Dry Fasting by Sergey Filonov - 240817 - 135805
Dry Fasting by Sergey Filonov - 240817 - 135805
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ISBN 9791220063487
“From a physiological perspective, during dry fasting the body does not
undergo a deficit of liquids because every kilogram of splitting lipid mass
(glycogen) releases up to 1 liter of endogenous water (metabolic). In a
normal environmental temperature, the organism does not lose large
quantities of liquids through pulmonary and cutaneous perspiration:
between 1.5 to 2 liters a day, so the water deficit does not exceed 0.5-1 liter
per day, i.e. physiologically admissible values under conditions of reduced
basic metabolism.
If the absolute absence of food and water does not exceed 3-4 days, the
dehydration of the body does not exceed an acceptable low level. Normal
clinical practice recommends short dry fasting exercises (1-3 days) during
which neither enemas nor laxatives are prescribed. During a dry fast the
times for typical fasting phased are reduced: the stage of alimentary
excitement lasts a few hours; the stage of increasing ketoacidosis lasts from
1 to 3 days. Upon observation, the splitting of fat deposits starts earlier and
is more complete. Furthermore, a high concentration of biologically active
substances such as hormones, immunocompetent cells and
immunoglobulins is detected in body fluids. Contrary to popular belief the
"dry" fasting is objectively better tolerated than " water " fasting. Moreover,
in cases of illnesses such as bronchial asthma, hypertension, forms of
allergy, etc., a 3-days dry fast proved to be much more effective than a 3-
days water fast. On the basis of the studies and results obtained, it can be
said that 3 days of absolute fasting correspond to 7-9 days of water fasting”.
“Remember:
Never start cleansing the intestines and liver without changing the
mode and quality of nutrition.
Do not start any fast prior to cleansing the intestines and liver.
Do not conduct dry fasts prior to trying water fasting.
In order to get the maximum benefits from fasting, it has to be
regular, increase fasting length gradually.
Never conduct dry fasts for more than five days at home.
Withdrawal from a fast brings 70% of the therapeutic result, so it
should be carried out properly”.
“Only breathe through your nose. Camels, who are the dry fasting
champions, only breathe through their noses. Fasting without water is
dangerous for those who breathe through their mouth because it speeds up
bodily dehydration due to the mouth cavity continuously drying up!
There are also numerous reasons why dry fasting should not be
conducted while breathing through the mouth. Learn to breathe with your
nose, it will make your waterless fasting very effective.
Try not to talk, a vow of silence is best, in other words, you should
scrupulously save energy, remember that any speaker loses up to three liters
of water in two hours of speaking. The mouth must be kept closed. It’s best
to refrain from washing out your mouth and cleaning teeth”.
“In my practice, there were patients who underwent 11-day, 12-day, and
even 13-day dry fasting treatments. Of course, this is a “between life and
death” option, since it’s recommended to patients with serious pathologies
after undergoing powerful medical therapy. Besides, their vital energy was
lowered. Therefore, taking into account our experience and mistakes, we
developed a milder and more physiologically suitable method, namely, dry
fractional fasting, which has the same effectiveness as long-term dry
fasting.
The essence of this method is that it stipulates for several (usually two or
three) consecutive dry fasting courses (fractions). The first one lasts 5-7
days, the second one lasts 7-9 days, and the third one lasts 9 days.
Restorative nutrition is carried out according to a special method between
these courses.
The first part of fasting is detoxing, and it lasts as long as the patient can
withstand; one may swim in waterfalls and mountain rivers during this
period for better body detox. The first acidotic crisis occurs during the first
fasting course. It’s characterized by effective body detox, and patients
realize what it is. Following the crisis, they come out of fasting through a
special course of Altai herbal medicine that provide the body with a lot of
energy.
The second dry fasting course is curative. It should last as long as
possible to go through the most curative acidotic crisis (the second one).
The second fasting course is much easier than the first one, both physically
and psychologically.
Sometimes, a third (final) dry fasting course is required for patients with
very serious diseases.
The most important thing is that every fasting course entails an
increasingly faster transition to endogenous nutrition and high-quality
biosynthesis. The fractional method is good because it doesn’t allow obese
people to gain weight. Weight is lost progressively. As a result, obese
people not only lose their weight, but it also drops 2-3 kg below the norm. It
activates their bodies in a very powerful manner, and they don’t gain weight
subsequently, rather, it stays at the same level. Besides, excessive fat cells
die, which means that their number is reduced. Therefore, fat cells gain
their content during restorative nutrition, but their number is lower, and
patients don’t feel weak. Fat cells only begin to be destroyed following an
acidotic crisis. After a full fractional fasting course, the number of fat cells
in the body is normalized. There are as many of them, as at a young age,
and patients look slim and youthful. The destruction of fat cells is possible
only during fasting. All kinds of diets only deplete fat cells. As soon as
people start eating normally, they quickly recover, and patients gain weight
again”.
Contraindications
1. Absolute contraindications:
marked body mass deficit (more than 15% from the expected
values);
malignant tumors;
active tuberculosis of the lungs and other organs;
bronchiectasis;
systemic diseases of the blood;
type I diabetes mellitus;
thyrotoxicosis;
disorders of the heart rhythm and/or of the pulse propagation of
any origin;
post-focal myocardial infarction;
heart failure of II B - III degree;
chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis of the liver;
chronic renal failure and renal failure of any genesis;
thrombophlebitis.
2. Relative contraindications:
coronary heart disease with rhythmic disorders and cardiac
failure greater than stage II A;
severe hypotension;
cholelithiasis;
urolithiasis;
stomach ulcer and duodenal ulcer;
chronic venous insufficiency;
type II diabetes mellitus;
gout;
febrile conditions;
pregnancy and breastfeeding;
in childhood (up to 14 years) and the elderly (over 70);
4. What is the scientific background of
therapeutic fasting and dry fasting in particular?
In Russia therapeutic fasting has a research tradition that can be traced
back to 1769, when Petr Vilyaminov, professor of the Moscow University
medical school, wrote the treatise Slovo o postakh kak sredstve
predochraneniya ot bolezney (“On fasting as a means of disease
prevention”).
Later, between the early 1800s and the mid-20th century, many Russian
researchers and physicians became interested in fasting, among which we
cite prof. I. G. Spassky, Dr. N. Zeland, prof. V. Pashutin, A. Suvorin and
prof. Bakulyev, who studied the physiological and pathophysiological
characteristics of fasting and applied it in animal studies and in a clinical
setting.
But the great promoter of fasting as a therapeutic practice was the
psychiatrist Yuri Nikolayev: he was responsible for the approval and the
introduction of fasting in the USSR state healthcare system. Thanks to the
contribution of prof. Nikolayev fasting was scientifically investigated in
studies that began in the 1960s and continue to the present day, with a peak
of activity in the decades of the 70s, 80s and 90s.
It was Professor Nikolayev who coined the term razgruzochno-
dieticheskaya terapiya (RDT) (“fasting-dietary therapy – FDT”)[5]. The
term distinguishes spontaneous fasting or fasting induced by circumstances
beyond personal control from therapeutic fasting researched and applied in
the medical field on the basis of precise protocols approved by the Ministry
of Healthcare first in the Soviet Union and later in Russia. This is also
understood as a therapeutic practice based on the transition of the organism
to an endogenous diet.
With regards to dry fasting specifically, it was only in recent decades that
(in Russia) total abstinence from food and water started being applied in
clinical practice (V.A. Zakirov[6] and I.E Khoroshilov[7]), although the
physiologist Vladimir Pashutin[8] in 1902 and the gastroenterologist and
dietician M. Pevzner[9] in the 1950s had already written about the
possibility to limit water during an absolute fast.
The method of dry fasting has scientific evidence. The Scientific
Research Institute of Pulmonology in St. Petersburg, led by prof. A.
Kokosov[10], has produced guidelines on the treatment of various lung
diseases using the dry fasting method. A clinical experiment conducted in
the mid-1990s at the Medical Academy of Ivanovo, showed that absolute
fasting (without food and water) opens interesting prospects for the
treatment of cancer and serious immunodeficiency disorders. It is
scientifically demonstrated that dry fasting allows the organism to develop
the highest concentrations of biologically active substances, hormones,
immunocompetent cells and immunoglobulins in body fluids (according to
the research developed in the USSR-Russia, see the bibliography section).
5. What type of fasting (RDT) are being
researched and commonly used in clinical practice
(in Russia)
The medical recommendations elaborated by the Russian Ministry of
Health[11], define the different types of fasting: absolute or dry fasting
(absence of food and water), complete fasting (absence of food with water
intake), incomplete or water fasting (with limited water intake) and
different types of qualitative fasting (protein, lipid, vitamin, carbohydrate).
The incomplete or water fasting (with normal water intake): is the most
commonly used in the clinical practice of the RDT.
Many observe that dry fasting is better tolerated than water-based fasting,
especially because of the absence of hunger. This is not surprising. The
structure of the water from outside the body and what the body actually
assimilates are two completely different things. The body processes the
molecules of the incoming water, it cleanses superfluous information,
restructures and transform them into its own molecules, with the properties
of the organism itself. To this end, as for the absorption of food, an expense
of time and energy is necessary. Dry fasting is more complete precisely
because it provides a full rest to the body. At the same time the body cannot
exist without water, for this purpose the body reserves are engaged, firstly
from superfluous fat (the body synthesizes water using oxygen from the air
and the hydrogen from the adipose tissue).
During water fasting exogenous water (i.e. from the outside) enters, and
water is the main factor of purification. Toxins are washed away from the
cells, from the intracellular space.
During DF, without water, there is no "washing" but rather a process of
burning the toxins "in their furnace" meaning that every cell, in the absence
of water, begins an internal thermal reaction. Each cell turns temporarily
into a mini-furnace, a mini-reactor. Water is absolutely necessary, but the
cells remain without, especially the diseased and altered cells. In such
circumstances the strongest, healthiest cells survive, and whether they like
it or not, in order survive such extreme conditions they are forced to
activate the production of own endogenous water, of excellent quality.
Based on the law of biological efficiency, the endogenous water should be
of greater quality than the exogenous water. In fact, the cell consumes a lot
of energy and consequently the quality of the final product must correspond
to the invested efforts.
Exogenous and endogenous water can be compared respectively to a
polluted river where a chemical factory discharges its waste, and to a
mountain stream, which originates from the depths of the earth and feeds on
defrosted water rich in healing potential. During the dry fast the old "dead
water" is replaced by "living water" of excellent quality and synthesized by
the organism itself. In the meantime all the negative information brought
into our body from the outside is eliminated. By making a relatively short
fast without water the organism is stimulated to elaborate the water that it
already contains within, thereby renewing our information. This is why at
the end of the fast we are informationally uncontaminated; we are
composed of a matrix of information devoid of anything negative coming
from the external environment. Similar mechanisms do not exist in any of
the other existing types of therapeutic fasting. This phenomenon is one of
the main advantages offered by this form of fasting. It is one of the main
therapeutic mechanisms of DF, which plays a decisive role in renewing the
energetic balance of the human organism.
8.2. Anti-inflammatory and immune-stimulatory
mechanism: the action of free forms of glucocorticoids
Why is the rejuvenation process of the organism during a dry fast more
powerful than that triggered by a water fast?
The fact is that the diseased, degenerate and weak cells are unable to
cope with the extreme conditions imposed by dry fasting. When cells live in
a comfortable environment they get used to a constant level of nutrients and
water. They lose the possibility of renewing themselves and reinvigorating
themselves effectively. It is as if they get lazy to trigger the mechanisms of
self-renewal of the tissues. But as soon as food and water cease entering the
gastrointestinal tract, new conditions of existence are established in the
organism. Under these conditions, the old biomolecules are “dismantled”,
the unstable cells die and decay (and the deficit of energetic and plastic
substances is offset at their expense). But at the same time new cells are
synthesized, which are more resistant, and able to survive the conditions
imposed by the new circumstances.
There is another important source that guarantees rejuvenation and
"fasting survival": apoptosis, a mechanism of programmed cell death. Most
of the cells in the human body live actively for a few years, after that they
age and become functionally passive; which is the state of fat cells. Even
colonies of microorganisms have a mechanism of "food recycling" of old
cells. All multicellular organisms use their old cells as a source of raw
materials and energy, as a source of reserves in cases of emergency.
When the "food recycling" mechanism undergoes prolonged inactivity,
these old cells can and do become a factory of pathological proteins that
attack their own immune system. These are the factors that cause the
alteration of central and tissue regulation, i.e. they become progenitor cells
of malignant tumors. So, they must be removed from the body. For millions
of years, periods of forced fasting have been a norm in animal life. For this
reason, for multicellular organisms the process of elimination of useless
cells, which are structurally or functionally atypical, has never been a
problem.
Apoptosis, i.e. programmed cell death, incorporated into the genetic
apparatus of all multicellular organisms - animals, plants and fungi - is a
process that is energetically dependent and genetically controlled. It is
activated by specific signals and aims to free the body from weak, useless
or altered cells. Every day about 5% of the cells of the body undergo
apoptosis, and new cells take their place. During the process of apoptosis,
the cell disappears without a trace within 15 to 120 minutes.
Apoptosis is one of the basic mechanisms of oncological self-prevention.
Excessive apoptotic activity can cause disorders of cell loss, aplasia and
degenerative processes as well as malformations and tissue defects; while
deficient apoptosis may imply uncontrolled cell growth, the mechanism
underlying cancer, autoimmune processes and premature aging. For
example, there are good reasons to believe that excessive apoptosis is
associated with dangerous diseases such as aplastic anemia, amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, AIDS, etc.
During fasting, global changes occur. On the one hand, the physiological
process of apoptosis is reinvigorated: the organism is renewed and
rejuvenated at the expense of the death of old, sick or altered cells. On the
other hand, the pathological mechanisms of apoptosis are eliminated:
premature aging, neoplasms, etc.
Let's analyze these mechanisms in detail.
Understood as a community of cells, the organism during the fast "eats"
not only the fat cells, but also all the elements that are superfluous, morbid
or malfunctioning. The continuation of the organism’s life is impossible
without the self-cleaning function of its cell populations. Cells infected with
viruses, toxins or damaged by radiation, as well as those that have reached
their biological limit, have one thing in common: they have to either leave
the organism or be eaten. This happens in nature.
In the absence of external feeding, a particular type of signaling molecule
appears within a multicellular organism. These molecules cause the
activation of intracellular proteins in the cytoplasm of atypical cells. The
cells that are not involved in the collective activity of the organism are
sensitive and respond to these molecules by triggering a self-destructive
mechanism: the cell "closes" all its programs, its nucleus "contracts" and
begins to subdivide. Without destroying its outer envelope the cell
subdivides into 5-10 "apoptotic bodies" and is absorbed by other cells. This
is what happens in a colony of microorganisms. Otherwise it is digested in
the intestine, sharing the fate of fat cells.
The phenomenon of apoptosis was discovered relatively recently, in
1972, and is considered the most interesting matter of the last 50 years in
the field of biology and medicine. According to modern conceptions,
apoptosis is a general biological mechanism responsible for maintaining a
constant number of cell populations, as well as for the selection and
elimination of defective cells. Habitual feeding and ecological pollution
hinder this physiological mechanism.
According to the observations of Russian scientists, the activation of the
process of food apoptosis occurs after 20 hours of dry fasting (strictly
observing the rules for a correct fasting practice). When one eats
continuously, according to the usual food pattern, "caloric garbage"
becomes the number one problem. It becomes a cause of disease and
premature aging. "Rescue technologies" save life if you fast, but kill it if we
are constantly satiated.
Australian and American researchers have indirectly confirmed the
benefit of Muslim fasting. They were able to discover the cellular
mechanism that explains the link between fasting and longevity in humans
and other mammals.
Australian scientist David Sinclair and his research team discovered that
sirtuins SIRT3 and SIRT4, which prolong the life of cells, are activated
during fasting. Scientists had previously hypothesized that the work of
mitochondria was associated with the organism’s life span. When the
mitochondria are exhausted, the cell becomes vulnerable, apoptosis begins,
i.e. the program of self-destruction is activated. The signal of the beginning
of apoptosis is the reduction of the amount of the oxidation reduction
coenzyme NAD+ (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) in the mitochondria,
in the nucleus of the cell and in its cytoplasm. An experiment (during which
laboratory animals were forced to fast for 48 hours) made it possible to
establish that in the guinea-pig's organism during this period the Nampt
protein was activated. This protein triggered the synthesis of NAD+ in the
cytoplasm, which in turn determined the synthesis of the enzymes coded by
the SIRT3 and SIRT4 genes. These enzymes favorably influence
mitochondrial function and energy metabolism in the cell, i.e. they delay
aging and prevent apoptosis.
