Water Fasting Summary
I completed my water fast yesterday. I fasted for 17 days and 3 hours, which is longer than I’ve ever fasted before. This post is a summary of the experience, building upon what I shared on Day 6 of the fast.
Motivation
This isn’t the same world people lived in 100 years ago. The unfortunate truth is that we now live in an environment filled with toxins that our bodies weren’t evolved to efficiently eliminate. These toxins include pesticides, herbicides, pollution, heavy metals, plastics, animal hormones, pharmaceuticals, radiation, and more. We’re exposed to such toxins merely by drinking water, breathing air, and eating food, so consuming toxins is a part of everyday modern life. We’re all toxic to some degree or another, and some people are more sensitive to this than others.
Symptoms of excess toxicity include:
chronic fatigue or laziness
mental fogginess
difficulty concentrating
being easily distracted
depression, anxiety, or persistent negative emotions
skin problems
joint or muscle pain
digestive problems
Even being slightly toxic can and does degrade your mental and emotional functioning, especially your ability to focus well for long periods of time, to discipline yourself, to solve problems intelligently, and to enjoy positive emotions. Your mental and emotional state is a good indicator of how toxic you are on the inside. Unfortunately many people today have no clue what real mental clarity feels like. What they consider to be normal...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Health Source Type: blogs
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