Dry therapeutic starvation: the essence of the methodology, how to go right?

The term "dry starvation" means an absolute refusal of food and water for a certain period (usually it lasts from one to several days) in order to lose weight, improve, improve immunity. This method does not apply to scientific, but is alternative and is based on the assertion that during its carrying out, the body cleanses of toxins and triggers mechanisms leading to healing, loss of excess weight, restoration of metabolic processes and energy. The authors of the methodologies and their followers convince the correctness of the approach the existence of posts inherent in various religions, cultures and traditions and their own experience.

The main principle of dry medical starvation is a complete refusal not only of food, but also of any liquid. The procedure is preceded by the preparation phase. Depending on the method of conducting it is divided into soft and hard. The first provides for a ban on getting anything in the stomach, the second - a complete lack of contact with water: you can not wash, brush your teeth, take a shower or bath, wash your hands. During the period of dry medical starvation, it is necessary to provide access to fresh air, to walk outside, to ventilate the room. Beginners are recommended to limit starvation by one day. Start it and finish it preferably at the same time.

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Indications

The method of dry fasting is given a rather wide scope of application. Indications for his appointment are the following diseases:

• pancreatitis - inflammation of the pancreas, accompanied by intense pain and requires inpatient treatment. Along with the use of antispasmodics and analgesics, official medicine resorts to the treatment of hunger, thereby for 2-3 days disconnect the body from participating in digestion, which makes it possible, together with rest and cold, to project the pancreas to remove inflammation and restore its functions;
• prostatitis - urologists do not confirm the possibility of completely recovering from the disease, but recognize some curative effect of the technique. They explain it by a positive effect on the metabolic processes, the genitourinary system, the stabilization of the hormonal background, the acceleration of the synthesis of growth hormone, involved in the regeneration of the tissues of the prostate;
• arthritis - the collective name of any joint or joint damage (polyarthritis). The experience of dry fasting showed its effectiveness in rheumatoid arthritis - joint disease, causing severe pain and swelling during periods of exacerbation. Excretion of toxins, toxins, infection helps to cope with soreness, relieve inflammation, reduce joint deformity;
• hepatitis - there are many methods for cleaning the liver, including dry fasting, which triggers the withdrawal of various "garbage" from the body. But is it appropriate in the case of hepatitis? There is evidence that this helped to get rid of acute hepatitis A, but this virus is in any case destroyed by its own immune system. As for hepatitis B and C, their chronic course increases the viral load on the organ and can lead to cirrhosis and carcinoma. The death of liver cells is indicated by the level of transaminases in the blood (AST, ALT). Analyzes show that increasing the time between meals only increases these rates. Therefore, it is better not to resort to radical methods with this diagnosis;
• angina pectoris is a heart disease caused by a lack of oxygen in the myocardium as a result of its insufficient blood supply, provoked by arteriosclerosis of the vessels. The pathology of pain in the sternum is expressed after stress, emotional and physical overstrain, excessive alcohol, overeating. The latter fact indicates the dependence of the manifestation of angina on congestion of the stomach, tk. For pumping blood requires more heartbeats than with hungry. Dry starvation makes it possible to improve coronary circulation, reduce stress in the heart muscle, give impetus to the processes of its self-healing;
• hypothyroidism - a disease of the thyroid gland, associated with a decrease in its function, which is responsible for the metabolism, control of all important systems: nervous, musculoskeletal, reproductive, immune, digestive. Insufficient production of hormones reduces efficiency, gives excess weight, brings women problems with the reproductive system, disrupts the menstrual cycle, leads to infertility, causes bad mood and depression. To increase the level of thyroid hormones, patients have to use hormone replacement therapy for life. There is an opinion that dry fasting helps to restore the endocrine system. Transport albumins (proteins) decay, release a lot of hormones, which makes it possible to compensate for the lack of them. Experts are categorically against this method, because it will disrupt metabolism, lead to vitamin and mineral deficiency;