"If we could maintain a high concentration of NAD+ in the mitochondria,
able to stimulate the SIRT3 and SIRT4 genes, the cell would not need
anything else for a while" - said the study authors, who called this
phenomenon "mitochondrial oasis hypothesis." It can be assumed that there
is a molecule capable of influencing the concentration of NAD+ in the
mitochondria, as well as in the SIRT3 and SIRT4 genes.
Tissue renewal
Doctor of Biological Sciences Professor L. V. Polezhayev[14], the most
prominent specialist in animal limb regeneration, who developed a method
of recovering lost limbs, tails, i.e., in amphibians, writes:
“Fasting is a process of intensified physiological regeneration, renewal of
all cells, their molecular and chemical makeup. Interestingly, the
biochemical changes during fasting and reparative regeneration are very
similar. In both cases, there are two phases: destruction and recovery. In
both cases, the destruction phase is characterized by the prevalence of
decomposition of protein and nucleic acids over their synthesis, shift of pH
to acidity, acidosis and more. The recovery phase in both cases as well is
characterized by the prevalence of synthesis of nucleic acids over their
decomposition, and a return of pH to its neutral state. From the teaching on
regeneration, we know that the amplification of the destruction phase leads
to the amplification of the recovery phase. Therefore, with sufficient
foundation, we can consider fasting a natural stimulatory factor of
physiological regeneration. At the basis of fasting there is a biological
process, which leads to the renewal and rejuvenation of the tissues of the
whole body.”
Everyone familiar with dry fasting or even with just water fasting sees
numerous examples of physical rejuvenation achieved during fasting.
Physical improvements are usually accompanied by mental ones.
Sometimes hearing is restored in people who have been deaf for many
years. Eyesight becomes so acute that those who have been wearing glasses
for years, don’t need them anymore (sight restoration in blind people is
extremely rare), the sense of smell and taste perception become keener, in
case of sensory nerve paralysis, sensory perception gets restored, a burst of
energy may be observed, mental capacity increases, weight decreases, the
body’s functional activity becomes more intense, eyes become clear and
sparkling, complexion improves and freshness and rosy glow, which are
characteristic of youth, are restored, facial wrinkles disappear, blood
pressure decreases, heart performance improves, the enlarged prostate
decreases in size, sexual rejuvenation takes place — these processes, which
are the evidence of rejuvenation, may be observed by everybody who has
practiced fasting or is familiar with this problem. It is as if fasting creates
conditions for a rebirth, a revitalization of the organism. At that time, all the
cells in the body are cleansed, foreign substances (metaplasmatic materials)
are removed from the cell protoplasm, so that the cells are rejuvenated and
start to function more effectively.
Some of these foreign materials are highly toxic and accumulated long
ago in the fatty cells and the connective tissue cells, figuratively called the
organism’s landfill, that’s why it’s necessary to remove them from the
circulation and metabolic processes in the body. When the tissues get rid of
these materials, it increases the effectiveness of the physiological
mechanism. Along with the renewal of the body due to fasting, a certain
potential is also created, which ensures improved body function after the
fast is complete.
Wear and damage, repair and replenishment are continuous and almost
synchronous processes in all living organisms. Something is created, and
something is destroyed. Both of these processes are called metabolism, the
production is called anabolism and the destruction – catabolism.
Catabolism prevails during periods of activity, anabolism – during periods
of rest and sleep.
Anabolism is the process of repairing the body, when it gets a new burst
of energy and prepares for new activities. This process is dominant during
the period of active growth and it slows down somewhat during aging.
It is established that fasting accelerates metabolism, and after the end of a
fast the anabolic or constructive phase develops intensively. Thus, one can
say that a general cleansing of the body renews the constructive processes
of life. It is true that under experimental conditions this improvement in life
processes is brief. However, in most cases this happens because the
researchers can’t manage to bring their patients back (on the patients’
demand) to anything but their usual lifestyle after fasting.
A person’s age is the duration of their life. The term ‘age’ denotes several
different aspects of life: level of a person’s development (physiological
age), level of mental development (psychological age), etc. Any other term
or expression signifying nothing else but chronological age brings
vagueness and confusion of age with the condition of the body or the extent
of its growth and development.
When we say that one person is old at 40, and another is young at 70, we
actually mean their physical and mental state, and not their age. A
suggestion to use the expression “functional age” when discussing an
individual’s state, rather than their date of birth, is based on this confusion
as well.
It is true that the date of birth tells us nothing about the state of a given
organism or about the extent of its mental development. These factors are
only indirectly connected to age and are not its important components. A
70-year-old can be young according to their physical and mental state, and a
40-year-old can be old, languid and depressed. And yet the first person is
already 70, while the second is only 40. Knowing this, we can ignore the
widespread assertion, that ‘we’re trying to turn back time’. The age-related
changes happening in the organism that are called ageing, aren’t so much
linked to the passing of time, as to the factors, absolutely unrelated to time
per se.
If there were a causal link to ageing, then a person at 70 should have all
the indications of old age, inherent in this period of life, and a person at 40
– all the indications of youth, found at this age. The fact that the case is
often the opposite makes us doubt the assumption that the state of the body
is irreversibly linked with the number of years lived. We shouldn’t find it
difficult to understand that although age is expressed in time, time isn’t the
cause of the ageing process. For example, let’s take a stone being washed
by water. It changes over time, but it’s not time that polishes it, it’s water.
The ageing process requires time, but time isn’t the cause of polishing.
Two stones, polished by water in the to the same extent, abrade at
different speeds, depending on their hardness and density. Due to the same
reason, two people under the influence of identical destructive factors age at
a different speed, depending on their individual resistance to the destructive
factors.
A stone abrades faster or slower depending on the amount of water
flowing around it: if it’s small, the stone abrades slowly, if there’s a lot of
water, the abrasion happens faster. A person also ages fast or slowly
depending on the number of destructive influences this person is affected
by.
Let’s expand our example somewhat: let’s imagine a self-restoring rock.
At first it was being polished by water, then the water stopped washing it.
The rock begins ‘repairing’ itself and restoring the larger part of the lost
matter. In the human body, a natural process will take place (because the
organism is self-repairing), when the causes of ageing are eliminated.
The body is capable of destroying some of the damaged structures,
replacing them with fresh ones, and renewing the cells by dumping the
‘loads’ accumulated in them and ‘repairing’ their damaged parts.
Figuratively speaking, the human body can actively handle its business on
its own in a constructive manner.
Humans can live longer and better than they do now. They should live
much longer than now, and enjoy absolute health and energy. They
shouldn’t waste away at 60 or earlier. But in fact, excluding deaths from
accidents and homicides, people die from diseases. If we lived in a way that
prevented the development of diseases, not only could we live longer than
what’s considered normal now, but we could also preserve our physical and
mental powers.
Aging is defined as an ‘accumulation of changes in the organism,
increasing the probability of death of a given individual over the course of
time.’ This simply means that aging is a slow accumulation of pathological
(unhealthy) changes in the organs and tissues, injuries in the structures of
the body and a slow deterioration of its vital functions. Old age is just
another chronic disease. And this is the reason why we can age sooner or
later, and some people at seventy look younger than some 40-year-olds.
Aging happens over time, but time is not its cause. Consequently, it
doesn’t matter, what method we should use to precisely determine human
physiological age, what matters is that we found and figured out the causes
that lead to aging. Eliminate the cause of aging, and let the physiological
age take care of itself. Nobody knows for sure what the changes of the
organism leading to aging are, or what sort of changes they are exactly.
Let’s examine the experiments of a well-known French scientist Dr. Alexis
Carrel[15], author of the book Man, The Unknown. Keeping separate
fragments of a chicken heart alive over the course of many years, he found
out that they aged, unless they got rid of the waste accumulated in their
cells. In other words, they aged because of the accumulation of waste
produced by their own metabolism in the culture medium where they were
placed. If this waste was regularly removed, preventing the cells from
getting poisoned by it, the chicken heart didn’t age. This is very important
proof that aging is the result of chronic saturation with toxic substances.
Unfortunately, the important discovery attracted too little attention, perhaps,
because a way to use it was not discovered.
Carrel’s experiments and many other similar ones helped scientists
conclude that cells are potentially immortal. In their normal state, they keep
dividing over and over again, but they don't’ die. Death turns out to be an
abnormal phenomenon. Nevertheless, under the regular life conditions we
observe that cells actually age and die in great numbers. In order to extend
life indefinitely, all the conditions have to be favorable.
If cells are potentially immortal, as scientists currently think, and the
body as a system gets older, then it’s obvious that one of two things is true.
Either the functional specialization of cell groups / body organs is
mismatched, or there’s no coordination of cell groups in the organism.
Perhaps, both of these factors are true. If one or both of these assumptions
are true, this poses a question: is the discrepancy of specialization or the
discrepancy of coordination a primary (initial) condition of life or is it (the
mismatch) a result of established and resolvable causes? If it’s a primary
condition, then we cannot hope to prevent the aging process for more than a
short period of time, as it usually begins quite early. But if it’s induced by
causes that can be avoided or eliminated, which seems likely enough, then
we’re capable of doing a lot to prevent aging.
At least countless experiments on many lower forms of life have
demonstrated that it’s not only possible to delay the aging process for an
infinitely long time, but also to reverse it, restoring youth.
For more than 15 years, professor C. M. Child[16] from the University of
Chicago researched animal ageing. His results revealed that periodical
fasting usually promotes bodily rejuvenation.
In his research of some insect species, he found out that, when given
abundant food, the insects’ life lasted for 3-4 weeks, but if the amount of
food was decreased or the insects were forced to fast, they would stay
active and young for at least 3 years. Here’s his conclusion: “Partial fasting
prevents aging. The fasting person is transferred from mature age to initial
postembryonic stage, he is almost born again.”
Child pointed out that in the organic world rejuvenation is nothing but a
normal cell renewal process. This process is continuous throughout the life
of any organism.
Similar research was conducted by the employees of the Institute of
Physiology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Through the
introduction of a special dietary regimen, they ‘rejuvenated’ two-year-old
rats to a state typical for three-months-olds. English biologist Clive
McCay[17] achieved a 1.5-fold life extension in mice, by means of two days
a week without food, and decreasing food intake by a third allowed the
mice to live twice as long.
Interesting experiments on animal rejuvenation were conducted by a
remarkable physician Suren Arakelyan[18]. According to his data, aged
hens, who were put through a fast, began to lay eggs again, began
recovering their feather coating, their voices became higher and younger
and their bodies – more graceful and slender. Here’s a photograph that
Suren Arakelyan has kept since his experiment. There are two aged layer
hens in his arms. The hens were sisters. One fasted, the other didn’t. After
the photo was taken, the gluttonous sister lived for only a month, while the
rejuvenated hen lived for six more years. It was definitely surprising: out of
1000 birds written-off because of their age, 910 laid an egg every day. And
not just an egg! The egg weighed 68 grams, while the one laid by a pullet
weighed only 48 grams. The biochemical analysis confirmed that the
quality of the egg was better, too. There was a fear that hunger will lead the
birds to their death, but they, on the contrary, began living much longer: for
18 years, on average, instead of the 6 allotted by nature. The species’
lifespan was extended threefold. A chicken named Krasavitsa reached a
fantastic age of 21. Proportionately, for a human this age would equal 240 –
250 years.
After chickens, Arakelyan started working with bulls belonging to a
high-priced breed. Their youth is short, lasting only four years. And then
they become meat. The bulls went on a fast, but they took a complex stress-
relieving drug. It was stress-relieving because normal hunger induces a
distressed, restless state in animals. Taking these substances, the bulls as
though didn't notice the hunger. This went on for twenty days. The bulls
grew thin, having lost 15-20 % of their fat mass, but those were temporary
losses, the weight soon came back, and with it came specific reproductive
capabilities. This allows to conclude that when fasting is employed during
the month-long rest once a year, bulls’ life expectancy grows threefold!
Inability to preserve youth is caused by factors that interfere with the
perfect process of renewal. Any elimination of these interfering factors at
any age leads to a shift – to renewal and youth.
However, it should be acknowledged that there are clear limits to human
rejuvenating capabilities. Irreversible changes may occur in the tissues of
the human body, and any efforts to eliminate them are akin to efforts to
grow a new leg after it was lost. Many lower forms of life, and some of
them are very complex organisms, possess the ability to grow new members
or internal organs (even new heads, brains and eyes); their rejuvenating
capabilities are substantially wider than those of highly developed
organisms. But a human can be rejuvenated to a greater degree than we had
previously thought. Up until now, we can agree that the larger is the number
and the degree of pathological changes that have occurred in the human
body, the smaller is its capability of restoring youth. However, I don’t think
that the greatest possibilities of rejuvenation by means of fasting are of
interest only to people of both sexes in their advanced age. Fasting is also
extremely important to younger people as a means of reversing the aging
process, although their aging is slowed down. If we can use fasting to
prevent destructive processes in the vital organs by periodically freeing the
organism of its toxic load and providing these organs with the much-needed
rest. then we will be able to achieve a much more prolonged effect in aging
prevention than in searching for the ways to rejuvenate the organism.
When I began working at the Goryachinsk health resort, the nurse
brought me the case records of the patients that were to have an
appointment with me. When I was looking through them, one drew my
attention. The patient was 80 years old, his diagnosis was deforming
coxarthrosis of the hip and knee joints. Well, I was wondering to myself
how he was going to get there, and what treatment I could possibly
prescribe to him at this age. Subsequently, a slim, youthful man of about 50
came to me for an appointment and said that he’d just been swimming in
Baikal (it was November) and it was great. When I asked for his name, it
turned out he was that 80-year-old ‘grandpa’. My surprise knew no bounds.
I asked him at once, “What about your sore joints?” “Oh, I forgot all about
them a long time ago, doctor, and the diagnosis in my rehabilitation and
health resort card form is there so that I can go to the health resort.” I was
very interested to know how he had achieved these amazing results in the
treatment of his disease and rejuvenation of his body. Here’s his story:
“My problems began after I turned 50, I started having pains in my hip
joints when moving, it became difficult to get up. My knee joints
subsequently began bothering me, too. I underwent all kinds of treatment
and went to all kinds of health resorts. Granted, I felt somewhat better after
going to health resorts, but at some point, the pain came back. I realized that
if I didn’t cardinally change something in my life, I would become fully
disabled and immobilized. I began collecting information, talking to people
with the same diagnosis, who had improved their health by natural means.
At that time, there was practically no information on body cleansing or
fasting. I learned about liver cleansing from a talented healer from a
neighboring village. I’d known about fasting since childhood, because my
grandmother had rigidly observed the fast — only water and nothing else. I
cleansed my liver and gradually began conducting fasts. I felt better after a
ten-day fast, my joints were hurting less, my capacity for movement
increased. After that I started walking more. Once after a walk I had bad
swelling in my left knee and horrible pain. I thought that if I tried fasting
without water, then my swelling would come down faster. To my surprise,
the pain and the swelling went away on the third day, which had never
happened during water fasting. The first time I dry fasted for five days. Of
course, it was harder than a water fast, but the results and the effect of dry
fasting impressed me. I realized that you can achieve better results in a
shorter period of time. After that, I only fasted dry. Every week I dry fasted
for a day, and two times a year – for seven.
With great effort and with the help of the knowledge I had received from
other people’s experience, I achieved a full cure from coxarthrosis of the
hip joints.
Last year I celebrated my 80th birthday as a practically healthy man.
Reaching this age, which seemed improbable and inaccessible 30 years
ago, not only became a reality, but a reality full of joy and happiness.
The tests that I conducted and my test results show that I’m not only
healthy, but also that for me the age of 80 isn’t the time of decrepit old age
and suffering from ailments, on the contrary, it’s the time of a normal life of
a person looking forward to the future. (...).
To support the due level of health, I first and foremost take care of my
moral health, and monitor my nutrition regime, which rich in cereals,
vegetables, fruit, without salt or solid fats, and maintain a high level of
physical activity, but the most important thing is systemic dry fasting.”
Subsequently, this unique example influenced me greatly, affecting my
decision to introduce dry fasting into my practice.
One of the striking examples of the miracle of fasting is the author of the
homonymous book Paul Bragg[19]. He tragically died surfing the ocean
waves at the age of 95 and remained healthy until his very death.
Perhaps, one day doctors will accept fasting as a powerful natural method
of body rejuvenation, which is in many ways superior to manipulations with
stem cells or expensive plastic surgery. It’s important to understand that any
effective rejuvenation of the body is the result of internal strength and
processes working under favorable conditions, and not of forcible states
induced by exotic actions. Health restoration, in other words, termination of
the pathological state and rejuvenation are the same process.
If we could see fasting as a method that gives the body an opportunity to
not only free itself of the load of accumulated toxins, but also from the
burden of accumulated anomalous changes in its tissues, then we will be
able to use this method for the purposes of rejuvenation with enormous
success.
