Definition

There are many fasts. Water fast, dry fast, pseudo-fasts such as juice fast, ketogenic "fasting-mimicking state", egg fasts, etc. are the most common.

For Aajonus Vonderplanitz, who developped the Primal Diet™, from around the 70s to 2013, the most worrisome part about fasting is the PROTEIN FAST, which happens after only 5h of not eating protein.

The level of proteins in the blood plummets at this moment.

It doesn't matter how much lean meat you ate a few hours ago.

When that happens, autophagy starts with red blood cells eating each other.

It also doesn't matter if you eat fat all day long, or you are very fat, if you abstain from eating proteins, autophagy will start regardless.

(Autophagy can start earlier if you didn't have enough protein in the blood or if they get used up faster by some process.)

Aajonus completed many fasts of different kinds and observed the results of it on his clients.

He put forward arguments that invalidates the fasting studies because they start from a wrong premise. Many of these arguments are never taken into account or even known by fasting advocates.

Also, for those following his Primal Diet™, it is a whole cohesive system; by removing some part of the protocol, it is often no longer Primal Diet™-compatible, as it will end up contradicting other principles of it.

What did he find wrong with fasting?
An exhaustive list of arguments followed by direct quotes.

TOXICITY EXPOSURE

Fasting in our condition => eating toxic meat

Since we contain quantities of toxins, we are literally eating toxic meat through cannibalizing. Just as if you went to supermarket and ate unhealthy meat packaged with additives, because that's what we ate before and ended up begin now.

Healthy animals (often in wilderness) who fast don't suffer from this as a consequence.

KETONES

"but ketones will be made to restore protein levels?"

Yes, but those ketones will still be toxic because they are made from toxic tissues.

HORMONAL RUSH

Higher hormonal production during fasting isn't a good sign

People actually seek the increase of growth Hormone, etc. However, they don't know where it goes to.

It is thought to be beneficial is actually an emergency reaction to an overlfowing of toxicity.

What happens is that toxins are liberated from the body eating its contaminated tissues, and begin rampaging. With no dietary intake, you have few nutrients that are present to defend, so the body sends hormones to harness the toxins because they are made in great part cholesterol (fat) that can bind to it.

Still, this leads to hormonal exhaustion and doesn't protect from all the damage of the onslaught of toxins with these limited means.

ANTIDOTES

Fasting doesn't mobilize more body resources towards healing.

If you get poisoned through a venenous insect bite, or poisonous mushroom like Aajonus did, or even if you lose a lot of blood from an injury, do you fast? Or do you ingest an antidote to neutralize the poison?

According to Aajonus, native Americans take milk in this circumstance to draw the poison to their gut and bind to it (which is half of where the raw unsalted dry cheese remedy came from).

He also commented that after eating the death Amanita which destroyed 90% of his liver, he needed 1 pound of butter daily and his healing increased twice-fold when he starting eating raw meat daily instead of every few days.

Our body tissues are filled with serious polluants which are circulating in blood at all time, from our past and permanent exposure to toxicity, so we always need nutrients to deal with them when they manifest, as well as actively go pull them out.

MATERIAL IMPOSSIBILITY

It takes 50 to 200 molecules of fat or minerals (calcium-potassium-magnesium-phosphorus) to bind to a single mercury atom.

Materially, you can't get rid of all of them (dozens of quadrillions if you received injections for example) with your own nutrient stores even if you deplete yourself.

On a standard majorly raw carnivore diet, following Pottenger studies' observation of 4 generations (so 40 years for our tissues) to completely regenerate. For all the heavy metals we are contaminated with, it takes a century to clear all the mercury, aluminum, etc.

By eating a lot of fat, minerals, and using very strong advanced remedies (such as moldy berries with fermented coconut cream which use up a lot of minerals), it can take a fraction of this time.

Fasting can never achieve this, except if we find some almost miraculous mechanism that occurs beyond autophagy.

IN NATURE

"Fasting is everywhere in nature."

Herbivores graze.

but among carnivores...

All fish fast?

All insects fast?

All birds fast?

Bears fast because they hibernate.

A snake fasts because it will eat an animal that will take it days to digest so it's not even really fasting...

Predators hunt and eat everything at once because they don't have fridges.

TRADITION

They had to do it because they had no other way to help them detox; they did not have access to lots of foods, such as in the case of religious fasts. (also releveant for traditional diets, medicine, lifestyle, etc.)

