I’ve found fasting to be incredibly beneficial to my spiritual and prayer life. Even just holding back on eating more food during meals is a fast. Check out the link to read more
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https://assets.speakcdn.com/assets/1927/prayer_fasting5.pdf
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Fasting is amazing. It's like maintenance mode for the body. So many good things come from fasting. It lets the body focus on repair and cleaning. Everyone should be doing it from time to time. It's like getting an oil change on the car or swapping out filters, the body needs time to repair as well.
I used to water fast every Monday for many years...not really sure why or when I quit...it really was very nice....especially to know you can go without food and still feel fine...
Have you ever gotten headaches from fasting? For 20+ years I would get terrible migraines if I didn't have food in my system. I'm not more than 10 lbs overweight and have always been pretty active.
BUT after taking some ivermectin last summer I noticed that I can go 14 - 16 hours without eating and NO headache. Not even a hint.
This has me wondering if when Parasites are starved of sugar and carbs they die off and release chemicals that induce headaches.
A lot of info in the Parasite Pill document makes sense.
Maybe the ivermectin knocked out my parasites and now there is no consequence to fasting. 🤷♂️
I would say you have a pretty good understanding of what was happening. I don't get headaches very often, if at all, but I have a few kids that do...toxins could certainly cause headaches...in fact when you treat many conditions naturally you have to go slowly because the die off can make you very sick...herxheimer reaction...good for you that you found a solution....an article...
https://holtorfmed.com/articles/lyme-disease/what-is-a-herxheimer-reaction-and-what-can-i-do-about-it
Some of that document is utter nonsense but the effect parasites can have is incredible, many cravings for food is just your gut biome leaning on you to feed THEM their preferred foods (starch sugar etc)
Yes!!
Thank you for this...I am saving it so I can print this out to refer to it. We have some extremely serious things that will be coming up in our family and I am sure I could enhance my prayers with these fasting protocols.
I usually use intermittent fasting...I eat in an 8 hour window...usually 9-5 or thereabouts...eating 2 meals of pretty much anything I want to eat...then drinking only water and not eating for 16 hours while my body rests and repairs itself and I have to say that is one of the best changes I have ever made in my life...I will eat like this until I die. I am in good physical health, and this has improved so many things. Dr. Berg has some interesting videos on that. I know this is about spiritual fasting, but I really believe our lives become more spiritual when our focus is not on food...and when our physical health improves, our spiritual health improves. Thank you very much for posting this information...it is very useful...God bless you and yours...
Don't bother saving it. It's outmodded garbage. See the links in my post.
okay...thanks for updated info...I love Dr. Berg...I believe he is one of the smartest men on the planet...he has changed many peoples lives for the better. I do not follow a keto diet, but I utilize many aspects of it...thanks again...God bless you richly...copied your info...
Gluttony, is one of the most potent weapons of our Enemy. Fasting is a powerful weapon. It allows the body to use it's energy to repair itself, instead of processing an endless flow of food, much of which is actually toxic to our health. Eating once a day, in the evening, was a common practice in the ancient world. The Greeks looked down upon anyone who ate more than once a day.
I had never heard that about the Greeks...thanks for sharing...
Most of our modern foods are a poison. The body needs time to clear itself of those poisons.
You can make even more gain by staying away from processed foods, and going back to only those things in the basic natural food groups.
Sugar and the sugar substitutes are the biggest problem, and salt is used to give you the craving for the sugar.
Yeah, sugar is a killer...I only use stevia and coconut sugar for baking...no sugar...
stevia is a proven contraceptive. please research that, especially if you're a woman.
I am 72 and had 5 kids...not worried...haha...but thanks for the heads up...
Stevia is chemicals. As good as it is, give up the baking😀
Unlike other zero-calorie sweeteners—sucralose, aspartame, saccharin—stevia is not artificial. It’s a plant named stevia rebaudiana (sometimes known as candy leaf or sweet leaf) thus making it a natural sweetener. Stevia leaves are about 200 to 300 times sweeter than sugar, which means you need very little to sweeten a food or drink.