8.7. Preventive mechanism: protection against radiation,
adverse environmental factors, prevention of oncological
diseases
Why does fasting protect from radiation and why are fasts held on
designated days? In order to answer this question comprehensively, we are
going to begin with what seems an entirely different topic — how does
radiation damage our organism? Radiation is a powerful flow of energy
which, when penetrating the organs, cannot be assimilated by the cells
because of its power and causes a phenomenon of ionization in them.
Ionization is the tearing off of atoms and molecules caused by the impact of
the particles. As a result, a mass of radicals is formed in the cells. A radical
is an extremely biologically active fragment of a molecule which combines
with DNA molecules and blocks their biological properties, which start to
damage its genetic apparatus. Then a breakdown of the DNA and RNA
double helix takes place. As soon as that happens, and it usually happens in
the quickly dividing cells of the gastrointestinal tract, the cells stop dividing
and start being destroyed as foreign by the organism’s own immune system.
A destructive process develops in the tissues. Such micro-holes created by
the aforementioned process are easily penetrated by infections (which are
numerous in the gastrointestinal tract) and then sepsis begins, leading to the
organism’s death. Scientists conducted a series of interesting experiments
on rats. One group of rats was exposed to radiation or fed food containing
radionucleotides, and then starved. For comparison purposes, a group of
absolutely healthy animals was starved, too. A physiological period of
starvation for rats is 12 days. All animals in the healthy control group died
after this period, but the irradiated rats lived for 24 days, started to look
even better than before, and had no intention of dying. The researchers had
to kill the rats and thoroughly analyzed their tissues, as a result of which
they found out that the rats looked excellent, as young, healthy animals, and
had no radioactive damage! Why does this happen? It turns out, when
fasting during advanced biosynthesis, the body needs energy, and the
radiation that was inassimilable before, now is fully expended on this. The
bad turns into good! A number of other mechanisms that protect the
organism from radiation during hunger were discovered at the same time.
Here they are:
1. The body restores the cells’ membranes by increasing
alcohol production. Restoration of the cells’ membranes is
nothing but a reinforcement of cellular barriers. As a result,
subsequent exposure to radiation will have a less pronounced
damaging effect on the cells.
2. Increased carbon dioxide content in the cells decreases the
ionization caused by exposure to radiation.
3. The quickly dividing cells of the gastrointestinal tract, which
suffer the most from radiation, abruptly slow down their
division. After all, they’re forced to divide quickly because
they’re affected by their own digestive enzymes, get
damaged and desquamate. The organism, owing to high
speed of division of these cells, restores the stomach and
intestinal walls. This doesn’t happen during fasting. The
gastrointestinal tract cells rest, and the energy previously
spent on accelerated division is now used for restoring
internal structures, repairing torn DNA and RNA helices.
This is also facilitated by enhanced biosynthesis inside the
cell because of the fixation of carbon dioxide in it, which
doesn’t happen during regular food intake. Owing to that,
they don’t die, don’t get rejected by their own organism, and
when the body switches to regular food intake, they divide as
if nothing had happened and perform their former functions
to the full extent. But during regular food intake, these two
processes of division and restoration of the inner structures
of the cell can’t be carried out fully, and radiation further
exacerbates it.
4. According to practical research, radiation and
radionucleotides are removed from the human body in just
12-14 days of water fasting or 5-7 days of dry fasting. This
makes a person lose much less weight than during a normal
fast. As a result of the aforementioned processes, that occur
during fasting, the problems of radioactive exposure are
completely solved. And indeed, after Chernobyl,
academician A. I. Vorobyov[20] decided to employ fasting in
treating people stricken by acute radiation sickness (when
ulcers appear in the gastrointestinal tract). Bone marrow
transplantation and use of powerful antibiotic therapy are
nearly hopeless in such cases, but thanks to fasting, the
affected people restored their health. For the first time in the
world practice, the fasting method helped in the case where
other, most innovative (American, Japanese) treatment
options proved to be powerless! And it’s no wonder, since
these treatment options are the fruit of artificial conclusions,
while fasting is a natural process that has nothing in common
with them.
After this introduction, let’s pass on to the main question — why are fasts
conducted at specific times of the year? If we combine the dates when fasts
are conducted and astrological signs, then we’ll see that three out of the
four fasts fall on ‘Fire Signs’. The Nativity Fast (40 days) falls on
Sagittarius. Great Lent (48 days) falls on Aries. The Uspensky Fast (14
days) fall on Leo. The length of the Apostles’ Fast is not constant and varies
between 8 and 42 days. This variation is caused by adjustment to natural
rhythms. In years of the active sun, when there’s a lot of energy, its duration
increases. In cold years, on the contrary, the length of this fast shortens.
There’s no ad-libbing — everything happens according to nature’s laws. In
the above-mentioned periods, an increased amount of energy reaches the
Earth from space. This energy, which works like radioactive energy, can
disrupt the organism’s function. Remember A. L. Chizhevsky’s[21] work
The Earthly Echo of the Solar Storms, and a lot will be clarified
immediately.
If you fast during this time, then cosmic energy and an increased amount
of solar energy will go towards creation, intensifying biosynthesis. If you
still continue eating, then the energy won’t assimilate and will cause
damage to your cells, and free radicals will inhibit the cell’s function,
undermining the living potential of the whole organism. But at the same
time, bacteria and viruses convert to active state and successfully attack the
weakened organism due to the abundance of energy. It is exactly at this time
that flu (spring and the beginning of winter) and cholera (summer)
epidemics may be observed all over the world. In years of active sun, these
processes are of such a pronounced nature, that in the Middle Ages the
majority of the European population died out because of it! You can fast
during another time of the year, but the combination of increased natural
energy and fasting produces the best effect, activating the ‘fire principle’,
which is suppressed during fasting. Ancient sages took absolutely
everything into account and gave the best recommendations, we only have
to follow them.
Special effects
Here are the gifts which everybody receives from dry fasting along with
the cure from the illnesses that had tormented them for a long time, and
which (not a single one of them!) are, of course, possible without deep
refreshing and calming of the whole body.
First of all, the general perception abilities are greatly increased
— tactile, skin sensitivity and the sense of smell are heightened,
which produces interesting effects. You’ll be able to feel through
the shop window, to sense the taste of the foods there, to know
that a certain egg in fridge is already not fresh, to remotely
perceive that there’s something wrong with the food, which can
actually just turn out to be an excess of preservatives. In
pronounced cases of perception increase you’ll have no problems
guessing the contents of a tin with no label on it.
During fasting, sweat secretion almost stops — the skin turns
from a secretor to an absorber, at the same time when in contact
with a substance, not only does it start to be absorbed, but you
can also feel the taste of the substance in your mouth. Thus, if
you have to cook food for others during your fast, you can
determine ‘by touch’, if there’s enough salt in the soup. But I
wouldn’t advise you to knead dough, the oil will be absorbed by
your hands, rather than by the food.
A person’s intuition increases intensely during dry fasting. Just
like a cat, one may begin feeling pathological or, on the contrary,
healing energetic zones. Interestingly, they’re different for every
person
Sometimes people develop telepathic abilities, they begin to
understand each other without words.
Those who fast regularly notice that fasting enhances willpower.
Iron-strong determination is undoubtedly necessary for achieving
success in any difficult undertaking. A 24-hour abstinence from
food makes a person mentally stronger and prepares them for
making a prudent choice and then acting with firm
determination.
Fasting awakens the (often lost) sense of how much food and
water a person really needs to sustain their life. During
abstinence from food, a person experiences certain suffering. On
the one hand, it naturally develops compassion for others
suffering from hunger, with barely enough to sustain oneself.
Only after having the same experience yourself, you can
genuinely understand the suffering of the poor and wretched.
If you were sensitive to cold, often came down with the flu, your
feet were cold and, consequently, you couldn’t fall asleep for a
long time — after dry fasting you will become resistant to cold.
If you had grey hair and it was falling out, after fasting it will
become thicker and regain its color.
If you had poor vision, it often improves after a dry fast.
If the whites of your eyes were yellow, they will become clear
white.
If you snored during sleep, your breathing will become even and
silent, you will stop grinding teeth in your sleep.
If you suffered from bad mouth odor, your breath will become
clean and odorless.
If you were bothered by morning bitterness in the mouth, the
taste in the mouth will always be sweet and fresh.
Yellow plaque on teeth disappears. They become pearl-white.
If your teeth were loose (paradontosis), they will sit in the gums
more firmly.
If you had a persistently runny nose, fasting completely cures
this problem.
If you had hypertension (or hypotension), your blood pressure
comes back to normal.
Insomnia vanishes and deep wholesome sleep is restored.
Sexual activity increases and grows stronger.
A person becomes 10-15 years younger working-efficiency-wise.
Of course, many health benefits listed here can be achieved by any kind
of fasting, but during dry fasting they can be achieved more effectively and
within shorter timeframes.
9. How to properly prepare your body for dry
fasting?
NOTE: ! Never conduct dry fasting without trying water fasting first !
9.1. Bowel cleansing. Introduction
You might believe that preliminary cleansing was invented by all those
boring theorists who don’t understand that people who want to fast have
jobs, and are therefore busy. Thus, you start fasting completely unprepared.
Inside the colon, which ends with the anus, in the pockets of the colon hides
a greenish, clay-like substance with a very unpleasant smell, which is called
fecal stones. It is very hard to rinse out just with water and over the years it
can grow so bulky that it blocks the passage in the colon, requiring painful
surgery in order to clean out these stones. In some especially neglected
cases, up to 25 kilograms of these stones are taken out of the patient’s
colon. To be sure, such fasting, without bowel cleansing, has few benefits.
First of all, you feel strong hunger during fasting all the time. That’s
because fecal masses, fecal stones, and the juice produced by them, which
is being absorbed by the body from the bowels during fasting, poison you
once and for all. Furthermore, when you, after finally having scrupulously
and stoically endured the entire process until the end, begin coming out of a
fast, you once again perfect your fasting technique and immediately eat as
much as you can hold.
Naturally, when a person stops eating, eventually they start having a
cleansing crisis, which is accompanied by unpleasant sensations, and the
fasting person believes they’re already dying from not eating and succumb
to panic, starting to eat again.
When toxins leave the body, which always happens during fasting, you
may experience unpleasant sensations, weakness and pain in some parts of
the body. That’s why a person who’s ignorant about fasting may feel that
their body is being irreparably destroyed during fasting.
Coloproctologists say jokingly: the organism is essentially an upgraded
intestinal canal. And, to be fair, they aren’t really exaggerating the
importance of this organ. After all, it is in the intestinal canal that all the
vital digestive processes take place.
The majority of the substances necessary for the body is absorbed
through the intestinal walls. It turns out that a person’s health directly
depends on the state of their bowels. But an irregular, unbalanced diet leads
to waste accumulating on the intestinal walls. These dense deposits impede
the absorption of nutrients, produce toxins, disturb intestinal peristalsis. As
a result, a person often experiences weakness, irritability, constipation, skin
breakouts, weight problems. Organ function is hindered, which threatens
with serious ailments.
Out of all bowel segments, the large intestine is especially susceptible to
toxin accumulation.
Since the gastrointestinal tract is rich in its own endocrine ‘taps’, which
change their activity under the influence of changes, related to metabolism
in the bowels, this system in our body primarily provides normal regulation
of metabolic processes, their correspondence with metabolic and adaptive
changes. And, of course, all these systems are dominated by the nervous
system, which controls the overall coordination of all the systems’
activities.
That’s why it’s quite appropriate that diseases of organs and systems that,
at first sight, are unrelated to the bowels, during their course are
accompanied by intestinal disorder and, in particular, a decrease in its
barrier function. In this case, the ejection of intestinal toxins into the blood
and lymph of the sick organism increases, which substantially increases the
accumulation of endotoxins in the organism and leads to the development
of endotoxicosis — accumulation of toxic substances in tissue and
intracellular fluid. These substances can affect the flow of metabolic
processes in the cell, disturb the regulation of bioprocesses. Digestive tract
diseases can create more than 100 different complications: food allergy,
eczema, arthritis, spondylitis, schizophrenia… The list goes on.
According to scientists, in cases of chronic intestinal diseases one of the
causes of internal organs and systems pathology may be linked to the
disorders of the absorption of important food components. This can be
caused by loss of nutrients due to diarrhea, excessive bacterial growth or
change in intestinal wall permeability.
People affected by similar bowel dysfunction develop all kinds of
different diseases quickly and easily. Under these circumstances, the
probability of fatal outcome increases, and the chances for the organism to
conquer the disease and for the person to get well decrease. In other words,
if functional and pathological changes arise in the digestive tract, the body
stops receiving enough nutrients. The state of the microscopic flora
fluctuations, resulting in the immune system weakening and the organism
becoming defenseless against even the smallest threats. A danger of
oncological, allergic, dystrophic diseases arises.
Fluid intake
As we’ve already mentioned, the solution has to be consumed in its
entirety over the course of 40-60 minutes. This condition is also crucial and
has to be observed rigorously.
First, in order to effectively stimulate the peristalsis of the digestive tract,
a sufficient pressure on its walls has to be created. A more extended intake
will allow the fluid to distribute over the different segments of the
intestines, lessening the pressure on their walls.
Second, the processes of moving the liquid along the digestive tract have
to get ahead of the processes of dilution and absorption of the liquid. A 40-
minute period allotted for consuming the working solution conforms to all
these conditions.
This elucidates the need to consume a certain amount of cleansing fluid
— 2.5-3 liters. If you stop and interrupt the working solution intake for a
long time, then the volume of the consumed fluid won’t be sufficient to
effectively stimulate the movements of the intestines. Of course, the taste of
salt water isn’t very pleasant or habitual to us. Here, first of all, you need a
certain positive attitude and an awareness of the need to carry out the
procedure. Besides, you have to firmly believe that the cleansing procedure
will help your body get rid of harmful toxins and will prevent the
emergence and development of many diseases.
We can give a few practical recommendations to those who carry out the
intestinal sorbent cleansing procedure for the first time:
take small sips;
don’t keep the solution in the mouth;
try not to swallow air;
don’t force the intake of the fluid;
in case of possible unpleasant feelings of fullness in the
abdomen or light nausea, you should stop and take a 2-3-
minute break.
Our experience tells us that as you repeat the intestinal sorbent cleansing
procedure, all the troubles completely disappear the second or third time
around. Moreover, an experienced person acquires a desire and an ability to
drink the entire volume much faster than in 40 minutes. However, we have
to warn you: striving to drink the cleansing solution as fast as possible may
lead to a painful stretching of the stomach walls. Is it worth causing
yourself suffering and enduring unnecessary pain to save 10-15 minutes?
Intestinal cleansing
So, you drank the entire solution in the required period of time. Now arm
yourself with patience and wait — all the mechanisms are started.
Immediately after you complete the fluid intake and during the subsequent
waiting you can notice your abdomen swelling and feel the fluid moving
inside of it. These phenomena are normal in the given situation.
Usually, during the first attempt of carrying out this procedure, 60-80
minutes pass from the moment you finish taking the working solution until
the moment you feel the first urges to defecate. If the urges are absent at
that time, don’t worry. If this is the case, do the following: walk for a while;
carefully do some squats; while standing alternately lift bent legs up to your
stomach, but do it calmly, without any fuss or strain; stroke your stomach
clockwise and wait a couple of minutes.
When you acquire a certain experience in conducting intestinal sorbent
cleansing, you’ll notice that the first urges to defecate will appear as early
as 10-15 minutes after you complete the intake of the working solution. You
need to make yourself comfortable on the toilet and make sure that the
splashes of the cleansing fluid coming out of you don’t scatter every which
way.
After the first act of defecation, be on guard and don’t go far from the
toilet — repeated urges may appear at any time. Sometimes during the
urges to defecate, an act of urination can happen, after which the desire to
defecate disappears. Don’t rush to leave the toilet, wait for 1-1.5 minutes.
It should be noted that the frequency of urination can increase under the
influence of the described method of intestinal sorbent cleansing — this is a
normal phenomenon, which is linked to partial penetration of sodium and
water into the bloodstream.
According to observations, abundant stool discharge is repeated 4-6
times, though it may happen a greater number of times. During the first act
of defecation, a doughy mass comes out, and during the subsequent acts a
dirty liquid with sorbent particles comes out, becoming lighter and clearer
with every time.
As your intestines are being emptied, the feeling of heaviness and
stretching in the abdomen decreases, along with the bloating. After you feel
complete relief, repeat the above-mentioned physical exercises and go to
the toilet again (even if you don’t have the urges). Generally, some residual
amount of the liquid lingering in the colon will come out.
