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Hi Carolyns & Marejo,

Yes I am actually thinking about fasting, and interesting comment from your onco indeed.

It has been in my mind for quite a while and somewhat I sense & feel that for me at least, it is the right plan of action. I think that it is much healthier to fast than to go on a Atkins type of diet (as per the clinical trial mentioned above).

Considering also that my liver is looking like swiss cheese. I think that giving a rest to my liver can only be beneficial too.

The vaccination program I am currently enrolled with would be boosted since it is well reported in medical paper that fasting enhance immune system.

I think there are a lot of people worried as soon as you mention fasting because they associate it with yoyo diet, anorexia and starvation as oppose to using up your reserve.

How long in human history has it been since we (westerners only) have been able to feed on three meals a day? We are basically equipped to fast and many beneficial protectrice molecules are created during fasting. It is a great detox.

The only thing I do no know is how long I should fast for. Accounts mention 7 to 30 days.
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201...020127.ch5.htm

extract:"
Bernarr Macfadden says: "My experience of fasting has shown me beyond all possible doubt that a foreign growth of any kind can be absorbed into the circulation by simply compelling the body to use every unnecessary element contained within it for food. When a foreign growth has become hardened, sometimes one long fast will not accomplish the result, but where they are soft, the fast will usually cause them to be absorbed."
A small tumorous growth which had existed for more than twenty years was absorbed during Mr. Pearson's longest fast and did not return thereafter. Dr. Hazzard records the recovery, during a fifty-five days' fast, of a case diagnosed by physicians as cancer of the stomach. Tilden, Weger, Rabagliati and many others record many such cases.
I have seen repeated instances of the absorption of tumors in my own patients. I had one complete recovery in the case of a uterine cancer during a thirty days' fast. I have seen numerous small tumors completely absorbed and large ones greatly reduced in size.
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I also think that the reason it may not work is that as reported by the news scientist (sometimes last year I think) is that some cancer cells were initially stem cells which makes them extremely resistant and are able to go dormant.

I had past experience of kind of fasting in the past when I was emotionally strained. For example during my final exams at school I lost my appetite for about two to three weeks, only forcing myself to eat few bits, I was fine (I passed with honours!). I remember feeling v. energetic and very well after. I think it will be hard, but planning on starting next week, will report later!!