• psoriasis is an unpleasant chronic skin disease that can not be cured, but only to muffle its outbreaks. Science does not stand still, and recently new medicinal forms of fighting against it have appeared, and dry fasting is among the unconventional methods. By removing the load on the digestive organs, removing the waste of life from the body, defensive mechanisms are mobilized, the damaged cells of the dermis cease to divide, the skin is cleansed;
• cold and flu - the effectiveness of fasting with these diseases is very high. The first signs of an acute disease: weakness, lack of appetite, a rise in temperature indicates the mobilization of the body to restore the old state. The refusal to eat will release the vital resource to combat pathogens that can not reproduce in a water shortage environment. It is recommended to start starvation literally from the initial stages of malaise, then the time of illness will be greatly reduced;
• cancer - the use of dry fasting against cancer is based on autolysis or self-digestion - dissolution of cells and tissues under the influence of their own hydrolytic enzymes. They break down cells of scars, seals, fibrous formations, tumors, using them as an energy supply. Thus, neoplasms decrease, except for the bony, maxillofacial and neglected;
• cellulite - is a stagnant phenomenon of adipose tissue, due to which its cells are grouped into nodes, provoking a proliferation of connective (fibrosis). Clear evidence of this - the effect of orange crust, which not only spoils the aesthetic appearance, but also disrupts the normal circulation of blood and lymph, leading to pathological processes. Dry starvation is accompanied by the expenditure of their own fats, and t. They are 90% water, in the fight against cellulite is an effective and harmless method;
• Bronchitis is an inflammation in which epithelial cells of the bronchial mucosa are involved. It has an edematous, reddened appearance, often with a mucous or purulent exudate, causes a cough. Microbes and viruses are able to reproduce only in the aquatic environment, so dry fasting with bronchitis, worsens the conditions of the spread of microorganisms, healthy cells become competitors of patients in obtaining water from internal reserves and win. In addition, the concentration of biologically active substances, immunoglobulins and interferon - joggling tools in the recovery of the body increases;
• Type 2 diabetes - considering the above hypothyroidism, we talked about complete rejection by doctors as a treatment for endocrine pathologies of dry fasting. Diabetes mellitus also refers to such, and the first type of pathology is an absolute contraindication to its use. Concerning the second, the easy form of the disease can be carefully monitored by a specialist with the help of fasting, normalize metabolic processes, reduce the load on the pancreas and liver and improve its course;
• herpes - is a viral disease that makes itself felt rashes and ulcers on the skin under the influence of weakening immunity: with hypothermia, acute illnesses, physical stress, emotional stress. He is dangerous for his complications: lesions of mucous digestive organs, kidneys, joints, central and peripheral nervous system. In modern medicine, there is no means to finally overcome this disease and it is limited to the use of symptomatic drugs. To accelerate the recovery in a pronounced process helps 1-2 days of dry fasting;
• dry fasting to restore potency - this is the case, although it has both fans and opponents. The latter believe that the sexual power of a man is formed even in the womb and it must be supported by a balanced diet, a refusal of alcohol. Another opinion - potency depends on the health of the body and its purification leads to rejuvenation at the cellular level, the mobilization of the function of the glands of internal secretion, and hence the enhancement of potency.

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General information of the dry fasting

The organism under dry starvation passes on a cellular nutrition, scooping necessary from internal reserves. Its essence lies in the fact that tissues, primarily patients, as well as bacteria and viruses, disintegrate transport proteins that carry the necessary substances inside and between cells, and the amino acids they secrete ensure the vital activity of the processes.

Preparation

The success of the result and the safety of the procedure largely depend on the correct preparation for dry fasting. The duration of the preparatory period is 2 weeks. At this time it is necessary to give preference to cereals, boiled vegetables, poultry meat, fish, nuts, fruits and berries in food, to include honey and mushrooms in the diet, to drink herbal tea, and only a week before starvation, to go only to vegetable food and drink a lot. Banned sweet and salty dishes, beef, pork, lamb, coffee, alcoholic beverages, smoking.

