In case of most people suffering because of so called civilization diseases, which are commonly considered incurable, healing fast is a way to restore full health.
Individually, depending on the person, the fasting can take from a single day till ... sometimes even a few months or even over a year. But in case of an ordinary, not overweight person, an inhabitant of, so called, western civilization the maximum fasting time is about 6 weeks. Most often fasting takes from 7 to 28 days.
3 weeks of water fasting (21 days) in most cases is the an optimal period. During 21 days of fasting the body has enough time to eliminate most of the toxins, get rid of its diseases and update itself in a more healthy state. Of course it is not always possible to eliminate all of the toxins and cure all the diseases – if you’ve been intoxicating your body for a few decades, do not expect to restore full 100% health just in three weeks. For sure, even after the first water fasting you will feel much much better, but if you need to gain perfect health, stick to raw food diet and perform further fastings (dry of water) once you feel you are ready to continue. Each new time it will be much easier: the body will have less toxins,
61 it’s more healthy and you do not have fears to fast, because you already know through your own experience that it is not so scary.
As for fears, almost every psychically healthy person can fast if he/she is not afraid and not forced to do it. Emotions (not lack of food) awaken by the fear during fasting can kill the body.
DRY FASTING
According to the principle: “the simplest solutions are the most efficient ones”, dry fasting, during which nothing is taken into the mouth, even not a drop of water, produces the deepest cleanup and cure of the body. Actually, to make it most efficient, one does not even (literally) touch any water. The body should remain without any liquid during the whole fasting period.
It can be said, that a week of dry fasting is as efficient as two to three weeks of fasting on just water.
Fasting without any water can last from 1 to 14 days. It depends on some factors. The drier and the hotter the air, the shorter time a person can stay without drinking. The more physical activity causing perspiring is involved, the shorter the body can stand without water. When the conditions (temperature, air humidity, physical activity of the person) are normal, an ordinary inhabitant of the mild climate region can dry fast for 7 days.
The body can slightly dehydrate during dry fasting. It is allowed to let the body to dehydrate a little, but it is important, during the whole time of dry fasting, to regularly check the body. When the dehydration of the body crosses a critical level, this process cannot be normally reversed (restore the proper hydration of the body) and then the body stops working (dies).
Ordinarily the first 4 days without drinking (and eating) do not require any special care, but later the hydration level of the body should be monitored, for example, by observing the skin.
Another important factor, which determine the period of time the body can dry fast without any harm, is the amount of substances to be excreted from the body. For example; if a person have eaten a lot of salty food, what caused more salt to be accumulated in the body, it wouldn't be wise to start dry fasting without first removing the excess salt. You can draw a conclusion from this, that before starting a dry fast it is worth to do water fasting for a few days.
A good procedure can be this one. You start with water fasting. From the day eight do not take water any more. In this way you start dry fasting when the body has get rid of the excess salt and other substances, which need water in order to be removed.
Usually after only two, three days of fasting the body's thirst for water becomes quite small, so giving up water after a week of fasting is not a real challenge.
WATER FASTING
Water is the only substance allowed to be consumed. The water should be clean, the best is rain or snow water (collected far from polluted air) or distiled water. If you use distiled water, first cool it till ice starts to appear, then put it back as ready for drinking. Drink room temperature water or warm it.
Nothing is added to the water, no sugar, not even a drop of lemon juice, no honey, no coffee or tea. Drinking water with added substances disturbs the digesting process and
62 does not allow the body to switch on the internal nourishing (and to switch off the digestive tract). Fasting, when the internal nourishing is not working, wears the body away faster. This manifests, among others, via faster weight losing and worse mood, and may cause accelerated depletion of minerals. This process is called starvation; if it is being extended, it can bring death to the body.
Water fast can take from one day to a few (in extreme cases even more than a dozen) months. The length depends on, among others, the total weight of the accumulated excess matter (mainly fat) and the physical activity of the fasting person. In average, it can be assumed, to “burn” 1 kg (2.2 lb.) of body fat, 2 to 4 days are needed. For example, a person having 20 kg (44 lb.) of excess fat can add 40 to 80 days to the main fasting time. The main fasting usually takes from 1 to 40 days; in most cases the longer the more advantages for the body. Every short fasting is good for the body, but more advantageous is a fast lasting for at least 14 days — the minimum time needed by the body to manifest lasting health changes. 21 days even better!
If you have never fasted, it is worth to first exercise it. The first fast can last for only 1 day. After a few days you can fast for 2 or 3 days and nights. Make a break for a week and then fast for 3-5 days. You can repeat such 3-5 days fasting for a few times, till you will feel that they are nothing extraordinary for you and you can easily fast longer.
Then try 5 or even 7 days fasting. Extend the next fasts, e.g. 7, 9, 10, 12 days and nights or differently, according to your own feeling, till you reach 14 days. Once you reach 2 weeks (or earlier) most probably you will feel that you are able fast for a few weeks.
Fasting for 7 weeks (also shorter) may cause “miracles” for heath. Biologically rejuvenates the body — a fact experienced clinically, visually and via the mood. It removes almost all illnesses (some, for example, neglected cancer may need more than one fast), smooths out wrinkled skin, restores the natural color and strength to the hair and stops hair losing (hair may start to grow anew), beautifies the body.
People who fasted for health talk with conviction to the others about many advantageous mental and psychical health changes they've experienced. “I never imagined that I could feel so good.” “If you have not experienced this, you do not know, what the true good health is, even if you have been feeling very well.” — These and similar opinions may be heard.
There is one serious danger, which may make the body to stop working (die) — fear. The social suggestion (in which most people on Earth live) inculcated in the mind a belief (program) that man has to eat and that fasting harms the body. Well, if you believe this, do not start 40 days fasting right away, because if you do, the body may stop working earlier, just because of the belief. You better first exercise fasting in order to see (experience) for yourself that such beliefs result from insufficient basic knowledge about how human body works.
FASTING WITH JUICES (JUICE DIET)
As for fasting with juices, the healing process goes not so fast and effective as during the dry and water fasting, but one of the advantages of juice diet with raw fresh made juices is that its duration can be unlimited. Even the people with not enough body weight can perform fasting with juices for very long time and not be afraid to face emaciation.
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