health question

[Strengthbeauty]

I have read about B12 and have not learned as much as I should be knowing but for interest. Can someone with B12 fast? There is a lot of benefits from fasting but can it help the body as well from every day consuming toxins through foods and drinks?

Regards,

Ilse

[clivealive Forum Support]

Hi Strengthbeauty as long as you have a normal healthy digestive system and your usual diet includes meat, fish, seafood. eggs, poultry and dairy produce - the natural sources of Vitamin B12 - then fasting should not be a problem.

We can have several years "store" of B12 in our liver and this gets "topped up" from foods listed above.

Are you either Vegan or Vegetarian? If so, that would be a different scenario.

I hope this helps and wish you well.

[Strengthbeauty in reply to clivealive]

Thank you, I am a pescatarian. (With what I know that the B12 pills will do no much or at all respond to the body)

So then intermitted fasting would be save. ? As I have read from pvanderaa about the toxins I can defiantly feel in my body that I have some toxins to eliminate. Can a water fast 24-72hr fast help?

kind regards,

Ilsr

[clivealive Forum Support in reply to Strengthbeauty]

I am not a medically trained person so am not able to advise you specifically on fasting and suggest that you direct questions on that to pvanderaa

With regards your being pescatarian and going back to your original enquiry and my reply - if you do not eat any other of those animal products I listed - fish are a good source of Vitamin B12.

Best wishes

[pvanderaa]

Rather than fasting, if you suspect a particular food has a toxin that affects you, I recommend starting a logbook of all your food, drink and meds.

Because the gut is involved, it causes a time delay from injesting something until it causes a symptom. Gluten or casein are good examples of proteins that affect lots of people.

With the logbook, when you notice a symptom, look back 24 hours or 48 hours. Toxins recycle through the liver, bile, intestine and portal vein in the hepatic loop so can come around a second or third time.

If you suspect a particular food, eliminate it from your diet for two weeks to detoxify your hepatic loop. Then reintroduce it once and monitor your symptoms over 72 hours.

Sorting out dietary issues is a hard but the logbook method has helped me and many others.

[Strengthbeauty in reply to pvanderaa]

thank you so much it helped a lot. oh, I have another question a friend of mine I met recently are also diagnose with B12 deficiency but she does not have a logbook/ food journal she had a severe nervous breakdown a year ago and while her body seems to be healthy she is also bulimic. What is her long term effect and is there a way she can accept where she is now and heal her body.

Regards, Ilse

[Gambit62 Administrator in reply to Strengthbeauty]

Strengthbeauty

I think you would probably be better off posting the question on a forum related to eating disorders.- if you look under my hub there is a facility to search for forums that deal with specific issues right at the bottom.

Unfortunately bulimia is a condition that can cause liver problems and lead to problems with B12. B12 deficiency on its own could cause a mental breakdown and there could be a bit of chicken and egg going on. Your friends situation sounds very complicated and she really needs support from others who have similar experience and from medical professionals.

In your friends case, at least to start with - a food log is likely to be a bad idea - she needs to establish a healthy relationship with food before that is going to work.

[fbirder]

If you have a healthy liver and kidneys then that is all you need to clean toxins from your body. Nothing else will do anything to change that. webmd.com/diet/a-z/detox-diets

There may be some benefits to intermittent fasting for a few days at a time. But detoxing isn't one of them. newscientist.com/article/mg...