Rebekah: Hey guys, it’s Bex here.
And welcome to a brand new series of videos with my good friend Mike Perrine from EverdayDetox.org.
You are back to answer our most burning questions.
We have amassed this huge collection of questions from you that you have been sending over for
years now.
Yeah, we’ve doing this for a bunch of years.
Mike: We started doing this… it was five years ago.
Rebekah: Was it five years ago?
Probably, yeah.
Definitely.
And now, we have all the all these questions that we think we have compiled into a few,
maybe five good solid questions that we can answer and spend some time on because it’s
so hard to answer questions in the comments.
Mike: It is.
Rebekah: Yeah.
Mike: To type it all out, yeah.
Rebekah: So, this is the first one.
And there’s going to be four more to follow.
So stay tuned every single week for a new one.
And hopefully, that would not be the end.
We’ll have lots and lots more questions.
But let’s get started.
So, the first one is about another YouTuber, kind of.
It says, “Mike, could you discuss what’s wrong with Freelee’s cooked food dinners?”
And they’re referring to Freelee the Banana Girl.
“I’ve been doing raw till 4 for a while now and I’m curious what issue you have
with it.
Is it all the wheat, rice, and pasta or the volume of food?
I’m also wondering why you say that Paleo peeps are right about greens when there have
been archaeologists who have found evidence of humans eating grains from the beginning
of time.”
Mike: Freelee the Banana Girl.
Rebekah: Yeah.
Mike: OK.
So, we have two things.
Rebekah: That’s why people think we don’t like her because you say, “Freelee the Banana
Girl.”
And I go, “Yeah.”
Mike: I think Freelee and Durianrider are awesome.
I love the vegan message.
I love the fitness and athletic message.
I think it’s great.
And I think they really mix it up and challenge a lot of people, which is kind of fun and
awesome.
But as far as like the food stuff that goes on, I don’t remember ever criticizing that
but I guess maybe somewhere I said something about it.
Rebekah: You kind of did.
You were like quizzical about it.
Mike: I’m quizzical because it’s a head scratcher for me only – well, first of all,
raw till 4 is it does – I mean eating raw food until 4:00 o’clock and then eating
cooked food for dinner, if it’s a good healthy choices like that, there’s nothing wrong
with that.
It’s great.
I think the head scratcher for me was, with the raw till 4 thing, the massive emphasis
on sugar and refined carbohydrates and the volumes of food that they’re eating.
We know that refined carbohydrates fight blood sugar, which the raw till 4 people and the
fruitarian people it’s no problem at all, that remains to be seen.
And we know that when we refined starches, everything I’ve seen in the work that I
do, when we refined starches like that not only do we strip a lot of the nutrients away
but it tends to be very cloggy and mucous-forming in the body.
Rebekah: OK.
Mike: That’s why I don’t eat any grains.
I don’t any grains.
I hardly eat any starches.
The starchiest thing I’ll eat is a sweet potato or a carrot and that’s it.
The reason for that is because I’m prone to mucous in pasta and rice and especially
breads and things like that give that to me.
And they give it to a lot of my clients too.
So, that’s the only head scratcher is the volume of refined carbohydrates they’re
eating.
Rebekah: So, here’s my question.
Why is it a) working for them, b) working for people who are turning to that diet, and
then the next part is c) why wouldn’t you recommend it for people or would you?
Mike: Well see, here’s the thing.
So, what’s the perfect diet?
Well first of all, is it working for them?
Rebekah: OK.
Mike: The only thing that’s working for them is they’re fit and they don’t hold
excess weight.
Rebekah: Right.
Mike: Which is working for them.
What’s happening in biochemically in someone’s body is a completely different story.
I know a lot of very thin people that were very unhealthy too and they’re athletic
too.
When Gill Jacobs was on the podcast a few months ago, he was talking about how he’s
a big fan of sports and football and stuff like that and he was talking about how you
can see athletes that perform at high, high levels but you can see the illness in their
face.
You can see the bags under their eyes and their body is performing in spite of that.
And what happens after 30, 40 years?
That starts to catch up and that’s when that starts to happen.
So the raw till 4 thing, eating these volumes of rice that are tremendous and all this fruit
and 30 bananas a day and stuff, all that remains to be seen.
Why does it work?
Because it’s white rice, it’s vegetables, it’s vegan, and it’s a lot of fruit and
it’s not hamburgers and hotdogs and potato chips.
Rebekah: For people making that switch over to it.
Mike: Yeah, which you can do exceptionally well, “I used to eat a tremendous amount
of food, tofu sandwiches and muffins and things.”
I was pastry chef in Intelligent Kitchen.
When I first went vegan, I lost like 60 pound in three months.
Rebekah: Yeah.
Mike: My skin cleared up.
I did – actually during my detox; it didn’t look great but then eating right kind of food
…
Rebekah: Tofu sandwich sounds like the grossest thing.
Mike: Actually delicious but it has been a long time since I had them.
Rebekah: I don’t think so.
Mike: But I ate a tremendous amount of food and I still did well.
But it gets really confusing for people.
This is what I wanted to discuss in a podcast and we should discuss it here because sometimes
on these videos like you’ll ask me questions about certain food or something like that
that we’re answering question and it gets confusing because I’ll be like, “Oh yeah,
well quinoa is a healthy food.”
