 Project
Description
Medications
today are very expensive, complicated and may
even
give side effects or cause more complications to
the health of the patients. This prompted the
researchers to look for cheap, simple, and safe
alternative medications.
This research started when one of
the members heard from Dr. Penelope Domogo about
the research center in St. Theodore’s Hospital
in Sagada. They became interested most
especially with the therapeutic fasting being
conducted there which supposedly healed many
sickness/diseases like Hypertension,
Arrhythmias, Diabetes, Cholesterol, Prostate
Cancer, Rheumatic Heart Disease and Arthritis.
It was perfect for the DPSA category “Health &
Wellness.” Besides, it would also be good for a
project in Science. The main purpose of the
research was to scientifically prove if juice
fasting was indeed effective in treating the
above-mentioned ailments. The researchers then met and talked with Mr. Tom
Coghill, a British who wrote books about fasting
and the coordinator of the Saint Theodore
Health and Wellness Program (STH Program).
This program is based on juice fasting.
The medical process is called “controlled
catabolism” where the body breaks down fats,
dead and dying cells to be converted to glucose. During
fasting, the body breaks down fats and dead or
dying cells to be used up by the body as fuel
for energy, a process called catabolism. In the
same manner, its therapeutic fasting addresses
chronic diseases through controlled catabolism
while boosting the immune system and detoxifying
the body. Fasting (not eating solid foods)
allows the digestive system to rest so that the
body can concentrate on healing and repair.
Juice Fasting can make use of all the organic
vegetables and fruits only depending on their
appetite and craving. It makes use of the
available fruits and vegetables in the locality
such as carrots, squash, ‘sayote’, pineapple,
and others.
The researchers decided to focus only if juice
fasting cures hypertension since hypertension
is one of the biggest list and causes of deaths
in their community. Specifically, they aim to
know if there is a significant correlation of
juice fasting to the systolic and diastolic
blood pressure of the hypertensive patients
during the duration of the treatment; also, to
find the short-term side effects felt by the
patients during the period of juice fasting. |