The stevia used in food products is actually stevia leaf extract, explains Lisa Lefferts, M.S.P.H, senior scientist for the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).
Ive went from 350 lbs to 240lbs over last 3 years intermittent fasting. I also do not eat any fast food.
16 8 fast. Often do 24.
Well, most fast food restaurants make me want to vomit just smelling the food while its in the bag.
2 fast food restaurants do not make me ill. In and out and chik fil a.
Go figure, both of those restaurants have christian founders. Makes me wonder if they do not use certain additives, others do.
Once you break free of soda, fast food and sugar, food taste better and you get in better shape
"Even just holding back on eating more food during meals is a fast."
No, you're not fasting if you break ketosis by eating carbs. To stay in ketosis you need to avoid carbs and you need a ketone meter to be certain what you're eating isn't knocking you out of ketosis because that's what fasting is.
"Fruit juices, preferably freshly squeezed or blended, diluted in 50 percent distilled water if the fruit is acid. Orange, apple, pear, grapefruit, papaya, grape, peach or other fruits are good."
Fruit juice eats the enamel off your teeth and it's an instant sugar spike... If you're diabetic or pre-diabetic (which most americans are) you're making your health worse by juicing.
That PDF is terrible. It's like it was written by someone that was educated 60+ years ago and then stopped learning anything new. Actually I may be spot on if the Dr. Bill Bright named in the document is this Bill Bright that also promoted the spiritual benefits of fasting. He was as much a doctor as Jill Biden is a doctor. Stop reading and sharing outdated shit by someone that was never a medical doctor. You'll never know why or how fasting works reading that.
Here's three actual Doctors you should follow.
Eric Berg
https://www.youtube.com/@DrEricBergDC/search?query=fasting
https://www.youtube.com/@DrEricBergDC/search?query=keto
Ford Brewer
https://www.youtube.com/@PrevMedHealth/search?query=fasting
https://www.youtube.com/@PrevMedHealth/search?query=keto
William Davis
https://www.youtube.com/user/wheatbelly (Also avoid wheat. It's like eating sugar and in some ways, worse.)
Good info I had never heard...there are just so many benefits of fasting...thanks for sharing this info...
I fast for 20 hours Monday - Friday, my eating hours are 4 PM - 8pm. I eat earlier on weekends and have a 8 hour window because my husband is home and we like food. I feel better and have more energy since I've been doing the 20 hour fasting.
That is interesting...thanks for sharing...I am sure some days my eating window is less than 8 hours, but I am not sure I could last 20 hours...it gives me food for thought...haha...
I didn't intend to fast, it happened by accident. I found myself not eating until my husband got home from work and I realized I felt better so I just kept doing it since my body was already adjusted to it.
I only use virgin coconut oil from the Philippines...Medium Chain Triglycerides are much more absorbable and beneficial to the body. Give this to my cats, also. Rarely use olive oil...use lots of butter...I think everyone that uses intermittent fasting loses weight...it is so much better than dieting...
Our pastor discussed fasting last weekend, it was a really cool sermon. What he said is around the 14th or 17th hour of no food, you become very intellectually astute.
Soda staying up for 72 hours lol if you can make it past that second day, it’s a pretty cool thing.
With the depression I used to have, I could never sleep. So I finally got tired of trying to sleep when I couldn’t. I would stay up for days, and to be quite honest… Some of it was really fun. But I don’t do that anymore, my depression is under control, and I’m enjoying a more regular sleeping pattern. But still really… Not much sleep occurs at night sometimes. I’ll be up till 2 AM easily, same with my mom and she’s 82. I’ll get up to go to the restroom because I drink lots of water, it’ll be 2 AM and my mom still awake on the computer. However; she does have an account here, so maybe that’s the reason. Lol!
