I saw this thread and had to register as there is so much misinformation here. I can't believe people are so ignorant to make comments about something they clearly haven't researched. I've read all of Joel Fuhrman and Herbert Shelton's material on water fasting - these are the two biggest modern pioneers of it. Let me dispel a few inaccuracies here:
Fasting is not starvation. Fasting is giving your body the rest it needs to rejuvenate. Fasting doesn't mean going without food; for a fast to be effective it must be preceded by a low fat plant-based diet (at least 3 months) and during the fast you must have rest and no stress. Any interference with this harms the fast.
Juice fasting is not proper fasting. A true water fast must be distilled water only. No juices. Not even tap water or filtered water. The digestive system must be kept absolutely clear. Juice fasting takes a lot longer to get results because the body is not in a complete state of rest. Plus you will feel hungry for longer because it will prevent your body going into ketosis.
Fasting doesn't make you hungry. After the second day you will go into ketosis and your brain will surpress your appetite. The innate brilliance of your body is such that it will get your energy from muscle tissue it does need or such that is dangerous (which is why it is so good for anti-cancer). Your appetite will return once the healing is complete. The hunger pains you feel in the first couple of days are withdrawal symptoms from your toxic Western diet. If you have a low fat plant-based diet before the fast you will not feel any discomfort at all. True hunger is not a stomach sensation, it is felt in the throat like thirst is.
Thin people can fast. I'm only 9 stone and I could fast for 40 days easy. The body can produce a lot of energy from a little muscle and since a proper fast is done while expending little energy a little goes a long way.
Fasting cures many chronic diseases. Fasting can cure - not suppress the symptoms of - type 2 diabetes, hypertension, colitis, IBS, psoriasis, alcoholism, drug addition, asthma, angina and many more including auto-immune disease like arthritis. Most disease originates in the gut. Western diet erode the protective layer of the gut and peptides, especially from meat leak through the gut wall and your immune system ends up attacking itself. A fast will repair the wall completely.
Fasting lower cholesterol and normalises blood pressure. In the first few days of a fast your cholesterol levels seemingly go up. This is your body removing all the plaque from your arteries. People have been spared paralysing strokes and life-threatening heart bypass surgery via fasting.
Fasting without a dietary change is pointless. Unless you switch to a low fat plant-based diet any fasting benefits will eventually go. After a fast your metabolism has slowed down so much that if you go back into a fatty diet you will end up gaining more weight than you lost.
I fasted and cured my tinnitus even though the Doctor said it could not be done. If you want to know more I suggest you get Dr Fuhrman's book Fasting - and eating - for health. Even if you're healthy a fast will drastically reduce your risk of cancer, heart disease, strokes, etc. Fasting improves your body throughout. Your hearing and eyesight improve, you feel the mental clarify and energy you had when you were a teenager. You tongue goes pink and moist, your eyes go whiter. Even if you think you're healthy you'll still notice big improvements.
Fasting is shunned by most Doctors out of ignorance and because it doesn't sell drugs or goes against there 'just mask the symptoms' approach.
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