The Incredible Journey of Dominick Faircloth: From Pain to Raw Vegan Power

What if healing your body meant completely rethinking the way you eat? For Dominick Faircloth, that transformation wasn’t just physical—it was spiritual.

In this episode of The Glen Merzer Show, Dominick—a vegan bodybuilder and assistant manager at Ioni’s Organic Café—shares how a raw vegan lifestyle changed his life. Raised on the Standard American Diet, Dominick battled chronic asthma, allergies, arthritis, and even TMJ by his early twenties. But everything changed when he went plant-based—raw vegan overnight.

“I threw meat in the trash,” he recalls. Within months, his ailments vanished. Over the next 11 years, he remained sickness-free, thriving on a diet that’s 95% raw and 80% fruit. “I was flying high with energy,” Dominick says. His daily food choices became less about habit and more about conscious living.

And it didn’t stop there—Dominick explored fasting, breatharianism, and the deep spiritual connection between food and healing. He now views food not just as fuel, but as a way to align with the Earth, the body, and the spirit. “Food becomes a conscious choice.”

Today, Dominick shares his passion at Ioni’s Café, helping others taste the power of raw living foods while advocating for veganism as a path to health, clarity, and climate consciousness.

🎧 Tune in now to hear how one man’s journey from sick to strong is inspiring a movement—one fruit bowl at a time.

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Okay. Welcome to the Glen Merzer Show. could find us across all your favorite podcast platforms. You could find us on YouTube. And please remember to subscribe. You could find us at RealMenEatPlants.com. My guest today, I met, look at those muscles. met Dominick Faircloth when I was in Sarasota having a hernia operation in December.

And Dominick works as the assistant manager at one of the great, great vegan restaurants in America. It's called Ionie's Organic Cafe. And we're going to talk about that. It's one of my, I'd say two favorite vegan restaurants in America. And Dominick also won first place in the men's beach body division.

of the All Natural World Vegan Bodybuilding Championship. And I am still a little pissed off about that because I came in second place. I think I saw Dominick bribing the judge. So we'll talk about that. Dominick, welcome to the show. Hey Glen, thanks for having me. So when you won first place in the men's bodybuilding

division of the All Natural World Vegan Bodybuilding Championship, Men's Beach Body Championship. How did that feel? Oh, man. I was on cloud nine. I was super elated. Like I couldn't believe it. was just I never competed before. It was my first time competing. I got invited to compete in the competition kind of last minute, maybe like two months in advance or something like that. My Jeff Palmer, let me know.

Um, he was the one who hosted it and put the event on and I was like, yeah, I'm already in decent shape. I'll give it a shot. Why not? You know, how long did you train for this? Um, I had been working out just like as a average gym goer, you know, I wasn't like training to be a bodybuilder. uh, but yeah, when he invited me to the competition, I was like, all right, I'm going to take this seriously. And I started training like even more, like going as much as I could, like five times a week. And,

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Yeah, it paid off apparently and I ended up doing it. I remember when I was in Sarasota, I wanted to challenge you to an arm wrestle, but I had just had hernia surgery. you know, I couldn't do it next time. So tell us about your health journey. You weren't born. You didn't grow up vegan, did you? No, not at all. I had never even heard the word vegan until I was 23. huh. And.

I was raised standard American diet eating like everybody else. Where'd you grow up? Here in Sarasota. OK. And my parents still have the house we grew up in. And yeah, I was literally allowed to eat like whatever I wanted growing up. I eat like ice cream cones and pizza rolls before school, even elementary school. And needless to say, I had a bunch of health problems flaring up. I was always a little bit overweight.

And in middle school, my pediatrician told me, he's little overweight. His first question was, do you drink whole milk? And I was like, yeah, like dinner, like strawberry milk, chocolate milk, cereal, milkshakes, you know? And he's like, try cutting back to skim milk. If you don't like that, sell it for like one or 2 % milk. And so I didn't like skim milk and I didn't like 1 % milk. So I went to 2 % milk. And just going from whole milk to 2 % milk is a

middle school kid, I dropped like 30 pounds, which is pretty significant. You dropped 30 pounds just from going from whole milk to two percent? pretty quickly. so growing up, I had chronic asthma. I was allergic to like over 90 different things. had all the little needles put in your back that test you for stuff. I was allergic to every type of animal dander from cat, dog, bird, you name it. I couldn't go into any of my relatives houses that had animals because I was so allergic.

If I was allergic to fresh cut grass. So if the neighbor was mowing his lawn, I'd be on the floor hyperventilating, my throat would swell up. I had every steroid inhaler they made, like the one they had like blow the accordion in and out and stuff. But when my pediatrician told me to go to 2 % milk and I lost that weight, all my allergies disappeared.

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As a little kid, I didn't think anything of it. You know, they tell you, oh, you outgrew your childhood allergies. But I was really cutting out one of the main contributing factors I would learn later on in life, which is dairy. Yeah, but you weren't cutting out dairy because you were still having the 2 % milk. Yeah, I was like cutting back on it. If only my pediatrician had known about veganism and known that.

the dangers of dairy and what it just told me to stop it completely, I'd probably be light years ahead of where I am. So when you changed the nature of the milk from whole milk to 2 % milk, did you also reduce the amount you were drinking? No. I'm really surprised you kept drinking the milk. Had you just changed the nature of the milk and your allergies went away? Yeah, that's pretty surprising. Yeah, I can't understand how that happened, but I'm glad it happened for you. Yeah, right.

And it was a huge relief too, because like I love animals, you know, and yeah, I couldn't, literally couldn't even go to my relatives houses that had animals. like cats or dogs, could, I had to stay outside in the car and play like games or something. All right. So you changed the nature of the milk that you were making the mistake of drinking and you lost 30 pounds. The allergies went away. Did you still have any health problems at that point?

Yeah, had a, so in my late teens, early twenties, I started developing arthritis in my joints. Arthritis as a young man. Yeah, I had arthritis and also TMJ in my left jaw, which stands for Tempo Mandibular Joint Dysfunction. It's basically where your jaw hinges to your skull. And so for me, it was like bone on bone grinding and it was like super excruciating pain. I couldn't chew properly.

