Raw Summit Interview with Matt Monarch

Raw Summit Interview with Matt Monarch Kevin:

Hi, everyone, this is Kevin Gianni, Optimal Health Expert, and I’d like to welcome you to a very special Raw Summit Teleseminar, which can be found online at www.rawsummit.com. The purpose of the Raw Summit is to pass along cutting edge information about raw and living food technologies for you to reach optimal health, wellness, and success. Today, I have a special guest who has been a 100% raw for over 7 years and is the author of Raw Spirit, a book on transitioning and thriving with the raw food lifestyle. So Matt Monarch, I want to welcome you to the Raw Summit.

Matt:

Thank you, thank you for having me.

Kevin:

This is going to be an awesome interview; I know it already and let’s start just by telling everyone how you got to here, where you are right now.

Matt:

How I became 100% raw?

Kevin:

Absolutely.

Matt:

Alright. Seven years ago, I’m from California, I was actually living and working in New York City. I actually had an ideal job at, you know MTV Networks working in Times Square. So here I am, on the Standard American Diet. One day, I was in my office and this man handed me a book and it is called “Become Younger” by Dr. Norman Walker. This man supposedly lived well over 100 years old and I opened that book and I couldn’t believe what I was reading, like what certain foods were actually doing to my system and how they were damaging me. To be honest with you I didn’t even know raw food diet existed at that time, I thought I had the healthiest diet anyone could eat. So I finished that book overnight, and the next day I went 100% raw, 7 years ago and I’ve never looked back since.

Kevin:

Wow! What was the feeling when you are reading that book; I mean what sort of things came upon you as you were looking through this at night?

Matt:

Well, I’m sitting there reading what certain foods that I was continually eating were doing to me, such as refined sugar and processed starches, and I just couldn’t believe it. I thought I’ve discovered something huge. I thought I’ve discovered gold. I thought my family, my friends were going to be following me, all sorts of amazing things are going to happen. Yes, that didn’t quite happen but hey, hey.

Kevin:

How were you feeling before and then when you started to make the transition, did you make the transition right away?

Matt:

I made the transition that night when I finished the book, and before that I didn’t have any health issues, I’ve had energy, I was doing great actually.

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Kevin:

Okay, and when you made the transition, did you just start 100% raw?

Matt:

Yes. I went 100% raw overnight.

Kevin:

Okay. Now let’s talk about that. Let’s talk about what – we’ll start first with, what did you think - how did feel when you went 100% raw?

Matt:

Well, I wasn’t really sure what was going to be happening. I mean when I made the decision, it was a done deal, there was no turning back. So I went 100% raw, and to be honest with you I didn’t know anything that was going to happen. I went through detoxification and I was a little confused, additionally I would, you know you’re not used to that full feeling anymore. I mean when you eat cooked food you got that full feeling from eating you know cooked food and when you only eat raw food you don’t get that full satiating warm feeling in your stomach anymore. So, I was confused in all fronts and when I would eat cooked, raw food, I would eat too much and I wouldn’t have energy and certain things like that happen. But I assisted my detoxification with something called colon hydrotherapy, Colonic Irrigation.

Kevin:

Yes.

Matt:

And that was tremendously beneficial for me.

Kevin:

Okay, in your big advantage, you mentioned your book; you mentioned a lot of your talks, let’s just run right into that. Let’s talk about, first off from, you know, eating the things you were eating and then going 100% raw and then getting into colon hydrotherapy, all these probably very short period of time, I mean how did you get into it and how did you - what were the benefits that you received from it?

Matt:

Okay. Actually when I was sitting there at work, you know I would get all sorts tons of crazy gas on my system. I would go in the bathroom nonstop and actually the person that told me about the raw food diet, his older brother was a colon therapist.

Kevin:

Okay.

Matt:

So I actually did one session before I went 100% raw, just to, you know mess around with it, and so what I did was every time I started get going through detox then it was just too much to handle I would, you know do a Colonic Irrigation and that brought - transported me right back to feeling in complete bliss, I get so spiritually high when I do one of those. Pretty crazy, being clean is a very important aspect to this type of lifestyle.

Kevin:

Sure. One of the first chapters of your book is, I Belong in Another Planet, can we talk about that? I want to hear about that.

Matt:

Yes. So when you become 100% raw, you go through a complete transformation, not only physical, I literally lost 20 pounds in probably 2 or

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3 weeks, but you go through a spiritual transformation, emotional and much more. So here I am 20 pounds lighter. I was living in New York City, and you know when people see that you lose 20 pounds, they think you look emaciated, that you look tremendously bad and sickly, so here I am. I remember going to - went to a friend who hadn’t seen me in two weeks, and when she saw me she kind of just freaked out, worried about me to say the least, and that just freaked me out because my family and my friends haven’t seen me in a year because they’re back in California. So society puts these ideals on us and literally probably about a week a later, I was walking in the streets of New York and a woman pulled me over and she says, “Here’s my business card if you’re ever interested in modeling, let me know.” Continually, over and over again the most beautiful people at my lectures are coming up to me and saying, “Oh my family thinks I’m emaciated, they tell me they’re emaciated or too skinny.” And I’m just looking at them, at their beauty thinking that they’re absolutely not. Society puts these ideals on us, when in actuality, you know, people are really much beautiful than they were before. Additionally, you know when I became raw, all these - I told you that I wasn’t used to this empty feeling in my stomach anymore. You do not cook food to medicate yourself; there are psychological, emotional issues that rise to the surface. Gas was coming out of my system, I would overeat, I just didn’t know what was going on. I never had a food issue my entire life. You know, that’s one of the reasons why I wrote my book. I never -- Raw Spirit, it talks about my story in this aspect. And I read all these other books and nobody ever said any of these things. But I also talk about the most positive; you know part of it all which is the spiritual dimension, the number one reason why I stay raw today. Kevin:

So that is the number one reason?