The stages of dry fasting

By resorting to dry fasting, they usually start with short-term ones, and then go on to longer periods of food restriction. The whole process is divided into several stages:

• 1-st - food excitement, lasts from 2 to 5 days. During this period, the person is irritated by the smell of food, talking about it, anxiety increases, fear increases, the pulse becomes faster, an acetone smell appears from the mouth, the tongue becomes covered with a gray coating;
• 2 nd - increasing acidosis (increase in the acidity of the body): hunger disappears, emotional state is leveled, but there is a feeling of inhibition, in the mornings - headache and weakness. The tongue is still coated, the smell does not disappear. Eliminate tooth cleaning and mouth rinse with soda and salt. The duration of the stage is 7-8 days;
• 3rd - compensation, an acidotic crisis occurs, characterized by an improvement in the general condition, the appearance of ease, confidence in the success of the procedure, the disappearance of all fears. Such feelings occur on the 6-12 day of fasting. Language begins to gradually clear, the smell of acetone leaves. At this stage it is recommended to be more in the fresh air, to visit the pool and sauna;
• 4th - regenerative nutrition. For 1-3 days in small portions at intervals of a quarter of an hour unsweetened fruit juices, broths and juices from vegetables are drunk. Often at this stage, anxiety returns, overcomes a weakness that can plunge into a semi-postal regimen;
• 5th - intensive recovery, 4-8 days of nutrition is taken out of the depressive state, there is a tangible improvement in physical condition, the head becomes clear;
• 6th - after 9-10 days there is a return to the usual way of life and nutrition, physical activity, self-renewal of the body. There is an increase in mental activity, getting rid of headaches and dizziness, normalization of pressure.

Dry fasting methods

There are many methods of dry fasting that have found numerous practical confirmations of their effectiveness.

Here are some:

• dry fasting according to Shchennikov - the patented technique called "Healing abstinence" presupposes purification cycles of 7, 9 and 11 days. Its feature is a positive emotional mood without stress and stress, 2 days of preparation before starvation on raw vegetables, cleaning procedures in the form of enemas or laxatives. The first time to start is recommended with a minimum period of 5-7 days, then go on to the maximum 11-day. The initial three days generally exclude even external contact with water, then you can wash yourself, take a shower. The main feature is to spend the night time in wakefulness: to sleep from 6 to 10 am, till the hour of the day to walk on the street, the two following to give intellectual activity, till 6 pm - lessons with the instructor, night sleep from 18 to 22, and all night indulge in active activities and walk. The way out of starvation occurs at the same time that you started drinking in small sips of boiled water, after a few hours you can eat a vegetable salad, drink herbal decoctions. Then give preference to fresh vegetables and fruits and small portions;
• dry fasting according to Filonov - is a fractional (gradual) abstinence from food and water in consecutive courses 5-7, 7-9 and 9-11 days, between which resort to rehabilitative nutrition. The first fasting lasts as long as a person can withstand, contact with water is allowed (bathing in the river), but it is necessary to survive the acidotic crisis. The second fraction is perceived more easily and should be carried out in full, and with serious diagnoses, a third fast is carried out. This technique is very effective for obesity;
• dry fasting on Laurel - has the name "cascade", this absolute five-day fasting, which does not allow any contact with water. The cascade consists of alternating hunger and nutrition according to the scheme: day after day; 2 through 2 and so on to 5 and 5. Each stage can be repeated as many times as desired, the average duration of the course is a month;
• dry fasting of Anna Yakuba - a well-known specialist in dry starvation and raw foodstuff advises starting with 24 or 36 hour (3 days) refusals of eating once a week on the same day and bring it to such a comfortable state of the body that it would be desirable accelerate the arrival of these days. This can occur after 3-4 months, then add several hours to each fasting. The frequency of the courses recommended by Yakuboy is as follows: day in week, 3 days a month, 5-7 days a quarter, 7-11 days once or twice a year. Preparation and exit from starvation occurs with the help of raw food (salads, fruits);
• dry fasting according to Goltis - the method provides the same time for all 3 periods of the procedure: preparation, fasting, withdrawal from it - 1-7 days, and starting no more than 3 days, physical activity does not decrease all this time. The entrance to starvation provides meals with vegetables, juices and daily cleansing enemas on spring water. During fasting, enemas continue. The following week has the same diet as the first, but without enemas. In the morning you need to clean the plaque from the tongue. The best time to fast - 2 and 4 phase of the moon. The author recommends adherence to such a period of starvation: 3 days once a month; 7 days - once a quarter; Day of hunger, day of release, 3 days of famine, 6-7 days of release are allowed; you can 7 days of preparation, 3 hunger, up to 14 days of withdrawal;
• dry starvation by Porphyry Ivanov - his system of starvation "Baby" includes the rules of attitude to life, nature, relationships between people, nutrition, to which he not only encouraged others, but also followed himself during half a century of life. Refusal to eat should be combined with meditation, prayer, communication with pleasant people. It begins on Friday, after a light dinner, and from noon on Saturday you can not and drink. Its duration is 42 hours and regularity is very important, preferably once a week;
• dry fasting on Malakhov - his book "Starvation. Author's textbook "is a description of various methods of starvation, its relationship to them and personal experience of their application. In the preparatory phase, he recommends the inclusion of cleaning the liver, stomach, intestines, lymph, joints. During fasting, he advises making cleansing enemas using urine, not reducing, but increasing physical activity. Its average duration is 7-10 days. The book describes the influence of the phases of the moon on the procedure, as well as its features, depending on the constitutional structure of man. This method is considered quite extreme, but it has its followers.