It felt like my jaw was gonna Charlie horse lock out of place when I yawned and so that lasted for like five six years I couldn't even over six years of excruciating pain. Yeah, it would make eating very difficult Yeah, so I couldn't I couldn't die to chew very well. I had digestive issues as a result of that It hurt to like just move my side jaw side to side like this. so this was in your early 20s

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Yeah, late teens, early twenties. two percent milk didn't solve that problem. No, it didn't. And so I went to a TMJ specialist and they're like, oh, this is hereditary. You got it from your father. It's incurable. like surgery might help you. But surgery could make it worse. I'm like, man, I don't want to go through that. My dad had already had the TMJ surgery for his at like 65 years old and it made it worse. I'm like, damn, I really don't want to go through that. And

Yeah. So the arthritis in my joints was getting worse. TMJ was getting worse. And I got into scuba diving and stuff and I realized I didn't like the way I looked in a wetsuit. So I was like, I got to do something about this. And I realized in the pool that I wasn't that physically fit as I thought. So I started getting into working out, you know, and I wanted to get healthy like, you know, everyone else. And so I went to a gym. And then I also found there was a transformation challenge by bodybuilding.com.

where it was like a three month transformation challenge. All you had to do was submit your before and after photos and you could win $50,000. I'm like, whoa, I'm gonna try this, you know? And they had like a trainer that you could follow and listen to as far as like diet and exercise regiments go. And I was like, yeah, I'll either be in the best shape of my life or maybe even win $50,000. I'll try it, you know? And so I started training like a bodybuilder and eating like a bodybuilder. And the guy I was following at the time on bodybuilding.com was telling you to eat like six meals a day.

three protein shakes a day. Each protein shake consisted of dairy milk, 2 % milk, and whey protein, which is also a dairy derivative protein. And the guy I was following would also wake up in the middle of the night and drink a casein protein shake, which is a school or digesting dairy protein, and go back to sleep. And so I did that. each meal consisted of like lean chicken, fish, or steak.

clean carbs, brown rice with potatoes, know, not much fruit because fruits, the fruits bad in the bodybuilding world at like, it's, yeah, it's just like frowned upon and not good for you apparently. And so yeah, I was eating like that. Didn't miss a single workout. Didn't miss a single meal. And at the end of the competition, I got strong, you know, but I felt miserable inside. Like all my problems were getting worse. The TMJ was worse.

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Now I also had full blown body acne, like worse than when I was a teenager. I'm like, what the heck happened? I thought I was eating clean and healthy like a bodybuilder, you know? And apparently I was just turning my body acidic from all this animal protein and dairy and whey protein. And you didn't win the 50 grand? I did not, but the guy who did definitely deserved it. He had a really good transformation, but I was already in relatively decent shape because I was like already in the gym scene at the time.

But yeah, so I had full body acne. I had like constant hemorrhoids, indigestion. I found out I was like malabsorbed. So was like I was eating a Were you eating a lot of meat? Yeah, like I said, each meal during that competition was six ounces of lean chicken, or steak, six meals a day. Wow. I was doing like lots of eggs and stuff for breakfast. And it was ridiculous. And like I said, all my health problems are getting worse. The arthritis, the TMJ.

acne outbreaks, more hemorrhoids, more indigestion, digestive issues. I was having like irregular heart palpitations. I had, what else? I self-diagnosed this. I don't know what it was. I went to a leg specialist and a knee specialist and they didn't know what it was, but it looked like a physical bruise on the back of my right knee. And it just looked like, it started about the size of a dime. It got to about the size of a half dollar. And it looked like someone just punched me in the back of my knee. It was like a dark black and blue bruise.

and just got bigger and bigger. And by the end of the competition, it was so bad that like, couldn't even squat down to tie my shoe because it would cut off the nerves and send nerve pain all up and down my spine. And I would literally black out from the pain. And so don't want any specialist, like specialist, we don't know what this is. We have to either do radiation scans or do some.

surgery to like try and find out what's going on in there. And I was like, I don't want to do that. Like there's gotta be a more natural way. This is crazy. Like what's happening. I thought I was doing the right thing, right things, you know? And so I refused that surgery. I refused the TMJ surgery. I went home and I finally sat down and did the nutritional research for myself. And I quickly came across veganism and a plant-based diet. And then I found out something called curly and curly and photography. I don't know if you've heard of that.

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they've developed a camera technology that can see energy signatures of living things. It's really cool. like, know, spiritual people can see like auras of colors around people. So this camera technology can basically see these colorful halo auras around living things. And so if you take a picture of a piece of apple or a broccoli, for example, it has this nice, shiny, bright, energetic electrical halo current around it. But then if you cook, steam boil or microwave that apple or fruit, vegetable, whatever,

over 115 degrees or so for extended periods of time, you start to denature and kill the living enzymes in the food and that life force goes away. And the camera technology can see this, then it'll start to resemble like a piece of meat, which has like no living energy signature coming off of it, because it's dead, it's a rotting piece of flesh. And I was like, wow, there's the science that shows like raw living food.

is way more nutritious and energetic for you. Like, why, why are we eating anything else? And I'm like, we're the only species on the planet cooking our food. Like, why are we doing this? And then I found some long-term raw foodists online and they seem to be like defying the aging process. And I was like this, they really had my, it had me intrigued, you know, and opened my mind. And I was like, I'm going to try this because I don't want to do surgery. So. All right. So you went from a terrible diet of meat six times a day. Yeah.

the raw living vegan food. Yeah, I want a complete 180. Cause also in my research, found out that the World Health Organization classified processed meat, meaning if you cook steam, boil, microwave, do anything to meat, basically cooking wise, you create carcinogenic compounds equal to asbestos, plutonium, smoking cigarettes, arsenic, et cetera. And I was like, Holy crap. I threw meat in the trash. Then I found that.

dairy is directly linked to osteoporosis, calcium bone deficiency. Like what happened to milk-filled strong bones, right? They don't even say that anymore because they know it's a complete lie. And it also leads to arthritis, which I had arthritis in all my joints. And I was like, man, it's also linked to breast cancer in women, like reproductive cancers, yeah, allergies and stuff like I had. And so I threw dairy in the trash. I was like, screw that. I'm not going to play with that anymore.

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Then I also found out that eggs, even if they're grass-fed, free-range, organic, cage-free, doesn't matter, because at the end of the day, that egg is mostly saturated fat and cholesterol. They cannot scientifically label eggs healthy, safe, or nutritious, because it's mostly saturated fat and cholesterol, which leads to the leading causes of death in people such as heart disease, cardiovascular disease, diabetes.

I'm like, holy crap, like everything I knew is a lie. So I threw eggs in the trash and I raw vegan overnight. I was like, I'm not playing around. got raw vegan overnight. Now, did you have some guru who was, you know, the one who's raw vegan diet you followed or did you just make it up yourself? No, I had seen some long term raw foodists that were defying aging and stuff that inspired me, but I didn't like follow their plans or anything like that. I'm just like, I don't know what I'm doing. I'm just going to go raw vegan and try it.

