Calorie Restriction and Rejuvenation Cleansing

This next July 22 (2009), following the solar eclipse and new moon moving into Leo we have almost a month of time for healing power focused on strengthening your immune system and overall cleansing on all levels.

 

This is perhaps good news for those of us who choose natural health care as our choice - and right - for promoting health.

 

Recently the discussion about caloric restriction resurfaced from more than a decade ago and has been taking over the news; there is much to say about the benefits of its use.

 

A more recent review published in the July, 2007 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reported that fasting every other day may be as effective as a daily regimen of calorie restriction at providing many benefits seen in animal and human studies. Lowering calorie intake by 15 to 40 percent has been associated with protection from adverse health conditions in many studies, however, many people find it difficult to reduce their calories for a significant length of time.

Krista A. Varady and Mark K. Hellerstein of the University of California, Berkeley selected 12 animal studies and 3 human trials on alternate- day fasting for their analysis, and studied their effects on diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.

When animal studies were examined, the effects of alternate-day fasting on reducing diabetes incidence, fasting glucose, and insulin concentration were comparable to those achieved by calorie restriction. Fewer improvements in diabetes risk were seen with human studies, however, the authors suggest that longer intervention periods than those used in the trials examined may be required to alter glucose concentrations in humans. 

Alternate-day fasting also benefited cardiovascular disease risk in animals, with improvements observed in total cholesterol and triglycerides, heart rate, blood pressure, and cardiac response to myocardial infarction. Human studies found an increase in HDL cholesterol and a reduction in triglycerides, with no decrease in blood pressure associated with the regimen. 

Although no human studies have evaluated alternate-day fasting's impact on cancer, animal studies revealed a reduction in lymphoma incidence, longer survival after tumor inoculation, and a reduction in cancer cell proliferation.

"It seems intuitively likely that persons will find it easier to fast or reduce intake on alternative days than to reduce their intake every day," the authors remark. "For this reason, alternate-day fasting regimens may allow better compliance than would calorie restriction regimens and may represent an attractive area for investigation. 

Another important finding fomr a study at St. Louis' Washington University found that "data from long-lived rodent studies shows that Calorie Restriction decreases serum concentrations of T(3), the thyroid hormone that mediates most of the functions of the thyroid gland. Thyroid hormones influence cell respiration, free radical production, and energy homeostasis. 

Other published results have attracted worldwide attention. In a study published in 2004, individuals who practiced calorie restriction (CR) showed virtually no evidence of atherosclerosis risk. Many evaluative measures, such as total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL), triglycerides, insulin, and high sensitivity C-reactive protein were significantly lower in the CR group than in adults consuming a typical American diet. Additionally, the CR group displayed higher levels of cardio-protective high-density lipoprotein (HDL). Carotid artery wall thickness, a diagnostic indicator for coronary artery disease, was 40% less in the CR group compared with the control group. The CR group showed no evidence of plaque accumulation.1

Decline in the heart’s diastolic (relaxation) function occurs with age. In 2006 these researchers showed that the diastolic function of the CR cohort resembled that found in people about 15 years younger.2

A 2006 report showed that the serum level of the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine, or T(3), may be an indicator of human aging. Consistent with the studies of calorie-restricted animals, the T(3) levels of the calorie-restricted group were lower than those in the control group.3" 

Thyroid testing is critical and this should be noted as the mainstream medicine approach is currently to test TSH only and evaluate this result with outdated clinical ranges.  I find this report to be an excellent verification of the importance of testing the complete thyroid panel.  Further, it is an important determinant because of the high incidence of thyroid imbalance in the Alzheimer's population. 

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