Long time no blog Have been busy working on 30bananasaday, still deciding on how the Private banana club will pan out. I have also been working on my mentoring site, you can check it out here…

I have been running 4 times a week and not much else at the moment. I am going to join the local gym here (because I get one month free membership) and pump my muscles back up again. I haven’t pumped iron properly in about 2.5 years since leaving the gym!! Woah, enough is enough!

Today I thought I would share about my fabulous wound-healing on a low fat raw vegan lifestyle. Back at the start of 2008 I got my very first road bike, boy was I EXCITED! I hadn’t been on a bike for about 10years so I was keen to get my legs back. The first day was great, I was gliding along with the traffic, feeling pretty confident and the day went off without a hitch.

The next day I wasn’t so lucky! We were scooting along beside the traffic when all of a sudden there was a parked car in the lane we were in . I had to think quickly, there was no room to move to the lane beside us so I chose to take the path. How did I get up onto the path?? I attempted to jump my thin-tyred road bike up on the gutter like you would with a mountain bike – not such an easy move to pull off as a novice! I hit the gutter on the side and my ultra light bike just collapsed on top of me, mostly on my right leg. As I was falling, the chain ring starting cutting into my lower leg and left the following….

Chain ring wound 08

Not feeling the best

Amazingly I didn’t experience any pain during the crash. The pain and discomfort came later, during healing. I didn’t take one painkiller or drug of any sort. Against just about everyone’s advice, I decided to let nature do it’s thang and not get stitches. As you can see from the pic, I had grease from the chain ring on the outside of the wound. I couldn’t really get the oil off without causing too much disruption to the wound but it ended up just sort of dissolving after a while anyway.

It took a few months for my body to bridge the large gap with new skin, during this time I wasn’t sure whether to cover the wound or not. Everyone has their different view so I asked myself the question “what would I have done in nature?”. I went with my instinct and left it uncovered, bathed it in salt water and exposed it to the sun. Good intentions to leave it uncovered however not really ideal as I kept hitting my wound on things and reopened it several times. The scab that was forming was also getting interrupted by the water when I was showering and salt-water bathing, it was near impossible to keep it dry hence the scab would continually dissolve – it became pretty frustrating!

I ended up covering it up which kept it moist (but not wet) with fluids from the wound which enabled it to heal more quickly. Before I decided to bandage it, I was also getting random stuff in it and that really wasn’t fun either. Even though I covered it most of the time, I would regularly remove the bandage and expose it to the sun, that felt really good (and intuitive), I was careful not to let it get too dry. It was amazing watching the wound gradually heal over time, observing the deep layers of new flesh weave and begin to rise to the surface to fill the void. At the end of the day I found covering this wound and keeping it moist (with its own fluids) to be the most effective for healing.

To add to my woes during my healing phase… a few weeks later I injured just below the wound (the 3 spot scars in the pic below) by running into a pole on my bike! lol it was the only pole for about 1km too!

Here is the wound today, 2 years on…

After

So for the people who are skeptical of ones healing ability on a low fat raw vegan lifestyle… there is no need to fear! I have totally put it to the test. My healing has been amazing and no wonder, I’m providing my body with the ideal alkaline environment to heal in. Can you imagine how impeded your bodies healing ability must be with acid-forming meat and dairy clogging the channels of elimination? Digestion is the most energy demanding task the body has to perform so it makes sense to ease the burden on digestion and elimination as much as possible by eating simply, i.e – fruits and greens. This way the healing energy can go towards our wound instead of our digestion. Meat takes days and days to move through the colon in comparison to fruits and greens that take under 24hrs.

So to summarise..
* Clean wound well in saltwater, rinse with fresh water
* Expose to sun regularly
* Cover wound lightly (not sticking to the wound) with an appropriate bandage
* Change bandage daily – to every few days
* Eat an alkaline fruits and vegie diet to optimize healing

I am off for now,
Stay fruity cutie

Lovefreelee

P.S – Now I have a lovely butterfly (in flight) scar