So was doing like a lot of spinach and banana smoothies with like almond milk in the beginning. And that was like a big staple because I was like, wow, I'm getting my greens, I'm getting my fruit. don't really know what I'm doing, but it's tasty and it works. It's simple and I feel great. within the first. So that's you're drinking the smoothies. But did you feel a desire to eat more food? Right. So I cut everything. I cut out coffee, soda.

you you name it. I was like, I'm fully raw vegan. I'm not playing around anymore. So I did have like cravings and withdrawals because like you're literally cutting out all these things that you're stimulated and addicted to. And dairy has naturally occurring case of morphine. So it's like, you're trying to kick morphine addiction basically. That case of morphine is there of course, you know, so the baby cow wants to keep drinking from the mother's milk, but then we also get chemically addicted to this stuff. And that's why it's so hard to,

kick that habit for most vegetarians and vegans. But yeah, so I fought the cravings for the first month, but I was feeling so good. I was like, I don't even care anymore. was like, within that first month, I was like, I had no idea you could feel this freaking good, you know? And I was like. So you're drinking the smoothies, but are you eating salads? Are you eating a lot of fruits? Yeah, I was doing a lot of big salads too in the beginning there. But yeah, and like my salads are massive because I came from a bodybuilding diet. So I was used to eating like

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large volumes of food frequently throughout the day so I could eat a lot. And what I quickly realized too is that I was actually malabsorbed. So because I wasn't chewing properly and I was eating a crappy diet my whole life, my digestive system was really messed up and backed up. So like I was eating a lot of food but it was just going right through me and I wasn't actually assimilating all those nutrients. So it was just kind of wasting a lot of. So how old were you when you went on this raw food vegan diet?

Yeah, so I was like 23, 24, somewhere around there. 23, 24. But yeah, it was like March, March 3rd, something like that. anniversary is coming up. Yeah, it's really close. That'll be 11 years. And anyway, yeah, I never heard the word. So 11 years now. So you're about 34 now. Yeah. And you stayed on the raw food vegan diet the whole time. I did that for three years straight.

And I reversed everything. The TMJ disappeared after like two and a half years. Like there was no shred of evidence that I ever even had it. Like I couldn't do that without excruciating pain. the blood. So what do you think it was? Inflammation that slowly went away on the diet? Yeah, I think it was that. And yeah, maybe some like.

calcium erosion or deposit, you know, from like inorganic stuff and like the dairy, like leaching calcium from my jaw and stuff. don't know exactly, but yeah, I think it was a combination of all the above there. And so that disappeared about eight months in the thing behind my knee, that blood clot or whatever it was disappeared. And then I gained more flexibility than I ever had in my life without even trying. So that was amazing. The bruise disappeared completely. My acne cleared up.

I got to a point where I didn't even produce body odor anymore. like, this is unheard of. Like, this is so wild to me. just things like, everything got better. Things I didn't even know would heal started healing and things I didn't even know were an issue. Like, I had a receding gum line from brushing my teeth too hard allegedly from the dentist. They told me that I was brushing too hard apparently. And they told me I could never heal that either, but my gums started to regrow.

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back onto the teeth and everything. So that was really cool. I reversed like cavities and stuff started healing naturally. Reversed cavities. Yeah. That's one I never heard of before. It was amazing. What did your dentist say about that? I stopped going to the dentist because I got to a dentist my whole life. Right. And I went once when I was like, I don't know, 19 or 20, I think was the last time I went.

and I had a new dental assistant working on me that had never worked on me before. And she was just like doing the pre-cleaning before the dentist actually comes in. And she was like, you have a receding gum line. And I was like, what does that mean? And she goes, how do you brush your teeth? What kind of toothbrush do you use? I'm like, firm bristle toothbrush. And I scrub, know, like scrubbing all this stuff off your teeth, right? And she goes, oh no, she looked horrified at me. She's like, you're supposed to use a soft bristle toothbrush and you're supposed to hold it so gently that someone could just take it out of your hand.

and use the friction to brush your teeth. Like, why are you the first person in all my years of going to a dentist to tell me this? And so I was like, so, and I asked her, was like, what can I do? And she goes, well, nothing, the damage is done. You just gotta stop damaging your teeth by brushing them too hard. And I was like, crap. And I was like, so infuriated. I was like, I don't even know what to trust anymore. So I just stopped going to a dentist. like, but yeah, like I just noticed my teeth health just started improving on the plant-based diet and everything too.

And it's just amazing. And I just, I kept going with it and like, yeah, one by one, all my issues cleared up and disappeared. I never got a hemorrhoid again. I never got sick anymore. I never even got like flus. The worst thing I would ever get is maybe a runny nose that would last a day or so and disappear. you get any flus in the last 11 years?

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I don't think so. No. Did you get COVID? No. And I was working in the restaurant industry during that whole time too, like scrubbing dishes, interacting with customers. I was like a manager at a different vegan restaurant at that time. And yeah, never got vaccinated. Never really wore a mask or anything like that. Never social distance. Never got sick at all. Wow. It was amazing. Yeah. My sleep improved. Just things I didn't even know were going to get better, got better. It was just amazing. Yeah.

And did the when you would work out to build muscles, did that go better, too? On the. Yeah, I started. I noticed that I recovered quicker in the gym. had way less inflammation. I was still making gains, even though I'm just doing smoothies and salads and stuff for the most part now. And I also learned that you can make like raw vegan cheesecakes. I started having fun with that and I was like, this is going to be easy. So how did your friends in the gym react to your new diet?

And you know that it contradicts probably what what they were doing. Yeah, it's was new to any of them go vegan as a result of watching your muscles grow. I definitely inspired a lot of people along the way and started making them question things, too, for sure. And my whole family was like they thought I was extreme and kind of crazy and losing it. But like they couldn't deny that I was getting results and that I was healing everything that doctors told me I could never heal. And the proof is in the pudding. It was just amazing.

And yeah, I'm definitely converted a lot of people along the way to the vegan diet. do a lot of vegan activism as well. So what kind of vegan activism do you do? I was working with Anonymous for the Voiceless a lot. we're showing like slaughterhouse footage in public and talking to people about that and, you know, making them realize like where their food comes from and connect their

morals and their ethics and find their heart again towards animals and what they're doing. And it's like the most environmentally destructive industry on the planet is animal agriculture and stuff. So you found the diet from a health search. Yeah. It wasn't you didn't find the diet because you were upset about the treatment of animals. No, but I quickly learned about the horrors. But you look you.

