These two sets of retina pictures speak for themselves. After fasting for 4 days of a water fast, they look completely different.
In September 2023 the cysts are prominent. In October, the cysts are mostly gone. They return eventually and go away after another 4 day fast. I'm hoping the eye shots they give me every month along with the fasts, will remove the cysts permanently.
This is the September 2023 pictures of my retinas. The left picture is my right eye and the right picture is my left eye's retina. The top picture is one direction and the bottom one is another.
This is the October 2023 picture after the 4 day water fast.
My Journey
Little did I know that my life would change so dramatically in this journey to stave off my blindness. Instead of just my eyes, my entire view of health has radically changed.
Before going any further, I should mention you should read Dr Annette Bosworth MD’s book, “Any way you can”, it literally changed my life. Even though I was fasting to fix my eventual blindness, I didn’t realize how I was sabotaging my progress between my fasts.
In July of 2022, my friend, who I shared ownership of a health club in Costa Mesa for decades and later Corona Del Mar, explained to me that the digestive system would start producing larger amounts of serotonin when I did not eat for 12 hours. Since the 12 hour mark was when it actually started serotonin production, then I knew I would need to be without food past the 12 hour time to actually produce more quantity. Since I’ve been programming since 1981, my brain was really important to me. So I began a diet where I stopped eating at 5 and would eat breakfast at between 9 and 10 am the next day. Later, I stopped eating at 4 pm as it seemed that my brain seemed to hold information better. I had no idea that it would affect any other part of my health. I generally kept up this daily fasting to this day.
A note here about my progress. I started getting shots in my eyes once a month. After 43 shots (months) of getting these shots, it became clear that my eyes we’re getting worse, not better. That’s the consensus of the medical industry, the shots extend the time you can see clearly but, you will go blind eventually. I didn’t know that I didn’t have to yet.
In April of 2023, my daughter told me about a series about how Chris Hemsworth fasted for 4 days along with several other stress related events he undertook. The thing that surprised me was that the doctor that was fasting with him started describing how after the glucose dropped in Chris’ blood and the Ketones increased, it started killing Zombie cells. What? Zombie cells?? After a bit of study I found that these Zombie cells actually exist and are called Senescent cells. It turns out that there are cells, in your body, that start functioning improperly. They inherently know they aren’t right and stop duplicating, otherwise they turn into cancer. By the time you reach the age of 60, 10% of your cells are senescent cells. The thing is, they are slightly toxic to your body. They are the reason for old age, along with damaged organelles in your cells. Organelles are like organs but are parts of your cells. They have different names like Mitochondria and so on.
By the time May of 2023 rolled around, I decided to kill some of those Zombie cells by fasting longer periods than the 18 hour daily fasts I was doing. I started by doing 1 day fasts and as quickly as I could, I progressed to 3 day fasts. I actually did a 4 day fast. Since May, I’ve accomplished 17 fasts and it’s now October 2023. I learned that ketone energy, which comes from fat stored in my body, converts, in the liver, to Ketones and I can measure glucose and ketone levels with inexpensive meters that use a drop of blood. No biggie, I’m now used to that tiny pricking of blood in my fingers and look forward to it to putting in the meters.
Here’s the thing, I have wet macular degeneration of my eyes, abbreviated: WMD. That means, even with having taken 44 shots of VEGF in my eyeball, the medical industry has come to the conclusion that I will go blind anyway, eventually. The VEGF will postpone it. Well, hell, that isn’t the kind of thing I can take without a fight of some kind. I found a clinical study made by the Finns that basically said, the reason for WMD was the reduction of autophagy in the back of my eye. That is when I started my in depth study of what is called Autophagy. Mostly, youtube videos of what Autophagy can cure.
WM Capillaries grow behind the retina along with cysts. I leave a picture below of both eyes showing how large these cysts were. My latest retina imaging shows the cysts are almost completely gone. That’s right, they’re mostly gone. The top 4 pictures show my left and right imaging of the retina. The 4 pics below show the imaging one month later. The cysts are almost gone.I still have a large scar that distorts my left eye. Basically, when I close my right eye, people look a bit disfigured. That’s because of this huge scar left over from all the years that I didn’t know how to stop this WMD progressing. My eye doctor says that the scar is not going to go away. My question, now, is this: will these autophagy fasts ever remove the scar?
WMD causes capillaries to grow underneath the retina along with cysts. Actually, it’s the weakening of the cells on the outer edge of the back of my eye that leak fluid behind the retina. I leave a picture below of both eyes showing how large these cysts were. My latest retina imaging shows the cysts are almost completely gone. That’s right, they’re mostly gone. The top 4 pictures show my left and right imaging of the retina. The 4 pics, below these 4, show the imaging one month later. The cysts are almost gone.I still have a large scar that distorts my left eye. Basically, when I close my right eye, people look disfigured. That’s because of this huge scar left over from all the years that I didn’t know how to stop this WMD progressing. My eye doctor says that the scar is not going to go away. My question this, will these autophagic fasts ever remove the scar?
