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Therapeutic starvation on the water for 1, 3, 7, 10, 21, 40 days

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Fasting on the water refers to health-improving diets, when all food is banned, and water is allowed in sufficient quantities. It can be practiced on a cascade basis, that is, combine with long periods of normal nutrition.

Curative fasting on water is used in pancreatitis, during preparation for and after operations. The refusal of solid food in these cases is very useful, and the use of water prevents dehydration, which is dangerous in any disease.

The effectiveness of water starvation is assessed from the standpoint of benefit - harm. The benefits are as follows:

  • stimulation of immune forces;
  • purification of the body;
  • elimination of excess weight;
  • rejuvenation;
  • improvement of the nails and hair, pancreas;
  • normalization of sugar in the blood;
  • getting rid of snoring and apnea.

The negative aspect of the procedure is that, besides temporary inconveniences and discomfort, it causes the development of anemia, vitamin deficiency, anorexia, amenorrhea in women. The lack of nutrient components has a bad effect on the functioning of the nervous system and the social activity of a hungry person.

There are several methods of water starvation, in which features and recommendations are described in detail. They differ in the procedures and duration, but in all there is the main ingredient - water.

Fasting on the water in Bregu

The Bragg system is fasting on the water, without the use of other liquids and solids. The author was convinced that one-day abstinence is shown every week, weekly - quarterly and 21-day - once a year. His book The Miracle of Fasting made a real sensation in society, and a new methodology was found by millions of followers.

Bragg personally practiced his technique, perhaps, that is why he was alert and active in his advanced years. For a year he managed to get hungry for 75 days. Bragg believed that this is enough to restore, pancreas, kidneys, digestive organs in general.

Fasting on the water according to Bragg suggests seclusion outside the city, combined with a moderately active lifestyle. For drinking, the author advises distilled water, which does not contain harmful compounds, and does not recommend the use of cleansing enemas. Particular emphasis is placed on the correct completion of the process. Preference - 7-10-day fasting.

  • During a 7-day hunger strike, the patient is allowed to drink purified water with honey and lemon juice (5 g and 10 ml, respectively). This drink cleans and nourishes the body of the starving.

During the period of abstinence from solid food, the digestive organs decrease in size, so it is necessary to go delicately to the daily routine. The output begins at noon the last day; in the food prepare 4 tomatoes, cut and poured with boiling water, they are chewed until complete grinding.

For breakfast, a cabbage-carrot salad dressed with lemon juice is suitable. This is a kind of "brush" for the intestines. Then you can eat two crackers, and at lunch - carrots and celery, cooked vegetables. Dinner on this day is canceled.

The second day begins with fresh fruit, flavored with honey. Lunch is the same. Dinner - not later than 18 hours, the best dish - a green salad in lemon juice. The next days Bragg advises to spend in moderation, to start eating only appetizing and never overeat.

The book describes the options for fasting, calculated for different terms; he regarded the hunger as a health system, not a cure. Although cleansing the body uniquely leads to its recovery.

Read also: Which water is better for water starvation?

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Fasting on water 1 day

It would seem that one-day starvation on the water is ineffective. What can give one day, except, perhaps, a minimum weight loss? However, experts prove that fasting on water for 1 day can give a good health effect, namely:

  • stimulation of protective forces;
  • purification;
  • rejuvenation;
  • improvement of the quality of the intestinal microflora and the state of the gastrointestinal tract;
  • increase blood supply to the brain, improve creative thinking and intellectual activity.

Water starvation should last from 24 to 27 hours. If less, then it is not considered a fast, but a food pause. With a regular repeat of a one-day fasting on the water, a positive result accumulates. If one-day procedures are practiced within one to three months, then you can prepare for a longer option of curative fasting.

In the most short-term way of giving up solid and liquid food, several processes take place in the body.

  • First, the digestive organs get a respite. Instead of spending energy on digestion, the body begins purification processes.
  • Secondly, putrefactive microorganisms die, but useful lactic acidify, thanks to which the synthesis of bioactive components is activated in the intestine.

Preparations for a 1-day fasting start in a week; It is necessary to abandon the initially harmful products and reduce the consumption of protein foods, especially meat as a hard-to-digest product.

The first fasting is best done on a non-working day. Then, "getting involved", you will be able to starve, performing official duties, and no one will notice, but it is almost impossible for a beginner to combine work with a hunger strike. Preliminarily on this day you can make an enema.

  • The positive nuance of fasting is that the feeling of hunger is much weaker than with low-calorie diets. It turns out that it is not easier to eat at all than to significantly undernourish.

