Yep! Girl here raising her hand. :)Not sure about potatoes. Will have to look into them. But yes, just to be sure, I didn’t say I think the benefits of a fruit based diet was just based on the alkaline/acid balance. I don’t think anyone is saying that. No doubt there are other benefits from eating plenty of fruit as well. For example, fructose (from what Ray Peat has said and from the research I have seen) at least can help protect bones from the catabolic effect when there is insufficient calcium, etc. The fructose and magnesium and potassium which seem to influence the acid or alkaline load also has other positive effects. That said, the possible benefits of eating more alkaline forming foods isn’t something I can count out either since I have consistently noticed the difference when my diet is heavily acidic forming, which would seem to suggest that it may likely be in part due to then alakaline/acid balance. Over the past 15 + years of regular blood work and a near scientific level of tracking each new food I take out and put into my diet each once at a time, it always goes back to whether my diet is made up of heavily acid or alkaline forming foods. Even if my diet is heavy in high quality natural acidic forming foods, I notice the huge difference and this has been very consistent going back well over 15 years with me. And I’ve seen other ‘Peatarians’ say the same thing as well.
I very much relate to what you've said in your posts and it's really nice to meet someone else on here who has experienced the same things I have and has experimented in a similar fashion. The natural and high quality acidic products, the consistent blood work over the years and meticulous tracking, well, you get it. I have to agree about the green juice also, except I'm a big baby and don't like drinking it because of the taste. lol Celery juice gives me the same positive effects so that's my go to veggie juice. Anyhow, thanks for sharing your experience, Waremu!
Oh, and I forgot to address one of your comments – one thing that may be a factor in fruitarians not becoming too alkaline is many of them live in, or move to, warm climates and heat, in my understanding, is acidifying. It makes sense to me if I think about the climates in which fruit is most abundant. I believe this is one reason that a raw fruit diet in cool climates is harder to tolerate – the cold is alkalizing.
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