Triumph over disease--by fasting and natural diet

Reading this book helped me decide to try the fast, which I did successfully. And my disease was put into remission. But later, my doctor said that was risky as damage could have been caused to another body part. And I did loose a lot of hair a month after the fast, not sure if that is related or not. But I have been in remission for a year now. So I am so thankful I came upon this book. Any person with this disease should read the book and also talk to your doctor before you attempt the fast.

I first discovered this book in a public library in 1980.. I had been on and off the standard drugs for ulcerative colitis for over four years and was frustrated with the headaches the drugs gave me and the thought of having to take the drugs all my life. I decided it was worth a try. I simultaneously stopped taking the drugs (sulfasalizine) and began fasting, I fasted for perhaps three days while continuing my regular responsibilities, and all symptoms went away for six months when previously I could not stay symptom free longer than about two weeks. I have since learned that I can best maintain long term freedom from symptoms by periodic fasting, one day per week, but a rigid schedule is not required. I met a man who said he was cured by herbal medicine, but it took him 6 months. I have not brought the drugs for twenty years. One thing I have learned that is not in the book is that brown rice is very easily digested and is for me the easiest food to eat if I am having a temporary problem with colitis,but fasting is also required. To avoid recurrences it would be well to avoid excessive stress, but when that can not be done, the system is not prepared to digest food, so fast. The book also refers to other diseases and conditions for which fasting has been used.

This book is a fascinating account of a dramatic recovery from a very serious illness through fasting. The only question I have is: Whatever happened to Dr. Jack Goldstein? I can find nothing about him after 1977, except that he's no longer alive. If he ended up dying from the disease he thought he had cured, it would make me think twice about the long term benefits of fasting.

Having tried it all. The SCD, the paleolithic diet, the juice diet, macrobiotic diet, traditional medicine -- working with doctors, chiropractors, accupunture, massage. All of it made me more sick until I read this book. Do a google search on this title.A personal testamonial in the vein of a true-confession story, only this story is not of love and betrayal, but of a young man who, through recieving much conventional medical treatment for ulcerative colitis, had been so damaged by the medicos that he approached death. In the nick of time he discovered natural hygiene, fasted for over 40 days and began to recover health and enjoyment of life. Gruesome in its detailed description of the disease and shocking in its recounting of the brutal and constitution-destroying treatments he received, interesting in the detailed inner-experience of a long-time water faster...