And you’ll be like, “But you said you don’t eat any grain or anything.
So is it healthy or not?
Rebekah: Right.
Mike: The way that you – the way to determine if your diet is serving you or not, is it
better than what you were doing before?
Because almost everybody starts out eating really bad food and toxic.
I mean we were just talking about what the kids are eating these days, teenagers and
stuff.
Rebekah: Yeah.
My kids even.
Mike: And people use recreational drugs.
People use pharmaceuticals.
People use – then there’s all the alcohol that people drink and then there’s all the
terrible food that we have from the beginning.
So any improvement you make is going to be better.
That’s why you see all these diets working.
That’s why everybody is doing well on raw food.
That’s why people do well on Paleo because yes, it’s a lot of meat but it’s meat
and vegetables and it’s not fast food and it’s not …
Rebekah: It’s better than what you are doing.
Mike: Yeah.
So everybody improves like that.
So the way that we can think about it is any diet that’s an improvement to what you were
doing going towards heavy emphasis on plants and eating lots of raw plant food is going
to bring good results.
Rebekah: Right.
Mike: And that happens up until a point.
Now, the interesting thing, the thing that’s such a mind-boggling thing about the raw till
4 and Freelee and Durianrider thing, they started to get into like cookies and donuts
and not even like – and just vegan cookies.
Like I remember doing – I’m posting picture of some cookies and it had all sorts of preservatives
and additives on the label.
Rebekah: But that could be somewhat of a boomerang effect.
I mean we’ve been doing this for years.
They’ve been around for probably less than amount of time but that’s a very short amount
of time in the span of your entire life.
Mike: Yeah.
Rebekah: So when you go extreme one way, you’re going to have that effect where it comes back.
And this is what we’re talking about when you first came to the house this morning and
I was saying that I feel like I’m the healthiest person I know.
I never get sick.
I sleep really, really well.
I’m active.
I generally feel very good.
And I don’t have a completely clean diet.
There’s a certain amount of toxicity in my diet.
And then there’s a good amount of really good clean foods.
But I don’t know.
I feel awesome all the time.
And I’ve never had that boomerang.
I’ve never had that extreme anything ever.
Mike: Because the body likes consistency.
It loves that.
Rebekah: But am I going to die at like 55 from some crazy clog situation or am I on
the right track?
Mike: How we’re all going to die is a whole other situation because we’re living in
a very toxic world these days and stuff.
Everything that I’ve ever experienced with my own diet and everything that an every single
client and everything that Dr. Bisci, Gill, and all my teachers have ever told me that
they’ve experienced in their lives and with their clients is that when we get into consistent
clean eating and you actually change your body chemistry over, you hit a point of no
return.
You can’t go backwards.
If I were like, “Hey, I’m just going to go out Florida and I’m going to eat like
40 sushi rolls tonight I’m going to eat all this stuff.”
I’d be a congested clog mess and would not feel well.
I eat a certain raw food, desserts, I eat it.
My favorite restaurant, in Pure Food & Wine in Manhattan like I’ll go there, I can only
eat that ice cream sundae once a year because I [0:07:35] [Indiscernible] and the next day,
eyes are all puffy, blood shot.
That’s from something that would be super healthy for my dad.
So I’m wondering why Freelee and Durianrider can get into these refined carb cookie, donut,
pizza things and they still look fine.
Rebekah: What are you saying?
Mike: What do you mean what I’m saying?
Rebekah: I don’t know.
Maybe they had met you.
You’re so clean.
Mike: Either maybe I’ve been eating so clean but there’s another concept and people – you
don’t hear about this stuff in the internet but this has been something that has been
talked about for years where you can sort of change your diet and it is a slight improvement
because listen, the bananas and lots of fruits and stuff is not hamburgers, right?
Rebekah: Right.
Mike: But when you over burn your body to such a degree that you’re eating 30 of them
at a time plus more and more fruit and more and more fruit and more and more food and
food and food and food, you’re actually not giving your body the emptiness and the
lightness to actually de-cleanse itself.
So you’re really standing still.
Rebekah: OK.
Mike: So I wonder if that’s actually what’s going on with those guys.
I don’t know.
Rebekah: We don’t know.
Mike: It remains to be seen.
Rebekah: We have to get them here.
Mike: I would love – they’re banned from the Woodstock Fruit Festival, which is so
disappointing because I really wanted to have them on the podcast and I wanted them to come
to New York but they don’t seem to be coming here.
Rebekah: What’s up with this community banning people?
It’s craziness.
Mike: They banned it because of the things we just talked about because they’re into
raw foods and they’re into fruit.
And for me, they’re not who we’re talking about.
Rebekah: But allow another voice to come in so that we can have a conversation about it
instead of just preaching to the choir.
Mike: Yeah.
Rebekah: Yeah.
Mike: I agree.
That’s what I appreciate about these guys.
You got to them on here.
So, thank you.
We’re going to make another video now.
Mike: Let’s do it.
Rebekah: Yeah.
I’m probably going to change my shirt to look like we did this on a different day.
But it’s really actually all the same day.
We’re having all this kind of conversation.
And I want you to stay tune for more videos every single week and there will also be tons
of information over on Mike’s channel at EverydayDetox.org and on YouTube.com/EverydayDetox
so look for that too.
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