”Fasting is, after all, a scientific method of purifying the body, and should be done scientifically. In my opinion, 60-70% of the so-called ”healthy” people of today, and 85 to 95% of the seriously ill people would die from the effects of loosening the tremendous toxic poison they have stored in their bodies, if they tried a long fast, say of 21-35 days.” Paul Bragg N.D., PhD; page 55 of ”The Miracle Of Fasting”
”One cannot simply rely on how much body fat a person has to decide on how long to fast that person. Even obese individuals can develop signs of starvation while still overweig ...
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A good thing you are sticking it out. We die from eating, not from not eating, otherwise nature would have failed a long time ago. All living organisms are built with a program not to eat everyday. Now you should get to 10 days easily. Just rest, drink as per thirst, warm water, and stay warm.
You can use any oil for transdermal feeding of fat and calming your internal organs.
1. Break your fast with organic orange, lemon or grapefruit juice, mixed with water for first part of the day. Then drink freshly squeezed juice from any fruit, avoid bananas for a week. Watermelon or tomato j ...
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Well if you really want to get rid of parasites you think you have and if you have thousands then you must fast for a week while doing enemas every other morning then refuel for 3-4 days on only raw organic fruits and vegetables while drinking apple juice preparing for a liver cleanse then on the 4th day do the liver cleanse with Epsom salt and grape fruit/olive oil mixture then continue on a healthy diet and liver cleanse every 2-3 weeks and enemas twice a week or as you see fit. There is no special simple magic trick to fix such things you must go all in and cannot act weak about it and ...
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Hi, I supposed you’ve already tried the fast but want others reading this to know that Type 1 diabetics need insulin even if they’re not eating. I’m type 1 and do water fasts regularly for 2+ days. When I fast I don’t have to take short-acting insulin (meal bolus on a pump, or meal shot if on MDI), but it’s CRITICAL to continue taking your basal insulin if you’re on a pump, or your long-acting insulin if you’re on shots. Otherwise you’ll wind up in the ER with acidosis very quickly. Wishing you the best. [End]
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Constipation:
YES, you are totally right about your constipation.
The epithelia of our intestinal is regeneration fast. Every 20 days it will be replaced. Old cells will fall into the lumen and build up the constipation. (The microvilli will only last 1-4 days)
So, the question is: What is the daily amount of this dead cells? Up to 250g = 8,8oz
Over 40 days you could build up 10 kg= 22 Pounds.
The regeneration of the epithelia might slow down a little bit, because of the fast, but not to much.
WATER:
If you don’t want to dehydrate, you need to drink the right kind of water.
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You wrote:
”2. There is some sort of autoimmune response to food, which caused the lips to peel. Once not eating, the autoimmune response stop being triggered.”
You are right about this.
But, most likely, it is not just autoimmune response to all the food you ate.
Usually, people react to just a very few food items, like milk, gluten, soy, corn, wheat, peanuts, strawberries, tomatoes, shrimps, etc.
Research the Elimination-Rotation diet .
What you did was just a first part of that diet, total elimination of all foods.
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Hi Guys. My lips severely reduced peeling, to the point where it was essentially no longer an issue twice.
Once, I took probiotics which returned my digestion back to normal, and caused my dandruff and peeling lips to essentially go away. (I experince loose stools due to antiobitic induced IBS).
Unfortunately my digestion went back to being bad after more antiobiotics. Due to the tummy pain, I drank only water for 2 weeks and my lips stopped peeling. Once I returned to eating, my lips began to peel again.
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Very interesting what he had to say about cancer and fasting in this video. He starts talking about it around 41 minutes into it. He is stating that fasting protects the human body from the harmful effects of conventional treatments of cancer while destroying the cancer cells. He says this is a fairly new discovery and it is effective in treating cancer. The whole video is awesome, especially his jokes.
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I have been reading so many posts here about people fasting and at the same time planning to indulge in food and drinks after they break their fast.
When the time comes to really eat, then most are not even focused on the foods they were dreaming of during their fast.
Somehow the western world is so focused on food. I am so sorry to say that eating is but a ritual. One should eat to live and not live to eat. When we say I want to enjoy myself, that should not only be through eating the junk that this modern world is providing, one can enjoy oneself by admiring the sunrise, watching ...
