The Two Sciences of Metabolism Must be Understood Before we Proceed with Fun Fabulous Fasting
by Karen Kellock Ph.D. KAREN IMAGES
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Update 2012: I found the answer ten years ago: Man is a fauna-frugi-fastarian! But first I had to go through the vegan crowd who yell so loud. I was actually intimidated by them, like many of you. They insult your body, buddy: to command what you chew. Believe me, fruitarianism brings failure to thrive, but the REVERSAL between diets [lowcarb paleo vs fruitarianism] in your two daily meals will put you in perfect health. You'll feel so good and transcend this crowd who's made you so blue. But make sure your meat is grass-fed, cruelty-free and certified organic with NO hormones, pesticides or antibiotics. Usually this means online purchasing.
The answer to our miseries is the reversal of diets. It’s not a controversy between fruit or fat (between Ehret or Atkins) but rather becoming a very wise person because of your knowledge of both. Not choosing one or the other but reversing constantly to fit the needs which I will describe. You will know when to go fruitarian, when to go lowcarb and when to fast. When I regressed as a fruitarian and suddenly switched to no-carb for one year to revive my protein and fat-deprived system that was the perfect thing to do. I was extremely energetic and happy on a no-carb and fasting diet of just one daily meal of cheese omelet. But then just as suddenly the body said “I want fruit” and the only thing that worked best was now grape juice, oranges, fish or fowl. Now I’m happy with one daily meal then coffee or light lemon aid. The fast is the point so about all those meals don’t get out of joint. Just enjoy your fasting life which God will anoint.
Everyone’s perfect diet is endlessly mutable while staying within the general
fat-fruit-fastarian matrix. The fruitarian theory says fruit is such a
beautifier but yet the elevated insulin brings bloat and bad skin when at a
certain stage—when the protein deprivation overrides any benefit from the
fruit. It’s all a matter of where you’re at. I chose to be
lacto-nut-fruitarian as home base but will eat vegetables, salads and fish if I
ever go to restaurants. After so much fruitarian isolation what a relief to
feel a part of the world again—to be able to eat most of what my hostess serves
yet to still have the “fruitarian highness”–the reality I so crave. I’m
talking about fruit and fasting afternoons while maintaining maximum energy
because you are properly fat-fed.
The most important answer is the fast. The superior man is a fat-frugivorous fastarian. If you eat your main meal at noon then like the Buddhist monk focus freely on your fast in contemplation, study, a nap, exercise, leisure. You must know you are fasting to pat yourself on the back. You ate, now you’re fasting. It’s no big thing to eat at noon and then not eat again until the next morning but it’s a full twenty-hour fast. You’re a faster and gaining all the benefits thereof. Don’t let anyone criticize because it’s not thirty days. The daily faster makes it a life routine and has no need for long and painful fasting regimens. Eating the right food for man once a day makes you King and Queen for that day. Be smart: reverse in between these two poles but eat vegetables and leaves on occasion—when you eat at high-class restaurants as a major VIP!
Here are the two different sciences of metabolism: one propounded by Ehret (detox matrix) and one by Atkins (fatburning-rebuilding matrix). By way of illustration I will describe the Grapecure for cancer first.
GRAPECURE
Detox Matrix
Ehret’s detox matrix goes like this: the human body is an elastic pipes-and-tubes system of 62,000 miles of fine capillary with an inner tissue system that resembles a sponge. Anything but fruits and green vegetables creates mucus which nature adapts to by storing in the tissue system. The average person is carrying around twenty pounds or more of morbid matter--debris stored from head to toe. It is mucus, feces, pus, poison deposits, morbid watery flesh and decomposing tissue. This awful mess putrefies into “disease.” The specific 4000 disease-names refer only to the specific point of encumbrance. “Modern man is a walking cesspool” said Ehret as the entire pipe system is encrusted. Worse, 70% of autopsies show decades-old feces and worms. This mess becomes cancer as well as all other diseases. So heal by cleaning out the impacted debris (The Debris Theory of Disease). Here’s one type of fruit-fasting which is especially perfect for cancer-cleaning:
The Grapecure is in three stages: 1. complete dissolving of the encumbrance. 2. complete elimination of poison. 3. complete rebuilding of new tissue. This thorough regeneration is what marks the grape. Cancer cannot be cured through fasting since it checks the growth but is again strengthened when food is re-ingested. The grape eliminates cancer curing entirely. It is the “Queen of the Fruits” with the highest dissolving action and the most complete nutrient. Man can enjoy a long vacation on the grape as the amino acids become proteins plus all needed nutrients. All abnormal growths and tumors are dissolved by this powerful chemical reaction. The cure is mentioned in the Bible as a divinely simple gift to suffering humanity. Often used as a last resort the grapecure shows complete recoveries despite hours to live. The patient must have faith, a strong desire to live and the network must encourage the healing process.
Stage One: Dissolving encumbrance. This is grape-only (juice grapes or raisons) every two hours from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.. This stage takes 7-10 days and it is here that painful symptoms may occur. The patient should take joy in these points of pain since it indicates that cleansing is occurring. Until the encumbrance is dissolved the real relief does not begin and the grape does not stop until all is eliminated. The now-stirred-up poisons must come out lest they auto-intoxicate the blood again so one to two enemas must be given daily if no bowel movements occur.
