(EDIT)..Re: Does your metabolism really slow?

Samson20,
the fasting doctor you have quoted who states that metabolism is not slowed or lowered on a Water Fast is talking complete nonsense, and has no idea as to what he/she is talking about...............
Give me their details and I will contact him/her and correct them on this.

(EDIT)..
"One must be warned, however, that fasting slows down the metabolism, and that this lowered metabolic rate can last for four to six weeks after the fast. One must eat very carefully and not overeat or go off the prescribed diet
during this period after the fast. A few pounds of weight will usually return in the next week or two after breaking the fast as the body replenishes the fluid and electrolytes that it lost while fasting".....................
By Dr J Fuhrman MD. excerpted from "Fasting and Eating For Health" Page 185.


AND...............
"Metabolism is lowered from one-fourth to two-fifths during the fast. This falls quite rapidly during the first part of the fast until the true physiological minimum for metabolism is reached. From this point on, until the return of hunger, metabolism is maintained at a fairly uniform level. If food is not consumed when hunger returns there follows, soon, a rapid dropping of metabolism to new low, but pathological levels.
During the first fifteen days of Levanzin's fast there was an appreciable decrease in oxygen consumption and in carbon-dioxide production. During the first seven days of the fast he consumed 352.6 liters of oxygen and produced 260.4 liters of carbon-dioxide. During the second half of the first fifteen day period he consumed 303.2 liters of oxygen and produced 219.5 liters of carbon-dioxide. During the first half of the second fifteen day period he consumed 272.3 liters of oxygen and produced 193.7 liters of carbon-dioxide. During the last half of the second period he consumed 270.3 liters of oxygen and produced 192.9 liters of carbon-dioxide".
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.ch10.htm



"Properly conducted, fasting actually promotes growth. Thompson and Mendel found that a period of suppressed growth, due to under-feeding is followed by increased growth when better food is given, and that the acceleration of growth following this suppression, is ordinarily accomplished on less food than is consumed during a period of equal growth at normal rate from the same initial weight.
Prof' Morgulis says: "It has been repeatedly emphasized that just as soon as an animal, which through acute or any other form of inanition lost weight, is given proper nourishment, it commences to grow at a spectacular rate and in a comparatively brief period regains all it had lost or even increases beyond the original level. The rapid gain in weight is a manifestation of a vigorous process of growth. There is not merely an accumulation of reserve substance, but a true growth in the sense defined previously. There is prolific cell multiplication, great expansion of the cells and a re-accumulation of reserves in the form of intracellular and intercellular deposits of products of their metabolism.
Nitrogen is retained with an avidity characteristic of the young growing organism. Frequently, in a short span of time an increase of the body mass is accomplished, which required years of normal growth to bring about. The inanition has produced a rejuvenation of the organism. In the study of histological phenomena accompanying inanition, it has already been learned that except in the advanced stages (in the starvation period) there is scarcely any evidence of tissue degeneration. On the contrary, the cells remain intact though they lose a large portion of their substance.
In the keen competition which reigns in the organism subjected to inanition the weaker and less essential parts of the cellular organism are sacrificed first, just as we have seen this to happen to the less essential parts of the entire organism. The more vital parts remain and the vitality of the cells and their vigor is thereby improved. This seems to be the rationale of the invigorating and rejuvenating effects of inanition. Biologically speaking, though the organism acquires no new assets it becomes stronger by ridding itself of liabilities. In the foregoing it has been pointed out that the cell-nucleus ratio changes in such a manner as to increase the preponderance of the nucleus. Morphologically, therefore, the cells composing the entire organism assume a youthful condition. They resemble more the embryonic cell in this respect, and this may account for the expansive growth which they display under the proper nutritive regimen."..........................
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.ch9.htm



Q. "The reason they put weight on faster is that the body is cleaner and can get more nutrients out of food therefore requiring less food".

Comment: Having a clean toxemic-free body is NOT the reason why fasters gain weight more readily after a fast. I know of many people who are grossly overweight, if not obese, and therefore toxemic and who continue to gain weight quite easily to the point where they would need medical intervention/surgery if extreme.

Q. "Eating the same amount as you did before a fast will cause you to gain weight faster, not because your metabolism has slowed, just because your body needs less food than it did before".

Comment: Metabolism slows down on a Water Fast to preserve life: a conservation measure. The bodys food reserves on a water only fast are consumed in much the same way as an animal that hibernates in the winter months, via a lowered metabolism.

The real reason WHY your body will gain weight more easily post-fast, on the same amount of food you were eating pre-fast, is because the body is now a much more efficient organism.
The amount of comments/complaints I have heard from people who become obese/overweight again after a fast in a short time-frame, is because they are EATING THE WRONG FOODS that the body was not designed to eat.
Most raw foodists tend to be thin for example, because they live on foods that we were designed to eat: high-water content, nutrient-dense foods which are low in calories.

I find it hard to believe that the Doctor you quoted actually said that.

Regards

Chrisb1.




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