[MightySunTzu]

Originally Posted by DerekMB

All that stuff you said sounds good and all and yeah I want to try it but there's still one issue:

How exactly does forcing your body to consume itself become beneficial? Specifically I mean. Is there some sort of connection between starving and feeling good? Cuz that's what it sounds like.

Hey there Derek,

It's really all about giving your body a rest from the rigors of digestion. Your body is then able to take the energy it would have been expending on this enormous task and re-channel it into the worthy and often neglected endeavor of cleansing and repairing itself.

When you say "forcing your body to consume itself", you make it sound kind of bad , but when you consider that it is primarily excess fat and the worst kind of diseased or damaged protein tissue that is consumed, it's really quite a good thing to allow our bodies to make these unwanted parts of ourselves disappear.

As to what is forced, i perceive it this way: "A fast forces your body to cleanse and repair itself". In the absence of the massive digestive chore, it really has no other choice.