Avoid liver toxins when fasting

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Hi All, That body weight should increase significantly with a day of fasting may be understood, since the digestive system may have less contents when fasting. However, look at what happened to the liver. It surprised. A risk of fasting partially or fully for liver toxins appears to be large. The pdf of the below paper is free full-text. Qin LQ, Wang Y, Xu JY, Kaneko T, Sato A, Wang PY. One-day dietary restriction changes hepatic metabolism and potentiates the hepatotoxicity of carbon tetrachloride and chloroform in rats.Tohoku J Exp Med. 2007 Aug;212(4):379-87. PMID: 17660703 http://tinyurl.com/32tcra Although dietary restriction (DR) is common in modern society, research about hepatic metabolism and the hepatotoxicity induced by DR has been conducted less intensively than that

induced by fasting. In the present study, we fed male Wistar rats at five levels of food intake for one day, including conventional feeding (60 kcal), three of DR (45, 30, and 15 kcal), and fasting (0 kcal), and observed the metabolic changes of hepatic cytochrome P450 2E1(CYP2E1) and the hepatotoxicity of chloroform (CHCl(3)) and carbon tetrachloride (CCl(4)). The CYP2E1 content was significantly increased in 15 kcal-food and fasting groups. The hepatic glutathione (GSH) content, which protects the liver from hepatotoxic agents, was depleted in 15 kcal-food and fasting groups. After the challenge by CHCl(3) and CCl(4), the activities of aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase, marker enzymes for liver damage, were elevated remarkably at all food groups. Moreover, their activities increased significantly in DR groups, in comparison to the corresponding 60 kcal-food group. After the challenge, the

hepatic GSH content was also depleted significantly in 15 kcal-food and fasting groups. CHCl(3) was cleared by hepatic metabolism about 8-10 times faster than that of CCl(4). Similarly, the areas under the blood concentration-time curve of CCl(4) was as much as twice that of the corresponding CHCl(3). In conclusion, when food was restricted to less than half of conventional amount, hepatic metabolism was affected and the hepatotoxicity induced by CCl(4) or CHCl(3) was augmented by, at least in part, CYP2E1 induction and GSH depletion. -- Al Pater, alpater@...

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