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“Like an addict coming off drugs, you don’t know how good you can feel,” says raw foodist Mike Lippy. His journey started twenty-two years ago when, as a high-school swimmer, he noticed what he ate affected his performance. A clean diet meant an efficient, fast body so he became a vegetarian. In college he spent time as both vegetarian and vegan and once did a ten-day water fast. The more he learned and experimented with different ways of eating he saw that eating raw was the only way to optimal well-being. He admits its not always easy and he has “fallen off the wagon,” claiming, “coffee and cheese are addictive and evil,” but he just hits his reset button.
As Mike talks about his experiences and discoveries his passion for health is palpable. “The more educated you become with your eating the harder it is to live in the dark, there should be a law against calling most of what people eat ‘food,’ it’s a travesty.” Raw food contains enzymes, which aid in digestion and absorption of food but are lost in processed foods. Eating raw helps him maintain an alkaline body in which he says, “no disease and no cancer can live.” Mike views everything he puts into his body as a “possible pollutant,” but says its “from pragmatism not fear.” His mission started as a personal one, but when he moved to Baltimore he opened Liquid Earth, a vegetarian café and juice bar. He works hard at serving his customers nourishing food that helps them find the path to a clean body.