Viewer Comment About Raw Eggs - Raw Eggs, Toxic?
Addressing viewer comment concerning raw eggs and vitamin A.
I received the following email in response to my last newsletter, ‘The Benefits of Raw Eggs’.
Hi Jeff,
My apologies that I haven’t been able to subscribe yet. My husband and I don’t see eye to eye on the importance of your work. I do however, look forward with much anticipation to your emails!!
On this one, please take my challenge as someone not trying to correct you but urging you to look at the work of Grant Genereux and Dr Garrett Smith. Both have done extensive research and proper scientific experiments towards establishing the fact that vit A is poisonous and stored by the body in the liver and various other storage places when the liver reaches capacity.
I have eaten many raw eggs and also raw milk until I was unable to tolerate both. I ran out of storage space. I’m 48 now and am undoing years of so called healthy eating.
I’ve been vit A ultra low now for 2 years and have seen incredible results including reversing arthritis.
It has been your work that has helped me put together all the pieces of the puzzle and there’s still more to understand. I have recommended your work to many of the people in our group. Garrett runs nutritiondetective.com and Grant is now 9 years ultra low vA including getting what he thinks is a world record low vA blood count while eye sight is improving including the healing of partial colour blindness.
I have had the flu 7 times in the last 20 months. Thank you for helping me understand why. For a decade I had the flu only a handful of times. My whole system was blocked and unable to detoxify.
The truth about eggs is they are highly toxic. The yolk is full of vA and the whites have tonnes of Sulfur.
My response:
Hello,
Respectfully, since you are not subscribed, you have not read my full article on the benefits of raw eggs. Therefore, you are coming from a place of limited information regarding my knowledge of raw eggs. If what you say about raw eggs and raw milk were true, I would have experienced negative side effects many times over in the past 17 years during which I have eaten such foods. Instead, I have only benefited. Your claims about raw eggs are patently false.
Concerning vitamin A: Raw vitamin A found in whole foods is not toxic to the body in normal amounts. However, cooked vitamin A is mostly cauterized due to heat, and consuming large amounts can lead to increased storage in the body, similar to other heated vitamins and minerals. Over time, these vitamins and minerals can accumulate and form stones and cause other issues in the body.
Vitamin A is crucial for the functioning of the human body. Therefore, when you confidently assert that your vitamin A levels are extremely low, I must question whether you fully comprehend the potential harm you may be causing to your body. Many whole and natural foods contain vitamin A. Claiming that vitamin A is toxic implies that most natural foods meant for the human body are inadequate because they naturally contain vitamin A. By that estimation, no foods would be fit for consumption.
In the inevitable event that you become ill, particularly during a severe detoxification process, having optimal levels of vitamin A stored in your liver becomes crucial for supporting immune function and tissue repair. You can surmise the negative effects that could occur if the body does not have optimal amounts to draw upon.
Vitamin A toxicity is rare and typically occurs from consuming excessive amounts of synthetic vitamin A supplements or consuming extreme amounts of foods that are rich in vitamin A, such as liver. What you are claiming is not within the realm of normality. Under normal circumstances, vitamins from raw foods are optimally regulated by storing or flushing out excessive amounts that are not needed by the body. When whole foods are consumed, such as whole raw eggs, they are complete food packages that contain a complex of many vitamins and minerals that function together harmoniously. Therefore, the extreme vitamin levels you refer to are virtually impossible to achieve, especially when consuming raw foods.
Concerning sulfur in eggs: The sulfur in eggs offers several benefits to the human body. Sulfur is an essential nutrient that plays a vital role in various physiological processes, such as protein synthesis, antioxidant activity, detoxification, joint health, and skin and hair health.
When you claim to have eaten many raw eggs and raw milk, I would like to know how you have consumed these foods, in what quantities, and how often. My research has undeniably proven that such foods promote optimal health, and thousands of people have benefited accordingly. None of the effects you claim to have experienced from those foods have ever been observed by anyone who has genuinely followed such a diet, nor have I observed them in any of the patients I have helped counsel.
Any issues you may have had with raw milk or raw eggs are most likely due to these foods facilitating the removal of stored toxicity of their cooked counterparts, such as cooked lactose, in the case of raw milk.
Remember that anyone can say or claim anything whatsoever, especially on the internet. To the average person who does not understand the complexities of human biology, they may be misled by false claims, fads, or trends. However, what separates the wheat from the chaff is displaying a deep understanding of human biology and its functioning as a cohesive organism, and the role of food in supporting the human body.
Jeff Green
What separates the wheat from the chaff is the understanding that the mind is inferior to the body.
Here’s a kicker for you: the body doesn’t know what Vitamin A, sulfur, enzyme B, protein GF23 or albumin are. These are merely names invented by the mind in order to explain things to each other. It’s the human mind that dissects the whole to a myriad of separate parts, giving them names and arranging them in datasets, from which it then imposes on the body as formulas.
This approach is then extended outward as the vanity of modern consciousness to assume it can instill a linear pattern on society from the top down, and that everything will align to the T in turn. But on the way to get there creates further instability and sickness (i.e. Covid, climate change). The “cherry on top” is the insanity of doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.
This brings forth the modern mentality of “mind diet” in which the body is subjected to theoretical impositions: counting calories, measuring vitamin intake, fats, carbs, proteins and so on, which deepens the dis-connect from one’s body.
In reality, no two bodies are alike. Raw eggs, meat and milk may indeed be superb for Jane but incompatible to John. Cooked eggs, meat and milk may be terrible for Mark but superb for Bob. Which one is the right approach?! All of them. To the mind that siphons reality through a mutual exclusive filter, however, this is considered an abomination.
In other words, many of your assertions are correct and indeed beneficial, but they can never be a ‘one size fits all’. The stubbornness to insist they are, shows rigidity of mind and lack of humility.
I have great respect for Aajonus Volderplanitz; his work and contribution. I may not agree with everything he entertains, but that is of no importance. It’s his approach and attitude in being open and accepting to deviations that renders him a healer.
It is clear to me that the only sensible way forward, that is of true value, is a customized approach. Any health practitioner, wellness guru and whatnot can no longer rely on giving two bodies the same regimen. Rather, a customized approach based on one’s differentiation, incorporating diet, environment and decision-making as a unified trinity, for in truth they are not separate as the mind likes to believe.
To speak of the complexity of "the" human body is really not accurate, because we are not genetically similar as each tribal/ethnic group used to be when living isolated from other tribal/ethnic groups. So, let's make a long story short: I think you are both correct and that is due to so much admixture brought about by migration and intermixing, even within racial groups.
You may be right, though, Jeff, as regards bad symptoms being caused by detoxification in some cases. It can be a most confusing and frustrating journey largely caused by inability to interpret symptoms; and by the time we've got it figured out - then next thing you know, your Time has arrived. I tend to think that trying to fulfill ourselves through following some dream or other will ultimately be the most important factor in good health.
I'd like to support you but everyone (not excluding me) always has an excuse; it's called money.