Re: Curing dysfunctional colon thru water fasting

Hi, the first thing that comes to my mind is that you must be chronically dehydrated...as a general rule, I mean. "rock hard" feces, basically impacted, with a diet of primarily fruits and veg is what suggests it. I would be sure to be getting enough water, post-fast, along with the high-fibre mode of eating. (As a side note, I would be tempted to do some EFT work, maybe with a practitioner, around "grade school" and constipation... Maybe something to research if you're interested.)

My current lifestyle is such that I eat one meal a day usually, and that one in the evening; so, essentially I'm fasting for about nineteen out of 24 hours. I also like the idea of IF--one day on/one off. The only time I experience any constipation is if I am not getting enough water. Of course decades-long constipation is another thing.

*I am certain that the colon can be rebuilt and restored to functionality. (I see Chris says it'll need 20 plus days. I agree, and it may need some herbal supplementation for a time, as well--after fasting.)

I can only do this one meal a day with actual *enjoyment* and a feeling that I am really assimilating well after having undertaken a couple longish (29, 21 day) Water Fasts and some shorter ones. Had an insight the other day; the kind that comes as pure capital K knowing, on the heels of some reflective experience. It came to me that for many people, eating is actually an attempt to move waste; that it's really the colon that is prompting the eating, and nothing to do with hunger (or assimilation). I already knew this, on an intellectual level, from studying Water Fasting and its effects, but this was a different kind of aha, having a lot of associated ahas.

It's like we mostly have got it completely "ass-backwards", if you'll pardon the expression. Such a way of approaching nutriment is so far from actually nourishing the body that it's almost laughable, that is, if it weren't so sad. That we are 'starving' is a fact; "we" being so many of us in the so-called civilized world, who have the ability to secure almost any sort of food we might want.


I wanted to reply to this, from your post (and thank you for bringing it up; good ideas-- and question:

"He’s not opposed to fasting, but he told me something I’ve never heard before – that people who fast for extended periods (beyond 10 days) can become so clean and sensitive to toxins that they can actually set themselves up for cancer later, especially if they don’t follow up with a really pristine diet (forevermore). Has anyone ever heard this before?"

Anything less than returning to (or coming to, in the first place) really rational ways of approaching one's nourishment would amount to a kind of intense yo-yo "dieting", Water Fast or no, and this would put one in the camp that often exhibits one cancer or another--Whereas Natural Hygienists, and those who are part of that lineage, or stream, all stress/see the importance of a largely plant-based diet. (let's call it natural, live and raw, as much as is feasible. And then, seasonal.)Everything else falls into place, around this. But the thing is, one wants it! More and more.

The restored system absolutely become more sensitive to everything--( And able to get much more quality from the quantity that goes in!) The key thing here is, that there is a Natural inclination toward the "pristine", as you put it

I sense a fear of not being able to enjoy any lapses...(?)

Time and again, we hear of people altering their eating habits utterly, after some waterfasting. This usually does not occur totally with one fast, but after a few. These alterations are made on the basis of being drawn to what's good--Say, someone coming off junk food and beer, who's been obese, and sick, with a (former)big craving for lots of bready (colon-impacting and sluggish-making)non-foods, ends up loving apples, to the amazement of this person's friends! That's just one example.


I can't speak to the medication question, but I can say my thyroid is working much better now, than it was five or so years ago. And in these five years I've done the two longish wfasts, and taken to eating less, and feeling happier.
:-)


Chiron