Posted by bleauberry on November 24, 2009, at 18:05:34
In reply to Re: Theraputic fasting, posted by linkadge on November 24, 2009, at 17:06:09
Might want to reconsider the yeast connection. It fits perfectly. Here's why.
They need carbs and sugars to live, and they multiply at a rapid rate with those foods. As a normal part of their lives, they excrete their waste and toxins that are absorbed through your intestinal linings into your blood and to your brain. There is a high affinity for opioid receptors, but actually all receptors and glands. Serotonin and dopamine molecules themselves become somewhat contaminated.
When you don't eat, you have time to clean out all that toxic brew. The receptors are opened up. The glands are opened up. The yeast activity is slowed down. And of course, under those conditions, it would feel exactly as you described.
Easy to test for. Pick up some Pau D'Arco tea bags (boil for 15 minutes); grapefruit seed extract; caprylic acid. Start off with full regular doses and see what happens. These things are rather benign if there is no yeast overgrowth. You won't feel much of anything from them. If however within 3 to 7 days you encounter heavy fatigue, brain fog, worsened mood, aches and pains...flu like but not the flu...you just made a diagnosis.
This idea could be way out of the ballpark or it could be a bullseye. I would not even think of debunking it until I had personally ruled it in or out by the very definitive challenge test described above.
There is a cause for what you experience. It doesn't just happen for no reason. I don't know of a more common misunderstood underdiagnosed situation than I have described here.
Oh, that's ridiculous. It only happens to other people, not me. Besides, my doctor never heard of it. Hogwash.
Common.
> >I don't know how long it takes for me to reach >the depressed state. Not eating makes me feel >like I am on a stimulant. That is what I would >compare it to.
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> >What I have described is really common among >people with anorexia
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> Oh sh*t. I hope I'm not going down a bad path. I have been noticing the exact same things. When I skip a meal I feel more in control. It also makes me feel more connected to people. Like I become one with others, even those I envy. Like a metting of that emotional overtone. It totally feels like I just took about 5mg of dexedrine and 0.5mg of lorazepam. Like a stimulant and a sedative. Supposidly fasting increases the activity of a compound that binds to the same receptors as GHB.
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> I also notice an increased richness to things around me. Like I am more able to live in the moment.
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> I hope I'm not going down a bad path (because I also exercise a lot). I'm 6'2 and 1/2 (135 pounds).
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