Where did the idea of therapeutic fasting come from?
The story of life on Earth is a story of hunger. Volcanic ash from giant volcanoes and asteroids blocked out the sun, killing plants and almost everything else. As Darwin pointed out, “Thus arose from war with nature, starvation and death the most sublime objects we can think of.” That’s us.
“Among the great apes, humans are particularly well adapted to long periods of fasting.”Evolution in scarcity has contributed to “our extraordinary ability to store large amounts of energy (calories) when food is available.” ” is believed to have been formed. Of course, today our ability to easily gain weight has led to modern diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. But without the ability to store so much body fat, we might not be able to tell this story.
The scarcity wasn’t just caused by an asteroid millions of years ago. An inscription on an Egyptian tomb from around 4,000 years ago says that “all of Upper Egypt was dying of hunger” and that “everyone came to eat his children…” Only a few A hundred years ago, “(parents) ate their children, and the children killed their parents,” and “the bodies of executed criminals were eagerly snatched from the gallows.” Starvation killed two-thirds of Italy’s population and one-third of Paris’ population. Therefore, there is no need to go back to ancient history. “Even the safest and wealthiest people today can look just a little way back in history and find evidence of famines that may have affected their ancestors.” For example, in the UK there have been nearly 200 famines in the last 2,000 years. It happened.
Nowadays we tend to suffer from too much food, which is problematic, but “What are the consequences of never starving?” This was a question posed nearly 60 years ago. If our physiology is well-tuned to periodic starvation, could eliminating it harm our overall well-being? We just didn’t know is.
The lack of research in the field of hunger is thought to be due to “difficulties in securing willing subjects.” Therefore, what little we got may have come from unwilling subjects. Doctors in the Warsaw Ghetto provided detailed reports before their deaths, with Irish Republican POWs in Northern Ireland starving to death for up to 73 days. However, starvation is not necessarily the same as fasting, and this issue was raised in medical journals more than a century ago. “While starvation is usually a chronic condition that is forced and psychologically stressful, (therapeutic) fasting is voluntary, limited in duration, and usually occurs in people who are properly nourished, i.e. It is done by those who start from the state.”
Therapeutic fasting? Where did you get the idea for fasting therapy? “Medical fasting”? As I explain in my video “Benefits of Fasting for Healing”, it may have originally arisen from the observation that people tend to lose their appetite when they become acutely ill, and perhaps Maybe there is something in our body’s wisdom to stop eating. Perhaps that’s where the whole folklore of “getting away the heat” came from.
I felt that fasting gave my entire body, not just my digestive tract, a “physiological break” so I could focus on healing. It was apparently an “open secret” that veterinarians were admitting dogs with “various digestive and metabolic disorders” just to starve them and nurse them back to health. Therefore, a theory was born that it might be effective for humans as well.
In addition to freeing up all the resources normally used for digesting and storing nutrients, the concept is that our cells switch into a kind of protective mode during fasting. Why does fasting “reduce oxidative damage and inflammation, optimize energy metabolism, and enhance cellular protection” of free radicals? This is the concept of “doing.” This is in some ways the opposite of the “rest your body” theory. It’s more like “stressing the body.” The stress of fasting can harden your body against other stresses that may come your way. This was perhaps demonstrated most clearly in a series of disgusting experiments in which mice were exposed to Hiroshima-level gamma rays, enough to kill 50 percent within two weeks, but which were first interrupted six weeks ago. This was not the case in mice that were critically fasted. As you can see in the graph below and at 4:33 of my video, one died.
Such dramatic data led to extraordinary claims that therapeutic fasting could put half of all doctors out of business. You won’t know until you try it. We’ll look into that next.
In recent years, there has been an explosion of research interest in fasting. Please look forward to the world’s largest fasting study.
Thanks to my research on “How Not to Diet”, I have explained some of the research on fasting and weight loss in videos. These studies have already been published. See related posts below.
