For what it is necessary to know in detail the basic healing mechanisms that take place during dry therapeutic fasting. A person can endure everything, knowing why and for what he does it. When we clearly understand what therapeutic processes and mechanisms are launched during fasting, our consciousness starts to interfere with the restructuring processes taking place in the organism, due to this huge reserves are opened, which were in a dormant state before. Our nervous system begins to exert a regulating influence on them. This means that it is possible to design the future reorganization of the organism with the formation and synthesis of new biostructures with useful properties, i.e. we are actually talking about the conscious regulation of the processes occurring in the organism, about the conscious improvement of one’s body. All this speaks about one thing. Our organism in the state of complete comfort and rest weakens, loses its adaptive powers. But under conditions of changing environment, influenced by strong negative stimuli, hitherto unknown abilities are awakened, self-regulation mechanisms are activated. Now we begin to understand health in a new way. A healthy organism is not one that maintains normal indicators, but one that is able to successfully adapt to changing conditions, which is very relevant to our unfavorable environmental conditions.
And most importantly one must understand the laws of natural healing.
● The healing happens from top to bottom. For example, facial pains, then chest pains, then shoulder pains, then elbow pains, then hand pains, then hand pains and completely go away. If the pain moves in the opposite direction, it indicates an unfavorable course of the process.
● Healing happens from the inside out. For example, after stomach pains come joint pains. The body “expels” the disease from the outside. On the contrary, the development of headaches after curing prostatitis is regarded as an unfavorable development of the pathology, and can be defined as suppression, or “driving the disease deep inside”
● Healing takes place from the more important organs to the less important ones. For example, a patient’s nervous tension, neurosis passes, but skin diseases or diarrhea appear. If the opposite is true, it indicates that the disease is not cured, and the pathology has worsened.
● Cure occurs in the reverse order of how the diseases developed. For example, pre-existing diseases that were suppressed by inadequate treatment may reappear. For example, a uterine cyst or endometriosis resolves, but the spinal pain that preceded the development of the uterine cyst or endometriosis by the time of its occurrence worsens for a while. They worsen, often only to go away for good afterwards
The body’s hidden reserves
Experiments and clinical observations have confirmed the presence of huge hidden reserves in our organism – forces that can repeatedly cover the emerging unfavorable conditions of life activity for the organism. This happens due to the fact that the structures that carry out biochemical processes at the intracellular level are rearranged, the properties of cell organelles change. This means that the metabolic processes of the cell as a whole change. So, when the organism faces changed environmental conditions, the former biological structures begin to be intensively destroyed and replaced by new ones. These new structures have certain differences aimed at adaptation to the emerged extreme conditions. And the changes can be so significant that they can be called simply miraculous.
For example, such an experiment was conducted on animals. Animals were gradually accustomed to the impact of unfavorable factors: high temperatures (42-43 °C), reduction of oxygen in the inhaled air, starvation. In order for adaptation to occur, it is necessary that the effects were regular, but strictly dosed, short-term. as a result, resistance to such effects increased several tens (!) times.
But we would like to talk more about a few points related to human adaptation.
Oxygen deprivation training and heart attack What a heart attack is, probably everyone knows. “The heart failed,” say ordinary people without medical training. But what does it mean? What physiological processes lead to a heart attack? Myocardial infarction (heart muscle) occurs as a result of the death of part of the cells of the heart muscle with insufficient oxygen supply to them. The heart vessel shrinks against the background of an emotional outburst – the heart muscle receives less blood, and therefore less oxygen, the heart cells can not withstand, they die. The heart can no longer work normally – a person has a heart attack.
Although myocardial infarction is an extremely dangerous disease, but still doctors today successfully cope with this trouble, especially if you recognize the disease in time and immediately seek medical help. And what to do then, when the main danger has passed? How to avoid a second heart attack? The question is not easy and, most importantly, very important, because the risk of a second heart attack increases many times. For a long time doctors thought that the main thing – to provide the heart muscle comfortable conditions, do not allow lack of oxygen (hypoxia). Hence the recommendations – to be outdoors more, avoid excitement and physical exertion. Appropriate treatment was also prescribed – drugs that dilate coronary vessels. But all these efforts did not justify expectations. It is impossible to put a person under a glass cover, life throws up surprises, and the number of repeated heart attacks continued to grow.
