Every day, about 5% of the body’s cells undergo apoptosis and new cells take their place. In the process of apoptosis, a cell disappears without a trace within 15-120 minutes. The genetic apparatus of multicellular organisms – animals, plants and fungi – contains a cell death program. This is a special program that under certain circumstances can lead a cell to death. In normal development, this program is aimed at removing excessively formed cells – “unemployed”, as well as cells – “pensioners” who have ceased to engage in socially useful work. Another important function of cell death is the removal of “disabled” and “dissident” cells with serious disturbances in the structure or function of the genetic apparatus. In particular, apoptosis is one of the main mechanisms of self-prevention ofbenign tumors,cystic formationsand cancer.

 In case of pathological enhancement there are aplasias and degenerative processes, as well as some deformities with tissue defects, and in case of weakening – autoimmune processes, tumors and premature aging of the organism. There are, for example, serious enough reasons to believe that such dangerous diseases as aplastic anemia,rheumatoid arthritis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, AIDS, etc. are associated with pathological enhancement of apoptosis.

During fasting, a universal process takes place: on the one hand, the physiological process of apoptosis is intensified: renewal and rejuvenation of the organism by killing old, diseased, altered cells. On the other hand, pathological mechanisms of apoptosis are eliminated: premature aging, cancer, etc.

 Let us consider these mechanisms in more detail. The body as a community of cells during starvation “eats” not only fat cells, but also everything that is “bad”. To be more exact, it is bad or does not work at all. Without the function of self-purification of cell populations, the life of the organism is impossible. Cells infected with viruses, damaged by radiation or toxins, as well as cells that have reached their biological limit, have one common property – they must leave the organism or be eaten.

 In nature, it goes like this

In the absence of nutrition, a special kind of signaling molecules appear in a multicellular organism. These molecules cause activation of intracellular proteins in the cytoplasm of atypical cells. These cells, which are not involved in the collective activity of the organism, are sensitive to such molecules. A self-destruction mechanism is activated in them. The cell “closes” all programs – its nucleus “folds”. The cell undergoes fragmentation. Without destroying the outer shell, it is split into 5-10 “apoptotic cells” and absorbed by other cells. That’s what it looks like in a colony of microorganisms. Or digested in the intestine. It shares the fate of fat cells. The phenomenon of apoptosis was discovered relatively recently, in 1972. It has become the most interesting development in biology and medicine in the last 50 years. According to modern concepts, apoptosis is a general biological mechanism responsible for the constancy of cell populations, as well as the formation and culling of defective cells. Regular diet and terrible ecology stand in the way of this physiological mechanism. According to our observations, activation of the process of nutritional apoptosis occurs after 20 hours of dry fasting (if the correct fasting technique is followed). 

When you eat continuously, “caloric waste” becomes the number one problem. It becomes the cause of diseases and premature aging of a person. Therefore, dry fasting, is one of the promising methods of prolonging the quality of life.

“‘Conservation technologies’ save life when starving, but kill it when constantly satiated.”

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Autolysis is the property of biological objects to decompose their own structures hydrolytically under the action of enzymes (enzymes) and phagocytes. In order to understand this mechanism more easily, let’s consider it on the examples that exist in nature. The plant kingdom abounds with examples of autolysis, but for our purpose it is sufficient to cite a few. All bulbous plants, of which the common onion is an example, contain within them a new plant surrounded by food sufficient to survive a period of rest during which they take no nourishment from the soil and air. An onion may germinate in a bucket or bag where it is stored. It puts out sprouts, and soon almost the entire bulb turns into green shoots. The bulb itself gradually becomes soft, and finally just a shell remains as the growing plant digests the shoot and uses the bulb’s contents. Beets, turnips, and many other root crops grow in the same way. By autolytic absorption of the contents of the root vegetable the substance for growth is obtained, and even taken out of the ground, these plants produce stems and leaves and grow.

The example of the tadpole is very interesting. Before the tadpole becomes a frog, it grows four legs. After they are fully formed, the frog no longer uses its tail, which served so well in the tadpole stage, and begins to get rid of it, but not by discarding it, as it is usually represented, but by absorbing it. The tail is made up of muscle, fat, nerves, skin, etc. And to absorb these structures, the frog digests them in its digestive tract just like other fats and tissues. With the help of appropriate enzymes, proteins and fats are broken down into amino and fatty acids. Only then are they suitable for reintroduction into the bloodstream. Only as fatty acids and amino acids can they be used again to nourish other structures of the frog’s body. During the entire time the young frog is digesting the tail of the former tadpole, she does not eat. In fact, she stops eating as soon as she develops legs. Starvation may be necessary for the digestion of the tail; at least it hastens the process, for it forces the frog to consume the tail as food with which to nourish the vital organs of the starving frog. The embryonic development of the animal in the egg requires the utilization of the food accumulated there. An egg, large or small, has a living embryo, microscopic in size, which is the only living part of the egg. The rest of the egg consists of the accumulated food material from which the emerging animal builds its organs. This food material is adapted for consumption by the young animal just as it is by the adult. And before it can be used to build tissues, it must be digested, which is accomplished by enzymes produced by the embryo.

