Gender

Male

Location

Cheshire

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Hi, I'm Alan, I'm a little over 40 years old, living in Cheshire, England. I've always been interested in nutrition, 20 years ago it was for muscle building aesthetics and fitness, then it became to overcome chronic illness which debilitated me from 21 to 35. Overcame chronic illness through diet (skin rashes, chronic itching, 14 years chronic insomnia due to the skin, I was a walking pharmacy and a complete mess due to prescribed pharmaceuticals). I've now been relatively healthy for 6 years, had no medication of any kind for 9 years, not even a lemsip or a throat lozenge. I actually overcame illness eating organic, quitting what I knew to be junk food, eating high carb but also high protein and high fat (Udo's Choice oil, nuts, seeds) largely vegan diet but still eating fish and occasional meat, even greek yoghurt for a time. But I became very fatigued and lethargic, had no get up and go, full of aches and pains. The more I learned about health the more vegan I became, eventually overcoming the programming which told me animal products are essential to human health. The more vegan i became the more animal produce felt morally wrong. The more I've learned to discern between the diametrically opposed 'experts' (vegan / meat proponents, high fat vs low fat, oil is superfood vs no oil) and the more I've followed the evidence the more that veganism seems to be the only healthy option for humans and the planet. I've been vegan since July 2015 and ditched the Udos Oil around the same time. Now I only have fats in whole food form, withing the matrix of the plant, don't have as many nuts and seeds as I once had, and keep a healthy omega 3 to omega 6 ratio. I had huge amounts of Udo's Oil for nearly a decade prior to that, because I'd been told it was healthy and swallowed the marketing and propaganda. Slowly slowly I started coming across people on the internet who gave me the opposite side of the story and gradually opened my eyes, from Durianrider to McDougall etc. I'd been told by trained nutritionists (and multiple renowned internet health experts) that too much fruit contributes to candida and cancer and high blood sugar, adrenal fatigue etc and had been fooled for a while. Durianrider began to open my eyes on this but I still wasn't convinced. Just as with the question of oil it took a while to turn me around but once the scientific evidence was presented to me I began to see the light. Since dropping the oil last summer and becoming fully vegan my energy levels began to recover, my joints began to free up and I began to feel some get up and go, some of the old fight returning, some lust for life. My temperature regulation seems better (I've always felt the cold) my bloodflow is better to my extemities, there's more colour in my skin and my energy levels are better than they've been in years. I'm sure I'm on the right track, I'm keen to learn more and keen to spread the message to help stop people dying of ignorance. To counter the carbophobia, fruitophobia and dangerous misinformation that infects the media and the internet. I'm looking to find ways to make a career out of helping people, currently unsure how best to do that - that's one reason I'm here. I have a 2nd chance at life due to healthy eating, I'm blessed. I'm grateful to the likes of Durianrider and Freelee, Drs McGreger, Esselstyn, Campbell, McDougall, Barnard, Graham etc. Currently I live mostly raw till 4 (loads of fruit) but it was never a deliberate choice, just easier due to no prep required and I found I felt fantastic. But I'm open to possibilities and will go where the evidence takes me. I use no supplements but will have B12 tested next week for the first time in my life, just to see where I'm at. I'm here to learn, connect and hopefully contribute.

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male

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I'm raw till 4

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My favourite books/movies/authors/pastimes are...

Don't read too many books due to the internet, I tend to listen to lectures and interviews on youtube because I can listen while preparing fresh organic vegan food in the kitchen. The last few books I read were running books, Running With The Kenyans and Scott Jurek's 'Eat and Run'. Currently reading The China Study and just listened to T Colin Campbell's 'Whole' on Audible - a great book. I tend to prefer documentaries to movies, i find reality more thrilling and entertaining than fiction could ever be. I am interested in the truth about past civilisations (before the 'great flood' at the end of the last ice age), Graham Hancock and others have opened my eyes on this. I am fascinated by human consciousness and it's true nature (evidence for psychic phenomena, near death experiences etc.) I'm quite addicted to finding out what's really going on in the world, what the insane governments and corporations are really up to. I love nature, countryside, fresh air trees and believe with the knowledge and resources humanity has that no-one needs to be starving and all energy could be produced sustainably and all food grown sustainably if the collective will was there. I love to walk and run more than cycle. Running and walking must be OFF road - it's all about the fresh air and scenery, no point breathing carbon-monoxide. I do pilates too which has helped with postural issues / scoliosis. My job for the last 12 years has been a self-employed professional singer, I'll never give it up but I am now beginning the transition to a health based career of some sort. That's where my heart lies. Currently almost at the end of a 1st year at college, was going to do nutrition in years 2 and 3 but not impressed by the ethics of the college or the content of the course so looking for better alternatives for next year. For my future life direction it's time to heal the people and protect the life on this jewel of a planet.

The Frugivore started this site to bring together frugivores across the Globe! Let us know what high fruit assistance do you need?

I'd love to learn more about how to set up a bike for less knee pain and better posture (is good posture possible as a cyclist?) I really would love to learn how to monetize youtube and how to be a successful presence online - both getting the message out there and earning enough so that I can make ends meet and have the time to live a healthy lifestyle. I want to do this without exploiting the public who i'm trying to help - no snake oil sales leeching off the most vulnerable people desperate to turn their health around. I'd love to learn how to make a living coaching people on good diet and lifestyle (with or without a formal qualification and if so which qualification - that's a dilemma I'm wrestling with at the moment). I'd love some tips on fruitgrowing in Engand or where to buy cheap organic fruit in England - maybe you have some contacts on the forum who can point me in the right direction.

The Frugivore Diet is a fruit-based vegan internet community which promotes a high carb fruit based vegan lifestyle free of any animal products. Our forum does not tolerate encouragement of anything contrary to this. Nor do we allow endorsement of non-vegan items or practises which involve the imprisonment, exploitation, abuse or murder of sentient beings. We also require our members to post with proper netiquette. Therefore, please indicate your intention:

I will comply because I like totally agree with all this