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This advice sounds a little like the advice just given by Amadeus Schmidt-- a
fast which will change the body's Ph balance.  I find it somewhat odd that you
are attacked for giving this advice, which presumably wil have the same effect
(no one in their right mind would recommend that Christy NOT drink plenty of
water), so the advice is identical.  Amadeus Schmidt gave a scientific defense
for doing so (a rapidly changing Ph balance creates an unfavorably chaotic
environment for bacteria) and you didn't -- but the advice is identical.  If it
is so that the main problem that paleos suffer from is ultimately from
infections, and a water fast creates a basic body environment, and a high-meat
diet creates an acidic environment, and if a rapidly changing environment is bad
for bacteria, as Amadeus suggests, then I don't see why water fasts aren't a
good idea in general.  If Amadeus is wrong about why they work, but they still
work, fine.  As for me, if I become sick, I will use whatever wisdom I can
find.  In an emergency, I plan to go to an emergency room.  But for recurring
problems, I intend to find natural, HG-tested solutions FIRST, and if they fail,
add modern medical approaches in the least destructive way.  This gives me the
best chances I think.

Erik


> I am giving the same advice to Christy ten Broeke. Instead of anyone
> prejudicially ridiculing this advice, let Christy do the water fast and
> report back to the readers of this list, her results. You will then learn if
> the water fast does or does not work!
> I have conducted and supervised the water fasting of many patients who have
> had urinary dysfunction and problems of the type of which Christy complains.
> Their urinary dysfunction and problems of the type of which she complains,
> disappeared completely and permanently and those patients are maintaining
> good health, today.
> A water fast, if done properly, is a physiological rest for the body.
> Christy should proceed thusly. She should stop eating everything, food
> juices, supplements, herbs, drugs, etc., but drink only as much water as her
> thirst demands. She should lie down in bed, close her eyes and keep them
> closed and feelingly meditate on her symptoms in every part of her body,
> until she is asymptomatic. Then she can break her water fast. It is
> impossible to have physiological dysfunction or pathology, without
> concomitant symptoms. Symptoms are the inherent intelligence within, talking
> to us and telling us to immobilize ourselves and feelingly meditate on our
> symptoms. When we are asymptomatic, our inherent intelligence apparatus, is
> telling us that our bodily physiology is satisfactorily under our homeostatic
> control.
> If we do not do what our inherent intelligence tells us to do, i.e., water
> fast and feelingly meditate on our symptoms, our inherent intelligence forces
> us to do so. How? Our inherent intelligence forces us to have a physiological
> rest to heal ourselves, by making us faint and/or become comatose.
> Interfering with the inherent intelligence's causing us to faint and become
> comatose, may create fatalities. Our bodies never do the wrong thing. Listen
> to our bodies and nobody else!
> Christy try this and you will be able to cancel the surgery on 29 November
> 1999. You will finally able to become a well woman.
> Later, report back to this list, your results. Hopefully, this should satisfy
> some of our prejudicially omniscient readers!
> You are beautiful. I love you.
> Bernarr