NeoGenesys One
How It All Began
At various points in my process of upgrading my personal health over the last few decades (I’m 72), I’ve tried a few fasting protocols, and kept in touch with a few that have been living the breatharian lifestyle, or dabbled in doing so, (while feeling a deep respect for their discipline and commitment).
Since 1976, when I first began my dive into the natural world of rejuvenation (to solve my own health issues) I have experienced a 10 day water fast, some shorter water or restricted diet fasts, an 8 & 10 day liquid superfood fast, and a few 24-36-48 hour dry fasts (no food, no water).
Recently, being inspired and impressed by a friend’s 30 day water fast, I was, admittedly, shamed into getting back into the world of fasting to take my personal rejuvenation goals to the next level.
I finally committed myself to an unspecified period of fasting on just liquid superfoods and herbal cleansing/nourishing teas, longer than my original 8-10 day versions of the same (during the last 4-6 days of which, I had felt the absolute best I had ever felt in my life!)
As life would have it, when the student is ready, the teacher appears.
Quite some time ago, I purchased a book on dry fasting, intrigued by the concept, but not ready to thoroughly explore the subject. The book remained on my bookshelf unopened, until early in this new attempt at liquid superfood fasting, the book suddenly caught my attention.
I pulled it off the shelf and set it on my bed stand (among about 20 other books), to read parts of it that would summarize the process of dry fasting, as I considered the option more seriously.
The insights, science, and metabolic transformations that were described in this book captivated my attention for a few of the wee morning hours that night (rather than the typical 20 minutes before sleep took over).
I regretted having to put it away as slumber took over, since the immense amount of scientific studies, evidence of healing seemingly irreversible conditions, and the analysis of metabolic chemistry behind the almost all-encompassing success and safety of dry fasting, began to tie together research I had recently performed in other areas of physical recovery and rejuvenation.
I kept seeing 3 internally-created compounds (endogenous — you’ll see this word pop up again in this article for a reason) show up in research repeatedly, as if they are central to practically every aspect of human health and longevity imaginable, including lengthening telomeres, a DNA longevity indicator.
I had to understand why.
Endogenous Cellular Protection and Regeneration
The three most prevalent compounds showing up were NAMPT (an enzyme), NAD+ (a coenzyme), and SIRT1 (a protein), and now they are seen to be directly related to fasting, especially dry fasting.
These three components form a critical regulatory network often referred to as the "NAD World," where NAMPT regulates the recycling capacity of the NAD+ substrate required for SIRT1 activity, which in turn influences metabolic homeostasis, circadian rhythms, cellular protection, DNA repair, and cellular regeneration.
I discovered several herbs that support this process, even without fasting, though fasting is a rapid process of cleansing out dead and dysfunctional cells and repairing aging cells from toxic overload.
Commitment to a Dry Fast
Since I had some experience with fasting, sufficient to dabble further in a process more extreme than I had ever done, I committed to an unspecified period of dry fasting at some point in my liquid superfood fast (seeing that other brave, or desperate, souls had safely accomplished 7, 9, and 11 day dry fasts, and even longer).
The timing for beginning and ending this dry fast was critical, as I did not have the luxury of going off somewhere to fast at a clinic, or in the woods, or even just skip work altogether and stay at home undisturbed — like it could have been if I was not responsible for a growing health business and a few hundred currently dedicated clients and regular one-on-one private sessions.
The Memorial Special had to go forward, and I felt I had to write something more than just that the Special was on, but my focus and energy levels made this a challenging task, to say the least.
By the time the Special began I had already completed 7 days of liquid superfoods and herbal teas, plus 5 days of dry fasting, and was in my 3rd day of recovery, quite weak and with limited mental stamina. I took a lot of naps.
Weight History
My typical weight for the last few years had been around 133 to 123 lbs., down from 145 in High School (when I had zero concept of natural health).
I’ve never been drawn to pumping iron, but it’s relatively easy for me to move a couple ton of clay a few times in a day, once or twice a year, when stock piles are low. So, even at 72, energy levels tend to be good, despite not paying much attention to “working out”, except in the garden, of course!
