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Not much to say on the opening segment, not much of an opening segment to be honest. You just had Eve announce that Kelly wasn't around and announced a pretty good match that pits Punk and Del Rio against one another. You wanna start out the show with a bang dude, so this wasn't really a good opening segment. But I'm sure you'll improve on that. Not that interested in AW vs. Booker T as well. How about we just leave the managers to just manage their talent and not compete in the ring.
Kind of awkward for Kidd to come down and just listen to Ziggler, he would've gotten the first word here imo. But what they said was good in that despite the attacks on them, they'll still put on a show for the crowd. Maybe my second favorite match on your JD card. Interesting stuff here in the second match, looks like you'll be pairing up Sandow with someone. I'm definitely interested in seeing who that can be.
Not too sure about this Barrett Reel business, it didn't really do anything. Barrett just made fun of him then Jericho came out and they came to blows. Not saying that you've been dropping the ball with this feud, but it could be way better. Like I said, we should just keep the managers at managing their talent but looks like they'll be in the match at JD to wrestle. A contract signing for the Women's Title? Seems a bit much, I would've liked it better for you to just give us a good wrestling match between the divas to establish them even more. I like that you are giving them some good exposure though, good job with that one. Just continue to establish the division even more and you'll be fine.
Kind of an awkward segment here with Orton and Bryan, I just wasn't feeling it at all. I guess it could've done without a steel cage, maybe ending with Orton giving Bryan an RKO at the end. As for the champion vs. champion match, it was fine, no surprise that Miz and Sheamus cost Punk here. Really not much to say here really.
For the last segment, so Cena isn't doing all this, seems like him though and he seemed rather heel here. Definitely an interesting twist you've added here, maybe 'Taker? I don't know, but it should make for a good match at JD. The match at JD may end in a draw with the mystery person taking out both Cena and HHH, but we'll just see.
Overall, not one of your better episodes. A lot of interruptions during matches and everything just didn't seem like it flowed well to be honest. Not to sound like I'm baggin' on you, but you could've done a lot of things more differently. Hopefully you improve as you go on and hope that JD will be a good Pay-Per-View.
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The Demon-RATS and other lie-berals are going to raise holy hell about this. How dare this church do something political??? Don´t they know they are only allowed to break the "separation of church and state" if it involves supporting lie-beral causes?!?!?The only way they can make up for this is to allow some good lie-beral Demon-RAT politicians come and tell them how they must think to be politically correct.
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They should read their Bibles and learn about something called the new covenant. The concept of being chosen means being chosen to prepare the world for the coming of the Messiah and we all know how that worked out. Additionally, the promise of land was given to all of Abraham´s children, not just some of them. After all, he had children by four different women. That promise was predicated on for obedience and faithfulness to God´s laws. Worshiping false gods broke the covenant, hence the need for God to have the new one and send his son to the world for salvation of all, not just some. The Old Testament Jewish message is completely exclusive list while Christ´s message is universal, for all mankind.
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Any excuse to travel to San Francisco is good excuse for me, especially when it involves a wedding and FOOD! And so it was with Diana + Jon, they were married in San Francisco, one of my favorite cities to visit! I loved the city and the architectural background, it felt so rich in culture and history!
You may remember Diana + Jon's engagement session I shot at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. I really feel like their wedding photos compliment their engagement session so well!
Best way for a bride start off a wedding day: a "hip hip hooray" with the bridesmaids!
My favorite shot of the day, bridesmaids prepping to walk down the aisle, the lighting in this room at the church, the dark wood and the mirrors presented such a great moment!
Had a great time working with the lovely ladies of Honey and Twine!
My favorite detail of the day, this amazing origami piece one of their guests made for Diana + Jon, so awesome!
As always, CLICK HERE to watch Diana + Jon's wedding slideshow!
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these two are so happy and so beautiful! great photos to remember the best day of their lives!(12.06.12 05:57 AM)
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Holy moly! Gorgeous venue, gorgeous couple, gorgeous dress, gorgeous photos! You never cease to amaze me!(12.06.12 09:15 AM)
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Outstanding photos. They picked the perfect venue.(12.17.12 09:54 PM)
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George Eliot : The biology of freedom
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You may need to re-read this book more than once and you should take it like playing video games because this book's complexity can be as fun to break into as video games. This is because artists and intellectuals usually don't make their points clear while scientists tend to be quite firm in their conclusions. Thus, Jonha Lehrer's book is a link between these two groups and required a very profound and thoughtful work that requires the same habits when reading it. This is one of the books that help people find themselves and understand others better.
chapters on proust, cezanne, stravinsky and escoffier interested me. certainly something to think about.
