Where I live, celery is pretty much inedible in summer. I feel like its a crucial component of the raw vegan diet, and I'm not really sure what to do without it. any suggestions?

Hello everybody, I have a question about sun protecting. Some days ago, I heard a long term raw vegan, talking about regretting non having used sun protection products for years. I was wondering what other raw vegans were doing. Personally, I am mixed and I tan easily, so I never was really worried about it. I would mostly put some sunscreen for the first hot day in swimwear and then only on my face or sometimes even not just protecting my face with a hat when sunbathing or hiking. On the mountain when hiking I would sometimes put on some sunscreen too or when traveling and going to the beach. But I never had the occasion to experience tropical sun during the summer, so more intense one, to really worry. But yeah, now I ask myself questions and I would be grateful for sharings.

This is my first Winter following 811rv (started in June 2025). This is also my first winter dealing with a strange issue. Starting around November I started experiencing finger swelling and pain at night. I travelled to CA for 12 days and the condition totally resolved. However, after being back for about a week it started again. It lasted till I traveled south again. I stayed in CA one week, then went to HI, then Guam, and then two weeks in Ecuador. Once I came back, the fingers started swelling and later on fissuring within a week of being back. My father is insisting that I increase my fat intake , suggesting cor liver oil, claiming that it has always been part of the diet of northern climate dwellers. I want to stay true to 811rv but I find it strange that this wasnt an issue in previous years. If anyone has any suggestions I’m opened to hearing them. The swelling mostly affects my fifth fingers of both hands, and now it’s starting to affect my middle one.

I've had more episode of angular cheilitis since starting my raw 811 journey in June 2025 than ever before. And they're painful! I hear its caused by nutrient deficiency (B2, B12, zinc..?) and/or bacterial/fungal infection. So in a diet that supposedly provides all we, humans, need, why is this happening so much more frequently? I can barely open my mouth with those painful fissures...

Hey everybody, Right before, I opened an email from Dr Graham about cooked food. You probably also received it. It is a live also a live announcement for tonight. I don’t know what Dr Graham is going to exactly discuss, but I wanted to share my personal experience too. Because although to me, eating a raw vegan changed my life, giving myself a vitality I didn’t even know I could experiment. I never had experienced this high raw formula that many people do, so in a way maybe I couldn’t know about this exact formula. I had had talks with different people telling me, that they preferred it this way. For sustainability reasons, comfort ones, budget or taste ones. I never tried taking this path back, because to me it was clear, I had finally found what was permitting me to digest food, heal my women period troubles, like heavy heavy pain, despair mood to euphoria and more heavily, get my vitality back. Sport was even more fun, I felt even more connected to nature, more connected to myself, people and the world etc But, different things happened to me since summer 2024. I lived an important trauma, lived panick for months with all the symptoms that its include like insomnia etc, pushed myself to my extreme limits till burning out, but I won’t developed it, since I did different posts about those things. But yeah, to sum up I was living on a survival mode. And I was carrying a lot of things from the past, that I had never felt having the time to completely integrate. This impacted my state a lot. There are different posts about it. But what I want to share with you, is the changes I felt, when I began including some cooked food, since I couldn’t afford fully raw anymore, for my actual big appetite and little government help, while recovering. I tried to be as positive as I could about this change. I had the « chance » to have some people reassuring me about this. Because to me, it definitely felt despairing, scary and sort of like a step backwards. I say the chance, because, even though, I have more than the proof now, that cooked food is definitely not for me, even « just some potatoes ». It was so much of a difficult time at this period, on every aspect and even more financially, not knowing how I would live, that even thought those people were people that or didn’t know about raw food effects or even more importantly didn’t know about how it could affect my body, at least I had to eat and I would keep going.