Re: Agree AND Disagree - Re: The basic CURE for depression!

Thanks for your reply Ubyquity, but I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. :) I think it is far too generalised. The only way to really know if our colons are impacted with old mucous and toxins as you suggest is to actually look in there, however that is done nowadays. I read one account of a man who was unfortunately put off fasting because he fasted for two years but only one day a week- not understanding that he was probably not even entering ketosis therefore getting none of it's benefits and only feeling- or remembering- the discomfort. He was also a medical student and questioned and saw first hand that that kind of bowel impaction just was not a normal thing. They could lie to him of course but he also saw first hand evidence of it so I accept that it is probably true.

To be honest I think that if we followed the logic of the layers of mucous being laid down in the bowels at every meal and not being removed then eventually it have to form a solid impassable wall in there. And while that kind of thing does happen it is not a normal condition of every westerner. If it was the normal body could certainly not put up with it for the average 70 year lifetime.

And as the fasting process does detox us where we need it most I most certainly do trust that if the bowels were impacted and impeding our health so badly then certainly the body would be putting a lot of effort into repairing that damage, so that even if one fast wouldn't remove all the crap, successive ones certainly would. Also if a fast is broken correctly the first meals after the fast will cleanse on their way out. This applies particularly to dry fasting which it is recommended to break with lemon juice mixed with water, and this has added cleaning effect in the colon on the way through. I have felt this effect myself.

I really do think that we need to clean the outside of our body manually, but the inside we just need to stay out of the way and let our body's deal with that themselves because it's the machine that's designed for the job.

As far as what you say about the liver, as far as I can tell it is based on a fallacy. None of the organs actually stop working during a fast. The liver definitely doesn't, mine in particular has been doing flip-flops the last couple of months and doing it's best to make my fast a foul tasting hell! Well, on a few days of my fasts at least. The liver especially being one of the detoxing organs is one that is freed up from the task of dealing with food and can deal with built up toxins instead. And that is exactly what it does, not under the force of alcohol or soft drinks and all the rest which can keep it overworked as we ingest too much, but at it's own pace which is dictated again by the magic of the fasting process. No part of the body is overlooked, it knows exactly what needs to be done to cleanse, heal and rebalance. It's then just up to us to look after ourselves better afterwards.

Maybe it is just hard to get past the need to 'do something' to fix things. I'm a big fan of 'if it's not broken, don't fix it'. Fasting works. Our body's know what it has to do to clean itself and it does it well. I say it's best to stay out of it's way and let it do it's thang. :)

Cheers,

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