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I meet a group of woman who all have chronic lyme disease, there is one woman who was in a wheelchair from lyme for 5 years. This group of woman are all eating a 100% raw organic diet and Ilene the woman in the wheelchair is now running marathons. I became a vegetarian about 6-7 months ago with the idea to go raw prior to meeting them but they have inspired me to start and see if this will work. All of them consider themselves healthy and lyme symptom free and none of them are on any medications. I am going 100% raw today and am going to blog my progress along with pictures and info. I am also over weight all gained with lyme disease and have pcos so im excited and hopeful this will work. If anyone is interested please come check out the blog and follow my progress. I know this seems extreme to some but if it improves my life im on board! The blog site is www.rawfoodforlyme.blogspot.com I dont have any links to buy anything and im not making any money off of this site its strictly to track my progress and share my results with people. If interested please check it out Posts: 229 | From front royal, VA | Registered: Jun 2008
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joalo
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I've read about the raw diet and it does sound very promising. I'm interested to see how you do on it. Please let us know here on lymenet if it helps you feel better.
Your kids are adorable!!
JoAnne
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I just finished doing about 1 1/2 months raw. Now that I am no longer doing it, I see that there may have been very slight improvement for me....
It takes quite a bit of dicipline, esp. if you share your meals with others.
There have been many, many cancer success stories with the raw diet.
Good luck on your adventure. Vitacost has some awesome Raw Bars that make you feel decadently fullfilled.....check them out!
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Feelfit, the woman that I have been talking to said it took between 3 months and 5 months to heal the damage and get rid of symptoms completly. I dont expect anything drastic until 6 months in. I do expect the first month to be unpleasent due to detox, Ill post on my progress!
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I have heard this as well. On the raw diet the symptoms are lifted as soon as they go off the symptoms return. I know for myself I feel better when I eat low carb as I am an O blood type and am going to try that again as I have been having a tough time lately esp. with fatigue.
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sutherngrl
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I have been juicing raw veggies 4x a week. I still eat regular food, because I continue to gradually loose weight; but I feel strongly that the raw juiced veggies are a plus. I know for me it was a huge addition to my normal nutritional intake.
I have only been doing it for 9 weeks. I agree it is something you need to stick with for a good while to notice the benefits.
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I went vegetarian and then vegan over the last 8 months I think its a process to get high raw into your diet but I think its totally worth it, my plan is to have this as a life long diet Id like to be 80/20 in the end.
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