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Best treatment for a cold is lots non-caloric fluids and fasting. It works by letting your body put its energy into healing instead of digestion. Stop eating 3

by fwungy 4y ago

Best treatment for a cold is lots non-caloric fluids and fasting. It works by letting your body put its energy into healing instead of digestion. Stop eating 3-4 hours before bedtime to improve sleep. Same principle.

nradov 4y ago
Is there any clinical research showing that fasting reduces duration of cold symptoms?
- pengaru 4y ago
  Not OP, but prolonged fasting is well understood to significantly affect the immune system. I doubt not eating for a single day while fighting a cold is going to matter though, especially if sedentary/sick in bed. During a prolonged fast you'll be decreasing white blood cells, which doesn't seem ideal if you're already sick. But AIUI it's mainly this aspect that "reboots the immune system", and can prevent illness once feeding has resumed and the catabolism undone. Basically you get a refreshed immune system, afterwards: “When you starve, the system tries to save energy, and one of the things it can do to save energy is to recycle a lot of the immune cells that are not needed, especially those that may be damaged,” Longo said. “What we started noticing in both our human work and animal work is that the white blood cell count goes down with prolonged fasting. Then when you re-feed, the blood cells come back. So we started thinking, well, where does it come from?” [0] [0] https://news.usc.edu/63669/fasting-triggers-stem-cell-regeneration-of-damaged-old-immune-system/ https://news.usc.edu/63669/fasting-triggers-stem-cell-regene...
- wdroz 4y ago
  There are some research on mice[0] with the ketogenic diet (usually you go in ketosis state if you are fasting). [0] -- Ketogenic diet activates protective γδ T cell responses against influenza virus infection https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/sciimmunol.aav2026 https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/sciimmunol.aav2026
N3cr0ph4g1st 4y ago
Is stopping eating 3-4 hours really legit or just some traditional thought we've heard over and over again that sounded intuitive that we've come to accept? Lots of cultures that are long lived have late night meals and from a quick NCBI search, I found that even the old perceptions are getting proven wrong. Example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4425165/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4425165/
- fwungy 4y ago
  Try it with biostatistics device both ways. You will see your resting heart rate is substantially lower when you stop eating early, and this will improve your HRV and deep sleep stats.

by fwungy 4y ago

nradov 4y ago

Is there any clinical research showing that fasting reduces duration of cold symptoms?

pengaru 4y ago
Not OP, but prolonged fasting is well understood to significantly affect the immune system. I doubt not eating for a single day while fighting a cold is going to matter though, especially if sedentary/sick in bed. During a prolonged fast you'll be decreasing white blood cells, which doesn't seem ideal if you're already sick. But AIUI it's mainly this aspect that "reboots the immune system", and can prevent illness once feeding has resumed and the catabolism undone. Basically you get a refreshed immune system, afterwards: “When you starve, the system tries to save energy, and one of the things it can do to save energy is to recycle a lot of the immune cells that are not needed, especially those that may be damaged,” Longo said. “What we started noticing in both our human work and animal work is that the white blood cell count goes down with prolonged fasting. Then when you re-feed, the blood cells come back. So we started thinking, well, where does it come from?” [0] [0] https://news.usc.edu/63669/fasting-triggers-stem-cell-regeneration-of-damaged-old-immune-system/ https://news.usc.edu/63669/fasting-triggers-stem-cell-regene...
wdroz 4y ago
There are some research on mice[0] with the ketogenic diet (usually you go in ketosis state if you are fasting). [0] -- Ketogenic diet activates protective γδ T cell responses against influenza virus infection https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/sciimmunol.aav2026 https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/sciimmunol.aav2026

N3cr0ph4g1st 4y ago

Is stopping eating 3-4 hours really legit or just some traditional thought we've heard over and over again that sounded intuitive that we've come to accept? Lots of cultures that are long lived have late night meals and from a quick NCBI search, I found that even the old perceptions are getting proven wrong. Example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4425165/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4425165/

fwungy 4y ago
Try it with biostatistics device both ways. You will see your resting heart rate is substantially lower when you stop eating early, and this will improve your HRV and deep sleep stats.