Date:   4/19/2009 2:16:11 AM ( 15 y ago)
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Mighty,

Your comment...........
"This is very interesting. so weakness or the perception thereof has nothing whatsoever to do with a reduced blood pressure or the absence of carbs? :)"

Yes. Weakness or the perception therof has nothing to do with reduced BP and/or the absence of carbs.

STRENGTH and WEAKNESS in a PROLONGED FAST.................

Levinson says: "Many people think that during a long fast you have to sit down on a Morris chair reading newspapers or dozing because you have not sufficient strength for doing any work at all. If you weigh two hundred pounds and your normal weight should be one hundred and thirty-two you can fast for sixty days and for each day you increase your strength, because you are coming back to your normal point. I started this fast from my normal weight; I have gone through thirty-two days of continuous scientific hardships and tortures, but I never felt that I was losing any strength and there are the dynamometer tests to show it.

"On the last day I could press up to one hundred and twenty pounds without any difficulty with my left hand and I never do any regular exercise except walking. I could go up and down a steep flight of steps to my balcony without support or shaking in the knees. I never lay down except during experiments.
"If you suggest to yourself that you are strong and that you can walk two miles on the thirtieth day of your fast, believe me, you can do it without great difficulty, but if you fix in your weak mind that you are going to faint and worry and persist to worry about it, be sure that not a very long time will elapse before you faint really, a victim of your wrong auto-suggestion."......................
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.ch28.htm



Your comment again Mighty.............
"Also interesting. I was wrong to believe everybody, however healthy, became weaker in a fast. So 50 pound bags of cement were no problem for you? :)"

If you begin your fast in a state of relative wellness and fitness and you are free from the burden of toxemia then yes.........50 pound bags of cement would be no problem. But this would defeat the purpose of the fast as a period of physiological rest.
The vast majority of people who undertake a fast are not free from this burden of toxemia as they are usually in a state of illness/enervation and debilitation, so they do experience periods of weakness from the elimination of toxins accompanied by other elimination symptoms such as headaches/aches and pains and so on.

Mighty..............
"I very much believe this, but would i be wrong to believe that the low bp would not be increased/normalized until after the fast was ended and the re-feeding was under way?"

BP is usually normalized well before the end of the fast as toxemia is reduced, just as the heart will steady down to a regular pattern of beats per minute: usually 60, as its workload is also reduced as toxemia is reduced.
However, this is not a one size fits all, and each case should be judged individually in the time it requires to achieve this.

Mighty.................
"With the exception of congenital defect, are you aware of any instances at all of a supervised fast having to be curtailed due to alarmingly low bp?"

No. Never. Supervised or otherwise.

Regards

Chrisb1.
 

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