Uh-oh, drinking lemon water, drinking coffee,
drinking tea during your water fast, that is not what
you should be drinking during a water fast.
In this video, I'm going to tell you which drinks you should
be drinking and which ones you shouldn't, stay tuned.
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Hi everyone, I'm Dr. Group, also known as Dr. Detox
and welcome back to the channel.
I'm a big proponent of water only fasting.
Been doing it for a long time.
But not only that, just detoxification and cleansing.
However, there is a difference between standard detox
and water only fasting.
And the question is, what should I drink
during a water fast?
And people ask me this question
because there's confusion out there.
Some people say, oh I'm doing The water only fast,
but I'm squeezing lemon into it.
I'm doing a water-only fast, but I'm putting a pinch of salt
in my water everyday or I'm doing a water-only fast
and I'm adding organic apple cider vinegar to the water.
That is not a true water-only fast.
A water fast is used for many different reasons.
I mean, you can reset your digestive system.
That's one of the best ways to do it.
To cleanse your body.
To detoxify your system.
To stimulate stem cell production.
Combat aging, a lot of different ways
that water-only fasting is very powerful and very beneficial
including immune system modulation.
For example, the fastest way to regenerate
your immune system, which you can do in 72 hours
is to do a water-only fast.
Now, many people do water-only fast
for different periods of time.
I did an 18-day water-only fast.
That's about as far as I wanted to go.
Do I recommend that to everybody?
No, I recommend starting small, starting with a three-day
then maybe going to a six-day
then maybe going to it nine-day.
However, with that being said, a water-only fast
can be difficult spiritually, mentally and physically
because you're not consuming any food.
So your body's going to go through multiple changes.
Your mind is going to go through multiple changes.
So, you have to understand before you do a water-only fast
that that is what's going to happen to you
and that's why I always recommend before starting
any water-only fast, do you research, watch the videos,
make sure you know what you're doing and what I tell people
is best case scenario is to cleanse and detoxify your body
before you do a water fast and that means doing
an intestinal cleanse, doing a liver
and gallbladder cleanses, doing a harmful organism cleanse
and doing a chemical and heavy metal cleanse.
That way when you do do your water-only fast,
your body can focus on rapid healing of the organs
and doesn't have to focus all
of its energy on detoxification.
So, if you'd like
to watch my 18-day water-only fast journal,
click the link above and that way you'll learn exciting,
new tips every single day that have been taken out
of my book that I'm coming out with called,
"The Power of Fasting."
You'll learn what to expect.
You'll learn some of the things that I went through
and it's just a wonderful resource for you
if you're interested in water only fasting to go through all
of the days because I give you a lot of good information.
I've been researching water fasting for about six
or seven years now and really got into it
and I've really spent a lot of time doing research
and you know, we all have ways to heal our bodies.
We all have a self-healing mechanism, but water only fasting
is one of the fastest ways to heal the body.
Now, some people call water fasting, water cleansing.
It is a great way to detoxify.
You want to drink a lot of water to flush out
all those toxins about 20 to 25 percent
of the standard American diet
that most people eat contains water.
If you eat more fruits, eat more raw foods,
eat more vegetables that water content
is going to be higher.
However, the majority of people are dehydrated
on the planet right now because they consume too many things
that suck water out of their body like alcohol,
like caffeine, like meat, all of these different things
that can cause dehydration.
So when you're doing a water-only fast, the question is,
what type of water should I be drinking?
Now, if you look back in the history and you look at some
of the fasting clinics that are there today,
they will say only drink distilled water.
Why I only drink distilled water?
Because distilled water is free of any chemicals and toxins
and I agree with that.
I think that you should drink distilled water
and that doesn't mean that you add lemon juice in there
and it doesn't mean that you add anything else
into that distilled water.
The purpose of doing a water-only fast and how it works,
most people don't understand,
is that it shuts down your digestive tract.
That's the key thing of why water only fasting
is so successful because 90% of the energy you produce
in your body every single day goes to digestion.
No wonder why so many people are tired and fatigued
all day long.
They eat breakfast, they eat lunch, they eat snacks,
they eat dinner, so it's an overload of food in the system
that causes the digestive system to go to work in overdrive
and it drains your energy stores.
So by drinking only water within about three days,
your digestive tract will come to a halt and all of
that energy, a hundred percent of that energy
will be focused on healing your body.
