Re: They say fasting is not OK if you are too toxic-

#119327,
waterfaust is quite right, and the reason I gave him/her an R status.
For a novice, or anyone who has little to no experience of fasting, it is usually much easier to ease into a water-only fast of any length, by adopting an Elimination Diet or juice-fast (feast), and eliminating the excess burden of toxemia beforehand. This reduces the severity of detox symptoms quite markedly, and something alluded to in my original reply.
I am glad that waterfaust repeated that idea.

This is the approach of Dr Joel Fuhrman MD for his heart-patients in adopting a plant-based diet for losing weight, and before they commence a water-only fast.

However, after saying that, it depends on the urgency or otherwise of the fast: in my own case a life-saving scenario and where I had little choice in the matter.
If urgency is not an issue, then the pre-fast Elimination Diet will make the water-only fast a much more enjoyable and effective experience, as the body will need less cleansing and where the bodily energies can be diverted into the main task of healing.

For any novice to fasting I would advise anyone to do some fairly comprehensive research of fasting so they are forewarned of the experience they are due to undertake.
As Shelton repeated so often: Fasting is not merely the abstinence from food, as there is a "Science and Fine Art to fasting".

Take care.

Chrisb1.
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