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People to see places to go, And then I ended up in Babylon.
"At the risk of sounding rude," she asked, "Do you have any nice clothes?"
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|10 Jul 2012
Touchpad ribbon won't clamp to mobo
Disassembled a throwaway Compaq CQ60 to repaste the heat sink. The ribbon clamps which pivot down to clamp the keyboard and touchpad ribbon cables into their place are flimsy plastic the size and heft of a fingernail clipping. One popped off and has no way to pop back on that I can see, after trying for an hour. As a result the touchpad won't work.
I don't see how to replace it because it's embedded in mobo. The part doesn't look broken but just won't reattach.
Another surprise is that the HD is loose in its compartment, missing the bracket which secures it into place so it won't slide out of contacts. Owner thinks the Geek Squat replaced it that way.
Any ideas?
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Hey Greg
I have worked around that problem using a hot melt glue gun. It is kind of a one shot deal because although you 'can' remove the glue to start again the stuff tends to be tenacious and can really tear up the joint if you try without razor blades.
So you insert the ribbon cable, make sure it is orientated correctly and seated well, replace what is left of the clamp in its normal position, hold everything down with a large flat head screwdriver or putty knife (to apply equal pressure across the entire clamping area, then dab hot glue in the rear and sides of the clamp to the MB. hold with steady pressure for 60 seconds till the glue has completely set.
The problem, of course, is the location of the connector and the amount of stuff around it. Sometimes it can be a tight squeeze.
For hard drive you could check to see if any repair shops in your area(s) have a junk bin with misc parts (most do). If you can't find an exact compaq retaining plate you could gerry-rig one from another vendor.
Or use the hot melt there too! A little dab will do ya.
(I love my glue gun, I use it for everything. I'd use it on myself but I keep falling apart anyway)
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Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center 64 bit
Kind of guessing here (a picture would help ) but maybe there was another piece of the clip on the underside of the motherboard that fell off.
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I cannot see it on the matching Power/wireless button ribbon clamp, but it must have some wings that jut out and hold it into the assembly so it will rotate up and down and lock in place. But there are no holes on either side where it fits.
I'm going to try the glue idea. Does it have to be hot glue as I don't have a glue gun (no offense there quickdraw ) I get that I need to hold the piece in place firmly with a screwdriver after carefully aligning the ribbon underneath, then hold it there until it dries. Better than nothing which is what I have - although the wireless mouse is working great.
Another issue on same machine if you're game: NIC probs after reassembling laptop
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I guess glue would work if you are really patient. The beauty of hot-melt is it hardens in less than a minute.
You should buy one! Thousands of uses around the house.
EDIT: Re NIC probs. That is a strange one. I've got nothin' to add there.
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|12 Jul 2012
Thanks I'll look at them tomorrow.
The NIC failure to connect was solved by installing HP Wireless Asst, which I have only uninstalled in the past. Seems if it is uninstalled without disabling it trips some toggle that causes LAN not to start with Windows. Or so the theory goes.
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Now that is good to know.
We just have to figure out how to remember all this stuff!
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The final two problems on the laptop are solved now and it's running better than any new Win7 PC, a month after it was rescued from the trash to do the processor pasting project.
The touchpad which lost its clamp during disassembly required taping the clamp in place wedged down by the keyboard using a plastic piece from a dental flosser stick. I used electrical tape to do this. I believe it's the pressure on the ribbon cable by the clamp enabled by the extra plastic piece on top that's causing touchpad to finally engage.
There is no available clamp for the HD which hardware was missing, so I taped it in place with heavy duty electrical tape as good as can be.
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So should we start calling you McGyver now?
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In recent years, this trend has also moved into Western universities, think tanks and research laboratories. One example is the Science and Nonduality (SAND) movement, which was founded by Zaya and Maurizio Bennazo with the goal of uniting mystics, scientists, philosophers, and spiritual teachers to create a new paradigm that recognizes the interconnectedness of life and the ancient wisdom of nonduality. To that end, SAND offers ground-breaking conferences across the globe in an effort to unite science with spirituality and personal experience.
