Sadhguru: Cult Leader Is Giving Deadly Health Advice

Watch on YouTube · 2022-03-22 · 20 min

0:00 Hi guys. As requested by a lot of you, I'm going to review some videos by Sadhguru about food.

[video] 0:06 If you just want to be all beefy brawn, then you can eat a lot of meat and just grow muscles and fight with each other. But if you look...

0:15 Yes, because the meat is going to make you aggressive and want to fight with other people. It's not as if it makes you calm and relaxed because it actually nourishes your body unlike a vegan diet, for example.

[video] 0:29 Looking at how to become sensitive to life, how to become perceptive, how to be able to perceive things beyond what is considered normal perception.

0:40 People who eat a lot of plants are not even able to sit down and meditate as shown in the video. They are all anxious. The nerves are completely damaged. They always attack you. They're aggressive. They are so not content with life.

[video] 0:57 Then what you put into the system becomes very important. So what is it that passes through the system with least amount of resistance, with least amount of, you know, struggle in the body?

1:09 So to put this into perspective, our natural death, obviously, as it should be with any animal, we'll see what he says.

[video] 1:15 Let me put it this way. See, if you eat raw meat, for example, in the human system, it will travel through this very, very slowly. Approximately raw meat would take 70 to 72 hours.

1:27 Oh yeah, 70 to 72 hours, that makes sense. Where did you get this information from? There was an actual study made about this, which I will link in the description, you can read about it, and that's not true in any way at all.

[video] 1:46 If you put cooked meat, it will take 50 to 52 hours to pass through the system.

1:51 Cool man, I really want to see these statistics. Where did you get them?

[video] 1:54 If you put cooked vegetable meals, it will take anywhere between 24 to... Oh yeah, of course.

2:02 Vegetables which are completely indigestible, mostly made out of fiber, in some cases anyway, will take less than raw meat, which is completely digested and we have special digestive juices to digest raw meat because it's our natural diet. But no, man-made vegetables will take less. 30 hours to pass through the system if you put raw vegetables into the system it will take 12 to 15 hours to pass through of course yeah raw vegetables which are completely intact in its unnatural fibrous state with toxins and anti-nutrients will take the least amount of time Even if it was so in your dimension, it would only be so because the body would try to get rid of it as quickly as possible. That's the only scenario where that could happen.

[video] 2:52 If you put fruit into the system, it will take one and a half to three hours to pass through the system.

2:59 What do you mean pass through? Are you saying digested or pass through? Because then you're simply saying that your body gets rid of it, which is not at all a good thing.

[video] 3:10 So we started recognizing what is that food which happens in the body with least amount of residue, least amount of impurities and passes through the system very quickly. Because in yoga, this is an important thing. We all manage this even now. If we eat anything within two hours...

3:27 He shows pictures of yogurt with grains, which are indigestible, then talks about the least residual in the body, which would of course be raw meat, because it's almost fully digested.

[video] 3:39 One and a half hours, we must be hungry. Our stomach must be empty. But we won't eat. Stomach is empty, but we're energetic, so we don't eat. So suppose there is a lot of physical activity on a certain day, then you may eat...

3:51 What are you talking about? If you're hungry, then it means that you didn't eat the right food.

4:12 That is incredibly wrong and everybody who's been vegan or even plant-based knows that vegetables are very hard on your stomach. You cannot rest and be at ease at all. There will be a lot of discomfort and even pain.

[video] 4:29 It is at ease. It is flexible. It is at ease. It has less to process on a daily basis. So... That makes no sense. Naturally, those who observed the nature of their own bodies naturally became vegetarian. When survival was the question...

4:46 naturally became vegetarian. I like how he says that.

[video] 4:50 Hunting and eating whatever you kill was a natural process. But once society settled down, they could grow what they want as they observed themselves more and more.

5:00 Oh, this is a very good argument. Because we now make our own food, because agriculture farming started, our natural diet changed. Oh, this is very interesting. So if you would put a wolf in an unnatural environment, in a zoo, that means that his natural diet would change and he could all of a sudden become a vegetarian. That's super great logic. This guy is very intelligent.

