Hi friends, I'm curious how feasible it would be to do a long distance hike as a raw vegan. I'm thinking like several weeks long, Appalachian trail type backpacking. Has anyone ever done anything like this? Doug do you have any ideas or experiences? I would imagine that it would be fairly easy in most parts of Europe to maintain a fruit based diet since there's so many small villages where you could stop to stock up, but more remote hikes in other parts of the world maybe considerably harder? Would it be worth it to rely heavily on dates and dehydrated fruits for days/weeks on end just to be able to do something like this?

I can't tolerate any citrus or acid right now. Anyone have any good dressing recipes? I desperately need some. Thanks!

Hey everyone check out the Youtube video that Chris Kendall posted on Therawadvantage channel. He interviews Doug on the microbiome! Its great.🥭💚🍑🍉

Does anyone have a tele-health doctor they recommend? I need someone that can order specific labs, which mainstream doctors don't seem to know about. Functional medicine doctors do, but they mostly seem to be on the high-fat, high-salt side of the dietary divide, and I'd rather not pay to have someone tell me to eat differently. (In case it matters, the tests I need ordered are ZnT8, MMP-9, and TGFb1.) Thanks!

Hi friends, I am really struggling right now. A few days ago I bruised my ribs for the 3rd time in the past year. I'm concerned because all I was doing was trying to open a stiff door in a way that was putting some pressure on my rib area. That injury has prevented me from doing most of my calisthenics routine that I am trying to build up to increase my bone density. Then this morning I woke up with a throbbing foot just out of the blue. The symptoms seem to be consistent with a stress fracture and I cannot walk at all. To give some honest background info, I am 31 yrs old and have struggled with anorexia for the last 18 years and have been consistently underweight for that entire time. I had a bone scan done about 6 years ago which showed that I had pre-osteoporosis in most areas of my body. I typically walk around 2 hours a day at a very fast pace in addition to my calisthenics and manual labor/gardening a few hours each day, and when I am unable to do this I have a really hard time eating and intentionally decrease my calorie intake as I still fear gaining weight and being sedentary. I also hardly ever allow myself to sit and rest which I'm wondering if that has contributed to my foot injury. I realize that eating disorders are a tricky condition to understand if you don't have experience with it but I'm hoping someone here might be able to give me some words of wisdom. Thanks, Dareios