There are two types of toxins:
1) water-soluble and 2) fat-soluble
So, the ways of their elimination from the body are also different.
Kidneys, salivary glands, lungs and gastrointestinal tract remove water-soluble poisons (that is why you have a bad taste in your mouth while fasting and a feeling of slight nausea.
It is more complicated to remove fat-soluble poisons. Liver, its bile and your skin are responsible for it.
Now we can make some practical conclusions:
- Take warm showers at least once in 2-3 days to wash away fat-soluble toxins from your skin.
Fat-soluble poisons being eliminated by bile from liver go right into intestine. That is why during fasting there is a large amount of “dirty bile” (dark bile), even if you do not eat and there is no food in your duodenum.
In that period large amounts of dark bile go directly into intestine constantly. So, those fat-soluble toxins, being removed by the liver, go directly into your intestine. There is no need for you to store them there while fasting. Do not wait until they will be absorbed by your intestine walls and will go back to your tissues. This is one of the main reasons to wash the intestine while fasting.
Some people advise to do enemas every day. Though, you can make them not so often, for example, once in 4-5 days. It depends on your general state. If you can not bear them at all, do enemas at least 1 time a week.
WARNING!
It is highly important to wash the large intestine right before you resume eating!!!!
If you start eating without washing the intestine, all the toxins that are mobilized in the intestine and are ready to be removed will be absorbed by the walls of your intestine
together with the food you eat and will go back to the tissues and cells.
65 In 1926 George Osler Johnson decided to hike from Chicago to New York with no
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food, consuming only water. He started his hike on June 1, 1926. He was walking all the way long accompanied by a car with his personal physician. Besides that, many doctors were examining his health condition along the way. Johnson was slim (his height -178 cm (5.85 ft.), weight - 72 kg (159 lb.). In 1926 the weather was pretty hot but he managed to cover a distance of 25-70 kilometers (15.5-43.5 miles) a day. He walked the distance of 578 miles for 20 days of his hike. His physician stated that during that time he was consuming no food at all. At finish his weight was 54 kilograms (119 lb.), thus he lost 18 kilograms (39.7 lb.) of weight. After the hike his health state was better than before. This officially registered hike is one of the most documented one. It was a serious test for a patient during the healing fasting.
WHY 21 DAYS?
As a course of treatment it is optimal to fast 21 - 28 days. Why? People who practice fastings agreed to call fastings that are less than 10 days as short fastings; and those fastings that are longer than 10 days are called long fastings. But taking into consideration physiological processes in the body this division is conventional and does not reflect anything. How long does it take the body to heal any injury? For example, someone breaks his leg. For how long the person will stay with a plaster? At least three weeks.
Usually the body needs three weeks to heal. Three weeks or 21 days is an optimal period for healing fastings too. Within 3 weeks of fasting a human organism has enough time to cleanse the body and to launch regenerative processes.
Why is it so? Because we have special cells in our blood called phagocytes – they need exactly this period of time to do their job. Thus, it would be more correct to consider those fastings that are less than 21 days as short, and those fastings, longer than 21 days as long. So, fastings longer than 21 days are truly healing fastings. What if it’s less than 21 days? For sure, even 1 day fast is good. The difference is in its effect. In most cases, after three weeks of fasting the body destroys the very CAUSE of the disease, about which our medicine has no notion. This is the difference, and this difference is fundamental.
But I do not recommend you to fast longer than 21 days, if it’s your first time! Even to the people who are not old yet. The fastings that are less than 21 days will not give you the maximum effect, but if you fast longer it can be risky. If it’s your first time and you do not have experience in fastings, do not fast longer than 21 days!
One more argument in favor of long fastings: the hardest thing is to start. Once you’ve started it is easier to fast for the whole period of 21 days, than make 3 different fastings for 7 days. The effect of these 3 short fastings will be smaller than the effect of one 21 day fasting.
But, if you are more than 45 years old or if you are seriously ill, I DO NOT RECOMMEND YOU to fast longer than 10-14 days. It will be an excessive toxic load for your eliminative organs.