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Hello LivingBlessed,
well I am 55 and do not have any sagging skin at all.
However, the length of time required to reduce or eliminate sagging skin will largely depend on its severity to begin with.
A reducing diet for weight-loss will produce sagging skin, but water/dry-fasting has a habit of ”tightening” the skin along with the reduction of excess weight. Post-fast exercise also has a rejuvenating effect on the skin as well, and in particular, rebound exercise is strongly recommended.
53 is not considered to be too old, where repair of any of the bodily organs is beyond redemptio ...
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Hello bling,
fonty is quite right about loose skin in reply to your post, but in Sheltons experience, age is a factor here also: the older you become the less able skin is to repair itself, and for someone who is obese and quite old, when they fast, the loose skin just doesn’t repair itself in the same way as someone who is much younger.
It depends on the age of your relative.
Regards
Chrisb1. [End]
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Hi #12274,
I think that this information should go a long way in answering your questions.
Progress of the Fast.........
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.ch28.htm
The Length of the Fast.........
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.ch23.htm
Breaking the Fast.........
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.ch30.htm
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I just read in one of the other fasting forums that breaking a fast with fruit can be very damaging and even cause death. I was planning on breaking my fast with fruit but now I don’t know. Is this true? I feel like I’ve done this much work, I don’t want to ultimately hurt myself.
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First of all, what is fasting? In the simplest terms, fasting is abstaining from all food. Today, the word fasting has been used to include many dietary choices such as juice only fasting, single food fasts, like grapes only or apples only, and specialty fasts such as the popular Master Cleanse. This article is meant to address only one kind of fast, the water only fast, that completely eliminates all solid food, juices, supplements and other liquids for the duration of the fast. Water only fasting is perhaps the most difficult fast to do. It does have some potential dangers and should not ...
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I have been doing some studying on why water fasting is a superior form of healing. While I have seen a lot of health improvement since doing several of the cleanses discussed on Curezone, I seem to have reached a plateau where there has not been much change lately. This seems to be a time to go in another direction and try something else. I want to try a water fast in spring after 4-6 weeks of preparation and gentle detox through diet.
Water fasting involves taking absolutely nothing but pure (usually distilled) water for a period of time. In a true water fast no other food, juice,suppl ...
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Fasting for Health
A preview of Kris A. Pletschke upcoming book entitled:
The Raw Conscious Evolution
There are many reasons and ways to cleanse the body of impurities that naturally accumulate due to diet, lifestyle, environment al factors and normal metabolic function. Regardless of the reason, waste material is in your body, it is vitally important to remove it to lower the toxic damage that will occur. If they are left alone to irritate, poison, rot, putrefy or ferment measurable life-potential will be diminished.
Over the years I have experime ...
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Congratulations!
This is a feat, indeed.
Best time to fast again is to feed on plant based foods for 1.5 X 10 days of fast then attempt again.
The answer to curing asthma with fast, is yes. Inhalers are very toxic for your body.
To cure asthma all you need is simple lifestyle changes.
1. Eliminate all milk products, bananas, peanuts, soy, corn, wheat, SUGAR, eggs and meats. All mucus producing foods and generally inflammatory foods. Get a test done called IGG, it can be done at home, google it.
2. Eat warm foods and nothing from the refrigerator.
3. Drink ginger tea, wi ...
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Hi,
I did my first longish water fast after a ten day vipassana retreat— the retreat was on my top-ten list, and the fast seemed
totally OTT, before i did that retreat. ( this may seem off-topic but i feel it is very relevant to the important issue of promoting
full release; the retreat lets you let go of a lot of the underpinnings of why we hold onto “ shit”, you could say. :-) ) If i were going to do what you are thinking of, i would sincerely consider doing a. ipassana retreat, before. For me, it was wonderful. Good food, no need to do
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Hi there, I’ve been a holistic health practitioner (specializing in detox and cleansing) for the past 20+ years here in Los Angeles. While water fasting can be helpful, I would never, ever instruct my clients to do so unless supervised by your GP who knows you. First, I will address the ”smart water,” as that is something to be debated. Calcium chloride is one of the components used to ”replenish electrolytes.” It is a salt that is often used as a preservative in canning - and it is also used to de-ice roads as well as other industrial uses. A warning from the International Programme ...
