I want to write this final review about my time in Hawaii practicing fruitarianism. It feels important for me to close this cycle so I can open a new one. Becoming a fruitarian bodybuilder hasn’t been easy but it has been extremely rewarding. During this time, I have learned a ton about the fruitarian diet, and also about permaculture, community living, minimalism and life in the tropics. Looking back I can tell that everything happened exactly the way I needed it to be. All things included.
Why I Spent 3 Months in Hawaii as a Fruitarian
Six months ago I began to transition to a fruitarian diet. Partially because I was curious and partially because I felt that it was my duty to do so. It had meaning for me then and it has meaning for me now. As far as I understand, the fruitarian diet is the most logical diet for humans in terms of anatomy and physiology and it is also the best diet for plants, animals, earth and the whole environment including water and air around the globe.
After practicing fruitarianism for a few months I realized that this diet is not sustainable in cold regions. Soon after having that thought I found a place called Kanekiki Farm in Hawaii and applied to live and work there. Two month later I was in Hawaii, starting my internship at the Kanekiki Farm. The internship lasted six weeks, and after that I stayed for another month as a work trader at the Kanekiki Farm.
My Reviews on the Kanekiki Farm
Kanekiki’s raw vegan community was useful for my transition into the raw vegan diet and the fruitarian diet. By being at a raw vegan farm I was forced to eat more raw than I ever had, and I can proudly say that I stayed raw the whole time I was at the Kanekiki Farm (expect for my 3rd day there when we went into town and I had chips and soup).
Kanekiki’s community was quite large, at one point there were 26 people living there. I can say that I liked almost everyone in the community and I got along with almost every person there. However, inter-personal issues did arise from time to time. After two months of living there I realized that the Kanekiki Farm wasn’t the right place for me and so I began to look for other communities and farms to live in.
Since this is a summary I will not go into many details about my experience at the Kanekiki Farm. I have written more than 60 daily blogs narrating my time there. If you want to learn more about my experience at Kanekiki you can follow that story by starting with day 0 at the Kanekiki Farm. You can also learn more about Kanekiki by readying the three reviews I have written about the farm: Kanekiki Reviews, The Best Things About the Kanekiki Farm in Hawaii and The Worse Things About the Kanekiki Farm in Hawaii.
Moving to Gaia Yoga Gardens
After I realized that I didn’t have a future at the Kanekiki Farm I decided to look for other options in the area and Gaia Yoga Gardens stood out among the rest. Gaia Yoga Gardens is also a raw community bu it isn’t vegan. In fact, at Gaia Yoga Gardens people eat raw meat, raw eggs, raw milk, raw cheese and raw honey. Some of my raw vegan friends were shocked that I was moving there, I was shocked as well but for some reason that is were I was feeling called to.
Part of me wanted to be challenged, I knew that being in a new environment would push my comfort and test my discipline. The results weren’t surprising at all. After being at Gaia Yoga Gardens for a day I completely dropped my fruitarian diet by eating coconuts on a daily basis. After being there for a week I started to eat peanuts and macadamia nuts. A few days later I ate raw meat and raw cheese.
Moving away from my raw vegan / fruitarian diet had clear detrimental effects on my health. The worse part of it was that, the more I walked away from fruitarianism the worse my diet got. I went from eating fruit alone to eating coconuts, then nuts, then animal products, then cooked foods and then cooked animal products (outside of Gaia Yoga Gardens).
Fruitarianism vs. Standard American Diet
I have written plenty of articles about the differences between the fruitarian diet and the standard american diet which includes all sorts of cooked animal products, processed foods and refined products. There is no need for me to debate which one is best, to me this is more clear than water. When I ate papayas alone for two weeks I felt amazing, light, clear, happy. It was truly fantastic. As soon as I went back to eating nuts, cooked foods and animal products my whole body/mind/emotion/spirit began to crumble.
I knew I would be writing about this eventually so I made a list of all the symptoms I began to experience as I went from eating a fruit based diet to eating a standard american diet. In less than two weeks of experimenting with this dietary change I suffered from all of the following discomforts, illnesses and diseases:
The first thing that happened was that I got sick, I was in bed for a couple of days feeling weak. During this time tons of mucus started to come out of my nose, which I had not experienced at all during my whole time eating raw foods. After that, I began to experience a huge lack of motivation and trouble sleeping. This were clear signs of lethargy. Around the same time, I began to crave weed and went back to watching some porn. I even masturbated twice, which I hadn’t done in 6 months of eating mostly raw, fruit based meals.
After a full week of eating pretty much anything (like most people in the U.S. do), I started to experience acid reflux (which was horribly painful), muscle pain and joint pain in my wrist and knees as well as my hands and cheeks. I also experienced throat pain and developed a cold sore in my mouth.
A few days after the cold sore came out I began to notice some pain in my heart, I had a few moments where I suffered from a headache and noticed my left jaw hurting for over a week as if I had been punched in the face. The final symptom I experienced was tight pain on the side of my abdomen.
During these last few weeks I found that my desire to interact with people decreased significantly, although my sex drive was higher than it had been in half a year. I also noticed that I stopped writing and making videos, expect for a few times when I literary forced myself to do it. There is no doubt to me that fruitarianism is lifetimes better than the standard american diet. If there is a better diet for humans than the fruitarian diet, I am sure it has not been discovered yet.
Coming Back to the Fruitarian Diet
Now you know that I haven’t followed a fruitarian diet, or a raw diet, or even a vegan diet for the past two weeks. It is somewhat embarrassing, and many vegans would surely be outraged that I ate animal products. Luckily, I suffered with that experienced and I learned some huge lessons about diet.
I would say that after three months in Hawaii and six months of transitioning to the fruitarian diet, the most important lesson I learned is this: I need to be surrounded by an abundance of fruit. Without an abundance of fruit around it is impossible for me to remain a fruitarian. Being surrounded by people who eat fruit alone is certainly easier but not a requirement. Having enough fruit around is the only requirement to make it work in the fruitarian world. However, the fruit needs to be local, organic, ripe and fresh, otherwise it won’t be good enough to keep me connected to the magic of the fruitarian diet.
So, now that I have seen both sides of the dietary world I am happy to claim that I am making a comeback to strict fruitarianism, starting with a new fruitarian bodybuilding challenge TODAY. This challenge will be similar to the one I did on February, expect that it will be a little more flexible while covering more areas of the fruitarian bodybuilding process.
I hope I can continue to be a source of innovation, inspiration, exploration, education, entertainment and love for you all.