CELL-ECTION

"Fasting eliminates weaker cells."

True, the weaker cells are eaten first. However, not only, as their number dwindle overall. It can take 2h for the spleen to let in more red blood cells into the blood.

That is why people are lethargic in the morning: anemia from the fast that occured during sleeping. Sometimes, you sleep for very long, wake up tired, and want to sleep more, but that sleep is of terrible quality while feeling weak. Eating as little as one raw egg (but more like a few in a row) can immediately stop the painful lethargy, and if you slept enough wake you up, making you realize the problem was not lack of sleep but too long abstinence from food.

RECYCLING

"Fasting recycles old cell parts."

These "recycled cells" which we marvel at are still only garbage "meat" our body is forced to eat for nourishment.

Who would rebuild his house by taking an old brick to replace a broken brick? Only people who can't afford new material, for a sub-optimal result that leads to collapsing long-term.

DEFICIENCIES

We are nutritionnally deficient even with a full-blown Primal Diet™.

For example, it takes 2 quarts of vegetable juice daily to REVERSE the leeching of enzymes and vitamins from our cells that occured from years of eating cooked foods.

Our toxins require chelation from fats, minerals, and amino acids mainly. This means that many of the food we eat will be only used to harness toxins, leaving little for ourself

In addition, we need many more nutrients to rebuild our body correctly, which takes more resources than building it right from the get go.

Finally, our digestive system is weak, so we won't assimilate our food well enough.

Plus, our "wild" counterparts eat much more than we do while they are already healthy (you can't eat all they do all at once because the digestive load is too hard even for them, it would take so much hydrochloric acid and bile and better-functionning organs).

In our long-term of both severely deficient and toxic condition, we need more food, not less, so much more, a constant supply of nutrients to stay protected and functionnal, clean, and rebuild, for the nutrients are both the antidotes (with much less undesirable side-effects compared to medicines), and building blocks.

Just like we need more vegetable juice than animals who just need to chew one leaf every now and then, we need to be pumped of those primal remedies.

REFEEDING

If you fast, you will have to give up on your refeeding "feasts" ever catching up with the days of fasting or even half a day.

All the food eaten within a short eating window will not be digested well. It makes as much sense as having a factory do nothing 80% of the day and flood it with everything at once.

That will overburden the liver and not give it a rest as is often said...

RESTING

Eating (well) doesn't require tremendous energy: it yields much more than it takes. That is the point of eating and any energy-exploiting system.

Organs are just stressed without nutrition going to them.

To give a rest to liver, do an egg fast, because egg feed almost completely while requiring minimal digestive work.

INSULIN

"but the insulin"

Eating several times a day will produce several smaller insulin spikes instead of a big one.

ANTIBIOTIC

Fasting lowers bacteria levels.

Bacteria, in particular gut bacteria, are not fed, so their number dwindle. We constantly need to repopulate them since toxins kill their colonies.

With more toxins, we need more bacteria.

We have lower bacteria levels than we would even need if we didn't have toxins.

More digestive problems are to be expected.

DISEASE

"Fasting cures diseases."

This is similar thinking with standard medical treatment. The disease is the cure.

Illnesses stopping such as flus vanishing are not a healthy sign.

A foundation of Primal Diet™ is its paradigm on biology and life. It considers diseases as a process of detoxification. The symptoms are not the problem but a reaction to the problem and often a solution.

Primal Diet™ will really complete the disease, offering ways to expedite it and sometimes circumvent it for an easier detox (even symptom-free/minimal, see cheese trains), while fasting will abort them as the body has to deal with a toxic outbreak and nutrient depletion.

This is the same principle as toxic medicines that "stop" an illness in its tracks, but worsen the overall condition, only to have it resurface later as worse, or never but with an earlier death from the never dealt with accumulation reaching a fatal threshold.

It happens that some conditions heal with fasting, however, it will be at a great expense. Some toxins will just be relocated elsewhere (sometimes even deeper) but still remain in the body, and some very precious body tissue will be broken down to be used as ammo against toxins, and other tissue will be damaged in the process.

To give a few examples:

"Fasting reduces inflammation"

Inflammation is the process by which the body brings more nutrient to heal an area. This is why it swells.

When you fast you lack the nutrients to do so and so it stops, but the area will not be healed as well as it could have.

"Fasting cures cancer!"

