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Great article on digesting and absorption of nutrients by Matt Monarch-

Getting Absorbable Nutrients to Avoid Deficiency

The following information is for education only and is not meant to diagnose, prescribe, or treat illness. It is valuable to seek the advice of an alternative health care professional before making any changes.

Many Raw Foodists have been reporting to me that they are getting their blood tested and that they seem to be showing up as deficient in certain areas. I have now been on a 100% Raw Food Diet for over 12 years. I just got my blood tested and I am happy to say that I am totally deficiency free. I feel that my success is related to both consuming absorbable nutrients and cleansing my colon on a periodic basis.

From what I see, most people seem to be eating solid food all day long. Additionally, I see many people consume food while they still are in the process of digesting their previous meal, which has the potential to create a massive amount of fermentation. This can get messy… I feel that the KEY is to get absorbable nutrients on an empty stomach.

In my opinion, a Raw Food Diet without readily absorbable nutrient sources, is a deficient diet. I feel that hundreds of years ago, man ate very little food and when he did eat, he took the raw food that he ate and chewed it until it disappeared without swallowing, which can take a long time. I feel this is the way we were designed to eat and if you eat raw food without chewing like this, there is a great chance that you won’t successfully unlock the nutrients within the food.

I feel that this helps explain why the results of many studies show that a person may get more nutrients from steamed broccoli or carrots rather than raw. When you cook these foods, it breaks down the cell walls so that you can easily access the nutrients. If the people in these studies insead chewed the raw broccoli or carrots for 20 – 30 minutes and never actively swallowed, rather just let the food mysteriously disappear into their system, I think the results in these studies may have shown up quite differently. Furthermore, if the people in these studies would have juiced or blended the raw vegetables, there is no doubt in my mind that they would have found even better results than consuming the cooked vegetables.

What is my definition of getting ‘absorbable nutrients’?

For me, getting absorbable nutrients means consuming things that are packed with nutrients, in a form that is easily assimilable for the body.

Here is a list of some foods that I feel can be utilized by raw foodists to side-step deficiencies. I personally consume these kind of foods on a daily basis and I recommend others CONSISTENTLY do the same, for optimal health. I put the list below in order, starting with the choices I feel are the most effective for getting the required nutrients into the body:

# Variety of Vegetable Juices

- (Hurom Juicer

is recommended)
# Royal Jelly

# Green Smoothies/Soups
# Green Food Supplements (Powders

, Tablets

, Marine Phytoplankton

, E3 Live

, etc)
# Supplements

(Vitamins & Minerals)

These foods can be EFFORTLESSLY absorbed into the small intestine, as they are already broken down into very simple forms. It is also KEY to take these foods on an EMPTY stomach AND!!! as your FIRST INTAKES of the day (after drinking water). You wake up and your body is regenerated, cleansed, refreshed, completely digested and this is when you have the MOST vitality. At this time your body is truly hungry and is ready to just SUCK-UP the nutrients you provide. When there is no other food or obstruction within the digestive tract, absorption is at its best. Once most people start to eat their first solid meal of the day, they usually don’t end up with an empty stomach again until the next morning. It is just food piled on top of food, all day long. In this context, vitality goes down, obstruction is increased within the body, and absorption is greatly affected. The body absorbs food the BEST as our first food intake of the day and on an empty stomach.

I personally eat only one or two meals a day, JUST SO that I can have many sessions of consuming absorbable nutrients in-between. For example, the first thing I consume in the morning after water, is a green vegetable juice. About an hour later, I will consume a couple teaspoons of royal jelly. As soon as I eat my first solid meal, I generally wait 4 – 6 hours before I consume ANYTHING else again. I won’t even eat any of these absorbable foods such as royal jelly or green vegetable juice, because I know that if I put that on top of my previous meal, it will cause a MASS of fermentation and that I will get very little actual benefit from the foods. Taking absorbable nutrients as our FIRST food intake of the day, on an empty stomach is KEY! I generally intake 2 – 4 different absorbable foods on an empty stomach before I eat my first solid meal. Then after that first solid meal digests, I generally call it quits for the day or I will only take in more absorbable nutrients again (most of the time ). I feel it is even key to let each of these forms of absorbable foods, such as royal jelly, COMPLETELY digest before taking in another absorbable food, such as a green juice. If you let these absorbable foods digest completely in the body you will experience the least amount of fermentation and your body can make use of this mono meal of absorbable nutrients in the best possible way.

Kevin Trudeau states in his book, “Natural Cures”, that after cleansing your colon with a series of colonics, your absorption rate increases by 100%. There is no doubt in my mind that this can be true, due to both my own experiences and what I have seen with others. I can sense that when I am inundated with toxicity and obstruction in my body, these HIGHLY ABSORBABLE foods that I meantioned above, don’t do NEARLY as good for me as when I feel CLEAN!!! Especially for raw foodists, I feel that it is key that we cleanse our colon on a periodic basis, to side-step toxicity and deficiency.

In conclusion, I feel that all people, not just Raw Foodists, can do well to strategize a game plan for themselves to remain deficiency-free and I hope that this article inspires you and gives you a few pointers on how to accomplish this…

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