And so the medics came up with a paradoxical idea: what if we call to the aid of adaptation forces, not to avoid oxygen deficiency, but on the contrary, to accustom a person after a heart attack to this condition with the help of dosed training by oxygen starvation – hypoxic training? The results were surprising. people who underwent such a course of rehabilitation not only reduced myocardial sensitivity to oxygen deficiency, but also increased the functional properties of the heart muscle, simply put, the heart began to work better. Neither physical nor emotional strain, which earlier would certainly lead to a heart attack, now did not cause serious consequences. What happened? Where did the new strength and reserves come from?
When cells live in comfortable conditions, they become accustomed to a constant level and volume of incoming oxygen and lose the ability to efficiently bind and utilize oxygen for the energy they need. Why save money when there is enough of the good stuff? Cells are as if “lazy” to synthesize structures that are not needed at the moment. Therefore, in case of sudden deterioration of coronary blood circulation, such cells are not able to quickly reorganize, to switch to another type of intracellular metabolism. The amount of energy produced in the cell drops sharply, and the cell dies.
If you periodically give a dosed hypoxic load, the cells of the body, including the heart muscle, will experience oxygen starvation. There is no sharp deterioration of the situation, because the loads are strictly dosed, all cells remain fully preserved in functional terms. But artificially created new conditions will require an adaptive response from the body. Cardiac muscle cells begin to take this factor into account, metabolic processes change, structures of antihypoxic protection materialize. Now a sudden uncontrolled hypoxic load will not cause damage to myocardial structures, because its cells have already learned, they have an apparatus capable of effectively binding and using blood oxygen, fully providing themselves with energy even in conditions of repeated deterioration of blood flow.
Another surprising pattern was discovered in the course of the research. In some cases, when dosed hypoxic training was used, previously lost myocardial tissue was fully restored. “What’s so surprising about this?” you may ask. The fact is that this fundamentally changes our ideas about the possibilities and course of regenerative processes in the body. Previously, physicians believed that dead myocardial cells in all cases are replaced by connective tissue – a scar. Now it turns out that by placing the organism in certain conditions, we force it to “grow” a new, healthy heart.
So, let’s summarize the results. Constant sparing regime, absence of physical and emotional stresses, forced expansion of coronary arteries by medical drugs not only indirectly block the processes of adaptation of myocardial cells to hypoxic loads, but further increase their sensitivity to oxygen deficiency. Such people, oriented only on external help, as a rule, live under the sword of Damocles waiting for new infarctions, which sooner or later occur again. Thus, there is a vicious circle – intensive treatment leads to improvement of blood supply to the heart, but this artificial improvement detrains myocardial cells. More promising way to restore the health of people who have suffered a heart attack is the use of methods of dosed load, and in particular, hypoxic training. In general, modern science has accumulated enough facts confirming that in extreme conditions the body’s defenses increase, autoregulation mechanisms begin to work intensively. as an example, let us cite data obtained from experiments on animals. Domestic scientists conducted the following study. Experimental animals (rats) were injected with toxic substances and thereby provoked the onset of diabetes. After the development of the disease, the animals underwent hypoxic training. as a result, they not only improved blood parameters, but also, even more surprisingly, partially restored the lost pancreatic tissue.
But dry fasting has even more powerful possibilities for dosed training of the whole organism. As soon as the intake of food and water into the gastrointestinal tract is stopped, fundamentally new conditions of existence are created for the organism. The coordination of different types of metabolism is disturbed, while the body is adapted to regular and systematic intake of nutrients. Naturally, there are shifts in the indicators of the internal environment, there are difficulties in the realization of cellular metabolism of organs and tissues in the former mode. Lack of external supply of nutrients, a source of energy and plastic materials leads to a decrease in their concentration in the blood and, consequently, to a sharp decrease in the nutrition of working cells and organs. The first reaction of the organism is the emergence of stress. Stress in this case is a general adaptive reaction to rapidly developing changes in the internal environment of the organism. Stress is the activation of reserve capabilities. It is designed to help the organism quickly adapt to the changes that have occurred, and here, above all, the state and work of regulatory systems change. Animals react in the same way to changes in the conditions of existence: this is how they prepare for fighting, active search for food, hunting, for any physical exertion – in general, for any activity associated with the risk of injury and other unfavorable variants of events.