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Hello
Just checking in after 6 months. M/28/190cm/82kg (Unsupervised)
I finished my 30 days water fasting successfully. Up until day 21 it was smooth sailing all the way, after that things got tough. The metallic taste in my mouth intensified by a lot and drinking water became an ordeal. Getting 2 liters a day was hard and most times I felt like throwing up, but it never came to that. Day 30 was by far the worst day of my life. I was in the middle of a pretty nasty detox and I should have fasted a few more days, but I was set to break it up on day 30 and honestly, mentally I couldn ...
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So you are new to water fasting and did not do your research. Water fasting means nothing but water, you did the opposite. You drank tea and coffee which kills water in your body. Also caffeine by itself kills the good bacteria in your stomach and the gut. Please don’t do this again.
All caffeine drinks are diuretic. Sodas are the worst.
Ok, now you can try the following.
1. Drink water with Himalayan salt or sea salt, not the salt from supermarket. Add raw honey to it. Make a jug of this water and drink all day. You can also get liquid minerals from Amazon and add to the water. ...
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Firstly, I am not a believer in fasting. I do not think it solves anything except for destroying muscle which leads to later weight gain as muscle is a major burner of calories in the body. Think about the number of calories that a body builder has to eat each day compared to a more normal average human.
What I recommend you look at is iridology. It is likely to show what is really causing the cyst and how to tackle it in a more effective way.
If you have a magnifying glass of x3, possibly x5 but at that magnification the lens will be right up against the eye and much more difficult ...
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Hello,
I will just start by echoing that everything Archus has said is 10000% spot on. Especially the following points:
-Forgiving
-friendship and self-love
-adrenals
-accepting circumstance
_emotional toxicity
-and many many other that I forgot, but they were jolly good!!!!...
Secondly, as a 30yr old who tries to maintain my appearance, I can say that all that you experience from puberty and young adult life, comes ricocheting back after 25. Looking youthful starts to dwindle at that point. Every sorrow, every bad relationship, every bad food, every toxin, every stress, ev ...
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I just wanted to post this link mentioned by our poster, Swertz.
Fasting grows new neurons in your brain, so does exercise and what we eat.
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I have done many fasts with liver flush before the fast and many fasts with liver flush after the fast.
All cleanses before the fast are helpful simply because your body is cleaner before the fast than it would have been without the cleanses. Liver is a cleaning and manufacturing plant of our body. If it is clean your body will do better with the fast.
Fasting is amazing and has its benefits. Ultimately, we are sick or healthy because of what we eat, what we think and the environment we live in.
Peace.
Archus
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Dr. Fuhrman does not allow any of his patients to take medications while fasting. I was lucky enough to attend one of lectures last year and personally spoke to him.
Here is what said about fasting and meds.........
Dr. Fuhrman says that complications can arise when medications are taken on an empty stomach. Those fasting should avoid over-the-counter drugs such as Tylenol, and people taking medication more regularly are probably not good candidates for fasting.
“If you’re requiring medication on a daily basis, you should not be considering fasting,” he says.
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Hello all, new to the site and completed my first 7 day fast this month. Day 5 I ”just knew” I had empacted fecal matter just stuck and making me feel uncomfortable. I performed a plain water enima and was absolutely amazed at the amount of hard stuff was stuck in my digestive tract.
I have read extensively pro enima and no enima thoughts and I personally see no problems with introducing water to flush the colon out. Sheldon did not have the knowledge we have today. I refed for two weeks and now am ending day 6 of a 40 day water only fast. I did an enima on day 3 and the same, empacted h ...
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I finally found something from my past. A thread I was a part of six and a half years ago that I had almost forgotten. I believe it’s most likely the reason WHY I gave up being the water-only fasting forum monitor and wanted it to go to chrisb1.
I had almost forgotten this until a few moments ago when somebody brought up the word ”ketoacidosis”.
PLEASE, read this thread.