Matt:

Yes.

Kevin:

And tell me about that.

Matt:

Wow, okay.

Kevin:

Anyway, we got time.

Matt:

So I was 100% raw for six months now and I decided to do something called Psylium Bentonite cleanse. Psylium is a strong fiber husk, Bentonite is a volcanic clay, and you know for anybody who’s ever tried one of these drinks, you know it’s pretty tough on the system. Well, I did the most extreme Psylium Bentonite cleanses that you can possibly do. For seven days, you eat no food whatsoever, and every single day you are supposed to do a Psylium Bentonite drink five times a day for seven days. Additionally, to keep this moving through your system, you’re supposed to do a colonic irrigation or Colema board which is in that home system in the morning and in the evening of every day of this cleanse. You can get away without doing the colon hydrotherapy as long as you’re eliminating, but you’re not going to evolve as far as if you would do something like that.

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Kevin:

Okay.

Matt:

So here I am, a young guy, six months being raw. I was doing colon hydrotherapy more than once a month and do you think a young guy like me would be completely cleaned out from all this waste?

Kevin:

Sure.

Matt:

Well, my colon therapist couldn’t believe what was coming out of my system, just and gobs of mucoid plaque and all sorts of crazy things. And something happened to me for the first time in my life after I got that last colonic in the left with the Psylium and Bentonite out of me. On the last day of that cleansing when I did that last colonic, I started to get a vibration and it was right in my forehead and I had no idea what it was. The 100% raw food diet threw me into spirituality, I was never into this thing. I was president of my fraternity in college, and I’m talking like the number one partying fraternity. So here I am experiencing this, my mainstream of friends and my brother just think I’m absolutely nuts when I talk about this thing, the steps. So I went to the bookstore, I’m buying all these books on spirituality, I’m reading what different religions were saying, I started learning about meridians and energy fields, and I started learning about the chakra system, and so this really sent out to me. I felt like this might have been the third eye chakra, and you know, I thought I had something, you know, tell my family and friends and my brother, but they just think that’s all hocus pocus. But then actually later, I then came across another book by Norman Walker, “The Natural Way to Vibrant Health,” and he actually gave a scientific explanation of what was actually with the pineal… the third eye actually is doing and what it is. He says that the pineal gland which is located right in that area. It actually is the organ that receives that cosmic energy and he said that they don’t… if the thalamus didn’t buffer it, it would completely disintegrate because of how powerful that energy is. But then the thalamus buffers all that energy. It goes to the hypothalamus and is distributed throughout our body to do whatever we want.

Kevin:

Wow!

Matt:

Yes, it’s pretty amazing and you know this guy was doing everything that I was doing. He was a 100% raw. He did the cleansing; you know I didn’t think that was crazy anymore. I began to think I was crazy and what was going on. You know my family… you know my brother, my friends, and they thought that I was experiencing this vibration because I was not malnourished, now there’s tingly all over.

Kevin:

I imagine that some of the stuff that you enter a lot of people go through; what are some of the keeps and tricks and secret that you learned going through this dealing with family, dealing with the strange feeling that your

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body is feeling. What are some of the advice that you can give someone who’s going through some this? Matt:

Well said. When you become… It’s not easy to become 100% raw. Okay let me put forth an example real quick to help explain all these. There are a lot of diets out there today and I’m sure you’ve heard many of them like the zone diet, the macrobiotics diet, the south beach diet, and I don’t like to knock any of these diets because I’ve actually seen people healed from the degenerative diseases, adhering to diets like this and there’s one common denominator on why they all succeed. They all eat certain food, out of their diet completely without any exception whatsoever and the reason why their raw food diet is the best diet in the world because you’re leaving everything out and only keeping in the good.

Kevin:

Got you.

Matt:

It’s actually more importantly what you don’t eat than what you actually eat. In the raw food, we mean everybody has this thing or they think raw food is the god, the secret food; you can eat raw food and secret food and you see blue in the face. They’re not going to make you better unless you eliminate the cause of some of these processed foods. .So what happened is when people become jumping to 100% raw food diet, it’s not an easy task and that’s why I recommend a lot of people to do a transition diet. I mean you literally don’t need to be 100% raw to be healthy. I work with a man named Dr. Fred Bisci who has help healed thousand from degenerative diseases and he has an intermediate diet that he uses to heal all sorts of people from degenerative diseases, for people who don’t’ want to take to such an extreme.

Kevin:

You talk about the Dr Fred Bisci. Tell me about the importance of having a mentor throughout this transition for you.

Matt:

Wow! Talk about being lucky. After the first year of being raw I didn’t mean until I was raw for about a year. I went to a raw food festival and I just gravitate towards that man, all of those, you know pioneers were there and I was just amaze by his brilliance. I started following him around. I went to all the lectures and all these other things and before I knew, we became partners in the business and so he had nutritional practice which he had help healed thousands from degenerative diseases. He has the highest success rate of any man that I know with this sort of situation.

Kevin:

Wow!

Matt:

Yes, he has seen well with 30 thousand people in his career. I just stated that half through a week he is continually on the phone all day long. You know he is sought out by many people because of his success rate and he’s like a father to me. I’ve learned so much. This is where I get the mass majority of my experience from obviously and all the research idea. By just knowing how to do it correctly and all sort of things like that I mean

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this man, you know he is really knows what’s going on. So I feel very blessed and anybody can find somebody I feel. Kevin:

Okay.

Matt:

Yes.

Kevin:

And all you did was go out and just follow someone around.

Matt:

Yes pretty much.

Kevin:

Yes.

