Fasting -The single most powerful tool I have seen for restoring health, losing weight and regaining youthful energy  is the juice fast.

Most people in the Western World think that fasting is difficult, maybe even dangerous.  There are hundreds of books on fasting and that may be a part of the problem.  It is really hard to make a simple procedure sound easy in 200 pages of text. Fasting can be done alone, but to start, to learn how, to find the joy at the end of the trail it is best to begin with experienced supervision.
 
Without learning what the body needs for perfect health you will continue putting bad things in with the end result a deadly disease such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer's and all the other diseases of aging.
 
Do the right things and you can be outside jogging or biking, have normal blood sugar, normal blood  pressure, no constipation, the organs are working like they are supposed to, your body is alkaline, your immune system is at peak operation, everything is in balance.  With that comes healthy new cells, new energy, the aging process is slowed and you feel younger than your actual chronological years.
 
If you try to fast on your own you will run into roadblocks, because while your body wants to continue (it's primary goal is to give you perfect health-fasting does that) your mind wants to go back to your old routine. We are actually addicted to most of the foods we eat.  The taste, the texture, the smell. 
 
The eating addiction is tied to one more thing.  The time of day that you usually eat.  If you don't eat your body reminds you.  It's time - what are we going to eat?  If there is food there you will start to eat or graze, but you will not be able to continue the fast.
 
When you stop eating the dead processed foods that you are used to eating and start the detoxification process you can experience all kinds of discomfort from headaches to bad breath, gas, stomach cramps, weakness, and more.
 
But, these are signs that the body is getting rid of toxins that have been stored for years and what you need to know is that all the discomfort is only temporary.  We try to keep the cleansing reactions to a minimum, but there will be some discomfort in your goal of reversing years of bad eating resulting in restored health and vitality.
 
The  body is actually an miraculous healing machine if it given the chance.  It can cleanse and heal, stop and reverse aging, but you have to stop doing the bad things, detoxify and start giving it the things it needs every day. The fastest way to start the body on its healing prime directive is through fasting.
 
Ok, If you haven't got this yet you may not get it at all.  What is your logic and common sense telling you?  If you still think that diet and lifestyle has nothing to do with your current and future health then you should probably not read on.
 
We have personally fasted 100's of times.  We do 36 hour fasts regularly once a week, we fast 10 days every 3 months,  we do a 30 fast once a year.  We actually do mini fasting everyday.  We only eat one solid meal a day the rest of the time we drink the same juices that we drink when we fast.
 
I am over 60 and still jog, ride bikes, hike the mountains of Colorado and I haven't been to a regular medical doctor in over 40 years.
 
Fasting is the quickest way to rid the body of years and years of stored toxins.  Even if you think you feel fine,  if you eat meat, processed foods, commercial fruits and vegetables, take prescription drugs, breath the air, drink the water you have  toxins stored in your fat cells, the liver and the lymphatic system.
 
In addition, you are carrying around 10 to 30 pounds or more of compacted fecal material in your colon which is causing autointoxication and blocks nutritional uptake (malnutrition).
 
So, the basis for all disease is toxicity derived from sources both outside and inside the body.
 
To prevent disease or reverse bad health you first have to detoxify every cell in the body, clean the colon,  and clean and rejuvenate the organs especially the liver.  We have seen many diseases just disappear during a 30 day fast.
 
The only way that can happen is during a fast.  Juice fasting is better than water fasting, especially for longer fasts.  The juices and vegetable broths are natural chelators and can attach to and carry toxins out of the body.  They provide antioxidants, nutrition, alkalizing, natural water and the healing power of the sun.
 
The body does the rest.  The body doesn't have to spend all of it's time digesting food and now can start on the prime directive of healing and balancing and moving toward perfect health.  It searches first for dead and damaged cells, cells that stores toxins, diseased cells and starts to transport them out of the body.  The liver starts to give up the toxins it has stored.
 
There are two kinds of foods.  Acid forming and alkaline.  You already know the answer to this question.  Which food is the underlying cause of disease?  The answer is acid forming foods.  That is why a vegetable juice diet is so rejuvenating.  It is highly alkaline and is the fastest way to reverse acidity in the body.  Reverse acidity and the body starts to heal, inflammation is reversed, the aging process slows, energy comes back, the immune system revs up.

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