How to achieve the best detoxification effect through fasting

People with different physiques choose different number of days for fasting, generally three to seven days, but what is the best way to achieve fasting and detoxification effects? We know that the main purpose of fasting is to allow the body to excrete toxins and achieve the effect of weight loss. You cannot rush to lose weight through fasting, but let your body slowly adapt to the reduced food intake. Fasting for detoxification should be done gradually. It is a hard process that requires persistence. The effect will be better if it reaches seven days.

How many days is the correct way to fast for the first time?

3-7 days is recommended for the first time, and the time should not be too long. If you have never tried the Bigu fasting method for weight loss before, don't be too eager for success on your first try. Give your body a slow process to adapt. Especially when there is no teacher's guidance, it is recommended not to fast for too long. If there is a professional teacher's guidance, you can fast for about 7-10 days.

Don't think that the longer the time, the better. Everyone's physical condition is different, so you have to be realistic. Moreover, fasting pursues natural fasting and does not advocate forced fasting. Due to long-term eating and living habits and the adapted physiological cycle, most people will experience discomfort on the second or third day of fasting. At this time, it depends on personal handling. If handled well, you can persist in completing a cycle, which is seven days. If not handled well, it will be terminated in three days. Therefore, many situations may occur during the fasting period, but three to seven days are best for the first time.

The benefits of fasting

1. Detoxification

Many human diseases are caused by harmful substances in the environment inside and outside the human body. The stool in the human body sometimes weighs more than ten kilograms and stays on the wall of the large intestine for a long time. Both Chinese and Western medicine regard constipation as the root cause of all diseases. To cure the disease, you must first eliminate the old stool.

Feces is the most filthy thing. If it accumulates in large quantities, the foul gas will come out of the lungs and cause asthma, and will be excreted from the skin and cause eczema. Long-term self-poisoning can cause nervous tremors, mental fatigue, and is prone to complications such as headaches, back pain, fatigue, insomnia, and allergies.

Because the human body does not consume grains during the fasting period, the body's metabolic system will be readjusted, which helps to eliminate toxins and stool from the body. Based on real cases, generally after about 5 days of fasting, one will have black, slightly greasy stool with a strong smell. These are toxins, waste and stool that are excreted from the body. It has been confirmed in modern times that fasting is the most effective and direct method to eliminate toxins and clean up stool.

2. Weight loss

The main purpose of fasting is not to lose weight, but it is the safest and most effective way to lose weight. Normally, people mainly rely on sugar metabolism for energy. After 2-3 days of fasting, the sugar in the body is depleted, and fat metabolism is naturally started, and the body enters the fasting state. The functional order of lipid metabolism is as follows: fat is transported to the liver via the blood, cut and metabolized in the liver, and further converted into energy.

Therefore, the order in which fat is metabolized during the fasting period is: blood lipids - visceral fat - subcutaneous fat - protein. All kinds of waste in the blood and internal organs and tissues are raw materials for converting energy. Therefore, fasting to lose weight will first reduce fat, and then reduce the belly. After fasting for weight loss, you will not become a juicy peach, look haggard, or have more wrinkles. Instead, you will have firm muscles, smooth skin, rosy white skin, and be radiant.

3. Regulate the spleen and stomach

The spleen and stomach are not only the source of nutrition, but also the main source of toxins. After the toxins are discharged, not only the absorption capacity of the stomach and intestines is enhanced, but also the efficiency of the digestive system is improved, and nutrient absorption also becomes vigorous.

During the period of fasting, the spleen and stomach hibernate. On the one hand, they get sufficient rest. On the other hand, fasting is equivalent to returning the spleen and stomach to zero and returning them to the gastrointestinal state of a baby. This return to zero includes the recovery of intestinal flora and spleen and stomach function. Fasting is the safest and most effective method to regulate spleen and stomach diseases. 80% of people with stomach problems can be cured by fasting once.

4. Purify blood and soften blood vessels

The blood vessels of modern people are becoming harder and more brittle, especially the incidence of arteriosclerosis is increasing and is happening at a younger and younger age. The main reason is that blood lipid cholesterol is deposited on the blood vessel walls. This kind of vascular hardening is basically ineffective by taking medicine, and it is also difficult to cure through ordinary exercise. Although there are many solutions to this problem, one of the main methods is fasting. After fasting, the metabolism of substances is relatively accelerated, and the blood clots in the blood vessel walls are easily dissolved, allowing blood flow to flow smoothly. The lipids deposited in the intima of the arteries will also be decomposed and separated, all organs in the body will be detoxified and nourished by the blood, the arterial walls will be softened, and it will be beneficial for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

5. Lower blood sugar, blood pressure and blood lipids

Through the practice of fasting and breathing, lung capacity and trace elements in the air are increased, thereby lowering blood sugar. At the same time, excess fat and diseased cells are burned and excreted from the body during the fasting period, effectively cleaning the body, purifying the blood, reducing impurities, generating Qi, restoring blood sugar, and allowing diabetics to regain a healthy body. As mentioned before, fasting can remove and dissolve waste and cholesterol in the blood vessel walls, purifying the blood, thereby lowering blood pressure and blood lipids.

6. Activate the Immune System

The lack of nutrients after fasting will stimulate the cells that make up the immune organs, making their metabolism active and accelerating their renewal and formation. For example: the excretion of immunosuppressants, thereby relieving immunosuppression and activating immune function; the body's internal consumption first consumes aging and weakened tissue cells. At the same time, the body uses these "raw materials" to synthesize new proteins at a relatively faster rate, resulting in the renewal of the body's aging tissue proteins. Thereby, a person's overall functions are enhanced, and a "rejuvenation" phenomenon may occur.

7. Beauty and skin care

Fasting can purify the blood and eliminate waste from the body. The main cause of human aging is the precipitation of toxins in the body. Wrinkles appear on the face due to ischemia, and spots appear due to poor blood flow and blood stasis. Therefore, when the blood is abundant, the body is strong, wrinkles are smoothed when the blood flows smoothly, spots disappear, the skin becomes smooth when the blood flows smoothly, and the skin becomes white and red when the blood flows smoothly. This is also the scientific basis for the miraculous effects of fasting on beauty.

8. Rest and recuperation of internal organs

For ordinary people, eating three meals a day plus snacks greatly increases the burden on gastrointestinal digestion and absorption. At the same time, the heart beats faster to support blood supply to the gastrointestinal tract. The lungs breathe faster to supply oxygen to the heart. To break down sugar, the pancreas must supply a large amount of insulin. To break down fat, the liver must supply a large amount of bile and detoxify. The kidneys must filter out wastes such as urea, uric acid, and heavy metals. Similarly, the transmission burden of the six internal organs also increases. After fasting, the five internal organs can get a good rest and recuperation; during the recovery period, the transportation and transformation functions of the internal organs are greatly improved.

9. Enhance willpower and positive energy

It can improve your memory, deepen your understanding, strengthen your willpower, cultivate endurance, fill you with courage, willpower, enhance your self-confidence, enable you to distinguish between the important and the unimportant, not be fussy about details, make you cheerful and open-minded. Reduce compulsive addictions - During the fasting period, the body's operating state becomes more natural, physical and mental stress is reduced, various mental demons (especially tobacco and alcohol) are reduced, and you can take the opportunity to quit bad habits.

10. The best way to get started with spiritual practice

What is spiritual practice? You will know after 7 days of fasting. Appetite is the first desire of human beings. What is more serious than not eating is death. When people find that they can go without food, what else can they not give up? After 7 days of fasting, they will naturally enter the door of spiritual practice! Fasting is also the only way to reach a higher level of spiritual practice.