I wrote about this method because Epsom salt isn’t sold everywhere. In
our practice, we use intestinal cleansing with the aid of Epsom salt.
Contraindications
When discussing the contraindications, we have to note that the spectrum
of diseases that allow to cleanse the intestines is virtually unlimited.
However, certain difficulties may arise, for instance, when the digestive
tract patency is disrupted, and also in the early postoperative period, when
there is a risk of developing functional intestinal insufficiency. In our
opinion, the use of this method in case of acute diseases or an acute
exacerbation of a chronic disease is inexpedient. In such cases, it’s
recommended to confine yourself to a course of sorbent intake.
There’s a possibility (although a small one) of a massive uncontrolled
influx of water and salt from the intestines into the blood, which makes us
include in the list of contraindications (or, rather, a need to consult a
specialist) for using this method diseases and conditions such as stage 3-4
hypertensive disease, renal hypertension, stage 3-4 heart failure,
cerebrovascular disease, stage 3 chronic renal failure, cholecystitis.
After conducting intestinal sorbent cleansing, a person, despite their
sense of well-being and good mood, might feel tired for a period of time (1-
2 days), as if after prolonged physical activity. This proves that after the
cleansing, important and energy-intensive reconstructive and restorative
processes begin in the organism, in the digestive tract, as well as in the
other organs and systems.
What can cause such energy demands?
First of all, the processes of restoring parietal intestinal structures, which
are ‘washed away’ during the sorbent cleansing; second, activation of the
mechanisms of endotoxin discharge into the blood and subsequent
temporary increase in the activity of the natural detoxification systems of
the organism; third, adaptive reconstruction of the systems and organs
under the stress of intestinal sorbent cleansing.
9.4. Liver cleansing
Everybody says that you need to cleanse your liver… ‘Why do I need to
cleanse my liver, if it doesn’t hurt? You’re telling me that I’m going to feel
better after the “Liver cleansing” program, but I’m feeling great now,
without any cleansing,’ you’ll answer.
Let’s take a different approach to this problem. Nobody questions the fact
that the oil filter in your car (beloved Lada, Ford, Mazda, or Porsche) has to
be changed. In general, it might be good to clean the engine and the injector
system. Why? What for? Well, because, if you don’t do it, the engine or the
injector, or both, will fail at some point. And to get it all repaired, you’ll
have to pay LOTS of money. If we were to draw an analogy, then the liver
is our filter. And as you can’t replace it, you have to clean it. And, of
course, it’s perfectly clear, that if you don’t do this, your individual system
will give up and it’ll be extremely hard to fix it. It’s well-known that the
function carried out by the liver are among the most important in the
organism. Toxins are stored everywhere in the body, especially in the fat
tissues. They are particularly numerous in the liver, which is our organism’s
filtration plant.
According to medical statistics, 4-5 kg of chemicals enter the human
body only from food and drinks (including alcohol) every year. All this
goes into the liver and stays there.
People who disregard liver cleansing, end up on a hospital bed sooner or
later. The liver, which is full of toxins, is unable to discharge them, which is
akin to having a bomb filled with several kilograms of poison inside your
body.
Who needs liver cleansings? This question can’t be answered
unambiguously. I believe that everybody needs cleansings, but the specific
cleansing system and their time should be selected individually.
What’s required for a cleansing, in order for you to get the maximum
result with minimum effort?
First of all, your emotional state. Neutral or positive mood, relaxed state,
calmness — all of these are required for success. If a person approaches
cleansing as if it’s slave labor, then they feel a certain degree of tension:
physiologically, the body is in a state of defense, which means contraction:
smooth muscles (vascular, duct, intestinal walls) spasm, which results in
hindered discharge of toxins.
Secondly, it’s your attitude to get a positive result (a lack of a result is
also a result). Humans are curious creatures, and curiosity can become a
guarantee of a pleasant cleansing. When engaging in a cleansing, a person
becomes an explorer. When a person is curious to know the result, they
have no fear, but have an interest: what’s going to happen to me? And in
this case even a negative result produces a question rather than fear: what
did I do wrong.
Thirdly, you have to prepare for cleansing in a proper manner. A
vegetarian diet is mandatory before a big cleansing, you also need to
exclude alcohol entirely. As for the cleansing itself, the more precisely you
follow all the recommendations, the bigger effect you’ll get.
And finally, the completion, or coming out of the cleansing. This is pretty
much the most important moment: the cleansing is over, the body got rid of
the toxins, and cannot yet always (at first, anyway) absorb the food you
used to eat. That’s why after the cleansing, it’s important to adhere to the
same diet, you kept to before it.
9.5. Intestinal and liver cleansing (week-long program)
So:
1st day — vegetable diet, GEPAR, POLYSORB.
2nd day — vegetable diet, GEPAR, POLYSORB.
3rd day — vegetable diet, GEPAR, POLYSORB.
4th day — dried apricot or prune compote over the course of the day, 3
tablespoons of GEPAR, POLYSORB 4 times a day.
5th day — 3 more spoons of sorbent arbitrarily on an empty stomach and
prior to fluid intake in the morning.
A crucial condition for a successful intestinal cleansing is prior fasting
for a period of 8-10 hours (you can fast for longer — up to 20 hours, but not
less than 8 hours). Failure to observe this condition abruptly changes the
course of physiological processes in the digestive tract. When you eat,
intestinal absorption mechanisms are abruptly activated in the body. They
will be active until the organism fully absorbs the digested food. And if,
while the mechanisms of absorption are active, any substances get into the
stomach and the intestines, the body will begin absorbing them
immediately. Thus, you won’t be able to hold the salt solution in the
intestines. Moreover, the presence of incompletely digested nutrients in the
intestinal contents will slow down the activity of the digestive tract: the
cleansing solution won’t be gradually moving along the intestinal canal,
lingering in its separate segments. If the fluid and the sorbent aren’t moving
along the intestinal canal, while the mechanisms of intestinal absorption are
active, then, in all likelihood, the organism will begin absorbing the
solution.
Please be aware that an intake of even a small amount of sweetened tea is
a contraindication for starting intestinal sorbent cleansing, since, when it
breaks up, sugar creates glucose, and glucose abruptly increases the
intensity of sodium absorption. As for drinking pure water, there are no
restrictions, because it’s quickly absorbed, but it’s still better not to drink 30
minutes prior to the procedure. Come home from work early. Take some
mineral water (you have to open the bottle, so that the gas comes out),
dissolve 60 grams of Epsom salt in 1 glass of mineral water (if you weigh
under 80 kg), or 80 grams of Epsom salt in 1 glass of mineral water (if you
weigh more than 80 kg). You can add some lemon juice to the Epsom salt,
so it’ll be easier to drink. Drink the Epsom salt in one shot, and within 1
hour wash it down with 6-7 glasses of mineral water. Then proceed to self-
massage your abdomen.
After the last visit to the toilet, eat some rice porridge without salt,
optionally with a small amount of butter. After the meal, it’s good to take a
hot bath and have a good night’s rest, no strenuous activity on that day.
6th day
8:00 am — wash down 2 teaspoons of honey with 1 glass of water,
10:00 am, 12:00 pm — drink GEPAR, you can drink apple juice until
2:00 pm.
2:00 pm — drink Epsom salt (1 sachet mixed in a glass of warm water).
6:00 pm — drink Epsom salt (1 sachet mixed in a glass of warm water),
put a hot-water bottle over the area of your right hypochondrium.
7:00 pm — drink 200-250 grams of warmed-up (35°C) olive oil (if you
can’t tolerate olive oil, you can replace it with quail eggs, you need to drink
half a glass), you have to drink the oil while standing, on the exhale,
preferably in one shot, and wash it down with a bit of lemon-orange juice.
Drink 200 grams of lemon-orange juice (50:50) in 7 steps every 15 minutes:
7:00 pm, 7:15 pm, 7:30 pm, 7:45 pm, 8:00 pm, 8:15 pm, 8:30 pm, 8:45 pm.
(Keep the hot-water bottle in the area of your right hypochondrium). After
drinking it, lie on your right side, with a hot-water bottle, wrapped in a
towel, under your right hypochondrium, keep it there until 9:00 pm.
11:00 pm — cleansing enema (35 °C water), empty your bowels into a
pot, examine the contents: there could be a discharge of bile, fecal stones,
green oval calcium bilirubinate stones, yellow cholesterol flakes, sand at the
bottom of the pot.
7th day
3:00 am — cleansing enema (35 °C water), drink Epsom salt (1 sachet
mixed in a glass of water) after the enema.
7:00 am — eat a carrot, beet and cabbage salad
8:00 am — drink 2 tablespoons of POLIFEPAN[23] dissolved in water.
Note: while conducting a cleansing you might feel somewhat unwell, this
is related to an intensive discharge of bile and fast absorption in the
intestines, you may feel weak, dizzy, nauseated, especially during a
cleansing enema. You should smell some ammonium hydroxide, ensure
access to fresh air, take 24 drops of СORVALOL (menthol sedative), suck
on a clove of garlic cut in half. In case of persistent nausea, don’t hold it in,
or you can take 2 tablets of CERUKAL (antiemetic, reduces nausea,
hiccups). It’s advisable to take LINEX[24] for a period of time after
cleansings. For adults: take 2 capsules of LINEX 3 times a day, washing it
down with a small amount of liquid. None of these bacteria can survive in
gastric juice with a pH of 2. After food intake, the pH of the gastric juice
fluctuates between 4 and 5, which makes it possible to save the viability of
lactic acid bacteria in the digestive tract. That’s why LINEX is
ingested after meals.
P.S. If you have problems with intestines, i.e. constipation, you need to
prepare a good laxative mix for the whole cleansing course. Ingredients:
dried apricots, figs, prunes, raisins — take 100 grams of everything. Wash
everything thoroughly, blend, add 100 grams of honey, 2 tablespoons of
vegetable oil and 50 grams of the cassia herb. Take 2 tablespoons before
sleep for 4 days. Before cleansing, you have to do an ultrasound of the liver
and gallbladder. If any stones are found in the gallbladder, cleansing is
contraindicated. Sometimes life circumstances don’t allow you to conduct
liver and intestinal cleansing, as mentioned in the first version.
Cleansing regimen
1st day
Vegetarian diet. Take 3 tablespoons of POLIFEPAN
(The main active component of sorbent POLIFEPAN is
hydrolytic lignin). One tablet contains 375 mg of active
substance.) per one glass of water 3 times a day, one
hour before meals.
10:00 pm. Do an enema.
2nd day
9:00 am. Take some mineral water (you have to open
the bottle, so that the gas comes out), dissolve 60 grams
of Epsom salt in 1 glass of mineral water (if you weigh
under 80 kg), or 80 grams of Epsom salt in 1 glass of
mineral water (if you weigh more than 80 kg). You can
add some lemon juice to the Epsom salt, so it’ll be
easier to drink. Drink the Epsom salt in one shot, and
within 1 hour wash it down with 6-7 glasses of mineral
water. Proceed to self-massage your abdomen. After
achieving the desired outcome of intestinal cleansing,
drink 2-3 glasses of fresh, room-temperature water and
induce vomiting. This will empty the stomach and
contract the pyloric sphincter.
Lay down and rest for half an hour. Don’t drink any
water. In 30 minutes eat some rice cooked in water (2
tablespoons of rice) without sugar, salt or butter. You
can have some vegetable soup and porridge — after the
rice.
3rd day
8:00 am. Drink some juice (apple, carrot-beet).
2:00 pm. Drink 3 teaspoons of Epsom salt mixed in a
glass of water. Wash down with 0.5-1 glass of cold
water. During the day, you can drink water without
restraint.
6:00 pm. Drink 3 teaspoons of Epsom salt mixed in a
glass of water. Start to warm up your liver from both
sides (from the front and the back) with two hot-water
bottles. Ten minutes before the cleansing put olive oil
on a water bath and heat it up to 40-42 °C.
7:00 pm. Prepare 200-250 ml of olive oil and 150-200
ml of citrus juice. Drink all the olive oil at once with a
small amount of citrus juice, change the water in the
hot-water bottles, go to the toilet, lie down on your
right side. One hot-water bottle should be placed in the
liver area on the abdominal side, the other – on the
back. The bottles should be wrapped in towels. For
cleansing, use room-temperature citrus juice. Drink the
juice without standing up, every time in the amount of
1 gulp on the 15th, 30th, 45th, 60th, 75th and 90th
minutes, on the 105th minute drink all the remaining
juice at once and lie for 30 more minutes.
Perform an enema at 10:00 pm, 3:00 am, 6:00 am.
In the morning eat a salad made of sauerkraut, raw
carrots, marinated beets in 3:1:1 proportion, you can
season it with lemon juice).
9.7. Dietary recommendations to follow after cleansing
procedures
Relaxation exercise
This exercise requires twenty minutes and a quiet room where you will
not be distracted. It is more convenient to perform it in loose clothing.
Record the instructions or ask someone to read them to you slowly out loud
until you memorize the sequence of steps. Lie calmly on your back on a
hard surface for a couple of minutes, concentrating on your breathing.
Then switch the attention to the hand and the forearm of the right hand.
Make a fist and tighten your forearm muscles. Keep them tense for a few
seconds, and then relax them as quickly as possible. Continue to relieve
tension until the muscles become completely relaxed. Rest for a minute and
then move the focus to your right arm above the elbow. Bend your right arm
at the elbow and tighten your biceps. Hold this state, then relieve tension;
relax your muscles and wait for one minute. Then focus on the hand and
forearm of your left hand. Squeeze the left fist and tighten the muscles of
the forearm. Hold the tension – then let it go and relax your muscles.
Wait one minute, then move on to the left arm above the elbow. Bend
your left arm at the elbow and tighten your biceps. Tension delay – let it go
- relax – wait for one minute. Now focus on your forehead. Raise your
eyebrows as high as possible - delay - withdrawal - relaxation - waiting.
Focus on your eyes, nose and cheekbones. Close your eyes tightly and
wrinkle your nose - delay – letting go - relaxation - waiting. Next, do the
neck and throat. Lower the chin so that it almost touches the chest, while
exerting pressure on the chest - delay – let go - relaxation - wait. Next
comes the chest and shoulders. Bring the shoulder blades together and take
a deep breath — delay — let go — relax — wait. Now the belly. Tighten
the abdominal muscles, as if to protect from a blow - delay – let go - relax -
wait. Right thigh. Tighten the muscles of the upper right leg - delay – let go
- relax - wait. Right calf. Extend your right leg and pull the toe toward you -
delay - let go - relax - wait. Right foot. Bend the toes of the right foot and
turn the foot with the toe inside - delay - stress relief - relax - wait. Left hip.
Tighten the muscles of the upper left leg - delay - stress relief - relax - wait.
Left calf. Pull your left leg and pull the toe toward you - delay - stress relief
- relax - wait. Left foot. Bend the toes of the left leg and turn the foot with
the toe inside - delay - stress relief - relax - wait.
This sequence of actions should be repeated until they are executed with
complete automatism. When you reach this stage, you can also learn short
relaxation techniques that will help you relax on the go and constantly
maintain your feeling of well-being. Their purpose is to achieve deep
relaxation, with minimal time and effort.
Another option is simultaneous muscle relaxation, when all the muscles
tense up at once, the tension is maintained for some time, then the tension is
alleviated, and the muscles relax. After that, you should switch to positive
images from nature: forest, mountains, etc. Although you may not fall
asleep, you will still get a good rest, and time will pass quickly, which is
crucial during dry fasting.
11.7. Let’s move on to the day-to-day description of the 5-
day dry fast
Day 1.
It is advisable to consume only fermented milk products on the day
preceding the fast. You have to become convince yourself that everything
will be fine, you will be able to complete the dry fast, and, as a last resort,
you can always withdraw from the fast without any damage. If you are
well-prepared for dry fasting, and you have something to keep you busy, the
first day usually flies by.
Day 2.
On day 2, a desire to eat usually appears, but it must be overcome. Do an
exercise to relieve hunger. Sometimes there may be dizziness, headache,
gnawing in the stomach. You should not be afraid of these symptoms – they
are launching the process of the body’s endogenous restructuring and
cleansing. You need to walk more and spend time outside before bedtime in
the evening and do relaxation exercises.
Day 3.
On day 3, most people who are dry fasting usually develop acidosis. A
very important point in a dry fast is the acidotic crisis, which occurs after
the transition to endogenous nutrition. Do not be afraid of feeling unwell
during this period, for beginners it usually occurs on the third day.
(However, for some people, the period of transition to endogenous nutrition
during a 5-day dry fast can take place without a pronounced acidotic crisis).
