My last newsletter was on the importance of fasting for health, yet not one person came to me last week and said, "Hey Doc, I really want to do some fasting!"  I almost get the impression that fasting is not attractive to everyone.  So this newsletter is to dispel the negative image the fasting experience seems to have.

You can feast while you fast!

The first objection people give me is a feeling of how hopeless it would be to try to go without food for even a few hours.  Yet people regularly run out of the house in the morning with nothing other than a cup of coffee to keep themselves going till noon.  This common occurrence is actually a basic form of fasting.  You can eat your full and regular amount of food each day and still fast through a process called intermittent fasting. 

The goal we are after in fasting is to get the liver to switch into detoxification mode to eliminate metabolic poisons from our system.  The liver can not do this as long as it is busy processing food that we have eaten.  It takes the liver 6 to 8 hours to process our last food of the day and use up the stored sugar in the liver it uses for energy to engage food processing.  Once the sugar has run out and the food has finished processing, then the liver switches over to burning fats and breaking down poisons.

Even if we are 100% pure in our diet and environment, we create a load of metabolic poison every day just by being alive,...and this poison needs to be detoxified every day or it causes damage while the body tries to store it.  Most of us ingest an even greater load of poisons in the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe every day.  We need a lot of liver detoxification time on a regular basis.

The idea then is to give your liver 8 to 12 hours of time each day to spend detoxifying your body.  To do this, all you need to do is confine your eating to a 5 to 7 hour time period each day.  Skip breakfast completely or have that cup of organic freshly ground and brewed coffee without any sugar or cream.  An even better alternative is my Loving Life Elixir made from organic Cacao and Moringa powders.  These will only enhance the liver detoxification process.  Have your heaviest meal at lunch time and then a lighter dinner within six hours of your lunch time.  Eat nothing else at any other time.  Drink plenty of water or herbal teas.

For most people this simple diet timing change will produce weight loss.

More importantly, this will increase your resistance to aging, disease, and tiredness.  It increases your insulin sensitivity (a good thing), increases your efficiency at creating energy, decreases oxidative stress (bad guy free radicals), and helps you cope with the stresses of life better.

One exception to this protocol: blood sugar hypoglycemia.  If you have low blood sugar then you need to have that repaired first.  It is a simple fix, but it involves a special Chiropractic neurological adjustment and a particular sugar control diet for 3 weeks.  After that you should be able to follow the intermittent fasting protocol for health.

Obviously, if you are going to improve your ability to detoxify, it would be a good idea not to eat poisons in the first place.  The main poisons you want to avoid are all seed oils (like soy, sunflower, canola, corn, safflower, cottonseed, etc...), all sugars and sugar substitutes (except stevia and lo han), and chemicals found in processed foods.  For those of you that are sensitive to them, grains and dairy are also to be avoided as well as any other foods you are sensitive to.  These are basic health guidelines for everyone all the time no matter what.  These things are poisons - don't eat them.  One of my patients' told me she shoots for a 99% effectiveness at avoiding poisons.  This is a good idea, as achieving 100% would be so stressful that the stress would create more poison than you would avoid by being 100% good.  (Yes stress creates metabolic poisons in your body.)

Full Time Fasting

If you are looking or needing a more intense body detoxification there is nothing like a good full on fast for a week or two.  But our understanding of the biochemical processes has increased significantly over the last 50 years so the days of straight water fasting are no longer seen as being necessary for the best results.  In fact, problems of auto-intoxication from reabsorbing the poisons being excreted by the liver through the walls of the colon make water fasts undesirable.  It is very important to keep the bowels flowing and dumping during a fast to eliminate the poisons as they are being eliminated by the liver.  In the old days this had to be addressed through the daily use of high enemas to flush out the poisons.

We now understand that all we need to do to trigger the liver to go into clean-out mode is eliminate carbohydrates from the diet and lower your total calorie consumption level to less than 500 calories per day.  You want to be eating a ton of green leafy fibrous plant material.  Not only will this supply a lot of the specific nutrients the liver needs to detoxify itself, but it provides the plant fibers necessary to bind and carry off the excreted poisons.

500 calories may not seem like a lot of food, but when you realize you are eating non-starchy vegetables, you will literally be feasting.  It can be hard to eat all you are supposed to eat in order to get the amount of fiber you want (30+ grams a day).  For instance, one of my favorite green foods is cabbage, and 1 cup of shredded cabbage is only 18 calories.  I am consuming about 10 cups of stir-fried cabbage a day.  That is a full tummy's worth all day, and only 180 calories.  I lightly sauté it in a pan with a teaspoon of avocado oil and when almost done, I add a teaspoon of fish sauce - delicious!

