The computer may be the greatest
machine yet invented, but in my opinion, humanity's greatest
discovery is our innate ability to cleanse, rejuvenate, regenerate and
truly heal ourselves--physically, mentally and spiritually--through
scientific, therapeutic fasting.
Fasting's greatest benefit is awakening to our true
nature. Twenty-five centuries ago, at the end of a six-year
journey into the human interior, or search for truth, Prince
Siddhartha Gautama, 36, sat down under a fig, or Bodhi, tree in
Bodhgaya, India. There, he fasted 49 days, achieving Enlightenment,
or the Awakened State, during the process. ('Buddha' is Sanskrit for
'Awake'.)
Five-hundred years later, Christ, after disappearing without a
trace during his most formative years--13 to 30, when he emerged
from obscurity, asked John to baptize him, fasted 40 days and
began his three-year ministry by proclaiming: "The Father and I are
One!"--promised us we can be, also, by seeking the "Kingdom
within".
PROLONGED PHYSICAL AND MENTAL
STRESSES
GRADUALLY LOWER OUR RESISTANCE TO DISEASE
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Some drink deeply at the fountain of
knowledge; others merely gargle. Yet none of history's
greatest fasters had to contend with today's fast-paced societies,
within which our body-mind-spirit complex is continually subjected to
an endless assault by the underlying causes of most
dis-eases, ill-nesses and im-balances.
On day 40 of a fast I did in 1976, a man
I knew until his death as a friend, mentor and esteemed
colleague--Finland's internationally-renowned nutritional biochemist
and natural healing authority, Dr. Paavo Airola--outlined these basic
causes of our world's modern-day dis-ease
dilemma:
". . .the systemic derangement and
biochemical/metabolic disorder brought about by prolonged physical
and mental stresses, such as faulty nutritional patterns; constant
overeating; overindulgence in proteins and the body's inability to
properly digest them; various nutritional deficiencies; sluggish
metabolism and consequent retention of toxic metabolic wastes;
exogenous poisons from polluted food, water, air and our
environment; toxic drugs, tobacco and alcohol; lack of sufficient
exercise, rest and relaxation; severe emotional and physical
stresses, etc.
"These health-destroying environmental factors bring
about inevitable derangement in all the vital bodily functions, with
consequent biochemical imbalance in the tissues; autotoxemia;
chronic undersupply of oxygen to the cells; poorer digestion,
ineffective assimilation of nutrients...and, of course, gradually
lowered resistance to disease."
Is it any wonder that hardly one in a
million among today's 6.6 billion, lives out her or his human, biological
potential?
IGNORANCE HAS SEVERAL FACES TODAY,
ESPECIALLY IN
THE U. S. OF A.
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Unfortunately, ignorance is still a large
part of the problem. Although hundreds of fasting centers and clinics
existed in most European countries throughout the length of
the 20th century, Americans, for instance, remained very far
behind the learning curve regarding scientific, therapeutic
fasting, as well as in adopting natural/organic food diets. Likewise,
despite all three Fathers of Western Medicine having fasted and
prescribed it--Hippocrates, Galen and Paracelsus (who diagnosed
fasting as "the greatest remedy, the physician within")--the fact
remains that symptomatically trained U.S. physicians are still
equally in the dark.
The exceptions are physicians who've
learned autodidacticly, including many who've done their initial,
prolonged fast through veteran, world-class Programs which are
steeped in many decades of experiential knowledge and distilled wisdom such as Fasting Center
International's. 'Autodidact' is simply
a fancy noun describing a person who is self-taught. And, as scientific
fasting has not been taught in even one of America's 126
accredited medical schools, two American authors who're mentioned
below (Allan Cott, M.D, and Joel Fuhrman, M.D.) obviously know
better than to suggest that U.S.-trained allopathic/symptomatic
physicians are magically qualified to offer veteran, experiential
supervision and distilled-wisdom advice to fasting clients, any more
than Allan and Joel were before they autodidacticly
learned--at the level necessary to skillfully guide others. .
.physiologically, psychologically, and sometimes
most importantly, spiritually--this ancient healing art their
medical Fathers wisely practiced and prescribed (having likewise
learned, autodidacticly, and then first gained the
necessary, experiential wisdom-knowledge before attempting to
guide others).