A starving salamander with a severed tail grows a new tail. To do this, it uses its food supply to obtain the substances from which the new tail is created. These substances must first be broken down (digested, digested) by autolysis and then used for the growing tail. Here we observe a process somewhat the reverse of that seen in the frog eating its tail. In the one case substances are taken from the body and used to build the tail, while in the other case they are taken from the tail in order to nourish the body. It is well known to any reader how an abscess protrudes on the surface of the body and how it draws outward its poisonous contents. But not all know that its appearance on the surface of the skin is only possible because the flesh between the abscess and the surface is digested by enzymes, i.e., autolyzed and removed. The absorption of periosteal tissue appearing at the edges of a fracture is also made possible by the autolytic decay of this periosteal tissue.Man has generalized reserves, found in the bone marrow, liver, blood, and fatty tissues, and private reserves possessed by each cell. Both can be used by living beings as reserves for their own nutrition, if it is impossible to obtain food from external sources or because of the inability (in disease, for example) to assimilate them. Glycogen stored in the liver must be converted into simple sugar before it enters the bloodstream. This conversion is accomplished by enzymes. Many examples of autolysis could be given. But these are sufficient to show that it is a common phenomenon of daily life. Now it remains to say that the body controls this process like all other life processes, that autolysis is not a blind, uncontrolled action, like the behavior of an elephant in a china shop. A remarkable example of this control is the softening and self-absorption of the supporting bone ring around the fracture site. Only part of the bone ring disappears, the rest is retained to reinforce the weakened structure.

The cases of starvation give many examples of the control exercised by the organism over the processes of autolysis. For example, tissues disappear according to their degree of usefulness – first fats and pathological growths, and then other tissues. In all living beings, from the worm to man, during the period of starvation, the various organs and tissues vary greatly in their ability to reduce their weight. The liver usually loses more weight than other parts of the body, especially in the initial period, due to the loss of glycogen and fat. The lungs lose almost nothing; even less is lost by the brain and nervous system. Vital organs are nourished at the expense of accumulated reserves and less important tissues so that abstinence from food can do harm only after the reserves of the body have been used up. The body has the power of moving its chemical elements, of which starvation furnishes many remarkable examples. The assimilation and reorganization of the parts of the organism, observed in living beings when deprived of food, the digestion and redistribution of reserves, surplus and secondary tissues, observed in all animals during their enforced starvation, represent, in the author’s opinion, some of the most marvellous phenomena in biology. The organism is not only capable of building tissue, it is also capable of destroying it. It can not only distribute its nutrient reserves, but it can also redistribute them; autolysis is precisely what makes redistribution possible.

The process of autolysis can be turned to great practical advantage and made to serve us in getting rid of tumors and other growths in the body. It is always first of all those substances which are of the least value for economy that are seized and removed, so that all pathological growths –ovarian cysts, fattytumors, benign tumors, adenoma of the prostate, abscesses – are rapidly reduced and often entirely disappear as a result of strict and prolonged abstinence from food and fasting.” To understand this fully, it is necessary to know that tumors may consist of tissue, blood, and bone. There are many names for different kinds of tumors, but the name itself indicates the kind of tissue of which the tumor is composed. For example, osteoma is made up of bone tissue,myomais made up of muscle tissue, neurinoma is made up of nerve tissue, lipoma is made up of fatty tissue, etc. Since tumors are composed of tissue like other body structures, they undergo autolytic disintegration, the same as normal tissue, under a variety of circumstances, but especially during fasting. We are able to understand how starvation causes a reduction of body fat, how it reduces the size of muscles, will also be able to understand how it leads to a reduction in the size of a tumor or induces it to disappear altogether. He only needs to understand that the process of disintegration (autolysis) of tumors is much faster than that of normal tissues.

In his “Notes on Tumors,” a work for students of physiology, Dr. F. C. Wood wrote: “Spontaneous disappearance for more or less long periods of time has been noted in a very small proportion of malignant tumors in man. The greatest number of cases of such disappearance have occurred after partial surgical removal of the tumor. They have occurred most frequently during acute febrile process and less frequently in connection with certain profound metabolic changes like exceptional cachexia (general emaciation), artificial menopause, and others.” But there can be no more profound change in metabolism than that induced by starvation, and this change is of a character best given to induce autolysis of tumor, malignant and otherwise. The conditions noted by Dr. Wood as causing the spontaneous disappearance of tumors are, in most cases, of the nature of accidents, and are beyond arbitrary control. Starvation, on the contrary, may be performed and carried out under control and at any time desired. And operations are usually followed by still greater growth of the tumor. Spontaneous disappearance of a tumor after its partial removal is a rare case. The same can be said of artificial menopause.

With fever we often see rapid autolysis in many tissues of the body and its great healing work. But we cannot induce fever at will. Pregnancy and childbirth cause many profound changes in the body, but it certainly cannot be recommended to sick women as a means of healing a tumor. Even if it were desirable, it would be an “eye-opening” remedy. And the results of fasting are definite. There is nothing “by eye” about it. It always acts in one direction. The fever is a healing process and does help to remove the cause of the tumor. But none of Dr. Wood’s other cases of spontaneous disappearance of tumors help to remove the cause. And fasting is very helpful in removing the cause. Many people who have practiced fasting have gotten rid of tumors by autolysis.

Herbert Shelton, a physician with a very extensive practice of fasting, writes about it: “Let me cite two exceptional cases to show the wide range of this process. A woman in her early forties was found to have a fibroma in her urinary tract the size of a medium-sized grapefruit. The fibroma disappeared completely in 28 days of complete abstinence from food (drinking only). This was an unusually rapid disappearance of the tumor. Another woman had a similar mass the size of a goose egg. A single fast for 21 days reduced the size of the tumor to the size of a walnut. The fasting was interrupted due to the appearance of hunger. To complete the complete disappearance of the tumor, a second fast – lasting 17 days – was required a few weeks after the first fast. But this was an unusually slow process.