I did remember that there IS a darn good reason why I strongly urge people to be monitored when fasting, or at the very least GET monitored on your first fast.
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When i started this fast i was thinking i might go a day or two but once i got passed the first 2 days I knew i wanted to go longer but wasn’t sure how long. At some point i began to anticipate maybe about 30 days or so (as was the case in the past 3 fasts)... not a set number of days, but very roughly and dependent upon various factors.
In listening to my body, mind and soul i was surprised when it seemed to be time to break the fast at 17 days. In any case i strongly feel that i broke at the right time, definately on an up note and with a substantial feeling of ...
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dontstopdreaming,
Just to clarify things for you.
Juice-fasting is actually juice-feasting, as you are still living from external sources of nutrition.
Water-only fasting is living from internal food reserves and has been practiced as a health-recovery measure since the time of Hippocrates and Paracelsus.
We use very reliable reading resources from experienced and qualified personnel concerning this subject.
There is no ”brainwashing” by anyone, just factual information.
I agree with you: we should listen to the subtle and not-so-subtle messages of the body in determining ou ...
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Hi Chiron,
there are very few contraindications to water-fasting but I know that there is a consensus of opinion amongst experienced health-fasting-supervisors that Liver cancer is a definite contraindication.
Reasons?
I am not sure.........so you have stumped me on that one.
EDIT.......
”There are individuals who are not good candidates for therapeutic fasting. But there are few conditions per se that contraindicate its appropriate use.
The greatest contraindication to fasting is fear. A lack of understanding of the fasting process can present insurmountable problems ...
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Part of the plant based nutrition course I just completed at Cornell online covered supplements. My answer would be never to take supplements.
Dr. Matt Lederman’s lecture on supplements (from the ”Principles in Practice” course) covers research showing that supplements - even whole food supplements - and fortified foods with supplements or isolated nutrients can possibly be harmful. He goes on to say that most people can easily get all necessary nutrients with a healthy diet and sunlight, except for vegans who possibly need to supplement with B12.
However any potential B12 deficien ...
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New Start22,
Donn is correct in regard to taking anything other than water on a fast.
There is simply no need, as the body will not suffer deficiencies of any kind and where taking any nutrients will interfere with the fasting process.
A history of low iron does not necessarily mean that your diet is deficient in this mineral, but more likely due to malabsorption which is rectified thru water-only fasting................
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.ch18.htm
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http://chestofbooks.com/health/natural-cure/The-Hygienic-Syste ...
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Dylan,
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 th ...
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Hello Kozzzmic,
thought you might find this reference to be of some use with your gastric problems.
I wouldn’t think that anyone on the forum would advise you to take anything orally on your fast except pure water. I know I wouldn’t, and I am certain Fonty wouldn’t advise it either.
Sipping warm to hot water may also alleviate any gastric discomforts especially gas and reflux.
Regards
chrisb1.
GASTRIC JUICE
The secretion of gastric juice is continuous throughout most of the fast, but in a greatly diminished quantity and is of a weakly acid character. At times its secretion may ...
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Technically, you’re not fasting.
You have ingested something every day.
Lemon juice, senna, supplements,SALT, psyllium etc..
The body has an amazing way of cleaning out the system without your help!
We all want something in our stomachs when fasting, hehe!
Detox symptoms are not always pleasant. The body is cleaning, you may have to expect that it won’t be a bed of roses when it gets down to the serious stuff.
Personally I have had this nasty symptom with all of my fasts except the last one.
I just ride it out. My first fast of 17 days was terminated because the reflux was begi ...
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coffee itself is carcinogenic, has been known since around 1940, there are a couple thiols in it which inactivate the reticulo-endothelial immunity system. tannins also inhibit the recovery process by quenching the free-radical reactions, I don’t drink it anymore for a while now [End]
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Start a new thread. You can read Dr. Fuhrman’s books. He works with patients who are on psych drugs.
All I can tell you is wean yourself off of all drugs, do a kidney cleanse, colon cleanse and a few liver flushes and then water fast.
Good wishes.
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Amanda,
Drink warm water, rest and stay warm. Put your hand in warm water with epsom salt. You can even take epsom salt bath. It will give you all magnesium you need through your skin. Soak your hands twice a day in warm water with ES.
