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It is in the book The Science and Fine Art of Fasting. It is 400 pages of tiny print. Now I have marked the pages with good things on it but that is many pages. So I will look. Shelton did not fast people who wanted to be thinner or healthier.

He fasted people that the doctor said had no chance of living. Now during the fast, the body takes over. What are people's goals in life? Is it to be rich, find a partner, be admired, be talented or be happy? The body takes over during the fast and it has only one goal. That is to survive. So it anaylses every cell in the body and it fixes what is the most extreme emergency.

In fact if you have a group of extremely sick people that the doctor says will not live long, then just living normally, many would die in the next month. But on a fast (done right) it is rare for these very sick people to die. Maybe you want to look thin to impress the babes but the body does not care about that. It only cares about its survival. This means that it has to fix whatever is the most immediate threat to a person's life.

I am an herbalist but I tell people that herbs do not heal the body. They nourish the body. Now a fast does not heal the body. What does it do according to Shelton. It gives the body a rest unlike any other rest. Then what does heal the body? Only the body can heal the body (itself).