However, not everything is so rosy: refusal to eat even for one day provokes weakness, headache and spinning, nausea, bad mood, the formation of a plaque on the tongue, a smell from the mouth. The good news is that with the regular practice of such days everything normalizes and improves, including mood.

Exit the procedure should be gradually, first using vegetables, juices, fruits. It is important to drink plenty of quality water. "Heavy" products are put aside for later. After the release it is absolutely necessary to refrain from overeating.

Short-term water starvation does not pose a threat to the body, even if there are minor mistakes in the process. Therefore, it can be carried out at home, after a preliminary consultation with the doctor or without it. Experience shows that if the preparation and output methods are followed, the effect exceeds expectations. And in the presence of problems with the gastrointestinal tract, short-term "fasting" replaces the effectiveness of pharmaceutical preparations. One-day experience is also very important if the hunger wants to prolong "pleasure."

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Fasting on water 3 days

Dietitians do not notice any difference between a one-day and two-day starvation on the water. If after a fasting fasting the fasting person feels normally, then he can bring it to 36 hours, and even immediately to 2 days. Thus, you can smoothly go to fasting on the water for 3 days, without prior experience and special training. However, it is desirable to properly prepare for a prolonged refusal to eat.

The 3-day procedure leads to the following consequences:

  • In the stomach, hydrochloric acid ceases to be released, but proteins and unsaturated fats are formed, which stimulate bile formation and suppress the feeling of hunger.
  • The body begins to switch to self-feeding; while digestion slows down, start to split own fats. But this is only the beginning, which requires completion.
  • During this time a person sheds from 1 to several kilograms. That the mass again has not returned, it is necessary to leave fasting under the precise rules recommended by dieticians.

A hunger strike for three days leads to the same results as a one-day, and as an added bonus it has a beneficial effect on appearance. The skin becomes younger, fresher, and healthier. And another interesting fact: in just three days of such fasting you can get rid of dangerous dependencies - from alcohol, nicotine and even drugs.

If, on some day, the state of health deteriorates sharply, and urine becomes dark or too cloudy, you should prematurely get out of starvation. Perhaps, the interrupted starvation you can continue later and go to 3 days after short-term starvation.

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Fasting on water 7 days

The method of fasting on water for 7 days is often used only to lose weight. However, it is effective in the treatment of diseases, including those with which other medicine can not cope. Therefore, many agree to give up eating, despite the difficult psychologically and stressful for everyone starvation on the water.

The rules of the weekly hunger strike are as follows:

  • Determine what purpose pursue: treatment, weight loss, strengthened fast, and so on.
  • Individually consult with a nutritionist.
  • Choose the type and term, do not renew it "on the go."
  • Carefully prepare, tune in to success and positive.
  • Choose the most convenient time and season of the year. It is advisable to make the first two days off.
  • One week before the start, remove the sugar from the menu.
  • For two days reduce portions and switch to vegetable food.
  • Before supper on the eve of a hunger strike, clean the digestive tract with magnesia solution.
  • Observe all recommendations for getting out of the procedure.

During the seven-day abstinence from food, morning enemas are recommended. The procedure is carried out with a solution of potassium permanganate (up to 1.5 liters), the concentration is a gentle pink color. The starving person in the supine position turns over several times, strokes the stomach clockwise, then from the pubic to the navel. After completion, you must perform breathing exercises and gymnastics.

Every day, drink at least 1.5 liters of mineral water, do not smoke, do not sunbathe, do not freeze in winter.

The way out is to restore peristalsis, frozen for a week without food. Stimulation begins with light unsalted broths - vegetable, cereals. The next two days are limited to the milk and vegetable menu. On the 4th-5th day, bread appears on the menu and only on the sixth one can one afford ordinary food.

As a result, not only the dropping of up to 5 kg of weight, the improvement of the skin, the burst of energy, but also a reassessment of values, a new perception of the world. A person feels confident, optimistic and willing to lead an active life.

Fasting on water 10 days

Fasting on the water is considered simple, others - a complex way of solving health problems. Indeed, it seems that it is much easier to use diets that restrict certain foods, but do not exclude food at all. Or to apply special means for growing thin or medicines for treatment of diseases.

  • When preparing to fast on water for 10 days, you should know that in fact food restrictions last much longer. They begin in advance and end a few days after the official completion of the hunger strike.

To this you need to be ready, first of all psychologically, in order not to break prematurely and not to bring down the whole idea.