In a powerful 1996 book heavily
supported by the postmodern leadership among America's
avant-garde physicians who are currently helping us evolve a less
chauvinistic, more sensible Integrative Medicine for the 21st Century,
Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the
Source of True Healing, author John Robbins
concludes, p. 227: "The medical paradigm that currently prevails in
our U.S. society, and which the A.M.A. stalwartly represents, has
become so deeply entrenched that we often do not realize that it is
simply one option among many. But there are other forms of
medicine that represent different ways of understanding life and of
promoting healing, and that, contrary to what the dominant medical
establishment would have us believe, have long demonstrated
outstanding records of success."
Diagnosing the U.S. health crisis in the Jan./Feb., 1997,
Alternative Health Digest, Samuel Benjamin, M.D., current director
of the Arizona Center for Health and Medicine, concluded, pp. 36-37:
"Many patients and, increasingly, physicians, are being turned off by
Conventional Medicine, because it does not deliver the
health it promises. It's taken away our power and control, it's
costing us a fortune, it hasn't made us feel any better, and often it
creates more diseases than it resolves. . . .The field of alternatives
to drug- and scalpel-based medical care is rapidly growing. In the
long run, we think the issue isn't whether somebody practices
conventional or alternative therapies; it's about offering what is
best of everything to our patients."
MORE
THAN DISSATISFIED PATIENTS
ARE FORCING AMERICA'S 'NEW
MEDICINE'
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James Gordon, another in the vanguard of traditionally-trained
M.D.s who are today embracing alternative therapies, teaches at
Georgetown University Medical School; is past chairman of the U.S. National Institutes of Health's
NIH's Office of Alternative Medicine's Program Advisory Council;
founded the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, D.C., and
authored, in l996, his influential Manifesto For A New Medicine:
Your Guide to Healing Partnerships and the Wise Use of Alternative
Therapies. Physician Gordon, who also teaches his
first-year medical students to meditate, as well as gives
assignments such as cooking "a meal that's nutritious and healing,"
states: "The medicine that we're in the process of creating is a
synthesis of what's best in modern science and what's best in the
world's healing traditions."
Julian Whitaker, M.D., author of Brave New Cures: 147 New
Treatments That Go Beyond Conventional Medicine, emphasized
Doctor Benjamin's conclusion in a 1997 special edition of
his national Health & Healing newsletter: "Conventional Medicine is
locked into a dogma that believes that its way is the only
way. Conventional doctors deny you have any alternatives to their
drugs and surgeries. But you do have choices. And these
enlightened treatments are far superior to the risky methods of
modern medicine. . .which can be extremely dangerous to your
well-being. . . . This enlightened new approach to health will lead
contemporary medicine out of the Dark Ages of drugs and surgery,
because it does work better. I know, because I use these
alternative therapies every day in my medical practice. . . .Many of
the patients I see are 'medical refugees' who have been abused and
abandoned by Conventional Medicine. . . .The results we see are
truly impressive, more so than with any drugs and conventional
treatments they gave us in medical school. . . .The 'drugs-or-surgery-
only' approach that modern medicine uses to treat today's diseases
is archaic."
Allan Cott, M.D., makes the same point in focusing on scientific,
therapeutic fasting in the 1997 edition of his million-copy,
international bestseller, Fasting: The Ultimate Diet, incorporating
in this edition his best-selling sequel, Fasting As
A Way of Life. Additionally, these editions contain 16- and
14-pg. bibliographies, respectively, each heavy with
references to medical journal articles, globally, on scientific studies
supporting intelligent fasting. . . for physicians, biochemists,
nutritionists and interested laypersons who are still open-minded and
cognitively energetic enough to finally educate themselves out of
their unfortunate theoretical and experiential ignorance vis a vis this
oldest, fastest, safest and most effective healing
modality on Earth which, it bears repeating, all great spiritual teachers practiced; all three Fathers of
Western Medicine practiced and prescribed, and more of our species greatest thinkers testimonialized than
all other healing modalities combined!
Quoting an unusually candid New England
Journal of Medicine pronouncement on this 1997 edition's cover:
"Fasting is a valid experience. It can benefit any otherwise healthy
person whose calories now have the upper hand in his or her life,"
Doctor Cott still bemoans the fact, p. 15, that in the U.S., many in
"the medical orthodoxy continue to take a jaundiced view of fasting,
particularly as a therapeutic tool. But when the medical profession
shifts gears from treating sickness to preventing sickness,
and it must!. . .I have every confidence that fasting will be
increasingly prescribed."
