Yesterday I had 4 fruit and celery juices. Today I was allowed salad without dressing for all meals as well as raw fruit but no citrus. I had gotten quite ecstatic about my VFB before coming here, often starting with a huge salad every morning. Somehow this didn't do it for me. Remember that my taste buds are reset. Some of the salad I ate tasted bitter to me - couldn't eat the cucumbers because they kept a bit of peel on them. Mostly ate the jicama. Tomatoes didn't taste good. I pretty much choked it all down without an appetite. Isn't that weird? I'll have to ask the intern about that tomorrow. Lunch was the same - I ate because it was important but I wasn't hungry and didn't love the food. So weird. For dinner I made a salad and had some steamed veggies. I included some steamed purslane (maybe an acquired taste) with steamed asparagus (that was yummy) and I ate some brussels sprouts that were fine. Please understand, I am not criticizing the food - but I guess it will take a while before it all tastes good to me. I had a couple of pieces of fruit - the peach was good, the plum too bitter. Weird, huh. And not quite what I expected.
Skipped yoga this morning - wasn't motivated - slept miserably last night. Went to Dr. Klaper's class which was wonderful, as always. He answer the questions that were posed and here are my notes. Let me preface them by saying that Dr. K is fond of people not eating breakfast - waiting till noon and not having VFB unless you have them late, but ONLY for weight loss. You can read the details below.
Happy reading!!
Dr. Klaper - 2nd lecture
Fasting is a profound state of the body. We are the only animals that can live off fat stores - chimps can't do it. Probably an ancient mechanism due to people not always having sufficient food stores. After days of not eating, the body has to become very efficient with the stores it has. We know that wounds heal faster during a fast - same with infections.
We see remarkable benefits from fasting. In America, because we are rich and foolish enough to have at our disposal this food stream that has been adulterated, it hurts us. Use a car as an example. What if you put diesel fuel in your non-diesel car - what happens? Your car has developed a disease from the wrong fuel/food. Diesel is oily - so is our food. Whereas the mechanic can fix the car, our doctors just give us drugs for symptoms. Fasting fixes most of these problem, partly because we are stopping the toxins and the body can clean itself up.
The fast is a blip in your life. It depends upon what you do after the fast as to what effect the fast will have had. Fasting is a mid-course correction to get you back on track. So most of the benefit is from giving the body a break from the toxins.
Everything changes on a fast. The microbes in the gut, chemistry of all secretions, tears - all change. Microbes in the gut change hourly. They put out molecules and dopamine and other things so that your thoughts can change your microbes and your microbes change your thoughts. Foods that we eat change the food that we eat.
Parasites live at the grace of microbes around them - it is surrounded by billions of microbes. You can starve out the parasites and so a fast can get rid of the parasites by removing its food source. So not irrational to get on a good probiotic after a fast - VSLs - about an hour before you eat so they can get through the acid, or late evening. You want a non-dairy probiotic. Also, chew the food up really really well. There is air in the food - and when you are eating, if you swallow the air, you will be burping or farting and make you gloated. Not so much from the beans. So slow down your eating and chew really well.
We have to mechanically break down the cell walls with our teeth. An added benefit to chewing well is that you force the air out of the food. Put the fork down!!!!
First 48-72 hours of a fast, you are burning off glycogen throughout your body. After that you release ketones into your body. The body does't want the blood sugar to go too low. You are also burning a little bit of protein from blood and maybe 5 grams a day from muscle - turns it into glucose. You aren't losing muscle tissue, and as soon as you start eating, you get it right back. So don't let that deter you from doing a fast.
What does happen is that in muscles you have mitochondria - a long fast (more than 2 weeks) will have more of a muscle effects. It is a part of the mitochondria that causes it and it all comes right back. From a 40 day fast you need to assume it will take 3-4 months to get back to where you started.
Livers do extremely well during fasts - no liver damage.
