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Re: Day 26. To Chrisb1: Sour/bitter/acidic saliva in the morning(EDIT)
 
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Re: Day 26. To Chrisb1: Sour/bitter/acidic saliva in the morning(EDIT)


Hello lauray,
I am extremely well thank you.
I think you mean the original posters (High on Waters) experience of what they referred to as acidosis or ketoacidosis symptoms. The symptoms that people refer to as ketoacidosis or acidosis (same thing) are really just symptoms of elimination and that is all.

This is the medical professions interpretation of what happens to the body if you abstain from food for any length of time, which is a bit rich coming from an organization that is unable to distinguish between the processes of fasting and starving!!!

There is absolutely nothing to fear from fasting Lauray except the fear of fasting itself.
Please be reassured.


There are essentially two types of acidosis.........
#1. Respiratory acidosis; where the carbon dioxide accumulates in the body in conditions such as emphysema and where the lungs are unable to expel it in sufficient quantities.

OR....
#2. Metabolic Acidosis; a build up within the body of acids that the kidneys are unable to deal with, and where the PH of the body falls below 7.5. But this just does not happen while fasting and for the following reasons........

Further, if the acid condition of the body increases to what is considered to be too high, then the result would be death. No death has ever occurred from so-called acidosis while fasting because the body will just not allow it to happen. The acid/alkaline condition of the body is self-regulated by it, and the theory that acidosis increases during a fast is absolute and complete nonsense, otherwise all fasters would have died, including me.!!!!

Dr Shelton..............
The decreased alkalinity due to prolonged fasting is often urged against it. It is contended that fasting produces acidosis. Fasting does not produce acidosis and the decreased alkalinity is never great enough, even in the most protracted fasts, to result in any deficiency "disease," unless the frequent cases of impotency are to be regarded as due to a loss of vitamins or mineral salts. The blood rapidly regains its normal alkalinity after feeding is resumed and no damage is done.

Mr. Macfadden says: "It has been said that an acid condition of the blood, fluids and tissues (acidosis) is sometimes brought about by fasting. I cannot concede that this is ever the case, in true fasting. As a matter of fact, all the evidence seems to prove that as Dr. Haig expressed it, 'fasting acts like a dose of alkali.' If there is acidity in the system, fasting will remove it and restore the chemical balance of the system. Therapeutic fasting never created acidity, but on the contrary, removes that state when existing. Of course protracted starvation may do so, but then, who ever advised starvation.

"The medical as well as the general idea is that starvation begins practically immediately when meals are discontinued. The impression is that at once the blood and solid structures of the body begin to break down, that organic destruction has begun. Such is far from the case, as results have proved in scores (thousands) of cases. The vital cells of the organs and glands--those doing the active physical and chemical work of these parts--do not begin to disintegrate until actual starvation begins."

During a fast the body lives on its reserves. Starvation does not begin until these reserves are exhausted. What is more, these reserves contain sufficient alkaline reserves to prevent the development of so-called acidosis.

Dr. Weger says: "Varying degrees of acidosis were often in evidence during fasting. These we consider physiological. Except in very rare instances, the active symptoms are of short duration and easily overcome without interfering with or curtailing the fast." He describes the "symptoms of acidosis during a fast" as "lassitude, headache, leg and back ache, irritability, restlessness, redness of the buccal (mouth) mucous membrane and tongue, sometimes drowsiness, and also a fruity odor to the breath."

These symptoms develop at the beginning of the fast and grow less and less as the fast continues, until they cease altogether. If fasting produces acidosis the evidence should increase as the fast progresses. I believe that all of these symptoms may be explained without regarding them as evidences of acidosis. They result, I believe, from the withdrawal of the accustomed stimulation--coffee, tea, chocolate, cocoa, alcohol, tobacco, meat, pepper, spices, salt, etc., etc.--and are identical with these same symptoms when they develop in the man or woman who gives up coffee or tobacco, but who does not cease to eat. I do not think the "fruity odor" of the breath can be explained in this manner. However, in thousands of fasts I have conducted, I have never met with such a phenomenon--the breath in all cases being very foul and much like that of the fever patient or like the bad breath most people have, only much intensified.

Dr. Weger, himself, says: "Fasting is not and cannot be the cause of acidosis, for the symptom-complex of acidosis is quite common in full-fed plethoric individuals, in whom the makings of acidosis exist as a result of an over-crowded nutrition. It is true that symptoms of acidosis frequently occur and make patients decidedly uncomfortable during the early stages of the fast. However, these symptoms are due to excessively rapid consumption of the body fat--a catalytic action--and the checking of elimination because of sub-oxidation. In less than ten per cent of such cases do these discomforts last more than three or four days. This indicates to us that the acidosis, as such, was a latent condition that would be excited into activity by any other equally potent provocative. This condition is analogous to a crisis which might occur in the form of an acute disease. The sicker one is made by a fast, the greater the need for it."

In general I agree with these words of Dr. Weger, but I have noted these supposed symptoms of acidosis in cases where there was no rapid breaking down of tissue, and in cases in which physical activity was sufficient to keep up normal oxidation and in which elimination was normal or super-normal. I do regard these symptoms as being part of a crisis and as beneficial in outcome. I have noted repeatedly that the more severe are these symptoms, the more benefit the patient receives from the fast and the sooner do these benefits manifest.

http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.ch7.htm



I hope this has put your mind to rest.

Regards

Chrisb1.
 

 
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