How Long Should One Fast?

For a person who has no fasting experience, the
longest fast should never be over 10 days, unless they
are under the supervision of a health expert with fasting
experience. Fasting is the most natural method of
purifying the body and is truly a miracle! In my opinion,
it’s best to do shorter fasts for the first few months,
gradually working into longer fasts. This helps prevent
distress to your body by gently loosening and passing
the stored toxins out of the body.
A long fast must be supervised by an expert because
only they can best determine when a fast should be
broken. Sometimes even the experts cannot tell how long
a fast should last. When and how to break the fast is
determined by carefully watching how conditions in the
faster’s body change during the fast. The expert watches
to see how fast the body, kidneys, etc. are throwing off
mucus and toxins. They will examine the urine daily –
if too many toxins are being eliminated, causing a strain
on the kidneys, they will usually stop the fast.
Even the greatest experts won’t all agree with putting
a person on a 30 or 40 day fast. Often people plan a longer
fast and find toxins pouring out so quickly that it’s best
they do short fasts and not one big long fast. Sometimes
in the first 6 days, if too many toxic poisons were released
into their circulation, I felt it wise to have them stop the
fast and do another short fast in a few weeks.
I have heard unqualified people say, “the long fast is
best.” This I do not believe, because man is the sickest
creature on earth! None of God’s other creatures have
violated His nutritional laws as much as man; who eats
with little discretion towards his health and life!