Matt:

If somebody starts following me around like that I’d take them on.

Kevin:

It’s an interesting thing, isn’t it you know?

Matt:

Yes.

Kevin:

How did you know that you were doing the raw food diet right in through the 7 years, I mean when did you think that you finally had it nailed and why?

Speaker:

Okay, I feel that I have it nailed now and it’s to me, it is a… It’s not so cut and dry as you think. Okay, when you become… when you improve your diet by eliminating certain food from your diet completely without any exceptions whatsoever. You are going to go a healing crisis and you’re going to detox. There’s no avoiding that and what happened is after certain… It depends on how much you’ll improve your diet. What kind and quantities of food you eliminate and you start to eat and you’re going to detox based on that amount and what happened is after doing a new diet for certain amount of time, you’re going to stabilize out of this new diet and actually that’s like your new… Like for example before I was eating 3 standard American meal and now I’m eating virtually small raw food meals a day.

Kevin:

Okay.

Matt:

So, it is this really interesting how I need very little food compared to what I needed before.

Kevin:

How your energy levels?

Matt:

My energy levels are completely excellent. I’ve more energy now than I ever had in my entirely life. Yes, it’s crazy. So, the crazy thing is you can keep taking your diet further and further. I can go to one meal a day. I can eliminate more concentrated food than I would detox because I’m eliminating more foods from my diet completely and at some point, I’m going to stabilize out and catch up with what I’m doing.

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What exactly is… Is this kind of the systematically under eating that you talk about in the book? Is that a little of bit different?

Kevin: Matt

:

It’s a little bit different.

Kevin:

Let’s get in to that then.

Matt:

Okay, I honestly… I’m not always systematically under eating; systematically under eating is when you just get enough food to maintain in a sense.

Kevin:

Okay and how you know that you’re getting enough food to maintain?

Matt:

Okay, so wow! This is like a whole another thing… okay so I kind of… okay let’s look what hunger truly is? If someone is like really hungry I mean there are people that could fast for 30 days without a problem so obviously most people are not eating just to by their purposes.

Kevin:

Check.

Matt:

So imagine this? You’re a standard American diet person who eats 3 times a day. You’re going to crave food 3 times a day. If you only eat twice, you’re going to start a feeling of hunger.

Kevin:

Okay.

Matt:

This is kind of like fasting. This is like your body detoxifying. So, I kind of look at hunger as a detoxification regulator; let me give you another example, if you were to take a cocaine addict that does cocaine twice a day, they’re going to crave it twice a day. If they go down to once a day they’re going to go through withdrawal symptoms. They’re going to detox so they want that fixed and it is the same thing with food. So, in essence we’ll consider a hunger being, you know they were stopping the detoxification in a sense. Now, so systematically under eating is if I’m eating 3 meals a day and I’m eating a certain amount of this meal every single day that’s kind of like what most people do to eat the same thing everyday. Eating less than that amount to where you still have a might a bit of hunger and you have more energy and then as you to continue to do that, your body is going to continually push you forward and then as the year go by you’re going to continually need less and less food and this is kind of what systematic under eating is and this is like a really key tool for longevity.

Kevin:

Okay and this is just part of…when someone practices it, when they’re transitioning or just all the time?

Matt:

Well, I mean it is a good goal to aim for. I mean we’re totally going into advanced stuff here; for example when I first became raw, you will not believe what I was eating. David Wolf talks about eating 9 avocadoes; I was doing the same thing. I was actually at the lecture that was speaking and then there’s this man who went 100% raw, lose 50 pounds, was

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doing amazing, was healing from the degenerative diseases and during the lecture, he raises his hand and he confesses it to the entire room he say, I eat a jar of almond butter everyday and then I passed out and I was really impressed of what he said in the lecture he said, look at you you’ve loss 50 pounds. You’re healing from the degenerative diseases but you know, you eat a jar of almond butter everyday and you get free from the fat. At some point you’re going to need to gain responsibility and I’m sure he will and, you know to get the full benefit of the raw food diet. He didn’t believe what I was eating, when I became raw, just like I’m not eating like 4 avocadoes anymore, this guy isn’t eating a jar of almond butter. Kevin:

Right!

Matt:

So, when toy first become raw; I almost have this no-holds-barred attitude. I mean I would have been able to do it, trying to systematically and do it. And I went crazy. I went crazy over eating.

Kevin:

Right! So, what are you over eating? What are some of the things that you do?

Matt:

Let me tell you what my typical evening meal was. I would take two huge salad huge bowls and put them right in front of me, and then, I would take a huge head of Romaine lettuce and cut it up to shreds and put them in one of the bowl, and then maybe squeeze them some lemon on top of that.

Kevin:

Okay!

Matt:

In the other bowl, I would go to the California Farmers’ Market where this heirloom tomatoes are just…they taste like fruit practically.

Kevin:

Yes!

Matt:

I would literally take like 10 of these tomatoes, cut them up and fill the other bowl up, and then, I maybe throw dole this salty seaweeds. I would take dole and just put amount and amounts of that on top of the tomatoes. Maybe with some olives and stuff and I would go and I will take 3 large avocados. I’m not talking about the avocado you get from whole foods. I’m talking the Farmers’ Market avocados that are enormous. And I would cut those open and I would scoop them out and put them all on top of that Romaine lettuce and lemon in that other bowl. And I would just squeeze it with my hands until it is became nothing, and then I would take the other tomatoes and the dole, and olives and I would pour that on top of that. And I would this kind of massage it in gently, and then the mixture of the tomatoes and lemon and then the avocados and the salty seaweeds, this is the most amazing food. And I literally eat that every single night, probably for 3 years. That’s how I did it. That’s how I went raw. I mean now these days, I would never do more than one avocado. But, you know, that’s what they have to do. I mean…a lot…when people thing people have to look in like you know worry about is, you now doing too much fruit. I would rather…I’m not saying too much

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fat like that to get eat either, but at some point, you know, hopefully, a person doing something like that. I’m not advocate of eating massive amounts of fat. I want that, you know? At some point, though get to a point that I’m eating very little, but a lot of people tend to do it. They overdo the fruit and they come into issues in the long run. Kevin:

Yes, what are some of those issues with the overdoing for…?

