This video is only a few minutes long, but extremely interesting, I strongly suggest you watch it. My most recent book, which includes protocols for fasting up to 14 days at a time is also linked below the video, and below that is my best educated guess as to why the Russians got the results they did. Remember that modern psychiatry and psychology cure literally NO ONE. These so-called “professionals” psychologists and psychiatrists were interviewed at random and asked how many patients they cured and ONE of them said “Maybe…one.” All the others said none.
The only thing I (was) aware of that helps and can cure at least some mental disorders is hypnosis properly done, for two reasons:
- The work of Milton Erickson, which I am probably the only person on Earth who has read every single thing Erickson ever wrote (approximately 20,000 pages in total). And,
- Because I have achieved it myself with a person that was on medication and officially diagnosed as “Paranoid Schizophrenic”, and yet after four sessions he was no longer on medication, resumed his studies, got a girlfriend, and went on to live a normal life.
So why would fasting work? See the video, which is only 7 minutes long and covers some amazing work done by the Soviets during the Cold War. My thoughts on it are below it.
If you don’t care for my explanation and just want to know how to go about it with zero filler, here is the book . Link is to the digital PDF version, you can print yourself, but the description there also has links to Amazon so you can order ready-made paper copies. It’s only 48 pages and then nearly 30 pages of plans for your notes.
It has daily diet and supplement plans, along with fasting Protocols from 3 to 14 days, and also 8 recipes of how to do your own fermented foods; As well as exercise routines for during, after and beyond the fast (each thing can be done separately or all three [better eating, exercise, and fasting]).
My View of Why it Works
The relationship between our mental processes and the gut biome, is, in my opinion, far, far, far more relevant than pretty much any current medical “professional” understands. Just like I have demonstrated things like close range telepathy on video, as part of the 40 videos you get when you purchase my seminal work on Systema, The Russian Martial System, or the effects of Hypnosis not just on the mind, but also on the physical body ( see the effects on eyesight ), there are far more interesting physiological, and neurological effects and links between our mind, body and gut biome than pretty much anyone can even guess.
The Body-Snatcher Issue
I personally experienced a very real “hijacking of my brain” by the parasitic overgrowth of Candida I had developed by about 2014 or. so, without realising what it was, I went almost overnight from basically fit, training regularly and being healthy, to being fatigued, always bloated, with fur on my tongue and no real explanation as to why. Doctors couldn’t tell me either. This continued until early 2016 when I moved to Venice. It was then through a Facebook friend in a group I was part of, that someone suggested it was an overgrowth of Candida. So I did a 3 day water fast, and then basically only ate bresaola, octopus, and water, for months. The occasional fish or meat only stew for diversity, and a tub of 1kg of natural Greek Yoghurt once a month (yes in one go). I lost weight, got healthy again and the Candida issue disappeared, however… one evening, a few weeks into this Spartan regimen, I was lying on my couch, watching an episode of Montalbano (hilarious, well made and gives a real insight into Italian way of life) and out of the blue, I had a sudden, and really STRONG urge to eat an entire tub of Nutella. I didn’t have any such thing in the house, and it was 2 am anyway, but I was off the couch and half-way to the fridge before I realised… Wait… WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING? AND WHY? And I realised that the “need” of suddenly a tub of Nutella, was nothing to do with what. my body actually needed, or even my brain wanted. It was the closest thing to awakening from being directed by a body-snatcher that was parasitically attached to my brain-stem. It’s really quite disconcerting when you become suddenly so consciously aware of it.
And it was that very realisation that gave me the impetus to kill the damned parasitic bacteria (we all have Candida in our gut as part of our natural flora, but what it does, and if it’s even useful at all remains open to debate. What is sure is that sugar feeds it and almost everyone on processed food has an excess of it, and it is NOT good.)
Throughout 2016, 2017, and 2018 to about 2021 or so, I was healthy, then we moved to Italy, I got a bad case of Covid (no jab for me thanks) and then 2 pneumonias in 2022 that nearly finished me off. Recovering from that and being busy on the farm and making another 2 children with my wife meant I did not take care with what I ate, when, how, etc.
