Today is day 10 of my water-only fasting journey and it's weird that I'm having
all these stressful situations happen. A close family member of mine got in a
car accident this morning and of course had an anxiety attack and I had to go
over there. She's okay but it was still a massive stressful situation so I haven't
done my weight for the day and I'm actually recording this a little bit
later than usual but if I can go through this and still
do all my daily activities and still go through massive swings of anxiety and
stress then I mean, pretty much anybody can go through it I guess but an
interesting thing happened to me last night. I got up this morning, I could feel
my lungs - kind of like a congestion - and I got up this morning and I actually
started coughing up stuff from my lungs and that does happen, you know, looking
back at the case studies in the past and looking at different doctors, like stuff
will come out through your skin your sinuses I mean everything sometimes.
People throw up, you know, on day five, day 14, day 21, I mean, it just everybody's
different. Now I live in Houston, so I mean, we have pretty toxic air and I
travel all the time and I mean, you know, I do have an air purification system in
my house and my office and I try to keep my air clean at all times but 50 years
of breathing toxic air and I mean just black stuff was coming up out into the
sink. I mean, it was pretty nasty so I consider that a great thing. I mean,
I consider that a great thing... anything that you see that's coming out of your
body that's not supposed to be there would be a positive thing.
I do want to mention though that I have been studying fasting almost exclusively for a year and a
half now. I've been doing intermittent fasting. I've done multiple three-day
fasts. I've done six-day fasts. Water fasts. I actually hired a research assistant a
year and a half ago to do nothing but work and try to find as much research on
water fasting as they could and I'm writing a book which is going to be out
hopefully in January, possibly February on water only fasting
and the benefits and I'm trying to gather as much information as I can on
the topic and let me tell you, most of that information has been suppressed
because it is one of the most powerful healing mechanisms known to man, you know,
eating therapeutic organic foods and juicing is very beneficial and
therapeutic but what you can do in three months of juicing, you can do in three
days of water fasting and that was proven by a USC study showing that a 72
hour water fast actually stimulates immune cells and
regenerates the immune system. From an early age you are taught that you need
to eat more and more and more and more and now with all the processed foods
your body is overwhelmed with all these toxins and everything that's coming into
it on a daily basis. Imagine this, one fast food meal with, let's say, a
hamburger, french fries, a shake, a soda, all of that stuff can take your
body 80% of its energy levels for up to 72 hours to digest. People say well
what's, why is it so important to stop the digestive process? Well think about
it... all of your body's energy that you need to heal on a daily basis, if your
digestive system is working overtime, that's just with one meal. Now put two or
three or four meals on there, so in other words, 80 to 90 percent of your body's
energy stores, every, single, day are being used for the digestion process. How on
earth is your body ever going to heal itself? So that's why fasting is a
vacation for your body, your mind, and your soul. When your digestive system
stops, your body finally says, you know, it's like going to the spa, your body can
finally utilize all of that energy to start healing and repairing and
regenerating all of that tissue, that diseased tissue and detoxify all of that
garbage that's been sitting in your body for so long.
Ketones.
And ketones are 6.6, glucose 49. Ketones 6.6.
It is the afternoon update. So I've had a super busy day today from early this morning and
was out with my kids all day. Pretty active. I have to say, I'm not
feeling a 100 percent, I mean, I still feel a little bit fatigued, but my eyes
are also have been a little bit blurry. So I'm kind of wondering what's going on
there. I actually had radial keratotomy done on my eyes a long time ago before
the laser when they actually slit my eyeball and so I'm wondering if that
might have something to do with it. I'm hoping that maybe my body is healing
that scar tissue that might be in my eyes still. That would be great because
about two years ago I had to actually break down and get reading glasses when
I was about 40, yeah about 48, and when I went in they said I made it another 10
years for most guys that end up coming in for reading glasses at 38 so at least
that was good but it would be great if my eyes healed that would be incredible.
So a little bit of blurry, blurry vision. Not feeling dizzy at all. I wasn't able
to take my weight again this morning because I forgot to bring my scale with
me. All in all, seems like I'm doing a pretty good job. I did want to answer one
additional question, my mental clarity... I can't say my mental clarity is really
sharp you know that's one thing that people say when they're fasting that
they just have this sharp mental clarity. For me, I think it's almost the opposite.
I mean, I can't say that, you know, I've I had this super sharp mental clarity.
Maybe that'll go, I mean, things change on a daily basis so there's no telling what
I'm gonna experience from day to day. The question is, what about spring water?
It contains minerals. Wouldn't that trigger the digestive system? I think
that's a great question because I wanted to address the reason why not to add
anything to water. So if you add apple cider vinegar or if
you add salts to the water, that will activate your digestive system. The
difference with spring water is those minerals are in a colloidal state.
They're natural. They're wrapped around in the water...
so you're not adding anything additional to the water so that your body doesn't
recognize it as something additional that's been added and, you know, I'm just
going off of what the, all of the research that I've found. I mean, maybe, it
doesn't, I don't know for sure, I don't think honestly that anyone's ever
studied it and seeing well if I did add apple cider vinegar would that stimulate
digestion? If I did add Himalayan salt would that stimulate digestion? I don't
know I'm just going off the research. Water fasting, even though it's been used
for thousands of years, there's still very little current research on what it
does to the body so I mean, there's a lot of questions that I'd like answered as
well and I think that more and more people that get into it and since it's a
very trending topic right now, I think that hopefully we'll be able to answer
some of those questions eventually with the technology that we have today and
all of the testing methodologies that we have today. I'm really looking forward to
finding out a lot of those things myself but I can tell you this, in the
fasting programs that I've done before, if I added organic apple cider vinegar
or even a little bit of kombucha, I noticed a big difference and I noticed
that I was hungry. So that kind of tells me and then when I did it with pure
water I did not feel though.
As far as hunger goes, I have not been as hung as
hungry as I was on day nine or day eight. I mean day eight and day nine
were pretty rough for me and this morning was very rough on me again too,
with the anxiety and the stress levels that I'm having to go through but you
know meditation helps out a lot with that.
I'm actually just doing some
relaxation now at a lake near Houston. All in all, today went fairly well, you
know all the reports that I gave you were, you know, not too many different
changes that were happening today. Although, I did have hunger a couple
times and energy levels still a little bit low but, you know, hopefully that'll
change tomorrow. Taking it day-by-day and I will update you guys in the morning!