I recently did The Master Cleanse for 14 days and completed it 2 weeks ago, I did it during my last 2 weeks of living in California. I found it to be an excellent cleanse that I was able to follow with sustained energy and a feeling of overall health.
Well I just moved east, back home for a month and I am having an incredibly difficult time with nutrition. There are a lot of reasons that I have difficulties with eating well here including lack of health foods and fresh organic produce at affordable rates, as well as psychological reasons and the general holiday stresses. Regardless I am having a really difficult time doing what came naturally to me out west so and I am thinking that doing another fast/cleanse will get me refocused here.
However I realize it would be totally counter productive if I actually harm my health in the process. Anyone have any useful links or info on this?
Namaste
Well I just moved east, back home for a month and I am having an incredibly difficult time with nutrition. There are a lot of reasons that I have difficulties with eating well here including lack of health foods and fresh organic produce at affordable rates, as well as psychological reasons and the general holiday stresses. Regardless I am having a really difficult time doing what came naturally to me out west so and I am thinking that doing another fast/cleanse will get me refocused here.
However I realize it would be totally counter productive if I actually harm my health in the process. Anyone have any useful links or info on this?
Namaste
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Re: is too much fasting dangerous?
Tue, December 13, 2005 - 5:53 PMI'll get flamed for this one perhaps, but yes, it can be. I know a number of women who did a lot of fasting and possibly by coincidence, but I think not, ended up with thyroid problems and gained a whole lot of weight very quickly. I mean, they went from very thin and in beautiful shape to being 50-100 pounds overweight in just a couple of years.
If you think about this it makes sense as the thyroid controls metabolism and in a situation of lack of food, it makes sense to turn the metabolism down. If this happens repeatedly, then perhaps the metabolism never returns to normal again as the body's wisdom has bee programed into thinking that there isn't enough food, so hold onto whatever is consumed.
