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#23

No, that isn’t my stance.

It is you who is conflating something that makes you feel good with something that fixes or cures our underlying problem.

You said earlier that you experience shows that eating raw food helped to fix you. I’m saying that in fact, your experience shows that eating raw food helped to make you feel better. There is a difference between those two statements; can you see it? It is the difference between symptomatic improvement, and a removal of the underlying problem.

Your evidence that raw food helped to fix or cure you is that you ate raw food, and it made you feel better. But we can take antidepressants and feel better, and we don’t imagine that antidepressants fix or cure our underlying problem.

Yes, obviously eating raw food is more healthy than taking antidepressants.

OK, that’s where we’ve been at so far. Now you have introduced the argument that raw food may indeed be a fix because it acts in a certain way that antidepressants don’t. It “builds health on the cellular level”. I’m not sure what that statement really means. I slightly suspect that it doesn’t mean anything at all.

I guess if you believe that eating raw food can cure cancer, then there is a chance that it can cure our underlying problem. Maybe eating raw food can cure cancer. Maybe it sets off some cascade of physiological changes that causes the body to fight back against cancer cells. So maybe eating raw food could set off physiological changes that cause our body to fix, too.

But we have absolutely no evidence that this is the case. We just have evidence that eating raw food can make you feel better. Just like the evidence we have that taking antidepressants can make you feel better. We may as well argue, then, that taking antidepressants could set off a cascade of physiological changes that will cause our body to fix. Of course, none of us believe that. On what basis, then, do we believe it about raw food?

It boils down to this: you can have our condition and live healthily, or you can have our condition and live unhealthily. You’re likely to feel better if you do the former. But let’s not kid ourselves that this gets to the heart of our underlying condition.

See what I mean? You’re not a guy who ate some raw food and was cured, or partly cured, of our condition. You’re a guy who still has our condition just the same, but now feels better in some areas because he ate a healthy diet.

#24

I would say that I am “fixed” in certain areas. Not just feeling better. I no longer have crushing fatigue, its fixed, its gone. I no longer have brain fog, its fixed, its gone. The list goes on and on with things that have been “fixed” for quite some time now and haven’t come back. For someone who was about to off themselves, you sure seem fired up. I’m glad I could help.

I’m sorry you don’t get it. I’m going to leave this thread alone because I can see I’m not getting through and just wasting my time. Again, you need to do some serious study on health. The fact that you again compare food to pharmaceuticals is disturbing. I have given you all of the necessary source information should you choose to use it. Once you are a bit more studied in this area, you will see how ridiculous your comparisons are. Good luck.

#25

No you don’t get it.

All I’m saying is just because X makes you feel better, it doesn’t mean that X is a cure or a fix.

Let’s get this straight one final time.

Your claim that raw food is a fix is based on two points.

(i) It made you feel better

But antidepressants make people feel better. I agree with you that antidepressants are in no way a fix. Already, then, we have established that just because something makes a person feel better, it doesn’t make it a fix.

OK, so what does raw food have that antidepressants don’t? Here’s your second point:

(ii) It’s healthy. More specifically, it “builds health on the cellular level” and can cure cancer.

But what evidence do we have that raw food can “build health on a cellular level” in such a way as to fix our underlying problem? What does “build health on a cellular level” really mean in physiological terms? We don’t even know what the mechanisms that underly our problem are, so how can we know that raw food is acting to fix them? Yes, no doubt raw food is making you feel better. But as we saw above, that is not the same as fixing you.

I think you understand all that. You are just emotionally invested in the idea that eating raw food can cure you. It’s a comforting self-delusion, like Boston’s idea that all that is wrong with us is a prostate infection and if he could just get that killer prostate massage, and hike that perfect trail and take the right antibiotic, then all this would be over.

#26

i´m on rawfood since one month, it works better then every drug i tried and i tried all except of ghb.

