Basic
Guidelines on
Cleansing and Detoxification
Reactions
A
RVAF
diet seems to promote healing and cleansing throughout
the body, and often-times promotes far more rapid cleansing than does
even
a raw vegan diet. It appears that the animal proteins and
animal
fats serve to rather strongly accelerate some healing processes and
especially
many cleansing processes. Indeed, although even raw vegan diets are
sometimes
known for rather violent cleansing reactions in the early stages, many
RVAF diets are notorious for cleansing reactions which may be extremely
violent and uncomfortable at times. Some of these cleansing
reactions
involve modes of dissolving and elimination of old stored
toxins
(or replacement of damaged tissue) which do not primarily employ
microorganisms,
while other internal modes of cleansing employed by the body seem to
employ
microorganisms, or "nature's cleanup crew". At varying times, these
infectious
cleansing processes may involve bacterial, fungal or viral
infections.
In any case, it is quite well known that raw diets of all types tend to
promote and enhance such rapid modes of cleansing within the body, and
raw diets which include animal foods seem to promote such reactions
even
more violently than do raw vegan diets. For some reason, the
addition
of raw dairy products to a raw diet seems to be by far the strongest
catalyst
in promoting violent cleansing reactions of all types, although fruits
and
olive oil, especially in combination with raw eggs, are also known
to promote strong cleansing reactions. However, as long as
dairy
is not involved, the cleansing reactions seem to be primarily of the
non-infectious
type (no microorganisms involved) As far
as really GROSS and GROADY detox reactions,
my
experience is that they occur, on the RVAF diets, almost exclusively
with
consumption of any of the following in significant quantity (all foods
raw): -
dairy
-
eggs combined with meats -- CAUTION: violent, almost
never recommended
-
eggs combined with liver -- moderately violent, often
not recommended
-
eggs combined with fruit
-
eggs combined with olive oil -- can be violent
depending upon toxin load
-
eggs combined with flax oil or peanut oil -- can be
violent depending upon toxin load
-
eggs combined with lots of dairy
-
eggs in combo with any or all of above
-
alcohol
It also
appears that sunbathing can accelerate all
types of healing and cleansing reactions as well for those on a raw
diet. Factors
which tend to depress or ameliorate strong
cleansing
reactions include consumption of cooked meats, cooked fish, or cooked
starches (breads, potatoes, etc.). Indeed, some folks consume
small
amounts of cooked meat (especially chicken) once every four or five
days
to help keep cleansing reactions to a dull roar while on a RVAF
diet.
However, it appears that is usually not necessary to eat cooked meats
to
avoid a heavy detox. Rather, just avoid the combos and foods
named
above, and you should be OK. Conversely, if you wish to accelerate
cleansing
reactions, you may choose to indulge some of the foods or combos on the
list above.
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