The considered methods of dry fasting provide for the refusal of food and water for 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 11 days, longer intervals are fraught with irreversible consequences. Some refer to the experience of Jesus himself, who survived 40 days of dry fasting in the desert, but he is also the son of God. There is a practice of alternating water and dry fasting. It is more easily tolerated by the body and can be very long.

Effects of dry fasting

The procedure for dry fasting is not easy, but it is carried out because of a greater healing effect than with water. The main positive effect on the body lies in the splitting of fatty tissue 3 times faster than with the use of water, a favorable effect on the kidneys, t. There is a disposal of inflammatory processes, their pathogens are destroyed, sand is excreted and stones are dissolved with urolithiasis. Kidneys are closely associated with the liver, cleansing it of toxins, reducing the synthesis of bad cholesterol, will also have a beneficial effect on them. All followers of dry fasting note an obvious effect of rejuvenation, because After the procedure, self-renewal processes begin to occur rapidly.

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Exit from dry fasting

Restorative stage - no less important than starvation itself. It requires a special approach and diet, which would gently remove the body from the state of inhibition and ensure intensive recovery and self-renewal. The easiest way out of a one-day dry fasting, tk. Restructuring in the body has not yet occurred. It provides for fruits and fresh juices on the first day after fasting, in the second - vegetable salads dressed with refined vegetable oil, kefir, then you can connect porridges, boiled meat. The main thing is that the portions were small and not too long intervals between meals.

The output from the 36-hour dry fasting is almost the same, because the time interval is not much longer than a day, but it differs from the 7-day period:

• The first day - to drink only fresh juices, you can dilute with water;
• 2 nd - there are chopped vegetables, fruits;
• 3rd, 4th - oatmeal and jelly, buckwheat;
• 5-th, 6-th - milk, low-fat cream, dietary bread, honey;
• 7th - you can allow small portions of meat non-fried dishes and other familiar products.

Exit from dry starvation on Goltis

It assumes the same period as the stages of preparation and its conduct. He paints every day, giving it a very important role:

The first day: clean your mouth with your finger, chew some apples, but do not swallow, spit and rinse the mouth with water. Make 3 sips, after half an hour 7 sips, after the same interval - 9, then 12. After an hour, drink a cup of herbal tea with lemon and honey, drink in an hour without restrictions. After lunch - fresh vegetable juice other than celery, beetroot is limited to 20% of everything. On the same day you can eat berries, eat watermelons well;

• the second - the menu adds pollen (mix a teaspoon with the same amount of honey), absorbed in the mouth, berries before dinner. Then different fruits, separated by hours of time from each other;
• the third is supplemented with dried fruit, a small amount of sour milk (30 g), a lot of greens, vegetable salads with the exception of white cabbage, not filled with oil;
• the fourth - includes salads with the addition of oil, natural vinegar, lemon juice, once a day nuts (walnuts, cashews, pistachios, cedar), morning and evening for 30 g of sour milk;
• the fifth - porridge, vegetables, soups from them (except potatoes, eggplants), unleavened bread, cereals;
• the sixth - except for the listed products - sour cream, beans;
• the seventh - quail eggs, mushrooms, cheese.