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Yoga, as taught in the Encinitas school system, is a simple exercise program rooted in American culture, not Indian culture, a judge of the San Diego Superior Court ruled on Monday.
Yoga, as taught in the Encinitas school system, is a simple exercise program, a judge of the San Diego Superior Court ruled on Monday.
The parents of two children in the school system had filed the suit, claiming that teaching yoga in the Encinitas schools constitutes religious indoctrination and violates the separation of church and state. With the ruling, the Encinitas Union School District can continue teaching yoga as part of its health and exercise curriculum. Students attend two 30-minute yoga classes each week.
San Diego Superior Court Judge John S. Meyer emphasized in his ruling that yoga's origin in Indian culture doesn't mean that its use in the U.S. is religious in nature.
"Yoga as it has developed in the last 20 years is rooted in American culture, not Indian culture," Meyer said, according to Reuters. "It is a distinctly American cultural phenomenon. A reasonable student would not objectively perceive that Encinitas school district yoga advances or promotes religion."
Meyer noted that the school district had removed cultural references from the curriculum, including Sanskrit terms. Yoga postures have been given more kid-friendly names: Lotus pose, for example, is referred to as the "crisscross applesauce" pose.
Meyer noted that the opponents of the yoga class were not describing yoga as the phenomenon taught in the school classes, but rather relying on information from the Internet and other unreliable sources.
"It's almost like a trial by Wikipedia, which isn't what this court does," Meyer said.
The ruling is particularly important by setting a precedence that even though a cultural phenomenon has its root in metaphysical beliefs and practices from another culture, those beliefs don't necessarily automatically carry over into its U.S. expressions. Yoga in the U.S. today has become a uniquely American phenomenon, which stands on its own merits.
Encinitas Supt. Tim Baird emphasized that the program is about teaching healthy exercise and eating habits; the school also hopes to decrease instances of fighting and bullying. Supporters also noted that yoga is used at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego to help military personnel wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"We are not instructing anyone in religious dogma," Baird said to the LA Times. "Yoga is very mainstream."
The yoga program is funded by a $533,000 grant from a local Asthanga Yoga studio. The studio is linked to the Jois Foundation and supported by hedge-fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones II and his wife, Sonia, who studied with yoga teacher Krishna Pattabhi Jois.
The ruling is not likely to be the end of the story. The lead attorney for the parents, Dean Broyles, said he will likely appeal.
Yoga is increasingly taught at public schools and social programs to ease the stress that even kindergartners are exposed to in today's hectic world. Most yoga classes so far are part of an after-school program or are offered at only a few schools or teachers.
The Encinitas case is significant, because the Encinitas Union School District was the first to adopt yoga classes as part of their district wide PE curriculum. The Jois Foundation believes the program could eventually serve as a national model to help schools teach students life skills, the AP reports.
The trial challenging the offering of yoga classes as PE in the Encinitas school system resumed last week, with closing arguments extending far longer than expected. While a ruling was first expected on Monday, July 1, the lengthy closing arguments may delay a ruling in the case till Thursday, U-T San Diego reports.
The ruling could prove historical, determining whether yoga is a variant of Hindu-based religion or, as proponents say, simply exercise. The suit was filed by parents wishing to remove the yoga program from the physical education curriculum in Encinitas schools.
In the closing arguments, plaintiff's attorney Dean Broyles argued that the program sets "a horrible precedent for other religious organizations to buy influence," since the program is funded by a grant from the K.P. Jois Foundation, which he says has deep roots in Hinduism, reports the Encinitas Coast News.
Referencing testimony from Candy Gunther Brown, a religious studies professor at Indiana University, Broyles maintained that there are two broad categories of religion, "Those that are belief and word focused such as…Christianity, and those that are practice and experience focused such as Hinduism. Americans may not recognize practice and experience-oriented religions as religious, because they think religion requires that one believe or say certain things."