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quickly learned about it. So once you discovered what was right for your body, you learned about how it's also right for the animals and right for the world. Yeah, it was amazing. Like at first it started out as like a selfish endeavor, like, I'm just going to plant base for my health and take care of me. Then I'm like, wow, I'm simultaneously helping animals. I love animals. I don't want to be a part of that anymore. And I'm also helping the environment. It's just like a no brainer. It's a win win all around for everybody. Right.

And by the way, when, you know, people often say what you just said that initially I was doing it for selfish reasons for my own health, but I'll point out this.

You've got people who love you. So when you do something for your own health, it's actually not selfish because it's very true. You're helping all the people who love you. Yeah. So I met you working at this great restaurant you work at called Ione's Organic Cafe. Yeah. Downtown Sarasota. Ione's living food and tonics.

that's what it's called now. I only living food and tonics. Yeah, I didn't know that. Yeah, we're just outside of Whole Foods downtown Sarasota. So if you park in the Whole Foods parking lot, you just walk right over to the cafe. Right. A fully raw vegan, organic, gluten free. And that's what I did. And so as I was recovering from my hernia surgery, my wife and I would come in the morning and I would get this garden wrap.

that you would make for me. was so amazingly good. I would advise people if you're within, I'd say a 12 hour drive of Sarasota, just drive down, get there in the morning and have the garden wrap for breakfast. And then for lunch, there were these pizzas you would make. My wife really loved the pizzas. And what would the raw pizzas?

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So what were the ingredients of the raw pizzas? Yeah, it's really cool. Everything is raw. Like we don't even have any device to cook anything in the whole place. But they're made to mimic things that we're used to eating. So we have an Italian pizza. We have a pesto pizza, a Greek pizza, and a white pizza. They all have a macadamia nut cheese on them. The crust is a sprouted buckwheat crust with carrots, flax meal, olive oil, garlic, and spices. And it's dehydrated. So it's kind of like a softer cracker consistency.

Then they have little toppings on them. Like they have a Brazil nut meat. They have peppers on certain ones. There's like marinated spinach and kale on the Greek one with olives. It's like really flavorful olives and little tomatoes and stuff. And the pesto has a basil pistachio pesto on it. It's just amazing. I don't usually consume food with oil in it, but I made an exception in your cafe because the oil isn't heated.

Yeah. And the food is so delicious that I didn't mind getting a little olive oil in my food. it's really raw, it's all cold pressed. We only use organic olive oil that's cold pressed and we don't use a lot of oil, so it's very spare. Right. It was not greasy food at all. Not at all. And, you know, so my wife and I talk about, you know, what should we have?

for lunch today. Can we go to Sarasota? Just go back to Ione's now called the Ione's Living Foods and Tonics. Yeah. What was wrong with Ione's Organic Cafe? Well, it used to be called the Ione Organic Cafe and Retreat, I think, because it was connected to a wellness center because Ione himself is a rolfing massage therapist. So, OK. Then she had like a spa with the infrared sauna and ozone sauna.

Ioni is a great character. Will you help me convince her to come on my show? know. She's really a special person. So how did you meet Ioni and when did you start working with her? Yeah. So when you go raw, there's not really many places you can eat out. So when you do a quick Google search, find the only raw vegan cafe in the area. And of course, you go there frequently. So yeah, I would go there a lot.

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Yeah. And then one day after I lost my job at a different vegan spot that was going on there, I moved back to Sarasota and I just went in there again and I was like, Hey, are you guys hiring? Cause I love this place so much. Like I would love to work here. It's just, this is the healthiest food literally in the whole state, arguably. absolutely. Like every single ingredient is truly organic. never compromise. this is, it's amazing. And people feel it, you know, when you come in there that like people who've never eaten this stuff before they're like,

This is like they can just feel the life force in the food and the vibrancy and how good it makes them feel. And I see everyone working there just like with a big smile and so happy. that's the other thing the energy about the restaurant is the atmosphere. Yeah, really is it may be the healthiest restaurant in America. And and as for the atmosphere, it's just kind of so.

open and friendly. And you get the feeling that there are regulars who come in all the time and they know each other and they know the people who work there. am I right about that? A lot of regulars coming back all the time. Yeah, most of our businesses repeat customers. Exactly. And there's one other restaurant, vegan restaurant in Pittsburgh that has that friendly atmosphere, too. It's a little more of a

an evening place. I think it's just on weekends called the apteka, which and it's an Eastern European vegan food. So it's food like pierogies that people are used to having with that non vegan and they make vegan. And it's a great atmosphere, really friendly place. And those to me are the two best vegan restaurants in America. And I have to check them out when I go there.

And it's the atmosphere as well as the food because it just feels like it's a friendly place. Yeah. So when you met Ioni, she, does she have certain...

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attitudes about food that she makes sure that all her employees understand and are in sync with? Yeah, she does. that's one of the things that frustrates our customers the most is because she doesn't believe that we should be eating very late in the day. Like we should be eating during like sun hours. So I think she does, she personally probably does her last meal of the day at like maybe like

two, three o'clock for the latest. And so she doesn't really want to be encouraging other people to eat late. So she closes the cafe early. So we're only open till five. So what are the hours from when do you open? From 8 a.m. in the morning till five in the evening and one day through Saturday. And then we close one hour early on Saturday at four o'clock and then we're closed Sunday. Our kitchen closes early at two thirty also.

You have to make sure your orders in by 2 30. Let me hold it there for you. We have a little grab and go case that grab and go case stock with entrees, juices and smoothies to so you can come in after the kitchen's closed. They'll grab something and dine there or take it to go. Yeah. So I recall when you when you go in, you can find the grab and go in the refrigerator or you can ask you or one of your colleagues to make it right fresh. Yeah, this when you can come in. Yeah.

And how long does it take to make a pizza, for example? So it's really quick. We already have all the crusts dehydrated and ready to go. So it's just a matter of like slathering some macadamia nut cheese on there, some marinara, whatever toppings. But like five minutes they can get a raw That's amazing. But you can have a raw pizza made for you in five minutes. And it's the healthiest pizza in America. So how many people work there now?

it's probably maybe a dozen of us almost. let's see. got the only me, Martin. We just hired a new chef as well. Now, are you considered a chef there? I kind of do a little bit of everything, but mostly I try to be front customer service because I just love interacting with people and sharing my stuff with I mean, you do create the pizzas and the garden wraps right there, which is.