Now that I know that autophagy can cure most diseases of old age and acutally reverse age, I am on a completely different take. My wife is older than me. She is showing major signs of old age. She can barely walk. This was due to an accident with a motorized shopping cart pinning here against a wall that damaged her spine. Since I’ve had so much success with fasting, I figured I could help her remove some of these problems. I was beginning to have pain in all my joints. After fasting 17 times since May 2023, The pain is now, in October 2023, gone. My blood pressure is lower by 10 points. I’m now in the 130s where I was regularly in my 140s. And it seems to be going down a little bit with each fast. The problem is, my wife’s heart won’t be able to take the fasting, it’s really stressful.
As a side note to this outline, I have dived into this journey with my usual 100% all inclusive passion. So, since I’ve been a programmer since 1981, I started a computer program that anyone can use that will track mine and anyone’s journey back to health. There’s no way you can know your progress without tracking your progress, of course, unless you have a perfect memory recall. I don’t. Back then I started with the ‘Basic’ computer language and progressed up to C++ on my desktop. All my later contracting work was done with this language. So, this Autophagy program only works on my local computer. I need to enter my tests on my smartphone. So I made the decision to reprogram it into the languages of the internet and make it so that anyone could track their progress also. Really difficult because, I’m not an internet programmer. So I’ve learned how to program in the languages of PHP, HTML and JavaScript. They are the languages of websites, along with using the WordPress system. I’ve succeeded in creating enough of a program to track the ketone/glucose entries and to get the depth of autophagy figured out and programmed with graphs. And it works.I’m using the Sqlite database system, which I was quite familiar with some of my contraction work.
Then a few days ago, another explosion hit my consciousness. I was looking for a way to make autophagy happen for my wife. I looked into supplements like Taurine, GlyNak, Spermadine, and more. So I picked up Dr Boz’s book ‘Any way you can’, maybe she had more clues. She healed her mother using a Ketogenic diet and with fasting. It turns out that if you eat fewer carbs, you can heal yourself. It turns out, an overabundance of carbs is the problem. If we don’t fast, we age with multiple diseases. Really eye opening. Fat is the basic structure of the walls of cells, it’s the stuff that protects the connection between neurons in your brain. The list is endless. The biggest thing that hit me, if you want to lose weight, eat fat. Eating carbs make fat, eating fat get’s the system going that then can, more easily, remove excess fat. Your liver turns fat into ketones and ketones are a far better form of energy than glucose. In fact cancer cells live on glucose, you know, the stuff that carbohydrates create in your bloodstream. You want to heal your cancer, quit carbs. That’s the answer to the cancer dilemma. And to top it all off, it’s proven in clinical trials. WTF… A note here, it will take you years to get used to eating fat (ketones). Till then, when you start eating again, carbs will make you feel so much better.
So you’ve got to ask yourself, does propaganda work? You bet it does. The thing is, this is propaganda created by us, we love doughnuts and pasta and breads. Fruits, which didn’t really come into vogue before we bred them into existence as large balls of carbohydrates, are really balls of carbs. They taste really good. Opium, Cocaine work the same way and with the same area of your brain. I like my mind and I don’t like interference of any kind. When you’re young, you do stupid things. Anyway, in much the same way, carbs cause the same area of the brain to feel short term pleasure. I’m not young anymore and I like me, so why would I want to damage myself. The medical and food industry may yell and scream but they eventually have to face the science and the hundreds of clinical trials they seem to ignore. If you want to heal, stop overeating carbs and start eating more fat.
So it works this way, when you overeat carbs, they dump glucose into your blood stream, insulin dumps the glucose into your cells but they can’t take all the amount you’ve put into your bloodstream, as your cell mitochondria can only fill with glucose from 5 to 7% per hour so the glucose starts converting into fat, which can only convert at a certain rate, there’s so much glucose that it only has one place to go. It dumps by the side of your arteries and in your brain, welcome to the beginnings, with added protein, of amyloid plaques and atherosclerosis. You know, the stuff that causes Alzheimer’s and every other brain disease you can think of. Yeah, carbohydrates, they’re so much fun to eat. Face it, you may be addicted to a different kind of slow bodily damage.
Of course, I’m over dramatizing it. The public is beginning to come around to keto and autophagy. Ask your doctor if she/he knows what autophagy is. Chances are, they don’t. That seems really weird to me. The cause, instead of the effect (pills) is standing directly in front of us and we are slow to come around. I understand resistance, though, it is important, otherwise we would jump into every new fad. Resistance has it’s purpose. Once we resist our way into a new way, we’ll resist going back.