Matt:

So, what happens is, I’m not saying every once in a while I have fun, I’ll go have some durian and maybe even two of them at one time or big common season, I’ll just eat them until I just can't go anymore or whatever. But, when people tend to do this continually over and over, they don’t need much fat at all as any there. It’s like the main part of their diet. They are doing it all day long. And a lot of people run into problems. What happens is sugar is an ideal ingredient for fermentation, and when you’re continually eating sugar like that, you develop fermentation and your body becomes overly acidic inside your system as the years go by. Your body starts to leak alkaline salt from the skeletal frame, and what happens is people start running into tooth erosion who eat a lot of fruit. I see it all the time. I see the…always with the fruit was that it is not because they are eating sugar on their teeth. You know, they are running into problem that way.

Kevin:

Really.

Matt:

Yes. And the, people’s hair have fallen out. I notice when I eat a lot of fruit, I start to smell. I mean, I just…I’m running like a 100 miles per hour. I mean, you can get away with more fruits if you’re going to be exercising massive amount because you’re using the energy.

Kevin:

What are some of the…you know, we’re getting into this right now? What are some of the eating disorders that some raw foodist experience?

Matt:

Okay. So, here I am…100…This is funny because I wasn’t expecting to go until I go like…this person. Okay. When I became…Okay, I never had a food issue in my entire life when I became 100% raw. Certain things started to happen. I just was an alien in my own environment, I was like an alien in my own body; it is like I belong to another planet. And there were times where…you know, I would just over eat, over eat trying to fill my stomach up, trying to get that feeling I used to get when I eat cooked food. And then sometimes I would start doing that with fruits, sugar fruit. I mean, you take a bite off a persimmon or a fresh fig coming straight from a free. It is so amazing that sugar hit you and then you just can't stop eating it especially a new eon like my self in to the raw food movements 7 years ago. I would just eat it until my stomach was out ten feet. And you know, that causes a situation in your system. You wouldn’t want to be around me for 2 days probably because of all the gas that would be imitating from the system would be crazy.

Kevin:

I got it.

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Matt:

So, what would happen is, I would get these feelings in my stomach, and after a while I don’t want to experience anymore; I want it to be in public. I was embarrassed because I’m having gas all the time. I…So, I would tell myself, “I’m not going to over eat on fruit this time”. And you know, what would happen was? I would start eating, you know, a lot of fruits and I couldn’t stop myself. It wasn’t my decision to make, I guess.

Kevin:

Yes.

Matt:

So, a couple of times and seriously, it might have happened once or twice to where… I was actually like I was still upset with myself after doing something like this. Like, on my way home from the Farmers Market. I remember like belching and like food would come back up to my mouth. And then, I would just spit it out. And then, I would do it again and again, thinking that it would help entire the situation that I thought I was going to experience. The true problem about it all was the fanaticism I was going through. When I first became raw, I was still fanatical. It is crazy. I was 100% raw the first 4 years. I was still fanatical about this. I never went to a raw-food restaurant. I want to have the perfect digestion I possibly could. I eat 2-pear meal the day, never did a bad food combination in my entire life for the first 4 years.

Kevin:

Wow!

Matt:

It was crazy. It was crazy. I was psychotic about it. It wasn’t healthy. I was mentally disturbed. And then after about 4 years and Dr. Fred Bisci and a good friend of mine Pam Ethan, they kind of…they sound like I was still fanatical and crazy about it. They kind of broke me in the sense and then, for the next 2 years after that, a kind of party with the raw-food restaurant and all sorts of crazy things. I mean I literally, I went to a rawfood restaurant with these guys before I got out of this fanaticism and I want to eat.

Kevin:

What are some of the things that they said to you that kind of lighten you up a little bit?

Matt:

Yes. And it wasn’t necessary like fanatical like “Oh! I belong to this philosophy; I’m only going to eat this and this and this”. It wasn’t like that. It was my being was completely like unhealthy, nervous, scared like…

Kevin:

Wow!

Matt:

Yes! It was like I was not…I was tense. So, it’s not a big deal. I mean, I’m not in for the philosophy. I’m in with some people to be a 100% raw if they don’t want to be. But, they would…you know. They just some intensity of fanaticism like that, and you know Fred, you know – he just promised me, every once in a while it will be like Matt, you know you’re kind of fanatical about it. And I would just be sitting in there like – whatever; you know one in here and out the other. Just followed by example I guess is what they did and they never really found everything or anything really. He is really cool. He would just lead by example, and I

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just started hanging out with them more and more and soon I eat one in raw-food restaurant and okay, this isn’t too bad. You know, did this and did that. Before I knew it, I was eating mounds and mounds of raw junk. Kevin:

And how did that feel after being fanatical? Did you think it was kind of like a completely 180.

Matt:

Because I was still so pure for 4 years straight like that and I did call in hydro-therapy and things like that. I’m kind of like in the different sensitivity bracket compared to most people or if I would…I can’t even go back to cooked food without having an issue in that…

Kevin:

Yes.

Matt:

So, if I ever even go to a raw food restaurant now, I get a runny nose. I mean, I don’t kill myself over; I just deal with it and leave me the next day. But, I’m…It was a 180 for me because I kind of a – went the other extreme in a sense. I would over eat on raw-food restaurant all the time. I would…you know go get a couple of durian and eat those. I went to the other extreme, and I did that for like a year or so. And then, I start eating cacao, that was…And then, I….

