Dear Steve, You're welcome. It might interest you to know that every food contains the enzymes to break itself down. This is one major reason that a Raw diet is so beneficial. Rather than having to do the work to produce all of the enzymes to digest your food yourself, you benefit from the action of the enzymes in the food. Because enzymes are extremely heat sensitive, heating anything even a little will destroy the enzymes. The exact temperature is often debated, and it may vary slightly by type of food/enzymes, but at around 118 degrees they start to go. Pasteurization is around 180, and boiling is 212, so regardless of whether the exact temp that enzymes die is 118 or 121, they're toast. You might also be interested in a phenomenon called digestive leukocytosis. Leukocytosis is the body marshaling the white blood cells to your defense in the case of injury. Any time you injure yourself, the body sends an army of white blood cells to the sight of the injury to clean up and protect the area. When you eat cooked food, the body sends white blood cells to the digestive tract. When you consume only raw food, there is no leukocytosis. Scientists have long claimed that digestive leukocytosis is "normal" and the only time that the body marshals the white blood cells when there is no injury, i.e., that this is an exception. Real laws have no exceptions. Gravity always works in our atmosphere, not just usually. It seems much more likely and logical to me that there are no exceptions to leukocytosis either. It always happens when the body is injured, and doesn't, happen at any other time. Leukocytosis is another energy-expensive process. It requires a lot of energy to produce white blood cells and gather them up from all over the body. Forgetting about the fact that there must be harm being done for it to even happen, using precious energy is such a needless, wasteful way can obviously not have good consequences, long term. There are fascinating things happening in our bodies, and many scientists still do not understand many of them. In fact, science, like every other field of endeavor, follows the classic bell curve, where a small percentage of the population is behind everyone else, and the vast majority of the population is in the middle, all agreeing with each other about things that may be, and often are, outdated concepts, and a small minority is out front, on the leading edge understanding things that most others do not. As we continue on our individual journeys, let us not be bogged down with what "most people," or scientists, believe, or "know." Most of any crowd is always behind the cutting edge, doomed to live on yesterday's news, and afraid to believe what the rest of the crowd, even the highly educated crowd, does not believe. Fear of looking foolish? Who knows. One thing is certain. Whatever position you want to take on an issue, you are sure to be able to find an "expert" who will back you up. Ultimately, we must all come to our own conclusions about everything. Not everything is worth spending the time thinking about. But matters that affect your health are. Do not so quickly dismiss ideas that "experts" say are wrong, or "not possible." Nothing is as powerful as experience. Get your own. Find out for yourself. And think logically, but outside of the box. Namaste, Loren