An acidotic crisis occurs when the concentration of ketone bodies
(products of incomplete breakdown of triglycerides or fats) in the body
increases, and there is no way to dispose of them. During this period, you
feel unwell and experience typical signs of intoxication. However, as soon
as the utilization of ketone bodies begins, their concentration ceases to
increase, and since ketone bodies are high-energy components, they are
used as fuel for the synthesis of new amino acids, which can lead to tissue
regeneration.
The regeneration process can be extremely painful, and you should be
aware of this in advance. In the initial stages of the dry fast, an acidotic
crisis can occur on the 4th, 3rd, or even 2nd day of the dry fast, occurring
increasingly earlier with each subsequent fast. The faster it passes, the more
time remains for bodily renovation. For example, if an acidotic crisis occurs
on the 2nd day, there will be 3 days to regenerate. At this time, an acetone
smell may be coming from the mouth, you may experience nausea,
dizziness, shortage of air, weakness. The hunger sensation is waning, the
thirst becomes tolerable. Blood pressure varies depending on the bodily
characteristics. There’s no need to be afraid of any phenomena, since due to
the adaptation of the body to the new vital activity conditions, the
symptoms are somewhat exacerbated. Calm, slow nature walks are the best
choice during this period.
Day 4.
The pressure may drop or rise, body temperature may rise. This is
physiologically normal during dry fasting. Chills or fever are possible
depending on the patient’s characteristics and the symptoms of the disease,
as well as on the gender and age.
By increasing bodily temperature, the body causes a slowdown in the
growth of microorganisms. It becomes easier for the immune system to
track down and destroy everything that’s alien or altered. Also, there is a
decrease in the chilliness threshold, normalization of thermoregulation
processes, expressed in hot flashes and requiring the use of cold water,
which stabilizes the patient's condition. All colds are completely excluded,
during this time, you can walk barefoot in the snow or dew, pour cold, icy
water on yourself, walk naked in nature.
Day 5.
All chronic diseases begin to be exacerbated, including the ones that we
were not aware of. The most affected organs manifest themselves through
pain, and we must be prepared for this. We must thank our bodies for such
wonderful healing work. If nausea appears, abdominal massage and cold
compresses on the liver area should help. If walking is difficult, it is best to
lie down in a calm, cool place and listen to good classical music. As a result
of the body's struggle with ailments, body temperature rises, and a person
feels feverish.
Blood pressure may increase or decrease depending on the individual
bodily characteristics. You can take a cold shower, spend time outside more
often in light clothes or even without any in any weather. If there is snow,
you can walk on it barefoot. You may experience insomnia, increased thirst,
blood pressure may fluctuate. The usual weight loss during dry fasting
ranges from 1 to 2 kg, depending on how much weight one started with, and
how much physical activity there was.
Of course, each person is unique and individual in their own way. Dry
fasting can be completely different, but I tried to describe the manifestations
that I observed in most patients.
12. What time and which days are best for
fasting?
I am often asked questions about what time and which days are best for
fasting. Every season has its pros and cons. In May, it is very effective to fast in
order to heal the liver; in my practice, many patients cured hepatitis in May.
August and September are perfect for withdrawal and rapid, superior body
renovation. Dry fasting is easiest in October and November. January and
March are the most difficult months for dry fasting. But, in fact, time or season
do not play a dominant role. The main thing - if you have serious problems,
then the sooner you fast, the better, regardless of the time.
Yogis recommend fasting on a certain day of the week according to the date of
birth. This day almost always coincides with a good day for different
horoscopes.
Another important thing in fasting is taking the phase of the moon into
account. 1 to 3-day fasting is usually easiest during the new moon or the full
moon. Moreover, it is easier for some people to fast during the new moon, for
others - during the full moon.
The 11th day of the moon cycle is also particularly emphasized, as it’s
recommended for fasting since the ancient times. It is usually harder to fast
during the waning moon (when the moon is in decrement). Of course, you do
not need to take all these biorhythms into account, and fast, let’s say, on
Saturdays, as Porfiriy Ivanov advises. However, Saturday was also a
deliberately chosen day.
13. How to exit from short dry fasts (1-2-3-4-5
days) properly?
13.1. Withdrawal from dry fasting. Recommendations
A fasting day is 24 hours, from 8am to 8am on the next day.
Many recommendations suggest that withdrawal from
fasting should be conducted in the evening, but with dry
fasting, the main healing effect occurs at night (I described
this mechanism in the “Treatment of Diseases” chapter).
By date, the withdrawal should be twice the length of the dry
fast. If the dry fast is five days long, then the withdrawal is
ten days.
Coming out of the dry fast should be strict, because the
withdrawal is much more important than the dry fasting
process itself.
After dry fasting, the body becomes clean, so you should
only load it with clean, fresh, high-quality products without
pathogenic microflora.
13.2. Withdrawal from a 1-day fast
8.00 – drink good quality water, in the first glass it is necessary to add
bifidum or lactobacterin (1 sachet per glass of water), or now a new drug
“LINEX” has appeared.
11.00 – dried apricot, prune, raisin compote.
14.00 – kefir, bifidok or Bolotov whey.
18.00 – vegetable soup (cabbage, carrots, beets, onions, potatoes, dill,
parsley).
22.00 – compote, herbal tea, honey.
Withdrawal from a 36-hour fast: the same, but starts in the evening.
13.3. Withdrawal from a 48-hour fast
1st day is the same as withdrawal from 1-day fast.
Second day:
8am - herbal tea with honey, compote or kefir, buckwheat porridge made
with water, you can add a little vegetable oil (you can choose other cereals),
you must drink one quail egg 3 times a day from the second day of fasting
(do not be afraid – quail do not get salmonellosis) on an empty stomach.
This is required because quail eggs contain the whole periodic table, and
most importantly, natural stem cells, which the body needs so desperately
after a dry fast. Women can do facial masks: mix quail eggs with cedar oil,
apply overnight for 20 minutes.
14.00 – fish soup (preferably made from rock trout, salmon, pink
salmon), you can add some salt. Salad, any cereal. Tea, compote, kefir,
honey.
18.00 – boiled beets, cereals, tea, compote, kefir.
22.00 – herbal tea, honey.
13.4. Withdrawal from a 3-day fast
The first two days have already been described above.
Third day of withdrawal:
8.00 – fresh juice, salads, cereals
14.00 in – borsch or other soup, cereals, salads, tea
18.00 – vinaigrette, fish baked in foil, fresh juice
Fourth day:
9.00 – dried fruit decoction (raisins, dried apricots, prunes) - 200.0 g
12.00 – mushy buckwheat porridge - 200.0 g
15.00 - fresh cabbage salad with 100.0g, fish soup, fermented dairy drink
- 100.0
18.00 - vegetable decoction - 200.0
21.00 - fermented milk drink 200.0
Fifth day:
9.00 - oatmeal porridge with dried apricots - 150.0, green tea - 100.0
13.00 - steamed vegetables (carrots, beets, cabbage) - 150.0, juice - 100.0
17.00 - soup (carrots, beets, cabbage, gray bread crackers or bran sticks),
apple - 1 pc.
21.00 - fermented dairy drink - 200.0
Then you can switch to regular meals, but ideally meals with a
predominance of fresh vegetables and fruits are preferable for 2 weeks.
Following a withdrawal from a fast, the nutrition should be perfect.
13.5. Withdrawal from a 4-5 day fast
Withdrawal order: drink water first. Ideally, the water should
be thawed, dew or spring. The drinking manner is important:
you need to add three capsules of LINEX to the first glass of
water, drink this glass of water over the course of fifteen
minutes. and that’s vital: do not hurry, drink sip by sip. The
last sip should be taken during the fourteenth minute.
Drinking an entire glass in under ten minutes is very risky.
The water consumption systems cannot cope, and fainting is
the least of potential consequences.
Thus, over the course of two hours, you should drink eight glasses of
water. Then you can brush your teeth. In very rare cases, the first sips of
water can cause nausea. Each sip of water must be held in the mouth, mixed
it with saliva, and then swallowed after 20-30 seconds. Drinking water can
be combined with taking a shower. After a shower, it is good to pour cold
water over yourself, and then take a warm bath (not a hot) with infusions of
herbs (no longer than 8 minutes). Along with the washing, you must
continue to drink water until 12 o'clock.
At 12 pm you need to drink warm protein broth (as much as
you want), fish broth, without vegetables, well-cooked,
without salt or bread. Broth can be cooked with spices (but
don’t eat the spices).
After dry fasting, you should start eating in small portions.
The extended time of withdrawing from the dry fast is
associated with the need for a gradual increase on the burden
on the pancreas, which was inactive during fasting and must
now be carefully put into operation.
At 2 pm, eat animal protein in the form of a fermented milk
product: kefir, Bolotov whey (see below for details) - as
much as you want, in small portions. When breaking fast,
observe the following important rules: drink water, eat food
slowly, in small portions. Drink a sip, swallow a bite, sit
down, listen to yourself. If you chew a portion of food, and
do not feel any taste, or it tastes bland, it means that your
stomach is not ready to digest this food and it is ballast for
you. Wait a few days and try it again. If you feel discomfort
during or after eating it, such as pain in the stomach, dry
mouth, an internal unwillingness to eat any more of it, stop
the intake of this food. It means that it is harmful, and do not
regret the money spent on food – your health is more
valuable.
In the absence of discomfort, the volume of food consumed
should equal the volume of a tea glass. Consumption time is
also fifteen minutes. If you feel discomfort with one type of
food, immediately switch to another type.
Somehow, my patient, with extensive experience of withdrawing from
fasts using water, prepared raw vegetables to withdraw from his first five-
day dry fast.
After the water came the turn of vegetables. He swallowed the first bite,
waited a minute, and wanted to continue, but then felt a sting in his
stomach, as if he was stabbed. Then he realized that the pain disappeared
when he ate boiled vegetables. After that, he started to come out of dry fasts
using protein foods: kefir and fish broth, and there were no problems. This
is necessary because after the end of a dry fast, the body is in dire need of
building material, which is animal protein, for the synthesis of proteins and
new cells. Violation of this rule can lead to negative consequences!
Do not forget about the therapeutic chewing method (by H.
Fletcher[25]).
Starting on the second day, you can gradually begin
consuming bee products: honey and pollen. Food should be
varied and well-saturated with vitamins and micro- and
macro elements. During the first five days after the start of
withdrawing from the dry fast, use only fresh, pure and high-
quality products. You cannot eat sugar and sugar-containing
or canned products.
You can start salting your food from the third day on, it is
best to use rock or sea salt. Do it very, very gradually, the
amount at the tip of the knife.
During the withdrawal, especially in the early days, you need
to guard against drafts and cold. in the first days of the
coming out, the immune system is reconditioned to
neutralize food and water, so the body is weakened, then the
body will be restored and the immunity will be even stronger
than before fasting.
13.6. Nutrition program for good digestion (during
withdrawal from a fast)
Most people are constantly sick or almost sick because they are trying to
process a huge amount of excess food that they consume. After a fast, you
can easily and quickly establish proper digestion. Make it a rule not to eat
after 4pm. If you observe this condition, you will sleep soundly. You will
feel rested in the morning, and your body will self-purify and normalize the
fat layer. Eat breakfast between 9 and 10 in the morning or earlier. Eat a
fresh vegetable salads made with carrots, cabbage and greens (steamed
vegetables in the winter). The second course will comprise bread from
sprouted grains with honey or sea kale, or whole-grain porridge with a little
oil. Together with cabbage, carrots and greens, they will stimulate the work
of the digestive tract, cultivating the right microflora, and will restore the
body’s endocrine system through feedback.
Eat a salad first. This will result in the activation of a number of
processes that underlie the normal functioning of the body. For example, the
secretion of digestive juices is stimulated, since raw vegetables are rich in
natural stimulants. After several years of such a nutritive regime, you will
feel that your body does not recognize a different beginning of a meal. As a
result, you can increase the consumption of fresh vegetables and fruits to
make them comprise 60% of your diet. Fresh vegetables, fruits and juices
made with them are all rich in vigor. Their tissues are rich in energy, they
support the structure of body tissues and skin elasticity.
50% of an ideal diet comprises raw fruits and vegetables. Cellulose and
pectin contained in most plant products are called ballast substances, since
they are not absorbed by the body. These substances are necessary, they
play an important role in the process of digestion: they set the intestinal
hormonal system in motion, and the whole body through it, regulating the
intestinal motor function; create a favorable microflora in the
gastrointestinal tract, which is partially used by the body as a full-fledged
live protein, with protein taking up a 10% share. Protein can be in the form
of meat, fish, eggs, natural cheese, or in vegetable form, i.e., nuts and seeds.
Brewer's yeast, bread and sprouted wheat soup are also an important part of
a protein diet. They are especially indispensable as suppliers of vitamins B,
E and D.
The remaining products are divided into three parts. One-third (30%) is
natural starch, obtained from cereals and legumes. Another third (at least
5%) are natural sugars, which are contained in dried fruits, honey, and fresh
juices. The last third (no more than 5%) consists of natural fats, such as
sunflower, corn and olive oil, natural lard, butter and ghee. People who are
prone to obesity should avoid eating sugar, bread and cereals. Alternatively,
they should be consumed in minimal quantities, and the porridge must be
freshly boiled. Chewing thoroughly is an absolute must. When eating
quickly, a person consumes 3-5 times more porridge than necessary. This
leads to obesity. If you use a small amount, chewing it to the consistency of
milk, then constipation disappears, bowel motility improves (at the time of
chewing, motility accelerates fourfold), congestion in the gastrointestinal
tract is eliminated.
The recovery period should be two times longer than the fast. Try eating
properly at least during this period. The daily routine during the recovery
period remains approximately the same (walks, physiotherapy procedures,
occupational therapy, active rest), but for thin people special procedures
may be added, such as full-body oil massage (especially the lower back)
and hot baths. Overweight people should employ sauna and body massage
with boiled down urine. By observing such a sensible fasting program, you
will be filled with life force, and fasting will become an indispensable part
of your life. Day after day, watching the miracle of renewal happening in
your mind and body, you will enjoy living the new healthy life, which
makes you more perfect and healthy every day.
For a excellent cleansing and purification of the body, you have to take
mixed turpentine baths as per Zalmanov’s[26] recommendations at the time
of withdrawal. The total number of baths equals 10.
13.7. How to prepare Bolotov’s whey (serum)
Pour cold boiled well or spring water into a clean 3-liter jar.
Dissolve 1 cup of sugar and 1 teaspoon of homemade sour cream in
water. Half a cup of celandine grass (dry or fresh, but clean, without mold)
should be placed in a gauze bag and drowned at the bottom of the can with
a sinker.
Neck cans tie a gauze in 3 layers.
Infuse kvass for two weeks at room temperature in a dark place. You
have to keep an eye on it - remove mold from the surface and filter the
liquid if sediment appears.
2 weeks later, 1 liter of ready-made kvass is poured from a 3-liter jar into
a 1-liter glass bottle with a cap. This is a portion for about 3 days of intake.
Add 1 liter of water to the 3-liter jar and add 1/3 cup of sugar.
3 days later, the brew will be ready again. You can continue in this
manner without changing the celandine for up to 2 months, adding water
and sugar.
Take between 1 tbsp. and 0.5 cup 20-30 minutes prior to meals 3 times a
day for 2 weeks. Then, take it once a day for a month to consolidate the
effect.
13.8. What are the potential complications during
withdrawal from fasting?
When you come out of a short-term dry fast, there are usually no serious
complications, but you still need to know about them. Complications most
often occur with reckless people who are not aware of their actions.
Anything you undertake should be taken seriously, and the issues related to
personal health are twice as important. Therefore, if you decide to practice
fasting yourself, heed attention to it. Master the method gradually, study the
resources, others’ experience and, most importantly, watch yourself. If, after
short-term fasting, you start overeating and cannot control your behavior,
do not undertake long fasts in any case.
So, here are the main complications:
REMEMBER:
Never start cleansing the intestines and liver without
changing the mode and quality of nutrition.
Do not start any fast prior to cleansing the intestines
and liver.
Do not conduct dry fasts prior to trying water fasting.
In order to get the maximum benefits from fasting, it
has to be regular, increase fasting length gradually.
Never conduct dry fasts for more than five days at
home.
Withdrawal from a fast brings 70% of the therapeutic
result, so it should be carried out properly.
1st month:
14 days – proper natural nutrition;
7 days – intestinal and liver cleansing;
7 days – buckwheat porridge fast, or if impossible, a 24-hour water fast;
2nd month:
1st week – a 1-day water fast, or 2 days for those who didn't fast on
buckwheat;
2nd week – 2 or 3 days of water fasting
3rd week – 3 or 4 days of water fasting;
4th week – 5-7 days of water fasting for everyone.
3rd month:
1st week – 1 day of dry fasting
2nd week – 2 days of dry fasting
3rd week – 3 days of dry fasting
4th week – 4-5 days of dry fasting.
