I have been updating these days and sharing my recent 9-day continuous fasting.
was interrupted the day before yesterday for two days. Because an uncle who was over 90 years old was sick. I was hospitalized in in my hometown.
The doctor in my hometown told me that my uncle has heart failure and and kidney failure.
I drove more than 100 kilometers with my 85-year-old dad and 82-year-old mom, and also made an appointment with local diabetes experts to see it. Such elderly people often have various underlying diseases, and they need to be particularly cautious when diagnosed and treated.
About me, an elderly uncle, I will talk about it in the next article, please continue to pay attention. I am still focusing on fasting and the role of fasting in tumor treatment and prevention. It also has a role in metabolic syndrome.
I said before that when I was in college, it was in the mid-to-late 1980s. When I was studying metabolism, I had a big doubt.
I checked a lot of information and consulted the teacher, but I didn’t get the answer.
When our body is hungry and has no energy supply, it does not first consume the fat that is usually stored as energy, but first consumes protein to supply energy!
How precious is protein.
protein is a structural nutrient and the main component that makes up various tissues and organs.
When we lack energy or encounter famine, our body does not take out the inventory of grain to eat, but sell it immediately for children and women? Even cutting off your wrist to survive?
What a strange mechanism.
In recent years, some preliminary research has been made.
These studies include the study of cell autophagy that won the Nobel Prize in in 2016.
The current mainstream view is that short-term hunger will immediately start gluconeogenesis , consuming protein to provide energy; this process actually consumes inflammatory proteins and old cells inside the body.
Inflammatory proteins are proteins that have made the wrong development during the growth and synthesis process and cannot complete established physiological activities. Old cells are cells that have not died or been cleared according to the procedure.
Originally, the body has strict procedures; when new cells grow, old cells must die according to the predetermined program, also known as programmatic death . Inflammatory proteins also need to be cleared in time. In this way, as a complex multicellular organism, , can coordinate various physiological mechanisms and metabolism be very smooth.
Our body synthesizes countless proteins every day, and there will always be a small amount of synthesis errors and become inflammatory proteins. Every day, there are countless cells that die in programmed , and there are always a small number of cells that leave this program and do not die according to the program. This is the old cell. This includes some precancerous lesions cells and even cancer cells. Cancer cells are cells that achieve immune escape, no longer controlled by the body's genes, and the immune system cannot recognize them, and then they grow wildly and occupy places (metastasize).
If the body metabolizes normally, these inflammatory proteins and old cells will be detected and removed by the immune system.
over time, or for some other reasons, this detection and removal mechanism may not be particularly sensitive. There will be some fish that have missed the net. These fish that have lost the net will gradually accumulate various inflammatory proteins and old cells, becoming the source of various inflammations and are also an important reason for metabolic syndrome. The accumulation of
is also the main aging process.
originally, our body also has a powerful mechanism to efficiently complete the task of removing inflammatory proteins and old cells.
Our body originally lived in nature and is wild.
Animals that live in the wild cannot eat enough all day long, let alone eat as much as possible. It is normal to be hungry and full. Even decades ago, we humans could not have enough food. Back then, "In life, food and clothing are the first priority." This means that hunger still occurs frequently.
Therefore, our body uses energy very efficiently and saves energy very much.
When the body lacks energy, the body activates the immune system and checks out used cells and inflammatory proteins to burn them, which not only removes harmful tissue components in the body, but also provides energy. This is a very reasonable physiological mechanism, which is both economical and efficient. When these inflammatory components are burned as waste, they are converted to burn fat to provide energy.
Because I often eat and eat and eat and are often hungry, this larger-scale immune clearance mechanism often occurs. Therefore, there will be less metabolic syndrome or even cancer?
When I was discussing this mechanism with my good friend Dr. Yong, he smiled and said, "This is to consume our old meat and grow new meat!" The freshly grown meat is fresh and hot, making us younger!
All kinds of metabolism and various functions maintain youthful efficiency?
Later, we entered a civilized society. In recent decades, under the wise leadership of the Party and the government, life has been getting better and better every year. Everyone eats and drinks well every day and eats well all day long. Many friends have big fish and meat, and they have revolutionary wine every day. The body has always had excessive intake and overnutrition, and even various polyps have grown a lot; under the excess nutrient supply, various old cells and even various precancerous lesion cells have been retained.
has no chance to activate the efficient immune clearance mechanism mentioned above.