Kevin:

What was that? Tell me about that.

Matt:

Okay! So, then again it sounds like it and then I came back and now I’m bounced out to where I’m over doing the raw-food restaurant. I’m not choosy…I’m not fanatical about it. I’m like…I mean there’s perfect balance now.

Kevin:

I got it.

Matt:

Okay. So, what you want to know?

Kevin:

The cacao. This is a…You have like a giggle behind it, and I want to know…I want to know what that was about.

Matt:

Okay! I’m…wow! Okay! So, when I giggled on the cacao, I just kind of looked at my entire picture and my belief in cocoa and stuff like that and everything I’ve experienced. It is kind of like laughter at – the whole entire situation in one laugh I guess. I mean, I can get in to do it.

Kevin:

Yes, absolutely!

Matt:

Alright. Cacao. I love cacao. When I gave my girlfriend a cocoa, watch out! You know what I’m talking about. I make sure that I have all my stuff all the time and so, when I kind of did the cacao in massive amounts for about a month…

Kevin:

Okay.

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Matt:

And, I mean it was almost like, I don't want to say an addiction, but I would, you know, there was a lot of energy in me and when I stop, I did a lot of detoxing and…

Kevin:

Okay.

Matt:

For my liver and I'm not sure what that was about, it does maybe, you know, stimulating me to the point of where it was giving me the vitality to give off excess toxins. I'm not sure but it might have because of the cacao but… so I stop doing cacao and I noticed now that whenever I do it, it's almost like I like to do it, it is almost like a party dress for me. It's like what wine used to do for me.

Kevin:

Got you.

Matt:

Yes and whenever I… I don't do it often because you know, sometimes like I have so much energy, I don’t’ know what to do with it and I’ll be able to do crazy thing but when I detox it, I also goes a little… I also have a down side…

Kevin:

Okay.

Matt:

Which isn't too bad.

Kevin:

So there is a down side of detoxification of it?

Matt:

Well for me personally…

Kevin:

Yes.

Matt:

I'm really sensitive. I mean, you know, when I look at people and when they're improving their diet, I like to break down the food into the following food groups, animal protein, diary, refined sugar, processed starches and raw foods.

Kevin:

Okay.

Matt:

That's it before is what you need for every diet completely without any exception, this is the way to ultimate health. So, we notice and obviously want to leave out the food that does the most damaging to our system and the two most damaging food groups to our systems is refined sugars and processed starches. That's the secret. All those diets I was mentioning before the macrobiotic-side, the zone diet', that's what they all do. They don't leave the refined sugar and processed starches out.

Kevin:

Yes.

Matt:

Yes. So, if someone is eating a massive amount…if they’re eating cacao in replace the refined sugar, I'd rather see someone do that.

Kevin:

Yes.

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Matt:

And some people don't have problems with the cacao. But some people do, you see. Those types of people got to be careful and I'm afraid there seem a lot of people that has… they can't handle that sort of type of thing.

Kevin:

Right, you know the stimulant of it or just some…

Matt:

Yes, yes. The stimulant of it. Some people might have ADD issues and its like does not work with their structure for some reason and I mean but some people are fine with that. I mean some people take it too far, I believe it.

Kevin:

Yes. So, you pressed briefly on sex and the raw diet and it's in your book…

Matt:

Yes.

Kevin:

That's a… What a cool topic. Let's get into this. Why don't you tell me a little about that?

Matt:

When I was a cooked-food eater…

Kevin:

Uh-huh.

Matt:

You know, I'm… I was more of like a wild animal in a sense, not that I'm not now but it was more of like every girl that walk by me, I check out her behind, I would look at her breast. I would just… I would be nonstop. I'll be doing like 360s around…

Kevin:

Uh-huh.

Matt:

And to be honest with you, every single day, I actually either took, you know, I took care of my self. I had this need to ejaculate.

Kevin:

Got you.

Matt:

You know. So, when I became 100% raw, I went through a complete transformation. Now, when I look at a woman, it's more of like a looking at a work of art in a sense.

Kevin:

Huh.

Matt:

And I'm not so crazy about it and also, my desire for ejaculation has decreased.

Kevin:

Interesting.

Matt:

Now, don't get me wrong, when I'm with my woman. Yes, I mean there's no stopping me.

Kevin:

Right.

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Matt:

But I'm just more of the ways I think it's, we were meant to be.

Kevin:

Okay.

Matt:

Yes. It's more of a love thing now than this primal, I mean, sometimes it get primal all the time, you know.

Kevin:

Uh-huh.

Matt:

But it's more of a love thing now.

Kevin:

Okay and you think that's the direct relation between the food?

Matt:

Definitely. Definitely. This is like that the animal protein stimulates you; all these things stimulate you, yes. I mean if some people, I mean if… you have to be doing the raw food diet correctly to experience this thing the way you're suppose to be experiencing it.

Kevin:

Sure, and you mentioned that animal protein of couple of times. What's your opinion on it? I mean, is it good or bad or I mean what's the…?

Matt:

Okay. It all depends on where the person is at. I haven’t had animal protein in seven years. I don't have a plan of ever having it again.

Kevin:

Yes.

Matt:

I wouldn't want those hormones in my system right now but if I already someone transitioning, I mean to be honest with you, I would want them to leave out animal protein last because it's the most less…I feel the least damaging to our systems compared to every other horrible dude. I mean, you don't want to overdo it. I mean, okay. Let's look at the Atkins diet for example, the Atkins diet if done correctly is actually a good diet because they eliminate the refined sugar and processed starches but people tend to run into problems because they eat massive amount of acidic animal protein causing over acidic condition, people will run into osteoporosis because they are leaking alkaline phos from the musculoskeletal frame kind of like the same thing.