Now, the body is going to pick the damaged areas first.
So that means everybody's different when they water fast.
I mean, you might have a skin issue that your body thinks
is important to fix.
Somebody else might have a liver or gallbladder or gout
or whatever, so your body is automatically going
to choose the weak area and focus on that first
during a water-only fast.
So, that's why you only want to drink water by itself.
Now, you can drink distilled water.
You can drink spring water if you know it's clean
and some people say well, spring water has minerals in it.
The minerals and spring water are already bound
to the water molecule, so it's not going to trick your body
and your body will think that you're putting food in it.
So this is what happens when you add something to the water
when you add lemon juice or you had apple cider vinegar
or you drink coffee or anything, the body actually thinks
that that's food
and starts ramping up the digestive system again.
However, when you're only on water, whether it's distilled
or sparkling water, you can do sparkling water
if it's a clean spring source, then your body will know
that it's only water coming in and when your body thinks
it is only water coming in, about the third day
where your body will go into what's called otology phase
and that's when your body starts living off of itself
and recirculating the dead cells,
the proteins, the carbohydrates, the fats,
the minerals, the nutrients and that's why a lot of times
you won't even have a nutrient deficiency
when you're on a water fast because the dead cells
that your body...
Everyday you have dead cells that you eliminate out.
But during a water fast, your body can actually regenerate
those dead cells or the components of those dead cells
and resupply those amino acids and everything else
to the areas of your body.
That's why most people do not lose that much muscle mass
in a water-only fast.
As opposed to if they do a water fast
and they add a couple meals in there
or they they add some additional things in there
to stimulate the digestive tract,
then they might lose some muscle mass.
So any type of fruit infused waters,
you definitely don't want to do that on a water-only fast,
you know, you have these diets that have different types
of let's say green green juice, one green juice a day
and then water and then, mix some water
with some lemon juice all that.
Now, that's not bad either.
Okay, you can do that as well.
You can do a liquid fast and combine green juices
with lemon water with you know,
all these other different liquids out there.
Watermelon juice or fruit juices at certain times of the day
not at the same time as the vegetable juices.
But for a water-only fast you're just drinking water only
and that's it.
So, like I said, distilled water is going to be the best
and you can even get distillers.
You can get distillers for 200, 300 under $500
for your house.
I drink distilled water a lot on a regular basis.
Now distilled water doesn't have the minerals in it,
so what I do when I'm not fasting just on a regular basis
is I do add a pinch of Himalayan crystal salt in there
or I do add a tiny amount of organic raw apple cider vinegar
into my water.
In closing, when I refer to a water fast, I'm referring
to a water-only fast.
That means, no food, no juices, no broth, no tea,
no lemon water, no vitamins, no supplements, no medications.
You shouldn't even chew gum and you know what,
some people say that you should be even be very careful
when you brush your teeth.
That's what I did.
When I was doing my water fast, even when I brush my teeth,
I rinsed my mouth really really well
and swallowed it because I didn't want any toothpaste
going down into my stomach and tricking my body,
so my body would think that I started to eat again,
but it's a great way to reset your body.
Water fasting has been used for thousands of years.
There's water fasting clinics available in the United States
that you can go to if you want to be medically supervised.
Even doing a one-day water-only fast once a week,
still, that will do tremendous things to your body.
One more thing, best way to water fast,
make sure you go
through a full detoxification program first.
Cleansing your intestines.
Cleansing your liver.
Getting rid of all the harmful organisms
and doing a chemical and heavy metal cleanse
and if you want to see the ones that I use,
the ones that we created, you can go to globalhealing.com
and check out the cleanse programs over there.
One more thing I've put together
is the gut friendly grocery guide.
So when you do break your fast or when you do get finished
with your fast and you want to start eating again,
this is something you can download for free.
It contains all the foods that were designed
to keep your gut healthy and clean and it also talks
about all the foods that you should avoid.
Now, that's super important because when you're done
with your water fast, you want to slowly transition back
into a regular eating cycle and you want to definitely know
which one's of those foods are going to be beneficial.
I also recommend that you watch my how
to break a fast properly video where I talk you
through the fast-breaking procedure and protocol
that I developed.
So anyway, thank you for watching.
I'm Dr. Group and remember that you have the power to heal.
You have the power to live happy and live healthy.
Thank you.
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