5-day cellular clean-up, join me? (Scroll down for cool pics)
Hey!
I’m ready to do another five-day “fasting-mimicking diet.” I invite you to try the most straightforward way of fasting I’ve found. If you’ve been with me for a few years, you may remember I’ve been doing these fasts before I got covid. Now I believe that fasting more will finally help me get back on my feet, and I’m strong enough to do it now.
Also, my belly is fat. Ew. Plus, I am not fighting off things I used to be able to pre-covid. Ugh.
In the last six months, I’ve gotten Giardia, a rash from a mineral spring, a persistent vaginal infection, a nail fungus, a UTI from a hot spring, and had a terrible reaction to the covid vaccination. This is a fallout from being sick for over a year from Covid. It detonated in my body, and my immune system can’t recover.
Every time I feel better, something knocks me down. I’m going to the root of the problem and fixing it by using autophagy to eliminate the damage that is dampening my immune response.
This is INTERESTING new science.
When you have damaged cells, your body needs to go through autophagy (spring-cleaning) to eliminate dead cells and tissue, fatty deposits, tumors, and other obstructions to optimal body function. Otherwise, they accumulate, and your ratio of damaged cells to healthy cells gets too high. You begin to lose energy because you have mitochondrial damage. The mitochondria are the batteries that make energy in your cells.
Worse, the broken cells called SASP (senescent-associated secretory phenotype) cells leak inflammatory goo. Your body’s cytokines reach your stem cells. But your stem cells make more leaky goo SASP cells instead of new healthy cells. Argh! Then the ratio of damaged cells to healthy cells gets even higher. And downhill you go.
Chronic inflammation locks your body in a perpetual state of molecular stress as it struggles to heal injuries, says author Dave Asprey of Fast This Way. (See link below.) Over time, the lymphocytes, monocytes, and macrophages end up attacking healthy tissue instead of cleaning up the inflammation, which leads to auto-immune disease, accelerating the aging process and leading to all sorts of chronic diseases.
The best way to clean out these SASP and other damaged cells and debris is through simple, easy fasting. When your body isn’t building from the food you feed it, it has a chance to clean the inflammatory goo and broken cells out.
To get a good autophagy phase in play, I’ve found that a 5-day Fasting-Mimicking Diet is the easiest way to clean out the broken SASP cells. These are also called Zombie cells by many doctors and longevity experts.
ProLon, the box of pre-made food that puts you into autophagy, is the no-brainer way Tim and I just get the job done. It’s a done-for-you fast. Super simple. And it frees up a lot of time usually spent planning, cooking, eating, and cleaning up. I enjoyed the experience.
My friend, Dave Asprey, has a new book called Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation and Eat Like The High-Performing Human You Were Meant To Be. He explains how fasting supports energy, longevity, good sleep, increased strength, and mental health.
Dave explains that fasting can break you out of your food prison and reset your insulin levels. And when the bacteria in your gut biome are deprived of food, they secrete a hormone called a fasting-induced adipose factor, which instructs the body to start burning fat. I find I have no sugar cravings after doing a ProLon fast. So nice!
In Fast This Way, you learn that your cells clog up with toxins, pathogens, misshapen proteins, and dead cell parts. This “microscopic garbage” impairs the regular operation of your cells and makes it, so they don’t divide and reproduce correctly. This is where the SASP cells end up replicating and increasing your chances of tumors, cancers, and other chronic diseases.
Fasting improves stem cell regeneration, cleans up the neurons in the brain, helps your gut heal, slows aging from oxidative stress, and boosts your emotional state.
Twenty years of extensive preclinical and clinical studies sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and conducted at the Longevity Institute and Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute of the University of Southern California (USC) resulted in the development of the first FMD® (ProLon®) which stimulates:
- High level of protection and stress resistance in cells
- Removal of damaged cells and tissues
- Self-repair of cells resulting in regeneration and rejuvenation within your body
There are many ways to do fasting. I just like having it handled for me by getting the box of ProLon.
I just emptied the box to show you what you get:
PROLON FASTING-MIMICKING DIET
It comes with coaching if you need it. And these are the new flavors they debuted this year.
This fast makes your body go into autophagy without requiring you to go without food altogether.
ProLon ships right to your door, wherever you are. All you need is a pot and a stovetop.
Save time, save your life, and make it easy.
Join Me In Health!
This pic was of me last month. In a few weeks, I will turn 60. I want to live to be at least 100 in total health. I’m fighting my way back after Covid. I’m determined to fix the damage, especially the neuro-damage. Fasting promotes neurogenesis, repairs memory, improves learning function, and heightens BDNF, which is associated with lowered risk of developing Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, and MS by suppressing inflammation in the brain. Fasting also releases catecholamines which are mood-altering and energy-boosting chemicals. I learned all this in Fast This Way.
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