Therapeutic fasting: rules, benefits and harms

For many years, they have been arguing about whether therapeutic fasting is beneficial for our body or whether it only brings harm. At this time, experts have not been able to express a common opinion. Therefore, let's look at the issue of fasting from different perspectives.

Benefits of fasting

Therapeutic fasting as a way of healing was invented by Paul Bragg. He considered this method the only sure way to remove toxins and other impurities from the human body. He believed that the body "knows better" how to heal itself.

So, let's note the positive aspects of fasting:

• During fasting, our digestive tract rests. If fasting lasts a day, then at this time the gastrointestinal tract does not work, which means that it can direct energy to its recovery. During this time, no global changes in the body will happen, but you can get the maximum benefit for the gastrointestinal tract.
• During fasting, the body heals faster. The energy spent on digesting food is now used to restore the body. At this time, a large number of anti-inflammatory and immunoregulatory hormones are produced. Moreover, all the wounds of the starving people heal faster.
• Fasting can cure certain diseases. In world practice, there have been cases when starving people were really healed of diseases of the heart and blood vessels, kidneys, stomach, bones and liver. Fasting helps with diabetes, nervous diseases, hormonal imbalances and allergies. There were cases when during fasting even cancer.

The harm of starvation

Opponents of fasting are of the opinion that as a result of hunger a person has an additional need for insulin, and its lack leads to incomplete breakdown of fats and the formation of substances that do not cleanse the body, but rather poison it. Scientists are sure that only daily fasting can be harmless to humans.

The harm of fasting, according to experts, is as follows:

• Lack of food leads to the breakdown of proteins, not fats. This leads to a decrease in muscle strength, frailty skin and the appearance of wrinkles.
• Immunity is greatly weakened, the body remains practically without protection against infection and bacteria.
• Fasting causes a decrease in hemoglobin and, as a result, a decrease in the number of red blood cells that supply the cells of the body with oxygen. A person becomes unwell, concentration of attention decreases, he begins to tire quickly.
• Do not enter the body vitamins and trace elements. This leads to a deterioration in the quality of hair, nails, a breakdown occurs, and the general tone decreases.
• In order to lose weight, fasting is also not very effective. It provokes a slowdown in metabolism in order to save energy. This leads to the fact that when you exit starvation, all the lost kilograms usually return, and even new fat deposits are added.

How to starve properly

In order for fasting to bring only benefits to the body, it is necessary to enter it correctly. This can be done in two ways.

In the first case, you do not eat anything in the morning. In this case, bowel cleansing should take place naturally. But in this case, it may happen that the body begins to produce substances that will begin to poison the body. At the same time, the transition to internal reserves is slowing down. This method can be used by people who have been practicing fasting for a long time.

If you are going to fast for the first time, then use a different method. In this case, in the morning, you need to do several enemas to cleanse the intestines or take a laxative. This leads to a rapid transition to internal resources and the rupture of the nutritional connection.

Try to stay in bed more during fasting. This will direct your energy towards removing toxins from the body and internal cleansing. You can go out into the fresh air only if you feel a powerful energy flow. Otherwise, the effect may be undesirable.

In order not to break down during fasting, spend the first days in bed and preferably sleep at all. This will keep your brain from thinking about food and prevent you from getting lost.

The first sessions of fasting should be carried out at home, if possible, fenced off from everyone so that there is no temptation to break loose. But if you have already "entered the rut", then there is no point in hiding behind ten locks. In the future, you will already be able to control all processes and develop a regime for yourself in which it will seem from the outside that you are not starving at all.

Therapeutic fasting at home

Fasting therapy should be entered gradually, especially if you are conducting the process yourself. After a cleansing enema, gradually transfer yourself to a dietary meal. You can only eat herbal products. Start fasting one day completely without food. Then gradually increase the period of the hunger strike.

You can starve in this mode for about a month, then you should switch to eating in a dietary mode to restore the body. Such fasting will effectively eliminate all the consequences of overeating and start the processes responsible for cleansing the body.

People who have many kilograms of excess weight may feel nausea during fasting, they may have vomiting, an irregular heart rate, and dizziness. Such phenomena are due to the fact that toxins very quickly leave the body through the blood.

It is necessary to endure ten courses of fasting, in which refusal of food must be alternated with a restorative diet. After six courses of fasting, take a break for several months to recover.

At home, fasting is usually carried out daily. Its time is from one breakfast to another. During this period, you can only drink distilled water, and any food is excluded. If it's very hard, then you can add a teaspoon of honey or a little lemon juice to a glass of water. This is necessary to facilitate the elimination of harmful substances from the body through the kidneys. After all, both honey and lemon juice act as solvents of harmful substances.

Very hardy and experienced people can do three days of fasting at home, or even a week. In this case, be sure to consult your doctor before fasting. When fasting, you don't have to tell others about your decision. It may happen that they do not share your point of view. And now you do not need additional incentives to stop fasting.

For the correct completion of fasting and the consolidation of the results, it is important to exit this process. On the first day after fasting, eat only plant foods in very small portions 5-6 times a day. Don't eat salt and fats. Your diet should be dominated by vegetables with a lot of fiber.

The next day, it is permissible to eat a small amount of oatmeal or buckwheat without milk and salt. Supplement it with vegetables or fruits, vegetable juices. On the third day, allow yourself a teaspoon of any vegetable oil, a piece of stale bread and a small spoonful of honey. On the following days, you can connect fermented milk products, and then go on to your regular diet.

Therapeutic fasting: reviews

Quite a lot of people have already used medical fasting. It's safe to say that the outcome here depends entirely on your initial health, willpower, and fasting goals. Many have noted a positive effect. But there are those who are not happy with the results of fasting.