I do also meditation one hour a day. The only way to heal is to support your body the best way you can… your body has to heal himself and if you do the right things he will heal

a healthy body makes healthy mind… i absolutely agree with cdnuts

and sure, people cured of cancer just with a clean rawfood diet… people cured of cancer just with the power of the mind… thats why i do also yoga and meditation…

i believe in the healing power of the mind too… like this one

they do qigong on blatter cancer here

youtube.com/watch?v=C9JxW7Jh … annel_page

in china they have clinics without medicince… they do hours of qigong a day and they have success in cases where drugs never will…

you have to fix the root …

#27

The only one who is under any delusion is you, unfortunately. I have given you everything you need to research and understand yet you would rather argue. It is you who is emotionally invested in this, although, I don’t really know why. Again, you need to study and realize what you are arguing about is ridiculous.

#28

OK, it’s got to the stage where I am just repeating the same questions, and you are not answering them.

You can’t tell me why or how raw food is a fix.

I agree with you that if I ate a raw diet, I would probably feel better. It’s certaintly something I’ll consider. I’d rather eat raw food to feel better than take antidepressants to feel better.

I’m not quite sure what delusion you think I’m under. I suppose you think I’m under the delusion that raw food will not cure us. I have become emotionally invested in the idea that raw food will not cure our problem.

Obviously, in reality, I have no feelings one way or another about that idea. It’s just that there is no evidence that raw food will cure our problem. I’m pretty sure the websites you have referred me to will not explain to me how raw food can cure the post-finasteride syndrome. I am not going to be able to “research and understand” how raw food can fix our problem, when no one even understands what causes our problem.

Yes, I can research and understand how raw food benefits health, but that is different, isn’t it? Unless you want to think about the post-finasteride syndrome as just some vague state of general ill-health that can be cured by healthy living. It clearly is not that.

#29

I have directed you to resources that have enough information about this subject to keep you reading for weeks, literally. These resources can do a much better job than I at explaining what I’m trying to get through to you. You are not even bothering to read, but instead argue about it?

NO!! It’s not! You can’t be 100% healthy and suffer from some type of syndrome. That’s a complete false hood. It’s like someone saying, yeah, I’m 350lbs, but I’m healthy. No, you’re not… Or, I have high blood pressure, but I’m healthy. Again, no, you’re not. There is a reason you feel symptoms in your body and it’s because your off center, out of balance, unhealthy. You need to understand what it is to be in a state of health. You can’t be in a state of health yet be unhealthy at the same time. It’s IMPOSSIBLE.

Listen, it doesn’t matter that these sites won’t specifically mention post-fin syndrome. A state of health is a state of health, period. It doesn’t matter if it’s cancer, heart disease, yada, yada, yada. The way to fix yourself being unhealthy and out balance will always be the same for EVERY malady that the body can have. Now, if the damage is permanent this would be the best way to find out, because it would give your body the best chance to become as healthy as it possibly could. But, as I have already mentioned, I have gotten rid of many debilitating symptoms through fasting and raw food. I haven’t been raw for some months and have even went out drinking a few times, yet my symptoms did not return.

This is because the reason for me feeling better was that my body was healing itself from these things, not just covering up the symptoms. If that was the case, I would have come crashing back down once I got off the diet. That hasn’t been the case.

Please, read into the info I have given you. You will learn so much.

#30

Perhaps you should consider the remote possibility that adopting a rabbit’s diet won’t eliminate these problems in everyone, and stop acting holier-than to correspond without preaching and shunning. We’d like to know what you do but you really only respond with defensive remarks.

Despite there being annals of writing on this diet, specifying why this method would be so fabulous would be better than regurgitating the tiring “you’re all ignorant” routine. It can’t be harder than a few sentences of relevant information. Every raw food website I’ve seen drones on redundantly, making finding the answers to these questions like finding a needle in a haystack.

I’m not coming down on this diet at all and I’m thrilled it has erased a portion of this condition from you, but everyone’s needs differ and to get through the day and remain strong, they require proper supplementation and energy. There’s a reason why the response to low energy and hunger is to eat.

