How The Body Responds To Severe Undernourishment

Ajouté : 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]Your body cannibalizes itself if it isn't getting the nutrients it needs.

[00:00:04]The body needs amino acids and it can recycle them to some extent, but if you're not getting enough through the food that you're eating, which you basically cannot do if you're on a raw vegan diet, then your body has to find them from somewhere. And it's going to tap into your own tissue, your [music] own stored tissue, and metabolize and essentially consume yourself from within. Now, it's not going to go to the essential organs first, the internal organs, but it's going to go to the skeletal muscle. So, we see that by 2020, she had begun to experience very severe sarcopenia.