Tumor-like masses of the breast (mastopathy) in women, varying in size from a pea to a goose egg, disappear during fasting from three days to several weeks. The following remarkable example of this kind, which will prove both interesting and instructive: a young woman of 21 years of age had a hard mass on her right breast, a little smaller than a billiard ball. For four months it caused severe pain. Finally she went to a doctor, who discovered cancer and advised immediate surgery. No matter which doctors she went to afterward, she received the same diagnosis and advice everywhere. But not wanting an operation, the woman resorted to fasting without eating anything, and exactly three days later the cancer and all its accompanying pains disappeared. And in thirty years she has not had a recurrence, I believe we have a right to consider this a cure.

Hundreds of such cases during fasting have convinced me that many of the “tumors” and “cancers” removed by surgeons are not tumors or cancers at all. They make us very skeptical of published statistics supposedly proving that early surgery prevents or cures cancer.

Tumor removal by autolysis has several advantages over surgical removal of the tumor.

Surgery is always dangerous, and the process of autolysis while undergoing dry fasting is a physiological process and carries no danger. Surgery suppresses the vital forces and thereby increases the perversion of metabolism which underlies the tumor. Starvation, by which autolysis is enhanced, normalizes nutrition and promotes the removal of accumulated toxins, thereby helping to eliminate the cause of the tumor. After surgery, tumors tend to recur. And once the tumor disappears as a result of autolysis, the possibility of recurrence is small. Tumors after surgery often reappear in a malignant form.

The tendency to degenerate into a malignant tumor is eliminated by fasting.

The author has no definite information on bone and nerve tumors. But since they too are subject to the same laws as other tumors, he is inclined to believe that they can undergo autolysis as effectively as other tumors. Of course, the process of autolysis has its limits, and if the tumor has managed to grow to a considerable size, it will only shrink in size and not all the cells will thus be absorbed. It is advisable, therefore, to go through the necessary fasting or starvation while the tumor or cyst is relatively small. Another limitation should be noted: tumors that block lymphatic ducts will continue to grow despite starvation (due to the excess lymph accumulated by these tumors).

In cases where complete tumor uptake is not achieved, the tumor is significantly reduced to a size that is not dangerous. And in the future, proper lifestyle will prevent new growth. I have seen a number of cases in which the subsequent reduction of tumor size was due to a proper way of life after fasting.

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The 1st stageis called food arousal, its duration on wet fasting 2 – 3 days, on dry fasting 1 – 2 days. The stage of food arousal is a mild stress for the organism. This stress first of all causes activation of hypothalamus. It begins to secrete various substances that have a special effect on the glands of internal secretion in order to adapt the body to existence without food and water. After 24 hours of fasting, the secretion of somatotropic hormone – growth hormone – by the pituitary gland sharply increases and according to modern data, Dry fasting has a rejuvenating effect on the body. It activates the pancreatic hormone glucagen, which increases the breakdown of glycogen in the liver, which provides the body with nutrition. It also relieves intoxication of the body through beneficial effects on the thyroid gland. During the first stage, any signals of food can usually irritate: the sight and smell of it, talking about food, the sound of eating utensils and so on. They cause salivation, rumbling in the stomach, the sensation of sucking under the spoon, worsens sleep, increased irritability, there is a bad mood. Thirst is tolerable.

Stage 2: increasing acidosis. Usually this stage on dry fasting lasts from 2 to 4 days. Once a person has completely given up food and water, the body begins to consume stored reserves and secondary tissues. The breakdown of nutrients and tissues during starvation leads to the accumulation of their breakdown products within the body. As a result, the pH of the organism shifts rapidly to the acidic side (acidosis), but the acidification values do not exceed physiological norms. Acidosis during starvation is the first and the most important physiological mechanism that causes the activation of a chain of other healing mechanisms, which are in an inactive state during the usual dietary regime. Acidification of the internal environment of the organism leads to the start of tissue dissolution processes – autolysis.It turns out that in an acidic environment activated phagocytes and some enzymes, whose function is reduced to the destruction of weakened tissue and all foreign in the body. In turn, the processes of autolysis trigger the mechanism ofcleansing the body oftoxins, weakened and pathologically altered tissue. Due to the cleavage of tissue, the slags contained in it are released and removed from the body, and the modified tissue is destroyed. Control over the breakdown of body tissues is carried out by a special function, which we have called the principle of priority. This function makes sure that first of all, all unnecessary, pathologically altered tissues are broken down, and then it is the turn of healthy tissues – according to the principle of importance for the vital activity of the organism.

Acidification of the body and increased phagocytic activity leads to normalization of the body’s microflora.

Acidosis includes the mechanism of assimilation of carbon dioxide and nitrogen from the air by the body cells. This is what contributes to the fixation of soluble carbon dioxide in the blood on the principle of photosynthesis, i.e. by means of the most ideal synthesis in our world. The atmospheric air we breathe becomes a nutrient medium. In other words, with increased assimilation of CO by cells in combination with increased consumption of nitrogen from the air, the most favorable conditions are created for qualitative construction of nucleic acids, proteins and other biologically active substances necessary for full human life activity. In other words, on dry hunger we consume carbon dioxide and nitrogen from the air and create proteins necessary for our body from them. But the question arises: at the expense of what?

Let’s remember the plants.