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what being a chef is in this sort of restaurant, it isn't cooking. Yeah, I'm cooking. So how has your diet changed in the 11 years since you've been a raw vegan? Yeah. So after the first three years and I healed everything, including like the TMJ, which was like my biggest issue I was battling, I was like, all right, I'll live a little and show my family that it's not so extreme to be vegan and raw.

eat some cooked food a little bit, know, and start experimenting with stuff. And I also wanted to try some of the vegan products. I would like know what to recommend to people who are transitioning, because I know what it's like to eat burgers and pizzas and stuff like that and junk food. And I wanted to be like, hey, you like if you see that, like try this, you know, it's a great vegan alternative. It's, you know, even though it's like a plant based processed vegan junk food item, it's still

way better than eating the animal products and you're not hurting the animals, you're helping the environment. So it's just like a huge step in the right direction, you know, even if you're going to play with those kinds of foods. But I don't really eat a lot of that stuff. I experimented for a while just tasting things and getting an idea of what's out there. But it's so cool. I could literally go into the supermarket and get like anything you eat normally plant-based. And so, but now, yeah, so I'm still mostly raw and in my raw journey. I went from

Like I you said you're mostly wrong. So what do you mean that isn't raw? Yeah, I'm probably like 95 % raw these days. OK, so what's the 5 %? What do you eat? Like if I go out to dinner with some friends at a restaurant, you know, I'll find some plant based cooked option and have that so I can still socialize and get out there and stuff. And but mostly it's still I still mostly keep it whole food plant based. I'll do like sweet potatoes, you know, fries, maybe here and there and stuff like that.

some steamed veggies, whatnot. yeah, most most of my diet still to this day is fruit. So I'd probably say 80 % of my diet is roughly fruit. 80 % fruit. Yeah. Has it been that way all 11 years? Pretty much like I quickly started gravitating towards fruit when I transitioned because I'm like, fruit's just amazing. Like you don't have to season it. You don't have to do anything to it. It's just perfect. You know, the way nature gives it to you. It's like you don't have to do anything to it. And

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Like in the beginning, like I said, I was doing big salads. I was doing a lot of smoothies and stuff, but you know, it takes a long time to eat a massive salad, you know? I sitting there like watching a movie for like almost two hours eating a big salad, you know I mean? And so, and also as I stayed raw, I noticed that coming off the standard American diet, like I said, I was malabsorbed. So everything I was eating was just kind of going right through me. I thought I had a fast metabolism, right? And so what I found out was the more longer I was plant-based,

the cleaner my digestive system got and the fuller I got quicker because of all the fiber and the fruits and veggies and stuff. So I was like, my salads were getting smaller and smaller and smaller and I was getting fuller and staying satiated longer. I was like, wow, this is interesting. And I also, yeah, I got to the point where I was eating mostly fruit and some days I would just eat like half of a little orange cantaloupe, you know.

And I'd be like, I want to eat the other half of this cantaloupe, but I physically cannot. Like I'm just full and hydrated. Like there's no need to eat this. I'm like, I realized I was just trying to eat things for like still emotional reasons. Like that's a lot of the reason why people eat stuff is just to suppress emotions and stuff. uh, and then it was, it was funny too, because there's another thing I want to touch on that I almost forgot about, um, is breatharianism. I don't know if you've heard of this. Well, I have, but, uh, how do you live on that?

Right, so at first when I heard of veganism, I found out about breatharianism at the time. I was like, no way, that's gotta be clickbait. There can't be anything to that. That's crazy. But like I said, as I was raw vegan for three years, eating less and less, getting fuller quicker, and looking at this half of a cantaloupe, I'm like, there's something, it was like a splinter in my mind. I'm like, there's something to this breatharian thing. And so I started looking into that and I started like experimenting with fasting. Like I did a 30 day juice fast and I was like,

wow, how do I feel this good with no physical food? Then I did a watermelon feast where I only ate a seeded watermelon for 52 days straight. And I didn't even drink any water because I was trying to see if I can get all my hydration through the watermelon because it's mostly water, right? It's like 98 % water. And it was working. Now watermelons were in season and I only stopped because it was the end of watermelon season and I couldn't find good watermelons anymore.

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but I would have kept going. It was the best I ever felt in my life. My skin was perfect. I was sleeping like two or three hours a night, feeling like I got eight hours of quality sleep. It was wild. I was just like flying high with energy all the time and like mental clarity and just blissed out on life like a little child again. It was unreal.

And so I looked into the breatharian thing a little more and I experimented with water fasting. I was like, I'm going to shoot for a week. I don't think I'll make it. But if I get hungry, I'll eat. Like you were not medically supervised. You were doing this on your own. Yeah. They don't advise it. Like I think you should. Now I have interviewed Dr. Alan Goldhammer. will say if it's more than a day, you should be medically supervised. But you did it not medically supervised. And how do you do?

Yeah, it was amazing. It was a roller coaster for sure. So I told myself I'm going to shoot for a week. I've never done one day of water fasting, but if I get hungry, I'll eat, right? Like, what do have to lose? So I started doing it and I was only drinking distilled water at the time too, which has no minerals, no nothing. Right. Which is what Dr. Goldhammer recommend. Yeah. And my research had led me into the distilled water as well as the best source of water. so.

Yeah, I just drink this stuff. Like I thought I would get stomach rumbles and I thought that is what hunger is, right? Like we're told like, your stomach's making noise. It must be hungry. You're hungry, right? So I would just drink the water and it would go away. I'm like, huh, I guess I'm just dehydrated. I'm not actually hungry or I'm just bored, you know, a lot of the times too. And so I was just drinking water. And again, I was flying high with energy. Like the first week I was maybe two weeks or so I was only sleeping like two to three hours a night.

feeling like I got eight hours of deep quality sleep. I didn't even know how to explain them. Like, this is crazy. Like I'm literally not eating anything. I'm just drinking water and I'm like thriving. I'm flying high with energy. Cause I also heard that like 70 to 80 % of your energy can go towards towards digestion. So imagine having 70 to 80 % more energy and free time, like not cooking, not cleaning, not digesting, you know, not going to the bathroom as much. Now, now at some point you had to get hungry, right?

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I thought so. And the days were just flying by. so, like I said, it was like a roller coaster. In the beginning, I was like flying high. And then I knew, and I knew like, you know, fasting, you want to be careful. I'd done a lot of research on this. And some days, you know, you have low energy, your body's going through detox symptoms and you just need to rest and stuff. wasn't like doing anything strenuous, no activity like that. was, I was in between jobs. I was home alone. I didn't have any work to do or anything really. And yeah, I was just.