You can make salads of all sorts by selecting only leafy and non-starchy vegetables and using flavored vinegars (no sugar or artificial sweeteners) or lemon juice as a dressing.  My favorite dressing is:

Other herbs added to this make a wide variety of interesting dressings.  Water, lemon juice, Supersweet Drops, and spices also make a nice variety of dressings.

Your goal is to feast on 10 to 12 cups of salad and greens a day while fasting.  The salad can be raw or it can be cooked by lightly steaming it or stir frying it with a tiny amount of coconut, olive, or avocado oil.  You might even make vegetable soups with the salad materials and some low fat broth or bone stock.  This is especially nice on these rainy cold days.

I recommend that you spend 4 days getting your body into a fat burning mode before you start a detox fast.  You do this by eating as much non-starchy vegetables, proteins, and fats as you want for 4 days while completely avoiding all starches and sugars including beans, root vegetables, grains, and anything else that has any carbohydrate at all in it.  Then to move into the fast, simply leave out the proteins and fats.

If you are going to fast for more than 5 days, I recommend consuming at least 50 grams of pure protein one time per day, preferable in the mid day.  Pure protein means something like egg whites, whey protein, unsweetened protein powder mixed in water (flavoring like vanilla or cocoa with stevia sweetener is ok).  Chicken or turkey breast is also a good choice when freshly cooked without salt - just herbs.  We want protein intake to keep your body from tearing down its own protein for repair and support of your body.  This changes the fast into a modified protein-sparing fast. 

Your body can sustain this type fast for quite some time to great effectiveness for major weight loss.  I strongly recommend you be under a doctor's supervision if you are going to try this for more than 30 days.  Your body will be in a clean out and repair mode and not a building mode, so you will not want to be doing a lot of exercise or training during this time.  In a natural environment, you would be trying to hibernate as much as possible.  Strangely though, there is no lack of energy when you are doing this.  In fact some people feel better than they ever have during this time.  Your body is very happy living on burning fats.  It is a much cleaner burning fuel that does not promote inflammation like sugar burning does.  There is actually zero need for carbohydrates in the diet.

So yes, you can feast while fasting.  You need never be hungry while you are fasting.  In fact you may find yourself stuffed. 

You will probably encounter going through withdrawal from many of the addictive food drugs your body has become dependent upon - sugar, salt, fat, msg, flavorings, chemicals, etc.  But that is part of what detoxification is all about - breaking the food addiction response.  The idea is to sober up your brain chemistry by getting rid of the food drugs.  They are killing you by triggering the major degenerative diseases.  Your quality of life and most of your life savings ends up being lost to these food-induced degenerative diseases.  But you can choose to change all that. 

Detoxification is a powerful step in the direction of health.

Yours in health,


David       

We are saying farewell to our valued support staff Gypsy as she moves forward in her life to engage creating a new self employed career as a combination Hypnotherapist and massage therapist.  Best of luck!

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In an astounding statement of the obvious a new paper in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition - a review of 24 previous studies - has concluded that high glycemic foods do indeed produce a significantly greater risk for diabetes.  High glycemic foods are not only those foods with sugar in them, but also starchy foods that digest easily like bread and pasta or low fiber fruits like watermelon and pineapple.  But even this study missed the recent link discovered between fructose and diabetes.  So even some low glycemic foods are dangerous if there is a lot of fructose in them.  

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About Dr. DeLapp

Dr. DeLapp has been a philosopher, non-force Chiropractor, medical intuitive, and health innovator for over 30 years.  He began experimenting with  medical intuition in 1972 while studying physics at UC Davis.  In addition to physics he designed and completed an individual major in the philosophy and psychology of education.  Shortly after he choose to pursue a career in the only truly health oriented profession available at that time, Chiropractic.  He graduated with honors in 1981 with his doctorate and opened a private practice. 
Since that time he has continued his research into the effects of consciousness and learning on health. 
He developed the Biomagnetic Retraining system for correcting movement abnormalities. 
Since 1991 he has focused on developing a powerful system for uncovering and assisting the mind-body connection in health and personal growth.  The in-depth coaching, guided by the subconscious direction from the body, is called Heartflow and the simpler mind-body retraining for health and unfoldment he has named Gracework.  Both are available at Fair Oaks Health.

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