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• Hi rawbeginner – I’m currently in my 5th day of another attempt at going “raw”, and it’s much more successful than my previous efforts, so some of my ideas may help you! Well, in fact I’m not totally “raw” because I need to eat Essene ryebread every…

  in Crying in the name of raw... Comment by alpinemeadow
• Thanks so much for your thoughtful and wise answers, omni and winona – they ring true and I am perhaps even lucky in a way that these symptoms are my body telling me what to! I’m in Oz, but had considered trying to find a good health place to stay i…

  in Help - only Essene bread stops palpitations + neuropathy from getting worse Comment by alpinemeadow
• Hullo – I’ve found the only sprouted grains and beans I can enjoy and seem satisfying, tasty and digestible, are wheat, oats, lentils and mung beans. Wheat and lentils make a great tabbouli base, whole oats are great for Bircher muesli, and mung bea…

  in How important are grains/beans/legumes? Comment by alpinemeadow
• Hi stylistchick – yes, they tested my blood for everything they could think of, even Lyme disease – not sure if there is a test for B vitamins in general, but my B12 levels were good. I did take some multi-B and B12 from time to time but no real imp…

  in Balanced daily intake (grains?), menopause, neuropathy Comment by alpinemeadow
• Hi stylistchick – thanks very much for your reply, it’s amazing how similar your symptoms were to mine, but yes I was totally gluten-free for the 4 years I was on the no-grains diet, and that was when the neuropathy started, unfortunatley! It really…

  in Balanced daily intake (grains?), menopause, neuropathy Comment by alpinemeadow
• Hi all! Modhina, I think you;re right to be concerned about B12 deficiency because it’s extremely serious, and in people who eat a lot of folic acid in leafy greens, it can be masked for many years until irreversible neurological damage has been don…

  in B12 - raw achilles heel? Comment by alpinemeadow