>Never, I mean NEVER, get sick. I > -> - Gregg!!! hello Gregg ,i thought like that too after 10 years of raw food. i was never getting sick ever but read the folowing.comments after Elora's one. > >Hooray, Horray for you. And I've been eating like this for five years >now, and definitely believe bacteria, etc, are useful to clean up the >mess. And I too never get sick anymore. My cat too loves raw chicken and >liver. We fight over it. > >From Gregg again, >"For me I believe that being sick is just like a thought form.." > >Only I can't agree about the above. All the symptoms of sickness I used >to have were detox crises. If you really want NEVER to get sick, try the >self help measures in my article to clear out the sympathetic nervous >system that controls the detoxes. I can only support Elora comment here because of my own recent experience. 1st i have a chronic disease ( no cortisol or thyroxine secreted and auto immune processes against hormonals glands) When i switched to raw food it made an end to the need of having yearly desintoxification crises ( cold, flu and alike) i didn't get sick for years. 2 winters ago , i got staph infection in Hawai ( endemic there, even the natives get it ) and had to stay in bed for 2 months. It is true that the infection was not the direct reason, because i stubbornly stayed on the same intake of cortisone ( despite the medical advice that i should augment drastically the dose in case of stress on my body , something that a normal person will do, by secreting more cortisone.) when i augmented my daily dose ,the wound that stagnated for 2 months , healed in few days. ( really powerfull hormone). The most important point in regard of Elora comment is that, : this out of control ,symptomatic manisfestation of desintoxification processes correlate very strictly to an emotional crises in my life. I was reexperiencing the emotional and physical state in wich i was ,just before i got diagnosed of addison disease(18 years ago). I was a wreck emotionally and physically unable to express with my body the anger sadness or whatever emotions got symptomised( i never saw this verb before am i making it?) . emotions that didn't found their right pathway. So for sure there is more than what you eat to stay healthy, i was used to "monitor" any showing up of symptoms with what i ate with the help of the instinctive selection of food. it worked for years , keeping any viruses and bacterias work in the symptomless range ( or at least very mild), but that time it just was not enough, i was dealing with what i feel is the core of why and how i got sick in the 1st place 18 years ago . something more important that what my mother or i got to eat before that collapse of my adrenal glands ( seat of the flight or fligh reaction) this answer was with Gregg in Mind But Elora ,about that , i have some comments and questions. I think when they talk about the fight or flight reaction ,scientists are forgetting something, because in my case i choose the freeze reaction. I could not experience the anger at the time, so unable to fight, i could not experience the fear ever that was behind, so unable to fligh,. in a seminconscious state, i choose to become numb ,lifeless and freeze( almost to death, i stopped secreting cortisol) This reaction of freezing is common in Nature among animal who choose that means of defense in front of a predator ( they hide and play dead) . it si just for them a temporary state followed often by a flight reaction or a fight if caught. In my case i just got immobilised and could not get over it with my own means the cortisol shot brought me back to living again. So would you have a physiological explanation of what i am talking about? I read your writings more than one time, and i know there is something for me in it but i can't get a clear picture of what can i do concretelly ,i get blank when faced with some emotions. With my wife i get triggered in anger or deep hurt and i can't get to choose an other reaction than freezing or sometimes yelling ( that helps in the short term but have to face the consequences so end up freesing anyway) By redirecting the emotions to their primary source what do you means.? Yelling to your parents in your own mind, go outside and chopping wood or carving in it, your mother's face with an axe or what? Litterally running away seems to me a good way, at least it release something but is it a lasting release , a true liberation or just a temporary one. ? i don't manage to do it often so i don't know. What do you think? thanks jean-claude