What Happens When You Go Raw Vegan? (Real Experience) | Lissa and Nate Maris
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Is the raw vegan diet the ultimate health upgrade or is there more to the story?
Lissa and Nate Maris from Raw Food Romance join Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room to break down what really happens when you go all-in on raw foods.
They share their journey, the benefits they've experienced, and the challenges most people don't talk about.
Plus, we take a look at the science behind raw diets, including studies on weight loss, heart health, and potential risks.
Lissa and Nate also open up about their own romance that spawned from their raw food diet.
🧠 You'll learn:
- What a raw vegan diet actually is — and what you can (and can't) eat
- Why some people experience rapid weight loss and increased energy
- The biggest mistakes beginners make when going raw
- Whether raw vegan diets are nutritionally complete
- The science behind raw diets — including benefits for heart health and metabolism
- Potential risks like nutrient deficiencies and low calorie intake
- Whether you need to go 100% raw to see results
- Practical tips for adding more raw foods into your daily routine
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. |
| 0:05.0 | Raw and Living Foods, he said, you know, if you are what you eat, Nate, what do you want to be? |
| 0:09.0 | And I was like, well, you know, doing the math. I'm like, you're 86 years old, bro. Like, |
| 0:13.0 | I want to be like you skiing when I'm 86. And you know, then of course, like I'm seeing |
| 0:19.0 | other issues in other areas of my life as well as friends. So I ask him, you know, hey, you know, as a dude, how's the flagpole? You know? Because these are our first signs, right? Smaller plumbing, going to show the signs of clogging. And he's like, full mast. So that was it for me, bro. Like, I went home and was like, I have to be a raw foodie. |
| 0:43.3 | Welcome to the exam room podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:47.5 | Hi, I'm Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world. |
| 0:52.9 | Hi to the exam room. |
| 0:53.8 | He's listening in Gulfport, Mississippi, |
| 0:56.6 | Bozeman, Montana, and Lima, Peru. Wherever you are, we appreciate you, helping to make the world |
| 1:02.8 | a healthier place. This is episode 34 of season 9, number 733 overall. And today we're going to be talking about one of the most intriguing, yet sometimes controversial, |
| 1:16.1 | ways of eating in the plant-based world. |
| 1:19.5 | Today we're talking about the raw vegan diet. |
| 1:23.4 | So just how popular is the raw vegan diet? |
| 1:27.2 | Well, popular isn't exactly the word that I would use, |
| 1:30.7 | because less than 1% of the United States population follows a fully raw diet, |
| 1:37.2 | making this one of the most niche, but fascinating approaches to nutrition. |
| 1:43.3 | So whether you're raw or you eat a cook diet or you fall |
| 1:47.4 | somewhere in between, we've got something exciting for you today here on the exam room. |
| 1:52.6 | Plus, a little bit later on in the show, we're going to tell you about a brand new cookbook |
| 1:57.7 | from Carly Bodrug called Plant U Quickeys that is filled with simple plant-based |
| 2:03.2 | recipes that make eating healthier, easier, and perhaps faster than ever. But first, let's get |
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