Creator and Director of Naked Treaties Rawganics, Jemma Gawned, shares her experience with raw food and why it is so great for your health.
I‘ve been studying, researching and practising a wholefoods diet for about 10 years and after years of experimenting with how different foods and diets felt in my body and lots of detoxes I never felt totally and completely as vibrant and ‘clean’ as I knew I could.
And so, 4 years ago I went to Thailand and booked myself into a ‘fasting’ retreat and embarked on a 7 day vegetable juice fast with colonics twice a day and herbal supplements to help shift old waste through and clear out those cells once and for all!
Before the fast I prefasted for 2 weeks which meant that I gradually cut out all animal protein (I didn’t eat meat anyway, just some fish) ,grains and anything that wasn’t a ‘sun’ food (raw nuts and seeds, fruit and vegetables).
I wasn’t prepared for what I was about to experience! So much shifted for me, not just physically but emotionally and I realised how much toxic waste (and toxic emotion) is really stored in our cells and our colon and how releasing this brought about a whole new way of being.
I honestly have never recalled having that much energy, even as a child! The first 4 days were tough at times but after that I was flying. My digestive system was getting a much needed rest and some remarkable healing was taking place.
When I finished the fast they told me at the centre that while I continued to stay ‘raw’ I would continue the cleansing process. Well, I felt so good I didn’t want it to stop! And so for the next 8 months I ate an exclusively Raw Vegan diet rich in nuts seeds, avocadoes, fruit and vegetables. I was positively beaming with life force energy! My moods swings and PMT vanished, my thinking was clear, I had boundless energy and my body felt light vibrant and lean. Not even as a child did I remember having so much energy!
