Re: surgeon advised to go on a water fast

Hi Vanda, great post. :) I totally agree that there is room for experimentation in fasting to see what works best for each of us. There are a couple of key points I disagree with in Shelton's teachings that I have read to date, but that doesn't make all his teachings bunk. His results speak for themselves.

I think we all agree here that the most important element of Water Fasting is not to take anything else by mouth except water. The amount of water that works best for the individual is something that not only can be experimented with, but is not necessarily a constant anyway.

Myself I am starting to think that the amount of water taken during a fast could well dictate the vigour of the detoxification that goes on. Just like juice fasting is considered less vigorous than Water Fasting and dry fasting the most vigorous in detoxing the body, I think that the amount of water taken during a fast will determine how quickly we detox on that fast.

I agree also it would be best to start a fast with a clean colon, but I don't agree it is all that necessary. The fast is it's own preparation, and the times I have entered a fast without physical preparation of any sort my bowels have worked normally for up to five days and with smaller amounts of fasting stools for as long again. I also think that too much is made of having a clean bowel during the fast as when the fast is broken properly the first b/m's post fast will do a lot of cleansing of loosened material on the way out.

So myself I don't see the necessity of enemas and the thought of voluntarily doing them is a bit repulsive to me. (I've worked as a carer and given plenty to people who have had no choice.) But like juice fasting which I also don't practise myself, I can certainly see the good effects it has had on others and would never try to put anyone off doing it.