I sat down with raw food expert David Wolfe yesterday here in my home in Newtown, CT to answer your questions from the blog! 

David is one of the most knowledgeable raw food experts in the world and somebody that I always turn to for advise.

The interview was 45 minutes long so I had to break it down into 5 videos. 

Enjoy!

Alex Ortner

Part 1 of 5

Part 2 of 5

Part 3 of 5

Part 4 of 5

Part 5 of 5

My friend Frank Giglio was in town with David Wolfe today (David did an AMAZING talk last night at Catch a Healthy Habit in Fairfield, CT) so we decided to do some smoothies demos to show you.  Frank is an amazing chef over with over 15 years of experience.  Enjoy the amazing videos below and make sure to leave your comments and questions for Frank below.

I’ll also be sitting down with David Wolfe tonight to have him answer questions from the last few days.  If you have a question for David you can also post that below.

Hope you’re having a wonderful day!

-Alex Ortner

Cold Smoothie – Part 1 of 2

Cold Smoothie – Part 2 of 2

Cold Smoothie Recipe:
2 cups pure water, coconut water, or nut milk
1 frozen pack Sambozen Acai(1 cup frozen org berries will work great too)
1/4 cup cacao beans
1 Tablespoons melted coconut oil
2-3 Tablespoons coconut butter
1 teaspoon medicinal mushrooms
1t-1T maca root(start w/ 1t if you are new to maca)
1/2 teaspoon spirulina
Sweetener to taste

Hot Smoothie

Warm Medicinal Mushroom Chocolate Elixir:
3 cups medicinal mushroom tea(chaga used here)
1 Tablespoon melted coconut oil
2-3 Tablespoons coconut butter
1t-1T maca root(start w/ 1t if you are new to maca)
2 Tablespoons cacao powder
1/4 teaspoon vanilla powder
3 capsules medicinal mushrooms(I used Agarikon from Fungi.com <http://Fungi.com> )
Sweetener to taste

I took some time to sit down and answer a few of the questions that were asked in Sunday’s post.  A lot of the questions were about Diabetes and so I’m going to work on getting Dr. Cousens on the phone this week and if not next week to answer those questions.

We also had a lot of questions from yesterday’s post!  I’ll work to get those answered in the coming days as well.  I may have a special guest stopping by my house tomorrow and I’ll see if I can get him to answer some of the questions as well.  He’s somebody who has been one of my teachers for years and I know you’ll recognize him. 

Until then, here are some of your questions answered from Sunday’s post.  I was going to post this yesterday but thought it was too many videos for one day.  I didn’t want to overload you! So when I refer to the “video above” I’m referring to the video from yesterday’s post. 

If you have additional questions on any raw food and health topic please feel free to ask them below.  Hopefully I’ll get this expert to answer all the questions for you! 

One of the questions that I get all the time is how do you stay raw.  So I wanted to show you EXACTLY what myself and my wife do every morning to get going with our raw food for the day…

I put together a candid video for you that I literally filmed right after my morning workout. You’ll see that I’m still in my exercise clothing!

But I wanted you to see what I do every day and show you the simple smoothies and juices that we typically make in the mornings.

You’ll see the video below.

I hope you enjoy the video.  Make sure to leave me your feedback! 

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Part 2:

Today is April 25th, 2010, the second annual Reversing Diabetes Action Day.    This is a day where many of us in the raw and living foods community come together to spread accurate information about how to reverse diabetes naturally.

When we formed this day last year it was because we were tired of being excluded from World Diabetes Day
by the drug company funded organizers of the event.

We decided that if they weren’t going to allow accurate information into their event that we’d form our own!

So here’s some of what we’ll be doing this week:

1 – For starters we’re going to be giving away the film “Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days” and the
companion “Raw for Life” Encyclopedia for 50% OFF the regular price!   Plus we’re also giving away another
$110.85 in additional bonuses.

You can check that out here:

http://www.rawfor30days.com/2010Action

2 – We’re going to be bringing you several great  interviews with leading raw food experts. But before I
get on the phone with these experts I want to know  exactly what you want to have discussed in these
interviews.

Leave me your comments, questions and opinions on what you’d like to learn more about, where you’re
struggling and what you find hard or easy with trying to eat a raw food diet.

You can leave all of your comments below.

Lastly, if you want to help us get this information out then please share these interviews during the week, tell others about the 50% OFF sale, or lend them your copy if you already have one (We love it when people share their film!).

I hope you enjoy your Sunday! 

Thanks for your continued support,

Alex Ortner

P.S. – If you haven’t yet picked up a copy of Simply Raw please take advantage of our 50% OFF sale this week.

We’re not able to have the price this cheap all the time because of regular expenses and operating costs but we love being able to get as many copies out there as we can and we know that this will help! 

http://www.rawfor30days.com/2010Action

Leave us your comments, questions and opinions on what you’d like to learn more about, where you’re struggling and what you find hard or easy with trying to eat a raw food diet below and we’ll get your questions answered this week!

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A Video Message from Alex Ortner, Executive Producer of “Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days”…

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Actor Woody Harrelson and Morgan Spurlock, Director of film “Super Size Me” talk about eating Raw.

Michael Beckwith from “The Secret”, Dr. Gabriel Cousens and David Wolfe talk about eating Raw