To say something on this thread’s subject (aka wall of text, lol)…

I, like anyone in our situation, have definitely crossed the threshold where I concluded that my quality of life is annihilated, the impressions I leave on others due to these symptoms deeply damaging and perturbing to my heart, and looked at ending my life as a satisfying solution to living in truth rather than living as a facsimile - a warped version of myself - with no outside help or recognition. I think my worst days are behind me, however, and as the months elapse you do sort of get a sense of a healthy body and mind again. You must work hard at it and exercise discipline. I used to be so brain fogged that I couldn’t satisfactorily describe and explain this illness to others, and when they would not understand or work with me, I felt very much like people were, by intent or ignorance, detracting from my chances of recovery. Now I feel much better, and am glad to know that I do have a doctor that understands what I’m going through and can offer help. It’s important to be honest with others in situations like these, and to suspend your pride if need be, because this dilemma does demand that we get support from others.

Of course, my recent success has me happier, too. Like ithappens said, I know that it is possible to reverse the ailment and be free of the burdens. Life is attainable again, it just requires a keen medical eye. Again I’ll say that I disagree that I was just “on drugs” - I was on an alleviator of my symptoms, which ushered my endocrine system into functionality again. I’ll have more to say after the sleep study, but likening this to crack is the wrong attitude. Recreational drugs are momentary “treatments” and have their own serious risks. What I used was prolonged until I became tolerant, and lasted many days beyond application, so I was not high - just functional. Please try to not be so negative about it, unless you think every medication belongs in the same category as crack.

Beyond the frivolous debating though, you should probably step away from the website and just enjoy nature. Get your mind off of this situation, and focus more on your everyday life. I guess what I’m saying is, fuck this shit. Be there for your friends and family. Your honest post is quite appreciated, but pulling through is better than hurting yourself and those around you.

#31

Okay, so kill yourself before you even give it a try and see. Or even read the material being offered to you. Makes alot of sense.

I’ve said it plenty of times and in a non-holier-than-thou way. I’ve fasted and went on a raw food diet. I’ve even given the specific references I’ve used along with the exact websites. Your haystack just got alot smaller. I don’t know how much more I can break that down.

This is why it is better to read some of the info I posted rather than having me try and dole it out. It’s like coming to a book club meeting where no one else has read the book but you, it doesn’t work. You are correct in the above statement that when you are hungry, you should eat. Unless you are fasting.

Supervised fasting is a natural and physiological adaptation that all humans have from back when we couldn’t go grab a burger at the corner. Many things happen during a fast. One of them is rapid detoxification. Something every post fin user needs. Did you know that as long as you have body fat, you don’t need to eat, as long as you drink water? Most people don’t know that, and are actually fascinated by it. I have seen people fast as long as nine weeks. That’s 9 weeks. Body fat, just like in say, a bear, is there for fuel and storage of body material to be used a later time. Fasting burns through those reserves and gets rid of anything you may be holding onto that can be hurting you. It is not the same as losing weight by exercise. The physiological rest is also very beneficial for your whole system. You completely detox everything and start with fresh new pure material, supplied by a raw food diet. Everything slows down and rests.

When you are fasting you are not going through your normal day. You can’t. You have to rest and lay around. That’s it. Your not out driving around and what not. You completely rest your whole body. No digestion, no nothing. You are so refreshed after a fast it is unbelievable. Your adrenals are fresh and rested. Your brain is clear as are you thoughts. You just feel better. And not better in a put a patch on it pill popping way. In a way that you know certain things are gone. You can feel it. You really should experience it for yourself.

Is is hard? It can be at times. No body said starving yourself was any fun. But is living all finned out? Really, you should look into it.

#32

hello ScaredMale,

I just want to tell you that there are people like me who have recovered 90% and more.

I had no improvement during one year post fin, and believe me, I was feeling horrible : ED, hard brainfog, chest pain, gyno, heart crazy palpitations, etc. etc. and it was constant : every day, every hour, every second. Nightmare.

Then I slowly got better till now, where the nightmare is clearly part of the past.