[video] 5:28 and life became not about survival, but about enhancing one's life to higher levels of perception and experience, then turning vegetarian will naturally become... It's a natural process. It is bound to happen everywhere.

5:45 Vegetarian food leaves a great impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of mankind. Those are very wise words.

6:03 Subscribe for more spiritual wisdom. Yes. I'm gonna watch another video because this one was a bit short.

[video] 6:13 Digestion means the Taragni, the digestive fires as they are known. If these fires have to burn, most effectively, fruit is definitely the best thing.

6:26 What do you base this on?

[video] 6:28 When we say fruit, You must understand, fruit is one aspect.

6:35 I like how he shows all of this man-made fruit, which doesn't even occur in nature.

[video] 6:40 Which nature itself intends to be food. The seed is the important part of the mango. The flesh is only a draw, it's a lure. So that animals and birds will go for this and carry the seed somewhere far away and rub it. That's true. So fruit can do miraculous things to the body. Sufficient consumption of fruit can do great things to the system. One can become very, very alive and active, no matter what is your lifestyle.

7:08 But if you're doing... Yeah, and that's why you're so full of energy, everybody can really feel it. Very menial kind of job. Let's say you're digging...

[video] 7:18 it doesn't at all seem like you're slowly dying outside every day physically not by with a machine but you're physically digging and doing very hard work then you may find every two hours you get hungry because of the fruit till you come to a certain level of awareness where you are able to be enthousiastic and still be energetic.

7:37 Oh, yeah, it's the awareness, the spiritual awareness, let's say, that makes you have energy even though you are hungry. It's not at all as if that simply means that you're eating your own body fat as in you're entering ketosis slowly. No, no, no. It's the awareness.

[video] 7:55 Hunger is about running out of energy. It's like you're running out of battery, that's why you need to eat. But today a lot of people, or most people I would say, when they feel little empty in the stomach, they feel like eating. To get out of this, you need a little bit of awareness that your empty stomach, but still you're okay, because you're energetic. When your energy starts dipping, you eat. So if you go on a total fruit diet, you may have to either spend little more time on the lunch time.

8:20 Wow! He's even promoting pure fruitarianism now .

[video] 8:24 But if you're only on fruit diet and physically very active, it is important that maybe you bring three meals in your day and most of you may already be doing it. So, three times a day, if you're sleeping six hours or eight hours or whatever, for the remaining hours, sixteen to eighteen hours, three times eating is more than enough if you're eating fruit.

8:47 Three fruit meals a day. Great. This guy's advice is super dangerous. He could kill people.

[video] 8:53 But stomach will feel empty within two hours time. So you must get used to hanging on with high energy but empty stomach. This is the time your brain works best. This is the time as a human being you function.

9:04 It's not that your stomach feels empty. It's that the fruit doesn't have over 15 micronutrients, which is why your body is not satisfied and you can never feel full or satisfied by only eating fruit, obviously.

[video] 9:19 Best, it'll be good for you. So if you want to use your brain power and also physical activity, it'll work perfectly well. I knew somebody who went on some thousand and eight days of only one fruit. This person went on orange. Only oranges for one thousand and eight days this lady ate.

9:43 Show pictures of her.

[video] 9:45 She was full of ailments when she started. She was a diabetic, high blood pressure and I don't know, they told me a list of problems that she had, thyroid issues, serious very thyroid issues.

9:56 Okay, it sounds like, oh yeah, overweight, exactly. I was going to say, if she was maybe 200 kilograms overweight, that would be the only way that it could work, because she starved herself for a thousand days, which I don't really believe, but let's say that she did, that's the only way, because she then was eating really probably a ketogenic diet, because she was mostly living off of animal fat, which was in her body. That's the only explanation.

[video] 10:24 Overweight. In 1008 days, she came out like she was 20 years younger and full of vitality, all ailments gone.