The following is a far more efficient regime for those with experience
with all kinds of fasting:
24-hour fast – 48 hours of eating
48-hour fast – 72 hours of eating
72-hour fast – 96 hours of eating
96-hour fast – 120 hours of eating
120-hour fast – withdrawal from dry fast
Day 1. You need to get in the right mindset. Think that everything is
going to be great, at the very least, you’ll be able to stop fasting without any
harm. If you are well prepared for dry fasting and you have things to do,
then the first day usually just flies by. You may, of course, experience thirst,
slight weakness. It is ideal to lie down to rest and try not to speak. You can
conduct Old Slavic[27] abdomen massage. The weight loss is usually 1-2 kg.
Even if you are systematically going to conduct 24-hour long dry fasts, it
will beneficially affect your organism. Why are weekly one-day fasts
effective? Under certain circumstances, the effect of even a one-day fast,
conducted once a week, may increase abruptly. To achieve this you have to
repeat one-day fasts. If you’re going to fast at the end of every week and
then withdraw from the fast carefully, then you’ll get an effect just like one
from a long fast. In six months or a year you’ll become unrecognizably
healthy.
- If you continue fasting for one day once a week during one year, this
will improve your health and rid you of illnesses.
- The fatigue of the internal organs is greatly alleviated with one-day
fasts. There are many cases where a mild case of diabetes is cured only due
to the pancreas getting a couple of days of rest during the fast.
- One day of fasting makes the organism three months younger. By the
way, short-term fasting, besides cleansing and substantial improvement of
appearance, has another unexpected effect. It consists in an increase of the
imaginative power and the ability to create.
- The effect of weight loss. If you properly and competently prepare for
24-hour fasts and conduct them systematically every week, you can achieve
good results in weight loss. American specialists claim that even 1 day of
fasting per month can be very good for your health.
Day 2. On day 2, you can usually experience an urge to eat, but you have
to overcome it. Sometimes you may experience dizziness, headaches, and
discomfort in the stomach area. You shouldn’t be afraid of these symptoms;
they signify that the process of endogenous reconstruction and cleansing of
the organism has started. You need to go for walks more often and spend
more time outdoors, in the evening, and do some relaxing exercises before
sleep. You have to conduct abdominal and spinal massage. From day 2,
anti-inflammatory and immuno-stimulation mechanisms of dry fasting are
activated, thus, such illnesses as acute respiratory disease and flu can be
fully cured. The weight loss usually is 1-1.5 kg.
Without water there is no life. The thing is, inflammation also can’t exist
without water. Any inflamed spot swells with water. Microorganisms, such
as microbes and viruses, can only reproduce in a sufficiently aquatic
environment. Water deficit is destructive for an inflammation or any kinds
of edema. In such rough conditions, the organism will not allow the
presence of a pathological fluid (edema) inside of it, all this pathological
fluid is going to be used for its physiological needs. That’s why dry fasting
is effective during the treatment of these illnesses (ovarian cysts,
endometriosis, spinal disc herniation and any other illnesses which have this
mechanism in their pathogenesis).
Due to the dehydration of the organism, a fierce competitive battle for
water begins between the cells of the body and the pathogenic
microorganisms. The cells of the body, as hosts, take water away from the
microorganisms, but the organism itself is able to not only synthesize
endogenous water in necessary amounts, but also take water from the air
during this period, absorbing it through the skin. This is due to the fact that
during dry fasting the organism acts to excrete and not to absorb. The
healthy, strong cells receive additional energy and water, while the sick and
altered viruses and bacteria can’t do that. According to modern scientific
research, the cause of peptic ulcer is infective, this accounts for a very
powerful medicinal effect in case of this pathology. That’s why it’s
necessary to conduct dry fasting outdoors, preferably in a mountainous
area, near mountain rivers and waterfalls.
70% of glucocorticoids and sex hormones are bound by the transport
albumins of the blood and only 30% circulate in the blood in a free state.
During dry fasting, the transport albumins come apart and their amino acids
are used for the needs of the organism, first of all for the needs of the brain
and the cardiovascular system. In such a case, there is a release of an
enormous amount of hormones, which circulate in the blood in a free state,
this accounts for a good medicinal effect in the treatment of asthma. This
extraordinary amount of glucocorticoids, which is three times more usual,
flooding the blood, has a strong anti-inflammatory effect, suppressing all
the inflammation sites in the organism.
After all, we know that glucocorticoids are the strongest anti-
inflammatory agent in the organism. In the activity of the free
glucocorticoid forms, there is another very powerful medicinal mechanism
that fasting activates to affect inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, such
as rheumatoid arthritis and others.
Here’s one of the interesting facts about the study of the champion in the
duration of dry fasting among animals - the camel. Camels have immunity
to the majority of the most dangerous viral diseases.
Scientists from the United Arab Emirates proposed to more actively
study the defense mechanisms of one of the hardiest animals — the camel,
in order to combat human diseases. Camels have unique physiological
characteristics, which allow them to exist in the harshest desert conditions.
They cope with dehydration, because their circulatory system can store
supplies of water, the lack of food is supplied with the deposits of fatty
tissue in the humps, and camel milk is preserved fresh for much longer than
cow milk. But that’s not all. Camels’ immune system is so perfect that they
aren’t susceptible to the majority of viral diseases that other mammals die
from. They, for example, are completely immune to foot-and-mouth disease
and rinderpest. Up until now, people didn’t pay attention to camels as a
source of production of various substances that could help combat human
viral diseases. Arabic scientists think that in the medicine of tomorrow, the
immune mechanisms of the camel will not only be a matter of thorough
study, but also a means to combat many human diseases.
During dry fasting the immune system begins to very effectively conduct
a series of complex chemical reactions, when a foreign body invades the
organism, whether it be a virus or another infection agent. At that moment
the immune system starts carrying out its mission — find and destroy.
There’s a whole system of amoeba-like cells in our body, which have a
somewhat difficult name for those unfamiliar with the subject — a system
of phagocytizing mononuclear cells. In every organ there is its own,
specific only to it, group of cells that resemble amoebas and migrate over
the whole organ, eating and digesting everything foreign. Such specific
cells exist in the skin, liver and heart, and even in the brain. They’re always
migrating and looking for prey. The trouble is that any food, even plant
food, contains a small amount of fat. And phagocytes (phagocytizing
mononuclear cells) instead of carrying out their direct duties, are occupied
with absorbing and digesting these droplets of fat, as if they aren’t
concerned at all about anything else. So, during fasting, phagocytes are left
without food, that is, without fat. And they start carrying out their direct
duties: absorb and digest bacteria, viruses, cells remnants, old, dying cells,
contributing to renewal and even rejuvenation of the organism. All the
pathologically changed tissues are digested, i.e., cysts, myomas, adenomas
and even cancer cells, which are always present in the organism, even in the
normal conditions. The destruction of sick cells, and not the healthy ones
during fasting is also related to the release of the lymphoepithelial cells of
the entire digestive tract. Giving up food and water for many days creates
conditions for a withdrawal of a very powerful army of B-lymphocytes
from the gastrointestinal front lines. They gather from all the lymphatic
basins and nodes of the extensive digestive tract. But particularly large
numbers of them come from the small intestine. The army of B-
lymphocytes, no longer needed in the frontlines, is used for its intended
purposes. It suppresses and neutralizes all present disease-producing and
alien elements, infection, parasites, that are in an encapsulated (dormant)
state and basically don’t respond to modern antibacterial therapy (treatment
with antibiotics, sulfanilamides and other medicines). On the contrary,
during this period of life microorganisms situated in protective membranes
become more resistant to these medicines and other drugs. During dry
fasting, these membranes are destroyed by phagocytes and ferments that are
activated by acidosis, which accounts for a good medicinal effect in
treatment of prostatitis.
During dry fasting, higher concentrations of biologically active
substances, hormones, immunocompetent cells and immunoglobulins are
reached in the fluids of the organism. Another immune-stimulating effect of
fasting is that a 5-day dry fast produces positive dynamics in all blood test
indices: erythrocytes, hemoglobin, leucocytes, thrombocytes, and
erythrocyte sedimentation rate. These changes are evidence of substantial
changes in the blood and its energy properties. The indices are improved by
10-20%. But the content of lymphocytes and monocytes in the blood
increases most of all. The increase in these main indicators of the immune
status of the organism amounted to 80%. Thus, fasting above all boosted the
effectiveness of the immune system. However, we know that this is carried
out through the energy of the blood. More than half of the ‘electronic’
energy that we get through breathing is freed up during fasting, since it isn’t
spent on food digestion. This energy is spent on increasing the energy level
in tissues and, first and foremost, the immune system cells. Having received
additional energy, the cells can work for their own good, ensuring
restoration, rehabilitation and cleansing of tissues, while receiving
considerable help from the immune system. But, having received a
powerful energy boost from erythrocytes, immune system cells begin
carrying out their own functions more actively. In such a manner, real
conditions for health improvement and treatment of diseases are created.
Day 3. On this day, the majority of people conducting a dry fast begin
experiencing acidosis.
The acidotic crisis is a very important point in dry fasting, which occurs
after the switch to endogenous nutrition. Don’t be afraid of feeling unwell
during this period, for beginners it usually comes on day 3. (But for some
people the period of transition to endogenous nutrition during a 5-day 24-
hour-long dry fast can pass without a pronounced acidotic crisis). An
acidotic crisis begins when the concentration of ketone bodies (products of
partial decay of triglycerides or fats) in the organism increases, but a way to
dispose of them hasn’t been found. During this time people feel unwell,
they experience typical signs of intoxication. However, as soon as the
disposal of the ketone bodies begins, their concentration stops increasing,
and since the ketone bodies are high-energy components, they serve as fuel
for the synthesis of new amino acids, which can lead to tissue regeneration.
The process of regeneration can be accompanied by severe pain and you
should be prepared for it. Initially, the acidotic crisis can happen on day 4, 3
or even 2 after you start your dry fast. With each new fast it happens sooner.
The faster it passes, the more time is left for the renewal of the body. At that
time you can experience acetone-odor breath, nausea, dizziness, shortness
of breath, weakness. The feeling of hunger subsides; thirst is bearable.
Blood pressure fluctuates depending on the characteristics of the organism.
There’s no need to be afraid of any phenomena, since, due to the organism’s
adaptation to a new living environment, symptoms become somewhat more
acute.
The best thing during this period is to take relaxed, slow walks in nature.
Abdominal and spinal self-massage, cupping massage is mandatory. You
may experience weight loss of up to 2 kg. Fasting is a process of increasing
physiological regeneration, renewal of all cells, their molecular and
chemical composition.
Interestingly, biochemical changes during fasting and reparative
regeneration are very similar. Both cases entail two phases: destruction and
recovery. In both cases, the destruction phase is characterized by the
prevalence of decomposition of protein and nucleic acids over their
synthesis, shift of pH to acidity, acidosis and more. The recovery phase in
both cases is also characterized by the prevalence of synthesis of nucleic
acids over their decomposition, and a return of pH to its neutral state.
From the teaching on regeneration we know that the amplification of the
destruction phase leads to the amplification of the recovery phase.
Therefore, with sufficient foundation, we can consider fasting a natural
stimulatory factor of physiological regeneration.
At the basis of fasting, there is a biological process that leads to the
renewal and rejuvenation of the tissues of the whole body. In
environmentally unfriendly conditions, modern human’s physiological
regeneration mechanisms work inadequately. During fasting, the organism
is cleansed and the regeneration mechanisms begin to work in a natural
way. All that can be regenerated has natural tendencies towards self-
cleansing and recovery. It rejects anything alien by itself, as soon as the
process of deliberate voluntary intoxication ends. All that is capable of
regeneration really likes cleanliness, periodicity and dosage. During dry
fasting, diseased, pathological tissues are primarily destroyed, which
launches a truly universal mechanism of healing bodily injuries using the
internal cell reserve — bone marrow stromal cells, one of the main
mechanisms of eliminating cranio-cerebral injuries’ consequences.
After ending a fast, one can observe an amplification of regenerative
processes in bone marrow blood circulation (an increase in mitotically
dividing cells, etc.). Indices of hemogenesis regeneration in peripheral
blood (skein cells, for example), generally surpass initial numbers threefold.
But the most important thing is that more brain stromal cells than usual
are produced. These cells can turn into any other cells when they reach the
corresponding part of the body. Stromal cells begin arriving in the damaged
area, when they receive an appropriate signal from the central nervous
system. When they reach the damaged area, certain signal molecules
instruct them to transform into the missing cells of the damaged tissue.
Day 4. Blood pressure may drop or rise; body temperature may increase.
This is a physiologically normal phenomenon during dry fasting.
Shivering or fever is possible, depending on the nature of the patient and
the symptoms of the disease, as well as on the patient’s sex and age. As we
already know, during dry fasting toxins burn, one can say, in their own
furnace — in the absence of water every cell starts an internal
thermonuclear reaction. So we obtain a sort of an extreme express method
for destroying everything unnecessary, heavy, and pathological inside the
cell. Each cell becomes a mini-furnace, a mini-reactor. It’s as if the body’s
internal temperature increased. This temperature may not be registered with
a thermometer but it is experienced as internal fever or shivering by people
who are in the process of dry fasting. The most important point in this
condition is the fact that temperature itself is an important part of the body’s
defense mechanisms. From our own experience we know that in the
presence of high fever all toxins and poisons are destroyed, even cancer
cells fully halt their vital functions. Such a process speeds up recovery.
Reacting with an increase in temperature, the organism causes deceleration
in the growth of microorganisms. It becomes easier for the immune system
to track down and kill anything alien and altered.
One can also observe a decrease in the cold threshold, normalization of
thermoregulation processes, manifested in hot flashes and requiring use of
cold water, which stabilizes the patient’s condition. All catarrhal diseases
are out of the question. As I’ve already written, if you can tolerate dousing
with cold-water well, you can walk barefoot on snow or dew, douse
yourself with ice-cold water, walk nude in nature.
Abdominal and spinal self-massage, cupping massage is mandatory.
The weight loss amounts to up to 1 kg. In the presence of fever all
metabolic processes in the organism accelerate, that’s why exotoxins and
endotoxins that cause disease are destroyed faster. Ovarian cysts resolve
themselves, mastopathy and myomas disappear, even cancer cells fully stop
their vital functions. It’s also known that when temperature increases,
interferon, which enables the body to fight viruses, is secreted more
actively. When temperature rises, antibodies that protect the organism from
diseases are produced more actively. Phagocytic and bactericidal activity of
cytotoxic neutrophils is enhanced; efficiency of lymphocytes grows
stronger. One of the most important cells, the T-cell, works best in the
presence of fever. Cancer researchers decreased tumor sizes by warming
them thoroughly. High temperature decreases vital functions in pathogenic
microorganisms.
In the early 20th century doctors used fever to treat syphilis and some
forms of chronic arthritis: the patients were placed in a heated box. In our
daily lives we can always observe that pets, as well as young children,
refuse to eat when they have a fever. The absence of appetite is very often
encountered during different infections, but it still isn’t known for sure
where this symptom comes from and what it means.
Scientists from San Mateo Medical Center (San Mateo, USA) assumed
that lack of appetite is a defense mechanism, which has been preserved in
evolution since prehistoric times. Fasting increases the effect of the T-helper
2 immune cells (Th2), that are especially important in fighting bacteria and
viruses. All these processes accelerate recovery. Reacting with an increase
in bodily temperature, the organism causes deceleration in the growth of
microorganisms. It becomes easier for the immune system to track down
and kill anything alien and modified. If neither food, nor dead, heavy water
enters the organism, then our blood actually doesn’t receive numerous
harmful substances, and the blood is constantly cleansed by our organism,
that is, blood with practically the same composition is going to be cleansed
through the filtering elements over and over again, which means the blood
is going to be just about perfectly clean. During dry fasting the blood is
cleansed from all the unnecessary matter, and blood plasma becomes crystal
clear, everything is harmonized, including coagulation factors.
In this respect, dry fasting cleanses the blood more thoroughly than
hemodialysis or hemosorption — mechanical blood purification. Therefore,
all the blood-related processes in our organism are carried out almost
perfectly. It’s all very simple — that’s why our immune system will get a
magnificent rest.
Day 5. All our chronic illnesses, even those we were unaware of, start to
flare up.
The organs that are the most affected with diseases manifest through
pain, and you have to be prepared for that. You need to thank your organism
for such a good healing job. If nausea appears, it helps to massage the
abdomen and place something cold on the liver area. If it’s difficult for you
to go for a walk, it’s better to lie down in a calm cool place and listen to
good classical music. Due to the organism’s fight against ailments, body
temperature increases, and you may feel feverish. Blood pressure may
increase or decrease, depending on the individual bodily characteristics.
