Cooking provides huge benefits. When done right. Not just in releasing nutrients but killing pathogens. Processing fruits into jams preserves them much longer than the fruit itself will last. Just one example of the benefit of heat and food
Not a porpoise but a ...
This person is clearly a kook but I want to say something about this.
Cooking food - like applying heat - is likely what makes us human.
Why?
Because the human body requires a lot of calories. And eating food raw we can't access all of the calories in a food. Cooking food releases calories.
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
& kill the natural healthy structures within milk also. You know, some people eat raw meat and fish without applying any heat, often in fine dining, and across cultures.