Founded by Paul Bragg, the technique recommends completely replacing food with water; it can be drunk for ten days. Medium-term fasting, which includes a 10-day, cleanses the body, reduces sugar and cholesterol in the blood, stimulates brain activity, relieves fat stores. If you seek advice from a doctor and perform the procedure correctly, the effect is obvious.

However, not all physicians share the opinion on the benefits of water starvation, since they consider it unreasonably risky. Especially if the procedure is uncontrolled and irresponsible.

  • Cons really do exist. So, in the process of purification, proteins are split, and in this connection the muscles suffer. Accumulation of acetone bodies poison nerve cells, critically decreases insulin, which is fraught with diabetic coma. There is a deficiency of vitamins, minerals and nutrients, metabolism slows down.

The desire to lose a couple of kilograms can lead to worse consequences: memory deterioration, nervousness down to aggressiveness, visual hallucinations, fainting. Such victims are justified, if there are no other ways to overcome the severe pathology. But to suffer and risk for banal weight loss is hardly advisable.

Fasting on water 21 days

Extreme starvation on the water 21 days, some consider a panacea for insomnia, chronic diseases, excess weight and other complex problems. Those who tested the technique do note improvement in their sleep and intellectual activity, a surge of vivacity and optimism, a rejuvenation and a return to the harmony of the figure.

However, such a long starvation on the water - the procedure is complex and difficult, not everyone can stand it. 3-week fasting is carried out by people who in the past are already starving for shorter periods. A person who decides on such a procedure will have preliminary consultations with specialists, examination and delivery of analyzes to determine physical fitness, as well as psychological aspiration and a focus on success.

  • Preparation for prolonged starvation takes a lot of time. It consists in the elimination of meat and fish, fatty oils and milk products, flour and sweet, alcohol and cigarettes. With a plant ration already at this time the body begins to cleanse of cholesterol, fats and poisons accumulated during life.

A few days before the procedure, reduce the amount of food. The day before is recommended a modest menu without dinner and a cleansing enema, necessarily water at room temperature. In the morning, the intestine is cleaned with laxative infusions or medicines.

Fresh pure water should be drunk every hour, if desired - more often. Unpleasant symptoms, unavoidable at the beginning of the procedure, are recommended to be suppressed to the extent of active pastime: walking, meditation, a contrast shower, flushing toxins that are released through the skin pores. If possible, walk barefoot, dress in spacious natural clothes, sleep in a ventilated room.

  • In half the time, it is necessary to check the blood counts. In normal course, tests show improvement in blood. Formed in the language of the plaque removed, the mouth cavity rinsed without the use of a toothbrush.

The exit from the hunger strike is very smooth. One should be prepared for the fact that from the very first day the mass will return. For prophylaxis eat modestly and lean. The menu at the beginning consists of vegetables: 200 grams of grated cabbage or an apple is the best choice. There is a little, up to six times a day. Diluted juice, a small fruit - an ideal snack. Lunch - a watery broth of vegetables, mint infusion with honey. For dinner - also cabbage or an apple.

On the second day, a porridge of oil is added to the diet for breakfast, lunch is low-fat soup, for dinner - kefir. For a snack nuts are suitable.

The third day allowed bread, low-fat cottage cheese, fresh fruit. From drinks - herbal decoctions.

With properly organized starvation, self-healing takes place: it devours dead and pathological cells, in return produces healthy ones. This is reflected in the state of health: the emotions of the hungry become more positive, the nervous system strengthens, the person more joyfully perceives life.

If, during a fasting period, the condition becomes critically worse, and the tests cause concern for doctors, the procedure should be stopped and returned to the issue of starvation after removing the obstacles.

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Fasting on the water for 40 days

The longest is fasting on the water for 40 days. For such a period there are changes on the physical and mental level. Behind the discomfort characteristic of the initial days of the hunger strike are dizziness, pain in the digestive tract, bitterness, fever, sleep interruptions. The acidity of the blood shifts, as evidenced by the sharp odor of acetone.

  • At the beginning of the second week of fasting on the water, there comes the so-called acidotic crisis, that is, the maximum acidification of blood. In a biochemical sense, during a crisis, ketone bodies are used to create amino acids.

After the crisis, the picture changes for the better - until the onset of comfort and harmony. This is due to a new way of eating - involving the body's own resources. The previously discomfort that disappeared disappears, the processes of purification and renewal of the body are activated, the person experiences a push of energy. Headaches disappear without a trace, the smell from the mouth and the desire to eat, sleep is normalized.

However, there is one "but": if the restructuring is delayed and lasts more than 10-12 days, then something in the body went wrong. This situation requires urgent medical intervention and, possibly, hospitalization (if the hunger is outside the clinic).

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