Fasting 🚫🍷🍩☕️🚫

   As I continue the protocol for my treatment the next step over the next five days is fasting. The program includes a five day fast mimicking package of five days called ProLon. Each box for the day includes packages of "meals" that you eat throughout the day. It is mostly soups and a couple of nut-based bars, teas, and crackers to go with the soup. Each day you follow the instructions and it slowly cuts things out of the diet from the first day or adds in a supplement. You are not allowed to drink caffeine on the diet so I started to ween myself off of coffee a week before I started this, so I wouldn't have the caffeine withdrawal headache that we all love so much. While I am fasting I am doing a hyperbaric dive every day. It is also said that after five days of fasting your body is at the highest of making its own stem cells to heal. On the fifth day is when I will get the stem cell infusion! Disclaimer because this is fast mimicking I am not starving myself and I am not doing it do weightloss, only doing it because it is proven to help the healing process. Because when your body is not focused on constantly digestive food it has energy to heal on the cellular level. The man who has created this ProLon fast mimicking diet is Valter Longo ( if you are interested).

   My mom and I have done a lot of research on fasting and there are so many benefits to it! There are also many different types of fasting and is something that everyone should try for health reasons or to just be a healthier more focused person. There is a documentary on Netflix or maybe it is amazon prime, called Fasting and it goes over the different types of fasts and follows real people on how they have changed their lives doing a fast. The video includes seven types of fasts: Time-Restricted Feeding, Intermittent and Prolonged Fasting, Long Term Water Fasting, Juice Fasting, Religious Fasting, and what I am doing Fasting Mimicking Diet. It also goes over some of the unsafety, but I am only doing this for seven days and it transitions you back into a normal diet. I am excited about this because there have been may good results from people just even for improved energy levels and brain function.

I am also excited because my very loving family has said that they would try to follow some of the protocol with me (mainly dinner and they would at least cut back on caffeine) to support me throughout the journey. Fingers crossed and prayers that my stem cells start working for healing on my brain, and if not that at least increased energy and mental clarity. PS. four hyperbaric treatments down, and about six more to go before the infusion.