I would ditto what Dr. Herring said, with a bit of user experience
with allergies. Some of us with food issues (like celiac, which is a
well-studied autoimmune medical problem and not an IgE allergy such as
"peanut allergy) have had *years* of experience with "getting detoxed"
and feeling better on fasts and very restricted diets. This is talked
about a lot within groups of such people ... actually that's how some
of them diagnosed themselves and finally got tested. The "toxin" in
that case isn't really a toxin, it's antibodies that float around in
the gut and blood. But it sure feels a lot better when they go away!
And they start to go away in 1-3 days after you stop eating the
offender.
So I think some of the stuff you read about "detox" is from that sort
of effect. Technically it isn't "detox" in the sense Dr. Herring
describes. It does *feel* something like "detox" in the sense of
stopping an addictive drug (including withdrawal pains, for some
people). And I think some people do experience a lot of healing from
this effect.
The reason I mention it here is that if you start feeling a lot better
on fasts, you might look at what you eat when you DO eat and see if
there is a particular problem. The problem foods tend to be the most
common ones (wheat gluten, casein, soy, corn). You can also have
problems from fast food (I have a relative who ate out for every
single meal: that stuff is not real food and she got a lot of health
problems).
But the thing about Fast-5 is that the fasting period is long enough
that your body does have time to heal/clean up/reset between handling
food. Even your liver maybe ... it is a lot of work for your liver to
process what you eat, and it makes intuitive sense to me -- even if
it's not been studied -- that organs need some rest/cleanup time, like
the rest of your body does. But when you eat, if you start feeling bad
after the meal, experiment with what is IN the meal. You'll notice the
effect more, and probably start making better food choices
intuitively. For me it's been very healing, and I have better
digestive function than I have in many years! Eating, say, a juicy
steak used to be a problem for me, possibly due to gall bladder damage
or lack of HCL, but it's no problem at all now.
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 11:44 PM, cyara2408 <no_reply@yahoogroup
> Hi Dr Herring,
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> First ... a big, big thank you for your book. In a short time it has already revolutionised my life.
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> My question... I know IF increases detox... the main benefit of fasting... but does this include detox of the liver? Would simply being on a Fast-5 programme over time eventually bring about a cleaner and cleaner liver... makes sense to me that it would... or would a special programme have to be added? I keep reading that a cleaned liver ameliorates food allergies progressively more and more with each clean out. I want to reverse a dairy allergy if at all possible. It is quite recent.
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> Any info with regard to this would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Chelle
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