Kevin:

Yes.

Matt:

So, animal protein, if done in moderate quantities especially in a salad for someone transitioning or who just want to heal from a degenerative disease, someone could actually keep that in their intermittent diet for the rest of their lives if they don't overdo it and be extremely healthy.

Kevin:

Yes. So, it's not the bad guy.

Matt:

Right. Well, red meat, you want to get rid of immediately. We'll call that the bad guy.

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Kevin:

Okay.

Matt:

Anybody, just get rid of the red meat, I don't care who you are. You know the chicken, the turkeys, the fish, I would never touch the stuff because I’d be scared of the mercury, the growth hormones and all this other chemicals and…

Kevin:

You said your favorite book was a Norman Walker book for raw inspiration, is that still your favorite book for raw inspiration?

Matt:

Well, that's just the book that really inspired me to transform to 100% raw food diet.

Kevin:

Right. Which one is your favorite thing nutritional or raw food books now and why?

Matt:

Well I'm into this I'm reading a lot about anatomy and physiology just to further my education which is really fun but I would have to say that Hilton Hotema…

Kevin:

Okay.

Matt:

Really hits of the cake for me. It’s… he gets in the…it just gives you a deep understanding of what's going on if you can grasp it. I've actually have a new book coming on Raw of Success and it's get into a sort of thing Hilton Hotema; he wasn't a breatharian or anything but he talks about the concept breatharianism and liquidarian and taking your diet to the next level and stuff like that.

Kevin:

Okay. In what specific book…is there a specific book that he wrote or is there collection on anyone?

Matt:

Man, Higher Consciousness.

Kevin:

Okay.

Matt:

Is a good one.

Kevin:

Okay, and then what about just non raw book? I mean, where do you get inspiration from otherwise?

Matt:

Non raw book…

Kevin:

Do you really?

Matt:

I remember reading a book called The Kin of Ata. I read that a while ago. I'm sure there's much better one these days.

Kevin:

Uh-huh.

Matt:

But, I'm just like a raw food reading junky because this is what I do…

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Kevin:

Right.

Matt:

With my life right now and I want to be able to educate myself as much possible so I can pass accurate information onto everybody else.

Kevin:

Yes, what do you face here is your drive? Is it to pass that information along?

Matt:

Yes. I mean, it's actually to make a change.

Kevin:

Okay.

Matt:

It's amazing. I feel, I don’t want to toot my own horn or anything but I mean, after I finished the lecture, the feeling I get or the talk are like everyone is just so inspired.

Kevin:

Right.

Matt:

Because I give them a deep understanding of what's going on inside of them and they actually think they could possibly do it now because they understand and I get so many emails per day of people watching my videos that I did on current TV or people reading my book saying that they decided to go 100% raw after watching that or doing, you know, reading my books. It's' just a very fulfilling thing and it just give me the fuel and energy to not stopping, I just keep going.

Kevin:

Right. What kind of change do you want to have? I mean, what if someone is to say to you, you know, "This is what happened to me." What would that be?

Matt:

What change do I want to have in another people?

Kevin:

Yes, yes.

Matt:

To be honest with you, I mean, love is like the most important thing I feel like I want them to increases in love and I feel that if people improve their lifestyle and their habits and their health, then this kind will automatically happen. When you actually eliminate certain foods from your diet completely without any exceptions or whatsoever or when you actually become 100% raw, automatically your body starts to evolve on a cellular level. This is when your body becomes more in-tuned receptive machine to that spiritual energy…

Kevin:

Right.

Matt:

And this is physical. This is actually something you feel.

Kevin:

Right.

Matt:

So, it kind of just put people into that aspect on its own.

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Kevin:

Let’s talk a little bit about just yourself now. What do you eat on a daily basis?

Matt:

Sure. I’ve always only eaten two meals a day. It’s just the way I’ve been working…I mean, when I was on a standard American diet, I did more than that.

Kevin:

Um hum.

Matt:

But I’m also into vegetable juicing.

Kevin:

Okay.

Matt:

I probably do a couple - I do a couple of 16-ounce green juices a day.

Kevin:

Okay. What’s in those?

Matt:

I do a variety of different juices everyday to make…because each vegetable has a different composition of minerals and nutrients.

Kevin:

Um hum.

Matt:

It’s a way to get vitamins and minerals in the most absorbable form to the body. So one that tastes really good is…I like to do carrot juice on my greens to make it taste better.

Kevin:

Um hum.

Matt:

Apples are good, but the nutrient content in carrots is so beneficial, I’d rather use carrots than apple.

Kevin:

Got you.

Matt:

And I like to juiced, for taste purposes, Romaine lettuce with carrot and few other things because Romaine lettuce, literally if you juice that, like I had it out with some carrots, it literally tastes like chocolate milk especially if you add some spinach to make it a little bit creamy.

Kevin:

Really?

Matt:

Yes. And spinach is one of the best things I feel anybody can juice. I try to get some of it on me everyday.

Kevin:

What do you…what kind of juicer do you use to juice the greens - the leafy greens?

Matt:

When I’m at my home, when I’m not traveling like I am…

Kevin:

Um hum.

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Matt:

I use the Norwalk Juicer. That thing is like $2300, I mean that rips every fiber, every solid vegetable, and you get the highest nutrient quality possible.

Kevin:

Wow!

Matt:

And…but when I’m on…other, you know the next juicer down the line, which I have also, is the Green Star Juicer. It’s a twin gear. Any twin gear is good.

Kevin:

Okay.

