Water Fasting

The Cleansing Power Of Water Fasting

When you’re dirty, you are going to have a shower. When our surroundings are dirty, we hose it down or clean it up. Why don’t we do this to our insides as well? Do we ever stop to think of all that accumulated muck inside?

What water fasting does is just that – it hoses down your insides.

No, it’s not easy. A "juice fast" is much easier to maintain because you don’t feel as weak. You need strength of will to do a water fast. But once you’ve done it and reaped the benefits, I guarantee you’ll do it again and again. It really is one way to a fitter, more alert, healthier you. It’s the way your insides feel as you would after you’re filthy and have stood under the shower.

Water Fasting - not for everyone

Some of course take to water fasting like a proverbial duck to water. They just feel good immediately and feel all pepped up. However, others go through a period of detoxification and could experience headaches or weakness, maybe even dizziness. This is why it is advisable to start slow.

Try one day in the beginning, then go on depending on how much your body can take. This precludes that you are not suffering from any major disease in which case it will have to be done under the supervision of a doctor. It is also not advised if you are suffering from conditions like high blood pressure, diabetes, etc. If you have never fasted before, then it may not be wise to start with water fasting but with a fasting program that suits you better.

What really happens inside the body during water fasting? Our blood tends to be full of all the bad byproducts of our unhealthy diet. So you’d find mucus, carcinogens, trans fatty acids and toxins. When you start off on water fasting, the body is free to fight these unwanted intruders and burn them up, following which they are eliminated from the body.

If you do feel dizzy, it is because your heart slows down and goes into a rest mode instead of its usual frenetic pace which is necessary during digestion. All you need to do when you do feel weak is to sit down for a while.

Washing out the acidity

For the acidic constitution (or body acidity), this is the best thing that can happen. So many conditions arise out of an acidic constitution – constipation, indigestion, colds, bronchitis, allergies.

The more fats and chemicals we put into our body, the worse things get. The toxins permeate everywhere, clogging up the systems of elimination in the body.

This is also a state that is brought on by an excessive use of drugs. It then becomes a vicious cycle – you load your system, you get ill, you pop strong medication and the body just gets more congested and clogged up with all that muck which remains there and has no place to go. Water cleanses the body of its clogged-up waste and lets the health in.