They take energy from the Sun and therefore can transform the same carbon dioxide of the air and nitrogen of mineral salts into organic compounds. Man also has the ability to feed on natural and cosmic energies, only in the normal state it is manifested only in a very small number of people. At present only a few people are known who do not eat or drink anything at all (I wrote about them). Switching on this mechanism means that the organism switches to full internal (endogenous) nutrition, which provides full synthesis of amino acids and other biological compounds during fasting. In the process of fasting many organs and systems of the organism receive physiological rest, which allows them to restore their damaged structures and functions. Increased tissue breakdown as a result of autolysis and restoration of the structure and function of digestive organs during dry fasting stimulate metabolism and increase the digestive capacity of the body during the period of restorative nutrition. During fasting there is a strengthening of the body’s defense functions both at the level of cells and the whole organism. It becomes much more resistant to various internal and external damaging factors. All the above physiological mechanisms lead to a powerful revitalizing and rejuvenating effect in the period following the fasting.

After we have described what triggers the process of acidification (acidosis) of the internal environment during starvation, let us return to the acidosis itself. The process of acidification of the internal environment of the organism increases rapidly. Usually the maximum of acidification is observed on the 2nd – 3rd day of fasting. And it happens in the following way. At the very beginning of fasting, when the body still has reserves of animal sugar – glycogen, the body uses it. But as soon as glycogen reserves are exhausted (and this usually happens on the first day of fasting), the blood begins to accumulate acidic products of incomplete breakdown of fat (oily acids, acetone), its alkaline reserves decrease, and this is reflected in the well-being: the fasting person may get headache, nausea, feeling of weakness, general malaise. White plaque on the tongue, dry tongue and lips, mucus on the teeth, acetone odor from the mouth, dry and pale skin, the feeling of hunger is much lower, while thirst at this time increases. Poor health is the result of the accumulation of harmful products in the blood. At this time a person on dry fasting can have internal fever, it is the body starts to turn on the mechanisms of neutralization of harmful substances. Here is a description of this mechanism from the patient’s diary – “The fifth day of dry fasting. The 5th night has come. About 21-22 hours of the night I felt fever. Though it was cool (I was sitting in a sweater), I stripped down to my underwear, but it did not get cooler. To cool down I went barefoot in my underwear to the mountain river. It was warm outside, but near the river it was fresh and cool, but the heat was increasing. I stood there until my feet froze. By morning the fever had passed, weakness had passed, energy appeared. The sensations were great: comfortable fever, vigor and energy. After going through dry fasting, myprostate adenomadisappeared completely.

However, once the utilization of ketone bodies begins, their concentration stops increasing 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 occur with severe pain and should be prepared for this. At the initial stages of SG, acidotic crisis may occur on the 3rd – 5th day, later – on the 3rd, or even on the 2nd day after the beginning of SG. The earlier the acidotic crisis occurs, the faster it passes, the more time is left for the renewal of the organism. For example, if the acidotic crisis occurs on the 2nd day, there will be more time for regeneration.

The first acidotic crisis and its significance in the recovery of the organism. Gradual acidification of the internal environment of the organism on fasting leads to displacement of most chronic diseases that develop and progress in the human body.

The strongest acidification of the organism occurs during the period of acidotic crisis, and therefore at this time chronic diseases are aggravated. According to the degree of exacerbation, you can judge how successfully hunger has caught this or that disease and “uproot” it from the body. If the exacerbation is pronounced, we should expect a complete cure. If it is weak, it means that starvation solves other more important problems in the body. After some time repeat the fasting, and then it will take care of the remaining diseases. After the acidotic crisis has “weeded out” the diseases from the body, the increase in the defense forces previously spent on the disease begins. Thus, E. Schenk and X. Mayer, who conducted studies of the body’s reaction to various bacilli, point out that the processes of self-defense and increase in defenses against microbes begin only after the acidotic crisis. This is manifested in the tendency to rapid healing of wounds, increased bactericidal ability of the body, which explains the beneficial effect of fasting on many diseases.

Hence the conclusion: until the body of a starving person has not passed the first acidotic crisis, one cannot count on the cure of chronic diseases and a sharp increase in the body’s defenses.

Stage 3 is called the compensation, or adaptation, stage.

The duration of this stage is individual. On average, it starts 5 days of dry fasting and ends on the 9th day. At this stage, you may feel better, weakness will decrease, and all unpleasant sensations will disappear. This improvement can pass in waves. The feeling of hunger completely disappears, thirst may increase. Its duration depends on the fat reserves in the body. This stage ends with the second acidotic crisis, which takes place from the 8th to the 11th day. From the time the first acidotic crisis passes until the onset of the second, the body stores vitality. During the acidotic crisis, some people have an aggravation of their underlying disease, a sharp deterioration of health, loss of strength, loss of sleep, may be very high fever. These symptoms indicate that starvation has begun to “turn out” the disease. If in the first two stages of starvation autolysis of body tissues was the only source of nutrition, then during the second acidotic crisis autolysis performs more the function of a natural surgeon.

Therefore, it is necessary to undergo this crisis for full therapeutic effect. I had a patient with a benign uterine tumor, on the ninth day her well-being deteriorated sharply, chills and a very strong internal fever appeared. She wanted to get out of fasting. I calmly explained to her the essence of what was happening, that if she did not go through this crisis to the end now, she would not be completely cured. In the morning she had no symptoms, feeling good. When she got home, she had an ultrasound and it showed that she had nomyoma and no mastitis.

The most important thing in all types of fasting is to pass the second acidotic crisis, during which there is a stronger activation of all defenses of the body, which contributes to the cure of many incurable diseases. If to say more simply about the very great importance of these crises, then if the first acidotic crisis eliminates the “stem of the disease”, the second one destroys the “root of the disease”.