Using that logic, Broyles argued that yoga poses are inherently religious and demanded that the yoga classes be discontinued, in line with the Constitution's separation of church and state. The Coast News reports:
As further evidence of yoga's spirituality, Broyles said that the sequence of poses in EUSD classes mirrors Ashtanga yoga, a particularly religious kind of yoga. Further, he said some children spontaneously chanted "om" during yoga classes, even though that wasn't part of the planned lesson, and they weren't instructed to do so.
"It shows they're connecting it to something more than physical exercise," Broyles said.
Judge John Meyer questioned that reasoning, among other parts of Broyles' closing arguments.
"The curriculum is the basis for the class," Meyer said. "What happens in class is not what happens with the curriculum — there's a difference. "If you go to observe a class, and there are two children that use profanity, and then you conclude the curriculum includes teaching profanity, that's wrong."
On the defense side, Attorney David Peck, representing 150 families in the Encinitas school district, made his closing arguments Wednesday morning, citing that the yoga exercises are strictly stretching and breathing. It was introduced into the schools with the hopes that it would help the elementary school students focus better on their studies, keep them calm, and perhaps even curb bullying.
Equating yoga with religion means other school programs could theoretically be sued, he noted. The Coast News reports:
"Think of the slippery slope implication we would be faced with if any type of physical exercise that someone perceives to be religious, or incorporates into their religion, is banned from the public schools on constitutional grounds.
"There are sects out there that consider running to be religious…and certainly nobody is suggesting that we ban running from the schools," Peck said.
Another attorney representing the families from Encinitas, Jack Sleeth, countered Brown's testimony, stating that it is not credible, as she also believes chiropractic care and acupuncture are also religious.
He stated that the small link between the school's yoga program and Hinduism does not make yoga religious. He stated: "The Easter egg hunt on the White House lawn is linked to Druidism, as practiced in England before the Roman conquest," Sleeth said. "But it would be nonsense to say that the president can't put out Easter eggs."
San Diego's Superior Court Judge, John Meyer, anticipates that a ruling will be given Thursday at the soonest. Both sides of this case have agreed that the Judge, rather than a jury, will make the decision.
By Jon Barron, Baseline Health Foundation - Water fasting and juice fasting, like detoxing--and heck, if done correctly, they are forms of detoxing--are the Rodney Dangerfield of alternative health: they "don't get no respect."1 According to WebMD, for example, there isn't enough evidence to support health claims for either water fasting or juice fasting, and "that type of fasting can actually be dangerous, especially for people who have other medical problems."2 And according to an NBC News article that cites a number of so-called experts, long-term fasts can lead to muscle breakdown and a shortage of many needed nutrients, in addition to depriving the body of the vitamins and minerals that you get from food, which can "actually weaken the body's ability to fight infections and inflammation."3 The article goes on to state that because crash diets--their euphemism for either water fasting or juice fasting-- can upset blood sugar, potassium and sodium levels in the body, people with diabetes, heart or kidney disease or women who are pregnant or nursing shouldn't try them; and children, teens, older adults, or people with certain digestive conditions should also steer clear.
More recently, juice fasting in particular has taken beating. For example, an October article in The Washington Post cites Nazrat Mirza, pediatrician and co-director of the Obesity Institute at Children's National Medical Center, who states, "Most parents give their kids fruit juice because of the perception that it's healthy. I don't know where that perception came from."4 Mirza goes on to state that while it's true that many juices -- particularly orange juice -- are fortified with calcium and have a healthful amount of Vitamin C, you are getting those vitamins at a high calorie cost." (By the way, note that if she's talking about "fortified" juices, she's not talking fresh juices.)
And a website called "Hooked on Juice" (yes, it really is named that) takes on all forms of juice fasting with the statement, "Even with no sugar added, fruit juice has the same amount of sugar as soda. Why? Because fruit is full of sugar!"
Water fasting, juice fasting, and juice fasting supplemented with single cell proteins are not the same thing. They are closely related, but they are different. Although they share "some" of the same benefits, you use them for different purposes and in different ways. Unfortunately, most people are not aware of these differences and use the different forms incorrectly, at the wrong times, and in the wrong way. This leads to problems--and allows the medical community to pounce on the problems this creates and thus brand all fasting as ineffective, unnecessary, and generally harmful. We will return to this topic a little later when we explore those differences…and benefits.
But for now, despite what you have been led to believe, there are still elements of fasting--notably water fasting--that have been studied by the scientific community with consistently positive results.
