I recently discovered fasting and the health benefits related to healing due to the process of autophagy.
I would like to hear your stories on what ailments you have healed due to fasting and the fasting time period used to achieve the results.
Specifically I would like to hear if anyone has had success with septum deviation repair.
Also curious about this. I’m doing my first fast, I just completed day one! The goal is to help with some skin issues (chronic inflammation) and bad dust/animal/pollen allergies. I will know if there were some results in a few days (I’ll try to go for three days, but I’m not sure if I’ll manage the first time)
Sometimes I get something called Folliculitis. It’s like when your hair follicles get swollen. My dermatologist said it’s like acne on the head.
When it gets bad, it’s actually really painful. I get big red noticeable bumps on my head that itch and hurt.
I tried takin medication, but it comes back as soon as I finish the meds.
How ever, fasting completely eliminates it within a week. No bumps / acne / pain / itching / marks or anything.
So I’m assuming that fasting is very good for detox, cleaning your insides, and eliminating free radicals etc .
Good for ur skin etc.
ME/CFS here. Also deviated septum and an overjet with a narrow palate. Lots of breathing problems. Possibly some gut related issues but still in testing for those
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For ME, since I started fasting more than 3 days, my s/e notes that my cognitive and physical abilities have been slowly improving over the months. I feel it too but it’s not been a miracle - slowly and steadily seeing improvement (at least until I caught covid - that threw me back months and months of work)
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I may have made a small difference with my breathing but I can’t say for sure. I still struggle to breath out my nose especially at night and I do still wake up gasping when my body defaults to trying to breathe out my nose. I will say I don’t feel like I have to flare my nostrils as hard to get a good breath so I think there might be some improvement here but it’s been very slow if so
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For digestive tract - the rest alone is well worth it. Around 70h my whole life changes. I feel like a completely different person. As soon as I break and eat again, a lot of heavy symptoms come RUSHING back within the hour
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Fasting for health benefits is doing something for sure. I’m convinced of that. However it’s been almost half a year now of doing more than 72h for each fast and just slightly less of almost exclusive OMAD eating outside of extended fasts and this process definitely takes time
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My opinion is: it can’t hurt. Even if it only helps a bit for your particular issue. Although from everything I’ve talked with doctors on, I’ll get the jaw/mouth surgery when I can afford it, straighten teeth, and THEN get the septoplasty (apparently if your mouth isn’t properly aligned, the risk of continually needing septoplasty is drastically increased). It doesn’t sound like something that we can easily correct on our own - especially if it’s quite prominent