Matt:

Yes. And that just…it has the highest nutrient quality, it doesn’t heat the juice up. It’s just awesome!

Kevin:

Yes. You can run into a problem when you’re heating the juice up.

Matt:

Well, I mean you’d probably want to juice it within…you probably want to drink in 15 minutes.

Kevin:

Yes.

Matt:

Because it will start to oxidize. But all juices are good. Not only do you get vitamins and minerals in their most absorbable form, but they alkalinize your system. They’ll bring your pH from a more acidic state to a more alkaline state.

Kevin:

What other sort of things besides eating these awesome foods everyday do you do to stay in an awesome mindset?

Matt:

Okay. Enzymes. Enzymes are big thing in the raw food movement, but nobody talk about the reason why…the reason why I take them is different compared to everybody else. I mean it’s great to…it helps us in the assistance of digesting your food, but I have - we have these therapeutic enzymes. They’re Dr. Fred Bisci’s Therapeutic Enzymes that are ridiculously powerful.

Kevin:

Okay.

Matt:

They have the potential to dissolve cancers and tumors. Amazing things that I’ve had - I’ve seen happen with these things, and what I do is I take them on an empty stomach almost three times a day sometimes.

Kevin:

Okay.

Matt:

And let me explain the underlying reason of all these. There are two types of enzymes that are in our body. There are metabolic enzymes and there are digestive enzymes. Metabolic enzymes, we supposedly have this. We have a certain reserve of them, and they’re used in every process of our body – breathing, walking, everything, and the most important thing I feel that they do is they actually repair damage done to

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the body. They actually repair damage done to the body! And additionally, it takes like a few metabolic enzymes to convert into a digestive enzyme. So when you take it with food, you’re conserving your metabolic enzymes because you don’t want to convert them into digestive enzymes and you’ll live a longer life. When you take it on an empty stomach, these enzymes goes straight into the metabolic functions of your body, and…this is probably one of the parts of the antidote and his recommendation to all the clients with degenerative diseases. When you take this stuff on an empty stomach, it goes in the metabolic processes of repairing damages done to your body. Kevin:

Wow!

Matt:

It’s amazing what they do.

Kevin:

Wow! What are some of these compounds? I mean I’ve never…I don’t know if I’ve ever heard of metabolic enzymes.

Matt:

Well, metabolic enzyme is not a…it’s not like papain or bromelain or anything like that.

Kevin:

Yes.

Matt:

Metabolic enzymes consist of all these different enzymes in your body. So, it’s not something you’re putting in. It’s something you already have in your system. It’s like the catalyst of everything that we’re dealing with our life.

Kevin:

What else do you do as well with these enzymes? I know you talked about meditation in your book.

Matt:

Yes. I feel meditation is one of the most important things for spiritual growth.

Kevin:

Okay. Why?

Matt:

Okay, so when I was…when I became 100% raw and all these things were happening to me, I went and started reading books on spirituality and actually came across Stephen Arlin’s book, Raw Power.

Kevin:

Um hum.

Matt:

And he recommended reading a guy named Osho. And so I picked up a book by Osho and I was dumbfounded. His whole and entire existence is teaching you how to meditate in a sense, and it was very fun to read. I read thousands of pages of this man. He’s not like a guru of mine or anything, I just learned a lot from him. So the extremist I am, I started going into deep meditation and I would do this nonstop. Sometimes I wouldn’t fall asleep at night. I would just be

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meditating. I started falling asleep aware, which is a whole another fun ballgame. Kevin:

Really?

Matt:

Yes.

Kevin:

Wow!

Matt:

And so what happened was, as I was meditating, I started to notice something in my system. It was like a pain, like misery. So, here I am. I have a strong will. I wanted to figure out what’s going on here, so I decided to meditate on it. Meditation is literally just putting your awareness, your attention, on a single point. So, what I intended to do was - this pain, this misery feeling in my system, I mean it’s not physical or just similar to punch me, but it was like on another level. And so what I started to do was I started to meditate and then I put my attention to that 100%, and I began to notice that whenever I would do that, this misery would end up in my stomach area, otherwise known as the solar plexus in a sense. And I noticed that as I’d stirred to these energies, they would start to dissipate in a sense and they would leave. So, here I am, my mythological mind, thinking, if I just made my meditation technique working at the solar plexus area, then I would be absent of misery and that would be bliss.

Kevin:

Um hum.

Matt:

I mean it’s not that cut and dried. I am not into spiritual yogi. Just the other day, I was screaming at the top of my lungs in my car, screaming at people to get out of my way. But…so it was really interesting. I came across…I’ve read another book later and this is something I instinctively did. But Norman Walker, he actually says - he gave another explanation for this energy center. He says there is nerve ending - he’s into reflexology. He says there are nerve endings in the feet, in the hands, in the colon, in the eyeballs, and then he says there’s a big knot of nerves that are right located in the solar plexus area. And he goes on to say that for a vibrant health, just like the title of the book, to get…for emotional health, you need to get control of this area. When man is at work, he has a rough day, he comes home to the kids, and everybody is getting on his nerves so to say…

Kevin:

Um hum.

Matt:

Like this bundled up nerves, it just…so, just doing a lot of meditation, I grew a lot. I would just…I would start learning things like, “Oh wait! Here’s anger in my system. Here’s love. Here’s happiness. Here’s sorrow,” and I began to just walk these energies and I just became more of a wise man through meditation.

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Kevin:

Okay. And you were able to identify how you felt with those emotions and how your body reacted?

Matt:

Yes. And I kind of like…it was like a witnessing. It’s like I could see it happening now, and I could understand it better and not become it in a sense.

Kevin:

Got you. So clearly, I mean what are some of the changes that you experienced specific?