In demonstrating how other Western nations are already doing
so, Doctor Cott notes, p. 13: "British doctors are now using
fasting for weight control. Dr. T. Lawlor, for example, has fasted
patients for intractable obesity at Botley's Park Hospital in Chertsey,
Surrey. The patients ranged in age from 21 to 45, and were fasted
up to 40 days. All of them tolerated the experience very well; a few
even experienced euphoria. At Glascow's Ruchill Hospital,
researchers concluded that 'total fasting is the most efficient
method of reducing weight in obese patients.' Dr. T. J. Thompson, a
Scottish doctor who supervised a woman who lost 97 lbs.
through 35 weeks of fasting, observes that not only is fasting
the best way to lose weight, but that PARTIAL restriction of
calories is ineffective."
THOROUGHLY DISGRUNTLED PHYSICIANS NOW
HELPING
LEAD U.S. 'HEALING REVOLUTION'
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Interestingly, thoroughly disgruntled U.S. physicians have
steadily been helping us lead the world's present paradigm shift
toward a more intelligent, more effective, more truly
compassionate, and far less expensive Integrative
Medicine. In fact, in America, citizens with keen senses attuned can
actually hear and feel the tectonic plates of conventional and holistic
medicine colliding beneath our nation, forever realigning the
topography of U.S. healthcare. Like the now-unstoppable tidal wave
of consumer-mandated change it truly is, America's medical paradigm
shift is already happening big-time, leaving the archaic,
ultraconservative A.M.A. and its anachronistic lobbyists within the
F.D.A. and elsewhere in its massive wake.
Like a Trojan horse inside America's
127 med schools, those today with the cognitive energy to think
for themselves and overcome medical school dogma--the mediocre
and tragically inadequate, allopathic paradigm--are opting in ever
increasing numbers for the more intelligent, holistic paradigm. Requiring true
Hippocratic compassion, the question now facing them and all
conscionable health-care practitioners is: How should our healthcare,
along with our food, medicine and hospital industries, be
revolutionized to flourish on health, rather than feed off sickness. .
.to address the causes of heath problems, not just their
symptoms?
Viewing the unmistakable
handwriting on the wall, and determined not to be left
behind, more than 70 of America's 126 medical schools already offer courses in
alternative medicine (including those at most of our nation's best
universities), and that number will rapidly increase
until even the most recalcitrant stragglers are finally brought around,
forcing them to either mutate or dinosaurize, in the face of the
most powerful force on Earth--a 21st Century Integrative Medicine
idea whose time has now arrived.
As a sign of just how rapidly the
health-consuming U.S. public began forcing Washington politicians and
bureaucrats into this 21st-Century, sea-change transformation to a
more intelligent, effective, compassionate and less expensive
Integrative Medicine, the 1999 U.S. Omnibus appropriations bill
established the National Center for Complementary and
Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)--the former Office of Alternative
Medicine--with a budget of $50 million.
Since then, annual Congressional
funding increases had pushed it to $121 million by 2008. Thus, a number
of the effective healing modalities long scoffed at by 'old' symptomatic
practitioners, have finally received U.S. Government O.A.M.-funded
university studies. Not surprisingly, these alternative modalities are
time after time demonstrating, scientifically, their superiority over
many of the "archaic," less-effective, drugs-or-scalpel failings of
the 'old', receding Orthodoxy.
Likewise, compassionate
U.S. doctors such as Kenneth Pelletier, former director of the corporate
health program at Stanford University School of Medicine, and currently
clinical professor at both the Universities of Maryland and Arizona's Schools
of Medicine, are continually evaluating viable alternatives to Conventional Medicine's
drugs-and-scalpel limitations, such as in his book--The Best
Alternative Medicine: What Works? What Does Not?
