During fasting, the functions of digestive enzymes, metabolism and allergic reactions are disturbed. The nutritionist R.I. Vorobyev, candidate of medical sciences, also agrees with Jolondz: “During multi-day fasting, metabolism is not only not normalized, but on the contrary, it is disturbed. A few days after the beginning of fasting, the breakdown of proteins intensifies, and since our body does not have its reserves, the functions of enzymes, especially digestive enzymes, among others, are disturbed. Histamine accumulates in the body (it is usually destroyed by a special enzyme), a substance that is largely responsible for the occurrence of allergic reactions. It is histamine that mainly causes bronchial spasm, swelling of tissues, excruciating itching….
Note. It isstrange, of course, that such well-known specialists do not know the elementary, practice-tested and scientifically proven physiological mechanisms oftherapeutic fasting. A large number of works are devoted to the study of endogenous (internal) nutrition of the organism during fasting. Fat, protein and all other types of metabolism during fasting have been studied. It turned out that during fasting, carried out within the permissible time limits, there are no types ofmetabolicdisorders. Dynamic studies of both detoxification and urine-forming functions of the liver in the process of dosed fasting and subsequent nutrition showed complete compensation of these functions. It was also noted that during moderate fasting the compensation of protein metabolism is preserved, with the need for protein being covered without damage to the vital functions of the organism due to protein reserves and considerable economy of wasting. These studies have made it possible to object scientifically to those negative views on the physiological action of starvation, which are sometimes expressed by some specialists who claim that starvation inevitably leads to the development of alimentary dystrophy due to disturbance of protein metabolism. Studies of protein metabolism have shown that the excretion of products of nitrogenous metabolism with the urine during fasting gradually decreases, and this indicates that there is no pathologic breakdown of protein structures. In addition, it is well known that the phenomena of alimentary dystrophy are characterized primarily by a decrease in the protein content of blood serum.
On the contrary, the studies showed an increase in the content of total protein in blood serum compared to the initial level during the whole period of dosed fasting. I.P. Razenkov discovered that during fasting, after the cessation of digestive juice secretion, the so-called “spontaneous” gastric secretion appears, containing a large amount of proteins, which, according to I.P. Razenkov, “is an adaptive mechanism that reduces the loss of proteins and provides the organism with a constant influx of amino acids – a plastic material used to build and recreate proteins of the most important organs”. One important peculiarity has been noted: if even during dosed fasting a person consumes any one-sided food, at least in minimal doses, he develops phenomena of dystrophy. This is explained by the fact that the periodic introduction of even a small amount of food into the stomach causes excitation of gastric peristalsis, as a result of which there is no suppression of the activity of digestive glands, the feeling of hunger is preserved. In this case, the normal process of metabolism is violated. Due to the receipt of food from outside, the body does not switch in time to endogenous (internal) nutrition, deep changes in the cells, their disorganization begins much earlier than used its own internal reserves. At complete starvation, no dystrophic phenomena are observed. The organism timely adapts for a certain period of time to its internal nutrition, i.e. nutrition by its reserves of fats, proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins and mineral salts. This nutrition satisfies all the needs of the organism and is complete.
At the same time, even food causes protein antagonism in allergic patients, which does not occur in starvation. The food regime itself, especially the so-called balanced diet, including the simultaneous intake of dairy and meat products, which are the most saturated with protein-allergens, especially aggravates protein antagonism. The enzymatic system under such a diet is unable to adequately react and break down all protein structures to the original amino acids digestible by human cells. It is proved by radioimmune method that at such nutrition there is penetration through the gastrointestinal tract into the blood stream of large-dispersed protein molecules, which are not assimilated by tissues until there is an allergic reaction of antigen – antibody. At expressed protein antagonism in a chronic patient in the usual dietary regimen develop uncontrolled (unquenchable) antigen-antibody reactions with increased release into the bloodstream of mediators (provocateurs) of allergic inflammation (histamine, serotonin, bradykinin, slow-reacting substance of anaphylaxis, etc.), which in such conditions are able to damage the walls of blood vessels. As a result, the permeability of the vessel walls increases. Microholes are formed in the vessels, through which blood can penetrate outside the vessels, which is naturally fraught with unfavorable consequences.
First of all, these injuries are noted in small and then in the main vessels. In response to such damage in the bloodstream there is a whole cascade of abnormal reactions in terms of relative compensation of the disease (according to the theory of the outstanding scientist Davydovsky I. V.). These negative aspects of food nutrition on fasting are excluded. This is probably due to the normalization of the state of blood vessel walls due to the cessation of their damage on starvation by immunopathological reactions (reaction – antigen – antibody), as a result of which the so-called shock poisons are released, destructively acting on the surrounding cells. For this reaction, the body is forced to spend a lot of additional energy. The energy is also spent on extinguishing the consequences of this reaction. Even for healthy people such a diet is economically and physiologically unfavorable. And in chronic patients, uncontrollable “unquenchable” allergic reactions are aggravated with subsequent more powerful damaging effect of allergic inflammatory mediators on the walls of blood vessels. These reactions lead to an increase in blood coagulation factors and blood viscosity. During dosed fasting, these abnormal phenomena also become normal, as the vessel walls regain their structure and are no longer traumatized. During fasting the blood is purified from all unnecessary things and the blood plasma becomes transparent as a glass, everything comes into harmony, including the clotting factors.
It is also necessary to point out the powerful anti-allergic,anti-inflammatoryeffect of glucocorticoids, which “serve” the process of glucose production from protein components – gluconeogenesis – that is vital at the initial stages of starvation.
Drugs similar to glucocorticoids have long been sold over-the-counter in the pharmacy under the names hydrocortisone, prednisolone and other hormonal anti-allergic agents or, simply, steroid hormones. All of these quite effective medications relieve inflammatory manifestations through suppression of the body’s immune response. Hence, the universal nature of the therapeutic effect of fasting becomes clear – if glucocorticoids relieve inflammation, i.e. the symptoms of the disease, then during fasting, the function of the adrenal cortex, which secretes the hormone (cortisol), is normalized. And then there is a strengthening of the function of the adrenal cortex reaches its highest point. Three times the normal amount of glucocorticoids, flooding the blood, has a strong anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic effect, suppressing all the foci of inflammation present in the body. After all, we know that glucocorticoid hormones are the body’s strongest anti-inflammatory agent. In the action of free forms of glucocorticoids lies another powerful therapeutic mechanism of action on allergic and inflammatory diseases. And in cases where the pathogenic factor is the immune system itself, then full recovery. Hence the high effectiveness of fasting in a wide range ofautoimmune diseases. That is why, for example, fasting is used for various allergies, including for treatment ofbronchial asthmaof allergic nature, which, by the way, has been confirmed by clinical practice.
Further, since, according to modern scientific ideas, most of the most widespread chronic diseases (atherosclerosis, rheumatism, diabetes, etc.) are autoimmune in nature, the rapid effect of fasting as a therapeutic remedy becomes clear.
