Fasting is a major detox method. Eating light helps detox, but fibre and or juice fasting is much faster. It can be too much for the uninitiated, who should start small, and easy, before graduating to serious fasting. My first fast was pretty intense, and it went well- but I was also a pretty tough and healthy 22 year old.
What happened was that on the Bernard Jensen program (I fill it out on my Detox How To page), I lost 18 pounds in 8 days. Really. People thought I had AIDS! Anyway, that part sucked, but the good thing was that strange objects came out of me (like black rubbery stuff that NOONE would want to keep in their body), and I was cured, permanently of my migraine problem, that I had suffered with since the age of six! I also got "ripped"- very lean, and tight skinned- and I kept a permanently leaner body- my metabolism permanently improved!
Medical journal published research shows fasting to be an excellent detoxificatier aid for human concerns as diverse as PCB poisoning (1), and arthritis (2).
Dr. Max Gerson, from Germany, and Rudolf Breuss, of Austria , cured thousands of people of cancer with juice fasting (3, 4). The German authorities harassed Dr. Gerson to the point of him leaving for the land of the free, America. He found that the American medical (political) authorities were also not tolerant of natural, unpatented cures. Then, and to a large degree now, only drug and surgical (patented, expensive) enjoy legal turf protection in medicine. Austrian authorities took Breuss to court, and lost after much support, from the many people that had been cured, and from intervention by the president of Austria.
Both men perfected detoxification with mostly juice fasting, and helped many people with "terminal’, or "untreatable" cancer, to heal.
Rene Caisse was a Canadian nurse who helped people with cancer with a herbal combination taught to her by First Nations people. She worked with people regardless of their ability to pay, but was shut down by our government and health authorities who were and still are puppeted by Big Pharma to protect the medical monopoly. Unfortunately, consumers need to keep fighting for their rights, to act as if they live in a free country, and choose their therapies freely. Rene Caisses' formula is still available to this day, through various sources. The nice thing about natural cures is that they are good for you! Even with no cancer or any health problem present, they benefit you, and strengthen your health. Try taking some chemo, and see how that is for your health. Puh!
What about my hard earned muscle?
People wanting to max their muscle mass need not fear fasting- one study had a group of people water fasting every other day for 22 days (poor guys!). Even on such a prolonged fasting set up, all of their weight loss was body fat; they kept all of their muscle (5). Of course, if you fast, pack in the protein afterwards, after you have had a few low protein days to re-acclimatise.
Protein; be careful
I am serious about reintroducing with caution. A fast of over 3 days needs to start with very tiny amounts of veg protein, building up to normal amounts of animal protein over several days. If your fast is 3 days or less, you can start with carbs first, THEN protein, all in the first day back to eating.
References
1. Immamura, M., Tung, T. "A Trial of Fasting for PCB poisoned Patients in Taiwan" American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 1984. (5): 147-153
2. Müller, H. , Toledo, F. W. de , Resch, K. L. Fasting followed by vegetarian diet in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review. Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology, 2001, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 1-10
3. Gerson MM. "A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases and the Cure of Advanced Cancer by Diet Therapy: A Summary of 30 Years of Clinical Experimentation" 1958
4. Breuss, Rudolf "The Breuss Cancer Cure"
5. Heilbronn L.K., Smith S.R., Martin C.K., Anton S.D., Ravussin E. "Alternate-day Fasting in Nonobese Subjects: Effects on Body Weight, Body Composition, and Energy Metabolism." American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2005. 81(1): 69-73.
What happened was that on the Bernard Jensen program (I fill it out on my Detox How To page), I lost 18 pounds in 8 days. Really. People thought I had AIDS! Anyway, that part sucked, but the good thing was that strange objects came out of me (like black rubbery stuff that NOONE would want to keep in their body), and I was cured, permanently of my migraine problem, that I had suffered with since the age of six! I also got "ripped"- very lean, and tight skinned- and I kept a permanently leaner body- my metabolism permanently improved!
Medical journal published research shows fasting to be an excellent detoxificatier aid for human concerns as diverse as PCB poisoning (1), and arthritis (2).
Dr. Max Gerson, from Germany, and Rudolf Breuss, of Austria , cured thousands of people of cancer with juice fasting (3, 4). The German authorities harassed Dr. Gerson to the point of him leaving for the land of the free, America. He found that the American medical (political) authorities were also not tolerant of natural, unpatented cures. Then, and to a large degree now, only drug and surgical (patented, expensive) enjoy legal turf protection in medicine. Austrian authorities took Breuss to court, and lost after much support, from the many people that had been cured, and from intervention by the president of Austria.
Both men perfected detoxification with mostly juice fasting, and helped many people with "terminal’, or "untreatable" cancer, to heal.
Rene Caisse was a Canadian nurse who helped people with cancer with a herbal combination taught to her by First Nations people. She worked with people regardless of their ability to pay, but was shut down by our government and health authorities who were and still are puppeted by Big Pharma to protect the medical monopoly. Unfortunately, consumers need to keep fighting for their rights, to act as if they live in a free country, and choose their therapies freely. Rene Caisses' formula is still available to this day, through various sources. The nice thing about natural cures is that they are good for you! Even with no cancer or any health problem present, they benefit you, and strengthen your health. Try taking some chemo, and see how that is for your health. Puh!
What about my hard earned muscle?
People wanting to max their muscle mass need not fear fasting- one study had a group of people water fasting every other day for 22 days (poor guys!). Even on such a prolonged fasting set up, all of their weight loss was body fat; they kept all of their muscle (5). Of course, if you fast, pack in the protein afterwards, after you have had a few low protein days to re-acclimatise.
Protein; be careful
I am serious about reintroducing with caution. A fast of over 3 days needs to start with very tiny amounts of veg protein, building up to normal amounts of animal protein over several days. If your fast is 3 days or less, you can start with carbs first, THEN protein, all in the first day back to eating.
References
1. Immamura, M., Tung, T. "A Trial of Fasting for PCB poisoned Patients in Taiwan" American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 1984. (5): 147-153
2. Müller, H. , Toledo, F. W. de , Resch, K. L. Fasting followed by vegetarian diet in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review. Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology, 2001, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 1-10
3. Gerson MM. "A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases and the Cure of Advanced Cancer by Diet Therapy: A Summary of 30 Years of Clinical Experimentation" 1958
4. Breuss, Rudolf "The Breuss Cancer Cure"
5. Heilbronn L.K., Smith S.R., Martin C.K., Anton S.D., Ravussin E. "Alternate-day Fasting in Nonobese Subjects: Effects on Body Weight, Body Composition, and Energy Metabolism." American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2005. 81(1): 69-73.