On another U.S. front, literally thousands
of postmodern, enlightened M.D.s, D.O.s, Ph.D.s, and other noble
female and male healers--all kindred spirits of FCI--are finally helping
us lead America's Healing Revolution. Although far too numerous to
honor here, some of the most visible among these courageous,
career-on-the-line, revolutionary, symptomatically trained 'crossover
physicians' include: Robert Arnot, Rudolph Ballentine, Neil Barnard,
Samuel Benjamin, Herbert Benson, Keith Block, Jean Bolen, Joan
Borysenko (Ph.D.), Eric Braverman, Douglas Brodie, Kelly Brownell
(Ph.D.), Helen Caldicott, R.K. Chandra, Deepak Chopra, Leonard Cohen
(Ph.D.), Allan Cott, Bruno Cortis, Elliott Dacher, Barbara De Angelis
(Ph.D.), John Diamond, Larry Dossey, William Douglass, Tieraona Low
Dog, Wayne Dyer (Ph.D.), Stephen Edelson, Nancy Eos, Gerald Epstein,
John Farquhar, Tom Ferguson, Richard Firshein, Richard Fleming, June Flora
(Ph.D.), James Forsythe, Joel Fuhrman, John Gambee, Daniel Goleman
(Ph.D.), James Gordon, Elson Haas, Stephen Havas, Robert Ivker,
David Jacobs, Michael Jacobson (Ph.D.), Robert Jaffe, Wayne Jonas,
Norman Kaplan, Michael Klaper, Fredi Kronenberg (Ph.D.), Elisabeth
Kubler-Ross, John Laird, Eric Leskowitz, Edward Linkner, Victor
Marcial-Vega, Ralph Moss, Christiane Northrup, Gary Null (Ph.D.), Dean
Ornish, Mehmet Oz, Kenneth Pelletier (Ph.D.), Joseph Pizzorno, Rachel
Remen, Emanuel Revici, Michael Rosenbaum, Robert Roundtree,
Geronimo Rubio, Frank Sachs, Michael Schachter, Bernie Siegel, Ronald
Simon, Charles Simone, Stephen Sinatra, Vincent Speckhart, Jeremiah
Stamler, Jesse Stoff, Lawrence Taylor, Andrew Weil, Richard
Weintraub, Julian Whitaker, Robert Willix, Jonathan Wright, Regina
Ziegler (Ph.D.), Grace Ziem, & Jon Kabat-Zinn (Ph.D.).
As these visionary U.S. doctors very
clearly perceive, Symptomatic Medicine has, for far too long, taken a
thin slice of medical reality and mistaken it for the whole. As was
explained way back in a 9/96 LIFE magazine cover story
accurately entitled The Healing Revolution:
"Allopathic Medicine--a term commonly used to describe Western
techniques--is clearly superb at dealing with both trauma and
bacterial infections. It is far less successful with asthma,
chronic pain, and autoimmune diseases. A 1993 study, which found
one-in-three Americans had used alternative therapies, estimated
that they spent almost $14 billion a year on them, more than people
spent out of their own pockets for conventional medicine."
ALLOPATHIC MEDICINE'S LIMITATIONS:
WHAT IT CAN AND
CANNOT ACCOMPLISH
|
Harvard-trained M.D., Andrew Weil, in his
bestselling book, Spontaneous Healing, clearly summarized
what Allopathic Medicine can and cannot do for you, pp. 225-226:
"CAN: "Manage trauma better than any other system of
medicine; diagnose and treat many medical and surgical emergencies;
treat acute bacterial infections with modern antibiotics; treat some
parasitic and fungal infections; prevent many infectious diseases by
immunization; diagnose complex medical problems; replace damaged
hips and knees; get good results with cosmetic and reconstructive
surgery, and it can diagnose and correct hormonal deficiencies.
Allopaths CANNOT: Treat viral infections; cure most chronic
degenerative diseases; effectively manage most kinds of mental
illness; cure most forms of allergy or autoimmune disease; effectively
manage psychosomatic illnesses, or cure most forms of cancer."
Doctor Weil's candid, yet diplomatic,
second opinion: "Do not seek help from a conventional
doctor for a condition that conventional medicine cannot treat, and
do not rely on an alternative provider for a condition that
conventional medicine can manage well."
It is clear what the U.S.
health-consuming public is saying with its pocketbook: Let us nurture
other ways of healing, treasuring the fact that their
strengths are different from our own, and can compliment our own
system's weaknesses and/or failures. This is truly global
multi-culturalism emerging--learning how to understand and
appreciate other ways of knowing and healing. . .and then going with
what works best! Such behavior is quite obviously in
concert with our emerging Knowledge Society's unmistakable trend
toward a single, global community, with a single, global marketplace.