Curiously, the medical community chooses to say that these studies are not conclusive, thereby rendering all benefits of fasting moot. It's a marvelous inconsistency, of course, considering that the medical community has decided to forego similar rigor when it comes to the issue of off-label pharmaceutical prescriptions. Off-label drugs, freely prescribed by doctors, are often accompanied by a complete--zilch, nada, zero--lack of clinical evidence supporting the efficacy or safety of that off-label application. Perhaps the doctors are relying on Ralph Waldo Emerson's statement from his essay on Self-Reliance, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," to justify what otherwise might be viewed as hypocrisy.
In any case, there is a great deal of scientific support for the virtues of fasting. Here are a handful of such studies.
In 2011, research cardiologists at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute reported that fasting not only lowers one's risk of coronary artery disease and diabetes, but also produces significant beneficial changes in a person's blood cholesterol levels.5 According to the researchers, "Fasting causes hunger or stress. In response, the body releases more cholesterol, allowing it to utilize fat as a source of fuel, instead of glucose. This decreases the number of fat cells in the body. This is important because the fewer fat cells a body has, the less likely it will experience insulin resistance, or diabetes." In addition, the study effectively confirmed earlier findings about the effects of fasting on human growth hormone (HGH). HGH works to protect lean muscle and metabolic balance, a response triggered and accelerated by fasting. During 24-hour fasting periods, HGH increased an average of 1,300 percent in women, and nearly 2,000 percent in men. And yet another study found that simply disrupting normal eating cycles through intermittent fasting improved the ability of the body to process, sense, and recognize the nutrients it was consuming, thereby helping to prevent obesity, diabetes, and liver diseases in mice on a high-fat diet.6 In addition, intermittent fasting raised bile acid production, which is essential for properly digesting fats, and energy expenditure and reduced inflammation.
A 2006 study found that both caloric restriction (CR) and intermittent fasting (IF) can prolong the health-span of the nervous system by affecting fundamental metabolic and cellular signaling pathways that regulate life-span.7 CR and IF affect energy, free radical production, and cellular stress response systems in ways that protect neurons against genetic and environmental factors to which they would otherwise succumb during aging. Specifically, the researchers found that both IF and CR induce a mild stress response in brain cells, which results in the activation of compensating mechanisms. According to the researchers, IF regimens have previously been demonstrated to lessen and even stop damage to neurons and improve outcomes in animal models of both neurological trauma such as stroke8 and also age-related neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease9 and Huntington's disease.10
Building on previous work that had found that fasting for as little as two days protects healthy cells against chemotherapy,11 a new study published just this month found that fasting may actually retard tumors, while at the same time protecting against the harmful side effects of chemotherapy.12 As mentioned, the cell-protective effects of starvation had previously been demonstrated in a 2012 study. Researchers found that mice given a high dose of chemotherapy after fasting continued to thrive, while half of the normally fed mice died and half experienced lasting weight loss. Importantly, the chemotherapy extended the life span of mice injected with cells from an aggressive human tumor, and the animals later gained back the weight they had lost due to food deprivation. In addition, laboratory studies of normal human brain cells and cancerous brain cell lines that underwent a short period of starvation (low glucose) revealed that normal cells also became resistant to chemotherapy (a good thing), while cancerous brain cell lines remained susceptible. In fact, the 2012 study found that five out of eight cancer types in mice responded to fasting alone. Just as with chemotherapy, fasting slowed the growth and spread of tumors. And without exception, "the combination of fasting cycles plus chemotherapy was either more or "much more" effective than chemo alone.
The new study, published just a few days ago, on the other hand, actually found that cycles of starvation were as effective as chemotherapy drugs in delaying the progression of different tumors and increased the effectiveness of these drugs against melanoma, glioma, and breast cancer cells. In mouse models of neuroblastoma, fasting cycles plus chemotherapy drugs--but not either treatment alone--resulted in long-term cancer-free survival. According to the researchers, these studies suggest that multiple cycles of fasting promote differential stress sensitization in a wide range of tumors and could potentially replace or augment the efficacy of certain chemotherapy drugs in the treatment of various cancers.
That's not insignificant.
