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Fasting Triggers Stem Cell Regeneration of Damaged, Old Immune System
schwit1 sends word of research showing that cycles of prolonged fasting can both protect the immune system from harm and also induce regeneration by causing stem cells to start renewing themselves.
'In both mice and a Phase 1 human clinical trial (abstract), long periods of not eating significantly lowered white blood cell counts. In mice, fasting cycles then "flipped a regenerative switch," changing the signaling pathways for hematopoietic stem cells, which are responsible for the generation of blood and immune systems, the research showed. "PKA is the key gene that needs to shut down in order for these stem cells to switch into regenerative mode. It gives the OK for stem cells to go ahead and begin proliferating and rebuild the entire system," explained [study author Valter Longo], noting the potential of clinical applications that mimic the effects of prolonged fasting to rejuvenate the immune system. "And the good news is that the body got rid of the parts of the system that might be damaged or old, the inefficient parts, during the fasting. Now, if you start with a system heavily damaged by chemotherapy or aging, fasting cycles can generate, literally, a new immune system."'
I've always felt stronger after the Holy Month - that surprised me as a kid. Nice Article.
Stop eating and you'll live forever.
All that time and you still couldn't think of anything worthwhile to post?
The scriptures of the world's great religions include a wide variety of topics. Some of them are very practical. And some are clearly mythological. Trying to lump them all together under a single interpretative approach is obvious folly.
.... it's surely just a bunch of superstitious nonsense......
Which scripture recommends the quite specific kind of fasting this study suggests will trigger the regeneation cycle? Link to relevant verse (or whaever it's called) would be good too.
Plenty of foods cause immune reactions, especially after a food chemist screws it up even more than it would be normally. People will continue to eat garbage, and plenty of it, till it kills them. Getting people to fast is like asking a heroin addict to switch over to cannabis.
Fasting and being starved are quite different things...Fasting is not about getting too little energy and nutrients in the long term, or being malnourished. Even suggesting that starvation is just a form of fasting is naive and ignorant.
Even in a script of superstitious nonsense some idea may be of value.
Fasting is a requirement by the god or for some other reason?
.... it's surely just a bunch of superstitious nonsense......
Oh yeah, that (what I said before) and with scientific evidence it carries some interest and use whereas as a religious scripture it's totally useless.
Are you wearing clothing only made from 100% of one material? Have you shaved? You certainly better not be a woman and quoting the bible.
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Does anyone have any idea whether the same effect has been observed for long-term calorie deficit, or low-calorie diets?
As a natural body builder I fast for 3 days every two weeks, the results are more muscle mass less body fat stronger faster trigger muscle...
So, what are the health benefits from stoning people for doing things I don't like? :D What? It's in the scriptures!
" Even suggesting that starvation is just a form of fasting is naive and ignorant." Don't forget Assholeish. It's definitely that too.
I'm guessing that has more to do with available sugars. Farting is, I think, caused by gas buildup created by your gut bacteria. If they have WAY too much food, they're going to try to eat it, and make a lot of excess gas.
I keep careful track of my diet, and I notice more flatulence when I indulge in sweets. I eat a nice salad twice a day, some yogurt, nuts, drink some tea, i'm good. If I have a few extra cookies, or just eat Shit Food when i'm out with friends or something, and yeah... Bloaty McFarterson.
I wonder if this will get modded Too Much Informative? :D
actually, it's probably best to do AFTER the chemo. Let the chemo destroy their immune system, then fast for 4 days, and bingo! New immune system. Theoretically.
i'm sorry, your random word generator does not pass the Turing test.
Wait another 2 days and you might see it on soylent!
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Farting is caused by the inability of our intestine to break complex sugars (lack of specialized enzymes), examples of which can be found in legumes. These sugars then reach the gut, where bacteria have no problems breaking them, releasing gasses in the process.
There are even pills you can take with your food (e.g. when eating beans) that provide the missing enzyme so that you won't fart. In US, Beano is probably the most popular one.
You won't fart just because you ate a chocolate bar. And b.t.w., these complex sugars are not sweet, therefore there is no connection between eating sweets and farting.
Increased upper body strength.
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!
If rebooting the immune system like this clears out allergic sensitivities it would be far more important than it's impact on people with more seriously damaged systems as allergies are far more common. Perhaps this explains why in first world nations where food is so abundant there is a coincidental rise in allergies?
No harm in individuals testing this hypothesis, but a properly designed study would be needed to confirm it in a scientifically valid way.
There's not enough info here to draw any firm conclusions. And I must say my BS detector went haywire hearing that the signal is given to "rebuild the ENTIRE system" (my emphasis). The appalling analogy about lightening the load of a cargo plane left me wondering also. Finally, this sort of science journalism fits too nicely into the destructive and silly meme of 'cleansing' your immune system. So I'm not swallowing it just yet.
