As a christian we are commanded to fast, no two ways about it.

What came as a surprise to me when doing my research is that fasting is commonly used as a cure from multiple different ailments. The most vocal advocates for this treatment however don’t typically come from western medicine.

If and when you find someone still giving fasting as a therapy it is normally in the context of their own facility under strict supervision. I’m guessing this might be OK for people that have a ton of meds that they are consuming, but for someone who doesn’t regularly eat a single medication prescribed by a doctor this is a bit of a chuckle.

I have personally done 3 21 day fasts triggered by initiatives by International House of Prayer Kansas City which were done in an ever tightening fashion. First one was with all sorts of juices and bouillon then going down to only juices and for the final run it was just flavoured waters. The reason for not implementing a water only fast was because a lot of people around me were waring me about the drastic consequences of a fast including causing permanent damage to my intestine walls.

Fear of this was lifted partially by my own experiences and by people who actually have gone through extensive water only fasting. Two locations that I have come across offering monitored water only fasting would be:

• TrueNorth Health Centre
  • Alan Goldhamer talking about the benefits of fasting.
• Tangle wood Wellness Center

There most likely are tons more and if you can put your self through it then why fork out the money?

I have only done 7 days with only water, but I have never done the resting part of the fast as recommended, but I plan on doing this in the near future…

Fasts that I have had during keeping this video diary.

• 1st to 5th of January 2017 water only fast of four nights and three days.
  • • #129 Start of a water only fast
    • #130 Second day of water only fast
    • #131 Third day of water only fast
    • #132 Recovering from the fast
• 8th to 16th of February 2016 water only fast of seven days.
  • #2 Fasting to remedy my multiple sclerosis starts
  • #3 Traveling is unpleasant with multiple sclerosis.
  • #4 Going to see the neurologist whether I have multiple sclerosis
  • #5 The first symptoms of my multiple sclerosis that I can remember
  • #6 More symptoms of my multiple sclerosis listed
  • #7 Work starts on the 6th day of the fast to remedy multiple sclerosis
  • #8 Breaking the fast to remedy my ms