and give you the Runs when start to eat again
I proved this to myself on a recent trip from Illinois to Orlando where four of the five people in our party cycled the intestinal flu. I immediately stopped eating, drank water the first day and green juices the second day. By the third day I ate a salad in the evening and made it home without incident.
I am certain that is what saved me!
Something tells me that such a strategy may cause more problems than it solves.
One day, ok.
Two days, I’m wobbling.
I don’t think I could do three days.
Does this also work for the booze-only for three days regimen? Or does it have to be water-only?
In ancient China, the custom was that ministers or advisors with something very important to discuss with the Emperor (assuming not an emergency) would fast for 3 days, bathe, and then go to see the Emperor.
Looks like this article shared space with articles on
‘Bosses should allow staff afternoon naps’
‘Sleeping with light on increases risk of obesity’
‘Retirement is liberating ‘
‘I’m learning to foxtrot’
And a few other fluff articles of no importance whatsoever.
If I went for 3 days without eating I would die from a screaming bad headache caused by low blood sugar.
Pretty easy to ‘fast’ on chemo.
Starving to life, eh?
I went 3 weeks without eating a couple of years ago.
Didn’t do me any visible good.
What would this do to people with autoimmune diseases. Or would people be more likely to develop autoimmune diseases after fasting?
I’m having a very difficult time believing this, but who knows....
I’m not very old, and during my time I’ve heard of results from so many “studies” indicating so many things, it’s all just noise to me.
We can be sure there will be another study indicating the opposite sometime. There should be a STUDY that investigates how often the results of these studies turn out to be true. Now that would be really interesting.
They could also do computer models that predict the results of future studies!
so the people in Ethiopia should be extremely healthy
yea
just feels like more spin from the 0bama commies that have been pushing the ‘do with less’ attitude (if you’re use to less then you won’t notice the crapped out economy)
I’ve done quite a few weeklong fasts over the years with the longest one being 9 days....ate no food but drank as much water and pure grape juice as I wanted (typically a gallon of grape juice a day). I also exercised at a fairly high level throughout the fasts…running 5 to 10 miles per day. I wasn’t particularly overweight for any of these fasts or doing it to lose weight but I did of course do that dramatically to the extent that everyone used to say “you can’t possible lose that much weight that quickly and have it good for you”. I’ve never found a fast to be that hard to do and I always was left with the sense that it was beneficial once it was over i.e. just the idea of ‘cleaning out one’s system so thoroughly. I mostly did my fasts during university days but was thinking about this recently when one of my brother’s in laws ended up in the hospital with a ruptured colon and sepsis ….slowly recovering but he will never be the same and I think it safe to say that regular fasts would have been quite helpful for him. When I saw this article a week or so ago, I made the decision to do at least a 4 day fast before the end of June….it’s been over ten years since I last did one and my motivation is to see if I can reverse the effects of a small patch of psoriasis on my one arm that has been persistent and won’t go away. Essentially, I can see how the reboot of the immune system is quite possible and this would be worthwhile to try for that reason.
These day I fast every other day or about 30 hours at a time.
I do this because I want to lose weight but I’m not good at portion control.
I’ve dropped about 25 pounds in the last year with this technique.
Two years ago, I would fast for two consecutive days a week or about 55 hours. I dropped 20 pounds with that method. But I found that by the second day of the fast I began to get weak and I didn’t work very well—so I switched to every other day.
I eat when I feel weak. I’ll usually start with a piece of chocolate and honey. I’m instantly rejuvenated. Food for the rest of the day tastes good.
On fast days I drink a lot of water and tea.
I like the body’s first reaction to hunger which is to become much more alert. Fasting feels like it sets off a different system in the body. The system is so different and complete that I don’t think the body is actually designed for three squares a day. But rather, the body is designed for intermittent eating. That is, while for most people, the hunter gatherer days are a couple of millenniums in the past — our bodies are still designed for a hunter gatherer world.
Likely a perfect diet would be a paleo diet with intermittent fasts.
Throughout our evolution our ancestors went from feast to famine. It would not surprise me that some of our body processes are dependent on starvation to kick the. Off. Modern Americans never go without, constantly eating like hogs being prepped for slaughter.
I myself have been thinking of undergoing a 2 day fast for a couple of months now.
I have two pieces of advice for ANYONE who wants to try this stunt:
1) Make sure you’re healthy - if not (i.e., diabetes comes to mind, but probably lots of other conditions), then make sure a doctor knows about it (and then tells you to come to your senses).
2) Assuming healthy, then DO NOT, under any condition, tell your doctor what you’re doing, or you will be taken out in a STRAIGHT-JACKET, and held involuntarily for as long as legally allowed while the shrinks try to figure out why you have such a DEATH WISH.
p.s., I’ve gone 9 days with only water a couple of times, and many times 5 days and beyond - and no, I never told a doc. I love it.
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This thread is a few days old. It may be an important breakthrough about cancer.
“Scientists at the University of Southern California say the discovery could be particularly beneficial for people suffering from damaged immune systems, such as cancer patients on chemotherapy. ... The researchers say fasting “flips a regenerative switch” which prompts stem cells to create brand new white blood cells, essentially regenerating the entire immune system.”