Detoxing Through Fasting

"Very few people know what real health is, because most are occupied with killing themselves slowly." - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Ph.D., Hungarian-born American biochemist and a 1937 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine


EVERYDAY, many of us eat some toxins. We like to eat foods loaded with artificial flavors and chemically-created coloring agents, pesticides, herbicides and fungicides, insecticides and other toxic chemicals, which overburden our bodies. And as this toxic overload accumulates year after year, augmented also by environmental pollution, drugs and medications, it interferes with normal functioning and spoils the body's elimination processes.

One way to make up this neglect is through fasting. Scientific studies show that, in fasting, large amounts of these accumulated metabolic wastes and poisons are quickly eliminated through the greatly enhanced cleansing capability of all the organs of elimination — liver, kidneys, skin and lungs.

Scientific fasting has proven itself, over several thousand years, as humanity's oldest, fastest and most effective weight-loss, detoxification, healing and longevity-enhancing modality known to mankind — both curative, as well as preventive. In fact, Hippocrates, Galen and Paracelsus, all 3 Fathers of Western Medicine practiced and prescribed fasting. They all declared that fasting is "the greatest remedy and the physician within." For during fasting, our body will self-digest its most inferior and impure materials and metabolic wastes.

An important element of fasting detoxification is mobilizing the toxins from their storage areas. Though, fast does not merely detoxify. It also breaks down superfluous tissue like fats, abnormal cells and tumors, and releases diseased tissues and their cellular products into the circulation for elimination. New cell growth is also stimulated and accelerated during fasting as the required proteins are resynthesized from decomposed cells. Several common symptoms of detoxification seen during this process could be darker urine.

Many people think that fasting needs us to avoid solid foods and just only water for sustenance for 3-7 days or more, depending on one’s health and doctors advice. But to many fasting therapists, this is not advisable. They recommend fresh fruit and vegetable juice instead of pure water. Freshly squeezed and extracted vegetable and fruit juices contain a wealth of vitamins and organically-complexed minerals. The juices all supply excellent energy, minerals, vitamins, live enzymes, and other nutrients necessary to enhance health during the fast. It will also supply the 400 calories or so our bodies require. Without that minimum caloric intake, our bodies begin to breakdown protein structures to get it. By providing much of the body's daily caloric needs with easily-digested juices, the release of toxins from the fat cells is much more gentle and gradual.

Additionally, fresh fruit and vegetable juices require little digestion, and are quickly assimilated from the upper digestive tract. Therefore, most of the 10% of bodily energy normally involved in our mastication, assimilation, digestion, and elimination is freed up. What's more, fresh juices have a cleansing effect of their own.

But not all of us can fast. Fasting therapist prohibits those who are thin, suffering with anemia, cancer, having a disease in blood, kidney, liver, and all important organs of the body, diabetic, pregnant and breastfeeding mothers.

Scientific journals boost that scientific fasting enhances longevity, that we humans can double our natural life span like those periodically fasting animals.

"Fasting is, without any doubt, the most effective biological method of treatment... it is the 'operation without surgery'... it is a cure involving exudation, reattunement, redirection, loosening up and purified relaxation. We can improve our physical health and gain much while fasting. But we have neglected the most important thing if the hunger for spiritual nourishment that manifests itself during fasting is not satisfied," avers Otto Buchinger, Sr., M.D., Germany's great, self-described fasting therapist.

Although detoxing is the key to getting better, preventing toxins to accumulate in our body by avoiding harmful foods is the best way to protect our health.