Re: Day 6 on my water only fast

Hello jivko,
been out for sometime so don't always get a chance to respond immediately, and where I think I have other posts to respond to as well.

Lowering BP from 165/115 after day 6 will be dependent on your weight at the outset, but you really cannot expect to see any tangible results after only 6 days.
Th real benefits will occur after about 15 to 20 days of water-only fasting just so long as the fast is properly conducted and that you rest most of the time.
THIS IS A MUST.

This the experience of Dr Joel Fuhrman MD on Fasting and Hypertension (High Blood Pressure).

Fasting Quickly Lowers Blood Pressure As It Extends Life.

For a person with advanced cardiovascular disease, fasting can not only begin to reverse the damage caused by years of improper eating, but also rapidly decrease the risk of sudden death from a heart attack or stroke.
First of all, fasting rapidly and effectively lowers blood pressure without medication. In most cases this effect is permanent if the person maintains the correct eating pattern after the fast.
A period of therapeutic fasting will lower blood pressure even in severe hypertension. Many of my patients who have had difficulty controlling hypertension utilizing combinations of three or four different drugs have had their blood pressure decrease into the normal range through fasting.
Moreover, blood pressure generally remains low upon the reintroduction of food if they continue to follow the recommended diet.

Greg came to me after suffering from repeated transient ischemic attacks.
These "mini-strokes" can be a warning sign that a serious and life-threatening stroke is likely to occur. His blood pressure was difficult to control with diet alone, so the dose of his blood pressure medication was increased and
another medication was added. Though taking the highest suggested dose of two blood-pressure-lowering agents, he continued to have elevated blood pressure and still suffered from headaches and visual disturbances. Fearful he
would experience a stroke, I advised him to undergo a fast as soon as possible. At the start of his fast and while medicated, his blood pressure was 150/90, and he weighed in at 236 pounds.

Greg fasted for 12 days. I tapered his medication until he was receiving no medications by day 4. At that time his blood pressure dropped to 132/90. At the end of the fast his blood pressure was 110/78 and his weight had dropped
to 216 pounds.
At the time of his follow-up visit to my office a few weeks later, his pressure was 108/76. It has continued to remain in the low, normal range with no medication, as he continues to adhere to a proper diet.

The medical literature confirms these findings. In a study of 683 obese patients of whom 48 percent had high blood pressure, it was noted that rarely did these patients continue to have high blood pressure after two to four days
of fasting.45 This phenomenon has been consistently noted with both obese and nonobese patients.

In Dr. Alan Goldhamer's ongoing study of fasting and hypertension, so far 51 people with high blood pressure have been fasted an average of 11.2 days. The average blood pressure when these individuals began fasting was 151.8/91.1; by the end of the fast the average was 117.8/75.1. At a followup check 27 weeks after the fast the average blood pressure was 123/77.

I have yet to see a case of hypertension resistant to the powerful bloodpressure-lowering effects of the fast. Even more fascinating is the observation that blood pressure does not rise back to its abnormally high level when
eating is resumed. In fact, fasting, if followed by a health-supporting diet, can be a permanent cure for hypertension. Of course, if the same diet that caused
the development of the high blood pressure is resumed after the fast, the problem will once again be created.
Since the blood-pressure-lowering effect of a prolonged fast continues after the fast is ended, it is not the result of the fasting-induced fluid loss, nor
merely due to weight loss.
Weight loss alone cannot account for the lowered
blood pressure, as the results seen from fasting are significantly greater than what is generally observed from losing the same amount of weight through dieting. The lowered peripheral resistance from plaque reduction and
especially the normalization of blood flow in the kidney achieved from fasting are important factors leading to the normalization of blood pressure.

Fasting also results in a decrease in the size of enlarged hearts, slowing of the resting heart rate, and decreased cardiac output, all of which contribute to the permanent benefits achieved through fasting.

Weight loss, vegetarian diets, and raw foods have all been shown to be effective at reducing blood pressure. Indeed, solely with such nutritional interventions, most of my patients are able to stop taking high-blood-pressure
medications. Only occasionally are individuals resistant to further weight loss on an optimal diet. Sometimes the person's blood pressure does not respond
to diet alone. When this is the case, I have found a therapeutic fast to be universally effective at reducing the pressure and keeping it in the desired
range".

Please continue as you are and rest most of the time and you will see tangible and beneficial results as you lose weight.
Patience is the name of the game.

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