10:35 Oh, and what if she continued when she had lost all of the weight? Oh, she would be dead now.

[video] 10:41 This is one person I'm saying, please don't go on just oranges. We'll run short of oranges.

[video] 10:49 Or at least move to Florida.

[video] 10:52 Yes, fruit will make a wonderful difference, especially in today's world, it's very important, because...

11:01 This is such terrible advice, this is some of the worst.

[video] 11:04 For one person to survive, let's say that you have to survive on just meat, an approximate calculation is, we will need 15,000 liters of water.

11:17 This is all nonsense, but it's all based on cows being fed only grains. Obviously, animals such as cows, sheep and so on, basically don't need any water.

[video] 11:28 To produce meat for one person for one year, if you go on a fruit diet, we will need 300 liters of water.

11:41 It's not about water. You can simply have natural animals and also natural fruit, which is still out there, and not use any specific water for them. All that you need is rain. It's as simple as that. It's nature. Yet this guy promotes complete propaganda.

[video] 12:01 You should. All the rivers will flow once again.

12:04 Alright, this is already too much, but I'll check out one more video.

[video] 12:11 Pranic food, positive Pranic food, negative Pranic food and zero Pranic food. Positive Prana means it adds a certain Pranic energy to the system when you consume. If you eat positive Pranic food, energy will reverberate in a dynamic way. If you eat negative Pranic food, it takes away energy and causes certain...

12:33 Okay, there's negative Pranic energy. Absolute gibberish, spiritual nonsense talk. It has no meaning. Only people who are really stupid fall for it. That's about it. Deviations in energy.

[video] 12:47 If you eat...

12:48 It has no basis in reality.

[video] 12:49 ...lethargy and maybe you can eat it for taste to some extent. We look at the negative chronic list. It's a much shorter list. But, unfortunately, it may be a list of all your favorite things too. On top of the negative chronic list is garlic. Garlic is a very powerful medicine.

13:07 Garlic is a very powerful medicine. Garlic, which is literally an antibiotic and burns holes in your gut. This guy is chest.

[video] 13:17 But it's one thing to consume something as a medicine and it's an entirely different thing to consume it as a daily food substance. Garlic is a very powerful medicine if properly used. Daily consumption, no, no, because it plays on your nervous system big time. It is a very strong nervous stimulant. If you use garlic, your nervous system gets stimulated in a big way. Anything that stimulates nervous system holds you up for some time and then dumps you. Daily usage of Nervous stimulants in any form will slowly get you to a place that you become insensitive to life, that you cannot experience.

13:51 Basically, he's just indirectly saying that it's poisonous to the body, but he doesn't really want to say it out loud.

[video] 13:57 Garlic, onion, asafoetida, green chilies. Oh, asafoetida, maybe you're not used to it. It is something very commonly used in Indian cooking. It's a very strong stimulant. Coffee, tea. Tea means, the caffeine tea is the tea. Other things are just placebos. Okay, they're not tea. You can boil any flower, any leaf, any root and call it tea. That's not tea. Tea means the tea leaf. which is caffeine. All these are nervous stimulants. Once in a way, if you drink, they have some benefits. But if it becomes a daily thing, slowly it...

14:29 It's nice that he's saying that you shouldn't consume it on a daily basis, but it's wrong to say that they have some kind of benefits. Coffee and tea, garlic don't have any benefits whatsoever.

[video] 14:38 ...dulls your nervous system. Your ability to experience life is gone. We are looking at this dimension of the food mainly in terms of your sensitivity to life. Largely, people are ego-sensitive. They're not life-sensitive. They can't feel life. For them, only their thought and emotion is life because they can't feel life.

14:55 Yeah, says this guy who's so full of himself, and if you've seen any other videos of his, he's incredibly passive-aggressive. If anybody questions even one little thing that he says, just look into his eyes and his body language. It's like he wants to kill you, basically. You can't question this guy because he thinks that he is God, basically.

