Health protection while fasting....Today's post:  Friday, 6-29-2018

If fasting is a day when you eat no food or take in about 500 calories or less, for fatloss

or from lack of access to food or for religious observance for some religions, people do it on purpose or in emergencies.

It can be harmful if certain electrolytes become too high or too low.

And, if done for extended periods it can be harmful due to your body becoming depleted in key nutrients.

Only bother at all with fasting for fatloss if you have already been doing the basics for a long time or at least have recently upgraded to them the rest of the time and will continue with them.

A. The overall strategy:

Take or consume vitamins and electrolyte minerals and bone building compounds and some health OK fats and maybe fiber.    Take some fruit concentrate supplements.

B.  If fasting, include broth from steaming a mix of organic cruciferous and high carotene vegetables.  These contain many vitamins and minerals and hundreds of essential micronutrients.

If eating low cal, include organic cruciferous and nonstarchy vegetables, some health OK fats or oils and health OK protein.

C. For extended fasting or extended very low calorie eating, take a good multivitamin plus minerals each day.  Take one or more chewable lozenges a day of vitamin methyl B12.

For very low calorie eating, a whole boiled egg some days and a small piece of cooked liver some days and a quarter avocado some days in addition to the vitamin and mineral supplement can add a LOT of nutrition. Each of these 3 foods is almost a multivitamin by itself.  It’s also desirable to take a fruit extract or two each day.  Bilberry extract and cranberry extract are available and desirable for anyone but are close to essential for people doing this

D.  Many extended fasting plans include bone broth that and add some sea salt and ghee or add Kerrygold butter which has salt. 

It’s also important for bone health and heart health and electrolytes to take 600 to 800 mg a day of magnesium.  Besides being an essential electrolyte, magnesium is essential for your heart and bones.

This kind of bone broth provides sodium and phosphorus. 

You can also take a potassium supplement. That’s important to do if fasting.  Even two 99 mg doses a day is better than none!

The supplements proline and trimethyl glycine and hyaluronic acid with collagen also are good to take as they provide bone building blocks. (NOW, Source Naturals, & Drs Best sell those.) 

Taking the vitamins above plus 1,000 mg added vitamin C and the fruit extract supplements also help with bone health.

E.  Continuing effective strength training with lower weights can help maintain your muscle and bone and other lean tissue.

This post was inspired by the Medical News Today article a week ago:

ttps://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322220.php  

What to know about the 500-calorie diet

A person on a 500-calorie diet eats only about a quarter of the recommended daily intake. This may be beneficial for some people, but also comes with many risks. In this article, we look at research on the 500-calorie diet, explain what people need to consider before trying the diet, and provide alternative diets.

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They make other points but include the ones I list here.

For social events, it’s simplest to do fasting and social events on different days.

For some people it’s not possible to mix them.  The other people feel threatened or try to keep you from fasting or both. Plan around this if you can at all so they happen on different days.

For people who are already OK with you being health oriented and who are at least somewhat health oriented too, it can be possible.

For people in good health who follow good health practices now, many of the other points they bring up simply do not happen.