Aajonus goes against the theory of cancer being berserk mutant cells. These cells are "tumbs" created on purpose by the body to hold an overload of toxic dead cells that it can't normally discard because of a congested lymphatic system.

DETOX

Fasting gives some kind of detox, but with damage, while preventing many important detoxes as seen above.

What usually happens apart from headaches and such, are white tongue and mucus, which are indeed a light detox.

You are stripping the minerals from your bones to produce the waste on white tongue (calcium-phosphorus-magnesium-potassium chelating to toxins).

You can have more of it on Primal Diet™ if you know how to trigger it or let the body decide, because when fasting you are forcing your body to do it even if it is causing damage.

In reality, the more you eat, the more you will detox and rebuild, because your body needs excess nutrients to perform those daunting tasks. For example, if you stay in the sun naked (preferably with your natural oil or fat added on your skin), it will produce a lot of vitamin D that will clean the bones deeply, giving you nausea/diarrhea later on. MORE nutrients did this.

You can have the most hardcore detox on Primal Diet™ while keeping it within safe limits. Vinegar and coconut cream (always with dairy cream to protect) for example. More fermented and moldy foods. If you want something more extreme: just inject moldy fermented coconut cream with shrooms spawning from it into your colon (eat backwards) and enjoy the 2 following days. Don't try to drive though or you could get into a deadly car accident.

Microbes are 20 to 100 more efficient than phagocytes (like your body's white cells) at eliminating waste. You get them by eating, not fasting which will reduce their number.

HUNGER

"Eat only when hungry; it is your instincts"

Many ill people such as terminal-stage cancer victims are skinny and not hungryn and end up dying from starvation.

That is because their toxicity is giving them nausea, as well as lowering their digestive capabilities (lower bacteria levels, harmed organs, lack of enzymes and vitamins, ...).

If you supply yourself with enzymes and clean your gut of toxins you can eat all the time. Then you will feed the same euphoria when eating than after 5 days fasting when you are raring to jump onto your food.

The goal is to fix the digestion so that we can eat more with ease, and that takes further eating.

Just like the animals in the wild.

When Aajonus are the poisonous mushroom that destroyed most of his liver, he forced himself to eat 1 pound of butter daily.

He had an old lady, bedridden, who was about to die, after 10 years of unsuccessful medical treatments, brecover in 2 days from eating 33 raw eggs a day (and it was not a giant omelette oui oui).

There is always something to eat, even during a detox, especially during a detox. Regular feeding is the key to provide the nutrients needed to deal with toxins and protect the body and expedite the process much faster.

Often, it is something easy to digest such as a raw egg, or some simple drink recipe, that are very helpful to protect and assist, and easy to get down in these circumstances.

IMPOSSIBILITY

Fastings obviously can't be practiced in many situations.

Fasting in hot springs where you stay for hours in 39-40°C water...

Fasting when you are doing a lot of activity...

Animals who hunt in fasted state are not sitting on their bed with a headache. That should already be an indication that it is acting differently on them.

SPIRITUALITY

It may have a spiritual purpose, but as it is damaging to the body, first healing must happen with great feeding in quantity and quality.

Fasting experiments should be done on natives that were raised on a majorly raw carnivore diet in a healthy environment all their life. We would find out their reaction to it is most likely very different as their "machine" is already clean and well-functioning to tolerate it, and possibly get some spiritual or other benefit from it.

PRIMAL-INCOMPATIBLE

Fastin goes against the Primal Diet™. That is, if you attempt to practice what you think is Primal Diet™ while incorporating fasting, it will not be Primal Diet™, even a subset of it, anymore.

Primal Diet™ gives you remedies to take whenever a situation occur and at all times of the day.

If you fast, you no longer have any of the food combining laid out in the meal plans.

You are already supposed to space juice/fruit meal and meat by 1h. Then cream is too heavy to digest close to meat.

We don't drink much water (mostly a solvent and 10X less hydrating than if the H2O is part of a nutrient matrix as in food) and we don't gulp fluids (because it rushes to the kidneys, doesn't hydrate well, strip mucous membranes, etc.), so we sip milk, juice, various formulas, throughout a day, 1-2 tablespoons every 5-15min. This alone automatically makes fasting impossible on Primal Diet™.

Fasting as a healing method is therefore inefficient and damaging, and only makes sense in absence of good food, occasionally.

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