Happy day all!!

Fast forwarding a bit to bring you news on the Woodstock Fruit Festival as well as the results from my 3rd annual Blood work as I near 7 years as a 100% low fat raw vegan without the use of supplements or super foods.
Hope you enjoy it tons!!

Well well well the description above almost tells it all, Or does it?
While enjoying time at Finca de Vida http://farmoflifecr.com a amazing Raw Food Health and Wellness Retreat Center here in Costa Rica I have had the pleasure of meeting my new friend Dr Samuel Mielcarski. Dr Sam will also be presenting at the Woodstock Fruit Festival in NYC State this August 18th to 25th, its sure to be rawdiculous! Check out his site he is a amazing physical therapist as well as the creator of the “Revolutionary Rehab Manual,” an innovative resource that provides a common sense method to health and healing. Since Reading Dr Sam’s Manual I couldnt help but become a affiliate. I really feel anyone and everyone could benifit from his expertise and well written manual.

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I also happen to know that he offers a full money back guarantee as well dont jah know!

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The Woodstock Fruit Festival is set in the Menla Mountain Retreat located in a woodland valley of the Catskill Mountains of New York State. Menla is a serene sanctuary surrounded by the untouched beauty of the national forest preserve, abundant wildlife, rushing streams and rivers, and ancient rounded mountains. The Retreat is operated by Tibet House US which was founded at the request of His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, who visited Menla in 2006 for a Health & Longevity Conference. Aside from its natural splendor, the area offers such activities as canoeing, hiking, bicycle riding, tubing, swimming, and just taking in the exquisite beauty and healing forces of nature.

Along with Dr Samuel so many other amazing people will be presenting and bringing and sharing their expertise in health and fitness including Michael “the fruitarian”& Victoria Arnstein, Dr Doug Graham, Harley “durianrider” & Freelee, Dan McDonald, Anne Osborne, Don Bennett, Grant “Raw Aussie Athlete” Campbel, Tim Van Orden, Ellen Livingston among many others! Excpect fun talks, engaging presentations, gentle hatha yoga, Kundalini, raw power yoga, strenuous workouts, kayaking, long distance biking, running and a few workshops and rants! SUre to be amazing. I am really excited to be sharing my favorite yoga classes, Kundalini and Raw power yoga every morning from 10:45 – 11:45

as well as heading the kitchen for the dinner buffet, dinner for 300 anyone!!! This will be my biggest kitchen challenge, really excited and feeling mighty Blessed, Thanks Yuliya, Michael and VIctoria!! SO excited to meet and flow with everyone! The event runs from august 18th to august 25th, I highly recomend you check more out at http://www.thewoodstockfruitfestival.com and sign up to attend or volunteer.

Below is the sites signup info

The Woodstock Fruit Festival is completely not-for-profit.
We are determined to keep the cost for all participants at the lowest rate possible. The current full price for campers is $795. We also have a limited amount of indoor housing options at higher prices.
If you would like to attend the festival please follow the instructions and notices below:
Step 1: Click here to start the application process by creating a profile on TheWoodstockFruitFestival.com.
Step 2: On April 1 you will receive an email with a link to fill out a questionnaire and application form for the event.
PLEASE NOTE: Application submissions to attend The Woodstock Fruit Festival will take place between April 1 and April 10.
The profile you create in Step 1 above will not show on the festival website until after your application has been reviewed and deposit is received.
We will get in touch with all applicants by April 30.
If you are interested in our Work Exchange program, you will have an opportunity to indicate it in the application.

Really Hope to see you there!!!

TO the Blood work!! Nearig 7 years as a 100% raw vegan, 3 years of consecutive full spectrum blood tests, I am more than secure in my lifestye. Not that I have had any doubt, my feelings of vitality and wellness ever cycling and growing to higher vibrations loving every minute of it. I feel blessed to have such a awesome MD, Dr Alex, whom has been dillegent in providing me excellent feedback regarding my bloodtests.

If you havent seen my last years blood work video “blood work results and Charlizes 2nd bday madness” I highly recomend you watch it and feel free to compare values.

To this years blood tests, check them out here

2011 full spectrum Blood Tests for Chris Kendall after 6 1/2 years as a raw vegan.

When I went to pick up my blood tests the Doctor there asked “Why do you want them, there is nothing wrong with you” ahaha. Too fun, I mentioned that I wished to share them with my Web sites Raw Vegan Blog watchers, they then made me pay for the printouts ahha.

In comparing my blood work this year with the ones last year, that by the way my Dr told me “This is the best blood work I have ever seen”, there are only slight variations of values. Some areas are on the low end for the average person, some on the high end but that said I have never been looking for a average lifestyle. Its important to note that the rda’s as well as what is considered normal Values in Blood work is highly subjective. That is they are determined off of what the average person needs, or has in the case of blood work, to be in general health. Im not looking for general health, I am only wishing to Thrive!

When one eats a standard diet certain nutrient needs go up, namely alkaline minerals as well as certain antioxidants and vitamins. All that said my needs would be very different than the “average” person, much lower in many regards. That said my test numbers meet the  reference ranges for nutrients tested with these tests and by my Doctors word in the optimal values. Its interesting to note that the number of essential nutrients ever increases, a few decades ago nutritional science indicated we had a few dozen essential nutrients while now we know there are thousands if not hundreds of thousands. Plant food contains much more than we know, but what we do know is fruits and vegetables offer the nutrients we need in the ratios we need them more so than any other food on the planet! In fact Fruits are # 1` in more categories of essential nutrient needs in the ratios we need them than any food, and vegetables come in number two!

One value that this is often talked about in is b12. B12 levels in the general public are unreliable to base averages off of these days as most grain products, many dairy products and other “foods” are sprayed with supplemental b12. What most people don’t know is that this b12 to the greatest extent can be in analogue form. That is in a form that the body recognises as usable but in reality cant be used by the body. Because of this mix up b12 receptor sites get clogged up by analogue b12 and can result in poor absorbtion (one of many reasons for this) of active b12. The reality is b12 deficency is common in all types of diet, reguardless of vegan vegitarian pectatarian or omnivor. Absorbtion is as big or bigger a issue than exposure. 7 years as a raw vegan, no supliments, eating simple often one food at a time when hungry till full has for me not only ensured but been proven optimal.

I am not against supplementing especially if fasting isnt a option as that would be my first protocol and natures truest one. Otherwise when there are clear absorbtion issues with nutrient need or clear signs of early deficiency there is no need to be dogmatic and abstain from a vegan supplement that can improve your conditions until proper digestion and absorption can be regained. In the end it all comes to us and our needs/preferences in self care. I do maintain a simple hygienic  diet among other hygienic lifestyle factors affords the highest measure of health vitality and exuberance one can obtain!

Spread this video as well as my last years blood work video “blood work results and Charlizes 2nd bday madness” to those who wish more proof that a simple raw vegan diet can not only provide all we need to survive but all we need to thrive at our highest potential!

I look forward to continue walk the walk offering myself as example, or as Doug Graham puts it “be the Lighthouse” and for those who need it, Proof.

much

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