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Originally Posted by Ceros  When I understand Ceros right, he thinks that your post has more
to do with myths than with science. Am I right Ceros?
Yes, that is correct. |
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Originally Posted by Ceros I talked to Michael Rae (Aubrey de Grey's assistant), and from what I understand he believes that fasting activates the same pathways as Caloric Restriction does. In other words:
Caloric Restriction > fasting + eating healthily > eating healthily.
That seems like a plausible theory to me, but those that doubt the effectiveness of CR might disagree with me. |
I see... Didn't pick up the sarcasm... Anyways.
Technically caloric restriction works the same way as fasting. The less you eat the more energy can be diverted away from digestion and towards other tasks. And yes... Healthful eating will go a long way to reduce the amounts of toxins that your body has to deal with, but it's only one of the components. Everything from the environment you live in to your general attitude affects it.
As far as science goes... Fasting has been studied and employed by physicians (many trained conventionally) for hundreds of years and often under conditions more scientifically rigorous then (at least in my opinion) is required today by the FDA. Actually the recorded history dates the practice at least as far back as the ancient Greeks with the greats like Aristotle and Pythagoras requiring their prospective students to fast prior to enrolling with them. Of course we can dismiss all of these people as tricksters and charlatans, but in my unconventional view of the world I see two sides of the equation. On one - we have names like Isaac Jennings, Herbert Shelton, Russell Thacher Trall, Sylvester Graham, Stanley Bass and many others with thousands of documented cases of people recovering from their ailments after being abandoned by conventional medicine. On the other we have germ theory that even Pasteur himself recanted, yet it's still in use today. Or better yet... How's this for you... In 1931 a cell biologist by the name of Otto Warburg received a Nobel Prize for discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme. In other words he showed that if a cell is put into a an environment where it's unable to take in enough oxygen due to pollution of it's environment then this cell will switch to processing glucose through fermentation, thus creating lactic acid destroying DNA's and RNA's ability to control cell division and ...drum roll... cancer cells begin to multiply. I actually read his research - it's fascinating. This concept, that cancer cells switch to glycolysis has become widely accepted, yet to this day it is not seen as the cause of cancer.
Now I've tried fasting for myself, seen it's benefits and completely sold on it. You want science... fair enough... just remember, when it comes down to it, most science is experimental and open to interpretation, and personally I like my side's track record better.