Dry Fasting and the Brain 
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I was raised by my mother to dry fast once a year. Of course this fast was for spiritual reasons, but the dry fasting forum did cause me to revisit these ideas once again.
So I'm taking interest in both the health aspects and the spiritual in dry fasting.
Many years ago I came down with multiple sclerosis and a MRI showed that I had many brain lesions. I notice that when I fast, a heavy brain fog comes back over me, much like it did when the MS symptoms came upon me.
So if anyone has any ideas about how dry fasting affects the brain I would appreciate it.
I am aware that blood Sugar being too low can be an issue, but I was wondering if there were any other thoughts. Thanks
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hi, interesting post.
How old were you when you started dry fasting? and how long would you fast for?
The brain, like the liver, doesn't contain any pain nerve endings, so if your brain, or liver, was healing during a fast you would'nt actually be able to feel any of the usual pains when the immune system attacks some cells to break them down. However during my dry fasts I have felt a fizzing sensation in first my liver and then on subsequent fasts in my brain(to a lesser extent), so I am 100% convinced there was something going on in my liver(makes sense) and then my brain. I have put it down to healing activity and possibly the immune system dissolving damaged cells in those organs so they can be grown back with new tissue, the same as with the other organs where I have felt pain.
The fizzing feeling occurred a fair way into my dry fasts when i would have expected some very deep healing.
I have never really experienced a brain fog when fasting, I usually feel better and my brain has more clarity, but then further into the fast I will start to feel tired and weak and just want to spend the time in bed.
could you explain what the fog feels like?
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MoreThis is a reply to # 2,108,327When I was old enough to understand (early teen years) It is only a 24 hour fast, once a year. Like I said it was for spiritual reasons and not health.
I just started thinking that there may be more to dry fasting than I had realized.
I do believe there is a forum here on curezone that has to do with brain fog. It may give a broader picture of what people experience. For me, it is difficulty thinking clearly. Names, numbers are harder to remember quickly or at all. I misspell words while writing more than normal.
I was actually diagnosed with memory loss in 2001, after the MS attacked me. So I have records of all of this. Please understand that I'm saying that my brain fog is due to the MS lesions....not the dry fasting. The fasting may be just stiring things up. I personally think that dry fasting may be a way to heal the lesions.
I won't go into deep detail here, but I had prayed and asked God to show me how to heal and I found a protocol here on curezone that healed all my symptoms of MS. It was like I was back to normal...but when I started fasting, I noticed that the brain fog part came back. I have a theory if you would like to hear it.
The protocol I was on (I believe) either neutralized or encapsuled the toxins in my body to where they were not harmful any longer....but I'm not sure if my body ever flushed out this substance completely from my body....so, there may be a possiblity that when I fast, these toxins that have been neutralized or encapsuled, are burned or used up in the process of fasting.
Like I said that's my theory for now. I save the right to change my mind if I find better info. Thanks for replying. :)
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I am sorry to hear about the brain fog problem when fasting. I can give you my two cents, but I'm far from an expert.
First, let me tell you of an experience I had. About one and a half years ago I went on a nine day water fast. During this time I started getting pain in an old injury that happened about fifteen years ago. I had torn some tissue in my lower back when I twisted myself. I know it was a dumb thing to do. It took me several years to get over it. Yes, I felt the pain for years. Now I had been over it for years. During this fast from one and a half years ago some of that pain came back. Of course, it wasn't anything like when it happen, but bad enough to be uncomfortable. This time it took me several months to get over it. My theory is that while I was on the Water Fast my body was doing some healing in the area of the old injury. I think that if I could have stayed on that fast long enough the body would have completed its work and I would not have had the issue for several more months.
My theory about your brain fog is that your body was doing some healing on your brain since you have had brain lesions in the past. It did not get a chance to finish the healing process before you broke the fast so it took some time to calm down after the fast, thus the brain fog.
I wonder what the outcome would have been if you would have continued the fast on water only for several days when you broke the dry fast. Of course, there is no way of knowing how long your body would need to fast to cure it completely. You may have to do several fasts to cure it. If you did decide to do this you would definitely need to arrange for complete down time from your cares of life not only during the fast, but for some time after the fast as you do not know at this point the outcome or how long it would take you to recover.
Also, each fast is different. I was expecting my next nine day fast to cause that old injury to be stirred up again, but it never happened. I guess my body, in its wisdom, was working on other things. You may not have the brain fog experience each time you fast.
I'm glad you mentioned your interest in dry fasting for spiritual reasons. This is also the main reason I want to eventually step out and dry fast. I know that Water Fasting can bring powerful spiritual benefits. Since dry fasting is more effective than Water Fasting for health, I am thinking that this may also be the case in the spiritual realm.
I recently listened to Derek Prince speak on fasting for spiritual benefits. He said it is dangerous to dry fast more that 72 hours, but many have proved him wrong on that account. I guess it could be dangerous if a person did not do it right and did not listen to their body. What I found interesting about his talk is that he said he did know a preacher named Tommy Hicks who turned Argentina upside down some considerable time ago. This happened after he did a 17 day dry fast! That makes me think dry fasting for spiritual reasons is more powerful than water fasting.
Seventeen days is really pushing a dry fast to the limit and then some. We don't know, he may have been supernaturally sustained by God during this time. I definitely don't think the average person should jump into a 17 day dry fast as death may follow. I'll leave you the links in case you are interested in listening to Derek.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GS2pfhfeVc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oxqZoblkAg
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This is a reply to # 2,108,819i would believe the same. Also in the beginning days of my Water Fasting I had some light sensitivity, brain fog and other symptoms of real low blood Sugar etc but they went away.
i did my first ever Water Fasting a year ago. during that 10 day period i felt my body go through my problematic areas, one by one, in 3 day cycles and it repaired them. I had quite severe pain first in my shoulder joints that are chronically inflammated, then it went away, then became my lower back pain that I get when I sit too much and it went away in 2-3 days. the came my neck pain which come and go and the lastly I got a sore throat which targeted upper throat and the ceiling of my mouth. I have a cyst behind my nose and I believe my body started to consume that.
But i chickened out since i was not sure if it was a real flu or not so that process was not ready.
i am not a professional either but from what i've read and studied i believe fasting is a life saver also in MS. the latest studies show that during Water Fasting body ejects faulty white blood cells and programs stem cells to produce fresh ones to replace them. i know body does this to other faulty cells too and i presume that the stem cell production is not limited to white cells only so maybe it would do the same to brain as well.
what is 100% sure due to university evidence is that water fasting makes your body grow new braincells so it is definately good for your brain.
dry fasting i do not know so much but wanted to say this to help you.
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