Who knew our intestinal bacteria were so capable of quickly changing our health, both good and bad, in a single day?
It’s amazing stuff for sure!
It used to be common to hear: “Starve a cold, feed a fever.”
Maybe this is what they meant.
I’ve gone 2-3 without even thinking about it
Problem now, nothing tastes right, so I have to force myself
Either covid or recent strokes makes everything taste nasty
Just had the antibody test and don’t have results yet
I’m not a mouse.
It’s quicker if you refrain or fast from ingesting oxygen. After 2 or 3 minutes Covid is gone - forever.
"Damn Italians, they think if they don't feed their child, he's gonna die. So they continue to feed the sick kid...and he doesn't die...he pukes."
I’ve heard fasting before chemo and radiation helps kill cancer as well.
I’ve been doing intermittent fasting in order to lose my pandemic weight. So far, coupled with gym workouts, it seems to be working. Haven’t weighed myself yet, but my shorts feel looser.
My mother had a routine of fasting one day every month. She lived to age 103, with no serious diseases. But she was bed ridden for last few years. I am on a mission to prove that old age need not get you weak and feeble. All I need is will power to continue 25 minutes treadmill and 10 minutes lifting 30 LB weight every day. I skip the gym on days when I mow the entire lawn with a push mower without self-propelled feature. In hot & humid Florida summers that is a workout and a half. Only 18.5 years left to reach 100. More stamina now than I had at age 57 when gave up my well paying job and retired to play golf full time.
Reminds me of a Three Stooges moment:
Curley: Hey, Moe! Why are you eating burnt toast?
Moe: I’ve got a tape worm and that’s good enough for it.
Good news. We want our mice to be healthy.
“Experiments using the bacteria Campylobacter jejuni confirmed that the effect of fasting was not limited to Salmonella, with similar results seen.”
I was wondering if they would test Campylobacter Jejuni.
(not that I ever heard of it)
methinks your body knows best if you are sick usually you dont want food when you start getting well you get hungry..eh?
I misread the headline at first. I thought it read that Farting would help ward off infections.
A single day ? Probably. I go for 20 hours a day and have never felt better. But Extrapolating from 2 days of mice not eating is more like a week. Although the immune system can reset itself completely in as little as three days without food.
Maybe granny was right starve a cold feed a fever.