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#11
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Like heals like

Eating raw versions of foods repairs similar tissues and detoxifies their cooked counterparts.

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Eating raw meat can repair similar specific tissues in the body. Eating raw foods detoxifies the toxic by-products of cooked foods that were eaten in the past.

For example, in case of liver damage, eating raw liver can speed up healing. For anyone that ate cooked dairy in the past, eating raw dairy will help pull out those stored toxins. Eating muscle meat will heal muscles faster even if the cut isn't exactly the equivalent of the muscle that needs repair.

Each food has specific bacteria, and when an organism dies, its own bacteria consumes it, which helps recycle it. The same happens in the body: debris from cooked foods will be removed efficiently by a similar or identical raw food.

Raw nutrients bind to their toxic counterparts: raw iron binds to toxic iron, raw calcium removes cauterized calcium from pasteurized dairy, etc.

This is a general rule with important exceptions: sometimes the best remedy isn't just "the same thing but raw." For liver damage, Aajonus would recommend first and foremost raw animal fat, with raw liver as a supplement. For cooked sugar toxicity, he'd mainly recommend raw celery juice and unheated honey.