You can take a cold shower, and spend more time outside wearing
lightweight clothes or even no clothes at all, regardless of the weather. If
there’s snow, you can walk on it barefoot.
You can experience insomnia, increased thirst, your blood pressure may
fluctuate. Generally, the weight loss during dry fasting varies from 1 to 2
kg, depending on the person’s initial weight before the fast and on their
physical activity. Of course, every person is unique in their own way. Dry
fasting may pass in very different ways, but I tried to describe the
manifestations that I had observed in the majority of patients.
Abdominal and spinal self-massage, cupping massage is mandatory.
From day 5 on, auto-digestion processes start intensifying. Auto-digestion
is a property of biological subjects that allows them to hydrolytically break
down their own structures with enzymes and phagocytes.
Fasting cases provide many examples of control that the organism
exercises over the auto-digestion processes. For example, tissues disappear
proportionately to their usefulness — first, fats and pathological growths,
with other tissues to follow. Every living being — from worm to man —
demonstrates that different organs and tissues are very different in their
weight loss capacity. Usually the liver loses twice as much weight as the
other body parts, especially during the initial period, due to the loss of
glycogen and fat. The lungs lose almost nothing, the brain and the nervous
system — even less. Vital organs feed at the expense of accumulated
reserves and less important tissues, so that abstinence from food could only
do harm after all the reserves of the organism are depleted.
The body has an ability to move its chemical elements, with many
wonderful examples provided by fasting. Absorption and reorganization of
the bodily elements, which is observed in living beings when they’re
deprived of food; digestion and redistribution of reserves, excesses and
secondary tissues, observed in all animals in case of forced fasting, are, in
the author’s opinion, some of the most marvelous phenomena in biology.
The organism is capable not only of creating tissue, but also of destroying
it. Not only can it distribute its nutrient reserves, it can also redistribute
them, and it’s auto-digestion that makes redistribution possible. The auto-
digestion process can be turned to great practical advantage and made to
serve us in our pursuit of getting rid of tumors and other growths in the
body. In order to minimize the expenditures, the least valuable substances
are always the first to be seized and removed, that’s why all pathological
growths — ovarian cysts, fatty tumors, benign tumors, prostate adenoma,
abscesses — rapidly decrease in size and often disappear completely as a
result of strict and long abstinence from food and fasting. Many of those
who practiced fasting got rid of their tumors with the help of auto-digestion
(see Herbert Shelton’s books).
Day 6. Thirst increases substantially, you may want to rinse your mouth,
moisten it, and make the process somewhat easier for yourself. Sleep time
can decrease to 2 hours. Reactions slow down.
The desire to stop fasting arises. Now it’s really important to understand
how much your willpower means in the ambition to achieve the set goal.
The crucial thing here is your determination to continue fasting. It’s
important to understand that you will obtain priceless experience, and feel
your self-respect growing with every day. You have to feel happy about
yourself. Even if you don’t make it all the way to the end, this experience
will enrich you. Your spirit grows stronger, your lust for life increases. On
day 6, your sense of smell becomes more acute. The smells you haven’t
paid attention to before become vivid and accessible. You may experience
pains in the sacrum and the small of the back. Also, your eyesight may
deteriorate. Different salts are excreted abundantly with the urine, and it
becomes darker in color. Don’t be afraid of that, it indicates a real ongoing
healing process, and, as I always tell my patients, any natural treatment
goes through an exacerbation.
The most difficult thing on this day of fasting isn’t the inability to drink
or eat, but the lack of sleep. For a successful result, you need to develop and
conduct relaxation procedures, which lead to sleep. You need to conduct
cupping massage, abdominal and spinal self-massage in the evening.
Weight loss amounts to 1-2 kg.
Dry fasting intensifies apoptosis processes. Apoptosis is programmed cell
death, an energy-dependent, genetically controlled process, which is
launched by specific signals and rids the organism of weakened, useless or
damaged cells. About 5% of cells in the organism undergo apoptosis, and
are replaced by new cells daily. During the apoptosis process, a cell
vanishes without a trace in 15-120 minutes. In particular, apoptosis is one
the main mechanisms of preventing benign tumors, cystic growths and
oncological diseases.
In case of its pathological increase, aplasia, degenerative processes, and
certain tissue defects and deformities occur, while a decrease launches
autoimmune processes, tumors and premature ageing of the organism.
There are, for example, fairly convincing reasons to believe that such
serious diseases as aplastic anemia, rheumatoid arthritis, amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis, Alzheimer disease, AIDS, etc., are linked to pathologically
increased apoptosis. A universal process takes place during fasting - on the
one hand, physiological apoptosis intensifies: the organism is renewed and
rejuvenated at the expense of the death of old, sick, changed cells. On the
other hand, the pathological mechanisms of apoptosis, such as premature
ageing, oncological diseases, etc., are eliminated.
The apoptosis phenomenon was discovered relatively recently, in 1972.
This became the most interesting discovery of the last 50 years in the
spheres of biology and medicine. In modern terms, apoptosis is a general
biological mechanism responsible for the consistency in the numbers of cell
populations, and the morphogenesis and culling of defective cells. Regular
food intake and negative ecological situation stand in the way of this
physiological mechanism. According to our observations, food apoptosis is
activated after 20 hours of dry fasting (if the proper fasting technique is
observed).
Day 7. This day may be one of the most healing among all the preceding
ones.
Powerful cleansing and renewal of a person’s energy occurs in this
period. You may have unusual or strange dreams on this day: snakes or
worms coming out of your body, etc. That’s how we get rid of hex, evil eye
and pathological energy. Dry fasting, first and foremost, is intense spiritual
work, intended to cleanse the soul and body from entities parasitizing on
them; this work also serves to strengthen willpower and reinforce positive
thinking.
Dry fasting uses all the organs of the body to evenly burn anything unfit
for its evolution, not only its mechanical aspect, but spiritual as well.
Thanks to fasting, chakras and energy channels that form the basis of many
abilities are cleansed. As far as the physical aspect is concerned, this is the
period of alleviation, emotional uplift, stabilization of bodily functions.
Blood pressure stabilizes. Urine acquires a dark brown color; the cleansing
process is underway. In the morning, conduct cupping massage, abdominal
and spinal self-massage. The average weight loss is 1 kg.
Why do cleansing and energy renewal occur? During this period, a
unique mechanism is activated - replacement of the old, ‘dead water’ with
the super-quality ‘live water.’ Not only can water benefit a person, it can
also harm them. As is well known, water is one of the best carriers of
energy information. This is achieved due to the unique molecular
composition of water and variability of its cluster structure.
Thus, in 1932 a sensation spread all over the world. It turned out that
besides ordinary water, there’s also heavy water in nature. In the molecules
of such water, hydrogen is replaced with its isotope — deuterium. Only
extremely small amounts of it exist in nature. But here’s what was found
just recently: heavy water can be present in the human body as well. Water
with an increased concentration of deuterium is also known as dead water.
It is poorly excreted from the organism and poisons it slowly. According to
some scientists, this is due to the information poisoning of the water. It is
established that if a thought is heavy, negative, low-frequency, articulated
with great energy, it can eventually redirect hydrogen atoms, making them
double up, as it were, making them heavier. This is how ordinary water
becomes dead.
It was also proven by scientists that long before any symptoms of disease
appear, local areas of heavy water — water with incorrect structure,
pathological areas – form in the human organism. These resemble swamps
in the body, where parasites start actively multiplying. All this leads to a
decrease in local immunity and internal organ damage. We need to be
careful when dealing with water, since our bodies don’t contain ordinary
water. The water inside us is structured.
In our everyday lives, we mainly drink chlorinated, over-boiled water; all
modern drinks contain nothing useful for the body. This water, when it
enters the organism, isn’t just directly excreted through the pores, it goes
through a series of serious transformations, requiring great energy
expenditures from the organism. That’s why excessive consumption of such
liquids creates a large burden on the organism and leads to a multitude of
illnesses. The large amount of dead, heavy water in the organism of a
modern human is a fault. This water doesn’t participate in the exchange,
accumulates and isn’t excreted by the body. It is heavy ballast, nonviable
and inactive, steadily accumulating in our body. D₃O is radioactive water. It
pushes us towards aging and death. Many people note that dry fasting is
easier to endure compared to water fasting, because of the lack of the
feeling of hunger during it. This, in fact, isn’t surprising. The thing is, water
outside the organism and assimilated water are two entirely different things.
The organism processes incoming water molecules, cleans them of
unnecessary information, structures them and turns them into its own
molecules, possessing the qualities of the given organism. To do this, just
like to assimilate food, the body has to spend a certain amount of energy
and time. That’s why dry fasting is most certainly of more value, because it
allows the whole organism to rest, particularly the digestive tract, which is
the reason why, taking into account all the dry fasting mechanisms, peptic
ulcers can be completely cured. Another effect is conditioned by the fact
that the organism can’t exist without water, which is why it immediately
starts using its reserves – first of all, the excess fat (the organism
synthesizes water using oxygen from the air and hydrogen from the fat
tissue), which is very effective in treatment of obesity. During water fasting,
exogenous water, that is, water from the outside, enters the organism. And
it’s that water that is the main cleansing factor. In accordance with the law
of biological expediency, in this case the cell spends a minimum amount of
its own energy, since everything is going smoothly: all the toxins and
poisons dissolve and, figuratively speaking, the toxins are washed out of the
cell and out of the intercellular space.
But during dry fasting the toxins are burned up, one might say, in their
own furnaces — every cell starts “a thermonuclear reaction” in the absence
of water. Every cell becomes a mini-furnace, a mini-reactor for a period of
time. But water is essential, and the cells lose these allowances, especially
the sick and altered ones (that’s why myomas, mastopathies and ovarian
cysts can be treated so effectively). Under these circumstances, the
strongest and healthiest cells survive, and in order to survive, they have to
activate the production of their own super-quality endogenous water. And
this endogenous water has to be several times better than exogenous water,
once again, in accordance with the law of biological expediency. After all,
the cell spends a lot of energy – thus, the product that we get in the end has
to be of a quality that corresponds to the efforts spent. After all, this isn’t
the human mind, which can make mistakes. This is nature itself, which has
anticipated any scenario and does everything for life to continue.
Exogenous and endogenous water can be compared to a dirty river where
a local chemical plant empties its waste during high water, and a mountain
river, originating from the depths of the earth and fed with melt water
infused with healing energy.
During dry fasting, the old, ‘dead’ water is replaced with the super-
quality ‘live’ water, synthesized by the organism itself, while all the
negative information, brought into our organism from the outside, is erased.
After a relatively short fast without water, we make the organism process
the water it contains inside. By doing so, we are renewed in terms of
information, and that’s why upon the completion of the fast we become
pristine information-wise and are, in fact, an information matrix with
nothing negative recorded in it by the environment. This phenomenon is
one the most important advantages of this type of fasting and it could be
considered one of the main healing mechanisms of dry fasting. There are no
such mechanisms in any type of fasting that exists in nature. This
mechanism is one of the principal ones, and plays a large role in the
renewal of the energy balance in the human body.
Day 8. You may experience a bad taste in your mouth and bad breath
during this period, so it’s preferable to breathe through your nose. Your
heart rate may increase or decrease. You may also experience a rise in body
temperature, nausea, which indicates liver detoxification, weakness,
dizziness, and loose stool. Don’t be afraid of these symptoms, since they
indicate an ongoing detoxification process. Other symptoms include pain in
the breasts and around the uterus for females, and in the prostate gland in
male patients. They indicate the healing of benign tumors. If you feel weak
during this period, it’s better to lie down in a cool place. If affusion helps
you, it is acceptable. If you feel strong enough, take a walk outside,
preferably in nature. If possible, do self-massage and cupping massage of
the abdomen. Weight loss may constitute up to 2 kg.
The anti-tumor mechanism is maximally potent during this period. This
mechanism is the most important decisive factor in treating benign tumors
and cystic tumors. A healthy body constantly fights mutating cells - the
body doesn’t allow newly formed atypical cells to fuse and form a dense
tumor. This fight is conducted by antitumor immune control, specifically,
three types of cells: macrophages, natural killers (NK-cells) and cytotoxic
T-lymphocytes (CTLs). Macrophages eat and digest malignant cells; after
detecting them, CTLs produce polymer-proteins, perforins, which perforate
the outer membrane of a malignant cell, thus equalizing the osmotic
pressure inside and outside the cell and killing it, if it’s still alive, additional
proteins are produced, and these are granzymes that destroy its nucleus. A
natural killer is special; it’s one of the most powerful antitumor cells. It
recognizes any atypical cells that aren’t recognized by macrophages and
CTLs.
In patients with benign tumors (fibroids, mastopathy, and prostate
adenoma), all three types of cells are in their suppressed state: most of them
are young and immature elements incapable of vigorous actions. Moreover,
their maturation rate is extremely low. The lifespan of these cells is short.
Most importantly, their antitumor activity is low. Perhaps, a combination of
these factors leads to the destruction of the body’s antitumor shield. What is
the mechanism of the antitumor fasting action? Fasting brings on powerful
body detoxification, and it contributes to the accelerated maturation of
natural killers. As a result, there are a large number of their mature and
combat-ready forms. The lifespan of macrophages, CTLs, and NK cells is
also multiplied several-fold.
The most important is the activation of macrophages, CTLs and NK
cells, after which they not only become capable of destroying atypical
malignant cells, but also manifest great cytotoxic activity towards any
altered cells. There is an increase in the necrosis of tumors and interleukins.
Since phagocytes are left without nutrition, they start carrying out their
direct duties: they capture and digest bacteria, viruses, cell debris, and old
and dying cells (thus contributing to bodily renewal and even rejuvenation).
All the altered and even cancerous cells that are normally present in the
body are digested.
We all know that pathologically changed body cells, including cancer
cells, start dying at high temperatures. During dry fasting, the body
temperature rises. That’s why all metabolic processes in the body are
accelerated. Therefore, even cancer cells are destroyed faster, as they
completely suspend their vital functions.
19.1.2. Dry fasting for the relapse of gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer,
chronic pancreatitis, cholecystitis, colitis, etc.
What causes this therapeutic effect?
Inflammation can’t exist without liquid. Any inflamed area
swells (swells with liquid). Microorganisms, such as microbes
and viruses, can multiply only in sufficiently humid
conditions. Shortage of water is extremely harmful for
inflammation. It’s worth mentioning that, according to
modern data, the cause of ulcers is infectious.
Of course, the gastrointestinal tract has more rest than other
organs during fasting. As it has been said, no food means no
problems. There’s no need to excrete digestive juices, push
food through all the sections of the intestines, spend a lot of
energy on this process, neutralize, and excrete all of those
substances that enter the body with food. Now, all the forces
can be used to recover, including the restoration of the organs
involved in digestion.
During fasting, the gastric and duodenal mucosa is balanced
and restored. It’s manifested through a decrease or complete
disap-pearance of such symptoms as pain, nausea, heartburn,
and vomiting. New ulcers are cicatrized and cicatricial
changes in gastric and duodenal walls disappear. As
mentioned above, experts from the Moscow Institute of
Gastroenterology found that new stomach cells with light
protoplasm appear in patients after a 28-day calorie restriction
diet, and these are gradually transformed into mucoid cells
within 20-30 days after the completion of diet-fasting therapy
RDT[29]. These cells secrete mucus and substances that
protect the stomach from damage. After repeated RDT
courses, the stomach becomes very strong and capable of
digesting any food even in patients with gastro-intestinal
problems.
Fasting greatly improves liver function. It causes a
mild choleretic effect and restores liver cells.
Patients with gallstone disease instinctively resort to
fasting, which relieves pain and normalizes liver and
gall bladder function. The liver is detoxified
naturally: unwanted products are removed and
stones are dissolved.
Good results are achieved when treating a disease as
grave as acute pancreatitis. 275 patients with acute
pancreatitis underwent fasting treatment under the
surveillance of Academician A.N. Bakulev in the
Spasokukotsky clinic in mid-1950s. All of them
were discharged in good condition. Based on this
experience, it was concluded that fasting is
beneficial in pancreatitis treatment, and our method
is now widely used for its acute and chronic forms.
10–15 days of water fasting or 4–5 days of dry
fasting are usually sufficient for a good therapeutic
effect. The main principle of treating pancreatitis is
relieving pain, shock and collapse, and ensuring the
functional rest of the pancreas and its detox.
There’s no other method besides fasting that almost
entirely relieves the burden on the digestive tract.
Thus, it’s no wonder that it’s so effective in treating
different gastrointestinal disorders. We can only
wonder at the ignorance of our medicine, which uses
expensive medications, long-term examinations, and
surgical procedures (instead of effective, fast, cheap
treatment) that not only fail to cure patients but also
turn them into people with chronic diseases who are
disabled and constantly require medical services.
