Re: Low blood pressure

SARA,
in all of my 30+ years within the Natural Hygiene movement, and from all of the annals of fasting literature from the inception of the fasting cure, I have never known of any case of any faster that died or suffered any injury as a direct cause of the fast itself.

Sheltons experience from the extreme minority who died while in his care, were usually "hopeless cases" who had already been the rounds of conventional medicine, and had already been treated with drugs and other allopathic measures. This left their immune system in a state of frailty and their bodies in a debilitated and extremely enervated state, to the point of no return.
Their life-force had all but gone, although he ultimately received the blame for their deaths.

SHELTON.............
"In thousands of fasts ranging from a few days to sixty and even ninety days, no deaths have occurred that could be attributed to the fast. In every case, where an autopsy has been made, this has revealed an organic "disease" which would have resulted in death, with or without food. Dr. Dewey properly maintained, that if one's vitality is so nearly exhausted, or if a vital organ is so badly damaged, that death is near at hand, the result is absolutely certain, eating or fasting. Most people turn to fasting as a last resort, instead of the first resort. They turn to it after their bodies have been wrecked and ruined by years of wrong living, drugging and surgical operations. Under such circumstances we naturally expect that an occasional patient will die even while fasting. Honesty and fairness will not attribute death, under these conditions, to the fast.
We should bear in mind that of the thousands of patients treated in the regular way and regularly fed "plenty of good nourishing food," a large percentage die. How absurd, then, to blame fasting for the exceedingly small number of cases that have died while fasting when, too late, they turned to this method of healing".....................
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.ch19.htm



To verify your information you would need to supply more evidence than you have supplied already to determine whether it was the fast or otherwise as to your near-death predicament.
It is not really sufficient to rely on the "opinions" of others who have no or little knowledge or experience of the fasting process.

Your comment Sara.........
"Ridiculous, scaremongering was not the case as I stopped my fast before knowing my bp".

If this is the case, and you broke your fast before knowing your actual blood pressure, then I am extremely doubtful and skeptical that it was as a result of the fast that you were approaching a life-threatening situation.

A fast after all is only feeding from internal food reserves as opposed to feeding via external sources, and is Natures very own method for healing, and where I would personally need to know your exact "vital signs" before formulating an opinion one way or another.

I still adhere to my original opinion that "scaremongering" from those who are ignorant of the fast, were responsible for your comments and feelings of the fast, and how it affected your own opinion.

Warm Regards

Chrisb1.

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