It was amazing. And some of the difficulties were like the detox symptoms I had was low energy. I got a little lightheaded towards the very end and I was making some careless mistakes. Like I was getting up too fast. with, you know, like my parents, my parents came over like two weeks into the water fast and I was, I was doing fine by that point. I lost, I was losing like a pound of weight every day, which was interesting. A lot of like just fat, basically. I wasn't really losing any muscle. um, you feel that you needed to lose weight?

No, I wasn't doing it for any weight. I was just doing this because I was curious. was like, were you maybe getting too skinny if you were losing a pound a day?

Maybe, I don't know, but I felt good. So I didn't, I was just blown off of that. how I was just gauging it by how I felt, not how I looked or anything like that. And so I was mostly like just researching stuff during this time, because you have a lot of free time and you got the hardest thing is like finding, keeping your mind occupied, you know, because like you have so much more free time now. Yeah. isn't part of the day. You got a lot of free time. Yeah. So I was just like researching a lot of stuff and watching a lot of YouTube videos and whatnot.

then my parents came to visit me and they noticed that I'd lost like maybe 10, 15 pounds since they had seen me last. And they're like, are you okay? Like, what are you? I'm like, yeah, I'm fine. I'm just doing a water fast. They're like, what? How long are you doing it for? I'm like, I don't know. They're like, how long has it been? I was like, yeah, probably like two weeks. And they were shocked. They're like, wait, two weeks on just water? Like, please Dom, don't do this. They're they're like begging me to stop. Like, don't do this. You don't know what you're doing.

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you're going to cause irreversible organ damage and just projecting all their fears onto me. And then it got a little difficult because I had that added weight on me, like them influencing my subconscious and trying to fear monger me out of doing this. if I hadn't talked to them, I'm feeling amazing. I have no issues. I'm feeling great. You had almost turned into a breatharian. Yeah. Well, I was just experimenting with this.

So, and there was one day that was a little scary. I woke up and I had like really intense abdominal pain. Like I didn't know where it was coming from. And it was really excruciatingly painful. It was scary to be honest. Well, do you know what that was? I found out shortly after. So, I couldn't get in any comfortable position either. I just woke up in pain. I couldn't get comfortable. I tried laying on my side and everything. And eventually I found out that just getting into like a downward dog position kind of felt a little more relief in that area.

And then I like pass gas. The pain was completely gone. I'm like, are you kidding me? I just had like such extreme gas, like from the detox symptoms building up inside me that it felt like super painful. But after that pass, it was like smooth sailing again. I was like, all right. Well, I'm still going to say to the listeners, I'm going with Dr. Goldhammer. I do an extended water fast, be medically supervised. I would agree. And if you say about it.

Dominick managed to pull it off. Not everybody is a dominant. Yeah, it was. And also before this, too, I probably wouldn't have done this water fast if I hadn't like found God, because I was basically an agnostic my whole life because of circumstances when I grew up where like my older sister was killed by a drunk driver and.

She was like six years old and standing on the side of the road with her brother waiting to cross the road. And the strong driver just swerved off the road and killed her on impact in front of my brother. And my parents were raised like Roman Catholic, you know. And so after that day, you know, it kind of made them question their faith and everything. And so a few years later, they had me and my brother. That's when we were born after that.

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And so growing up knowing that our sister was killed by a drunk driver, they introduced us to church and stuff, but it never really resonated with us, never really made sense because like religion was telling us like, God took her and she's in a better place now and all this stuff. Like, man, I was a little kid trying to make logic and sense of this. I have one similarity, excuse me, to that and that I grew up in an agnostic family. Really? Because my father was agnostic because

His father, used to be religious, when my grandmother died young of cancer, my father was about 11 or 12, his father said, that's it, God, I'm done with you. And so my father grew up agnostic and I grew up in an agnostic home because my grandmother died of cancer young. No, I'm sorry to hear that.

So long time ago. Yeah. But, yeah. So for me, I was like Gnostic. And then when I went plant based and vegan, I was like, one day I was watching slaughterhouse footage. I had seen it before and, it was like infuriating me. And, I finally felt hopeless. Like by this point I'd been raw vegan for like two years. I didn't know any other vegans. I kind of alone. I was off social media at the time and I just started shouting at God. If God was listening.

And I was pissed. was like, what do you want from me? Cause I felt hopeless. Like I felt like I couldn't change the world. Like there's so much damage happening and people are just destroying our environment so quick and killing so many animals. And yeah, these slaughterhouse workers were just like kicking and stabbing the animals, like even long before slaughter, just abusing them. it just, it made me mad. And so I just started shouting out at God. like, what do you want from me? was like, does it even make a difference if I'm vegan?

What do you want from me? And I just kept saying those things over and over. And then right when I asked those questions and I got angry and I demanded answers, this energy just like surged through my body. Like I didn't know anything about crown, like your chakras or anything like that. But this energy just like came through my crown chakra and just like lit up my body. Like with the most loving, I'm getting chills talking about it. My hair's standing up. But like that was the most loving sensation I've ever experienced in my life. And it just like lit my body up. Like I felt so warm and loved inside.

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And then I was getting answers too. no voice was spoken to me, but I was like being energetically told that like I'm loved, that God is real, that God loves me. And then instantly I was also shown like images and flashbacks of third party, like drone footage of like...

the environment that I was personally responsible for destroying my whole life as a non-vegan. And I had to feel God was showing me that I was a hypocrite because here I am judging these slaughterhouse workers and I was never sorry for the damage I caused to the environment. know, like I basically paid them to do what they're doing for most of my life and I was never sorry about that. I never felt anything about that. You never knew about it either. Yeah.

And so God was showing me I'm a hypocrite and to have compassion for my fellow brothers who are slaughterhouse workers, know, like a lot of people don't want to be doing what they're doing either, you know, like they're just worse. And by the way, a lot of the workers in the meatpacking plants are undocumented teenagers. Right. The meatpacking industry exploits. So, you we can't be angry at the undocumented.

13 year olds from Honduras, who the meatpacking industry is exploiting. And these slaughterhouse workers do like a lot of them are like they use prison labor to like to slaughter some of these animals too and like slit the throat. It's like, am I just letting animals throw it all day long? Like just killing these beautiful sentient, screaming, scared, crying animals.

