Re: Diagnosis after another, yup I NEED a water fast!

Interesting post. For the past 30 years I have been fasting at least once a week, my definition of a fast being at least 24, usually 30-60 hours without TASTE.. anything with taste tends to inform your hypothalamus that you are actually eating, thus undermining the switch to catabolism.

I also intentionally eat fatty meals before a fast in order to guide the catabolism towards fat as a source of energy for the fast.

Perhaps this pattern will fit with the vague definition of "yo yo dieting". The end result is, however, spectacular to say the least. Physiologically, psycologically, biochemically and in every other measurable way I have noted the aging process being either arrested or slowed down to a minimum.

Many of my patients have adopted this lifestyle and never looked back. The only ones who appear to be losing out is their doctors who gets much less work.

Long fasts definitely have their place, but I have never allowed a patient to go beyond 45 days on water only.. mist studies suggest 40 days to be the safe limit. But as a maintenance lifestlye, the cycles of eating and fasting is second to none. These do of course need to be supported by detoxification activities like the 5-step Hydrotherapeutic cycle. Remember what "they" say: "A change is as good as a holiday"!

The Fast Doctor.