About Naked Treaties - Jemma Gawned

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!