Mental Stability
It make sense to me that, given all sorts of bugs can and do exist in our gut, some can react with out nervous system in ways that are truly very much analogous to a parasitic creature taking over our brain. And not in a good way. This is very much known to be the case in the animal world, not just with insects, but mammals too (cats, rats, etc.) so I seen reason why it would be any different for humans.
The Reset
And lately I again was under the weather, constant joint inflammation and so on. So… I decided to reset everything with a full 14 day water only diet (see how to do it in the book) and I can attest that not only am I feeling a LOT better, but the inflammation has gone, a ganglion cyst I had that formed on the inside of my palm and made using any tool painful has now almost completely re-absorbed (it was probably the result of my fracturing my elbow when I slipped and fell on ice in January, the elbow is still tender in that area).
But my thinking is also a lot clearer, and I believe it’s because I essentially starved the body-snatcher known as Candida. And I will continue to do so. I have entered a regimented refeeding protocol (you need to be careful after you do a long fast how you start eating again to avoid serious complications), which is now at an end, however, I have once again, eliminated:
- All sugar, in ANY form
- All dairy products, in ANY form
- Sticking to healthy meats (properly raised, zero antibiotics wherever possible)
- Some vegetables (small amounts, but not the carbohydrates ones like potatoes)
- Zero Carbs (any alcohol, breads of all kinds, any pasta of any kind, and things like potatoes are all out)
I do take a few supplements and drink salted water.
I know to most people such a regimented and limited diet is unrealistic, but I have done. this plenty of times before when I was training in karate at my peak and later in Systema too, so I know it’s doable, but it DID need a mental reset, which the 14 day fast provided, as I ignored the tasty foods my wife prepared (supposedly for the kids, but possibly to torture me) and just drank my salty water and took the magnesium and couple of other things. Now, I can ignore. their eating cake in front of me easily, and it’s not an issue, also because, I get a kind of pleasure from knowing I am murdering colonies of Candida in my gut by the millions. Nothing drives one like an active enemy to defeat.
Exercise and Return to Peak
That is how my diet will stay as I gradually increase the exercise routine in order to get back to my peak performance from about age 35 or so, which will be hard enough to do at 56 with a compromised left lung. That is partly damage from the pneumonia, and partly due to a reduced diaphragm mobility on the left side that may have been congenital, the result of trauma (I was certainly kicked and punched there enough times over the years), or possibly also due to the Pneumonia. It was something discovered over the last year due to chest X-Rays. So I apparently have an atrophied ability to fill the left lung to full capacity. Due to all that, if I get back to age 35 performance I will be quite happy. Projected for 12-18 months of training, I think it should be fairly achievable, and possibly even go beyond it. My forest gym is in place now, I do need a better spinning bike because the one I got is fine for someone like my wife, but too light for me to train properly with.
I also commissioned a metal frame to perform some maximum effort static resistance training exercises with, but that’s made to measure for me and the. wife, so may not be useful for most people, but if they manufacture it properly and with proper technical diagrams I may put the plans for it on sale for a modest fee as it is adjustable for people between 6’ 2” and 5’ 7” and with a few adaptations could suit people up to 6’ 4” too.
I don’t do weights, as I find it too mind-numbing for me, but they are essentially irrelevant for me as I was always able to outperform most so-called body-builders (amateur level) of a size comparable to my own height and weight, mostly because the exercises I trained in most of my life are fast twitch and endurance body-work against gravity type of things, which is known to pretty much outperform weight-pushers in every respect, but especially cardio work, long-distance work like hiking, etc.
One thing I keep thinking would be beneficial is Tai-Chi, but I am mostly ignorant of it and not sure how much I could learn from videos or maybe a book, but I also can’t see myself travelling to any classes s I can’t afford the time, still, it interests me a lot more now at my age than it did when I was 30 years younger.
So… I had long ago promised you guys some health posts for subscribers and kind of failed at that, but. here I am… returning to it and probably with more useful information in one short place than you will know what to do with.
And yes, it reads great exactly for people like me, who HATE reading about diets, and healthy eating, and blah, blah, blah, zzzzzzzz….
So hopefully it will be useful for more of you than most supposed “health plans”.
At least, that is my hope.
This post was originally published on my Substack. Link here
