clearly, this has become my personal blog.
as i drank my oj last night (it was great!), I finally got around to wondering why my left leg hurt all day yesterday, from the knee to the hip. it eventually got so bad that i couldnt walk comfortably.
after googling a bit (it's not a verb! i swear!), i came across this:
Stage 3 (Day 8 to Day 15) On the latter part of an extended fast, you can experience enhanced energy, clear-mindedness and feel better than you have felt since childhood. On the downside, old injuries may become irritated and painful. This is a result of the body's increased ability to heal during fasting. If you had broken your arm 10 years before, there is scar tissue around the break. At the time of the break, the body's ability to heal was directly related to lifestyle. If you lived on a junk-food diet, the body's natural healing ability was compromised.
During fasting, the body's healing process is at optimum efficiency. As the body scours for dead or damaged tissue, the lymphocytes enter the older, damaged tissue secreting substances to dissolve the damaged cells. These substances irritate the nerves in the surrounding region and cause a reoccurrence of aches from previously injured areas that may have disappeared years earlier. The pain is good as the body is completing the healing process. The muscles may become tight and sore due to toxin irritation. The legs can be the worst affected, as toxins accumulate in the legs.
Wow, whaddya know! In fact, my entire left quad calcified when I was 15, effectively turning that muscle into bone. and it hasnt felt like this since i was 15, when instead of sitting out, the doctors told me to keep playing (basketball), which i unintelligently did and later regretted.
so i'm back on the lemonade, at least through the day.
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