Fasting Journal : Fasting Center International

FASTING BUSINESSMAN TRANSCENDS FEAR & DISCOVERS "FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH, REJUVENATION, LOSS OF 55 LBS."

   [NOTE: Know that many prospective FCI clients, globally, deal with a little, standard trepidation going into this brand new experience. For example, a University of Florida at Gainesville student, 21, in the final semester of his undergraduate work, recently wrote FCI the following, heading into his own 48-day Total Detoxification Program: "At this point, I am a bit nervous, but I'm definitely ready to begin. It is becoming clearer and clearer that there is a fine line between fear and excitement."
   Thus, FCI thought all prospective clients--especially those considering our patented, most popular Total Detoxification Program (age + 17, in number of actual juice-fasting days)--might find the following insightful, as it speaks to these cultural, psychological and social fears from the position of actual experience. . .from a still-athletic Boise, Idaho, businessman, 48, regarding the 75-day Total Detoxification Program he was seriously contemplating to detoxify nearly a half-century's retained toxins, lose 55 unnecessary lbs., and break his longtime sugar and food addictions. His pre-commitment note of concern mirrored that of many, particularly among FCI's Western clients: "I guess what I need from you is your personal reassurance of the safety of a 75-day fast. I need to hear that your email supervision really is enough. Thanks, from a friend you haven't met, yet. Kenny Olson."
   FCI responded as it has for over 35 years to the myriad versions of these same, fear-based questions: FCI's longtime leadership in our global field, Kenny, speaks for itself. Drs. J. Kellberg and P. Reizenstein of the world-renowned Karolinska Institute in Stockholm--which actually awards the Nobel Prize in Medicine each year--have clinically monitored in-hospital patients (not well-beings such as you and me) in fasting studies as long as 55 days, demonstrating that scientific, prolonged fasting's not only perfectly safe, but also therapeutically beneficial, as well. There are countless hundreds of fasting clinics and centers in nations throughout Europe, where therapeutic juice-fasting has long been used as the premier weight-loss, detoxification, and healing modality over the entire 20th Century.
   German and Swedish biological clinics, operated by medical doctors, routinely treat virtually every disease--from cardiovascular and digestive disorders to rheumatic and skin conditions--with scientific, therapeutic fasting. Germany's late Otto Buchinger, Sr., M.D., supervised over 100,000 successful juice-fasting "cures". In Russia, fasting has been used for 47 years now as the most effective treatment for schizophrenia, with its irrefragable studies showing that 70% of patients improved mentally after 20-to-30 days of controlled fasting. Similarly, one Japanese research clinic fasted 382 patients, all with psychosomatic disease, with a success rate of 87%.
   North America is still far behind the learning curve, nevertheless, as is clear to Dr. Charles Goodrich of the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, who has fasted countless times: "People don't realize that the chief obstacle to fasting is overcoming the cultural, social and psychological fears of going without food. These fears are ingrained. . . .However, fasting is not starving, not even in a medical sense or the natural sense." Dr. George Cahill of Harvard Medical School emphasized the point: "Man's survival [of long abstentions from food] is predicated upon a remarkable ability to conserve the relatively limited body protein stores, while utilizing fat as the primary energy producing food."
   Nobel Prize-winnning Fr. biologist and surgeon Dr. Alexis Carrel, who spent 34 of his professional years in the United States, described in his magnum opus, MAN, THE UNKNOWN, the body's brilliant rejuvenative and regenerative capability, inherent in its own detoxification process vis a vis scientific fasting: "Privation of food at first brings a sensation of hunger, occasionally some nervous stimulation, but it also determines certain hidden phenomena which are more important. The sugar of the liver and the fat of the subcutaneous deposits are mobilized, and also the proteins of the muscles and the glands. . .in order to maintain blood, heart, and brain in a normal condition. Fasting purifies and profoundly modifies our tissues."
   Interestingly, this same prospective client would, with great self-insight and honesty, respond to the above with the following: "In my first email to you, I expressed a need to feel safe with your program. After some reflection, I now realized this need for safety is part of my pattern of distrust, developed from childhood. It is one of my core woundings as a child, through betrayal; thus, I've created the need to know the outcome before ever risking. It seems kind of silly when you write it down, but it is a main building block of my ego. My plan, now, is to let go of the need to know the outcome; to take the risk, and enjoy the journey. And that is what I will do. I am very much looking forward to this wonderful journey. With an open heart and clear mind, I'm ready. Namaste, Kenny Olson."
   After completing his 75-day Total Detoxification Program (with 65 days of actual juice-fasting), Kenny offered the following 'window' in on what it actually 'sounds' like on the other end of FCI's patented, most popular Program]:

    "Dennis: Today is the last of my five transitioning-out days. It's been a very, very interesting 75 days. There are times when expressing one's gratitude is difficult, without looking the other directly in the eyes. This is one of those beautiful times.

    "Your program of supervised, scientific fasting, which I followed rigorously, was life-changing for me, but what really stands out is your own dedication to consistently be there--to supervise with answers, support, and love. I remember telling you, at one point, "you are the fastest return emailer I have ever seen."

    "I have reached all of my goals I'd set at the beginning of my fast. As a 48-year-old recovering alcoholic who still enjoys skiing, fishing, hiking, biking, kayaking, and many more activities, I felt the years of aging--through drug-, alcohol-, and food-abuse--piling up in my body.

    "Today, I feel rejuvinated! I have lost over 55 lbs. of ugly fat and toxins. I have experienced levels of clarity in my mind that were uncomprehensible before. I am now aware of when I go for food to fill emotional needs, and can alter that behavior. I have completed a beautiful journey which very few have had the courage to attempt. I have a very strong incentive to stay on this skillful path, by creating a lifestyle based on eating nutritious, organic foods. It is a joy to treat my body with the respect it deserves, for the fantastic temple it really is.

    "If there ever was a fountain of youth, then FCI is as close as I have found. Thank you, Dennis, for all your work. You are an honorable, trustworthy, and giving man. Your program is truly full of knowledge and heart. It is an honor to call you my friend. Big Love, Kenny Olson."

[NOTE: Post-fast, Kenny would add the following]:

    "Dennis: I've just finished the last email you sent me. It really brought home to me, again, how God serves up for us just what we need, when we need it. Sometimes, we are not ready to listen, but it is there, if we choose to use it.

    "I have been remembering my thoughts and feelings during the earliest days of this fast. I remember the intuitive way this program was brought into my life, and how easily I choose it. I really had no obstacles, except my fears of safety, which I easily released. Over the years, I have relearned that childhood knowing: that the best things in life are found when you walk through your fear.

    "So today, I asked myself just what changes have I created in this Mind, Body, Spirit Complex I have spent this life within? The answers come rolling out. My Mind is now the clearest it has ever been. I see things, in relationships, with focus and compassion. I have allowed my worrying to subside; it really does not serve me to keep honoring something that is counter to love. My Body is feeling--and looking--clean, fresh, alive, in tune with life. I am down to 200 lbs., which is a loss of 55 lbs. The last three weeks, I have attended a spinning [exercise] class at my local gym, consistently, three days each week. I feel great about it. I feel great about me--my being!

    "Which leaves the Spirit. I attended a Beginner's Mind Sangha last week. I loved the whole evening; it has really helped increase the consistency of my daily meditations. I am learning to be open to whatever God serves up for me. Also, what I really get is how my childhood beliefs created the fears I need to walk through, in order to open my spirit even more. And, there is a lot more to be revealed. Wow! . . .how exciting. I am really enjoying this wonderful journey immensely! Thanks, again, for this gift. Big Love, Kenny."

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