Don’t give in. Only major signs like heart pounding for a day, vomiting for three days, extreme fainting spells, then you have to brake your fast with water and lemon juice .
I know you will go to 40 days easily. Don’t do any strenuous work.
Good job!
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After dry fasting for five days, best is to drink a sip of water to break fast, then drink a bit more as per thirst. Next day you may drink some juice from orange or grapefruit.
If you do a liver flush, the heavy oil and grapefruit will be very hard on your body. Also Epsom salt will take all water from your body and dump it in your colon, you will dehydrate.
I do liver flushes after one or two days of water fast, but after five days of dry fast it will be hard. Take caution here. Refeed for at least five days with juices and then do a liver flush.
Good luck.
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What you really need is to identify all of your eczema triggers.
If your eczema improves significantly during water fast, that is A VERY STRONG indication that your eczema is most likely triggered by some of the foods or drinks you consume on the daily or weekly bases.
What foods and drinks ?
Once you finish water fasting, continue immediately with the Elimination-rotation diet !
That way you will identify all of your dietary triggers.
The most common dietary triggers for majority of people with eczema are :
- milk and milk products
- gluten
- wheat
- ot ...
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DAY 10
The Fasting Pep Talk #2
Hang a full-length mirror above your bed so you can lay on your back and see your entire body, or lay such a mirror on its side next to your bed so you can see yourself in all its glory.
As you look at your body, imagine that beneath the skin, deep in the tissues, permeating the cells and even within the bones and organs is an intelligence. Imagine it in whatever form makes sense to you--as a permeating energy, as little beings running around, as a glowing aura. Imagine that this force, this awareness, this willful consciousness, a power of some sort ...
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Well, I am not a professional water faster but I did two times in major way... about 6yrs ago I was diagnosed with diabetes type 2 and high blood pressure, high high cholesterol... Yes i got it ALL ^,^; I was at 235lb at 5’ 7.5’ inches. I started water fasting just to lose all of my weight and I finally lost about 85lb total off and on with water fasting. I got rid of all those symptoms by just losing all those weight.
About 3yrs ago I started eating all those wonderful junk foods and got fat again so recently I stared again water fasting.
Is there a guide page on how to do a water f ...
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Hey there!
Whether you have RA or not, fasting regularly will first improve your health and if you are serious about it, it will finally free you from pain and suffering. Your bowel Sy may be an IBS, and a way your body is cleaning up toxicity or is sign of irritation. Fasting is safe for you, as long as you are careful and increase its duration by 24 hrs if the last fast was well tolerated. You need to read about proper breaking of fast and how to improve your diet overall. Curezone and this forum in particular have a wealth of info- on both. You may be undernourished with minerals and v ...
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Hi Fialia,
First of all my sympathies to you that you have very rare genetic disease. Does your parents have this disease or both have defective gene FXN?
Friedrich’s Ataxia (FA) happens when you inherit two copies of defective FXN gene from both of your parents. Currently a lot of research is going on, but no cure has been found. You may have chosen a path to fixing this problem by fasting.
Basically what this condition does is disrupts the normal production of Frataxin. Frataxin is found in each cell in the Mitochondria. Without Frataxin the cells do not effectively produce ener ...
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I have trouble posting 2nd messages in threads. I needed to complete my input below, so I opened a new thread.
Prolonged water fast is taxing enough to try and ”complete” it with exercise on top of all that the body is doing to heal. Should not be done, simply! ... even if you feel well when exercising, you are robbing your system from energy and nutrition, that are used for healing, if you give it a break; just move gently and stretch; certain moving is unavoidable if you do not have whom to transfer your chores to.
My due respect to everyone who says otherwise; they probably do not ha ...
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Please do not fast for 60 days and also please do not lift weight during the fast. You are supposed to rest when fasting. Also after breaking your fast wait for a week to lift weights with good re-feeding. [End]
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Cat&Co, with my due respect,
Self-righteous is when you do not want to see the opponent’s point of view. Self-righteous is when you do not see another answer, just for the fact you want necessarily yours to be the correct one. You may have failed to notice that in this forum post people with aspiration for, experience and knowledge about fasting for cure. I am one of them, having both personal experience, solid theoretical knowledge, respectful manners and also experience in peer-guidance. This is not exactly your FastingForWeightLoss mindset.
