"Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine
should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness."
--Hippocrates, M.D., 460-377 B.C., Father of Western Medicine
Fasting is the best method for cleansing your body. Fasting means that you don't eat anything (or a very restricted diet) for a certain period of time (usually between 3 to 10 days).
You are probably thinking that you are starving if you skip your lunch. How could you go for days without eating? Well it's actually amazingly easy. Sure it feels odd initially, but once you get onto it you'll be fine. Actually I have never felt hungry on any of my fasts.
Fasting is beyond doubt the best way to naturally cure acne. Can you think of any acne treatment that could claim the following benefits?
o Clears up all types of acneo You'll see first improvements within the first 2 to 3 days and acne is usually completely eliminated within 5 days o Works for everybody
o Doesn't dry your skin - in fact it makes your skin smooth and radiant
o Eliminates the root cause of acne
o Automatically opens up pores and eliminates bacteria o Normalises sebum production
o Long lasting benefits
o 100% natural
o No long term side-effects
As you know, there are no acne treatments that could come even close to that. If there were, imagine how much they could charge for it. People would pay anything for it. And it would be hailed as the miracle breakthrough in acne treatment.
Well it is truly a miracle, and the best thing is that it doesn't cost you anything.
In the previous chapters we discussed what causes acne and how that condition develops in your body. Fasting completely reverses that process.
Within 24 hours of curtailing food intake, enzymes stop entering the stomach and travel instead into the intestines and into the bloodstream, where they circulate and gobble up all sorts of waste matter, including dead and damaged cells, unwelcome microbes, metabolic wastes, and pollutants.
All the toxins that have been stored into your cells are dumped into bloodstream and eliminated. Suddenly the harmful bacteria and parasites notice that their food supply has been cut off and the terrain that used to support them has become increasingly hostile.
Fasting gives your vital organs time to rest and to be balanced. After removing toxins, acids and parasites your liver can function at optimal levels. When you resume to your normal diet your liver is stronger and healthier and it can better cope with the workload.
Acne prevention is all about giving your body what it needs to be healthy. Fasting helps you to do this.
Eliminates cravings
Do you often find yourself craving for unhealthy foods that you know are bad for your health and acne? Sometimes these cravings are almost impossible to resist. A proper fast eliminates most or all of these cravings by removing toxins, killing harmful bacteria and parasites and restoring proper nutritional balance to your body. You can get a clean break of these cravings and are much more likely to succeed in maintaining your healthy habits and acne-free skin.
Re-sensitises you to unhealthy foodAnother way fasting prevents acne is that it sensitises you to unhealthy food. Remember the first time you had a cup of coffee or smoke a cigarette? It tasted horrible and made you feel bad. After a while you 'got used' to it and you didn't get those reactions anymore.
You may not be aware of it, but you have actually been desensitised to many other substances also. Fasting sensitises you again to many of them. You'll notice that some of the food that had no effect on you drains your energy or makes you feel bad.
This is very valuable information, because your body is telling you not to eat that thing. It's telling you that it's bad for you - and is likely to cause acne.
Improves digestionFasting improves digestion by removing many digestion inhibitors. Improved digestion means that there is less undigested food for bad bacteria to putrefy. Of course, if you keep on eating the same food that caused acne in the first place, acne will come back.
Gives a glimpse of what real health feels likePerhaps the most important way fasting prevents acne is that you'll remember again what it means to really be healthy. How it feels to enthusiastically jump out of the bed in the morning. Perhaps for the first time you do realise that you can influence your health, and that you don't have to be sick and tired when you grow old.
It is quite a difficult to explain to a 'normal' Westerner what it really means to be healthy. It's like trying to explain colour TV to someone who has been watching black and white TV for their whole life. You know it's so much better, but can't really explain why and how.
This sounds really sad, but when it comes to health most of us have been watching old black and white TV and the picture is steadily fading out.
After you know what it means to be healthy you definitely don't want to go back to 'normal'.In addition to the Human Growth Hormone that is released more frequently during a fast, an anti-aging hormone is also produced more efficiently. "The only reliable way to extend the lifespan of a mammal is under-nutrition without malnutrition." A study was performed on earthworms that demonstrated the extension of life due to fasting. The experiment was performed in the 1930s by isolating one worm and putting it on a cycle of fasting and feeding. The isolated worm outlasted its relatives by 19 generations, while still maintaining its youthful physiological traits. The worm was able to survive on its own tissue for months. Once the size of the worm began to decrease, the scientists would resume feeding it at which point it showed great vigor and energy. "The life-span extension of these worms was the equivalent of keeping a man alive for 600 to 700 years."
(Source:
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/biology/b103/f02/web1/wcarroll.htm l#7 )
There have been similar studies conducted with mice. Those studies say that the mice who where periodically forced to fast lived up to 5 times longer than those who were allowed to eat all the time.
I don't know of any studies conducted on humans, but regular fasters usually live easily more than 100 years and remain very active until their very last days.
Fasting has also countless other benefits. Since this book is about how to cure acne I'm not putting them all here. If you are interested just search the internet for 'fasting' or 'fasting benefits' and you'll learn all that you need to know.
HELP YOUR FRIENDS!Here’s what you can do to help your friends that are suffering from acne
• Send your friend to this link where they can download their own copy:
http://www.natural-acne-solution.com/book.htm
• Send this file to a friend (It’s quite big, so ask first)
Do you know someone who might benefit from this book? Please share this with them. Going through this program together with a friend can make a big difference to your success.
That way you always have someone to help and motivate you when the going gets tough. You also get positive reinforcement when you watch each other getting clear.