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Q: Hypoglycemia and Fasting Risk
asked by: xomariaxo2 on April 1st, 2009
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I have been doing research on Fasting and it seems to be an old time natural remedy to help remove toxins from your body and give your body a fresh start and attempt to help cure ongoing problems. I always have to eat every hour or two or else I feel dizzy and sick to my stomach and then can lead to fainting. I have fainted at least 5 times in my life, I am 23. The first time I fainted was when I was about 12. The past year I have all of a sudden had a huge decrease in health out of no where. I never had problems with my monthly, and now I get painful ovarian cysts from time to time. I also had mono about 3-4 years ago, which seemed to be the beginning of everything for me, my sugar problem was under control, never had any monthly problems etc. until I was recovering from mono, suddenly I catch every cold out there and I am now allergic to pollin, cat fur, dust etc, normal stuff. The ovarian cyst that had ruptured had me bed-ridden for almost 2 months, feeling very ill and in pain constantly, also, my sugar problem seemed to be horrible, I needed to eat every single hour. I use to get symptoms that would tell me "hey you better eat soon" but now I just feel I have to eat on routine basis even when I'm not hungry and its frustrating, I have to force feed myself, even when I feel like throwing up. I am now to the point where I get bad anxiety which is new ever since this has all gone out of control. Now I get panic attacks and anxiety when my sugar gets low and hits me suddenly and I get scared when I'm by myself, to the point where I no longer drive alone anywhere. I have completely lost control of EVERYTHING. After reading about spiritual and beneficial purposes of Fasting I am greatly considering it. But, I do not know if this is a bad idea for someone who gets low blood sugar? Could I be putting myself at a great risk? Or, is this a technique that has been going on for centuries and I should be fine? I want to get control of my life again, I want to lose the 10 lbs I've gained in this past 8 months of hell I've been going through with constantly having to eat, I can only imagine how I'll be in another year if I do not take control of my life again. I am 23 years old, weigh 125 and I am 5'3". I use to weigh between 112 and 115 before all this happened. Please advise me. What type of Fasting technique would be good for a case like mine? To be honest, I am so tired of eating, which is why I am considering Fasting, almost like a rebelion against my body, I want to quit eating and see what happens. protest
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Niklas89
replied on April 10th, 2009
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My opinion
Fasting shouldn't be bad for people suffering with hypoglycemia.

Why? Because our body is perfectly able to maintain balanced blood sugar while we're not eating food. It's when we eat something that we mess everything up.

Of course your body can maintain balanced blood sugar until there's glucose in the blood and glycogen in the body. Eventually it will start converting body proteins (like muscles) to glucose. So long fasts are not a good idea.

I suggest you to read a book called "Eat stop Eat"

It explains how to fast by not eating for 24 hours twice a week.

It works like that: you eat your dinner on monday at 7 pm and don't eating anything (but drink a lot of water) until 7 pm of thursday. The you keep eating your normal diet for a couple of day and on friday (for example) you have your dinner and don't eat anything until 7 pm of saturday.

As you can see you're indeed fasting for 24 hours but you're never going a single day without food. 24 hours is long enough to provide the benefits of fasting (which include improved glucose tolerance, so it's a good thing for someone with hypolycemia)

People with reactive hypoglycemia have commented they felt good on the protocol.
It's very important to drink much water during the non eating hours. Sometimes brain fog can be reversed with water alone and people with RH tend to be dehydrated.

Buy the book as it's a very easy fast reading.
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