And in health care, Fasting Center International has clearly
demonstrated that our digital world brings us immediate expertise at
a low cost and high volume, helping to end far more
suffering, worldwide, than was possible before the Internet.
With clients on all major continents and
in all time zones these past 35 years--now representing 220 countries--FCI has always fought to help
overcome overt ethnocentrism--the emotional attitude that one's
own ethnic group, nation, or culture is superior to all others. With
such nationalism still far too prevalent among U.S.
practitioners of Symptomatic/Allopathic Medicine, now that this
brilliant Internet technology is inexorably connecting us all into one
true global family, perhaps it's time we finally listened to our
wise sisters and brothers in other lands, helping our species evolve
a 21st Century postcolonial, postpatriarchal, postgender world, fully
alive with a spirit of profound respect for both multiculturalism as
well as religious pluralism. We could start with Dr. Chen Li-Fu, board
chairman of Taiwan's China Medical College:
"Today in Taiwan,
Chinese and Western medicine both play an important, vital role in
modern society. They both have their respective advantages and
limitations. Traditional and Western physicians should all now
abandon their prejudices, and value the differences between the
two systems. They should treasure the mutual common sense of
both systems, discard what is useless or harmful, and
strive for the full growth and development of the best aspects of
both systems, so as to incorporate the two in bringing forth a
new medical science."
Speaking of what's
harmful, among the 17 Nobel laureates who contributed to my 1986
book published globally to help stop the nuclear threat, Voices of
Survival In the Nuclear Age, two shared the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize
as co-counders of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear
War, cardiologists Evgueni Chazov of what then was still the Soviet
Union, and Bernard Lown of Harvard. Dr. Lown would go on to found the
Lown Cardiovascular Center, and in a 1999 book, address one of the most
serious failures of Conventional Medicine in America--The Lost Art of
Healing: Practicing Compassion In Medicne. Of this book, Dr. Weil
says: "I have made this book by Dr. Lown required reading for physicians in the
Program of Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. It conveys
the wisdom about the doctor-patient relationship that has indeed been lost in the
noise of high-tech, profit-driven medicine."
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Chinese, Indian and Tibetan medical
sciences are distinct, ancient forms of traditional medicine refined
over thousands of years, with much to teach symptomatic
U.S. doctors in the A.M.A. (celebrated its 150th birthday in 1997).
For example, all the physicians of Tibetan Medicine--which stresses
the indivisible interdependence of mind, body and also vitality,
always teaching that the most fundamental cause of every
disease is found in the three poisonous delusions of ignorance,
attachment and hatred--can detect every bodily disease
without any instrumentation, as they've repeatedly demonstrated
before stunned physicians in the very best medical schools in the
U.S., Europe and Japan. By combining three-finger pulse diagnosis
with urinalysis (visual and taste), they can detect any one
of the 404 basic bodily disorders. Yet, not one graduate of any of
America's 127 accredited medical schools can do such pulse
diagnosis, because none of their instructors' training is
comprehensive enough for them to understand it, let alone teach it.
[Note: the very first International Congress on Tibetan Medicine, a
1998 global dialogue between traditional Tibetan medicine and Western
scientists, scholars, clinicians, physicians and allied health workers,
was opened by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Washington, D.C.]
Yet the oldest, fastest, and safest
(biochemically) of all the available options is skillful, scientific,
therapeutic fasting. In his 1995 book about combining
fasting and nutritional intervention for the reversal of myriad
diseases, Fasting And Eating For Health, Joel Fuhrman,
M.D., accurately diagnoses the myopia still far too prevalent among
many of his symptomatic colleagues throughout today's United
States, p. 174:
"Fasting is based on
unchanging biological laws that insist the cause of disease
must be removed. After hearing about a natural-food diet and
therapeutic fasting, individuals may enthusiastically give it a try and
get well. It is also possible that they may become excited about the
sensibleness of this approach and the prospect of finally recovering
their health, but then go home to their friends and family and
become discouraged, after being told that they would be crazy to
attempt such an 'outrageous' treatment. They might even call a few
doctors they know, only to be told that fasting is risky, dangerous,
and stupid."
