No post yesterday - nothing to report. I laid low the whole day as it was a tough day for me. I got to have a little broth tonight which was wonderful. Evidently I get 4 veggies juices tomorrow. Took a yoga class today that was on the 2nd floor - just about died getting up there.
Anyway, I know what you are really interested in is Dr. G, so without further ado, here are my highlights. This is long so feel free to give up at any time.
~ high blood pressure is actually a disease of inflammation - so different from what my doctor said (we don't know). What works to fix this? weight loss, veggie high fiber diet, alcohol reduction, exercise, sodium reduction. A vegan low fat, low salt diet and exercise combined, and the best is water only fasting.
~ Every hospital in the country uses fasting. Medicare has a program to cover fasting for rapid weight loss for surgery.
~ Fasting vs starving: When you have depleted your reserves and breakdown organs. You have to have adequate reserves to do fasting. Even a skinny guy can fast for 70 days. Women are fat storing devices and have estrogen which stores fat. Males lose weight much easier - they lost 5% more weight. Important when people fast that they rest -- otherwise you use too much glucose.
~ Stages of fasting
1. Gastrointestinal - 6 hours
2. Glycogenolysis - 24-48 hours
3. Gluconeogenisis - 14 days
4. Ketosis - from 72 hours on
~ By end of 2nd week of fasting, majority of energy is derived from metabolis of ketone bodies. (yeah, I took notes fast, not sure I get all of this now)
~ Induces metabolic and hormonal changes. You will live longer on a water fast than on a white bread fast.
~ Juice fasting means you are ingesting 600 calories of sugar - reduced caloric intake - not as effective as water fasting by a long shot. But you might experience a little ketosis. You burn fat but the juice provides enough calories that you don't have to restrict you energy. You will lose the same number of calories as with water fasting. That's because of metabolism changes with water fasting which don't happen with juice fasting. Juice fasting takes longer.
~ You can't tell what the response to fasting will be - sometimes takes 2-3 fasts.
~ Weight loss averages one pound per day. Everyone that fasts loses weight. Getting rid of sodium in the body - fasting is fabulous for this. Detoxification - so many contaminants, most of which come from food, usually animal foods. Many accumulate over your lifetime. Fasting can eliminate them. Toxins produced by the body - intermediate effects of living, like things like cholesterol. Fasting detoxifies the body faster than anything. Regulated by the body very effectively.
~ Prolonged fasting can rejuvenate old HSC from the toxic effects of chemotherapy. It can profoundly reverse aging of the immune system and enhance cancer treatment. HSC = hematopoietic stem cells. It might be that if you fast a cancer patient first, and then give chemotherapy, the treatment is much more effective. You got a protective effect because the cancer cells are more vulnerable and the healthy cells are protected. In all likelihood, you don't need the chemo after this, but that study will never get funded. This was with people fasting for 4 days. The medical establishment considers that long term fasting. TN will be collaborating on a study using patients here to find out more information.
~ All dreadful diseases - you manage them, you don't get cured, even after fasting - it you start eating wrong again, boom!
~ Cancer cells can't adapt as well as regular cells to fasting. Fasting alone is often not sufficient to resolve cancer - probably chemo afterwards or surgery or radiation help afterwards.
~ There is a fuel created when you fast - provides antioxidant and rejuvenative benefits enhancing antiviral immunity. Great impact on immune system.
~ Fasting can increase life span - in rodents it protects against diabetes, cancer, heart disease. In humans it reduces obesity, hypertension, asthma and arthritis. It delays aging.
~ Enzymes are induced by fasting - they mobilize fat, carb and protein as well as the detoxification process.
~ Every time you fast you are pounding these systems into actions. You continue to detox even after a fast. These enzymes get the rotten things out of your body.
~ When people exercise regularly their nervous cells are protected. Same impact from fasting. BDNF - a chemical. We always want to be increasing BDNF. It can regular appetite and helps people post-fasting not overeat. You recalibrate. After a fast it lasts, but we don't know for how long. With these tests they only fast people for 4 days so we don't know much.
~ We get insulin resistance from fasting. In Diabetes, you have plenty of insulin but it doesn't work. What causes this? The diet that makes you fat causes insulin resistance. The resistance goes away as you lose weight even thought you are still fat.
~ Juvenile onset is different - your immune system destroyed your own cells, usually caused by cow milk because of genetic vulnerability. With kids never exposed to cow's milk you have very little incidence of that. No medication that reduces insulin resistance - have to use exercise and fasting.
~ Fasting increases Leptin, insulin sensitivity, cellular stress resistance, cellular stress adaptation, increases autophagy (where blood cells eat the bad stuff), normalizes gut microbiota and stimulates B-cell immunity, and reverses all major abnormalities of metabolic syndrome.
~ Gut leakage - We have a tunnel through our body starting with mouth and ending with anus. Food goes through your body. We have a screen in our gut - microbial membrane mesh that is supposed to be small enough to keep stuff out of your body. If the mesh becomes damaged and inflamed by free-radicals (caused by things like smoking and alcohol, eating heated fats, fried foods, sugar and oils in baked goods, etc.), then you get leakage.
~ We have a system that does things automatically - we want to balance out this system - lots of things do this - meditation, yoga, psychology, etc. Water fasting has great impact on this - like a reboot.
~ Great impact of fasting is taste neuroadaptation - the good food tastes better.
~ TN Navigator - will be doing 2 types of studies, including Lupus, to show changes. How can you get people to stay healthy as opposed to just get healthy. They are bringing in all kinds of new equipment to do non-invasive testing and will follow the results with tons of patients. They also want to see what kind of support is needed to keep people engaged. And they want to find the most likely people to be successful. They will enter people into TN Nav studies for 20 years. Looking at long term success. Got some pretty serious funding for this and hired a new employee to do this. And a new website going up written for laypeople on fasting. Will also post some webcams and information - will go live soon - mostly free, some paid services. Also acquired more buildings and developing a fitness park and meditation garden. Jeff Novick will be working with them.
Those were the highlights I manages to get down. He talked at length about their plans for the future, about what they know and don't know and how they will be finding out.
Tomorrow? Cooking demo with Katie Mae in the morning and lecture with Dr. Isabeau in the afternoon. Hoping I can go to both with my JUICE!!! How y'all doing? Left of the red line? Stay strong my friends!!!
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