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Medical experts say that overweight people are sick people. They are predisposed to chronic and incurable diseases. A full person cannot feel good about himself. First, because he or she has to carry too much weight all the time. Imagine a person who weighs ten pounds more than normal. An overweight person carries a huge load equal to the weight that is overweight. Obese people do not seek physical activity. Most of them at the first opportunity to find a free chair and sit on it, with difficulty forcing themselves to do the necessary things. Overweight people have difficulty breathing because excess fat makes it difficult for the respiratory system to work. For every cubic centimeter of excess weight, the body must have, 11 (unbelievable but fact) kilometers of capillaries to feed and maintain this excess fat. This is why excess weight places a huge burden on the respiratory system and normal heart function. Pulse rate and blood pressure rise to dangerous values, which in themselves give serious complications. Nowadays, the number of overweight people is continuously increasing. 

Dry fasting is more effective for treating obesity than wet fasting, and here’s why 

What is the advantage of anytype of fastingover other weight loss methods: 

Combined fasting is very effective for treating obesity. 

Dry plus wet fasting, several courses of fasting in a row. In order to achieve a stable sustainable result, it is necessary to follow certain recommendations: dairy – vegetable diet, themethod of therapeutic chewing, weekly unloading days, etc. But even stable application ofweekly fastsin combination with diet can work wonders.

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Siberia, where we live, is a very interesting place. There are two global health problems here – in spring, summer and early fall, the threat of tick-borne encephalitis hangs over us like a sword of Damocles, and parasitoses, especially opisthorchiasis, are a year-round problem. I would like to draw your attention to it, as opisthorchiasis centers are present in the basins of the Ob, Irtysh, Yenisei, Volga, Kama, Dnieper, Ural and Northern Dvina rivers. The region of Western Siberia is recognized as one of the extremely intense foci of opisthorchiasis infestation. The Ob-Irtysh basin is the largest endemic territory for opistorchiasis, which belongs to the category of “uncontrollable” parasitic diseases in our country. In the middle reaches of the Ob and lower reaches of the Irtysh, the local population is affected by opisthorchiasis reaches 70-80% and even 90%. In addition to our region, the Dnieper basin, Volga-Kama and Neman river basins are affected by opisthorchiasis (i.e. even in such civilized countries as Austria, Holland, Germany, Hungary and Poland people also get opisthorchiasis).

Opisthorchiasis is an extremely insidious disease. Having many mechanisms of impact on the human body – mechanical, allergic, neurogenic, secondary-infectious – it causes a variety of clinical manifestations: biliary dyskinesia, diseases of the stomach and intestines, liver and bile ducts, dysbacteriosis, vegeto-vascular dystonia, pancreatic lesions, allergies. Opistorchosis is necessarily accompanied by inflammation, so it can cause suppuration, abscesses, biliary peritonitis. Opisthorchiasis disrupts the normal functioning of almost all organs and systems of the body. In addition to diseases of the entire gastrointestinal tract, the cardiovascular, endocrine and nervous systems suffer. Parasites have a negative impact on the course of pregnancy and childbirth, physical and mental development of children. The most terrible complications of opisthorchiasis are cancer of the liver, gallbladder, pancreas.

Medication treatment of opisthorchiasis.

 More than half a century history of opisthorchiasis treatment has accumulated many different remedies: quinine, emetine, male fern extract, jatren, faudin, etc. Almost all of them proved ineffective or showed low efficacy. Tangible positive results of opisthorchiasis treatment were obtained with the use of hexchlorparaxylol (Chloxyl, N. N. Plotnikov, 1962). However, even with a five-day course, the efficacy of Chloxil was established only in 60% of those who received the therapy.

 The problem of opisthorchiasis treatment is not completely solved by the use of praziquantel (biltricide “Bayer”; cesol, cysticide “Merck”; piciton PRC, azinox Russia). Having undoubted advantages over Chloxil – one-day administration of the drug and its high activity against immature stages of parasites, biltricide still does not exceed 80% in effectiveness. This creates prerequisites for repeated courses of deworming, the number of which is limited (no more than three).

 In addition, despite the existing characteristic of the drug: rapidly metabolized, excreted by kidneys mainly (80%) in the form of metabolites within 4 days, with 90% of the administered dose excreted in the first 24 hours, biltricide is severely tolerated by patients. Patients for two to three months after treatment feel discomfort from the hepatobiliary system: nausea, decreased appetite, a feeling of heaviness in the subcostal area, unstable stools. Moreover, there are reports that the use of biltricide causes destructive changes in the liver, which develop 12 hours after its administration.

There is also another aspect. Even with successful deworming, the symptoms of chronic lesions of the gastrointestinal tract, hepatobiliary system, interpreted as post opisthorchiasis phenomena remain. All this together underlies the basis of patients’ refusal of biltricide, and their search for any other methods of treatment, sometimes so-called “folk”, not causing irreparable harm to health.

 When I worked at the Altai Regional Center for Restorative Therapy, we carried out a comprehensive treatment of opisthorchiasis. First, our patients underwent liver and intestinal cleansing, thenwet fasting. And after a good quality cleansing we prescribed Ecorsol – a preparation containing aspen bark extract and hepatosol (lohein). After therapeutic fasting any parasites become very weak, all antiparasitic herbs on the contrary have a stronger effect on parasites. We achieved very good therapeutic results. In Tyumen, where I worked in the Center of therapeutic fasting, several of our patients, aftercleansing the intestines and liver, underwent a course of dry therapeutic fasting for 5 – 7 days, they all had excellent results.