And finally, it has been known for many years that calorie restricted diets have been shown to have several health benefits including increased insulin sensitivity, stress resistance, reduced morbidity, and increased life span. The mechanism still remains unknown, but the need for a long-term reduction in caloric intake to achieve these benefits has always been assumed, at least until a 2002 study found that intermittent fasting by itself resulted in beneficial effects that met or exceeded those of caloric restriction. We're talking about benefits including reduced serum glucose and insulin levels and increased resistance of neurons in the brain to excitotoxic stress.13 In other words, intermittent fasting produces the same kinds of beneficial effects on glucose regulation in diabetics and neuronal resistance to injury as caloric restriction…but most likely exceeds them.
Water fasting is certainly more extreme than juice fasting or juice fasting plus spirulina or chlorella, but is the extremity worth it? That depends on what you're after. Water fasting provides two benefits that juice fasting does not--but they come at a cost. Let's take a look
So So
Cleansing toxins
Cleansing reaction
Resting the organs of the digestive system
Losing weight
Electrolyte imbalance
Glucose imbalance
Loss of muscle mass
Alkaline pH
Normally your body burns carbohydrates for fuel. Ultimately, carbs are the main source of fuel for your brain, heart, and most other organs. During a water fast, after your body has used up all the available carbohydrate calories from your last meal, it then turns to the glycogen stored in your liver to meet its energy needs. Once your glycogen stores are used up, your body finally turns to its fat reserves. At this point, your body is in a state of ketosis. A person in ketosis is getting energy from ketones, little carbon fragments that are the fuel created by the breakdown of fat stores. Mild ketosis, at least short term, can be beneficial. The first benefit is that it accelerates the loss of fat in your body; the second is that it can actually help stabilize your body's glycemic response over time.14 And thirdly, it can actually reduce hunger. When the body is in ketosis, you tend to feel less hungry.
But longer term, or at more extreme levels, ketosis is definitely more bad than good. High levels of ketones can cause gout, kidney stones, and even lead to organ failure--particularly kidney failure. Note: as little as 100 grams of carbohydrates a day (not counting fiber) can prevent ketosis in your body.
The technical definition of autolysis is the destruction of the tissues or cells of an organism by substances that are produced within that organism. When it comes to fasting, we can think of this as the body digesting parts of itself to compensate for insufficient calories being consumed. The breaking down of fat cells through ketosis is one example. The breaking down of muscle and organ tissue to extract protein for more immediate needs is another. If we believe the process to be random and arbitrary, as the medical community supposes, then it should be avoided at all costs. But as any endurance athlete can tell you, your body does not break down arbitrarily under autolytic conditions. As it turns out, you body is fundamentally self-aware and intelligent; it "digests" diseased and weakened tissue before healthy tissue. For an endurance runner, that means her body will "use up" her upper body tissue before it even thinks of taking anything from her legs. Quite simply, your body has the ability to readily adjust to changing circumstances--breaking down tissue in one part of the body and reassembling it in another, again as circumstances require.
Years ago, I hiked the full 212 mile length of the John Muir Trail and lost 13 lbs during the trip. At altitude and carrying a 70 lb pack, I was burning better than 5,000 calories a day and couldn't come close to eating that much. At the end of the hike, you could count my ribs, but I had legs like a Billy Goat. My body digested the tissue it didn't need for the task at hand, but built it even stronger where necessary. Autolysis is not arbitrary. During fasting, autolysis is self-aware.
Since you are consuming fewer calories in a water fast, autolysis is more pronounced than with a juice fast. This means that your body will be breaking down unneeded, damaged, and toxic tissue faster than with other forms of fasting. However, as long as you are not overdoing the calories while juice fasting, autolysis will still take place while on a juice fast -- just not as pronounced.
Different health experts will have different opinions on this, but I believe that the main purpose of fasting is to remove toxins from the body. And in that regard, juice fasting is just as effective as water fasting when it comes to the amount of toxins removed. But juice fasting goes one step further. The breakdown of tissue during fasting both creates and releases toxins into the bloodstream. The body's response to these toxins is to first oxidize them, then reduce them, and finally conjugate them (i.e., combine them with something else) to create a less toxic or inactive compound and safely escort those compounds out of the body. Most of this is accomplished in the liver, but--and here's the key point--the process requires nutritional cofactors to conjugate the toxins. When juice fasting, these cofactors are abundantly provided by the fresh juice. When water fasting, no such luck. Elimination of these toxins when water fasting is, therefore, much more uncomfortable.