"It continually
amazes me how 'expert' opinions can be given on something with
which someone has had no experience, knows nothing about, and
has never researched. I once had occasion to speak to one such
well-meaning physician who was furiously opposed to fasting. I told
him I had read, and I was thoroughly familiar with, more than 500
medical journal articles on therapeutic fasting. I inquired as to which
ones he was familiar with to help him reach his opinion.
"His answer was
that he had not read any of them. He actually had zero knowledge
about the subject, and began to ask me questions. He was
consumed with the same vague fears and questions the typical
layperson would have. Though still having doubts after our
conversation, he admitted he had given his opinion too hastily, and
had much more to learn.
"The physicians who
regularly utilize therapeutic fasting in their practice see so many
remarkable recoveries that getting well is the expected, even the
normal outcome. This is because nature heals, when given the
opportunity. Still, despite these studies on fasting and plant-based
diets, the world largely ignores this treatment, because it is contrary
to the present system of medical practice. Doctors would have to
remodel their entire approach to health and disease, and many
physicians would have to admit that most of what they do is not
needed or useful. This is not going to happen soon. We must expect
powerful opposition to the method of care presented here."
THE
HUMAN BODY IS DESIGNED TO HEAL ITSELF,
IF ONLY GIVEN THE
OPPORTUNITY
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"Too often,
scientific experiments prove nothing. Frequently, the source of the
money dictates the answer. Yet. . .these experiments are all we
have to go by, and are crucially important when we are testing these
potentially-dangerous drugs that may have various hazardous
effects. Fasting and adopting an optimal diet designed to aid one's
condition, on the other hand, are health-supporting. They will make a
healthy person even healthier.
"Most physicians who have knowledge and
expertise in therapeutic fasting advise it for those wishing to
maintain their body in optimal health, and to extend life. It is not
merely for the sick. Many of these physicians, including myself, have
personally undertaken long fasts, and may do so periodically. For
example, Dr. Alec Burton, an osteopathic physician who has fasted
more than 30,000 patients, undergoes a two-week fast every few
years for long-term health benefits that accrue from the rejuvenating
effects of the fast. . . .
"The point I am
making is that fasting improves one's health, rather than insult it with
dangerous drugs or unnecessary and potentially-deadly surgery. If
fasting does not lead to complete recovery from a certain condition,
it will not hurt you, either, and will actually improve your health.
Patients who choose this method of care generally become the most
enthusiastic supporters of fasting, once they have undergone the
experience. They are excited to have avoided surgery or a lifetime
of drug use."
FCI
TEACHES WORLD'S LARGEST CLIENTELE
THIS HEALING MODALITY. .
.FOR LIFE!
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Fasting Center International, which has
developed our world's largest, nonresidential fasting clientele over
the past 35 years, has been blessed with literally thousands of
these enthusiastic clients, a representative sampling of whose very
impressive testimonials today grace our extensive website (including
those of M.D.s, psychiatrists, D.O.s, D.D.S.s and Ph.D.s in a variety of
fields). FCI recommends to all clients--after they've
stabilized their weight where they're happy with it, and done the
serious detoxifying necessary to begin moving themselves back
toward their birthright of optimum health--that they do consider
fasting at least a week or two each year, much like a Spring
Cleaning. . .if they intend to continue living in our progressively more
toxic, urban environments.
Again, FCI is teaching clients, worldwide, this marvelously
effective, age-old, self-improvement technique for life! And
once you've learned how to deal with all which can arise in
your absolutely unique body-mind-spirit complex (physiologically, as
well as psychologically, and sometimes most importantly,
spiritually), you'll then feel confident to later use this
magnificent skill for the rest of your days on Earth (not to mention
its help in keeping you out of $1600/day hospital rooms in
your future). May you forever enjoy a stable, meritorious
life, with a good heart, restoring whatever degree of health,
happiness and healing power you're still capable of. Respectfully,
Dennis Paulson, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Fasting Center
International, Inc.
Any questions, email or phone
FCI. Email: FastMaster@fasting.com;
phone: 818-590-2536 (know that the best time to catch
Founder/Director Dennis Paulson, himself, with the least interruption,
is between 10-4, California time). For the Fasting Center International home page, click here: www.fasting.com
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