 Why can dry therapeutic fasting help?

 ●        Due to dehydration of the organism a strong competitive struggle between body cells and pathogenic microorganisms for water begins. Body cells in the host position take water from microorganisms, but the body itself can not only synthesize endogenous water in the required amount, but also takes water during this period from the air, absorbing it through the skin. This is because the body works on absorption rather than excretion during dry fasting. Healthy, strong cells get extra energy and water, while parasites, viruses and bacteria cannot. Under such conditions of dehydration, the cell membranes of parasites are damaged, membrane transport is altered, carbohydrate metabolism and their vital activity are disturbed.

 ●        A multi-day refusal of food and water intake creates conditions for the withdrawal of a very powerful army of B-lymphocytes from the advanced gastrointestinal positions. They are pulled from all lymphatic collectors and nodes of the long digestive tract. But especially many of them come from the small intestine. The army of B-lymphocytes transferred to the reserve is used for its direct purpose. It suppresses and neutralizes all available pathogenic and foreign elements. In the usual satiated state, parasites that were in the encapsulated (dormant) state, practically do not succumb to modern antiparasitic therapy. On the contrary, in these conditions parasites, being in protective shells, become more resistant to these drugs and other medicines. In dry fasting these shells are destroyed by phagocytes and enzymes activated by acidosis, which explains the good therapeutic effect of fasting in the treatment of this pathology.

 ●        During dry fasting, higher concentrations of bioactive substances, hormones, immunocompetent cells and immunoglobulins in body fluids are achieved, which gives a powerfulimmunostimulatingand antiparasitic effect. 

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It takes the excretory load off the skin. Without food intake, the body actively begins to excrete excess substances in all possible ways and uses them in vital activity. Gradually the internal environment of the organism is normalized – there is a balance in the body between those substances that it needs, all the excess is expelled or used. 

What skin diseases only fasting does not treat: various dermatitis, neurodermatitis, allergodermatitis,psoriasis, the main cause of which is liver dysfunction, pustular skin lesions, various infectious skin diseases are treated well. It will be more correct to speak about self-healing, self-healing of the organism on the background of fasting. The terms of fasting depend on the severity and duration of the disease. The more severe is the skin disease, the longer periods of fasting are recommended. Most likely, it will be necessary to conduct several courses offractional fasting lasting from 7-9 days with proper nutrition between them. In lighter forms, 5-7 day dry fasts may be enough, but everything will depend on the general state of your body. After all, skin manifestations are a kind of marker, which indicates quite significant violations in the activity of the whole organism. Therefore, it is never possible to say exactly how much you need to fast in this or that case.

Of course, one would always like to go through a healing crisis and be cured at once, but it is not always possible or necessary to accomplish such a feat.

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The incidence of endometriosis is increasing from year to year. In addition, there is currently a rejuvenation of the disease. Thus, if earlier endometriosis was mainly affecting women after 35 years of age, now it is increasingly common in young girls of 20 years of age.

Causes of endometriosis.

Every month the endometrium should leave the uterus together with the menstrual discharge. But sometimes during menstruation, the separated part of the endometrium goes not in the direction assigned to it by nature – towards the vagina and into the environment, but into the fallopian tubes, into the ovaries, and sometimes even into other, distant organs – into the lungs, for example, or into the perineal or perineal space. The disease manifests itself 2-3 days before the onset of menses – a feeling of cramps, often pain, recoiling in the perineum, rectum, abundant blood discharge. Often endometriosis for a long time practically does not manifest itself, and a woman learns about it only when visiting a gynecologist, the reason for visiting which is a long absence of desired pregnancy (infertility– the most common manifestation of the disease). What is the cause of endometriosis? There are more than 40 hypotheses of the origin of this disease, but none of them has not received 100 percent support from scientists and doctors. It is only known that many more often than other women fall ill those who use intrauterine contraceptives (spirals, for example). Those who have undergone gynecological operations – abortions, diagnostic scrapings of the uterine cavity, coagulation of cervical erosions, etc. Moreover, any operations on the abdominal cavity (appendectomy, for example), pelvic organs (say, removal of bladder stone) can lead to endometriosis. Of course, the disease can lead to neurohormonal disorders (diseases of the pituitary gland, other hormone-producing organs), deterioration of the immune system (as a result of exposure to, say, unfavorable factors – toxic character, radioactive exposure, exposure to microwave fields, etc.). Some scientists believe that there is also a genetic predisposition.

The main therapeutic factor in this pathology is:

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Unless there is congenital pathology and absolute sterility, therapeutic fasting is very effective in eliminating many causes of infertility. 

Rarely any woman suffers from absolute infertility, mostly infertility is the result and consequence of some diseases.

I have an acquaintance who breeds aquarium fish, and he is also systematically engaged in therapeutic fasting. He told me an interesting story about how he cured infertility in his fish. Here’s what he told me – “Have you come across the fact that the fish, repeatedly spawned in your aquarium, suddenly stop giving offspring. In the book MN Ilyin says that the cause of infertility of fish can be obesity of the insides, weakening the body and making it susceptible to infectious diseases. Starvation of adult fish even for a long time, as a rule, does not lead to negative consequences. With great interest I read about starvation, which is resorted to in livestock and poultry farming to restore the ability to reproduce in cattle, chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys. In the literature, I have seen reports of successful experiments on “rejuvenating” rats and restoring their ability to reproduce. (1973) notes that chickens stop laying as soon as they begin to get fat, and the birds that have lost weight begin to lay eggs again. As a result of application ofphysiologically useful fastingat poultry farms, the operationally productive age of poultry increased three-four times.At the same time their egg production, content in eggs of vitamins A, B1, B12 and carotene, shell thickness, egg fertilization and hatchability of chicks were higher than in the control. 

