There is a line of thinking in modern nutrition that assumes cooking food is neutral at worst and beneficial at best. This assumption has never been seriously questioned, when it should be.
Humans have always been eating raw foods. Not the leafy greens and genetically modified fruits - but raw meat, raw fat, raw dairy, raw eggs. Complete foods, consumed exactly as nature produced them, with every enzyme, vitamin, mineral, protein and fat intact and in the precise combinations the body knows how to use. The idea that we used to cooked every meal to kill pathogens is a lie. A bigger brain cannot come from something that is less nutritious. Cooked meat has significantly less nutrients than raw meat.
What nobody wants to confront is what heat actually does to food.
What Cooking Does
When fat is heated above 40 °C, it will be digested poorly and less nutrients will be absorbed. Raw fat cleanses, fuels, lubricates and protects every cell in the body. Heated fat does not. It can harden at body temperature, cannot be disposed of and the body stores it as cellulite, as arterial plaque, as waxy, unusable deposits that accumulate over decades. Water retention follows, because cells deprived of proper fat use water instead to try to soothe and protect themselves.
When orange juice is pasteurized, all of its enzymes are destroyed. At least 50% of its vitamins are dead or chemically altered into unstable forms the body cannot use. Its minerals become unstable and radical. It looks like orange juice. It is not orange juice. It gives the body almost nothing to heal with and adds an acid burden it then has to manage.
Cooking meat creates heterocyclic amines and lipid peroxides. These are compounds that irritate the nervous system in many people. Cooking food creates advanced glycation end products (AGEs). They are associated with skin aging, cardiovascular problems, diabetic complications and kidney problems. These are not controversial findings. They are the chemistry of what happens when food meets high heat.
The bacterial argument used to justify cooking is also backwards. Bacteria in and on raw food produce are what the body was made for to handle. Bacteria that feed on cooked food produce waste products that are toxic. Bacterial food poisoning in modern society comes from cooked, packaged or restaurant food not from raw food.
What Raw Food Provides
Raw food is a complete microcosm. Every enzyme is intact. Every vitamin is in its natural form, accompanied by the cofactors that allow absorption. Every mineral is stable. Every fat is soluble at body temperature, ready to be absorbed and used immediately.
Raw eggs are among the most complete foods in nature. They are easily digested, enzyme-rich and very fast to absorb. Raw meat promotes cellular reproduction in a way cooked meat cannot, because the proteins have not been denatured by heat into forms the body struggles to process. Raw dairy, consumed by traditional cultures for millennia without the health consequences associated with it today, provides fat-soluble vitamins in their active state alongside the enzymes that direct their use.
Weston A. Price documented this in living populations. Every traditional group he studied, isolated from modern food, had wide dental arches, excellent bone structure, no cavities, and no degenerative disease. When those same groups adopted white flour, white sugar, and processed food, their children's faces narrowed, their teeth crowded and degenerative disease appeared within one generation. Same genetics. Same geography. Different food.
The common factor in every healthy population Price studied: high consumption of fat-soluble vitamins from animal foods: vitamin A, vitamin D and vitamin K2. These vitamins are destroyed or severely degraded by heat. They are present and truly bioavailable only in raw animal fat.
The Supplement Illusion
The logical response to a diet stripped of nutrients by cooking is to add nutrients back in supplement form. This is the entire foundation of modern nutritional medicine. It does not work because it cannot work.
The concept of extracting isolated nutrients to compensate for deficiencies created by processed food is futile. The body does not recognize isolated fractions separated from their natural matrix. And most supplements are not even derived from food. They are derived from industrial waste. The hexane used to extract nutrients from plant material in supplement production is a petroleum solvent. Residues remain in the finished product. People pay to ingest what the industry would otherwise have to dispose of as chemical waste.
The Only Question
Every argument against raw food assumes that cooked, processed and industrially produced food is the baseline. But the baseline is thousands of years of humans eating raw animal food. That is what the digestive system, the liver, the gut bacteria and every enzyme in the body were calibrated to handle.
The question is not whether raw food is safe. The Price-Pottenger Foundation holds decades of research and photographs documenting that raw meat, raw dairy, and raw foods in general produce excellent health, free of disease.
The question is whether you are willing to step back far enough to see that what you were told was normal is actually the experiment. You need to realize that eating raw foods are what we were designed to eat.
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