Furthermore peer-reviewed medical journals ...
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Angelica-UltralifeSHOP,
I am trying to understand your point. I feel that you have never tried water fasting or fasting in general and you don’t seek exactly knowledge about that subject. If I am not right in my assessment, then, yes, fasting can cure much faster than juice programs. If a person has urgent or heavier conditions fasting is much more effective and much faster than any nutrition program. [End]
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This is the reason it is important to start low and build slow. For next time, just suck on half an orange, then one whole, when you feel hungry, then two, etc. your stomach has no acid and you are dumping so much in your stomach so fast that stomach has hard time processing.
Remedy for this is to just drink warm water with a pinch of Himalayan salt.
Only eat when hungry.
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Your skin and liver absorb fats from castor oil and much more, which we do not know much about, but liver heals with this process. You can also put a few drops in your belly button before going to bed.
To get magnesium from ES you can soak your feet in a bucket with ES and iodine.
Archus [End]
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You read some people’s testimonies and may not know the whole story. Most people who get sick are sick because what they eat, not because they fast. Yes partial eating can lead you to starvation and you can die. But if you don’t eat and drink water only, your body heals itself.
If nature did not have this program in all living things, nature would fail. My dog stopped eating everytime she was sick and got better. All animals fast, but the two legged ones got intelligent and lost their natural sense of listening to the body.
You actually will worsen your teeth with what you ate, all ...
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Oooo ancient indian soap. You can wash body and hair with a mix of baking soda and peanut flour (its not exactly peanut but its similar enough) peanut flour after the oil has been extracted - which is easily available I believe should be almost the same.
Hair - a bit more baking soda, body, more flour.
Thanks.
Srinath.
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There is a lot of wild greens that monsatan has labelled ”weeds” so we have to buy the herbicides they sell us, and spray them, and then buy the seeds they sell us to plant that will grow inspite of their poison.
Anyway depending on where you are I can tell you what you can get free and its very very good, if you find it in soil that’s not been herbicided to oblivion.
The toxic crap they spray turns these awesome plants black and charred. And the clueless idiots think that’s good. I am very very fortunate to have a few acres that hasn’t been weed sprayed for 20 yrs. I’ve not bought anyth ...
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All fasts are different.
I fast a lot at least once a month. The weight loss is always different. My last fast was anazing. I lost ten pounds in four days, fifth day I did not lose as much, when I broke my fast. So I don’t believe it is too many fasts.
It is known that during a monthly period women’s body holds on to water. But that effect remain three or four days after the period ends.
I would not worry about it too much. Like I said I have gone through many fasts, some did not a good weight loss and last one blew me off.
Did you change your diet recently? That may have ca ...
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Well so far I figured out that my biggest problem was lack of electrolytes. I started adding about a half teaspoon of Himalayan pink salt to my water over the course of two days and my problems cleared right up. I feel right as rain again and dare I say ... energetic. lol
It seems that 50 days is the magic number but I’m back to my Kangen filtered water now until I start to feel the effects again. Also thanks for the breaking the fast pages. I’ll be reading them tomorrow. Have a great day all! [End]
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Hi Loosie, I googled leg pain during fasting and found this site. The exact same thing happened to me. The 3rd day of my 7 day water fast the pain in my legs, mostly upper thighs was so intense I couldn’t sleep. I started taking 400 mg of magnesium but that didn’t help, then I tried sea salt in warm water and it got a little better, but each day the pain became worse. Day 5 of the fast the pain was so bad I took 1 99mg of potassium and the pain went away almost immediately. In the future when I’m on a water fast I will plan on taking potassium. Hope this helps. [End]
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Yes, fasting is the way to heal and lose weight, but most importantly change in lifestyle is needed.
Eating at midnight is how people get fat. Eat during when sun is up and as sun goes down you should stick to simple foods or no food.
I agree with other posters that you should try small fasts and then go for a long one.
Eat mainly plant based raw foods and you will lose weight and feel better. Stay away from all processed foods.