Holding back on eating more food is not a fast, though. Consuming nothing except water is a fast. Its not even about calories. Black coffee and plain tea break a fast, in the sense that any metabolizing compound disrupts the road to cellular autophagy. Entering autophagy is the key to the physiological and cognitive benefits.
I have heard conflicting information about that. Many fitness people I follow say that while black coffee may break a fast it won’t impede the losing weight benefit of fasting.
I just saw an expose today showing actual evidence that the Bible verse about fasting has been stripped from many Bibles. A few kept it. Fasting is so powerful many wanted to interfere with people knowing about it. The link: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cow_CkXJvdk/?igshid=NTdlMDg3MTY=
I enjoy the clear thinking that it brings along with the incredible benefits of autophagy.
I eat once a day, most of time grill out meats and veggies. I went from a fat fuck to no Dunlop disease. Humans don’t need food 24/7. We would hunt once a day and eat our kill. Did not need three meals with bad crap every day.
100% agree. Basically, what i do.
I've been intermittent fasting for the past couple years and done some short fasts, 4-5 days. I tried to do a longer one last week and got very ill on the 7th day. I took electrolytes and more water bur couldn't feel better so I had a cup of broth. Day 8, still sick: nauseous, headache, unbelievable leg pain, weakness, still taking electrolytes. So I ate a tiny meal, about a cup of food. Became violently ill. Projectile vomiting and diarrhea. On going leg pain etc. What a great day! That night I took Ivermectin but no noticeable improvement. Day 9, felt like crap and decided whatever was wrong, I wasn't fixing it and I needed a new plan. I ate a micro carnivore meal of about 300 calories. I did the same thing on day 10, 11 and 12. I don't feel great, but I'm not well. I've lost 17 pounds this fast and 10 on my January fast. My question to you brilliant bastards: what do you think happened to me? There can't be that much difference between a 5 day fast and 7, can there? Was it a toxin dump? Not enough potassium? Which seems ridiculous because I was taking electrolytes and you are supposed to be able to fast on water only with no supplements. I'm super disappointed because I was trying for a full 40 day Lenten fast, knowing full well I might have to break it up into many smaller fast, but I was okay with that. I know I can still lose weight on OMAD carnivore or ketovore but I really wanted to heal some things.
I honestly thought the broth would perk me up and I'd be fine by morning. On day 8 I had a cup of tea and scrambled eggs. I have real salt for just licking when I need it and then a powdered mix (no sugar, no artificial sweetener) of everyday essentials. Similar to an EmergenC but made by Vitacost. Those give you 200 mg Potassium, 225 mg sodium and a bunch of vit and trace minerals. I take 200 mg Magnesium too. I was at home for most of the day so I would down a glass of filtered water every time I was thirsty. The only other weird thing was that on the morning of day 7 I had done a bit of gardening. I planted a blueberry bush, which involved moving a couple bags of dirt and mulch, but really, it was nothing.
What electrolyte powder did you end up with? Maybe because I'm older (62) I need a better balanced drink?
I did wonder about eggs. I know I can't eat the cheap ones with the pale yellow yolks but I had good eggs. You're right, I probably should have just gone with fat. I may go have some blood work done just rule out anything I can't detect myself, but to be honest, the thought of going to any healthcare professional is not appealing. Interesting note: I've had a eustachian tube disturbance since last June when I had covid. My ears were full of fluid and drained all the time and were itchy and scabby like a fungal infection. All the usual things didn't kill it but by day 5 it was clear and I could hear properly again. So that's a win!
I'll try that. Thanks for your help. I do so much research but sometimes you need a human to look at things a different way for you. Appreciate your help.
Cut out seed oils, startchy carbs and sugars. Cut anything that comes in a box right out of your diet. Minimize eating out (the shit they serve up has seed oils carbs and sugar and some of it is right from a box).
Commenting just so I can find this later. Great discussion, frens!