Posted 2/3/2020 5:50 PM (GMT 0)
Greetings, all!
Last week, a free online summit about fasting was available, and I watched eighteen of the presentations. Did anyone else happen to see it? (I skipped all the presentations that seemed to be about weight loss, vanity, and willpower, and most of the ones about juicing.) Most people were talking about intermittent fasting, but some discussed water fasting, dry fasting, and juice fasting.
A few of the presenters were great, including two doctors who work at the True North Health Center in California, which provides extended supervised water fasts. What they do seems very similar to the amazing experience that Pirouette posted about recently, only with medical supervision. (Costs are posted on the website, and a private room with testing and medical care included, plus all the goodies like massage and acupuncture twice per week, is around $5k total for a three-week fast.) This is mostly what I was hoping to learn about.
There was widespread agreement about the value of a plant-based diet (or primarily plant-based diet) and the absolute necessity of eliminating processed food and dietary toxins. People also agreed about the value of autophagy, and how your body breaks down damaged tissues first, leading to repair. They also agreed about breaking a fast very mindfully and very slowly.
Unfortunately overall the summit was disappointing. The presenters disagreed with each other about fundamental things, and some seemed to have no qualifications to give people advice about health or science. I took notes on the presentations I watched, though, and some of it is helpful and/or thought-provoking.
Would anyone be interested in reading my notes? If so, then I will post them.