So first try to be positive and think of the people who recovered rather than those who didn’t, that’s what I always did, even in the darkest days of my post fin condition, and I’m sure it helped a bit.

Good luck man

#33

hello,hope i’m not speaking too early,but has been something like 2 weeks and now i’m at a point where i can say that i think to be on the real right track of the recovery,stil not 100% but going well . So my plan is to have the same fucking bloodtests next week to see what has gone on ,because the recovered ppl still here on the forum never took bloodtests after their recovery . I do this for me,to understand what hormones to push more and for you all to try to figure out (on hormonal balances) what’s going on… hope this help .

#34

I take it Mew has added the ‘legal disclaimer’ in case we all go off and starve ourselves or get hooked on anti-d’s after this thread? Maybe I could sue 'cos there wasn’t enough importance attached to weening off. :imp: j/k

#35

ScaredMale30 i have been trough hell on earth, at least that’s what
i think. I suffered badly. Can you imagined a normal guy with A cup
size breasts. It is not a pretty image but that is who i am right know.

Yes you are correct we can only mitigate some of the symptoms by
taking varius drugs. I for my self take Arimidex, so as long as i take it
i feel much better and if i do not take it, gradually i feel worst again.

But somewhere down the road there is a possibility of cure for all of
us, why would you end your life when there is still possibility? we
can do this all we need to do is to stay focus on our goal.

That is to find out what the hell is wrong with us. As long as we still guessing i dont think it is wise for you to think that this is irreversible.

One more thing do you think it is fair if you quit on your family ?
Just think how devastating your mother and father would be if you
decide to kill your self. All those time when they put all that energy
and effort to safeguard you from baby to where you are right now and
you decided to quit on them.

The answer is no, and for your info i was thinking about killing myself
a long time ago and that very same thought stop me from doing it.

#36

Yes, it’s true that you cannot be healthy and unhealthy at the same time. Thanks for clearing that up. But that does nothing towards proving the idea that eating raw food will make me, or you, or anybody with the post-fin syndrome 100% healthy.

Obviously eating a healthy diet is good for your health. It will improve your health, for sure. As I said before, that doesn’t mean that it can fix the post-fin syndrome, unless you believe that the post-fin syndrome is simply some vague condition of ill-health that is “fixed” when general health is improved.

From what you write below, it seems that you do indeed believe this:

Wow, the ramifications of this are immense.

So not only is the post-fin syndrome a vague state of ill-health that can be fixed by improving general health, but every disease is. And the way to fix every disease is always the same: simply to improve general health, and restore “balance”. A great way to do this is to eat raw food. We can fix HIV by eating raw food. We can fix malaria by eating raw food. We can fix a subdural hematoma by eating raw food. This is great news.

OK, back to planet earth. All this talk of detox and being “out of balance” and curing cancer by eating raw food is new age bullshit of the highest order. We are not suffering our symptoms because we are “out of balance”. What does “out of balance” even mean?

Different diseases have different and specific mechanisms of action. Our disease has its own, so far unknown, mechanism of action. I seriously doubt that this mechanism of action can be altered by eating raw food. You may improve certain aspects of your health by eating raw food, but you will still have our disease.

#37

Wow, he’s still alive…I guess you just like to argue, huh?

First of all, you are 100% wrong with this quote above. You don’t know how ridiculous you sound to anyone who is educated in this type of thing. Do you know what cancer even is? You have obviously not studied one single piece of material that was given to you. Really, comments like this are completely ill informed and ignorant. But, then again, I’m starting to see a pattern here with you, so I don’t know why I’m so surprised.

Oh, really? How do you know this? I wish you would have shared this with the board months ago. Where did you get your inside knowledge from on our condition to know that it wouldn’t respond to diet and superior nutrition? I guess I should have gotten that memo before I healed my brainfog, crushing fatigue, disabling anxiety, etc, etc, all with fasting and raw food. Hmmm.

As far as not understanding what “out of balance” is, man, I don’t know how else to break down the english language for you to make that any simpler. That’s like asking some one to explain the word “the.” Just read the words one at a time and maybe you’ll get it.