So they use prison workers and prison labor to do a lot of this stuff. And these slaughterhouse workers have like the highest rates of suicide, It's horrible. couldn't imagine it. So God was showing me like have compassion for them. Like they don't know. And some of them are just forced to do this stuff. And they're in positions just trying to make a living like everybody else and they don't know. And so, but yeah. And then also like I had to go through the feelings of like, holy crap, God's real and God loves me. Like, this is so new to me. It felt like

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being an orphan your whole life and being angry at your parents for abandoning you and then realizing that they were there the whole time, God's there the whole time, but the choice is up to you whether or not you want to reach out and know God or not. And that was the first time for me I ever connected and I was like, holy crap. So then I was like, this is just amazing. was the most life-changing experience ever. also God was showing me that like, God was telling me you're on the right path. Like veganism is the way, but just to...

calm down and like stop shoving it down people's throats. Cause I was kind of like an angry vegan at the time, know, like, cause when you learn the truth, you're like, man, like we got to stop this. Like this is horrible. he was Sarasota is a good place for people to learn the relationship between what they eat and what is happening to the climate. Yeah. So I went to college in Sarasota and I never worried for a minute about hurricanes.

I was at New College right on the bay and Sarasota has or had almost a hundred year history of being lucky and not getting a direct hit from hurricanes. Yeah. But when I came down for my last hernia operation in December, and by the way, folks, if you if you've got an inguinal hernia,

The best place in America to get surgery is in Sarasota at the Center for Hernia Repair because you could get it done without that, in my opinion, unnecessary plastic hernia mesh. so when I was down there, was a couple of months after, what was it? Hurricane Milton? Was that that destructive one that came around October, November?

And I went out to St. Armand Circle. For those who don't know Sarasota, St. Armand Circle is this fancy shopping area with blocks and blocks full of fancy boutiques and restaurants. And it had been decimated. mean, you every every store, every boutique got hit with four feet of water. And maybe, I don't know, one third or one quarter of them were open.

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And the others were rebuilding. And the hurricanes, of course, are getting more violent. And the storm surges higher because the waters are heating. The planet is heating. And that is happening because of hamburgers and animal foods.

So it's very hard for people to see this relationship. wrote a book about it called Food is Climate, but it's very hard for people to see this relationship. You mean because I'm eating hamburgers? St. Omren's Circle is having problems? Come on. How could that be? Well, that's what's happening. And of course, it's people all around the world eating meat. It's a global climate. So it's a tough problem to solve, but there is no solving.

of this problem without a global transformation towards a vegan diet and the rewilding of the grazing land. If we rewild the grazing land, we could sequester enough carbon dioxide to reverse climate change. And there's no other way we do it.

So Sarasota, you could see it happening and all over Florida, really. Florida and California seem to be getting the brunt of it in the United States of the changes from the climate. Yeah, it's just insane. Like 70 % of the world's grain and crops go to feed livestock animals. It's like we have how many billion people starving and we're feeding 70 % of our crops to animals so people can eat meat.

that don't even need to eat meat and it's actually damaging their health. We're starving people so that other people could get heart attacks while we destroy the climate and get attacked by fires and floods and total insanity, surges. It's mass insanity.

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Back to the water fast though, quick, finish that story. So yeah, I wouldn't have done the water fast if I didn't feel guided to like do this and experiment with this, knowing that like, felt safe, like that God's watching over me. I don't know how to explain it, but ever since that day, like two years into raw veganism, and then I did the water fast maybe like six months later, I just felt safe and protected along the way. don't know how or why, but.

And I was just waiting for hunger to set back in, right? Like as soon as hunger was gonna come in, I was gonna eat something, right? But I was never hungry. And so it was like day 24 of the water fast also that it cured the TMJ. That's when the TMJ disappeared. It's like- the TMJ disappeared during the water fast. Yeah. Wow. So, and I heard like being-

in a water fast is like being on nature's operating table. Like the body just know is so intelligent. It knows how to repair itself. We just have to get out of the way and stop putting stuff in our body. like, like I said, all that energy is going towards digestion. So when you fast or do a water fast or something like that, all that energy can go towards healing the body. Then you can regenerate like your gums, your ear. I've seen people regrow limbs that were surgically and like chopped off, know, like I saw

Wait, and whoa, whoa, I have to interrupt you there. You've seen people regrow limbs? Yeah. And like little appendages. What are you talking about? Tell me what you saw. There was a guy I found from Hawaii, and a young kid. I think he was like 19 years old. What do mean you found him? You found him online? I found him on YouTube. He was sharing his story on YouTube. his parents are native to Hawaii or something. They're raw vegan. And for like 50 years before they had him,

He was raised raw vegan, never had a vaccine, never had a tetanus shot. And they opened coconuts for a living on the side of the road. That's how they make a living. And the dad's like 55 and he can actually climb the trees faster than the 18 year old son could, you know? It's like super fit. so anyways, one day the kid was opening coconuts with a machete and he accidentally lopped off like two knuckles worth of his finger. so they took him to the hospital. They instantly asked him like, he had a vaccine or a tetanus shot? He lied, said he did. He's never had either.

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So they wouldn't jab him with anything. And they said, unfortunately, they couldn't save the finger. So they stitched him up and sent him home. But because of his raw vegan diet and lifestyle, he re-grew his whole finger within a couple of years, fingernail included. Just like a lizard losing its tail and like sharks and alligators. All right. You got me stunned here and I'm having trouble believing this, but I want to see the evidence. And then another one of my friends, she's Puerto Rican raised, you know, eating all that terrible

pork and meat and stuff and everything destroyed her health and had her, she was, her tonsils were always swollen as a kid. So what did they do? They cut them out instead of fixing the problem. And it's sad because like your, your, your lymph nodes and stuff, your tonsils and stuff like that are cellular waste trash cans and like different parts of the body. And so, yeah, they get full with stuff, but you've got to just clean out your body and stuff and they'll stop swelling up so much and be able to manage everything. But yeah, so they surgically removed her tonsils.

And then she was doing the Dr. Robert Morse protocol, which he's a naturopathic fruitarian doctor here in Florida. And he heals stage four cancer patients, diabetes, you name it, with a fruit only diet and strong herbal tinctures. And so she was following his fruitarian diet protocol and these tinctures religiously for a couple of years. And I saw her in person once and she was like, Dom, what's this in the back of my throat? And you could literally see her tonsils regrowing.

All right. Now, when I was 15, I had an appendectomy. My appendix was removed. So I'm going to try the vegan diet and see if my appendix grows back. anything is possible. That should get a lot of views, especially if I could make it grow back on camera. I've seen people regrow their hair from male pattern baldness. I've seen them get rid of their glasses. know, like I said, feel this would just be on a raw because I'm on a vegan diet, not raw. Yeah. And

I problem on the back of my head. So if I go raw, I can grow that back? It's definitely possible. sometimes also with the head stuff, it's just a matter of blood flow, getting more blood flow to your head. So like doing headstands or just sitting on a couch upside down will help get more blood flow to your scalp and more nutrients and start regrowing your hair there too. All right, well, we can try that. like maybe go off positions. OK.

