Today, many are supporters of therapeutic fasting. However, in order to cure the disease using this method, you need to follow a number of rules and be sure to monitor your health.
In what cases is shown therapeutic fasting.
The hunger strike is primarily useful in case of problems with the gastrointestinal tract, overweight, stagnation in the pelvic organs, caused by a sedentary lifestyle. There are cases of improvement in gastritis, the initial stage of ulcers, with intestinal disorders, cholecystitis.
This method helps with hypertension, angina, anemia. In addition, allergies, asthma, certain skin diseases, and diabetes at the initial stage are indications for therapeutic fasting. Many beginners are afraid of a complete rejection of food, because it is a source of energy. In fact, wellness fasting is not the way to exhaustion. If you emotionally adjust yourself correctly, it is easier to tolerate.
To understand the mechanism of this technique, you need to remember about wildlife. Many representatives of the animal world periodically refuse to consume food for several days. This allows the body to process food that has already arrived, to remove slags and toxins. Due to this, the body begins to work like a clock.
However, compulsive consumption of food, a huge choice of products on the shelves, the ability to go to a cafe at any time often deprive the willpower. Therefore, refusal to eat even for a few days is an impossible task for many. In addition, the refusal to eat for a certain period is the strongest spiritual practice, which is part of many religions of the world.
Therapeutic fasting at home
One of the advantages of this therapy is the ability to do it yourself. Medical fasting is safe, but only in the case when a person is responsible for his health and at the first alarming symptoms, for example, loss of strength or nausea, immediately see a doctor.
To master this technique can each person, regardless of their education and experience in fasting. To comply with the regime does not need expensive medicines or the passage of a long survey.
In the absence of direct contraindications, which may include the acute form of any disease, the postoperative period, the inflammatory process, you just need to stock up on the desire to become more healthy.
Detailed rules for therapeutic fasting are quite simple, you need to know the essence of the technique in order to follow it exactly. It is necessary to communicate in advance with those who have successfully cleaned their body with this method. You need to master the method gradually, starting with a one-day hunger strike. In the process it is very important to monitor the state of health and the body's reaction to the lack of food.
Throughout the practice, it is impossible to supercool, to perform power physical exertion, which requires a significant expenditure of strength and energy. It requires more rest, adherence to the strict regime of the day and consume at least one and a half liters of water every day.
You should not lose weight at home if you want to last more than 10 days without food. Some people, who can last without food for up to 3 weeks, went through several one-week failures to begin with, learned to feel their body and its needs. If there is a history of chronic leg diseases, you take insulin or hormones, you need to starve under the supervision of an endocrinologist, a therapist or other doctor. In addition, not to do without medical supervision and with a sharp deterioration.
How does fasting feel?
To prepare for a new experience, you need to know in advance what feelings you will have from fasting, what symptoms may occur. Due to this, understanding comes, fear disappears, and any change in the state of the body will be perceived as natural. The first thing starving people say is the desire to eat something. Of course, hunger will be felt throughout the treatment.
But after 2 days, the feeling of hunger begins to dull, replaced by ease, clarity of thinking, aggravation of feelings. The next attack in the form of the desire to eat can appear only for 5-6 days. On the remaining days, starving people show some disgust for food. As soon as they come out of fasting, the appetite is restored.
People who are not yet accustomed to this method of cleansing the body may experience dizziness, nausea, weakness. As you get used to the symptoms begin to subside. But if a person is weakened by illness or exhausted, he needs to be very sensitive to such reactions of his body and stop the hunger strike if the condition worsens dramatically.
Medical Fasting
It is not just a solution to stop eating one day. This is a competent therapy, in which everything should be provided: from the number of days without nutrients that come to us with food, to the right way out of fasting. The main factors that determine the duration of this process are age, experience, the severity of chronic diseases, if any, and medical history.
This technique is not suitable for pregnant and lactating women, minors and the elderly, especially in poor physical condition. Start better with a one-day fast, gradually increasing the number of days to 5.
As experienced proponents of this system note, they can survive without food for up to one and a half months, resorting to proper breathing techniques, which allows them to saturate the cells with oxygen and rearrange the thinking system. When fasting, the processes of oxidation and regeneration in our body begin to accelerate, which contributes to the rapid removal of toxins.
Without a hunger strike, the body consumes a huge amount of not quite healthy food every day, forcing your body to spend energy on the digestive process. Naturally, this increases the load on the organs, causing various ailments. During treatment therapy, the load is temporarily removed, which allows the body to use energy reserves for self-healing.
Nuances of preparation
The success of the treatment depends on the degree of preparedness of the person. Before her, it is desirable to follow an uncomplicated kefir diet for 2-3 days, it looks like this:
- for breakfast - a glass of low-fat kefir;
- for a second breakfast - a glass of low-fat kefir, several wheat rusks;
- for lunch - a glass of low-fat kefir, savory casserole of cabbage or cottage cheese;
- for lunch - half a cup of non-fat kefir or mineral water without gas;
- for dinner - a glass of low-fat kefir, a few raw vegetables.
Due to this diet intestine free and prepare for fasting. At the same time with this diet, a person needs to spend a lot of time in the fresh air, not forget about vitamins, practice breathing practices, free the body and mind from bad thoughts. You need to train yourself to drink only high-quality mineral or purified water.
If there are any diseases, for example, an ulcer or anemia, a little carrot and beet juice can be added to the liquid. When fasting against the background of a cold is shown to add lemon or other citrus fruits. With heart disease - water with honey.
Features of exit from therapy
In order for refusal of food to bring only benefits, it is necessary not only to learn how to starve, but also to get out of this therapy correctly. This should be done gradually so as not to negate all your efforts. Any product is introduced into the diet little by little, carefully, especially if we talk about protein foods.
First you need to eat small portions, avoiding fatty or salty foods, then listening to the reaction of the stomach, to increase the volume of portions. But if the hunger strike was necessary because of the struggle with obesity, then it is not necessary to return the previous volume of servings. Often, newcomers have breakdowns that are accompanied by gluttony, this can lead to negative consequences.