That’s why you should be responsible for your
health and start fasting to restore your appetite,
excellent digestion, and healthy and regular stool.
Thus, fasting helps to get rid of everything unnecessary, weak, sick, and
harmful. The most important characteristic of fasting in patients with
chronic diseases is the rapid elimination of waste products and accumulated
toxins from the body – these are the causes of diseases, and a subsequent
healthy lifestyle helps restore energy and health. It’s a mistake to assume
that the body can get rid of all accumulated toxins by fasting only. The
toxins that have accumulated over many years can’t be eliminated in the
course of only a few days or even weeks. For patients with chronic diseases,
three or more fasting courses are required to see a clear improvement, but
each case is different. Everything depends on the overall health condition,
but a patient’s persistence in achieving a stable therapeutic effect is the most
important.
Preventive fasting courses repeated annually are a prerequisite for this
persistence in addition to a series of (fractional) fasting within a few years if
it’s required for full recovery.
19.2.7. Endometriosis
Endometriosis is one of the main causes of infertility. Nowadays,
obstetricians and gynecologists attach great importance to it. Every third
woman suffers from endometriosis, which can be the cause of a condition
as terrible as infertility. Endometriosis is one of the most common diseases,
which entails the cells from the inner (mucous) layer of the uterus
appearing in uterine walls and the other internal organs. Endometriosis
occurs increasingly more frequently every year. Besides, today the
condition affects young women. In the past, endometriosis mainly affected
women after 35 years of age. Now, it’s increasingly common in young 20-
year-old women.
Causes of endometriosis. Endometrium and menstrual blood are
eliminated from the uterus every month. Sometimes during menstruation, a
detached part of the endometrium moves in the wrong direction, which is
different from a regular one. It moves towards fallopian tubes, ovaries, and
even other distant organs, such as lungs and perirectal or pericystic space,
not into the vagina and then out of the body. The symptoms of this
condition begin 2-3 days before menstruation, and they include spasms,
pain radiating to the perineum or the rectum, and excessive bleeding. In
many cases, endometriosis can go unnoticed for a long time. A woman may
learn that she has this condition only during a visit to her gynecologist. The
long-term inability to conceive may be the reason for this visit, because
infertility is the main consequence of this condition.
What causes endometriosis? There are more than 40 hypotheses of its
origin, but none of them are 100% supported by scientists and doctors. All
that’s known definitively is that women who use intrauterine contraceptives
(such as spirals), underwent any gynecological surgery (such as abortions,
diagnostic curettage of the uterine cavity, cervical erosion coagulation, etc.)
are more prone to endometriosis. Moreover, any abdominal surgery (such as
appendectomy) or pelvic surgery (such as bladder stone removal) can result
in endometriosis. Of course, neurohormonal disorders (pituitary gland
disorders and conditions that affect other hormone-producing organs), weak
immune system (resulting from exposure to toxic elements or radiation,
microwave fields, and others) can result in endometriosis. Some scientists
believe in a genetic predisposition.
Obviously, if there are many theories, the real cause of endometriosis is
still unknown. Therefore, I think it’s best to depend on your healing powers
and the wisdom or the body, your inner doctor who knows how to cure you
better than professors and scientist.
19.2.8. Dry Fasting for Benign Tumors
The main therapeutic factor in treating benign tumors with dry fasting
involves three mechanisms.
1. Only the healthiest and strongest cells and tissues with a perfect
adaptation mechanism survive in extreme and harsh conditions with no
water and food. It’s obvious that adaptation mechanisms to severe
conditions are much weaker and flawed in any pathological formation.
2. The destruction of pathological cells (and not the healthy ones) during
therapeutic dry fasting is also associated with the release of
lymphoepithelial cells from the entire digestive tract. Refraining from food
and water intake for many days creates conditions for the advancement of
very powerful B-lymphocytes from their gastrointestinal position. They’re
gathered from all lymphatic basins and nodes of the extensive digestive
tract. Most of them come from the small intestine. All the mobilized B-
lymphocytes are used for their intended purpose. They destroy and suppress
all pathological tissues and cells. The immune system becomes several
times stronger.
3. Autolysis (self-digestion) is one of the main mechanisms that can
disband benign tumors. I’ve already described this remarkable process in
the chapter 8 (What mechanisms does a dry fast trigger within the body?).
I’ll try to explain it again in a shorter and simpler manner. When I describe
this mechanism to my patients, I provide the simplest and most vivid
example from nature, which is the common onion. It contains a new plant
inside it surrounded by the nutrients sufficient to survive the rest period,
during which it doesn’t receive any nutrients from the soil or air. The onion
can sprout in a bucket or bag where it’s stored. It pushes out new shoots,
and almost the entire bulb turns into green off-shoots very soon. The bulb
gradually softens. Finally, only its cover remains as the growing plant
digests the shoots and uses the bulb content. This means that the old is used
to grow the new.
Let’s take a look at a simple furuncle, which most of us have probably
encountered. At first, we experience swelling and redness, but then a
furuncle disappears with the help of enzymes and immune cells.
The same thing happens with benign tumors during dry fasting and the
second acidotic crisis. This is when autolysis functions as a natural surgeon.
No surgery eliminates the causes of the disease, while fasting eliminates
both its cause and effect. Uterine fibroids are a tumor formed from the
uterine muscular layer. It affects women over 30. There’s evidence of an
increase in the number of patients. The latest data prove that uterine fibroids
affect younger patient groups. The main causes of uterine fibroids include
hormonal imbalances, abortions, heredity, poor ecology, and adenomyosis.
In addition, inflammatory gynecological diseases of different origins, IUDs,
and difficulties in labor are other major causes of this disease. Uterine
fibroids are a benign tumor that usually grows in the uterine muscular layer.
According to statistics, more than 28% of women are affected by this
disease.
I also had many cases when lipomas remained during fasting, but they
dissolved two or three months afterwards, if patients followed all
recommendations.
19.2.9. Mastopathy
This condition is characterized by non-cancerous changes in breast
tissues in women. Mastopathy affects women of all ages. Women between
the ages of 25 and 45 are particularly prone to it. According to statistics,
this patient group is 60-80%.
It’s one of the most common scary stories about dry fasting that I found
online. Let's see what happens during the so-called dry or absolute fasting,
when we stop not only eating, but also drinking.
Water constitutes about 70% of our body mass, it comes from drinking
and in the food. In addition, about 400 ml per day is formed in the body as a
result of the oxidation, mainly of fats.
When dry fasting, the amount of this metabolic liquid significantly
increases and it meets the needs of the body for some time. The body also
has certain water reserves. The skin alone contains up to 2 liters of water.
There are water reserves in some bodily cavities (serous cavities) and in
some internal organs.
The human body can survive without water for 12 days in comfortable
conditions (in the mountains, near waterfalls and rivers).
From a physiological point of view, the body doesn’t experience a
significant lack of liquid during fasting because up to 1 liter of endogenous
(metabolic) liquid is released for every kilogram of broken down adipose
mass (or glycogen) daily. The loss of body fluids (via skin-pulmonary
perspiration and diuresis) is relatively small under normal temperature
conditions, ranging from 1.5 liters to 2 liters per day. Thus, the shortage of
liquid doesn’t exceed 0.5-1 liter per day, which is physiologically
acceptable in conditions of reduced metabolism. Adipose tissue cells,
adipocytes, are rich in fat and they’re living energy carriers. At the time of
growth, the ‘sated’ times, their number increases with sufficient nutrition.
When fasting, they become an internal source of nutrition. Adipocytes
provide the body not only with energy and water, but also supply almost all
the compounds required for living. One kilogram of adipose tissue is
enough for 2-3 days of dry fasting.
Why should dry fasting only be conducted in nature? That’s because the
body absorbs during dry fasting, and it should take liquid and energy only
from the energy areas that are environmentally-friendly. According to
scientific studies, a person may refrain from drinking for 10 to 12 days in a
comfortable environment, or even longer in extreme conditions. It’s true
that all living forms have incredible vital reserves.
Myth #2. Many people wonder where our exotoxins and
endotoxins go, because we don’t conduct special cleansing
procedures: enemas, hydro-colon therapy, or sauna treatment.
It’s true that the body is a unique biological system that can rebuild and
update its own structures literally on the go.
The body constantly builds itself anew, adapting to changing external
conditions, which means that adaptation processes never stop. Recent
studies prove that cells and cell systems possess an amazing ability: they
can find worn and pathologically modified biological structures and replace
them with new ones that are functionally better. Scientists call these auto-
regulation mechanisms, and it’s the inner self-regulation of the body.
When people tell me that this mechanism works under any conditions,
such as malnutrition and harsh environmental factors, I always have
questions. Why do we get sick, old, and die if the body can constantly
renew its own structures through auto-regulation? Why don’t the cell auto-
regulation mechanisms work at their full capacity? Why do the systems
responsible for the constant self-renewal of tissues become damaged? Why
does their effectiveness decrease? Why are the body’s adaptive capabilities
reduced? Why don’t these mechanisms reach their full potential?
Most people can’t answer these questions. The body is full of modern
poisons due to malnutrition and harsh environmental conditions. Vital
energy is spent on neutralizing these poisons and maintaining minimal vital
functions. Modern studies show that the accumulation of exotoxins and
endotoxins in the body reduces the opportunities for its adaptation and auto-
regulation even in a healthy state. In this situation, the body can’t rejuvenate
itself. We will never learn to manage our self-renewal powers with modern
medical philosophy.
Therapeutic fasting is a very natural way to make it happen.
Detoxification of the body stimulates the inner healing reserves and
supports self-renewal systems. Practice shows that the renewal and
rejuvenation of the body are greatly enhanced during dry therapeutic
fasting. When outside cellular feeding stops for a certain strictly calculated
period, it becomes possible to most effectively remove dead cells from
tissues, use old cells, sick tissues, and cleanse systems and organs from
accumulated waste and toxins.
Fasting can be considered a temporary halt of the conveyor belt for the
preventive repair of those systems and mechanisms that can’t be repaired
while the conveyor is in constant motion.
Myth #7. Fasting is ineffective for weight loss. People lose fat
during a fasting course, but they quickly regain weight after
switching back to their usual diet.
Of course, nutritionists are right to a certain extent. The thing is that rapid
recovery processes begin in the body after fasting. Cells actively absorb
nutrients. Weight will be regained quickly and people are quite likely to
gain several extra kilos if they don’t limit their food intake during this
period. Therefore, if the goal is only weight loss, not a complete change in
the habits that had caused obesity, fasting won’t help you. You will only
gain a few extra kilograms.
However, if you do change your habits and lifestyle, you can achieve
excellent results. In addition to weight loss, there is a significant
improvement in cardiovascular activity, high blood pressure lowers,
shortness of breath and arrhythmia disappear, and the heart rate becomes
healthy. Menstrual cycle is restored in women, while men’s sexual vigor
improves. Psychopathological symptoms are relieved in patients with
mental disorders. Subsequent observation of patients for up to 15 years
showed that the weight remained at the same level as after the treatment in
case of compliance with the recommended diet.
Even water fasting provides excellent results in case of proper use and
compliance with all recommendations, but dry fasting is much more
effective. It’s known that adipose tissue easily deposits water, making
lipolysis difficult. Dry fasting relieves swelling, thus accelerating lipolysis.
For overweight people, dry fasting is the most effective way to lose weight.
It’s the best fat burner. After dry fasting, the weight is regained, but it never
returns to its previous level. Unlike many other weight loss methods, fasting
is free and, most importantly, harmless. People tolerate it more easily than
numerous debilitating diets that do nothing but harm. Nutrition from one’s
own reserves is perfectly balanced. The body takes only what it needs at the
moment, not what is artificially taken from outside. What are the
advantages of dry fasting over other weight loss methods?
Fast and safe weight loss during fasting.
Fasting is easier to undergo because there’s no constant
feeling of hunger.
The skin and tissues do not become saggy or flabby after the
weight is lost.
During fasting, weight loss is accompanied by an
improvement of the body and overall well-being (it’s easier
to breathe and move, constant fatigue disappears, indigestion
and heaviness in the abdomen are gone, blood pressure is
lowered, and the burden on the heart is decreased).
Fasting helps improve eating habits, which is its key benefit.
To treat obesity, we prescribe a series of combination fasting courses (dry
fasting and water fasting) in a row. To achieve a stable long-term result, one
has to follow certain recommendations: a dairy and plant-based diet, the
mastication method, 24-hour weekly fasting, etc. However, even regular dry
fasting (every week) in combination with a diet can work wonders.
Myth #8. Many people believe that dry fasting can treat all
incurable diseases, even the terminal stage of cancer.
Dry fasting can very effectively treat different diseases, especially at their
initial stages.
However, even this method has its own indications, contraindications,
and limits. This method is especially effective for inflammatory conditions.
Short-term dry fasting can be successfully used not only to treat cold-
related diseases, but also any inflammation of internal and external organs.
Dry fasting successfully treats skin boils, inner ear infections, periostitis,
injuries, bruises, fractures, concussion, abscesses, colds, infections. Fasting
can’t cure bone fractures, however, water deficiency leads to a quick
decrease in swelling and inflammation. After a concussion, preventative dry
fasting is mandatory. A concussion causes brain swelling, which leads to all
subsequent problems. The faster the swelling is relieved, the faster the
recovery. Long-term dry fasting is very effective in such serious diseases as
rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, deforming arthrosis, and many
others. It’s also effective for ovarian cysts and benign tumors.
Unfortunately, this method is used after all the modern treatment methods
have been tried and proven inefficient. People use it as a drowning man
clutches at a straw. The body is completely poisoned by chemistry,
hormones, and radiation. All the natural bodily defenses are completely
suppressed and paralyzed, and a sick person feels hopeless and starts
undergoing the longest fasting courses without cleansing and training the
body first. In this case, serious complications and even death may occur.
In my practice, I have had to deal with such cases. Of course, I had cases
of treating cancer at the initial stage, but those patients underwent a few dry
fasting courses, relocated from cities to the countryside, and completely
changed their lifestyle. That’s why they achieved good results. Other
patients with cancer, who were fasting independently at home after
chemotherapy and radiation, could only prolong their life and improve its
quality. Everything should be done in proper time.
Of course, people can die during fasting; not from hunger, but because
their over-nourished bodies are full of numerous impurities, which start to
move about. Incurably sick patients may die while fasting, but they will die
from their disease, not because of fasting. Likewise, they could die after
eating. Tens of thousands of patients with heart disease die after a hearty
meal.
You can die from your own stupidity if you don’t follow the rules of
fasting (it happens, but very rarely), especially when coming out of a fast (if
you eat everything you see). What does fasting have to do with that?
Fasting is life! While our stupidity and limitations will surely lead us to
death.
Myth #9. Many people write that dry fasting requires salt-
water enemas and rinsing the mouth with water, as these
procedures help undergo dry fasting.
April 2017.
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[26] Aleksandr Zalmanov (1875-1965) was a famous naturopathic physician and gerontologist. He
proposed a method of capillaries restoration with special bath tonic which includes organic turpentine.
He claimed yellow and white bath tonic or emulsion can be used for treatment of different acute and
chronic diseases, such as diseases of nervous system, polyneuritis, multiple sclerosis, leucaemia,
presenility, chronic prostatitis, immunopathological diseases, allergies, chronic bronchitis, chronic
pneumonia, sexual disfunction.
[27] Old Slavic abdomen massage is an ancient Slavic technique (widespread among the Siberian
communities of Old Believers) that originates in the distant past. This procedure does not require any
medical equipment: during the treatment a specialist applies a dosed pressure with his/her hands to
certain zones of the diseased organ at the required angle. As a result, the functions of the organs are
being recovered and normalized. Dr. Filonov always associates the dry fasting practice with procedures
and massages. On the very first day of dry fasting, he treats his patients with the Old Slavic abdomen
massage.
[28] Smith L.W., Fay T., Temperature factors in cancer and embryonal cell growths, JAMA, 1939.
[29] RDT – this term was introduced in the 1960s by Professor Yuri Nikolayev (Razgrzochno-
Dieticheskaja Terapiya - or fasting dietary therapy. See introductory article). Recently, RDT often
indicates Russian Diet Therapy to differentiate it from others.
[30] Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849–1936) was a Russian physiologist known primarily for his work
in classical conditioning. Pavlov won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1904, becoming
the first Russian Nobel laureate.
[31] Viktor Vasilyevich Pashutin (1845-1901) was a Russian patophysiologist, one of the founders
discipline. A substantial contribution to fasting therapy studies was made by V.V. Pashutin in his
fundamental work Kurs Obshchey i Eksperimentalnoy Patologii (Course of General and Experimental
Pathology) in two volumes, N.A. Lebedev's Typography, Staint Petersburg, 1885–1902.