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...

Are there any planned fully raw retreats coming up with Dr. Doug? I know the one in June is coming up but that looks like it’s both cooked and raw vegan, not all raw. I’m interested in the 801010.

New interview with Doug Graham as part of the Love Fruit podcast-about 65 mins long: https://youtu.be/zHKjzv51HrI?feature=shared

Hey friends, What's your stance on buying Dole bananas or other fruit? Do you avoid at all costs because of the agregious human and environmental rights violations or do you see it as a necessary evil to be able to eat enough bananas? I generally avoid them whenever possible because I don't want to support that but here on Crete the only alternative to Dole bananas are the local greenhouse grown bananas, which are much more expensive and sometimes tough to get enough of. It's a bit frustrating.

Hi friends, This month marks about 10 years that I have been fruit based raw vegan. I feel like I am not as active in the raw vegan world as I would like to be, and although I don't consider myself a raw vegan "expert" by any means, I guess I have a good amount of experience under my belt now that I could share. I don't know if my experience as a raw vegan will be of any interest to anyone here, but I figure if I can help or inspire just 1 person it's worth it for me to share. I was raised eating a largely whole foods vegetarian diet, but I did eat a lot of dairy. I first became aware of raw foods when I went to university in Montreal and lived for 2 years with a professional chef at Montreal's biggest raw food restaurant. He wasn't raw or vegan himself but he did have lots of books about raw foods in the apartment. At this point I had already been struggling with anorexia for about 6 years but for the first couple years of my degree I managed to maintain a healthy weight and overall good level of health. When I went to live with Barry the raw food chef ,it coincided with me slipping back into a relapse, and I was very preoccupied with my body and calories and losing weight. These books ( don't worry Doug, your's wasn't one of them) unfortunately only exacerated my downward spiral by planting seeds in my head about "detox" and cleansing my body. I started dabbling with raw food meals but my weight was simultaneously decreasing very quickly because I was drastically undereating and when I flew back home for Christmas I narrowly avoided hospitalization by agreeing to let my Mom take charge of my food intake. Despite her good intentions, this involved a "refeeding" diet consisting of lots of cheese and eggs, nuts, starches and many other high calorie but hard to digest foods. I slowly gained weight and was allowed to return to university with supervision, meaning I had to move out of Barry's place and rent a flat with Mom, therefor continuing with the high fat, high protein vegetarian diet. I felt horrible but distracted myself with my studies and the belief that I was doing the right thing. One day I was watching some video on youtube about something totally unrelated and vegan activist Gary Yourofsky's "best speech you'll ever hear" pops up in my "recommended " sidebar. For those who don't know what I'm talking about this is a well known speech about the realities of how animals are treated in animal ag. I clicked on it of course and watched the whole thing start to finish in one go. By the end I was in tears and told my Mom I have to go vegan. After the initial shock she watched the video too and couldn't help but agree, so we started researching" how to gain weight on vegan diet". And of course what we found was "eat lots of nuts", "eat lots of grains, legumes, tofu, peanut butter!" ...