66 Be sure, no matter how much toxins there is in your body, they will never be released in your blood in a huge amount simultaneously. It will be happening gradually. The body tries to maintain the average concentration of toxins in the blood, not to harm itself. It will release the next portion of toxins as soon as the previous one has been eliminated. That is why for full elimination of toxins you will need months or even a couple of years. Juicing and raw vegan diet is the best choice in this case.
GENERAL REMARKS: long water fasting (or in combination with dry fasting) is suitable for relatively healthy people. As for those whose body is emaciated, it is better to improve their health first:
- eliminate all cooked food, all animal food (meats, dairy products) and all food rich in starch from your diet.
- eliminate bad habits, like smoking, drinking alcohol and other popular drinks. Eat fresh fruits and fresh self-made fruit juices. It is better not to mix different kinds of food (why? it will be explained below). If you wish you can add herbal juices to your diet.
- cleanse your intestine with enema (do not
forget that your intestine is THE LARGEST endocrine and immune organ in your body.
When it’s clean and works properly your immune system and the balance of hormones will improve drastically).
As for fastings, even a weak and emaciated person can fast for 36 hours 1 or 2 times a week. These short fastings are pretty safe and will be beneficial anyway. Evening time is the best time to start a 36 hours fasting. You just need to skip your supper and wash the large intestine. The fasting will go fast.
PHASE 2 and 3: RESUMING EATING
After fasting it is important to know the proper way to resume eating.
Even if the first fasting you did not reach the desired health state, do not worry. Next time, with yet bigger experience, with more clean body and its power it will go better, easier and faster.
Resumption of eating again is quite a risky process, it should be done carefully.
The process of rebuilding the body after starving can be compared to accelerated growth of a baby body. First of all this means that the body builds itself mainly on what it eats. So if the person eats other substances than the body needs, his/her body material structure will be weaker (worse) than the ideal one. A body build in this way is weaker, gets ill easier, wears and ages faster.
Resuming eating has 2 phases:
1) PHASE 2: cleansing your blood from toxins (fruit juices) 2) PHASE 3: rejuvenation (all kinds of juices plus fruits)
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PHASE 2: FRUIT JUICES
So, you have already finished your 21 – 28 day fasting, now it’s time to terminate it and resume “eating”. It does not matter if you have achieved the desired result or not. You need to remember one thing: the way you resume eating will define the whole result of your fasting. In this regards, I can say that PHASE 2 of your cleansing process (when you terminate fasting and resume eating) IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE FASTING ITSELF. If you can not provide yourself with proper conditions for termination of your fasting, then do not start fasting at all! Water fasting is a too serious method to be treated irresponsibly. If you do not have fresh fruits for juicing, then find them, even if it will take you a couple of days.
Have you noticed that I’m not mentioning any food at all? The period of termination of fasting and resuming eating categorically excludes any food it a traditional understanding of the word “food”.
Right after the 7th day of fasting your blood carries a huge amount of toxins. Besides, there is a huge amount of toxins in the tissues that are ready to be removed, they are in a mobilized state. These are the toxins that the body has already mobilized but has not had enough time to eliminate.
So, the main task of PHASE 2 is to eliminate these mobilized poisons and not let them go back to the tissues and cells. If you do not pay attention to the second phase and start eating, all the toxins circulating in the blood will return back to the deposits and you will not achieve the maximum effect of your fasting. So, do not spoil your own healing process and be consistent.
But anyway, you do not have to worry about the toxins that have been released and removed from the body during the fasting. We are not talking about them right now. You already have achieved some positive results of fasting. Now you should take care of those toxins that are still in your blood, they are large in number, maybe their amount is even larger than the amount of toxins that has been removed already.
So, in this part we will discuss how to get rid of these toxins from your blood.
How to terminate fasting
After 21-28 days of not eating any hard food can cause closed-loop obstruction and a need of a surgery. Why so? After 14 days of not eating your intestine enters a relaxation mode and stops producing so called peristaltic waves (contractions) that serve to move down portions of food along the intestine. So, after 14 days the intestine is “immobile”. It will need some time to launch its peristaltic function. If it was a long fasting (more than 14 days) it can take a week for the intestine to go back to full functioning.
I’m sure that now, when the main job has been done, you do not need any complications.
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