AWeber - FOHAC Newsletter Intermittent Fasting #429

Published: Sun, 10/22/17

Fair Oaks Health News

Welcome

October 22, 2017

Intermittent Fasting

Hi ,

Last week a patient asked me why I hadn’t written an article on intermittent fasting. I was amazed, because it has been a mainstay of my lifestyle for years now. I feel like I have written about it many times, but maybe I have never actually come out and named it by name. Possibly this is because I started doing it before it was given that name.

As I have written before, I have been doing fasts of varying lengths since I was 18 years old. I got interested in the whole idea while I was in high school. I had a subscription to Scientific American and they ran an article on research on the impact of complete calorie deprivation on people. The research was very positive and I resolved to try it out for myself as soon as I headed off to college at UC Davis the next year. My first fast was a water only fast for 2 weeks. I was amazed how easy it was once I got past the first couple days.

I find now, 46 years later, that getting up the motivation for complete water fasts has gotten much harder. The benefits are still there, but I no longer feel that complete water fasts are as effective as other protocols, like my green fast. If you have a gut load of bad bacteria, then a complete fast might starve the bad guys out as part of a larger guided gut bug removal program. But for most people we want to heal a damaged gut and support a rebuilding of the good guy microbes in the gut. At the same time we want to detoxify the body by giving the liver uninterrupted time to focus on getting rid of the poisons in the system. It can’t do this if food is present because its first priority is to process any food entering the system.

This is where intermittent fasting comes into the picture. It takes about 8 hours from the end of your last meal of the day for your liver to be finished up with processing the food from that meal. Then it can switch over to detoxing the system and dumping the poisons through the bile into the colon for elimination via the bowel. Because of the shear massive load of toxic

substances entering our body through our air, water, food, and through the skin, our liver is overloaded with work to do. It needs lots of time to do this job as well as all the vital nutrients and cofactors it uses to break down the poisons for elimination.

The purpose of intermittent fasting is to give the liver sufficient time to do this job by fasting between dinner and breakfast for longer than usual. Normally we go 10 to 12 hours without eating every night. This only leaves 2 to 4 hours for detoxification. We really need at least 8 or more hours to make a dent on our toxic burden. One way we can do this is with what has come to be termed a 16/8 protocol. An example might be to finish your dinner by 6:30 in the evening and then not eat breakfast until 10:30 the next morning. Coffee or tea in the early morning is fine as no digestion or liver time is needed with this. No consumption of proteins, carbs, sugars, or fats is made until 10:30. This leaves the liver a full 8 hours to break down poisons and dump them after the 8 hours of food processing it does between 6:30 pm and 2:30 am.

This is really quite doable. My 87-year-old mother does a 16/8 eating schedule every day. It is part of why she is able to be so constantly busy running the garden club in Colfax (which actually means doing all the weeding in the garden beds downtown.) That is just one of the clubs she is in, not to mention all her church activities.

You can set any 16-hour time per day without food to get the liver to step into detox mode. Vitamins and other supplements won’t disturb the processing, and neither will most medications. Technically fiber should not bother it either in case you wanted to take a fiber only shake or eat a nice bowl of steamed greens. They are just like taking vitamins. But consuming anything your liver has to process will shut down the detoxification pathways.

The nice thing about a simple 16/8 eating protocol is that it does not have anything to do with what you eat, only when you eat. You can reap significant health benefits without changing your diet at all. Of course eating healthy vegetables and proteins, and leaving out the processed foods, grains, seed oils, and sugars will do even better for your health. But just your timing for your foods all by itself can have powerful impacts on your health by decreasing the poisons filling up your system.

So give it a try and see how you feel. If it is not for you because you have a fragile blood sugar metabolism, you will know right away and all you have to do is eat to rebalance your blood sugar. I find in my practice only about 5% of people have this issue. Those people need to gradually switch over to a fat burning based metabolism instead of their totally sugar burning metabolism they are stuck with now.

So give intermittent fasting a try. It is really good for you.

Take care,

David

Ellen update:

Ellen and I get to host Thanksgiving this year for our families. Ellen is a paragon of preparedness so we are already getting ready. The first step is testing recipes we might want to use. Tradition needs a little adjusting when you avoid grain flours, dairy. and sugar. Here Ellen is trying out a dinner roll recipe made from arrowroot, almond flour, flax, and tapioca. She next tackled a delightful recipe for cranberry relish that included raisins and apple given to her by Catherine.

Eating better improves fitness in old age

In totally unsurprising findings it has now been shown that if you eat healthier while you are younger, you will be more physically fit when you get older. The testing was for even simple abilities like the ability to get up out of a chair or your ability to stay balanced while standing.

Eating

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"Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."

~ Ambrose Bierce

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PPI use increases strokes and heart attacks

The popoular antacid drugs called proton pump inhibitors have been shown to create a 29% increased chance of having a storke and a 36% increased chance of a heart attack. We have discussed before about the increase in osteoporosis from using antacid drugs. These seem pretty dangerous to me.

Proton pump inhibitors

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding"

~ Ambrose Bierce
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The cause for dyslexia may have been discovered

New research has discovered that folks with dyslexia may have an issue with the light sensitive cells in the back of the eye. The cells may match between the right and left too well producing mirror images, which confuses the brain. Normal folks have different patterns of cells in the right and left sides. They found that the use of a special led lamp could erase this mirror image and the dyslexia along with it.

Dyslexia

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"Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient."

~ Ambrose Bierce

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About Dr. DeLapp

Dr. DeLapp has been a philosopher, non-force Chiropractor, medical intuitive, and health innovator for over 35 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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