>How does fasting "rebalance the metabolism"?  Mary Jackson

Good question. I don't know. I don't even know if it does that, which was
why I used the word "perhaps." I was making the statement primarily to
leave open the possibility that OTHERS sometimes claim--starting with
Herbert Shelton, who asserted that fasting could resolve deficiencies by
"redistributing" some kind of stored-but-unavailable-reserves in the body.
(Or something to that effect.) Frankly, I think that is a large assumption
to make, but Shelton claimed to have seen this in his lengthy career of
supervising fasters. (But Shelton seems to have documented little if
anything using the kind of protocols modern researchers would accept as
reliable.) Basically the claim is a handed-down (and in my view potentially
faulty, though also potentially true) piece of Natural Hygiene
"conventional wisdom," but one would have to at least admit to the
possibility--something I just meant to point out to forestall charges of
UNFAIR! from the yes-fasting-can-too-resolve-
supposed-deficiencies-(maybe-all-of-them)-(well-okay-maybe-only-some)
people. :^)

--Ward Nicholson <[log in to unmask]>

Damn, I knew this would be a tar-baby to say anything on the subject...
Sorry, gota get back to the salt mines for now. Maybe later...