Listen dude, this is like arguing with a child. I’m going to bow out of this thread, really, this time I am. Now that I KNOW I’m wasting my time with you. You just want argue, that’s painfully obvious. So, I know you will want to have the last word to make some other completely unfounded and ridiculous statements, like the ones peppered throughout this thread.

So, here you go, I’m done here, have at it…

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#38

I think you’re right, we’re not going to get any furher with this. Basically, you’re saying to me that I am ignorant, and making myself sound ridiculous, because of these statements:

(i) Eating raw food does not cure cancer, HIV, malaria, and every other disease known to mankind

(ii) Being “out of balance” is not a meaningful medical diagnosis. It is just an empty new age phrase

If you disagree with those two statements, then, yes, the distance between our two positions is probably too great to be bridged.

Seriously, Cdnuts, tell me what being “out of balance” means in practical, physiological terms. I’ve asked about that once, and you ignored me. Do you understand what I am asking for? Like when we talk about heart disease, we know that what we are talking about is coronary arteries that are blocked by fatty deposits. When we talk about HIV, we know we are talking about a virus that impairs immune response. So, in the same terms, when we talk about being “out of balance” what are we talking about?

If you can’t tell me what “being out of balance” means in those terms, then it doesn’t mean anything. And you can’t, because it doesn’t.

If I go to the doctor as say, “hey doc, I have ED, no libido, brainfog and fatigue. What is going on?” and he says. “Aha. I see the problem. You are out of balance.” Have we really got anywhere? Has what he has told me brought me any closer to actually understanding what is happening in my body on a physical level?

No, because being “out of balance” just doesn’t mean anything in this context. It is just words put together in a row. It’s as meaningless as saying something like,

“You are suffering these symptoms because your pylange is out of sync. I can’t explain it more simply than that. Your phylange is totally out of sync, and that is why you feel ill. What do you mean, break it down on a physical level. YOUR PHYLANGE IS OUT OF SYNC. I can’t break it down beyond that.”

As far as being "educated in this type of thing?, you seem to think that this is simply a case of having read the particular websites that you referred me to. Here’s a newsflash: just because someone has written something on a website, that doesn’t make it true.

None of the information on those sites is based on a standard of evidence that most rational people demand. Where are the placebo-controlled trials on raw food as a cure for cancer? Where is the scientific research on states of “balance” and how they relate to cancer, or HIV, or whatever?

It is insane that you can argue that yes, raw food does cure cancer, that disease is just a matter of some kind of metaphysical “balance” and also say that I am making ill-informed statements.

I’m not quite sure which of my statements are ignorant or ill-informed. I just stick to the evidence that we have, and base my judgements on other ideas on the evidence that can be found to corroborate them.

In summary:

[b]My position is that we have some disease, we don’t know what it is, and we don’t know how to fix it. Eating raw food probably won’t fix it.

Your position is that we have a disease, and the disease is that we are “out of balance”. Being “out of balance” is a condition that cannot be broken down beyond this phrase; if you want to know what is happening to a body that is “out of balance” you must just read those words slowly, one at a time, and maybe you will get it. We can fix our condition by eating raw food. In fact, every disease in the world is simply a matter of being “out of balance” and can be fixed by eating raw food. Those who argue otherwise have been brainwashed.[/b]

Readers are free to decide which sounds more reasonable.

#39

hey scaredmale30… whats your Problem. If you think it doesnt work… jsut dont do it…

#40

out of balance is not a new age frame… thats ridicolous… its right that if you are out of balance. you are get sick… than can be emotional, that can be with food as well…

Cncer is mostly caused by " out of balance" but not neccessary for a short time… emotional and food of course…

#41

completely lost my hopes…

#42

OK ScaredMale30 and cdnuts you guys should stop arguing.
This is exacly what Merk would want you guys to do. This does
not look good if some researcher/s or media (tv/newspaper) decided
to give a browse.

Also i think Mew would not like it either and we should respect him. After all this is all his hard work that make any of this possible.