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> show some ugly symptoms of previous diseases This could be your body breaking apart old injuries to start repairing them better.
by jobseeker990 7y ago
> show some ugly symptoms of previous diseases
This could be your body breaking apart old injuries to start repairing them better.
- bitL 7y agoI can't really tell, I had 4 symptoms of past problems suddenly escalating on day 6 last time I took the fast, and since then I never experienced them again (so far), so there might be something interesting going on. It's possible autophagy and fat burning might remove some "memory" but I have no scientific explanation for it. My theory is that as body doesn't have to fight all kinds of pathogens coming in from food, it can start correcting internal problems/mistakes instead with the same processes it normally uses to fight external threats.
- sizzle 7y agoBreaking apart old injuries...? Never heard of this hypothesis, how would this work?
- bitL 7y agoMany people report feeling older injuries/illnesses during prolonged fasting. It's not clear what is the nature of that, if it's just psychosomatic and some neural pathway is correcting/readjusting/"backpropagating" itself (think phantom pain) or if the original repair was "temporary" and body does a proper rebuild there, or something completely different is going on. Try 1 week then tell us if you felt something similar, I did. EDIT: This Reddit thread has interesting comments, elevated HGH might be the culprit: https://old.reddit.com/r/fasting/comments/5gl1aq/can_fasting_really_heal_new_and_old_injuries/dat9iey/ https://old.reddit.com/r/fasting/comments/5gl1aq/can_fasting...