In the wild, the lack of food for living organisms has always been one of the most unfavorable factors. If you don’t solve this problem, you die. But the ability of animals and humans to survive would be sharply limited, if nature had not provided a remarkable opportunity – a temporary regulatory and adaptive restructuring of the course of metabolic processes, which in the conditions of temporary absence of food and water allows to maintain cell metabolism at the expense of internal reserves of the organism. At the first stage (1-2 days) our organism uses reserves of quick response. However, if a person continues to starve, his body can no longer maintain itself due to the temporary reorganization of metabolic processes, and the state of cellular metabolism continues to deteriorate. The lack of glucose leads to the accumulation of ketone bodies in the blood, which in increased concentration begin to play the role of endogenous toxins. Thus, the situation for cells continues to deteriorate and there is a prospect of their death.
And here is where the transition of the organism to the so-called endogenous nutrition takes place (day 2-5.). The organism starts to fill the lack of nutrients due to the destruction of biomolecules and due to partial decay of organs and tissues. It sounds a bit ominous, but in fact everything is not so terrible. First of all, unused systems die, so those biostructures that are unable to reorganize fall under the “axe”, and first of all, old and diseased cells.
Of course, this is a simplified understanding of the process, but it allows us to see the main cause-and-effect changes in the body on the background of fasting and some health-improving effects of this method. By the way, during dry fasting cleansing of the organism from toxins is not the main thing, because at the first stage they become not less, but more due to intensive formation of endotoxins, and further only some balance between the intensity of their formation and excretion is established. There is no very significant excretion of toxins here. Something else happens: a fundamental change in the conditions of existence forces the organism to significantly reorganize the structures that carry out cellular metabolism. Therefore, old biomolecules are “dismantled”, unstable tissue cells die and disintegrate (at the expense of them the deficit of energy and plastic substances is replenished). But at the same time new cells are synthesized, capable of surviving in the changed conditions. What is this but rejuvenation of the organism? It is very important that the creation of new biostructures under fasting conditions is carried out against the background of a reduced level of endogenous intoxication: the activity of metabolic processes is lower, the intestinal toxins intake is limited. Therefore, the quality of newly created biomolecules is higher, they are more stable in their structure, and the regulatory systems are not exposed to extraneous interference in the form of endotoxins of intensive metabolism.
Coming out of fasting is considered as an important component of the whole procedure, which requires a clear understanding of the complexity of this period, clear compliance with medical recommendations. And this is absolutely true. However, a very important circumstance often falls out of the field of view of practitioners of this method. The repeated reorganization of cell metabolism caused by the newly changing conditions of life activity is not a return to the old, but a new transition that requires material embodiment. Yes, there is a return to partially reduced biostructures. But these will not be the old ones, but renewed, rejuvenated structures.
In the process of starvation there are two very interesting moments – primary and secondary restructuring, when the organism’s regulatory systems are forced to transition to new conditions of life support, when the old ones are partially utilized and new biostructures are synthesized, which differ from the old ones in their qualitative properties. In turn, the new quality directly depends on those specific situational changes that cause shifts in the internal environment of the organism.
The principal distinguishing feature of therapeutic fasting from spontaneous fasting is its dosage, because it can be stopped at any time. It is unusually important that fasting takes place against the background of a favorable psychological climate. When we make a volitional decision to fast in order to influence a particular problem, our consciousness starts to interfere in the restructuring processes occurring in the body, to exert a regulating influence on them. And it means that it is possible to design the future restructuring of the organism with the formation and synthesis of new biostructures with useful properties, i.e. in fact we are talking about the conscious regulation of the processes occurring in the organism, about the conscious improvement of one’s body.
