Successful 38 day fasting
Hi everyone,
after a series of do-it-yourself experiments to defeat a CD, I finally
did fasting for 38 days. Believe it or not, it acted like a miracle and till today (2.5 months after the end of fasting) I am free of all CD symptoms and on no medication. I did it with a doctor's tacit agreement but without any supervision.
The majority of people thinks that fasting is a negative process. Let's look for some facts. Normal body survives without any food for 40-70 days while a body looses up to 20% of its weight. Such time period ensures the reversibility of all mechanisms with no permanent damage. Two things are mandatory for successful and safe fasting: i) free will with a decision to undergo the fasting process and ii) a returning diet. Before this 38 day fasting, I had had experience only with a one day fasting and knew that I can easily survive. During the 38 day fasting, I was normally working in academia, rode a bike and doing smaller manual work.
Here are some details which might serve for the others. It's much easier than you might have thought.
During the fasting, I drank only 0.5 liter of vegetable home-made juice (3 parts of beetroot, 1 of carrot, 1 of celery, 1 of radish, one small potato) sip by sip until the noon. Such a juice is known in the fasting for cancer so I knew I can survive on that. Besides that, I drank various herb teas for blood cleaning and anti inflammatory (nettle, salvia, calendula, knotgrass, yarrow, horsetail, balm) in the amount ~2.5 liter a day. Absolutely no food is allowed during the fasting and eating is a hazard with your life. Last week of my fasting, I added home-made juice from red currants (0.3 l/day). From time to time, I had a broth from one onion.
First day I felt a little hunger and fought with the fact not to eat for more than a months. The third day I experienced an acidotic crisis which resembles a light hangover. Walking like 10 km in the nature helped to cope with that and to feel much better. After the fifths day I felt absolutely no desire for food – it was just a matter without an interest. I stopped to take my medication for CD. This is mandatory since the medication effect goes one order of magnitude higher and it's necessary to consult with your doctor before. But at that time I felt absolutely no problems in my belly. Roughly the eighth day my psychics began to change. I was very phlegmatic and full of psychical energy as never before. A lot of things did not bothered me and I felt as a newborn. This lasted more or less to the end of fasting so I was very productive in my academic job
The thermal regulation of my body was bad and I had to dress a lot. Around 18. day the acidotic crisis repeated. Not much changed during last days and I was losing like 0.15 kg a day. Acceptable weight loss is generally taken as 20 % without any irreversible damage.
The weight serves for me as an indicator of healing. The Crohn's disease was diagnosed in my 28. But since my 18th birthdays I have had +-64 kg which I think was already the CD indicator (height 178 cm). Immediately after the fasting the weight dropped to 55 kg as the lowest weight ever and one month after ended in 71 kg which stabilized and has remained till today.
Before fasting I eliminated all unhealthy food and that possibly causing an intolerance; milk, carrageen, white flour, refined sugar, red meat, salami. The CD improved but I was still on Pentasa as the mildest medication currently used against an inflammation. I saw blood in my stool with a lot of mucus, suffered from iron deficiency and feeling pain in the intestines.
After the fasting nothing of that is evident. The blood tests were perfect 5 days after the end of fasting which signalized no deficiency to my body. Now I feel perfectly, visiting bathroom 1-2 a day for pooing with a normal stool consistency. I still keep that elimination diet with a lot of vegetable and fruit. So far I consider myself to be healthy! For fasting, I needed no special medication and the cost is minimal – just to buy juicer, vegetable and herbs. Studying the literature of fasting, I found myself to be a typical example. According to some literature, the gastroenterology problems and CD are very responsive to fasting. So nothing new in the world.
