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fasting
anemia
sleep
protein deficiency
winter
[2008]
[Aajonus]
You go five hours without eating, your red blood cells eat each other. They become cannibalistic. So, every hour after five hours that you don't eat something with protein in it, your body will eat 1 - 1.5 tablespoons of red blood cells.
So, if you sleep 8 hours without eating, you're consuming 3 - 4 tablespoons of red blood cells, that means you awaken with anemia. That's about all you produce in a 24 hour period is 3 - 4 tablespoons of red blood cells. So, you're eating it up every night. So, you need to wake up after 3, 4, 5 hours, eat something with protein in, I don't care if it's milk, egg, meat, whatever it is, then go back to sleep for 3, 4, 5 hours.
So, if you're fasting, those people who go one day, 24 hours, 3 days, 5 days, 7 days, if you do really something stupid and go 42 days like I did, it'll take you 2.5 - 3 years to recover. When I did the 42 day fast, even though I drank my urine during there to recycle those proteins, it still took me 2.5 years to recover.
When I did a 27 day fast of only water, it took me 5 years to recover. So, you have to be very careful about fasting, it's not a good thing. You can eat small amounts if you want to make sure the body's getting rid of enough toxicity, don't do that in the winter.