From: "geneticrejuvenation" <geneticrejuvenation@...>
Date: Tue Jun 17, 2003 9:51 pm
Subject: LIKE "THE ESSENE GOSPEL OF PEACE" SAYS, EAT IT RAW





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Dear Travis,

I'll do my best to answer your questions in the limited time I have
this
morning. I'm trying to wrap up some things here in my office before
taking off
to do a series of lectures and seminars in Southern California and
then Seattle
in a few days.

Your questions about the specific harm from some of the effects of
cooking
are best answered by looking at the "macro" picture first. It's not
protein,
fat, or complex carbs that the body needs; these are the macro
nutrients, but
the body can only actually use amino acids, fatty acids, and simple
sugars.
When foods are cooked, these macro nutrients are changed in such a
way that
the building blocks -- those aforementioned substances that the body
can
actually assimilate and use -- are rendered unusable to the body.
In other words,
when the proteins coagulate -- i.e. stick together --it's very
difficult for
the body to break them down and be able to assimilate the amino
acids. When
carbohydrates are caramelized, the sugars (the very substance which
the body
runs on) are no longer available or usable by the body. Cooked fats
render
fatty acids similarly unavailable for normal use by the body.

Again, in a macro sense, anything that we consume is either food, and
beneficial to us, or it is toxic. Nothing is neutral. A
substance can either be
used to provide energy and nutrients to the body, or it doesn't
belong there
and the body must simply work to eliminate it. The acrylamide
created in
cooking complex carbohydrates is directly related to this. Simply
put, cooking
food changes the structure of the molecules, converting them into
toxic
substances.

Leukocytosis happens primarily in the presence of cooked food; raw
meat
would be unlikely to create leukocytosis, and if one is to consume
meat, and
"clean" sources can be found, it makes sense to me to consume it only
raw, never
cooked. Remember, humans (and the animals we feed) are the only
species that
don't eat a 100% raw diet. Many people point out that
animals "can't cook",
are not smart enough (or perhaps, stupid enough) to cook, etc.,
etc. Those
things may be true, but are besides the point, which is that eating
cooked food
is a relatively new phenomenon, having existed for perhaps 300, 000
of our
roughly 3 million years on the planet, and it's an experiment which
has been
conducted on relatively few of the planet's 25 million species,
virtually always
with proven detriment to the health of the animal.

So if you choose to eat meat, eat it raw. You might want to take a
look at
comparative physiology, though. If you do, you will find out that
the
digestive system of every animal has evolved over millions of years
based on the
diet of the animal, and is adapted specifically for that diet.
Every carnivore
and omnivore have very specific adaptations to a meat-based diet that
humans
(and the vast majority of other animals on the planet) do not
share.
Carnivores have the tools -- claws and fangs and other weapons -- to
catch and kill
their prey. We do not. Carnivores have a very different array of
teeth.
Their jaws move only up and down. The enzymes secreted in the mouth
are
proteases -- protein digesting enzymes -- rather than the starch-
splitting salivary
amylase secreted in our mouths. Their stomachs are very different
than ours
and contain 10 times the hydrochloric acid. A carnivore usually
swallows
meat largely unchewed as their digestive acids easily break it
down. If we
don't completely chew a sunflower seed this high protein food passes
through the
gut totally unchanged. Their digestive tract is much, much shorter
and
smoother than ours, because the digestion of proteins creates many
toxic
by-products, and they need to eliminate it as quickly as possible.
They are able to eat
a meat-based meal and eliminate it within hours, where the average
american
eating a 97% animal product and processed food-based diet (both of
which
contain no fiber to help move them through our very long digestive
tract) takes 4
days to elminate their meal from the body. Colon cancer is the
inevitable
result of this and isn't the least bit surprising.

The differences between heavy protein eaters and humans ( and most
other
animals) are enormous, and they clearly indicate that our natural
diet is very
different from theirs.