S.A.A.Arakelyan, Y.S.Nikolaev, N.M.Amosov and other researchers believe that fasting normalizes biochemical processes, promotes excretion of poisons and toxins, mobilization of resistance forces of the body, tissue rejuvenation, autolysis of pathological formations, improves digestion and blood circulation, gives the body organs physiological rest. During starvation the organism uses its internal reserves and switches to internal (endogenous) nutrition. First of all fatty and weakened, morbidly altered tissue, as well as tumors, edemas, etc. are utilized. When switching to endogenous nutrition, the body uses up and burns not only its accumulated reserves but also metabolic slags. But can’t degenerating caviar be categorized as clogging slags? And if they are slags, then how to accelerate their removal from the body of fish, as not by starvation? 

To test my assumptions, I decided to conduct experiments on guppies. The most probable reasons for degeneration of eggs in my fish I considered their maintenance at too high temperature, late mating, excessive feeding. To find out required a series of experiments, and I did not have such an opportunity. For me it was more important to first try to restore the ability to reproduce in a group of infertile and several already repeatedly spawned females. Both of them, being for three-four months in the company of very active males, did not bear offspring. Infertile females starved for two months, as it seemed to me, almost to complete exhaustion: sides retracted, maturity spots became barely visible. The control fish looked normal – they were eating as usual. After the end of the two-month hunger strike test females for a week received less food than necessary, and then I began to feed them according to their needs and put to them males. After a month to a month and a half all experimental females hatched fry, and after another month again offspring were obtained. To the control, normally fed females were also planted males, but here it was not possible to get, not a single fry. The females that had previously borne offspring were starved for one month. Like the control females, they were kept together with males.

The recovery period was conducted in the same way as in infertile females. After one month, two of the three experimental fish gave offspring. It was not possible to obtain offspring from control females. To check how starvation affects the males, two infertile females were planted to them after the end of starvation – both of them produced offspring. Thus, starvation for one or two months not only does not harm guppies, but, on the contrary, restores their ability to reproduce. The following is interesting. Before the beginning of starvation all experimental males had their caudal fins clipped. During the period of starvation, the fins grew back to their former size. During the whole period of starvation, the males courted the females very vigorously”.

Of course aquarium fish, it is incorrect to compare with the human body, but fortunately the laws of nature work universally in relation to any living matter. 

When I came to Prof. Y.S. Nikolaev to study, he told me facts from his experience. If a man undergoes starvation, most often girls are born, if a woman, boys are born. As in nature – if the leader of the pack is young, then according to the law of biological expediency he does not need many competitors, and more females are born, if the leader is old, he needs a replacement.

Here’s some more interesting data from British biologists, but it says otherwise.

Low-calorie diets and short-term fasting in women promotes the birth of girls. 

The results of research conducted by biologists of the British Royal Society (Academy of Sciences of Great Britain) indicate: if a woman during the period of conception adheres to a low-calorie diet or short-term fasting, she is more likely to give birth to a girl. A group of scientists from the University of Exeter, Devonshire, led by Fiona Matthews, set out to test the effect of different diets on the sex of the fetus. The research involved interviewing 740 young mothers. The women were asked questions regarding their diet before and after pregnancy. The respondents were divided into three groups according to their taste preferences and the number of calories consumed daily.

The survey found that 56% of women in the “high-calorie” group gave birth to boys, while only 45% in the “low-calorie” group.The first group of women gave birth to significantly more potassium, calcium, vitamins C, E and B12, and cereals than the other two groups. The researchers compared these findings to the craze for low-calorie diets that Western society is experiencing today and the gradual increase in the percentage of girls among newborns. In their view, this provides strong evidence that a nutritious diet increases the chances of giving birth to a boy. The researchers attribute the very mechanism of gender selection to evolutionary processes in nature. “In most animal species, including humans, the male is capable of producing more seed than the female can bear and give birth to. But in favorable conditions, females are able to give birth steadily, and abundant female resources nature is “more profitable” to invest in a son, because he can give more offspring than a daughter. However, in times of famine, “betting” on a daughter gives a better chance of survival, – this is how Fiona Matthews explains this insufficiently studied mechanism.

In my practice, of course, there is more data supporting the English biologists’ findings.

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So far, we have looked at data relating to fairly long fasts. Recently, one-day fasts have become popular. Of course, their effect is weaker than that of prolonged fasting. However, under certain conditions, the effect of even one-day fasting once a week can increase dramatically. For this purpose one-day fasts should be repeated. Koda Mitsuo, a medical professor known for his research on fasting, says: “If you fast at the end of each week and come out of fasting carefully, you will get an effect like that of a long fast. In six months or a year you will be healthy beyond recognition.” Therapeutic fasting is praised by many doctors and enjoys a latent popularity among specialists and also entrepreneurs. 

Here’s what doctors say about a one-day weekly fast: 

The effect of rejuvenation and prolongation of the quality of life.(Elena Desyatnik – TV presenter).