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handstands, all that just help me get connected. I'm not doing handstands. But yeah, maybe just even sleeping in like a slightly decline position with your head slightly lower sometimes can help a little bit too. Okay. But yeah, anything is possible. right. We're going to try to take care of my bald spot. It's possible, Glen. All This is going to be a very important interview in my life. Yeah. Like you can literally reverse the aging process. Oh, did you hear about that documentary?

producers of the game changers did another one recently called you are what you eat. Okay. And in that study, it was also called you are what you eat, the twin experiment. So they took genetically identical twins, right? I saw that on Netflix, I think. Yeah, I think it's on Netflix. But they made a new discovery in this study. So they took like 100 pairs of identical twins, right? They put one on a plant-based diet and one on a meat eater diet.

and they compared their blood tests after like just only a month or something like that. It was a short period of time, but they quickly saw that actually the DNA telomere strands of the plant-based twin was actually starting to extend, which is a sign of reversing the aging process. So within 30 days of just eating a cleaner, healthy plant-based diet, they were actually starting to reverse the aging process genetically and they proved it. They did one thing wrong in that study though.

They randomized it. in the scientific community, this is considered the gold standard. You randomize your trial. So you do a drug trial, and you give some people placebos and some people the drug, and you randomize it so nobody knows who's got what and nobody's choosing. But what I found watching that documentary was

They randomized it so one twin would say, damn it, I have to be a vegan. wanted to eat the meat. Her twin sister would say, damn it, I have to eat meat. I wanted to be the vegan. And then they would cheat. So why didn't they let them choose? Yeah, that was kind of bizarre. if you want to, if one of you wants to eat meat and one of you doesn't, then go for it.

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eat what you want so that you'll stay on the diet and then you will get better results because some of them were cheating. know, the one who was supposed to be vegan was having chicken. And so that makes me question some of the results. So.

Let me ask you this, do you still try to find, do you still find that your diet is evolving or you think you've hit the perfect diet that you're going to keep doing the rest of your life? Well, that's the thing I learned. So after the water fast, right? So I healed the TMJ on like day 24 and I kept going into about day 30 and I was like, okay, I'm just going to call it quits here because

as scary as it is to go 30 days without eating, I don't know how my body is going to react to eating again. Like what if what my parents said was right? I'm causing that folks is another reason why medical supervision is recommended because the refeeding process, very, very serious often requires medical supervision. Yeah. And so luckily I'd done a lot of research and like I followed Dr. Morse and, and currently in photography.

So, Curly in Photography shows that berries and grapes are one of the highest energetic foods on the planet. And so, I broke my fast with seeded globe grapes, because they were the only grapes I could find with seeds. I was trying to eat as naturally and healthy as possible. And so, I was not physically hungry, but I'm like, I'm just gonna eat because I wanna like, I'm not trying to be like full-time breatharian or anything. Like, I like food. I wanna eat food. I love food.

And so I was like, I'm going to call it quits here and just like gently refeed and start eating food again. And so I ate a handful of seeded globe grapes, like literally just maybe like six, seven grapes. And my body was like, I was full after eating that. I'm like, I couldn't even eat more grapes if I wanted to. like, all right, I'm listening to you body. And then it was crazy too. Like right after that, I think I passed like dissolved kidney stones too. was wild. They just came out like.

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I was having trouble urinating. And so I just sat down and waited for a second, like no pain or anything, but just like a blockage. And then afterwards, like a couple of minutes of waiting, then like these little things just shot out into the toilet. And I was like, what the heck was that? And I pulled one of them out and put like with a pair of tweezers and put it on the side of the toilet bowl and I crushed it. And it's just like dissolved into like these little granules. I was like, is that like a dissolved kidney stone or something? But it just passed effortlessly because like, like water is the best solvent we know.

stones in a river. They're just smooth. You know, you didn't have any pain. No, no pain. It just came out. Wow. That's amazing. So I just started eating more seeded globe grapes as the days went on, just increasing the amount of grapes to gently. So you prefer seeded grapes to seedless grapes. Yeah. Mm hmm. Because it's just like hybridized and just a little further away from how. But even Dr. Morrison, currently photography shows, even those seedless fruits and hybridized fruits still.

one of the highest energy sources on the planet. compared to meat, it's like not even, it's not even a It's far superior. So I ate a lot of for like maybe 10 days, just gradually increasing the amount. And it was crazy too, at the end of this water fast, I still had dark impacted fecal matter coming out. 30 days not eating anything and I was still having detox and stuff coming out of me like.

I was like, man, this is crazy. They say Jesus fasted 40 days, right? I'm like the modern average Americans are gonna have to fast like 90 days to come even close to like getting the same healing results or something. But anyways, so yeah, then I introduced other fruits after those 10 days. And I probably did fruit for about 90 days after the water fast and still not eating a lot of fruit. And then I introduced like little light salads and stuff and smoothies and just worked my way back into eating normal food again.

And yeah, so ever since that water fast, I never experienced hunger. I don't know what hunger is anymore to this day. And I actually went through a breatharian healing school online training where they guide you through a three day dry fast. You don't eat anything, you don't drink anything, you don't shower, you don't wash your hands because your skin will absorb water. And they want you to experience this.

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this threshold of like going three days without anything, and they call it a dry, dry fast. And you feel your body being physically nourished and like taken care of by some external source of energy. And it's such a wild experience. And it's like from that experience, you're just like changed forever. now, in contrary to what everyone thinks that a breatharian is, a breatharian isn't someone who just doesn't eat food ever again, right? And if they do, they're not breatharian. Food becomes a conscious choice.

And how cool and freeing is that? Like now I can just eat because I love food when I want to eat food rather than, I got to eat this for protein or I got to eat that to maintain. you know, it's just a really liberating mindset to experience and go through. So and the lifestyle. So I don't know. It's wild. Well, that's fascinating. And you're a fascinating guy, Dominick. And thank you so much for joining me on the show. My pleasure. recommend everyone.

Go to Ionie's Living Foods and Tonics in Sarasota, Florida. If you're lucky, you'll see Dominick there. I basically live there. What's that? So I basically live there. Yeah, Dominick lives there. you know, tell him you saw him on the show. and Dominick, will you do me a favor and tell Ioni I'd love to have her on the show? Yeah, I will do. Definitely.

All right. Well, thank you for joining us and everyone go to Ione's Living Foods and Tonics. right. That's without food practically. Yeah, mostly fruit, right?