I had always been thin, and daily caffeine consumption for a few decades had taken its toll on my muscle mass, as cortisol surges from coffee, yerba mate’, and green or black teas can target the breakdown of muscle tissue when glucose becomes less available for the cortisol-driven fight-or-flight response (I consume starches, but zero concentrated sugars).
Fortunately I quit coffee and mate’ over 5 years ago, relying primarily on matcha, guyusa, unsweetened fermented cacao powder, and nettle seed for the morning lift, in addition to my herbal protocols.
Having been eating less and less over the last few years, my beginning weight for this fast was around 123. I lost 1 lb per day during each of the 7 superfood days, and 4 lbs per day for the first 3 days of my dry fast, then 1 lb per day for the last 2 days (pointing to the obvious, that it was time to stop the fast!). This was a total of 22 lbs in 12 days.
Shocking as it was for me, not expecting to get below 110, I hit 101 on the 5th day, knowing this was the end of this experiment, as my thin body had nothing left to burn.
Was I worried? Not in the least, just a bit surprised, especially the part about losing 12 lbs in 3 days. As you can imagine, I literally looked like a concentration camp survivor! I did not take a picture that day, as I did not want to be remembered as such, knowing it would all come back over the next few weeks and months plus a few more lbs. of muscle mass to boot.
What is not uncommon to professionally-guided dry fasting protocols, from what little I can determine at this point, is that most people on a dry fast would lose about 2 lbs a day, but my loss with this thin body was 4 lbs a day!
I attribute this surprising feat to the prior 7 days of building up superfood reserves and hydration from an exceptional water source.
This cycle of losing lots of weight and gaining back the full amount plus half again, was known to happen to me back in the mid 1970’s after I experienced 5 days of Survival Training, trekking the mountains with just a couple of small game and meat rations shared among a 4 or 5 men.
I lost 20 lbs during those 5 days (145 down to 125), then gained 30 lbs. back to 155, within 3 months without doing anything. That was the highest weight I had achieved in my life by that point and since.
But this was just a normal survival response that the body does to prepare for another potential starvation period (which is why starvation diets lacking in solid superfood nutrition always fail to keep the weight off), and it is why I recommend superfoods and detox/nourishing teas for weight loss or fasting, rather than simple water fasting (which can be quite harmful, and far less rewarding than keeping your body stocked with solid superfood nutrition, like seaweeds, algae, adaptogens, mushrooms, nettle plant, alfalfa, etc.) You get the point.
Besides, it is commonly the wrong kind of water to put into the body, which is part of the reason for the ineffectiveness of water fasting, compared to a low solid food, high superfood nourishing fast.
More on the subject of water in the future.
Back to My Starting Weight
Well, I hit my starting weight again on the 12th day following the end of the dry fast.
What I lost (mostly on the 2nd day of the dry fast, based on the collected urine for the day designed to observe how much water and bodily sediment of dead and damaged cells had been purged through the urine), was the real purpose for dry fasting in the first place, — clean out decades of toxins and dysfunctional cells damaged by these toxins (called “aging”), and replace them with brand new fully functional cells capable of replicating many more perfectly functional cells to replace the cell vacancies created by the two phases of liquid superfoods and dry fasting.
Quite frankly, even though I probably have another two weeks or so of recovery and restoration of deleted cells to fully regain my mental and physical energy at a higher level than before, I already see exceptional benefits in terms of the loss of attachments to food (to some degree), a much greater sense of inner solidity, a core pillar of strength in the solar plexus and heart, a growing sense of peace and joy (although some emotional purging is still going on), a much greater mental focus, and it feels like I already have the beginnings of a new lease on life.
More is yet to come, I am sure, but first I want to see how much muscle mass can be created with a small amount of resistance training once a day. Time will tell on that.
Why the Chemistry is Important
The real purpose of sharing this is to point out why I began drafting articles about metabolic chemistry related to allergic response to pollen and food. Turns out this same process is involved in virtually every age-reversal, chronic condition remediation procedure of the body.
