Ellie wrote:
>IMO people who eat raw food (cleansing diets)are having more detox crises in
>the nervous system than others and therefore exhibit more
>symtpoms of emotional illness while they are detoxing. Emotions are
>stored as endogenous substances in the neruons of the limbic system.
>Symptoms of emotional illness are detox crises. Eventually those symptoms
>should subside. People who eat cooked food are eating substances that are
>originally stimiulating and subsequently sedating (see Shelton on this).
>These people are suppressing the detox process and hence the symptoms.
>Most of us have been taught to suppress emotions as children, which
>causes toxicosis in neurons, and the nervous system will spend its
>lifetime periodically trying to release these emotions.

If your compelling hypothesis is true, then wouldn't we find those
following raw diets for the longest periods of time to be the most
limbically detoxified, and therefore the most emotionally healthy?  I
personally have not found that to be true in my encounters...

Warmest wishes,
Deborah