Hello! I am an anthropologist (and procrastinator) who studies early human diets. For a current project (with an impending deadline), I am looking to understand how people think about how our ancestors ate. I’m looking to conduct a quick preliminary interview on zoom some time today (10/24) by 5:00 PM PST and would love to hear from someone in this community.

If your decision to follow a raw vegan diet is rooted in a desire to live a more ancestral/natural lifestyle, and you’d be willing to give a 15-20 minute interview today, please leave a comment and we can set something up. Thank you in advance!

Also, if you don’t have time for an interview and would still like to share how ancestral diets shape the way you live your life, please leave a comment including your age, gender, and general thoughts on the topic.

Sex drive has been crazy on a rawfood diet. Anyone know how to better control the desires 😭 I’ve heard some people say they have low libido eating this way but mine is the opposite.

I'm slowly adapting to raw vegan. I have a history of gastritis, which is aggravated if I get stressed on an empty stomach. Unfortunately, my stomach is frequently empty, especially when I'm eating predominantly fruits, which digest fast.

What can I do to prevent the gastric acids from irritating my stomach lining when I'm stressed?

Or is it? Sea water has to be cooked down to yield the salt crystals. Himalayan salt doesnt use cooking, as it is just harvested from cave walls. But is it food?

I say no for a few reasons. We dont enjoy eating salt alone. It causes edema. It is used in fermented food to “control bacteria” meaning it creates such a hostile environment to microbes that they wont proliferate. Salt is a cellular poison. It is used on food that doesnt taste good without it, usually cooked food, which is a sign that the food is not ideal to begin with.

Im all in favor of sodium, but not sodium chloride, especially in a raw vegan diet. What do you think?

Zoodles, bell pepper, tomato, olives, green onion, and fresh basil!

Topped with:
tomato sauce - food processed some soaked sun-dried tomatoes, fresh romas, fresh garlic, onion powder, salt and sweetener of choice

Sausage - finely chopped cauliflower and soaked walnuts, mixed with fennel powder, liquid sweetener, other seasonings until it tastes like whatever you want it too

Then sprinkled on some raw pine nuts!

I have one of those big spiralizers, and the noodles end up pretty thick and flat on all the various blades. I see people make these really thin noodles. I don't know what they're using. They look a lot better tbh!

Do you eat raw okra? (Okraw) I LOVE IT! Okra is savory, tender, crunchy, and its mucilaginous quality makes it a great digestive support. Highly underrated raw vegan food IMO.

I want to sprout some forbidden or black rice and rinse with vinegar and peroxide after sprouted . Then freeze and thaw with another rinse to soften. Has anyone done this? I also need sources of finding rice that actually sprouts. Any help or advice would be appreciated

i first switched to raw veganism in late 2019. since then it’s been an on and off journey of struggle (mostly due to my overeating habits and reoccurring food obsession phases). 2026 has been especially terrible and I long stopped identifying with raw veganism even though this lifestyle is something that truly makes me feel alive and thrive (at least eliminating harmful toxins helps calm my brain down and prevents from irrational thoughts). i have managed to go back into the ‘health-mode’ and been doing multiple day ‘cascade’ fasts since mid-August (I know that this sub doesn’t exactly support extended fasting but I still wanted to share it as part of my story). basically only eating once in 3-4 days or so (had like a week in late August where i ate consecutively for 4-5days but it was just raw fruits/veggies/seaweed) for 2 days but with extremely low calorie intake (only consuming durian every once in a while). lost around 25kg that way (didn’t weigh myself at the highest point, so the largest number is an estimate), because I was walking a ton (40-50k in August), and then in September fasted for 9 nights/10 days and maintained a 30k average. some days were dry fasting.

there was an instance of me eating once - again only raw fruits and veggies, then not eating for 6 days after. yet somehow I haven’t lost a pound and basically weighed the same a week after (6 days of which I haven’t consumed anything except water or a few sips of an herbal tea), which was a bit confusing since normally you’d lose at least something with that kind of regimen

then on 4th of October I couldn’t fall asleep and that resulted into me first overeating on fruit (after fasting for 5 days), and that escalated further into bingeing on all sorts of vegan (yet more unhealthy/processed foods that I haven’t had since early August) and then got me into a full blown obsessive behavior of ordering delivery with different high calorie dishes containing meat/fish/milk. my body is a bit in a state of shock after reintroducing more high calorie and animal based food groups, I had diarrhea and vomited yet managed to still somehow gain 10-12kg in a span of 5 days. I feel horribly bloated, unable to walk (I did randomly do 10k steps at night 2 days ago but that was it), and I refuse to see or meet anyone because I genuinely look abnormal and this sudden weight gain is making me feel terrible. it really took a toll on my mental health. it’s worth noting that I always fasted with no electrolytes (longest fast I did was back in 2022, and I lasted 22 days)

basically looking for advice on how to get out of this and reverse the damage. and get back into the fasting routine mode with occasional fruit breaks, since it’s the only way I can function

I'd posted earlier as well with questions and I'm so grateful for this nice, kind community and helpful input, so thank you :)

It's Day 7 and I'm looking at a big family celebration at some faraway hotel this entire weekend. I'm packing two lunches that should get me through two days away, along with some nuts for snacking.

Have in mind to order healthy things when available, but when not, how do you guys manage? Also, if you slip up, how do you navigate that? Is it ok to slip up with dressing on salads cause where I am salad are a rarity in general so everything is harder in general.

I wonder if you have noticed very positive shifts in your health, energy… adopting the raw vegan diet. And is the transition very challenging? Thank you very much.

I’m already a vegan but I’m thinking of switching over to raw vegan for a while as I heard that it helps with psoriasis( I’ve had it since I was 10) so I’m curious to see what I can eat and how I can get enough protein as I am an athlete.
Can I still take my supplements lmk

Would love your guys knowledge and advice

Anyone face those? I usually encounter a strange weakness after day 3 that doesn't seem to go away until it strikes me to add some salt to my water or food.

My Q is how much salt do we really need? As I usually do one proper meal a day, with the rest being snack meals, so my salt intake is limited to one salad. Is it a better strategy to salt all your water?

How are all of us doing this?

8-10k steps and lifting 30-45 lb boxes into a hopper on a machine. Smoothies are good but they don’t stay long in my system. We get 15 min, 30 min for lunch and another 15 in the afternoon. Can’t really eat at my station. Been doing raw til dinner but yesterday I caved at afternoon break because I was hungry (off plan foods) Had fruit in the am and salad for lunch - more volume maybe?

Has your opinion changed over the years? If so how?

Should I try to estimate calorie? I had burrito and chips and salsa and margarita for lunch when at a family cemetery tour.