Filling the Deep Niche

No sooner had I learned about blogging than I knew exactly what I wanted to blog about! There is a deep niche, a really deep (Marianas Trench-deep) niche market that is being completely neglected, and I plan to fill the need. 

The deep niche market is comprised of the Hippocrates-style raw foodists. Who are they, you ask? Raw foodists are people who only eat food that has not been heated above 112' F. The enzymes in food that has been heated to temperatures above that point are dead, and that food is not considered "raw". So raw foodists eat no food that has been processed, bottled, or canned, no meat, no dairy products, no bread or baked goods. 

Hippocrates-style raw foodists take that a step further. They eat no fruit and no sweetener of any kind (such as raw honey); they drink wheatgrass juice and sunflower sprout juice every day, and the rest of their diet is supposed to be fifty-percent leafy green sprouts.

wheatgrass juice with a lemon chaser

Why would anyone choose to live like that, you ask? A lot of people, like myself, do it to for health reasons. I had stage-four breast cancer, and I was dying. I was given a 2011 expiration date! Then I went to Hippocrates Health Institute and, through a series of radical therapies and radical nutrition, I got healed. But, if I want to remain healthy, I have to eat the Hippocrates way.

 I have searched the internet, and there a very few raw food websites or blogs. And of the raw food sites that are there, the vast majority of the recipes and other information is not applicable to the Hippocrates-style raw foodists. And it's really hard! I would love to eat a slice of pizza or a bowl of ice cream or a piece of chocolate or even a banana! And when the rest of my family is eating cooked food and it smells so good . . . it's torture! Then, even when I go to a raw food website to browse for raw recipes, I find one recipe after another that I can't eat!

 So I am going to start a blog called "Hippocrates at Home" that is going to be a support site for all the people who are living in accordance with the Hippocrates program with recipes and tips and encouragement for the difficult life situations in which we find ourselves. There are thousands of people who go to Hippocrates every year.


Once the word gets around that there is a website that specifically meets our needs, I'll bet a lot of Hippocrates alumni will follow it. Then I can get advertisers to pay me. And then I can pay for the rest of my college education!

 a tray of wheatgrass