there but not nearly as much as I used to

[@TheRawAdvantage]

I rarely do as well, I enjoy em when others make them for me but the most common juice I have is fresh squeezed Orange juice with the pulp, otherwise I prefer smoothies for a mirad of reasons.

[@pinkiepinkster8395]

When are you going to do another retreat?

[@TheRawAdvantage]

Ohh not sure if your asking me but if so, I have my next costa rica retreat in january 2024, I am also chef at a smaller weekend retreat here in Sweden next weekend and then again for a retreat in Spain with Dr Graham and Host Harriet sept 4th to 9th :) Feel free to reach out for any details :)