Odd Reaction

[dreamrawalwz]

I know this is a raw site, but I have a question and I don't know if people have any insight to this.

If I'm eating raw, whether it be months, a week, or 3 days, and then I have some cooked, I get SO dizzy, faint, heart pounding, and shaky. This is even with organic brown rice and steamed veggies. Any idea why this is? If I eat cooked the next day I don't get that feeling. Could it be toxins rushing in my bloodstream? Just trying to see why this reaction and what it means.

I'm still trying to stay raw, though it's been very difficult.

[PomegranatePip]

I noticed something similar. After eating raw for a while, if I eat something cooked, I feel awful: sleepy, gassy, achy. If I eat something else cooked soon after that, I don't really notice much of a difference (but maybe it's because my body's gotten used to the yucky feeling already... it's just more of a shock when it comes right after the nice feelings of eating raw).

It might be toxins... I don't know. Can the toxins build up again that quickly?

[amyambro1]

I'd say it's a shock to you system the first time you do it. After that initial shock your bodies' already used to it. Isn't it amazing how quickly we adapt?? Amazing but scary! :eek: :0

[Stina]

Yes, I do know what you mean and have pondered that. Now, I've read that it is common for Asian men to get red in the face with drinking alcohol because of a lack of enzymes to break it down. Then I read from a second source that has become less of an issue, that their bodies have adapted to that. We change physiologically.
I think it's something to do with how incredibly integrated we are spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically. We send our bodies the signal for an extended period of time that we will nourish it with nothing but the cleanest, highest vibrational foods that practically digest themselves with the enzymes in tact. We drive 70 miles per hour down the highway and then abruptly throw the car into second gear by introducing cooked food, even though it's still debatedly healthy food. Too radical of a change. Our bodies have shifted systems with enzymes being delagated elsewhere.
I used to brag how well I digested beans. No gassy effect and I'd derive energy from then. I was raw for awhile, ate some beans, bloated up and experienced terrible gas. My body sent me a message that I gave it a mixed message: my food source of energy went from easy to use to very challenging to use. Good learning lesson.

[meg.june]

I am so glad you posted this. I was bad on day 7 and 9, today is day 10: I went to work this morning- was bloated, in a sweat, felt clammy and nauseous- I wound up having to call someone in to cover me and went home and slept for 5 hours- I feel awful. I was blaming it on the raw food diet- it just may be my bodies reaction to the cooked food...

I think our bodies just have to work too hard to process the cooked food. It causes the blood that is normally distributed through our bodies to rush to the foreign stuff that it needs to deal with. rather than a small amount which is naturally digested and absorbed with raw food. my though anyway...

[dreamrawalwz]

I'd say it's a shock to you system the first time you do it. After that initial shock your bodies' already used to it. Isn't it amazing how quickly we adapt?? Amazing but scary! :eek: :0

Wow, that word "shock" just hit me hard. Like a light bulb I went "duh! I should have known!" Shock is not good to the system and will only cause more stress, which I do NOT need. I wonder if the shock is still present, but we just don't feel it if we continue to eat cooked again?

[Karene]

what are you eating when you go off of raw???

[Spiral Leana]

i notice that I don't even want a bite of cooked food in my mouth since starting raw...this is especially true with any kind of vegetable or grain

I had to cook for 45 people all last week and it was really hard to send stuff out that I hadn't tasted...but i really wanted it to taste good for them...most of the time I found myself just spitting it out after i tasted the flavors

[dreamrawalwz]

what are you eating when you go off of raw???

Organic brown rice, steamed veggies, etc. Still organic and still vegan, with no "junk food". I couldn't even IMAGINE how my body would react if I had either meat (even organic) or dare I say it....McDonald's! I'd probably go into a heart attack, seriously!

[swingbolder]

I bet it was the rice and not the steamed veggies that produced the reaction.

[Veganmoon]

when i have been eating a totally raw diet, then have a little cooked starch, i get exactly the same symptoms that you have described , especially the palpitations.

[EZ rider]

I wonder if some raw foodists who are "clean" eat a dead cooked food meal and just puke it up in shock ? Anyone have any experience with this ?

[Crystalight]

I remember reading in Victoria Boutchenko (sp?..sorry) book "Raw Family",
and this really stuck w/me.....
She said that after awhile of going raw (not sure exactly how long), her and her husband went out for a prime rib dinner that they planned long before going raw.
She went on to explain how horrible they both felt afterwards, and the way she described what her body was going thru was this:
THat when you eat cooked foods, your intestines develop a thick mucus wall that help break down the cooked food, the more raw you eat, that mucus lining starts to get thinner and thinner. So after being raw for some time, they didnt have that thick mucas lining to help break down that prime rib dinner, and so therefore, got really really sick.

So "shock" to the body is best decribed what your body goes thru after eating a cooked meal from being raw!

[RawHeaven]

I had the same reaction the other day when I ate some lentil soup and brown rice. I felt incredibly dizzy an hour later, got hot and started sweating. I was gassy and bloated the next day and it took me much longer to digest these foods than it used to.

Perhaps it's because raw food digests itself and our digestive system gets a much needed vacation. Then when we eat cooked food, our system gets shocked -- our digestive organs, the stomach, pancreas, kidneys, gall bladder, liver, especially the liver, and the colon probably go into overdrive. It's probably not unlike ingesting a drug. Food can be a drug, especially sugar, chemically it's one H link away from cocaine I believe. Could also have something to do with insulin levels being impacted by the sugar released in some cooked foods. I don't know, just tossing out some ideas.

All I know is I don't feel so good when I eat cooked foods, and my body's distress is a good way to keep me on track with my raw food choices.

[RawHeaven]

THat when you eat cooked foods, your intestines develop a thick mucus wall that help break down the cooked food, the more raw you eat, that mucus lining starts to get thinner and thinner. So after being raw for some time, they didnt have that thick mucas lining to help break down that prime rib dinner, and so therefore, got really really sick.

So "shock" to the body is best decribed what your body goes thru after eating a cooked meal from being raw!


makes a lot of sense! i didn't see your post before i responded. it seems like you may also lose many of the digestive enzymes that helped you process red meat after you've been reating Raw. i've been a vegetarian for years and I can't go near meat or poultry. i tried to eat chicken 7 years ago, got horribly sick and prayed for death it was that bad. I remember it like an anniversary, the day I ate chicken, lol.

[Aleesha Sattva]

i can only imagine how a baby must feel when a mom gives it a french fry to suck on after only having breastmilk.

[EZ rider]

This thread really points out two things to me and of course the big one is why a "clean" raw foodist dosn't want to yield to the temptation of cooked food. The second thing that occurs to me is why when a person goes raw they need to go 100% so they aren't bouncing back and forth into and out of "shock"

[Aleesha Sattva]

i don't think your body would feel the shock if you were 80% raw. you would still have the ability to digest the cooked food and your diet would be much healthier than 40% raw.

i've never prescribed to the belief that you have to do things 100% or not at all. i believe every single choice we make, every single moment of every single day makes a difference.

if all i ever do is drink pop... and today i decide i'm going to have water. my body will benefit from that choice. i may not see the difference in myself, but my body will enjoy the water nonetheless.