[video] 15:17 If you walk out into the forest, you can't feel the tree. That's why you call it a wood. What we cannot hear, all these Wi-Fi's and stuff, they are doing their own thing. Yes? In all this, there is no room for you to become life sensitive. To sit here and be able to experience the whole universe takes a certain level of sensitivity. I am talking about nervous stimulants.

15:37 That's pretty much sort of the only true thing he has said so far. But of course, it appeals to a lot of people because they think, oh yeah, I know, Wi-Fi is bad. We shouldn't live in cities.

[video] 15:46 In that context, you are lowering the possibility of experiencing life. What I am saying is, a cup of coffee should not determine the quality of your life. By choice, you drink today. Tomorrow, you walk away. It's fine. If it's a compulsion, if I don't drink my coffee, my day is ruined, then you have to do something about it. Yes? I'm only talking about this. The only parameter is, are you moving towards freedom or are you getting enslaved in some way? With a cup of liquid, you shouldn't get enslaved. Yes? With just about anything, you're getting tangled up. I'm saying, do everything by choice, then there's no problem. If you do it by choice, you know when to start, when to stop, isn't it? If you do it by compulsion, what you start, you cannot stop. This is the whole problem. It's not like you become a fanatic, I don't eat this, I don't eat that, I eat this, I don't eat that. Don't become a food fanatic. It's just that eat by choice. Every meal must be by choice. Not that you've decided this is what you will eat and this is what you will not eat. Don't make food into religion. It is not. It is a choice.

16:46 That's all that you promote. You say that people should religiously choose what you promote, which is fruit or a vegan diet, fruitarianism even, which completely goes against our bodies. And of course then it is a religious belief, a religious diet that you follow.

[video] 17:03 And the choice should be according to the needs of the body, not according to social needs, not according to cultural needs, according to the needs... Man, these videos are super contradicting. ...of this body, isn't it? Ash God is very positive. Black pepper is very positive.

17:19 Oh yeah, the seeds, once again we see the pepper. Yeah, it's very positive.

[video] 17:28 Honey is one substance on the planet whose chemical composition is very close to that of human blood. Daily consumption of honey can do wonderful things.

17:37 Oh, really? That of human blood? Hmm, as far as I know, it doesn't have over 50 nutrients, just like plants. And even if it did, are you implying that the consumption of human blood is beneficial or what?

[video] 17:51 ...to you. And honey is an extremely good thing to eat, especially if you have children at home. Make honey culture part of your thing. Psychological stability, physical well-being, vitality, all these things can be greatly enhanced simply consuming daily honey. that's absolute nonsense honey for the most part is just a lot of sugar and that of course will make a lot of people hyper for a while until they start seeing the side effects if you have excess fat in your body if you drink honey with warm water it breaks down the fat in the system if you drink it with cold water it will give you weight

18:30 I've never heard of that before. Honey in general is simply going to raise your insulin. Insulin biochemically prevents you from breaking down fat and losing weight and at the same time it promotes gaining fat.

18:46 Okay, that was the whole video as I said before plants don't have over 15 nutrients and even though he kind of partly promotes vegetarianism also and then even fruitarianism Which is really insane if you've seen any of my epitome series or other videos Then you know that if you go on a fruitarian diet, you will die Sometimes within months actually people have died but for sure after one or two years, it's almost impossible to survive on a fruitarian diet. He's promoting literal death. Except if you are extremely overweight, as I said, then you would be eating yourself the whole time. But this is why a fruitarian diet is not sustainable in any way at all. He's simply promoting a really gruesome death when he says that you should only eat fruit or even try it. Even that can cause brain damage and whatnot. I don't think that the guy himself is even a pure vegan or a vegetarian.

19:44 He probably eats some meat. He has a lot of money. He scams people essentially. His videos are just so contradicting in so many ways. I've seen some others and the advice is just ridiculous, but really, gullible and stupid people do fall for it. When you have lost your natural senses, when you watch his videos, they can actually be enlightening. Wow, all of the stuff that he's saying, it's making so much sense to me. I gotta change my lifestyle. It's really funny. Thanks for watching.