Once again, cancer has forced me out of fasting early. Sigh. My body simply doesn’t have enough reserve to fight a long battle. I did fine the first week or so. Then it started making me throw up… even under fasting! I had nothing but bile to throw up of course. Then I had the brilliant idea of doing a one-day true water fasting without the support of bone broth. That did it. I threw up big time, all the water I drank. Then I was so weak I couldn’t even stand up. My heart rate jumped to the 80’s. (Normally only 60 for me.) My heart was racing like a rabbit trying to jump out of my chest. My blood oxygen dropped to the 80’s (healthy range is 95+). I was so light headed I thought I could pass out anytime.
As soon as I got back on bone broth, everything got a little better, but I couldn’t recover from that 1 day water fasting. I know it’s my brain tumors because I have a massive constant headache despite the water fasting. It’s giving command for the body to threw up.
Not all is lost despite my defeat, I decided to come out of it because my body was in serious trouble. I realized I am not going to get rid of cancer in one round anyway. I did learn what I needed to learn from this lesson. I took my time early in the fasting when I had energy to research a lot about fasting and cancer. It turns out, the most important and dangerous part is not the fasting itself, but the “refeeding” process coming out of fasting. That’s the mistake I made last time. When I got into fasting, my body entered into ketosis, and it’s important that I keep it in ketosis. Instead, I didn’t know any better, eating things like rice porridge, oatmeal, sweet potatoes, etc. because those were food I thought was easy to digest. The cancer cells fed on carbs like crazy and put my body in worse shape then before. No wonder it only took a few days for me to be back in square one!
Needless to say I know better this time! It’s a miracle my body survived that mistake. Now I have a new diet I am sticking to and stop feeding cancer cells even when I eat. I will also put in a regular water fasting routing after I regained my strength so I don’t weaken my body through the process.
As far as the vomiting goes, I also figured out ginger blocks the vomit receptor in the brain. As long as I eat/drink enough ginger in my meals, I don’t throw up. The headache is something else I still need to figure out.
Thank you all for your prayers and well wishes!
Sending you love, as always! Stay strong.
I was thinking about you earlier today and am glad to hear that you are finding your way. As always, best wishes for your good health and spirits.
Lalia