Walk twenty to thirty minutes everyday.
Good wishes.
Archus
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Well I made it to the morning of day five, I broke my fast early this morning. Defiantly not as long as I had hoped for, but what a experience! This has has been a very difficult challenge for me. But I have learned some important lessons (Like don’t attempt to fast when your home alone and have a farm full of animals to take care of!) I really had no idea what I was getting myself into, I mean I read plenty about the possible side effect of water fasting but reading and experiencing are 2 different things. However with this experience I feel I will be able to complete a longer fast in the ...
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Hey, just thought I would throw in my two cents, since this was popping up on google searches for me, that probably means others will read it.
Long story short: Electrolytes worked for me.
I did a 30 day water fast about 2 years ago which went great. super hard first two weeks but then I got a blast of energy. Worked full time plus a part time job the whole time. No issues.
Currently on day 36 of a 40 day water fast. I never got the same hit of energy that I did last time. It went up a bit around 18, but on about day 25 I started having very mild nausea that was super annoying. ...
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Hi there, this is day 24 of my water fast and I just wanted to give a summary of how its been going so far, especially since I have been smoking marijuana during the entire fast (a very contraverstial topic with highly oposing viewpoints from both marijuana community ”why would you stop eating, you crazy?” and fasting ”why cant you stop of a couple of days, you addict?”) Please note, pure weed only no tobacco, I quit that a few years back.
Anyways, here goes:
day 1 - 5 was highly energetic, I remember literally jumping out of bed with a little hop one morning, hehe. I also smoked th ...
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My acne scars got flatter and less red but did not disappear. Ditto with stretch marks - flatter, less color - older ones less white newer ones less red - narrower, but did not disappear. I did this fast in my late twenties. The younger you are, the better the results. [End]
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Regina, two messages below is a scinetific proof that depression is connected to inflammation. All the junk in food, and in the nevironement can really make your body sick, and the brain being in your body, it is also logical that you’ll be non-functional ot depressed. The so called ”normal” ppl - you never know how normal they are, unless you read their diaries - also have struggles, maybe not exactly like yours. I hope you realize that you may have been missing good unadulterated fats (not trans- or rancid as in junk food) so you just instinctively got hold onto the first fat source tha ...
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Basically the answer to all Qs here is ”No”.
Fast for health, you will build later if you don’t indulge on bad habits, supps is a bad idea, fasting is abstinence and cutting-down not building up at the same time. Read the theory of it. Do sequentially. Cut-down - then stop - then rebuild.
You can’t burn and replenish at the same time your engine. At any gas station it is mandatory to stop your engine, if you get what I mean. [End]
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Hello all,
I am sure many of you have read in my previous posts that I had a 5” round cyst on my left kidney. I have been living with it for many years. Even though it does not bother me I wanted get rid of it. I have done numerous fasts, which dissolved the cyst and after I re-feed It returned to its normal size.
This time after 10 days of fast, I started having some pain in the area where the cyst can be felt. It was swollen and hot. I did not worry too much about it, till the few last days of my fast, it was hard and big. After two days of juices during re-feeding period, it star ...
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ACV in water is not advised for water fasting. The reason is as you ask: ””will stop the healing process, in a way that would off set the benefits of a water only fast.””
21+ days wiht good diet and preparation should be a treat. Rest well. Is this yur first fast? If so do prep properly have good support and have an organised re-feeding program.
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I see you’re posting, so maybe your question is still relevant.
The time you go into ketosis depends on your liver glycogen stores at the onset of a fast. If it’s full, as happens after a high-carb meal, in a healthy person it will take 36-48h since the last meal. If it was already depleted somewhat, it will take less time. Interesting that people with cirrhosis go into ketosis ”at the drop of a hat”. It’s cause a cirrhotic liver cannot hold much glycogen.
The other variable is the diet prior to the fast. If it was high in fat, then yeah you switch to ketosis sooner. Or, if you’re on ...
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I think you need either to fast or to do PT, not both at the same time, or PT at the time or after re-feeding. Here is a link from this thread on how fasting rejuvenates muscles (which is different form build-up)
http://curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=2136365#i
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My pleasure, Archus!