Matt:

Just a more calm nature, not so fanatical about everything, more loving, more supportive to other people, more open.

Kevin:

That’s great! More loving, more loving. It’s awesome! Do you do that now everyday, or do you do it when you feel like you need it when you meditate now?

Matt:

I try to meditate all the time. Just because we’re talking about it right now, I’m doing it as we’re speaking.

Kevin:

Yes.

Matt:

Yes. I mean I’m going in and out of it, of course.

Kevin:

Yes.

Matt:

Sometimes I’m on, sometimes I’m off. It’s not an easy thing to do sometimes. Sometimes it’s really easy. To be honest with you, the cleaner I am and the better I eat, the simpler it is.

Kevin:

Got you. Do you need any tools, or do you just go and do it yourself?

Matt:

I pretty much…I make…it’s not so easy to explain, but I make my meditation technique pretty much on whatever the energy is in my system. I mean it’s…I always look for negative energies first.

Kevin:

Okay.

Matt:

Like the misery or the…just like a not-so-good feeling.

Kevin:

Um hum.

Matt:

Just to get rid of it, and then it kind of…after all these dissipate, then you can get into a state of just ultimate bliss and you could start seeing things, if you know what I mean, right?

Kevin:

Yes.

Matt:

Like you could see energy. You could see certain things. It’s a really neat, fun thing to play with.

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Kevin:

Did you ever put your finger on what exactly that misery was?

Matt:

I feel it’s just like common…this is an energy inside everybody. And I’m not saying it’s normal. It’s not anything bad.

Kevin:

Right.

Matt:

And…but I mean a lot of it had to do with family, like from my childhood and other things like that. I mean to be honest with you, it still comes out every once in a while.

Kevin:

Yes.

Matt:

But I understand it now and I know how to deal with it, and I know how to get rid of, it and I don’t become it.

Kevin:

Got you. What are you planning to do for the future, I mean what’s your we’ve talked about what’s your doing now and what you did before, but where are you moving towards?

Matt:

Well, all my energy is focused on this new book that I’m writing. I am really excited about it and while I am doing this, I am traveling the entire world. I’m in Canada right now.

Kevin:

Um hum.

Matt:

I am going to be speaking in UK in the next week and something big is about to happen.

Kevin:

Okay.

Matt:

I don’t know what it is yet, but it just a matter of time. I think within the next one to three years, I am going to be creating something. I don’t know if it’s going to be a retreat center, a location to help people but I see like something like this will happen. I don’t know if it’s going to be retreats all over the place, but I have a feeling that we are going to create some sort of center to arrive on that.

Kevin:

Have you set an intention on that or is it something that you just kind of vibrating towards with…?

Matt:

I am kind of vibrating towards it. It’s about to explode. I am kind of like I am waiting, I am just waiting. I am waiting for the energy for God to just downloaded on me. It’s just a matter of time but I feel it coming. There are some certain things that – one of the reasons why it hasn’t come yet, there are certain things that I have to accomplish before then.

Kevin:

Okay. And you know what they are?

Matt:

The things that I have to accomplish?

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Kevin:

Yes.

Matt:

Well, yes I do.

Kevin:

Oh, you do?

Matt:

Well, one is obviously to finish this book and the other one kind of woman related.

Kevin:

Okay.

Matt:

And, you know I have a woman of course. It’s just a matter of figuring out the way it’s going to jibe.

Kevin:

I got you. I think it’s important to talk about the, you know what people like you are doing inside the Raw Community because I think there are a lot of people out there who want to share their message and their story and the things that they have done to get to where they are. Generally, I find that most people in the Raw Community want to help other people. So, I think what’s your doing is fantastic. What can you say to some of those people who haven’t, you know kind of put a stake in the ground and started to really promote and give information about this Raw Lifestyle like you have. What are some of the things that they can do to approach getting known and influencing a lot of people?

Matt:

Okay. The truth of the matter is do they truly want to do it? Because if they truly want to do it, they can do it. It’s all a matter of just doing it. For example, when I was following Fred around I flew back to New York, I would go to his lectures, I would just keep going and there’s nothing that can stop me. And the same thing happens with this. When I became 100% Raw, here I am in New York City living, working in the city. You know when you become 100% raw, you become more sensitive. Just living and working in the city, the air pollutions are – I think it’s tolling on me. I could see it was down to me more now that I was raw. I mean I’m scared to go to New York and have fun for a week. It is just like living and working constantly everyday.

Kevin:

Yes.

Matt:

So, here I am. I just quit my job. I quit everything. I didn’t have anything, I didn’t have any money. All I have was probably $10,000 debt in credit cards. So, here I am. I just did it. I went to the biggest raw food festival of the year. I started working for a company called discountjuicers.com. I’ve learned a lot from there. And then I just started doing my own thing on eBay. I created my own website and I just kept going and going. I even lived in my parent’s house for a little a bit. You’ve got to do what you got to do.

Kevin:

It sounds like whatever it takes kind of attitude?

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Matt:

Yes, yes, just do it. You could do it whenever you want and it just happens automatically. I mean you got to put effort into it. You won’t just sit there, you now over doing journey in everyday, three times a day at your mom’s house having a lot. You know, you got to do what got to do too. You can have that – you got to make a change.

Kevin:

That is awesome. Well, I want to thank you for coming aboard on this interview. This is extremely insightful and I enjoyed the time here. What we’ve done is we set up a page where we can go to get more information about Matt and that page is www.rawsummit.com/matt and that’s M-A-TT, www.rawsummit.com/matt and I want to thank you for coming aboard.

Matt:

Of course, thank you.

Kevin:

I really appreciate your time. Again, this is Kevin Gianni from rawsummit.com. Thanks everyone for listening and see you next time.

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