More than anything else in the world, I love to eat. And not just to “grab” some fast-food nonsense, but to eat fundamentally. With appropriate serving, drinks, candles and good dishes. That’s why my acquaintances, when they heard that I had taken up one-day fasting, asked me directly whether I was crazy because of overwork. (For the last six months, we had been working so hard on live TV programs that I fell asleep at dinner without even taking a sip of wine).

In fact, my sybaritism and epicureanism was turned into asceticism by a seemingly unremarkable incident. The topic of the next talk show was quality textbooks, and I was recommended to invite a rather famous mathematician who had written more than one manual on geometry, which he adored. I got his phone number quickly, the guy turned out to be intelligent and contactable, and we agreed to meet half an hour before the live broadcast to discuss the main directions of the conversation. I knew that my guest was 70 years old, so I warned the makeup artist that it would take a little longer to work on his face. But what was my amazement when instead of a pleasant grandpa, whom I expected to see on the threshold of the studio, an imposing man of no older than 55 was waiting for me! His first question struck me even more than his appearance, for he asked me, “where here you can drink a cup of strong coffee?” And one more nuance almost made me speechless. My guest did not smell like a 70-year-old man. He smelled young. It was the first time I’d ever encountered such a thing. And purely professional interest in the respected mathematician was replaced by a keen personal curiosity:“how does he manage to look like that at 70?” 

Luckily, he wasn’t about to keep that secret. It turned out that he had been fasting on Mondays for years. At 9 p.m. on Sunday he has a stable mood, the beginning of each week due to an empty stomach he meets in a rare bad mood, Tuesday begins with a trip to the pool, and only then – the long-awaited breakfast.The result of all this I saw with my own eyes, moreover, this amazing man had just incredible for his age energy, cheerfulness and constantly generated a huge number of ideas.In mathematics, I dare say, this is a bit more difficult than, say, in cooking. 

Naturally, on the following Monday I ate only mineral water. Therefore, closer to lunch I was simply dying of hunger, and by the end of the working day I began to feel dizzy, as if I had drunk 50 grams of cognac. By the evening story my stomach realized that there was nothing to catch today and calmed down. Tuesday morning was tempting to organize a Lucullus feast, but I courageously limited myself to oatmeal. The following Monday, under the surprised looks of my colleagues, I repeated the execution. It was already much easier. I felt the result of my experiments in about a month. My skin was somehow lighter and fresher, my eyes shone, and the number of wrinkles under my eyes was somewhat reduced. Encouraged by what I had achieved, I began to look for scientific evidence of the correctness of my actions.

It turned out that Hippocrates, Avicenna, Paracelsus and other doctors treated patients with the help of fasting in ancient times. Nowadays there is a lot of scientific data revealing the mechanism of therapeutic effect offasting, which stimulates metabolism,rejuvenatesthe body and prevents aging. During complete fasting, the energy that we spent on digesting food is used for the treatment of existing diseases and for cleansing. On my personal experience I was convinced that an empty stomach copes with runny nose in two days, with the strongestflufor some reason in three. But if in the first case you can move around, the flu is accompanied by alternately terrible fever and drowsiness. The most striking thing is that after such treatment you look like after a spa treatment. I do not know what it is, but the body is clearly cleansed both externally and internally. By the way, if you decide to treat diseases with hunger, then in no case, do not take any medications. You can only drink water – often and in small portions. You should drink 1.5-2 liters of liquid per day. In addition to pure water, you can drink weak infusion of rose hips or green tea (without sugar!). 

By the way, short-term fasting, in addition to cleansing and significant improvement of appearance has another unexpected effect. It consists in increasing the power of imagination and the ability to create. For example, John Lennon, one of the legendary Beatles, practiced meditation and was fond of fasting. It is possible that his creative insights in the musical sphere were the result not only of his talent and efficiency, but also of his periodic refusal of daily bread. 

T. Toeo, a former member of the House of Commons of the Japanese Parliament, strongly recommended weekly one-day fasts to all doubters as a way to improve health and energize thinking. He repeatedly emphasized that it is not just a diet, for through fasting the head works better and ideas continuously arise. The only thing that should not be forgotten: before fasting it is necessary to cleanse the body. To do this, 2 days before the scheduled date exclude animal products from your diet. Switch to a cereal and vegetable diet. The menu should consist of all kinds of porridge, vegetables and fruits. Always start with no more than 1-2-day fasting, then move to a 3-day fast. How long the hunger lasted – so much and exit from it. You can alternate one-, two-, three-day fasting, ending each one with the same duration of exit from the process. Further increase of terms should be carried out after longer breaks. Gradually it is possible to bring the fasting up to 7 days. It is desirable to conduct it once in 6 months. Longer fasting at home (at least until you master it properly) is not recommended.

And most importantly, an optimistic attitude is very important in the process of self-cleansing. When you start fasting, believe in success, and you will achieve amazing results. The body will cope with any illnesses on its own, and when regular fasting becomes a habit, you will stop getting sick at all.

 Slimming effect

 If properly and qualitatively prepare fordaily fasts, and do them steadily and systematically every week, you can achieve good results for weight loss.

 American experts say that even 1 day of fasting a month can be very beneficial to your health. 

Scientists conducted a study that showed that people who abstain from food every first Monday of the month have a 40% lower risk of cardiovascular disease. And asthma patients have fewer attacks. According to experts, the mild stress experienced by the body during moderate fasting has a positive effect on the immune system and reduces the likelihood of cancer. Some experts even say that it is not necessary to fast the whole day: you can skip breakfast or dinner. The obligatory condition is that if you decide to fast, do it regularly and drink water during this process.

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