In the days that follow, the diet gradually introduces fish, poultry, chicken eggs, meat and all the usual but correct foods in relation to the body.

Benefits

Of the listed pathologies, in which the method of dry fasting is used as a treatment, generalizing, it can be concluded about its benefits, expressed in:

• disposal of toxins and toxins;
• tissue regeneration;
• neutralization of the action of pathogenic viruses and bacteria;
• activation of metabolic processes;
• resorption of tumors;
• weight reduction.

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Contraindications

Dry fasting has many contraindications and limitations, so the first rule of its conduct is to be supervised by specialists and having experience of fasting people if the procedure lasts more than 3 days. Under the absolute prohibition it under the following circumstances:

• age less than 14 and more than 70 years;
• low body weight;
• pregnancy;
• tuberculosis;
• problems with the heart (arrhythmias, bradycardia, heart failure);
• diseases of the digestive system (gastritis, gastroduodenitis, ulcers, erosion, colitis);
• diabetes mellitus;
• gout;
• venous insufficiency.

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Possible risks

Any starvation, and even more dry, is a stress for the body. Doctors warn that this can launch very dangerous for him processes: critical low or high blood pressure, an insulin surge, hormone release after a return to food and water, a violation of cardiac activity, nausea and diarrhea, an increase in the level of uric acid.

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Dry fasting for abortion

Among the alternative means of aborting pregnancy (overheating, hot baths, special herbs), there is also a method of dry fasting. Such recommendations state that in the early stages of pregnancy this can happen on the 2-3 day of the hunger strike. The argument is that the body in search of water will draw the liquid out of the embryo, thereby leading to its death. Not for nothing among the contraindications of the procedure is pregnancy.

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Problems with bladder after dry fasting

During dry fasting the body does not receive any liquid, the bladder begins to shrink, the blood becomes thicker, the metabolism slows down. That is why so much attention is paid to getting out of starvation. Uncontrolled replenishment of the body with water, following its desire to drink, leads to problems with it. Women are especially prone to cystitis in this period, and kidneys can also suffer - pyelonephritis develops.

Acidic crisis

Since the essence of dry fasting is the transition to internal nutrition, as a result of which patients, old cells are used, the acidotic crisis crowns this process. This is the milestone, after which the processes for which starvation is initiated begin - the maximum acidification of the organism's environment, its intoxication. It is accompanied by headaches, dizziness, weakness, urine of dark color, the smell of acetone from the mouth and body, depression and depression of mood. But there is a turning point: the mood improves, well-being, weakness goes away - acidosis has come.

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Complications

Short-term dry fasting, as a rule, is not accompanied by complications. Not prepared psychologically and practically people who dare to take on such a serious test without the care of experienced gurus, face the following possible complications:

• overeating at the beginning of exit from starvation;
• constipations;
• mythorism;
• weakness, dizziness and even fainting;
• exacerbation of the underlying disease.

Acquiring and increasing experience, having learned to feel your body, decreases the likelihood of getting negative consequences.

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Reviews and results

There are various reviews about the benefits and results of the procedure. The doctors' opinion about dry fasting is mostly negative. They have nothing against short-term, lasting no more than 3 days, and they themselves resort to it in the treatment of pancreatitis. But it is believed that the longer it complicates the removal of waste products from the body, makes it difficult to remove uric acid, disrupts salt metabolism and this can damage the kidneys, liver, brain. Their list of contraindications is much wider than that voiced by fans of dry fasting. The fact that the body primarily drains the energy of sick and weak cells is also questionable. On the other hand, the followers of the theory of dry fasting are not so little, they are engaged in this themselves are not one dozen and help others. Their reviews are completely different. What is the myth here, that reality can be determined only by studying the features of dry fasting and using it competently. The recorded world record of dry fasting is 18 days, and the founder of the system of "dry hunger" and schools of healthy lifestyles in the post-Soviet space. LA Shchennikov 21-day fasting.