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For what cause enlargement of the intestinal tract is the extra large amount of cooked food which we have to eat in order to supply a sufficient number of living cells, since a large percentage of the cells in cooked foods are dead, having been destroyed by intense heat. When food is supplied in its living state we are able to nourish the body on one-half or less the accustomed amount of food which we need when we eat cooked food.
A complete fast usually is a radical cure for constipation except in very obstinate cases. Even a short fast of seven to 10 days contracts the digestive organs to a great extent and overcomes constipation for some time. The writer is speaking from his own experience and knows his statements to be actual facts; for the same effects have been experienced by others who fasted under identical conditions and obtained similar results. During his first years of struggle to regain health (1916 to 1922), the writer observed that after his periodic fasts of seven to ten days his obstinate constipation was overcome and his bowels moved freely every day. But as he continued to live in a hostile environment and did not entirely live on man's natural food at the time his body gradually became saturated again with waste products, his bowels grew more and more constipated every day until, finally, they refused to move at all and he had to depend on the enema again until he resorted to another short fast.
The beneficial effects of a 7 to 10 day fast is remarkable. But they cannot be compared with the marvellous effects of the long fast, especially when the long fast is accompanied by a healing or regenerative crisis, such as that which the writer underwent in 1937 in Central America. That complete fast of 30 days, which was undergone during an active healing crisis, left his body in such a high state of purification and regeneration that for a period of 8 years he enjoyed a continuous high degree of health, despite the fact that he was overworking in a hostile environment and had no longer resorted to fasting.
The benefits of the fast will be only partial and of short duration if the fasting patient rebuilds his body on cooked food, especially if it is animal food. If devitalized cooked food is eaten after the fast, the fasting patient wil develop a ravenous appetite which he will not be able to appease, unless he eats large amounts of cooked, devitalized food.
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