Psychedelics and food

[endlessness]

I've definitely changed my eating habits as a part of my personal development, and psychedelics have definitely acted as catalysts to some important changes in my path.

I can't say how I would have developed myself if I had never taken psychedelics, there's no 'control group' for myself. In any case I do feel that psychedelics have helped me becoming healthier in general, and have a broader and more balanced perspective on food.

Often it happened that on some psychedelic I ate something or thought about some food and realised it was not good to eat it. And many of these realisations are long lasting!

It's interesting that now I think of things from other levels too. For example, before, I might have bought some food and think just like: "hmm it's cheap and tasty". Now I add other levels like: how this food is for my health, where it came from and ecological/social costs, context where I'm consuming and social bonding, any symbolic meaning I can give to the food, etc etc. And then by considering these different levels and making my own subjective judgement, I can decide on what and how I eat. Also it's funny when you can see these levels happening with other people even though they might not be aware... Seeing weird people eat bad food is quite a scary sight on psychedelics

 

[Whatisreal]

"I've read lately and heard from couple different places that you get ~80% more nutrition eaten raw, because when cooked the proteins coagulate and makes it more difficult to unlock and digest."

Well, in the case of eggs they are actaully more digestable when cooked. If you eat an egg raw you wont absorb the ammount of nutrients that you when cooked.

http://jn.nutrition.org/content/128/10/1716.full

In general there is a lot of just bullshit information out there about raw food being more digestable etc..in some cases this is true..like with dairy..but in general this is not the case. You have to look at each specific food rather than just buy into the claims of people who would have you believe that eating raw food necessarily means you absorb more or it digests better etc. It is good to eat a certain ammount of raw food but other things are either better digested cooked or simply have to be cooked to even be edible.

We have had fire for a long time.

For sure jaime, I believe cooking is smart in many cases and maybe what I heard is not true. Maybe it is just as digestible...or slightly less? Either way, there seems to be some kind of therapeutic effect maybe...For example, one of my aunts when she was young and was a singer she would eat raw eggs, for her voice I guess. There seems to be some kind of myth surrounding this idea. And Rocky with the raw eggs, bodybuilders throwing raw eggs in smoothies...Is it a bad idea you think? I know the egg whites raw can lead to a biotin deficiancy, but otherwise I don't know.

 

[ObiWanKenobi]

Well personally I smoke weed and have ingested psilocybin on various occasions and since ive shroomed i have definitely become more aware of my diet. I definitely enjoy fruit more than i did before and i also notice scientific findings & studies ect. regarding diet more so than i did before. It may have something to do with emotion as well because i had a family member recently die of cancer and i did a lot of research on dietary cures and treatment for cancer.

this is interesting though, good luck with your findings!