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Healing Through Fasting
We have all heard of persons that have been sick and received huge benefits of water fasting, including healing. I myself suffered from a severe liver condition.
While fasting has not completely healed it, the detoxification and cleansing it has fostered in my body have pretty drastically increased my overall well-being and slowed down the deterioration of my liver.
Cardiovascular & Heart Disease
* The benefits of water fasting have also become evident in chronic cardiovascular disease and congestive heart failure.
It reduces triglycerides, atheromas, total cholesterol and increases HDL levels.
Diabetes
* It has also been found effective in the treatment of type II diabetes, often reversing the condition permanently.
Because of its long term effects on metabolism, fat stores in the body, leptin and disease conditions associated with obesity, fasting has been found to be one of the most effective treatments for obesity.
Pancreatitis
In one trial of 90 people with severe pancreatitis, water fasting was found to be better than other types of medical treatments.
Gastrointestinal medical procedures were NOT found to equal the benefits of fasting.
Hypertension
In one clinical trial of hypertension and fasting, 174 people with hypertension water-fasted for 11 days.
Initial blood pressure in the participants was either in excess of 140 millimeters of mercury (mm HG) systolic or 90 diastolic or both.
Ninety percent of the participants achieved blood pressure less than 140/90 by the end of the trial. The higher their initial blood pressure, the more their readings dropped.
Osteoporosis
Fasting induces significant anti-inflammatory actions in the body and researchers found benefits of water fasting included reduced pain.
Fasting also helps the body to produce new deposits of bone in areas affected by osteoporosis.
Arthritis
A number of studies have found that fasting is effective for relieving rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis.
Other Diseases
Other diseases that have responded to fasting are: neurosis, asthma, irritable bowel syndrome, acne, depression, stomach parasites, fever, hives, various allergies, fibromyalgia, irritable bowels, schizophrenia, gout, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis and liver toxicity and/or hepatitis.
A weakened immune system received an influx of new vitality through fasting.
Autoimmune diseases such as lupus, rosacea, chronic urticaria (itching) and acute glomerulonephritis have all responded well to fasting.
Severe toxic contamination has been shown to be significantly helped with fasting.
Studies over the years have unearthed that persons suffering from various types of toxicity receive drastic benefits within ten days, and the discomfort waned or faded altogether.
Studies have found that fasting produced higher cell immunity, and the body's ability to kill bacteria is sharpened.
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Now What?
Now, having pointed out so many benefits of water fasting, what next?
Whatever your condition, weight or health may be, it is fairly evident that fasting - whether it be with juice or water - can help your body fight off whatever is ailing it.
Do not start fasting with the expectation that you will be "miraculously cured" of whatever condition you may have.
This will only lead to frustration and disappointment - as was the case with me.
Frustration, in turn, almost led me to abandon fasting altogether because "It did not work."
But pressing on allowed me to look beyond my frustration and find substantial other benefits of water fasting, including dramatic weight loss, improved energy, mental clarity and - yes - the reduction of liver toxins and arrest of the condition that was swiftly killing me.
So - put in that perspective - I can tell you from personal experience that, even if you are not COMPLETELY healed of any illness you may be suffering from, without a doubt fasting will not make it any worse.
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And, over time, as you continue fasting and improving your eating habits - the sky is truly the limit.
The important part is to not lose heart and move forward, even if at first the results are not as drastic as some of the examples we have talked about in this page.
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