Skin tone will sometimes decrease because majority of weight lost in the early days of the fat is water. This is water out of the muscle. As you start to eat again, water returns to the tissue. If under the skin you had a lot of fat, and if you do a long fast, that fat gets burned, the skin won't be stretched as tight. In some people the skin will be looser. To fix, eat good food and do normal exercise, get Vit C into your body, lots of watery food likes soups, and let the skin get fixed naturally over time. For some people who lost boatloads of weight, after a year, then go see a plastic surgeon, not that big a deal. But usually the skin tightens up after a fast.
Are there specific foods that build muscle?? Elephants don't need protein shakes. See you tube on Frank Medrano - fabulously ripped and vegan. People say you need 100 grams per day. No one needs this and it will destroy your kidneys. The protein is in the beans, lentils, chickpeas. Each day have 1-1.5 cups of legumes. That will give you 30-40 grams of protein, and when you add the other foods - potatoes, veggies, etc. - you'll end up with 75 grams which is more than enough.
When a woman is pregnant there is lots of estrogen in the bloodstream. After the baby she often has hair loss when the estrogen recedes. While late in pregnancy, her hair is gorgeous. The hair follicles eventually regrow. Thyroid levels can cause hair loss and take iodine. Have sea veggies in your salad twice a week - Wakame and Arame (green seaweed). Make sure they are organic - you don't want those that are harvested from open ocean. Don't eat Hijiki. Iodine tablets have too much iodine. Over age 60 a lot of women will lose hair because of the loss of estrogen.
Detox - in our fat tissues we all have remnant molecules of any crap we have EVER eaten - mostly from restaurants. These are contaminants. If they build up to high levels, they interfere with chemical reactions in your cells. A fast is like taking your cells to your car wash, running pure water through your cells. It cleans you on a cellular level and are released through the bile or the urine. The food will also detox you - it is high water food that you run through your tissues and it will detox you. You finally break through the other side and wind up cleaner. We breathe them in, we get them in drinking water. So just the wonderful food will help.
Intermittent fasting - Dr. Longo has found that with his rats with breast cancer, he gave them all chemo. He fasted the rats for 5 days before the did the chemo and those rats did much better. Fasting really bumps up the anti-cancer fighting mechanism in your body. 2 ways to do this: can fast for 48 hours on juices. Gives your intestinal track a rest and you detox.
The one thing that fasting can't do is really help with weight loss - weight loss happens based on the food that you eat after the fast. But while you sleep, the body is burning carbs and fat 50-50 mix. As soon as you get up in the morning and you have oatmeal or toast, the body starts burning it instead of fat. So breakfast is irrational for weight loss. You want to keep the mechanism going. Breakfast is NOT the most important meal of the day. Wait till you get hungry and that's when to start eating. You will then keep burning fat until you eat. If you wait to eat until noon every day, you can burn an extra 3-400 calories each day. They also say to stop eating by 6-7 pm and then be done! Takes about 4 hours for the insulin to work and then you will be back in fat burning mode. VFB won't give you the same benefits - will slow down the weight loss a little.
If you are not hungry, don't eat, even if you are thin - just wait!!!
When you get up in the morning you have plenty of glycogen from meals 2 days ago to go work out, do yoga, take a walk, do laundry. You don't need to replace this glycogen first thing in the morning. Eat 10 potatoes a day - great for you!
Soy problems are a fraud - paid by the meat industry who felt threatened. Soy products are protective. Buy organic. You don't have to eat soy. As for GMO, don't eat edamame unless it is organic because we don't want our bodies keeping the chemicals. Not such a big deal to eat non-GMO tofu, but only buy organic edamame.
Metabolism - great after a fast for a few weeks. What matters is the food you eat after the fast.
Ayurveda - lovely theory about body type - there is some truth in it. Includes milk products but lots of good common sense principles, but Klaper objects to the dairy in the plan.
Gluten? If you have Hashimotos, it appears that gluten has leaked out of the blood stream and react with your blood tissue so it is pretty standand to eliminate gluten for them.
That's All Folks!!!
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