Re: Have you ever considered water fasting ?

Hey, White Shark,
No. Actually I think it was a no-protein diet that gave me the cataracts in the first place.
I was following the advice of a late professor - in his books, he said we can raise the GFR (filtration rate) of our kidneys by eating no protein, only key aminoacids, for a few months. I had had heavy proteinuria and borderline CKD (chronic kidney disease) for a couple of years and I didn't want to slide into dialysis. But after about 3 weeks on the diet, well the GFR didn't improve, and on top of that - I got double vision of light sources, halos around streetlamps, and bang - I had nuclear cataracts.
Later I discovered that the eye lens needs protein, not aminoacids. The late Stanley Evans who treated cataracts with nutritional therapies for about 40 years, categorically stated: if you have cataracts, you must maintain nutritional status and consume around 70g of protein every day.
Also, I found a paper on the Net that said in the lab, it had been found that the enzyme 'trypsin' blocks proteins from glycation. Trypsin is an enzyme released by the pancreas, but only when you eat protein. The conclusion is that when you eat protein, it's not the protein itself that supports the lens - it's the trypsin. In the presence of trypsin, the lens proteins would not be glycated by the Sugar in the aqueous humor in the front chamber of your eye, so no cataract! And no nasty colored Maillard reaction products form in the nucleus of the lens.
Well, once the lens proteins are glycated (damaged) in this way, I can see how they could be 'digested' by enzymes like serrapeptase, or other proteases. But not water. I can see that a Water Fast might be great for detox. But I don't think it would digest damaged lens proteins (cataract).
Obviously, too much protein in the diet would overload the liver and kidneys, and be detrimental to clearance of damaged proteins from the lens however. Tweet