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Why so anonymous? It's not like you was wrong.
Hopefully you just lack a user and the reason isn't that you're too afraid to post as yourself.
I figured that post would fly like a brick around here.
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Does fasting omit the consumption of water?
My guess is the placebo effect at work. If fasting is 'healthy', then people in poor countries with inadequate food, will outlive people in rich countries. That obviously isn't happening.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
thats all just to make you say "oh god please feed me" or "oh god help me survive the hunger" and when you do survive, you thank god. its just mind tricks for the gullible.
"The hands that help are better far than lips that pray." - Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899)
definitely a good post for the gullible. i look briefly at one of those and this was in the first sentence "fasting is abstaining from food, drink, sleep or sex to focus on a period of spiritual growth" - abstain from water during your fast for 3/4 days and you'd be in serious trouble http://www.livescience.com/323...
"The hands that help are better far than lips that pray." - Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899)
I was put on a heart lung machine in an induced coma for three days when suffering congestive cardiac failure.
Came out feeling great, as well as seeing flying elephants up around the ceiling when I was coming to.
Go well
Coffee has like 5 calories...and is basically water.
I am amazed that my frothy latte with chocolate sprinkles, a dose of cinnamon syrup and 3 sugars is only 5 calories.... :-)
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I have remarkable personal experience that, in my opinion supports the conclusion in this article. Very briefly, beginning at age 6, I became sickly and had asthma for the next 40 years, requiring two medications almost continually. In an attempt to lose a middle-age related weight gain, I began fasting, eating absolutely nothing but drinking plenty of water. To my unanticipated delight, I noticed that after 5 days, my asthma symptoms had disappeared. Suspecting a food allergy cause, I continued fasting for a total of 10 days, and began eating again, with certain food groups only, in order to determine which one might have been the issue. Nothing that I ate caused the symptoms to return, and I discontinued using any asthma medicine. That was in October of 1999. To my total, unexpected surprise, not only has the asthma never returned, but since then, I never catch a cold, the flu, or any other illness or discomfort. I have to have annual physicals to remain an adult volunteer in the BSA, and I always check out fine, with no problems at all. It would be interesting to hear from anyone else who had similar results from, by all appearances to me, nothing but fasting.
No, they aren't "quite different". One is for a short period, and one is longer than that. That's it.
Sort of like life and death, then.
For the most part, western medicine treats symptoms, yoga eliminates the cause. I always wonder about cheerleaders of modern western medicine, it's like they're blind and can't see the horrible state that humans in western society are in.
While other societies might have come up with the idea of fasting, yoga wrote it down and had an explanation thousands, read that again, thousands of years ago. You shouldn't be so critical of things you know nothing about, after all, you do know where 'atom' came from don't you? No, obviously you don't.
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To anyone who thinks this research has triggered their "bullshit detector" I say "you are so full of bullshit your detector is broken".
Watch this BBC/Horizon documentary http://vimeo.com/54089463
In this video they take before/after blood samples and show at least SOME actual physiological changes, change of things in ways which we currently consider to be "good for your health".
There really (no, really really) DOES appear to be at least some valid science behind this.
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You was replying to the wrong post. Guess it was for the grand parent post.
Hey, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
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Dude! Check the book, Noah lived to like 950. That's totally true, not just some marketing shtick.
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Mod parent up. Best post I've seen all day.
Chuuch. Preach. Tabernacle.
I thought the gut (stomach) came before the intestines (both small and large). Are you eating in reverse?
Chuuch. Preach. Tabernacle.
My apologies, I was thinking of the colon. EFL (English as a fourth language).
Thanks for the correction.
Thank you, and my apologies if I came across as a smart-ass. I recently ate a lot of cauliflower (for the first time) and was amazed by how much gas I was producing. Was geniunely curious how this worked, as I'm very ignorant of even the most basic biological systems.
Chuuch. Preach. Tabernacle.
For most of human evolution, I would think that periods of scarce food supply were pretty frequent. I wonder if part of the human body is optimized for this - when there isn't enough food (cold winter), your body consumes itself, starting with the old and weak parts (think of wolves culling the elderly and diseased members from elk herds during the winter) and then when you have a surplus again (spring and summer) it switches on and builds healthy new ones.
With increasing research coming out about how important sunlight can be to cue physiological sleep/wake cycles, etc, I wonder if there are other environmental signals that produce beneficial responses in the body, and which of them that were around for most of our species' development have been totally lost in a century or so.
Nope, doing it after the chemotherapy would probably kill them.