And it is here that fasting with juices plus single cell proteins such as chlorella and/or spirulina stands out. Both chlorella and spirulina are chelating and purifying agents that bond with the toxins and usher them out of your body. It's not a coincidence that algae such as chlorella are used in water treatment plants to remove toxins from drinking water.
All three forms of fasting are useful when it comes to resting the digestive system since they require no, or very little, work from the digestive system in terms of processing. Note: this is why protein supplementation for the juice has to be of the single cell variety--to minimize any effort made by your digestive system. Spirulina is so easy to digest because it is surrounded by a thin membrane of complex sugars which dissolve easily in the stomach. Chlorella, on the other hand, is easy to digest since virtually all varieties sold as food are "broken-celled," meaning that the cell wall has already been breached and requires no further digestion to access the nutrients inside.
Note: while fasting, you are not only resting the organs of digestion from their workload, you are also freeing up the energy in your body normally devoted to digestion. Most people think that food provides them with energy, and it does…long term. But short term, digestion is an energy intensive process. Just consider for a moment how exhausted you feel after eating a large meal. While fasting, you free up that energy that was previously employed in digestion for the purposes of rebuilding and repairing other tissues in the body. In his book, The Science and Fine Art of Fasting, Herbert Shelton calls this "physiological compensation.15" As he says, "Energy saved in one department may be expended in another."
Water fasting is the most likely form of fasting to cause problems in terms of electrolyte and glucose imbalances, as well as fatigue. Since you're not taking in any electrolytes or glucose, you are going to run short. If you're healthy and the fast is short term, that's not a problem. But if you're not healthy, or the fast goes on longer than three days, the problems and risks increase. Water fasts longer than three days can cause irregular heartbeats (especially if your potassium levels have dropped) and extreme swings of fatigue from the drop in glucose levels. And in some cases, where the faster doesn't know what they're doing, water fasting even presents a risk of death from the lack of electrolytes. It's the reason, if you're new to fasting, I never recommend a pure water fast longer than three days unless someone knowledgeable is personally guiding you through the process. Experienced fasters who are in tune with their bodies, on the other hand, can navigate longer periods of water fasting safely. Juice fasting is much less problematic for newbies in this regard.
Interestingly, juice fasting can present an opposite problem. If you rely too much on sweet fruit juices for your fast, you can push glucose levels up much too high, which can lead to severe glycemic swings. It's the reason that I recommend juicing primarily with vegetable juices while fasting and diluting any fruit juices you drink with pure water. The sweeter the juice, the more you'll want to dilute it--two or three parts water to one part juice is not unwarranted for such juices.
By the way, this is why the Master Cleanse adds both lemon juice and maple syrup to its version of the water fast -- lemon for the electrolytes and maple syrup to prevent glucose dips.
This is pretty automatic: unless you are consuming protein, you will lose overall muscle mass. Yes, you can build muscle in particular areas even while fasting, but you accomplish that by cannibalizing protein from other muscle tissue that is not being stressed. As I mentioned earlier, when I hiked the John Muir Trail, I built muscle in my legs, but only by cannibalizing muscle from my upper body. And this is where consuming single-cell proteins while fasting truly shines. Because they are such highly concentrated proteins, and so easily digested, supplementing with them while fasting minimizes the muscle loss and ensures that the majority of weight lost is water and fat...while at the same time giving you the benefits of fasting.
Ketones are both acidic and acid forming in the body; thus, pushing your body into ketosis while water fasting can be acidifying to the body. However, drinking enough water will flush the ketones quickly from the body, thereby minimizing that effect. Nevertheless, there is nothing in a pure water fast to help promote alkalinity. Incidentally, that's one of the reasons the Master Cleanse fast includes lemon juice with the water. As I've explained in other newsletters, although citrus fruits are acidic, they actually promote alkalinity in the body. Another possibility is to water fast using a water ionizer, which will help promote alkalinity in the body. Be careful, though, not to set the alkalinity too high; otherwise, since you'll be drinking so much water during the fast, you can promote a state of too much alkalinity.