Stage Two: Elimination of Poison. Grapes will be combined with other fruits but not at same meal: grapes (8 a.m.) fruit (10a.m.) etc. Having eliminated the biggest chunks, deep cellular cleansing now begins. Old pus, poisons, prescriptions and foods from puberty release from cells into the blood. Cell-cleansing is the most intense part of the cure.
Stage three: Rebuilding of New Tissue. A complete regeneration of all organs will now occur. The salt balance is restored with tomato, red bell pepper, cucumber, lemon and olive. This “red salad” at noon is preceded with juicy fruit in the morning and prunes or raisons at night. Daily elimination should now work perfectly. The worst is over as each day shows more beauty and health. The ratty cellulite-coarseness and wrinkles of the skin (from debris storage) becomes baby-fine moist smoothness as debris is broken up and dispersed. Perfection is achieved!
The most common mistake of the medical profession: The patient cannot eat (injurious fasting) followed by eating solid foods (for “nourishment”). This process is followed by an eruption of the cancer which was arrested through fasting but then gathers stronger hold with eating. The only answer is the grape regimen.
LOW-CARB DIETING
Slimming-Rebuilding Matrix
A high percentage of people in the West have so over-indulged in sweets and starch that they have developed hyperinsulinism. When we eat carb the body secretes insulin to store the glucose until a time it is needed--we store fat. In over-starched and -sugared cultures the insulin receptors are overworked and so more and more insulin is secreted each time. Soon everything we eat is stored as fat. Obesity is everywhere and 70% of Americans have hyperinsulinism. The cure: limit carbs drastically for once the condition has occurred it only gets worse and no diet will work without severe carb-restriction. We are speaking of refined carbs particularly, while fructose is actually cleansing without elevating insulin if eaten frugally. (Note: After his initial weight loss Atkins said he ate 80 carbs a day of fruit and stayed thin.)
The degenerative diseases associated with hyperinsulinism are coronary heart disease, arteriolosclerosis, diabetes and hypertension. For someone who overindulged in sweets and starch early in life the insulin receptors are so worn out that just one touch of glucose sends insulin pouring forth dropping blood sugar levels low (fatigue) while storing fat and water. Sludgy, stodgy and sullen we become tired, irritable and hungry!
Insulin constricts: all the airways and vessels squeeze in as insulin acts as a vasoconstrictor. As it holds water this means hypertension as everything closes down. I felt as though I was suffocating as all the airways closed in. Look at the difference between the two states: Insulin suppresses the immune system, increases inflammation and pain, decreases oxygen flow, decreases endurance, causes platelet aggregation (growth of artery cells thus constricting blood vessels) and proliferates rogue cells (this is cancer). The result is breathlessness, headache, cramps, swelling and rashes. It is not FAT which brings on heart attacks but carb! In the absence of carbs, fat is totally harmless!
Glucagons on the other hand brings a vasodilation (opens up), enhancing immunity, decreasing pain and inflammation, increases oxygen flow, increases endurance, prevents platelet aggregation, dilates airways and decreases cell-proliferation (cancer). Cancer, heart disease, diabetes and arteriosclerosis is sugar/starch-based--having nothing to do with dietary fat.
KETOSIS!
Appetite Suppression
Under glucagon’s stimulation the body burns fat rather than stores it. When the body lives off of fat it is the glorious state called ketosis. Ketones are the energy the brain and heart prefer to live on. Contrary to cultural phobias surrounding dietary fat it is not the problem. The pervasive fat-phobia is simply a knee-jerk reaction to the word “fat” with no attention to the metabolic processes that follow the ingestion of fat (without carbs) versus eating carbs.
Glucagons--from lowcarb and high fat is the hormone of fat burning and fatty tissue breakdown, reversing the storage processes put in motion by insulin. The puffiness of water retention is present with insulin yet instantly releases with glucagons. We need fat to fight fat. The ketogenic diet releases fat mobilizers--secretions released into the bloodstream to dispense and burn fat. A study by Benoit showed that if eating pure fat and no carbs these lipid mobilizers were released and the subjects lost their fat stores twice as fast as when they fasted. When he put patients on a “fat-fast” with small bits of fat incrementally through the day the weight-loss outdid the total fast by 88% of loss of body fat.
The other diet-happy thing about fat is that it is a complete appetite-suppressant. When we are in Ketosis--the condition of burning rather than storing fat--we lose all appetite while having more energy. We are fat-burning machines living happily on our own fat, ecstatic for life with no cravings for sweets or any other “comfort” food. After two days all cravings leave and we are totally satisfied. I am amazed how just a piece of cheese for breakfast deletes hunger for the day so I can forget food and just enjoy the ray.
FAT PHOBIA IS A CULTURAL HYPNOTIC
The prevalent panic over dietary fat is a cultural hypnotic. It makes no sense scientifically once one knows the metabolic processes that follow the eating of fat vs. carb. We should be a lot more afraid of being fat but not at all afraid of dietary fat when eating without carbs.
Someone may start on this high-fat/low carb diet and be enormously happy with it, only to be talked out of it by friends and associates! Can’t anyone think independently anymore? The fat-phobia is the biggest example of social hypnotism I can think of. If one eliminates all fat from the diet he has to eat something so the only thing left is starchy-sugary. It is very common with vegetarians to substitute over-starch for the deletion of meat. Many vegetarians are still fat. The consequences of eliminating fat and then gorging on starch and sweet are devastating--never have we had such an obese nation of adults and children.