If I were in your shoes I would not do Epsom baths during water fast. If absolutely necessary, I would do the first 24 hrs, then after day 21, half/half sea-salt/Epsom + a tablet of calcium carbonate and a potassium salt (no-salt or potassium iodide) in your bath water, ... since Epsom contains only one mineral and it may be potentially dangerous giving your body only one mineral, since a magnesium deficiency is not confirmed, according to your posts.
I am thinking that up to 21 days of a fast, you don’t really need to be very concerned about minerals, except if you ...
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Hello Chris,
You are so very welcomed!
I am not good at combining exercise with water-fasting. I have such terrible energy lows if I exercise or move too much after day 5! I needed to stop often to not faint.
I have done heavy strenuous physical activity up to day 6 and I was loosing around 2.5 lbs daily on body weight of 120 and BMI around 19 ... not a thing that I recommend if fasting is done for healing. If weight loss is the only goal - it is feasible ... but only if the heart is in a good condition, in my opinion.
On the contrary, light stretching and light walks are good for fast ...
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If you are able to fast in a controlled environment, consider a stay at the TrueNorth Health Center in Santa Rosa, CA. I’ve found stays the past six summers there to be helpful in dealing with severe skin issues and have met other individuals there who have been able to use water-only fasting in dealing with cardiovascular, blood pressure, and diabetic issues.
Individuals who are there are supervised by staff not only in water-only fasting or juice fasting--they must be cleared by the medical staff there for both--but also are given practical information on whole plant food nutritio ...
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Another possibility is that you have post-inflammatory adhesions that also get worse with fullness, external pressure and other. Thinking that something may become chronic is NEVER the right attitude. The right one is: I am going to beat this, even more: ”I am healed”. Either way, fasting can only help you. Fasting helps also for nerve disregulation. For the latter orthomolecular therapy, after the fast, with normal or mega-doses of vitamins (here Bvitamins, esp. B6 - which should not be taken for extend period, together with B3, B12 and B1 - for these you can go without restrictions) shou ...
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I am a habitual faster. And from my own experience, it’s very difficult to say ahead when you have to finish your water fast. The most efficient fasting happens when you use up all your safe internal resources, and that depends on a lot of personal factors, such as amount of fat, muscle, and stored nutrients.
In my case, it always happens after 21 days of fasting. I know that it happens because I suddenly become hungry. And not hungry in my mind, dreaming about food and reading cooking books, but actually hungry in my body, and always for some specific food, like give-it-to-me-or-I-kil ...
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MG,
Great job thus far and great plan for re-feeding. I just want to add that break your fast with organic orange, sucking the juice out of it. After that plant based diet you are mentioning is fine, but eat as per hunger instead of counting calories. After two weeks you can introduce raw nuts and legumes.
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Hi water fasters, it’s been a while, I know...
I’ve been reading through a few posts and blogs as I sit here contemplating my next fast and wonder about why so many people (myself included) suffer from the symptoms of lethargy and bile vomiting when water fasting.
I have a theory.
I’m not exactly sure of the physiology behind it, and why it would induce bile, but I think it has something to do with electrolytes. It just seems a little too coincidental that those who have ingested salt or coconut water have experienced IMMEDIATE remission of their symptoms. And what about that guy ...
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Well, to the two people who disagreed with the above, I totally stand by what I said. And not only can I not find facts, neither can organisations who are genuinely pursuing the truth, as I am. I just got an email from Dan Kittredge, who features in this video
He is director of the real food campaign, which is a project of http://www.remineralize.org,
and when I sent him the list of of things which would prove this he replied:
”We are intending to make the case for nutrition in food by documneting shortcomings, assisting farmers in increasing quality, setting up an empirical mi ... [Video Embedded Here]
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For those that disagree with Donn’s assessment, and which agrees with my own, that the taking of vitamins or anything other than water on a fast, I would like to remind them that this is a ”Water-only-fasting-support-forum.
Anything other than that, belongs in the general fasting support forum.
I would also like to remind those of you who have disagreed, that I personally have over 30 years experience and study with the fast and the fasting process, having undergone two extensive fasts myself, and post from the vast knowledge of those experienced and qualified practitioners who have ...
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