Re: 30 day water fast starting tomorrow, buddy?

Hi Motivated,

Everything sounds great with only one exception. Regarding vitamins in a "water-only" fast, please read the following, Originally Posted by Donn of this forum.

"Taking vitamins and other nutritional items is probably fine on a juice fast because your body is using the nutrition from the juices for its sustenance, and therefore also the vitamins.
A water fast is much different.
The body makes many internal transitions and reaches a point where it is using its nutritional reserves for its sustenance.It is not surviving on fat cells alone.
If you add anything to your intake besides water on a water only fast your body won't make the internal transitions necessary to use its nutritional reserves for its sustenance.
When the body makes these transitions it will be gaining all the benefits of a water only fast, including cleansing, rebuilding and repairing.Adding anything besides water will keep it on a level with juice fasting, where the body will be depending on its intake for its sustenance.So if your taking vitamins, your body will be trying to survive on the vitamins alone. This constitutes a starvation diet.
On a starvation diet your body will be going into vital tissue for sustenance including muscle and organs.
The belief that you need to consume something for nutrition on a water only fast is a falsehood and I hope that the above helps to clarify that."

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