Hi Verano, Apparently one of the Van Tulleken brothers is publishing a book this week on the topic of processed food and the health impacts. – I think it could be a positive move forward as it needs to be highlighted how the processed food industry is effecting health.
I was feeling a little down yesterday regarding the progress with the heart issues. The first set of drugs prescribed appeared to have impacted my bodies ability to control fluid. – Despite half of the month being fasting days, and light meals the rest of the month I gained nearly a kg that month. – Its taken a few weeks after stopping that drug for that effect to resolve. I am hoping that the higher than normal number of visits to the loo is my body resolving that but I need to blow the dust of my bathroom scales to find out.
I have managed to find a private cardiac clinic in the UK who say that they could help me with my questions, but the initial appointment would involve not only the fees for a consultation but also paying for another ecg and echocardiogram so it will be about £800 for the initial appointment. I am going to see if I can obtain a copy of the ecg and echocardiogram done on the nhs to send them to bring the costs down. I feel that perhaps the solution is to try a little longer with the nhs system, and in a couple of months if I am not getting anywhere pay for the private consultation. I just think it is very telling that anyone who wants to work with a healthy diet in the UK has to look for a private clinic that will support this as all the nhs service is focused on presuming that people are going to be eating multiple carb high meals three plus times a day.
I am using the nasty cardiac nurse as inspiration to help me really dig in with extended fasts ready for my next appointment with that team on the 11th of May. – I think that showing a weight loss over the course of this month as well as an improvement on blood pressure is important.
While there are papers published showing that a month of adf had a positive impact on blood pressure, the only paper published on fasting and improving heart health is a case history of one person who was facing heart surgery and decided to jump instead into a 40 day fast carried out at home. – While he did improve the output of the heart from 40 to 50% efficiency with the single fast, he also ended up in hospital for treatment because of electrolyte imbalances and needed to be on a drip towards the end of his fast. – So not really a path I want to follow or a piece of research that I want to put in front of the cardiac team to show that fasting does improve heart health. I am keeping my fingers crossed that targeting autophagy but doing it over a longer period will be equally effective.