The NAMPT, NAD+, and SIRT1 pathway began to show up in the research on the best herbs for reversing allergic response to pollen.
What this means is, specific herbs are known to support this trio in performing their tasks of detoxification and cellular repair and regeneration. This support is applicable whether one is fasting or not fasting.
Since this process of DNA repair and cellular renewal is applicable to numerous health conditions, not just pollen and food sensitivity, and that the same mechanism facilitates the renewal of bone, muscle, nerves, organ and gland tissues, etc., understanding how it can help one health condition, means it can work for numerous conditions at once.
Yet, given the pollen season we are still in now, I felt it a somewhat urgent and important piece of insight to discuss.
The choice of subject was motivated by an in-house crisis at the office.
An In-House Discovery of an Effective Herbal Combination
One of the staff, whose nutritional program was quite good, and was one who excelled amazingly at trying rejuvenation and cleansing protocols, began having allergies to the recent pollen abundance in the air.
None of this made sense to me, as there was nothing in his diet or lifestyle that would suddenly produce a reaction to pollen after all the cleansing and herbal protocols he had done over the last several years.
(The real reason, I suspect, is the result of a universal issue on this planet of cell phone usage and the damage it does to the water in the body, thus cells throughout the body.) More on this another time.
So, early in the liquid superfood phase of my fast, I began a deep dive into herbs for pollen sensitivity, since he said he had tried the herbs I had suggested to him that are commonly known to help in this regard rather quickly, but was getting very little improvement until he added one more herb to the mix in a certain build up quantity.
This is when success began to show within minutes, and held for longer periods of time before needing another serving.
So I did a deeper dive into the these herbs, their phytonutrients, and how these plant compounds benefit the body’s ability to calm and reverse an allergic response.
Applicable to Both Food and Pollen Sensitivities
What surfaced were the same three compounds, NAMPT, NAD+, and SIRT1, only this time it revealed that food intolerances are caused by this same inability to utilize these three endogenous compounds effectively to prevent both pollen and food sensitivity.
Food sensitivity is nearly a universal problem here due to the extraordinary pollution that we are subjected to daily. The motivation to focus on this subject grew even more.
Neogenesis
So I began to go back and update a few of the recently published articles on our site to include food allergies as well. It was all making more sense and the ultimate solution seemed obvious – detox and regenerate —in other words, neogenesis.
Neogenesis is defined as the regeneration of tissue, or the formation of new cells from precursor cells. This is the specialty of fasting, especially dry fasting.
Well, I just happen to be in the middle of doing just that, interestingly enough!
By this time I was quite weak recovering from the 5 day dry fast, and was not fully able to write as much as I am now, yet the subject seemed so important, and it was the only ready personally researched subject available to me at the time to write about, with what physical energy and mental focus I still had in reserve, in order to keep in touch with our client base during the Special.
So the articles were an attempt, in the best way I was physically and mentally capable of at the time, to utilize the data I had already uncovered and lay out the technical foundations for these plant-based associations, as the team and I developed and tested our newest formulation — NeoGenesys One — reflecting a number of herbs shown in published scientific literature to support a natural body system of repairing or replacing damaged or dysfunctional cells, through a natural endogenous (internal) stem cell renewal system that also happens to involve the three compounds — NAMPT, NAD+, and SIRT1 — not as supplemented isolates, like many NAD+ products, but the whole herbs known to support the body in its own development and recycling of these compounds.
NeoGenesys One is part of a renewal system of products designed to support the upgrade of normal protective mechanisms of the body, as it promotes the regeneration of new toxin-free cells, which are more capable of sustaining greater levels of health and a longer life.
With or without fasting, natural benefits from these herbal sources can be achieved.
NeoGenesys One will be available in a few days, and once published, will initially be on a temporary Special discount to be announced as the Team fulfills the details needed to publish and prepare to fill orders.
I appreciate your patience and understanding during this exploratory phase of an endogenous system of cellular renewal that can be promoted effectively with natural whole herbal sources, and which holds the hope of increasing health and extending a quality life for any willing to go the distance and apply this very organic wisdom from Nature!
Eat as you breathe!
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