Therefore, some experts who study longevity and health advocate fasting once every time, each time for 3 to 5 days. Some experts even advocate longer fasting.
prevents various metabolic diseases and also prevents cancer. In terms of nutritional treatment of tumors, mainstream tumor nutrition experts also believe that fasting can be used as a treatment measure if the patient's physical condition still allows. Fasting starts the removal of various old cells by the immune system and also initiates the removal of tumor cells. Moreover, there are indeed reports of such successful cancer cure.
Let me specifically talk about it here. Our domestic tumor nutrition expert Shi Hanping , teacher, also specifically mentions the treatment methods of fasting in his book. However, nutritional treatment for tumors is a systematic approach, and generally advocates ketogenic or low-carbon nutrition interventions at the same time, which is ketogenic nutrition that limits energy. A stricter approach also recommends monitoring blood sugar and ketone body at the same time. Such nutritional treatment is more professional and requires the patient's body to have a certain tolerance. If there are tumor patients who want to try it, it is best to have professional guidance.
In fact, there are many types of fasting.
Light fasting , low energy fasting, zero energy fasting. etc.
However, the most violent and beyond everyone's perception is zero energy fasting.
Many people are frightened when they hear that they don’t eat for a few days. Can
bear it? Will
faint from hunger? Will
be in danger of life? Will
be ill?
Will the body be destroyed and destroyed? I didn't know the answers to these questions before
. There are some answers in the
book, and I don’t know if it is true.
00 people who write books are just theoretical to theoretical? It is just copied or quoted, or is the author also imagined and estimated?
so I have to try it myself to see what the consequences will be.
Start I made the ketogenic diet mode first.
is to consume carbohydrate as little as possible. Do not eat rice, flour, sugar and foods, and do not eat fruits. Appropriate amount of protein, as much high-quality fat as possible, and a large amount of vegetables. I really felt a little weak in the first few days of
. If you do more vigorous exercise in the gym, you will feel weak. But it will be fine in a few days. There is no discomfort at all.
Later, it began to gradually practice fasting. Fasting is done on the basis of a ketogenic diet.
fast for one day, 24 hours. It took another 36 hours to adapt for a while. Then there are 3 days, then 5 days.
At the beginning, I felt hungry, but it was not serious. It basically does not affect daily activities, including exercise.What’s even more strange is that if you feel hungry, go on a treadmill or go into the water to swim, or other relatively gentle aerobic exercise, the feeling of hunger will disappear. My personal understanding is that aerobic exercise successfully initiates or strengthens fat metabolism, and the energy supply is smoothly connected, so the feeling of hunger disappears.
Although the feeling of hunger is not strong, I still have appetite at the beginning when I go to dinner. When you go to bed at night, you will also dream of eating!
But after doing a few fastings, my appetite also decreased and it was not so strong.
This time I have had 9 days of fasting, and I have little hunger and appetite. I slept well at night and didn't dream of eating anymore. Anyway, it went even smoother.
In the last 9 days of fasting, I have conducted strict monitoring of myself, from blood indicators to human composition analysis, and have done several times.
blood indicators are ready to be done again next week to make it more complete. Please continue to pay attention.
Today, let’s talk about the human body components.
protein mass or muscle mass, reduced by 1.3 kg after 2 days of fasting; after 3 days of fasting, reduced by 1.4 kg. After another 3 days of fasting, the muscles actually increased by 0.6 kg. I re-eat in the afternoon of the 9th day. After 7 days of re-eat, the body composition was measured, and the muscles increased by another 1.9 kg, almost completely recovering the muscle mass before fasting.
That is to say, the 5 days before fasting do mainly consume protein. After 5 days, it mainly consumes fat, and the body actively protects protein. After one week of re-eating (balanced diet), the protein is completely restored. The weight has basically returned to place.
Conclusion:
1. Judging from the results of human composition analysis, for ordinary healthy people, fasting will basically not have a big impact on their health.
2. The protein consumed during fasting can be replenished in a very short time. That is to say, aging tissue or meat consumes quickly, and the process of growing new tissue or meat is also very fast!
3. Simple short-term fasting basically has no effect on weight loss, at least the weight loss effect is very poor.
4. Fasting for a few days, as long as you have a certain adaptation or training process, you do not feel very serious discomfort and can easily persist.
is too long.
Next article will share the changes in blood biochemical indicators. Please pay attention.
