No: 25 in a series of articles - Tom Woloshyn ...
To many people mentioning the word “fasting” brings shivers of incredulity and disbelief and is often followed by the statement “I could never do that”. The belief being that fasting means you simply exist on water alone for the length of the fast – perhaps 8 – 20 days. Not to mention the well quoted biblical fast of 40 days! Well it is time to put that belief to rest. The Muslim Ramadan fast, as an example, is in fact a month of eating only after the sun goes down and before dawn. Hardly refraining from eating for a month. As you can see the term fasting has many meanings and most of them not frightening at all.
For the past four years I have been practicing a staple of detox fasting that was developed by Stanley Burroughs (October 9, 1903 - June 16, 1991) and most recently fine-tuned by Tom Woloshyn someone who studied under Mr. Burroughs. Stanley was a man renowned for his research into the role of toxemia in disease. In 1941 he introduced what became known initially as The Lemonade Diet and ultimately as The Master Cleanser. It is a liquid mono-diet that cleanses and detoxifies the body as it stimulates healthy tissue growth. It is designed to give your intestinal tract a rest period to get rid of its toxic materials and parasites while not starving the patient.
For complete details I recommend Tom’s book The Complete Master Cleanse. Tom Woloshyn began practicing and counseling in holistic health methods in 1980, after taking a course in the healing techniques of Stanley Burroughs. While most people will take this fast for 10 days before returning to a more conventional diet, Tom has continued it with no ill effects for 100 days. Many of his patients regularly do likewise.
To understand why this therapeutic diet (a more accurate word than fast) works it is necessary to understand what disease is from a holistic perspective. Disease is simply the accumulation of wastes, toxins, or poisons in the body, which in turn creates the myriad of symptomatic illnesses which we are seeing with such regularity in today’s population.
The main ingredients of the “lemonade” are Grade B Maple syrup, fresh lemon or lime juice, cayenne pepper and water. For complete details of the ratios or ingredients and full protocol please read Tom’s book but the basic proportions are: two tablespoons each of Grade B Maple Syrup and fresh squeezed organic lemon or lime juice in 8 ounces with fresh spring water and adding a pinch of cayenne pepper, as much as your taste buds can take. You need to drink around 96 fluid ounces of this mixture a day, but you can drink all that you need if you continue to feel hungry. But trust me, I doubt you will need more.
Because the act of digesting food consumes about 35% of our energy on an ongoing basis, it follows that the elimination of solid food for short periods of time will make the energy normally used for digestion available for the process of detoxification. Thus the first step is to stop eating food so that the lemonade drink can commence its work.
Because the lemonade drink is easily assimilated, it places little or no demand on the digestive system. Fresh squeezed lemon juice is a powerful cleanser for the body, and is also high in vitamins. The maple syrup provides energy from an unprocessed sugar, which still contains many of its original nutrients and the cayenne pepper breaks up mucous and acts as a cleanser for the digestive, respiratory, and circulatory systems.
There is much you can learn about this healing system from Tom’s book and I recommend you do so before beginning your “fasting”” diet. I use this fast as part of my “get and stay healthy” program and recommend it as part of any protocol for men wishing to address the natural treatments for prostate disease as I have included in my upcoming documentary Alternative Treatments for Prostate Cancer.