In any case, juice fasting--especially with vegetable juices--is helpful in promoting a proper alkaline state. And the single-celled algae are also alkalinizing.
Water fasting is the least effective form of fasting for weight loss since with no calories your body quickly goes into shut down mode to prevent starvation. In other words, water fasting slows your metabolism so that you "survive" on fewer calories. This means that you progressively lose less weight as the fast goes on, but even more important, you have a high rebound effect once you start eating again…since your metabolism is now slower and it takes even fewer calories to put weight back on.
For that reason, juice fasting is better for losing weight and juice fasting with one-celled protein even better. They both offer less slowing of your metabolism--and, therefore, less rebound. That said, if you decide to use either water fasting or juice fasting for weight-loss, I recommend alternate day fasting. Eating every other day prevents the body from shutting down. Note: just make sure you don't overeat on your alternate eating days in an unconscious attempt to "compensate" for what you didn't eat the day before. Overindulging in calories on eating days pretty much nullifies the gains you make on fasting days.
Fasting is an essential component of the Baseline of Health Program for preventing and even reversing catastrophic illness. I personally have done all different kinds of fasting over the years--including longer water fasts, Master Cleanses, and juice fasts. In the end, after years of trial error, I've settled on the vegetable juice fast (with a small amount of fruit juice), supplemented with chlorella or spirulina, as the best form of fasting for the vast majority of people. And it's the form of fasting I personally use most often. It's effective; reasonably pleasant, as fasts go; has the smallest chance of a detox reaction; is the easiest for most people to do, and is far and away the safest form of fasting. That said, I recommend the following guidelines.
In general, you want to use low sugar vegetable juices over high sugar fruit juices. Be sure and dilute any fruit juices that you do use. As I mentioned earlier, diluting two or three parts water for each part juice is advisable when drinking fruit juices.
No bottled juices! They are essentially sugar water, or just plain dead. Get a juicer. My favorite juicers now are the Breville 800JEXL - Juice Fountain Elite Extractor for when I want something quick and easy to clean up after and the Tribest Green Star Green Power Gold when I am juicing throughout the day for more than a couple of days. The Green Power does a superior job but is more of a pain to use and clean. However, if you are juicing throughout the day, you only need to clean it at the end of the day. And for those who want only the very best, the Norwalk Model 280 is the crème de la crème of the juicing world. But at $2,500, it's outrageously expensive and a real pain in the butt to use and clean. Most people will not have the patience to stick with it; but for those who do, it produces superior juice. Note: I love my VitaMix blender. I wouldn't own anything else, but it's a blender and not a juicer. It liquefies fruits and vegetables; it doesn't juice them. It's great for pure fruit and vegetable smoothies, but not for juice fasting.
It's six of one, half dozen of the other. My personal preference is for chlorella because I believe it does a better job as a detoxing agent. It's certainly superior in its ability to chelate heavy metals. But spirulina and blue green algae offer a better protein source. Also, look out for allergies. People who are allergic to seafood may have a problem with one or the other of these foods. Note: blue green algae is likely to be the least problematic in this regard.
In any case, buy organic from a trusted manufacturer that grows their algae in a very clean environment. Don't buy bargain brands that don't state how they are grown.
As a basic schedule, I like the following:
Diabetics need to exercise special care when fasting--even short-term. Diabetics should not start with water fasting as this can play havoc with your blood sugar levels. And absolutely, do not base your fast on undiluted fruit juices as this can send your blood sugar levels through the roof. Vegetable juices are preferable, and the use of supplemental single-celled proteins can smooth the edges out even further. In any case, work with your physician and monitor your blood sugar regularly. Also fasting is not recommended for women who are pregnant or breastfeeding as it can stir up toxins that can impact the child. And anyone who has a chronic illness, is using prescription medications, or is under a doctor's care should check with their doctor or naturopathic physician before embarking on a fasting program.
Despite what the medical community may feel about the practice, fasting is one of the cornerstones of many alternative health programs. As I have repeatedly stated over the years, a good juicer is one of the single best investments you can make in your health. And let me be absolutely clear, I do not sell juicers, and I do not make any money if you buy one. I just recommend their use.
Written by Jon Barron or staff member at The Baseline of Health Foundation
Material originally published at www.jonbarron.org.
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