alywest
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Your thread on fasting again referred to someone who was already in a sick state. Do you think that fasting would work the same way on someone who is on the healthy side? What about hypothyroid people (assuming they don't have any other underlying illness)?But you could say the same thing for other things like "someone is going to end up seriously hurting themselves with one of these.." fill in the blank: exogenous hormone supplement, exogenous unregulated/street hormone supplement, other supplements like mega doing fat-solubles, diet, medication/non-supplement drug use, things like co2 tanks, ozone therapy, homeopathy, etc.
This is why there is only one legal clinic that does medically-supervised fasts in the US because most people don't understand it and don't even know what the true definition of fasting is and the purpose of doing it. There is a taboo against it. Which is fine, it's not for everyone but if they don't like it but are simultaneously claiming to be into alternative health strategies then it's their loss, even if they don't want/need to do one themsevles. But as always we have to be specific. A person could use the word "fast" but also advise using methods/supplements that aren't in the professionals protocol. And if something bad happens then people blame the "fasting" but ignore the nuance in where the person was wrong. There is a professional protocol. I witnessed it myself in person. A random person on the net giving you advice on how to do something that is out of protocol is just that, out of protocol and wrong, and likely to produce negative effects.
It was probably my post here that gbold even came across the concept at all. He mentioned the word "fasting" before but he was likely talking about intermittent, not medically-supervised water-only in appropriately selected individuals.
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