Ellie, > Good grief, Stefan, am I the only one left all raw!! :-) No, we (Marianne and I) are eating all-raw for many years now, and we make no fuss about it. We both have no stove and no other cooking device. For me, it just makes no sense to cook a food before I eat it. And I currently see no reason to take any supplements. The problem with supplements is, that the substances in them are not integrated in their natural environment, so I suppose that they will not have the desired effect and they probably will cause damages somewhere in the body. This is also proven by history. There is no good, old medicine. Only the new treatments are hyped as cures. For the old ones the "side effects" became known over time, so the usual marketing slogan is: "This old one had problems, but look! Here is our NEW medicine. This one will now cure all your ailings." I observed that people who switch from cooked food to raw nutrition are starved from many substances. They eat like bears preparing for hibernation until their depots are filled to normal, natural levels. This proves to me, that they didn't get essential substances from the cooked stuff. Regarding the diversity of food that is available to us, I don't expect to get any deficiencies. And wild herbs seem to be a good supplier of totally high-level substances, like enzymes, proteins and vitamins. Marianne just was called by a woman who cured a very dangerous cancer within months by eating Instincto with lots of wild herbs. -Karl